after fifteen hours work sat down to read mere about men and women more or less like themselves and about children more or less like their own they took de foe to their instead of and seemed to be on the whole more comforted by by mr was for ever working in print and out of print at this eccentric sum and he never could make out how it yielded this product i am sick of my life loo i hate it altogether and i hate everybody you said the unnatural young thomas in the cutting chamber at twilight you don t hate tom i hate to be obliged to call her and she hates me said tom no she does not tom i am sure she must said tom she must just hate and the whole set out of us they u bother her head off i think before they have done her already she s getting as pale as wax and as heavy as � i am young thomas expressed these sentiments sitting of a chair before the fire with his arms on the back and his sulky face on his arms his sister sat in the darker comer by the fireside now looking at him now looking at the bright sparks as they dropped upon the hearth as to me said tom tumbling his hair all manner of ways with his sulky hands i am a donkey that s what i am i am as obstinate as one i am more stupid than one i get as much pleasure as one and i should like to kick like one not me i hope tom no loo i wouldn t hurt you i made exception of you at first i don t know what this � old � jail tom had paused to find a sufficiently complimentary and expressive name for the parental roof and seemed to relieve his mind for a moment by the strong of this one would be without you indeed tom do you really and truly say so why of course i do what s the use of talking about it returned tom his face on his coat sleeve as if to his flesh and have it in with his spirit because tom said his sister after watching the sparks awhile as i get older and nearer growing up i often sit wondering here and think how unfortunate it is for hard that i can t reconcile you to home better than i am able to do i don t know what other girls know i can t play to you or sing to you i can t talk to you so as to your mind for i never see any amusing sights or read any amusing books that it would be a pleasure or a relief to you to talk about when you are tired well no more do i i am as bad as you in that respect and i am a mule too which you re not if father was de to make me either a or a mule and i am not a why it stands to reason i must be a mule and so i am said tom desperately it s a great pity said after another pause and speaking out of her dark comer it s a great pity tom it s very for both of us oh you said tom you are a girl loo and a girl out of it better than a boy does i don t miss in you you are the only pleasure i have � you can even this place � and you can always lead me as you like you are a dear brother tom and while you think i can do such things i don t so much mind knowing better though i do know better tom and am very sorry for it she came and kissed him and went back into her comer again i wish i could collect all the facts we hear so much about said tom setting his teeth and all the figures and au people who found them out and i wish i could put a thousand barrels of under them and blow them all up together however when i go to live with old i u have my revenge your revenge tom i mean i u enjoy myself a little and go about and see something and hear something i u myself for the way in which i have been brought up but don t disappoint yourself beforehand tom mr thinks as father thinks and is a great deal and not half so kind oh said tom laughing i don t mind that i shall very well know how to manage and old their shadows were defined upon the wall but those of the high presses in the room were all blended together on the wall and on the ceiling as if the brother and sister were by a dark or a fanciful imagination � if such treason could have been there � might have made it out to be hard times the shadow of their subject and of its lowering with their future what is your great mode of and managing tom is it a secret oh said tom if it is a secret it s not far off it s you you are his little pet you are his favourite he u do anything for you when he says to me what i don t like i shall say to him my sister loo will be hurt and disappointed mr she always used to tell me she was sure you would be easier with me than this that ll bring him about or nothing will after waiting for some answering remark and getting none tom wearily into the present time and himself yawning round and about the rails of his chair and his head more and more he suddenly looked up and 