it v said she and passed me her purse i am wishing it was five pounds what will you want it for and what have we been walking for all night like a pair of says i just because i was robbed of my purse and all i possessed in that town of i wiu tell you of it now because i think the worst is over but we have still a good tramp before us tiu we get to where my money is and if you would not buy me a piece of bread i were to go she looked at me with open eyes by the light of the new day she was all black and pale for weariness so that my heart smote me for her but as for her she broke out laughing my torture are we beggars then she cried you too i could have wished for this same thing and i am glad to buy your breakfast to you but it would be if i would have had to dance to get a meal to you for i believe they are not very well acquainted with our manner of dancing over here and might be paying for the curiosity of that sight i could have kissed her for that word not with a lover s mind but in a heat of admiration for it always a man to see a woman brave we got a drink of milk from a country wife but new come to the town and in a baker s a piece of excellent hot sweet smelling bread which we ate upon the road as we went on that road from travels in holland to the is just five miles of a fine avenue shaded with trees a canal on the one hand on the other excellent pastures of cattle it was pleasant here indeed and now said she what will you do with me at all events it is what what we have to speak of said i and the sooner yet the better i can come by money in that will be all well but the trouble is how to dispose of you until your father come i thought night you seemed a uttle to part from me it will be more than seeming then said she you are a very young maid said i and i am but a very yoimg this is a great piece of what way are we to manage unless indeed you could pass to be my sister and what for no said she if you would let me i wish you were so indeed i cried i would be a fine man if i had such a sister but the rub is that you are and now i wiu be she said and who is to ken they are all strange folk here if you think that it would do says i i own it troubles me i would like it very ill if i advised you at all wrong david i have no friend here but you she said the mere truth is i am too young to be your mend said i i am too yoimg to advise you or you to be advised i see not what else we are to do and yet i ought to warn you i will have no choice left said she my father james more has not used me very well and it is not the first time i am cast upon your hands like a sack of meal and have nothing else to think of but your pleasure if you will have me good and well if you will not � she turned and touched her hand upon my arm � david i am afraid said she no but i ought to warn you i began and then me that i was the bearer of the purse and it would never do to seem too said i don t me i am just trying to do my duty by you girl here am i going alone to this strange city to be a solitary student there and here is this chance arisen that you might dwell with me a bit and be like my sister you can surely understand this much my dear that i would just love to have you well and here i am said she so that s soon settled i know i was in duty to have spoke more plain i know this was a great blot on my character for which i was lucky that i did not pay more dear but i minded how easy her delicacy had been startled with a word of kissing her in s letter now that she depended on me how was i to be more bold besides the truth is i could see no other method to dispose of her and i inclination pulled me very strong a little beyond the she fell very lame and made the rest of the distance heavily enough twice she must rest by the which she did with pretty apologies calling herself a shame to the and the race she came of and nothing but a travels in holland to myself it was her excuse she said that she was not much used with walking shod i would have had her strip off her shoes and stockings and go but she pointed out to me that the women of that country even in the roads appeared to be all shod i must not be my brother said she and was very merry with it all although her face told tales of her there is a garden in that city we were bound to below with clean sand the trees meeting overhead some of them trimmed some and the whole place with and here i left and went forward by myself to find my correspondent there i drew on my credit and asked to be recommended 