their property on board i had told of the terrible event and it had greatly shocked him but there could be no doubt of the kindness of keeping it a secret and he had come to help me in this last service it was here that i took mr aside and received his promise the family were lodged in a little dirty tumble down which in those days was close to the stairs and whose rooms the river the family as being objects of some interest in and about attracted so many that we were glad to take refuge in their room it was one of the wooden chambers up stairs with the tide flowing underneath my aunt and were there busily making some little extra comforts in the way of dress for the children was quietly assisting with the old insensible work box yard measure and bit of wax candle before her that had now so much it was not easy to answer her inquiries still less to whisper mr when mr brought him in that i had given the letter and all was well but i did both and made them happy if i showed any trace of what i felt my own sorrows were sufficient to account for it and when does the ship sail mr asked my aunt mr considered it necessary to prepare either my aunt or his wife by degrees and said sooner than he had expected yesterday the boat brought you word i suppose said my aunt it did ma am he returned well said my aunt and she sails � madam he replied i am informed that we must positively be on board before seven to morrow morning said my aunt that s soon is it a sea going fact mr tis so ma am she ll drop down the river with that tide if r and my sister aboard at o next day they ll see the last on us and that we shall do said i be sure until then and until we are at sea observed mr with a glance of intelligence at me mr and myself will constantly keep a double look out together on our goods and my love said mr clearing his throat in his magnificent way my friend mr thomas is so obliging as to in my ear that he should have the privilege of ordering the necessary to the composition of a moderate portion of that which is peculiarly associated in our minds with the roast beef of old england i allude to � in short punch under ordinary circumstances i should scruple to entreat the indulgence of miss and miss but of david m i can only say for myself said my aunt that i will drink all happiness and success to you mr with the utmost pleasure and i too said with a smile mr immediately descended to the bar where he appeared to be quite at home and in due time returned with a steaming i could not but observe that he had been the with his own clasp knife which as became the knife of a practical was about a foot long and which he wiped not wholly without on the sleeve of his coat mrs and the two elder members of the family i now found to be provided with similar formidable instruments while every child had its own wooden spoon attached to its body by a strong line in a similar anticipation of life afloat and in the bush mr instead of helping mrs and his eldest son and daughter to punch in wine glasses which he might easily have done for there was a shelf full in the room served it out to them in a series of little tin pots and i never saw him enjoy anything so much as drinking out of his own particular pint pot and putting it in his pocket at the close of the evening the luxuries of the old country said mr with an intense satisfaction in their we abandon the of the forest cannot of course expect to in the of the land of the free here a boy came in to say that mr was wanted down stairs i have a said mrs setting down her tin pot that it is a member of my family if so my dear observed mr with his usual suddenness of warmth on that subject as the member of your family � whoever he she or it may be � has kept us waiting for a considerable period perhaps the member may now wait my convenience aid his wife in a low tone at such a time as this � it is not meet said mr rising that every nice offence should bear its comment i stand the loss observed his wife has been my family s not yours if my family are at length sensible of the to which their own conduct has in the past exposed them and now desire to extend the hand of fellowship let it not be my dear he returned so be it if not for their for mine said his wife he returned that view of the question is at such a moment irresistible i cannot even now distinctly pledge myself to fall upon your s neck but the member of your family who is now in attendance shall have no genial warmth frozen by me mr withdrew and was absent some little time in the course of which mrs was not wholly free from an apprehension that words might have arisen between him and the member at length the same boy re appeared and presented me with a note written in pencil and headed in a legal manner v from this document i learned that mr being again arrested was in a final of despair and that he begged me to send him his knife and pint pot by bearer as they might prove 