to that point of wanting to you know it may be questioned therefore whether anyone but mr es had much enjoyment of the time mr however y enjoyed yoimg as a mere of the golden water in tlie tale become a full fountain when it was poured out so mr o seemed to feel that this small of to his the flavor of the whole family tree in its presence his frank fine genuine qualities he was not so easy he was not so natural he was striving after something that did not belong to him he was not himself what a strange peculiarity on the part of mr and where should we find such another case at last the wet sunday wore itself out in a wet night and went home in a cab feebly smoking and uie objection je went away on foot accompanied by the objectionable dog had taken the most amiable pains all day to be friendly with but had been a little reserved since breakfast � that is to say would have been if he had loved her when he had gone to his own room and had again thrown himself into the chair by the fire mr knocked at the door candle in hand to ask him how and at what hour he returning on the morrow after settling this question he said a word to mr about tliis � who would have run in his head a good deal jf he had been his rival those are not good prospects for a painter said ko returned mr stood chamber in hand the other hand in his pocket looking hard at the flame of his candle with a certain quiet perception in his face that they were going to say something more i thought our good friend a little changed and out of spirits after came this morning said yes returned but not his daughter said iso said was a pause on both sides mr still looking at the flame of his candle slowly the truth is he has twice taken his daughter abroad in the ho o of separating her from mr he rather thinks she is disposed to like him and be has doubts i quite agree with bim as i dare say you do of the of a marriage choked and and stopped yes you hare taken cold said daniel but without looking at him is an engagement between them of course said no as i am told certainly not it has been on the gentleman s part but none has been made since their recent return mr mend has yielded to a weekly visit but that is the utmost would not deceive her father and mother you have travelled with them and i you know what a bond there is among em extending even beyond this present life all that there is l miss and mr i have no doubt we see ah we see enough cried arthur mr wished him good night in the tone of a man who had a not to say despairing exclamation and who sought some encouragement and hope into the mind of the person t y whom it had been uttered such tone was probably a part of his as one of a band for how could he have heard any of that kind without s hearing it too i the rain fell heavily on the roof and on the ground and among the and the branches of the trees the i p fell heavily it was a night of tears f � if had not decided against in love with pet if he had the to do it if he had little by little persuaded to set all the earnestness of his nature all the might of his and all the wealth of his character on that cast if he h d done this and found that was lost he would have been that miserable as it was as it was the rain fell chapter little s lover had not attained her twenty second birthday without a lover even in the sallow the ever young hot off a few arrows now and then from a bow d winged a or two little s er however was not a he was the son of a his father hoped in the fulness of c to leave him the inheritance of an key and had from early youth him with the duties of his office and with ii ambition to retain the prison lock in the family while the was yet in he assisted his mother in the conduct of a tobacco business round the comer of lane his little � being a non resident which could command a neat within the college walls years when the object of his affections was wont to sit in her little arm chair by the high lodge john family name a year older than herself had eyed her with admiring wonder when he had played with her in the yard his had been to her up in comers and to letting her out for real kisses when he grew tall enough to peep through l� c of the great lock of the main door he had divers times set down his other s dinner or supper to get on as it might on the outer side thereof while he stood taking cold in one eye by dint of peeping at her through that airy perspective if young john had ever in his truth in the less days of his boyhood when youth is prone to wear its boots and is happily unconscious of organs he had soon strung it up again and it tight at nineteen his hand had inscribed in chalk on that part of the wall which her lodging on the occasion of her birthday welcome sweet of the at twenty three the same hand presented cigars on sundays to the father of c and father of 