a very few shirts there are and what a many fronts you u penetrate the mystery of his packing but martin was too weary and to take heed of anything so had no interest in this discovery mr nothing dashed by his indifference conducted him to the top of the house and into the bed chamber prepared for his reception which was a very little narrow room with half a window in it a like a chest without a two chairs a piece of carpet such as shoes are commonly tried upon at a ready made establishment in england a little looking nailed against the wall and a washing table with a and that might have been mistaken for a milk pot and basin i suppose ihey polish themselves with a dry cloth in this country said mark they ve certainly got a touch of the sir i wish you would pull off my boots for me said martin dropping into one of the chairs i am quite knocked up � dead beat mark you won t say that to morrow morning sir returned mr nor even to night sir when you ve made a trial of this with which he produced a very large piled up to the brim with little blocks of clear transparent ice through which one or two thin of and a golden liquid of delicious appearance appealed from the still depths below to the loving eye of the spectator what do you call this said martin but mr made no answer merely plunging a reed into the mixture � which caused a pleasant commotion among the pieces of ice � and by an expressive gesture that it was to be up through that agency by the martin took the glass with an astonished look applied ms lips to the reed and cast up his eyes in ecstasy he paused no more until the was drained to the last drop there sir said mark taking it from him with a triumphant face if ever you should happen to be dead beat again when i ain t in the way all you ve got to do is to ask the nearest man to go and fetch a to go and fetch a repeated martin this wonderful invention sir said mark tenderly patting the empty glass is called a when you name it long when you name it short now you re equal to your boots took o� f and are in every particular worth mentioning another man having delivered himself of this solemn preface he brought the mind i am not going to mark said martin but good heaven if we should be left in some wild part of this country without goods or money well sir replied the from what we ve seen already i don t know whether under those circumstances we shouldn t do better in the wild parts than in the tame ones oh tom pinch tom pinch said martin in a thoughtful tone what would i give to be again beside you and able to hear your voice though it were even in the old bed room at s oh echoed mark cheerfully if there t any water between you and me and nothing hearted like in going back i don t know that i t say the same but here am i in new york america and there are you in europe and there s a fortune to make and a beautiful young lady to make it for and whenever you go to see the monument you mustn t give in on the door steps or you u never get up to the top wisely said mark cried martin we must look forward in all the story books as ever i read sir the people as looked backward was turned into stones replied mark and my opinion always was that they brought it on themselves and it served em right i wish you good night sir and pleasant dreams of they must be of home then said martin as he down in bed so i say too whispered mark when he was out of hearing and in his own room for if there don t a time afore we re well out of this when there u be a little more credit in keeping up one s i m a united leaving them to and mingle in their sleep the shadows of objects afar off as they take shapes upon the in the dim light of thought without control be it the part of this slight chronicle � a dream within a dream � as rapidly to change the scene and cross the ocean to the english shore n chapter xviii business with the house of and son which one of the unexpectedly � change change nothing so fast if a man to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures out of which he seldom travels step beyond it though for never so brief a space his departure the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant ion as if in the gap he had left the of change were driven to the head what was a solid mass to fragments things and held together by the of years burst asunder in as many weeks the mine which time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant and what was rock before becomes but sand and dust most men at one time or other have proved this in some degree the extent to which the natural laws of change asserted their in that limited sphere of action which martin had deserted shall be faithfully set down in these pages what a cold spring it is old drawing near the evening fire it was a warmer season sure when i was young you needn t go your clothes into holes whether it was or not observed the amiable 