turn tis like to be long said mr in a low voice afore the boat finds new tenants they look upon t down here as being now does it belong to anybody in the neighbourhood i asked to a mast maker up town said mr i m a going to give the key to him to night we looked into the other little room and came back to mrs sitting on the whom mr putting the david light on tlie chimney piece requested to rise that he might carry it outside the door before the candle dan l said mrs suddenly her basket and clinging to his arm my dear dan l the parting words i speak in this house is i mustn t be left behind t ye think of leaving me behind dan l oh t ye ever do it mr taken looked from mrs to me and from me to mrs as if he had been awakened from a sleep t ye dearest dan l t ye cried mrs fervently take me long with you dan l take me long with you and em ly i ll be your servant constant and if there s slaves in them parts where you re a going i ll be bound to you for one and happy but t ye leave me behind dan l that s a dear y od soul said mr shaking his head you t know what a long voyage and what a hard life tis yes i do dan l i can guess cried mrs but my parting words under this roof is i shall go into the house and die if i m not took i can dig dan l i can work i can live hard i can be loving and patient now � more than you think dan l if you ll on y try me i wouldn t touch the not if i was dying of want dan l but i ll go with you and em ly if you ll on y let me to the world s end i know how tis i know you think that i am lone and but love tan t so no more i an t sat h re so long a watching and a thinking of your trials without some good being done me r speak to him for me i knows his ways and em ly s and i knows their sorrows and can be a comfort to em some odd times and labor for em dan l let me go long with you and mrs took his hand and kissed it with a homely pathos and affection in a homely rapture of devotion and gratitude he well deserved we brought the out extinguished the candle fastened the door on the outside and left the old boat close up a dark speck in the cloudy night next day when we were returning to london outside the coach mrs e and her basket were on the seat behind and mrs was happy chapter i assist at an explosion when the time mr had appointed so mysteriously was within four and twenty hours of being come my aunt and i consulted how we should proceed for my aunt was very unwilling tc leave ah how easily i carried up and down stairs now we were disposed notwithstanding mr s for my aunt s attendance to arrange that she should stay at home and be represented by mr dick and me in short we had resolved to take this course when again unsettled us by declaring that she ne r would forgive herself and never would forgive her bad boy if my aunt remained behind on any pretence i won t speak to you said shaking her curls at my aunt i ll be disagreeable i ll make bark at you all day i shall be sure that you really are a cross old thing if you don t go tut blossom laughed my aunt you know you can t do without me yes i can said you are no use to me at all you never run up and down stairs for me all day long you never sit and tell me stories about when his shoes were worn out and he was covered with dust � oh what a poor little of a fellow you never do anything at all to please me do you dear made haste to kiss my aunt and say yes you do i m only joking � lest my aunt should think she really meant it but aunt said now listen you must go i shall you till you let me have my own way about it i shall lead my naughty boy such a life if he don t make vou i shall make myself so disagreeable � and so will you ll wish you had gone like a good thing for ever and ever so long if you b j david don t go besides said putting back her hair and looking at my aunt and me why shouldn t you both go i am not very ill indeed am i why what a question cried my aunt what a fancy said i yes i know i am a silly little thing said slowly looking from one of us to the other and then putting up her pretty lips to kiss us as she lay upon her couch well then you must both go or i shall not believe you and then i shall cry i saw in my aunt s face that she began to give way now and brightened again as she saw it too you ll come back with so much to tell me that it ll take at least a week to make me understand said because i know i shan t understand for a length of time if there s any business in it and there s sure to be some 