and that upon your own account you white faced fool t it bad enough to have this misfortune thrown in my face by other people or at least of running the risk of having it thrown wherever i am wherever i go without you doing it then why not stay here bill interrupted the woman clasping her hands and speaking very hurriedly no one it here no one ever can know it we have enough and to spare for a long time to come to keep ns as we are living now and who knows but that before it is all gone those expectations of which you speak may turn to realities i will work for you slave for you the s lady told me only yesterday that my lace work if i should ever need to sell it would fetch a great deal among some great folks she knows let us stay here where yon are safe and out of temptation oh never let ns go back again to where all is suspicion and fear and danger and one never knows what shame and sorrow the morrow may bring forth we have never been so well off as we are here what a pleasant house this is to dwell in and only think how cheap in place are the things you value most � more i sometimes think even than me � the brandy and the wine and the tobacco there is something in that observed mr although all the rest is except about the lace work i don t forbid yon to sell any thing for what it will fetch only you must say it s for a charity and not for ourselves it will never do to let folks here suppose that i am any thing else than a gentleman living upon his independent means as indeed i am as he sat with his feet lodged on the comer of the table tobacco upon the carpet and occasionally using a fork instead of a the including the s lady must have been indeed if they assigned to mr william the social rank which he thus to himself but it was plain that the speaker entertained no doubt of their if mrs had had a little more of that wisdom so often attributed to her sex and which the serpent perhaps gave to eve in not excessive compensation for she would have permitted her husband to undisturbed that of reflection for which ho was now obviously inclined and left the seed of her suggestion alone to and of itself but she renewed her dear bill she you can not think how i wish i could persuade you not to leave this place until some really better fortune smiles upon you we have nothing to complain of here � what broke in the man impatiently nothing to complain of it is all very well for you who have got me all to yourself to and make a fool of but it s not well for me why i have not a soul to speak to from morning to night even if there is any body worth speaking to which i deny they can nothing else but french do you think i am one of those who can stare at the sky nd sea a beggar on horseback all day and want no other society than and like that painter who was here last month � you t yes of course i have you who however are neither so young nor so pretty as you used to be � there you need not cry you it s of yours of course and i don t say but what you are well enough in your way only a man wants a man to talk to him and to smoke with him and to drink with him you are no to a long headed fellow like how should you be i am very sorry bill replied the woman sadly i do my best there was a time when you said you could be h with me anywhere and i am sure this place of all others that i have seen or read of seems made to be happy in and she turned towards the window as though to gaze upon the fair prospect it afforded or perhaps to hide her tears i wonder where now did this woman pick up that sort of nonsense observed mr william not from her mother if all tales i have heard of her be true and mn dean the who brought her up i wonder whether he was her uncle he ought to have been something nearer since he gave her a hundred pounds as a wedding and yet she never � could have inherited such notions from him well i suppose i must humor her a bit so long as we are shut up alone together in this wretched hole � look here i am not angry with you you know why should i be it s only that i felt a little i am glad it was only that bill returned she quietly but still keeping her face averted f course it was � now don t be in the remember what my mother told you that you would always find me a good husband if only you kept a smiling face but i do hate black looks and especially in one s wife mrs sighed and turning from the window came towards her husband with the smile required your mother was always very fond of you bill and i am afraid she spoiled you just a little my father made up for that was the sullen reply for he never had a civil word to say to me and as for the old woman she seems to have got over her extreme devotion to her offspring since she has not written to me near a well bill you must allow you don t 