whether what we blindly perhaps term folly may not be a gift to be thankful for you know the word says that the wisdom of man is foolishness before god our duty therefore is to be thankful and humble well sir but about the child that is a term i don t understand sam why sir it means a woman who carries sam hold if it be associated with human it is best left the woman however be she what she may � and i know not what she is � but that she is a responsible being � a par m of our common and is entitled to our sympathy she is i understand in some difficulty out of which it seems professional advice may help to take her i expect her therefore about this time and will you samuel just stand at that window and when you see her approach the house do just quietly and without noise open the hall door something has occurred to the christian tone which usually in our household and poor is going but at all events sam you are aware it is said that we ought not to let our left hand know what our right hand i know the text sir well it ends with � and he that in secret will reward thee openly he � hem � yes it does so end i i feel sam slightly depressed in spirit as it were and moved as if somewhat of my usual support were withdrawn from me here she is sir said sam very well sam please to let her in as quietly as may be and then take this declaration to the back office and copy it as soon as you can � it is of importance we should always endeavour to render services to our fellow creatures in the mean time sam very softly opened the hall door and the next moment entered the agent solomon as usual was seated at his office and held his features composed and serious to a degree still in spite of every thing he could do there was an expression half of embarrassment and half of the very perceptible tendency to a � smile we can scarcely call it � but whatever it might be there it certainly was betraying to in spite of all his efforts that there was still the least imaginable of human associated with such a vast mass of when she entered took a seat and the strings of her bonnet raised it a little and without uttering a word sat silently looking in m s face with a very comic and significant expression on her own no said he with a serious smile no you are mistaken indeed � frail we all are i grant you but in this case i am acting for another no no � i trust those days of vanity are gone well then what else am i to do i sent the reports abroad about m and s bein about to break and of m til soon have my revenge by the way � i and somebody else have the train laid for it it was from no spirit of ill will to them � for i trust that of such a spirit i am m incapable � but to prevent them by an unjust act from perhaps from others that is my motive but at the same time the whole matter is understood to be strictly confidential between you and me don t you know mr m that when there was an occasion for me i didn t betray you to the world no � you did not and it is for that reason that i trust you now ay and you may too honour bright is my motive you remember the day you passed o drive and me on our way to m s i pretend to know you then you acted then with great and discretion which you will please to remember i did not overlook no said you behaved decently enough but observe me now if this report concerning the firm of m and should by any possibility be traced to us or rather to yourself and that you should be pressed to disclose it which of course you could not be but if a weak moment should ever come � it is best then to speak the truth and put the saddle as they rather say upon m the right horse here the irish agent upon m why bad as he is he never opened his lips to me on this subject but he did to me because it was from him i first heard the suggestion so that in point of truth and justice you are bound by your own conscience or you ought at least � to lay it at his door � and that now you understand better � he smiled a little as he uttered these words � but why don t you get a better bonnet that one is very shabby it s said than done replied the poor must always look poor and will too there then are ten shillings bestow them on that or any other purpose you prefer thank you mr m in the uttle job i did for you at our first acquaintance i found you � any way not worse than another well but you can t me now � i see it in your eye � you have something else to say to me oh nothing to signify merely a serious young person would wish to remove for change of air to some quiet nook until health � which indeed is the of blessings might be recovered man or woman a serious young woman i see i see mr m i know nothing more about it m listen � i shall no longer withhold confidence from you in this matter � unfortunately a member indeed i 