aunt had told me which interested the doctor so much that he requested on the occasion of his next visit to be presented to him this ceremony i performed and the doctor begging mr dick he should not find me at the coach office to come on there and rest himself until our morning s work was over it soon passed into a custom for mr dick to come on as a matter of course and if we were a little late as often happened on a wednesday to walk about the waiting for me here he made the acquaintance of the doctor s beautiful young wife paler than formerly all this time more rarely seen by me or any one i think and not so gay but not less beautiful and so became more and more familiar by degrees until at last he would come id to the school and wait he always sat in a particular corner on a particular stool which was called dick after him here he would sit with his grey head bent forward attentively listening to whatever might be going on with a profound veneration for the learning he had never been able to acquire this veneration dick extended to the doctor whom he thought the most subtle and accomplished philosopher of any age it was long before mr dick ever spoke to him otherwise than bare headed and even when he and the doctor had struck up quite a friendship and would walk together by the hour on that side of the which was known among us as the doctor s walk ir dick would pull his hat at intervals to show his respect for wisdom and knowledge how it ever came about that the doctor began to read out scraps of the famous dictionary in these walks i never knew perhaps he felt it all the same at first as reading to himself however it passed into a custom too and mr dick listening with a face shining with pride and pleasure in his heart of hearts believed the dictionary to be the most delightful book in the world as i think of them going up and down before those school room windows � the doctor reading with his complacent smile an occasional n the personal history and experience flourish of tlie manuscript or grave motion of his head and mr dick listening by interest with his poor wits calmly wandering god knows where upon the wings of hard words � i think of it as one of the things in a quiet way that i have ever seen i feel as if they might go walking to and fro for ever and the world might somehow be the better for it � as if a thousand things it makes a noise about were not one half so good for it or me was one of mr dick s friends very soon and in often coming to the house he made acquaintance with the friendship between himself and me increased continually and it was maintained on this odd footing that while mr dick came to look after me as my guardian he always consulted me in any little matter of doubt that arose and invariably guided himself by my advice not only having a high respect for my native sagacity but considering that i inherited a good deal from my aunt one thursday morning when i was about to walk with mr dick from the hotel to the coach office before going back to school for w e had an s school before in the street who reminded me of the made to take tea with himself and his mother adding with t expect you to keep it master we re so very i really had not yet been able to make up my mind whether i liked or detested him and i was very doubtful about it still as i stood looking liim in the face in the street but i felt it quite an to be supposed proud and said i only wanted to be asked oh if that s all master said and it really isn t our that prevents you will you come this evening but if it is our i hope you won t mind to it master for we are well aware of our condition i said i would mention it to mr and if he approved as i had no doubt he would i would come with pleasure so at six o clock that evening which was one of the early office evenings i announced myself as ready to mother will be proud indeed he said as we walked away together or she would be proud if it wasn t sinful master yet you didn t mind supposing was proud this morning i returned � oh deal no master returned oh believe me no such a thought never came into my head i shouldn t have deemed it at all proud if you had thought us too for you because we are so very have you been studying much law lately to change the subject oh master field he said with an air of self denial my reading is hardly to be called study i have passed an hour or two in the evening sometimes with mr hard i suppose said i he is hard to ne sometimes returned but i don t know what he might be to a gifted person after beating a little tune on his chin as we walked on with the two fore fingers of his skeleton right hand he added there are expressions you see master � latin words and terms � in mr that are trying to a reader of my would you like to be taught latin i said briskly i will teach it you with e as i learn it i of oh thank you master he answered shaking his head i am sure it s 