feel keenly and i h did than that he was tame in comparison with who knew how to address me on equal terms and how to the wretched people around us this went on until the aunt my took it � to speak to me it waa worth alluding to she nothing but she herself knowing it wa a to suggest that it might bo better if i were a with mr i asked her how could answer for what i ot always answer she replied for my meaning nothing wrong l her but said i would prefer to answer for myself and to other would be grateful for good i other conversation followed and induced me to ber at knew that it was only necessary fur her to make a to am to have it obeyed bid she presume on my birth or on my hire i not bought body and she seemed to think hit nephew gone into a slave market and a it would probably have come sooner or later to the to which it did come but brought tt to its issue at e mr tliat i had on unhappy oa repetition of old wicked injury i withheld no ir bu exposed to her all i had known of her and seen in her mid ail i undergone within myself since i had the of engaged to her nephew told her that mr w� am only i had had in my di that i it ton and that shook it too late but that would me more and i never tour dear friend d mo to my retreat and wi the of the though � � � o t people in their way the best ho bad ever the of breaking mere on the w before and far more truly than i was not acceptance by a woman of such and such power of character but � well well tour dear amused me and amused himself as long as it suited his inclinations and then reminded me that we were both people of the world that we both understood mankind that we both knew there was no such thing as romance that we were both prepared for going ways to seek our fortunes like people of sense and that we both that whenever we one another again we should meet as the best on earth so he said and i did not contradict him it was not very long before i found that he was his present wife and that die had been taken away to be out of his reach i hated her then quite as much as i hate her now and naturally therefore could desire nothing better than that she should many but i was curious to look at her � so curious that i it to be one of the few sources of entertainment left to me i a little travelled until i found myself in her society and in tour dear mend i think was not known to you then and had not given you any of those signal marks of his which he has bestowed upon you in that company i found a girl in various circumstances of there was a likeness to my own and in whose character i was interested and pleased to see much of the rising against swollen patronage and selfishness calling themselves kindness pro ce and other fine names which i have described as jl inherent in my nature i often heard it said too that she had temper well understanding what was meant by the t phrase and wanting a companion with a knowledge of what i knew i thought i would try to release the girl m her bondage and sense of injustice i have no occasion to relate that i succeeded we have been together ever since sharing my small means chapter who passes by this so late had made his expedition to in the midst of a great pressure of business a certain power with valuable possessions on the map of the world had occasion for the services of one or two quick in invention and determined in execution practical men who could make the men and means their ingenuity perceived to be wanted out of tbe best they could find at hand and who were as bold and fertile in the of such materials to their purpose as in the conception of their purpose itself this power being a one had no idea of away a great national object in a office as wine u hidden light in a c until its and are gone and the who worked in � il es are dust with it on decided and energetic notions of how to do it least respect for or gave any r to the greet political not to do it indeed it had a barbarous way at the ut and mystery dead in the enlightened subject who it accordingly the men who were were sought oat md which was ill itself a most and ol being found they great and which again showed political ignorance and ru i i at once and do what they had to do in short w i as men who meant to do it engaging with other men who it to be done daniel was one of the chosen there was no time whether he would be absent months or his departure and the ur all th details and results of their joint business hi at within a short compass of time which had occupied day ni night he had slipped across the water in first and slipped as quickly back for his farewell with l him arthur now showed with and the o their gains and s bill and daniel m it all in his patient manner and it all h the accounts as if they were a far more ul than he had ci ci constructed and stood at them weighing 