the life to which i am now condemned i nt do i never have done k i forgot that this scene the earth expressly meant to be a scene of gloom and hardship and dark for the creatures who are made out of its dust i might have tenderness for its but i have no such tenderness if i little not know that we are every one the subject most justly the subject of a wrath that must be satisfied and against which mere actions are nothing i might at the difference between mc here and the people who pass that yonder but i i e it as a grace and to be elected to make the satisfaction i am making to know what i know for certain here and to work out what i liave worked out here my affliction might otherwise have had no to me hence i would forget and i do forget nothing e� i am contented and say it is better with me than with as she spoke these words she put her hand upon the watch and it to the precise spot on her little table which it always with her touch upon it she sat for some moments � looking at it steadily and half during this had been strictly attentive his eyes on the lady and his with his two hands mr had been a little l petty and now struck in there there there said he that is quite understood mrs and you have spoken and well mr i is not of a pious cast on the sir that gentleman protested snapping his your pardon it s a part of my character i am sensitive ardent conscientious and imaginative a sensitive ardent conscientious and imaginative man mr must be that or nothing there was an of suspicion in mr s face that he be nothing as he out of his chair it was characteristic of this man as it is of all men marked that whatever did he though it were sometimes by only a hair s breadth approached to take his leave of mrs � with what will appear to you the of a sick old woman � w she then said though really through your accidental allusion i liave been led away into the subject of myself and my being so considerate as to visit me i hope you will be likewise so � as to overlook that don t compliment me if you p j � e for he was going to do it mr iu be happy to render you any service and i hope your stay in this may prove agreeable mi thanked her and kissed his hand several times is an old room he remarked with a sudden of looking round when he got near the door i have been interested that i have not observed it but it s a genuine old � � j r to take me through the rooms on my way out he could hardly me more an old house is a weakness with me i have many a but none greater i love and study the picturesque in all i have been called picturesque myself it ia mv tt be � i have greater perhaps � but i be by accident sympathy i tell you beforehand mr that you ll find it dingy and very bare said taking up the candle i not worth your looking at but mr him in friendly manner on the back only bo ihe kissed his hand again to mrs and they went out of room together you don t care to go up stairs said on the landing on the contrary mr if not tiresome to you i be mr therefore himself up the mr followed close they ascended to ike great room which arthur had occupied on the night of his return mr said showing it i hope you may that worth coming so high to see i s i don t mr being they walked other passages and came down the staircase again by this i mr had remarked that he never found the visitor h at any room after throwing one quick glance around but d the visitor looking at him mr with this tin his thoughts he turned about on the staircase for ai he and on the instant of their fixing another the visitor n that ugly play of nose and i laughed as he had done at every similar moment since they mrs s chamber a silent laugh as a much shorter man than the visitor mr was at the physical disadvantage of being thus at from a height and as he went first down the staircase and was usually i step or two lower than the other this disadvantage was at the increased he postponed looking at mr again until thi accidental was removed by their having entered the mr s room but then twisting suddenly round upon him he found his look unchanged a most admirable old house smiled mr so mysterious do you never hear any haunted noises here noises returned mr no nor see any devils not said mr grimly himself at his not any that introduce themselves under that name and in that a portrait here i see still looking at mr as if he were the portrait it s a portrait sir as you observe may i ask the subject mr mr deceased her husband former owner of the remarkable watch perhaps said the visitor mr who had cast his eyes towards the portrait twisted himself about again and again found himself the subject of the same look and smile yes mr he replied it m and his uncle s before him and lord knows whose he ae him d that s all i can tell you of its that s a strongly marked character mr our mend yes sir said twisting himself at the visitor again as did the whole 