whom he was so forced and it was honestly meant well towards her for if he i found her unhappy in the prospect of that marriage through her to another man or for any other cause he would have said this is another of the old uses of the making money i will let it go to my and my sister s only and friends when the into which he fell so his first intention as that he found himself by the ice authorities upon the london walls for dead he the aid that fell upon him without considering how firmly must seem to fix the in their accession to the fortune ten he saw them and knew them and even from his of inspection could find no flaw in them he asked himself nd shall i come to life to such people as these there no good to set against the putting of them to that hard proof had heard from s own lips when he stood tapping at the r on that night of his taking the lodgings that the marriage would a been on her part thoroughly he had since tried in his own unknown person and supposed station and she not r rejected his advances but resented them was him to have shame of buying her or the meanness of her yet by ing to life and accepting the condition of the inheritance he must the former and by coming to life and it ho must do latter mother consequence that he had never was the � of an innocent man in his supposed murder he would complete from the and set the wrong it but clearly the wrong could never have been done if he had er planned a deception then whatever inconvenience or distress ol i u mutual friend of mind the deception cost him it was to accept as among its consequences and make no complaint thus john in the morning and it buried john still many deeper than he had been buried in the night going out earlier than he was accustomed to do he encountered the at the door the s way was for a certain his way and they walked together it was impossible not to notice the change in the s appearance the felt very of it and modestly remarked a present from my daughter mr the words gave the secretary a stroke of pleasure for he remembered the fifty pounds and he still loved the girl no doubt it was very weak � it always i very weak some authorities he loved the girl i don t know whether you happen to have read many books of african travel mr said b w i have read several well you know there s usually a king george or a king boy or a king or a king bill or bull or bum or or whatever name the sailors may have happened to give him where asked u anywhere anywhere in africa i mean pretty well everywhere i may say fox black kings are and j think � said b w with an air nasty i am much of your opinion mr you were going to say � i was going to say the king is generally dressed in a london hat only or a pair of or one or an uniform coat with his legs in the sleeves or something of that kind just so said the secretary in confidence i assure you mr observed the cheerful that when more of my family were at home and to be provided for i used to remind myself immensely of that king you have no idea as a single man of the difficulty i have had in wearing more than one good article at a time i can easily believe it mr i only mention it said b w in the warmth of his heart as a proof of the amiable delicate and considerate affection of my daughter if she had been a little spoilt i couldn t have thought so very much of it under the but no not a bit and she is so very pretty i hope you agree with mo in finding her very pretty mr certainly i do every one must i hope so said the indeed i have no doubt of it this is a great advancement for her in life mr a great opening of her prospects m miss could have no better friends than mr and mrs impossible said the gratified i begin to think things are very well as they are if mr john had lived � he is better dead said the secretary mutual no i won t go so far as to say that urged the a little against the very decisive and tone but he t have suited or t have suited him or fifty things whereas now i hope she can choose for herself has she � as you place the confidence in me of speaking on the subject you will excuse my asking � has she � perhaps � chosen faltered the secretary oh dear no returned e w young ladies sometimes hinted choose without mentioning their choice to their fathers not in this case mr between my daughter and me there is a regular league and of confidence it was only the other day the dates from � these said the giving a little pull at the of his coat and the pockets of his trousers oh no she has not chosen to be sure young george in the days when mr john m who i wish had never been born said the secretary with a gloomy brow r w looked at him with surprise as thinking he had contracted an unaccountable spite against the poor deceased and continued u in the days when mr john was being sought out young george certainly was hovering about and let mm but it never was seriously thought o� 