the very last say the day before the other day when i showed you our papers in the prison yard or say that very day nobody but ourselves would have been cruelly disappointed or a penny the worse who had been almost incessantly shaking hands with him throughout the narrative was reminded by this to say in an amazement which even the preparation he had had for the main disclosure scarcely smoothed down my dear mr this must have cost you a great sum of money pretty well sir said the triumphant no trifle though we did it as cheap as it could be done and the was a difficulty let me tell you a difficulty repeated but the difficulties you have so wonderfully conquered in the whole business shaking his hand again i ll tell you how i did it said the delighted putting his hair into a condition as elevated as himself first i spent all i had of my own that wasn t much i am sorry for it said not that it matters now though then what did you do then answered i borrowed a sum of my proprietor of mr said he s a fine old fellow noble old boy an the said mr entering on a series of the of generous old buck confiding old boy old buck benevolent old boy twenty per cent i engaged to pay him sir but we never do business for less at our shop arthur felt an awkward consciousness of having in his condition been a little premature i said to that � boiling over old christian mr pursued little appearing greatly to relish this descriptive epithet that i had got a little project on hand a hopeful one i told him a hopeful one which wanted a certain small capital i proposed to him to lend me the money on my note which he did at twenty sticking the twenty on in a business like way and putting it into the note to look like a part of the principal if i had broken down after that i should have been his for the next seven years at half wages and double grind but he s a perfect and it would do a man good to serve him on such terms � on any terms arthur for his life could not have said with confidence whether really thought so or not when that was gone sir resumed and it did go though i it out like so much blood i had taken mr into the secret i proposed to borrow of mr or of miss it s the same thing she made a little money by a speculation in the common once he lent it at ten and thought that pretty high but mr s a red haired man sir and gets his hair cut and as to the crown of his hat it s high and as to the brim of his hat it s narrow and there s no more benevolence out of him than out of a your own for all this mr said ought to be a large one i don t getting it sir said i have made no bargain i owed you one on that score now i have paid it money out of pocket made good time fairly allowed for and mr s bill settled a thousand pounds would be a fortune to me that matter i place in your hands i you now to break all this to the family in any way you think best miss will be with mrs this morning the sooner done the better can t be done too soon this conversation took place in s bedroom while he was yet in bed for mr had knocked up the house and made his way in very early in the morning and without once sitting down or standing still had delivered himself of the whole of his details illustrated with a variety of documents at the bedside he now said he would go and look up mr from whom his excited state of mind appeared to require another back and up his papers and exchanging one more hearty shake of the hand with he went at full speed down stairs and off of course resolved to go direct to mr s he dressed and got out so quickly that he found himself at the corner of the street nearly an hour before her time but he was not sorry to have the opportunity of himself with a leisurely walk when he returned to the street and had knocked at the bright brass he was informed that she had come and was shown up stairs to s breakfast room little was not there herself but was and the greatest amazement at seeing him good gracious arthur � and cried that lady who would have ever thought of seeing such a sight as this and little pray excuse a for upon my word i really never and a faded check too which is worse but our little friend is making me a not that i need mind mentioning it to you for you must know that there are such things a skirt and having arranged that a trying on should take place after breakfast is the reason though i wish not so badly i ought to make an apology said arthur for so early and abrupt a visit but you will excuse it when i tell you the cause in times for ever fled arthur returned mrs pray excuse me and infinitely more correct and though unquestionably distant still tis distance enchantment to the view at least i don t mean that and if i did i suppose it would depend considerably on the nature of the view but i m running on again and you put it all out of my head she glanced at him tenderly and resumed in times for ever fled i was going 