think that he should never be troubled about the principal but mr was determined not to encourage such shuffling people any longer and a ride along the lanes was not likely to a man s resolution by softening his temper the trodden marks made in the days of winter gave him a shake now and then which suggested a rash but at the father of lawyers i ho whether by means of his or otherwise had doubtless something to do with this state of the roads and the abundance of foul land and neglected fences that met his eye though they made no part of brother moss s farm strongly contributed to his dissatisfaction with that unlucky k this wasn t moss s it might have been was all alike it was a parish in mr s opinion and his opinion was not had a poor soil poor roads a poor non resident landlord a poor non resident and rather less than half a also poor if any one strongly impressed with the power of the human mind to triumph over circumstances will contend that the of might nevertheless have been a very superior class of le i have nothing to urge against that abstract proposition only know that in point of fact the mind was in strict with its circumstances the muddy lanes green or that seemed to the eye to lead nowhere but into each other did really lead with patience to a distant high road but there were many feet in which they led more frequently to a centre of spoken of formally as the o but among as s a large low room with a floor a cold scent of tobacco modified by beer mr leaning against the door post with a melancholy face looking as to the daylight as a last night s candle � all this may not seem a very form of temptation but the majority of men in found it when encountered on their road toward four o clock on a wintry afternoon and if any wife in wished to indicate that her was not a pleasure seeking m i co o the on ths hardly do it more emphatically than by saying that he didn t spend a shilling at s from one to another mrs moss had said so of her husband more than once when her brother was in a mood to find fault with him as he certainly was to day and nothing could be less to mr than the behavior of the farm yard gate which he no sooner attempted to push open with his riding stick than it acted as gates without the upper are known to do to the peril of whether or human he was about to get down and lead his horse through the damp dirt of the hollow farm yard by the large half buildings up to the long line of down dwelling house standing on a raised but the s of a saved him that of a plan he had determined on � namely not to get down from his horse during this visit if a man means to be hard let him keep in his saddle and speak from that above the level of pleading eyes and with the command of a distant horizon mrs moss heard the sound of the horse s feet and when her brother rode up was already outside the kitchen door with a half weary smile on her face and a black eyed baby in her arms mrs moss s face bore a faded resemblance to her brother s baby s httle fat hand pressed against her cheek seemed to show more strikingly that the cheek was faded brother i m glad to see you she said in an affectionate tone i didn t look for you to day how do you do oh pretty well mrs moss pretty well answered the brother with cool deliberation as if it were rather too forward of her to ask that question she knew at once that her brother was not in a good humor he never called her mrs moss except when he was angry and when they were in company but she thought it was in the order of nature that people who were poorly off should be mrs moss did not take her stand on the of the human race she was a patient loving hearted woman your husband isn t m the house i suppose asked mr after a grave pause during which four children had run out like chickens whose mother has been suddenly in behind the no said mrs moss but he s only in the field run to the far close in a minute and tell father your uncle s come you ll get down brother won t you and take something no no i can t get down i must be home again directly said mr looking at the distance and how s mrs and the children said mrs mo j humbly not daring to press her invitation the mill on the oh pretty well tom s going to a new school at � a deal of expense to me s bad work for me lying out o my money i wish you d be so good as let the children come and see their cousins some day my little want to see their cousin so as never was and me her and so fond of her � there s nobody ud make a bigger fuss with her according to what got and i know she to come for she s a loving child and how quick and clever she is to be sure if mrs moss had been one of the most women in the world instead of being one of the simplest she could have of nothing more likely to her brother than this praise of he seldom found any one praise of the it was usually left 