her own but to hi too them to mrs e mr s w ghostly when they were all knowing why ery her was the to say witli you j i don t know with her and d the it ain t me it him k what good woman mean xl mr white and slowly with n look of h ll � t d with of w h i ft til this good creature � � � m ib in that direction she don t know what she means s an idiot a wanderer in her she shall have a dose she shall ha re a dose get along with you my woman he added in her ear get along with you while you know you re and you re shaken to mistress of the danger in which her identity the as her seized it put her apron over her head and in a twinkling the visitor into a smile and sat down again you ll her mr � aid out the tea himself she s failing and breaking up that s what she s about i o you take sugar sir thank you no tea for me � pardon my it but that s a remarkable watch the was drawn up near the sofa with a small interval between it and mrs s own particular table mr in his gallantry had risen to hand that lady her tea her dish of was there and it was in placing the cup conveniently within her reach that the watch lying before her as it always did attracted his attention mrs looked suddenly up at him may i be thank you a fine old h he said taking it in his hand heavy for use but massive and i have a partiality for everything genuine such as i am i genuine myself a gentleman s watch with two cases in the old fashion may i remove it from the outer case you aye an old silk watch worked with beads i have often seen these among old dutch people and quaint things they are old fashioned too said mrs very but this is not as old as the watch i think i think not extraordinary how they used to these c hers remarked mr glancing up with his own smile again now is this d n f it might be almost anything those are the letters mr who had been pausing all this time with a cup of tea in his hand and his open ready to swallow the contents began to do so always entirely his mouth before he emptied it at a and always again before he it d k e was some tender k fascinating fair i make no doubt observed as he snapped on the case again i her memory on the assumption unfortunately for my peace of mind i but too readily it may be a vice it may be a virtue but adoration of female beauty and merit three of in madam mr had by this time himself out another cup of tea which he was in as before with his eyes to the invalid you be heart � here sir she returned to mr those letters are not intended i believe for the if any name of a motto perhaps said mr casually of a sentence they have always stood i believe for bo n ot forget and naturally said mr the watch stepping backward to his former chair you do not forget mi finishing his tea not only took a longer mj he had taken yet but made his succeeding pause under new that is to say with his head thrown back and his cap b tp held at his lips while his eyes were stiu directed at the invalid ii had that force of face and that concentrated air of collecting her ness or obstinacy which represented in her case what would ve been gesture and action in another as she replied with her strength of speech no sir i do not forget to lead a life as monotonous as mm j has been during many years is not the way to forget to lead a of self is not the way to forget to be sensible of g as we au have every one of us au the children of adam s j to and peace to make does not justify the desire to � t therefore i have long dismissed it and i er forget nor wish t� forget mr who had been shaking the at bottom of his tea cup round and round here it down putting the cup in the tea tray as done with turned hia eyes u mr as if to ask him what he thought of that all expressed madam said mr with his s bow and his white hand on his breast by the word which i am proud to have had sufficient apprehension and but without appreciation i could not be employ pardon me sir she returned if i doubt the o� � gentleman of pleasure and change and politeness accustomed to and to be � oh madam by heaven � if i doubt the of such a character quite what belongs to mine in my circumstances not doctrine upon you she looked at the rigid pile of hard books before her for you go your own way and the are on your own head i will say this much that i shape my by strictly by proved and tried under whom i cannot can not be � and that if i were of the l conveyed in those three letters i should not be half as as i am j it was curious how she seized the occasion to argue with p invisible opponent perhaps with her own better sense always � s upon herself and her own deception if i forgot my in my life of health and freedom � might complain of 