s rent to me mutual and we must try and save it somewhere youve got some lovely furniture haven t you the furniture in my rooms is my own then we shan t have to buy any for you in case you was to think of it said mr with a look of peculiar so independent in you as to make it a relief to your mind to make that furniture over to me in the light of a set oflf against the quarter s rent why ease your mind ease your mind i don t ask it but i won t stand in your way if yon should consider it due to yourself as to your room choose any empty room at the top of the house any empty room will do for me said the secretary you can take your pick said mr and it ll be as good as eight or ten shillings a week added to your income i won t for it look to you to make it up handsomely by keeping the expenses down now if you ll show a light i ll come to your office room and dispose of a letter or two on that clear generous face of mrs s had seen such traces of a pang at the heart while this dialogue was being held that she had not the courage to turn her eyes to it when they were left alone to be intent on her she sat her needle until her busy hand was stopped by mrs s hand being lightly laid upon it yielding to the touch she felt her hand carried to the good soul s lips and felt a tear fall on it oh my loved husband said mrs this is hard to see and hear but my dear believe me that in spite of all the change in him he is the best of men mutual friend he came back at the moment when had taken the hand between her own eh said he looking in at the door what s she telling you t she is only you sir said me you are sure not me for standing on my own against a crew of who would me dry by not me for getting a little together he came up to them and his wife folded her hands upon his shoulder and shook her head as she laid it on her hands there there there i urged mr not don t take on old lady but i can t bear to see you so my dear nonsense recollect we are not our old selves recollect we must or be recollect we must hold our own recollect money makes money don t you be uneasy my child don t you be doubtful the more i save the more you shall have thought it was well for his wife that she was musing with her affectionate face on his shoulder for there was a cunning light in his eyes as he said all this which seemed to cast a disagreeable illumination on the change in him and make it morally mutual chapter vi the golden falls into worse company it bad to pass that mr now rarely attended the of fortune and the worm of the hour at his the worm s and s own house but lay under general instructions to await him within a certain margin of hours at the bower mr took this arrangement in great because the appointed hours were hours and those he considered precious to the progress of the friendly move but it was quite in character he bitterly remarked to mr that the who had trampled on those eminent creatures miss elizabeth master george aunt jane and uncle should his literary man the empire having worked out its mr next appeared in a cab with s ancient history which valuable work being found to possess properties broke down at about the period when the whole of the army of alexander the at that time about forty thousand strong burst into tears simultaneously on his being taken with a shivering fit after bathing the wars of the jews likewise under mr s mr arrived in another cab with whose lives he found in the extremely entertaining though he hoped might not expect him to believe them all what to believe in the course of his reading was fr ous mutual s chief literary difficulty indeed for some time he was divided in his mind between half all or none at length when he decided as a moderate man to compound with half the question still remained which half and that stumbling block he never got over one evening when had grown accustomed to the arrival of his patron in a cab accompanied by some profane historian charged with unutterable names of incomprehensible of impossible descent wars any number of years and long and carrying hosts and riches about with the greatest ease beyond the of geography � one evening the usual time passed by and no patron appeared after half an hour s grace mr proceeded to the outer gate and there executed a whistle conveying to mr if perchance within hearing the tidings of his being at home and disengaged forth from the shelter of a neighboring wall mr then emerged brother in arms said mr in excellent spirits welcome i in return mr gave him a rather dry walk in brother said clapping him on the shoulder and take your seat in my comer for what says the ballad no malice to dread sir and no falsehood to fear but truth to delight me mr and forgot what to cheer li om and something to guide my ain fireside sir my ain fireside mutual with this quotation depending for its neatness rather on the spirit than the words mr conducted his guest to his hearth and you come brother said mr in a hospitable glow you come 