ve it ill always and seemed to think t wanted to yon out of your place i know nothing o your offering aid the squire whose memory consisted in certain strong impressions by detail but i know one while vou seemed to bo thinking o and i didn t any obstacles in as some fathers would i d as you married s daughter as anybody i suppose if i d said you nay jou ha kept on with it but for want o contradiction jou ve changed mind you re a fellow vou take your poor mother she never had a will of her own a woman has no call for one if she s got a proper man for her husband but � our wife had need have one for yon your own mind enough lo make both your legs walk one way the has n t said downright she won t have you has she no said feeling very hot and uncomfortable but i don t think will think why haven t you the courage to ask her do you stick lo it you want to have her � that s the thing there s no other woman i want to marry said well then let mo make the offer for you s all if j ou have n t pluck ro do it yourself is n t likely to be tor his daughter to marry into my family i should think and as for the pretty loss she would n t have her cousin � and there s nobody else sec could ha stood in your way i d rather let it be please sir at present said in alarm i think she s a little with f st now and i should like lo for myself a man must things for himself well speak then and manage it and see if you can t turn over a new leaf that s what a man must do he thinks o marrying i don t see how i can of it and d to live in tliis house with my ic b a different sort of she s been used not come to live in this house don t tell me you ask her s all said the squire with a short scornful i d rather let the thing be present sir said i hope you won t try to hurry it on by ing anything i shall what i choose said the squire and i shall let you know i m muster else you may torn out and find an estate hi into somewhere else go out and tell not to to s hut and tell t and get that back o sold and hand me the money you he keep no more a my expense and if you when he a � i dare say you do � you may e him to spare himself the journey o coming back home let turn and keep himself he n t hang on mc any more i don t know where he la sir and if i did it is n t my place tell him keep away said towards the door confound it sir don t stay arguing go and order my horse said the squire up a pipe the room hardly knowing whether he were more relieved by the sense that the ended without having made � in his position or more he had entangled himself still in and deceit what passed about his proposing to raised n new alarm lest by some after dinner words of his s to mr he he into the embarrassment of obliged absolutely to de line her when she seemed to h� within hia ho fled to his refuge that of hoping for some turn of fortune some favorable chance which would save him from unpleasant consequences � even justify his by its prudence and in this point at to some throw of fortune s can hardly be called specially old toned favorable chance i fancy is the god of all men who follow their own devices instead of obeying a law ihey believe in let even a polished man of these days get into a position he is ashamed and his mind will be bent on all the possible that may deliver him from the results of that position let him live outside his income or the resolute honest work thai brings wages and he will presently find himself a possible who may be into using his interest a possible state of mind in some possible person not yet let him neglect the of his office and he will inevitably anchor himself on the chance that the thing undone nay out of the supposed importance im betray his friend s confidence and he will that same called chance which � him the hope that his friend never know let him a decent craft that he may pursue the of a profession to which nature never called him and his religion will be the worship of blessed chance which he wilt bein as the mighty creator of as the evil principle that religion is the by which the seed bring forth a crop after its kind chapter x was naturally regarded in and as a of mind seeing that draw much wider evidence than could be expected of liis neighbors were not on the commission of the peace such h man was not to tlie of the and an inquiry was set on foot concerning a unknown with curly lack hair and n foreign complexion carrying a hon of and wearing large rings lu his ears but either inquiry v too slow to overtake him because the applied to many inquiry did i know to choose among weeks passed away and there was no other result concerning the robbery than a gradual of the excitement it had caused in s absence was hardly a of remark he once before had 