in company said with great solemnity that it would be a warning to her and so did the young ladies generally with the exception of one or two who appeared to entertain some doubts whether such whiskers could do wrong why do you say all this before so many listeners said in a low voice you know you are not in earnest i am in earnest replied madame aloud and retreating toward miss well but consider reasoned who had a great interest in the matter it would be well to reflect a married woman has no property not a solitary single individual my soul said mr raising himself upon his elbow i am quite aware of that retorted madame tossing her head and i have none the business the stock this house and everything in it all belong to miss that s quite true madame said miss with whom her late employer had secretly come to an understanding on this point very true indeed madame � hem � very true and i never was more glad in all my life that i had strength of mind to resist matrimonial offers no matter how advantageous than i am when i think of my present position as compared with your most unfortunate and most one madame cried mr turning his head towards his wife will it not slap and pinch the envious that dares to reflect upon its own delicious but the day of mr s had departed miss sir said his wife is my particular mend and although mr till his eyes seemed in danger of never coming back to their right places again madame showed no signs of softening and of to do the excellent miss justice she had been mainly in bringing about this altered state of things for by daily experience that there was no chance of the business or even continuing to exist while mr had any hand in the expenditure and having now a considerable interest in its well doing she had herself to the investigation of some little matters connected with that gentleman s private character which she had so well and imparted to madame as to open her eyes more effectually than the and most philosophical reasoning could have done in a series of years to which end the accidental discovery by miss of some tender correspondence in which madame was described as old and ordinary had most contributed however notwithstanding her firmness madame wept very and as she upon miss and signed towards the door that young lady and all the other yoimg ladies with faces proceeded to bear her out said mr in tears you have been made a witness to this cruelty on the part of the and that never was oh i forgive that woman forgive repeated madame angrily i do forgive her said mr you wiu blame me the world wiu blame me the women will blame me everybody will laugh and and and grin most they will say she had a blessing she did not know it he was too weak he was too good he was a d fine fellow but he loved too strong j he could not bear her to be cross and call him wicked names it was a d case there never was a � but i forgive her with this affecting speech mr fell down again very flat and lay to all appearance without sense or motion until all the females had left the room when he came cautiously into a sitting posture and confronted with a very blank face and the little bottle stiu in one hand and the tea spoon in the other you may put away those now and live by your wits again said coolly putting on his hat you re not serious i seldom joke said good night no but � said i am wrong perhaps rejoined i hope so you should know best good night affecting not to hear his entreaties that he would stay and advise with him left the crest fallen mr to his meditations and left the house quietly he said sets the wind that way so soon half and half fool and detected in both characters � hum � i think your day is over sir as he said this he made some in his in which mr s name figured and finding by his watch that it was between nine and ten o clock made au speed home are they here was the first question he asked of nodded been here half an hour two of them one a fat sleek man ay said in your room now good rejoined get me a coach a coach what you � going to � eh stammered angrily repeated his orders and who might well have been excused for wondering at such an unusual and extraordinary circumstance � for he had never seen in a coach in his life � departed on his errand and presently returned with the conveyance into it went mr and and the third man whom had never seen stood upon the door step to see them off not troubling himself to wonder where or upon what business they were going until he chanced by mere accident to hear name the address whither the coachman was to drive quick as lightning and in a state of the most extreme wonder darted into his little office for his hat and after the coach as if with the intention of getting up behind but in this design he was for it had too much the start of him and was soon hopelessly ahead leaving him gaping in the empty street i don t know though said stopping for breath any good that i could have done by going too he would have seen me if i had drive there what can come of life and op this if i had only known it yesterday i could have told � drive there there 