of pens a copious ii y of ink and a goodly show of writing and paper for there was very comfortable in having plenty of i would then take a sheet of paper and write the top of it in a neat hand the heading j of s debts with s inn and the � � very carefully added would also take a t of paper and across it with similar of s debts of us would then refer to a confused heap of i at his side which had thrown into drawers into holes in pockets half burnt in lighting can for weeks into the looking and other � i the sound of our pens going refreshed i that i sometimes found it ii to distinguish between this pro i and paying the money in point of character the two things seemed about � al we had written a little while i would ask h how ho got on probably would have scratching his head in a most manner at of his figures they are mounting up � i npon my life tbey ai e ui � be � i would retort � p y ii pen great look the in thi look into your stare them out of so i would only they are t of countenance however my manner would ha effect and would fall to work again a time he would give up once more on the plea t had not got e or s or s case might be then estimate it estimate it in and put it down what a fellow of you my would reply with admiration really your bu powers are very remarkable i thought so too i established with these occasions the reputation of a first rate n business � prompt decisive energetic clear headed when i had got all my upon my list i compared with the bill it o� my self approval when i an was quite a luxurious sensation when i had no to make i folded all my bills up uniformly each on the back and tied the whole ii bundle then i did the same for ha who modestly said he had not my and felt that i had brought his a il for him my business habits had one other bright which i called leaving a margin for supposing s debts to be one hundred and four pounds four and two iii � i a and put them do at to be four times as much i and put at seven d the opinion of the wisdom of this same gin but i am bound to acknowledge that on i deem it to have been an expensive device we always ran into new debt immediately to the extent of the in and in the sense and it imparted got pretty far on another margin there was a calm a rest a virtuous hush on these of our affairs that gave for the time an admirable opinion of myself by my exertions my method and s i would sit with bundle my own on the table before me among the and feel like a bank of some sort rather than individual ive shut our outer door on these solemn i in order that wo might not be interrupted i fallen into my serene state one evening when we d a letter di through the in the said door fall on the ground it s for you said � going out and coming back with it and i there is nothing the matter this was in heavy black seal and border letter was signed co and its were that i was an honoured sir and they begged to inform me that mrs j departed this life on monday last at twenty past six iu the evening and that my attendance requested at the on monday as o ia the a chapter vi it was the time that a grave had open my road of life and the gap it made in the ground was the fig are of my i chair hy the kitchen fire haunted me night and that the place possibly he without her my mind seemed to whereas she had seldom or never been in my thou of late i had now the strangest ideas that she coming towards me in the street or that s presently knock at the door in my rooms which she had never been at all associated there at once the of death and a perpetual i of the sound of hi i voice or the turn of face or figure as if she were still alive and had b often there whatever my might have been scarcely have recalled my sister with much bat i suppose there is a shock of regret which exist without much tenderness under its and perhaps to make up for the want i feeling i was seized with a violent indignation the from whom she had suffered so much i felt that on sufficient proof i could have pursued or any one else to the last having written to joe to offer consolation i assure him that i should come to the funeral i the days in the curious state of r have glanced at i went down early iu the e and alighted at the in good time to to the h fine summer s v t the time when i waa a little creature ray sister did not spare me vividly returned but � with a upon them that even the e of for now the very i ith of the beans and whispered to my heart the day must come when it would he well for my memory that others walking in the sunshine be softened as they ht of me at last i came sight of the house and saw and co had put in a execution and taken two absurd persons exhibiting a done up in a � 