his road lay there thank you said mr i am aware of � that i am going but before i go i your leave to speak and more than that mr i must and � yes indeed i repeat it must and wiu � be heard i am not surprised sir at anything you have told me to night it is natural very natural and the greater part of it was known to me before i will not say continued mr drawing out his pocket handkerchief and with both eyes at once as it were against his will i will not say that you are life and of mistaken in me while you are in your present mood i would not say so for the world i almost wish indeed that i had a different nature that i might repress even this slight confession of weakness which i cannot disguise from you which i feel is humiliating but which you will have the goodness to excuse we will say if you please added mr with great tenderness of manner that it arises from a cold in the head or is to snuff or smelling or or anything but the real cause here he paused for an instant and concealed his face behind his pocket handkerchief then smiling faintly and holding the bed with one hand he resumed but mr while i am forgetful of myself i owe it to myself and to my character � ay sir and i have a character which is very dear to me and will be the best inheritance of my two daughters � to tell you on behalf of another that your conduct is wrong unnatural monstrous and i teu you sir said mr towering on among the curtains as if he were literally rising above au worldly considerations and were fain to hold on tight to keep from darting like a i tell you without fear or favor that it will not do for you to be of your young martin who has the strongest natural claim upon you it wiu not do sir repeated mr shaking his head you may think it will do but it won t you must provide for that young man you shall provide for him you provide for him i believe said mr glancing at the pen and ink that in secret you have already done so bless you for doing so bless you for doing right sir bless you for me and good night so saying mr waved his right hand with much solemnity and once more it in his waistcoat departed there was emotion in his manner but his step was firm subject to human weaknesses he was by conscience martin lay for some time with an expression on his face of silent wonder not rage at length he muttered in a whisper what does this mean can the false hearted boy have chosen such a tool as yonder who has just gone out why not he has against me like the rest and they are but birds of one feather a new plot a new plot oh self self self at every turn nothing but self he to trifling as he ceased to speak with the ashes of the burnt paper in the he did so at first in pure abstraction but they presently became the subject of his another will made and destroyed he said nothing determined on nothing done and i might have died to night i plainly see to what foul uses all this money will be put at last he cried almost in the bed after filling me with cares and miseries all my life it will discord and bad passions when i am dead so it always is what grow out of the graves of rich men every day hatred and lies among near kindred where there should be nothing but love heaven help us we have much to answer for oh self self every man for himself and no creature for me universal self was there nothing of its shadow in these reflections and in the history of martin on his own showing and of chapter iv from which it will that ip union be strength and family affection be pleasant to contemplate the were the strongest and most agreeable family in the world that worthy man mr having taken leave of his cousin in the solemn terms in the last chapter withdrew to his own home and remained there three whole days not so much as going out for a walk beyond the boundaries of his own garden lest he should be hastily summoned to the bedside of his penitent and relative whom in his ample benevolence he had made up his mind to forgive and to love on any terms but such was the obstinacy and such the bitter nature of that stem old man that no summons came and the fourth day found mr apparently much from his object than the first during the whole of this interval he haunted the at all times and seasons in the day and night and returning good for evil evinced the deepest solicitude in the progress of the invalid that mrs was fairly melted by his disinterested anxiety for he often particularly required her to take notice that he would do the same by any stranger or in the like condition and shed many tears of admiration and delight meantime old martin remained shut up in his own chamber and saw no person but his yoimg companion saving the hostess of the blue who was at certain times admitted to his presence so surely as she came into the room however martin feigned to fall asleep it was only when he and the yoimg lady were alone that he utter a word even in answer to ihe simplest inquiry though make out by hard listening at the door that they two being left together he was enough it 