affections and possess her heart i bow i john stared at him in his outburst as if with some idea that be had gone mad what is due to this young lady said mr is money and this young lady right well knows it you the young lady the young lady you with your affections and hearts and returned mr it s of a piece with the rest of your behavior i heard of these doings of yours only last night or you should have heard of em from me sooner take your oath of it i heard of em from a lady with as good a head piece as the ber t and she knows this young lady and i know this young lady and we all three know that it s money she makes mutual a stand for � money money money � and that you and your affections and hearts are a lie sir mrs said quietly turning to her for your delicate and kindness i thank you with the warmest gratitude good by i miss good by i and now my dear said mr laying his hand on s head again you may begin to make yourself quite and i hope you feel that you ve been but was so far from appearing to feel it that she shrank from his hand and from the chair and starting up in an passion of tears and stretching out her arms cried o mr before you go if you could but make me poor again i i make me poor again somebody i beg and pray or my heart will break if this goes on i pa dear make me poor again and take me home i i was bad enough there but i have been so much worse here don t give me money mr i won t have money keep it away from me and only let me speak to good little pa and lay my head upon his shoulder and tell him all my nobody else can understand me nobody else can comfort me nobody else knows how unworthy i am and yet can love me like a little child i am better with pa than any one � more innocent more sorry more glad p so crying out in a wild way that she could not bear this drooped her head on mrs s ready breast john from bis place in the room and mr from his looked on at her in silence until she was silent herself then mr observed in a soothing and comfortable tone there my dear there you are f now and it s all right i don t wonder i m sure at being a little by having a scene with this fellow but it s all over my dear and you re and it s � and it s all right i which mr repeated with a highly satisfied air of completeness and i hate yon i cried turning suddenly upon him with a stamp of her little foot � at least i can t hate you but i don t like you i lo i exclaimed mr in an amazed you re a scolding bad old creature i cried i am angry with my ungrateful self for calling you names but you are you are you know you are i mr stared here and stared there as that he must be in some sort of fit i have heard you with shame said with shame for myself and with shame for you tou ought to be above the base tale bearing of a time serving woman but you are above nothing now mr seeming to become convinced that this was a fit rolled his eyes and loosened his when i came here i respected you and honored you and i soon loved you cried and now i can t bear the sight of you at least i don t know that i ought to go so far as that � only you re a � j ou re a monster i having shot this bolt out with a great expenditure of force laughed and cried together the best wish i can wish you is said returning to the ge that you had not one single in the world if any true friend and well could our make you a you would be a duck but as a man of property you are a demon after this second bolt with a still greater expenditure of force laughed and cried still more mr pray stay one moment pray hear one word from me before you go i am deeply sorry for the reproaches you have borne on my account out of the depths of my heart i earnestly and truly beg your pardon as she stepped toward him he met her as she gave him her hand he put it to his lips and said god bless you no laughing was mixed with s crying then her tears were pure and fervent there is not an word that i have heard addressed to you � heard with scorn and indignation mr � but it has wounded me far more than you for i have deserved it and you never have mr it is to me you owe this account of what passed between us that night i parted with the secret even while i was angry with myself for doing so it was very bad in me but indeed it was not wicked i did it in a moment of conceit and folly � one of my many such moments � one of my many such hours � years as i am punished for it severely try to forgive it do with all my soul thank you thank you i don t part from me till i have said one other word to do you justice the only fault you can be truly charged with in having spoken to 