to rough it as i said just now and we did a bed last week upon the floor here but there s a little room in the roof � a very nice room when you re up there � which herself to surprise me and that s our room at present it s a capital little sort of place there s quite a view from it and you are happily married at last my dear said i how rejoiced i am thank you my dear said as we shook hands once more y es i am as happy as it s possible to be there s your old friend you see said nodding triumphantly at the flower pot and stand and there s the table with the marble top au the other furniture is plain and serviceable you perceive and as to plate lord bless you we haven t so much as a tea spoon ail to be earned said i cheerfully exactly so replied all to be earned of course we have something in the shape of tea because we stir our tea but they re metal of david the silver will be the brighter when it comes said i the very thing we say cried you see my dear falling again into the low confidential tone after i had delivered my argument in which did me great service with the profession i went down into and had some serious conversation in private the i dwelt upon the fact that � who i do assure you is the dearest girl i am certain she is said i she is indeed rejoined but i am afraid i am wandering from the subject did i mention the reverend you said that you dwelt upon the fact true upon the fact that and i had been engaged for a long period and that with the permission of her parents was more than content to take me � in short said with his old frank smile on our present metal footing very well i then proposed to the � who is a most excellent clergyman and ought to be a bishop or at least ought to have enough to live upon without himself � that if i could turn the corner say of two hundred and fifty pounds in one year and could see my way pretty clearly to that or something better next year and could plainly furnish a little place like this besides then and in that case and i should be united i took the liberty of representing that we had been patient for a good many years and that the circumstance of s being useful at home ought not to operate with her affectionate parents against her establishment in life � don t you see certainly it ought not said i i am glad you think so rejoined because without any on the reverend i do think parents and brothers and so forth are sometimes rather selfish in such cases well i also pointed out that my most earnest desire was to be useful to the family and that if i got on in the world and anything should happen to him � i refer to the reverend � i understand said i � or to mrs � it w ould be the utmost gratification of my wishes to be a parent to the girls he replied in a most admirable manner exceedingly flattering to my feelings and undertook to obtain the consent of mrs to this arrangement they had a dreadful time of it with her it mounted from her legs into her chest and then into her head what mounted i asked her grief replied with a serious look her feelings generally as i mentioned on a former occasion she is a very superior woman but has lost the use of her limbs whatever occurs to her usually settles in her legs but on this occasion it mounted to the chest and then to the head and in short pervaded the w hole system in a most alarming manner however they brought her through it by and affectionate attention and we were married yesterday six weeks you have no idea what a monster i felt when i saw the whole family crying and fainting away in every direction mrs the personal history and experience couldn t see me before we left � couldn t forgive me then for her of her child � but she is a good creature and has done so since i had a delightful letter from her only this morning and in short my dear friend said i you feel as as you deserve to feel oh that s your partiality laughed but indeed i am in a most state i work hard and read law i get up at live every morning and don t mind it at all i hide the girls in the day time and make merry with them in the evening and i assure you i am quite sorry that they are going home on tuesday which is the day before the first day of term but here said breaking off in his confidence and speaking aloud are the girls mr miss � miss � miss � margaret and they were a perfect nest of roses they looked so wholesome and fresh they were all pretty and miss was very handsome but there was a loving cheerful fireside quality in s bright looks which was better than that and which assured me that my friend had chosen well all sat round the fire while the sharp boy who i now divined had lost his breath in putting the papers out cleared them away again and produced the tea things after that he retired for the night shutting the outer door upon us with a bang mrs with perfect pleasure and composure beaming from her household eyes having made the tea then quietly made the toast as she sat 