humour such as bad health and stamp on the � ace the sharp cough whidi accompanied the first words she spoke told her history at she was � sinking under the attacks of consumption surveying me with an air in which kindness struggled with vexation she said a few remarks from my did my husband indeed send you here when i said yes she continued i think is mad he about his house and his hotel and his whereas you may now see with your own whether a place like this is fit for such as you is mad not so mad as you think my good woman said i at least not in the present case what his accommodation is l know not but his prices suit me therefore let the door be shut and stir the fire for it is very cold i sa d i y l i mt with notes of travellers abroad accent and lie himself eagerly to obey my commands while his companion � whom the landlady called � placed a chair dose to the and asked me to sit down on it since yon insist on remaining here added he we will at least do all we can to make you comfortable but i asked to be forthwith shown to a room where i might wash and dress the man in the flushing coat looked and the pale features of the landlady bore an expression of blank dismay she hesitated for some moments and then explained to me that there was no in the house but this in whidi a fire was kept and that to wash and in any other room would give me my death of cold we were interrupted by a violent knocking at the street door which being opened admitted the landlord the pale woman and half a dozen men who were evidently the worse for and who would have been the better for some water and soap their entrance was the signal for a scene of confusion which lasted until the appearance of the landlord who with a huge dish full of hot potatoes gave the signal for dinner a dozen eager hands were at once in motion to assist him the table which still bore the traces of the last meals was covered with a coarse cloth louis the waiter emptied a basket of tin knives and iron forks on the table and while the man in the flushing jacket armed with a large knife prepared to act as by himself of his upper garment and up the sleeves of his shirt the company arranged themselves the table aiid made an attack on the provisions which of cold beef boiled mutton and the hot potatoes the appetite with which the company ate was and the pauses of the w the world here and there or � laughter and swearing each guest seemed eager if impress all with his great in london life coffee was brought in after dinner and the men scarcely of whom had as yet found employment in their respective produced large pipes and fell with great vehemence to and while the landlady and the pale woman with embroidered sat down in a further corner of the presently a man in rusty black entered with a boisterous l which was evidently assumed for the purpose x f a good of the landlord who at once welcomed the new you are just in the nick of time mr said im there is foreign money in the house great demand for sovereigns eh said mr well and good i have brought gold and silver and give much for a dollar or as any man in the trade gentlemen and ladies cried the landlord you he what mr says he is ready to change whatever you may have in your pockets for you must know your or or money could not buy you a penny in a shop some of the guests broke out in exclamations of b and hastened to the table mr produced a large leather bag full of english money and did what he called little business with every one the m an in the and the of the flushing coat alone had no money to change the money was just about to go when he saw the latter who looked at him with a grave ah said he i have not yet found anything for you bad time for now winter � no horses in town � i say what ate you doing here why are you not it your work in notes of travellers ae one has knocked a and i ve f nail into my foot some one knocked a into your said l do jou mean a d he turning to me while the money left tie room i am a carpenter by trade but finding no i engaged myself with a fellow in to cure i done it now n fortnight but some one who wished for my place me by knocking a nail into my i could not make out his meaning had to u at three in the morning he explained i and then went a with hair which i had to upon all day long if i continued that till seven in uie evening i could earn about a shilling a day to keep me and you out of ho miserable an ment there are who wait for one of the to fall ill and if they have to wail long they make him ill hy secretly him every one has his place so long as he can keep it they are all who work there and many of them are clever in trades but they cannot find other employment this afforded me food for reflection what a market is london to bring one s labour to a sudden stillness in the room interrupted the of my thoughts i looked up and found that almost all the 