i had your reflections i should feel as if the charitable dress would my child and the education choke him for the matter of that � but mrs didn t know it � he had been pretty well by the dress already and as to the education even its effect might be produced in time for it was a storm of sobs and blows said mr it is not necessary to these observations the woman is discharged and son and paid you leave this house for taking my son � my son said mr emphatically repeating these two words into haunts and into society which are not to be thought of without a shudder as to the accident which miss this morning i regard that as in one great sense a happy and fortunate circumstance inasmuch as but for that occurrence i never could have known � and from your own lips too � of what you had been guilty i think the other nurse the young person here miss sobbed aloud being so much younger and necessarily influenced by paul s nurse may remain have the goodness to direct that this woman s coach is paid to � mr stopped and � to s moved towards the door with holding to her dress and crying to hen in the most pathetic manner not to go away it was a dagger in the haughty other s heart an arrow in his brain to see how the flesh and blood he could not clung to this obscure stranger and he sitting by not that he cared to whom his daughter turned or from whom turned away the swift sharp agony struck through him as he thought of what his son might do his son cried that night at all events to say poor paul had better reason for his tears than sons of that age often have for he had lost his second mother � his first so far as he knew � by a stroke as sudden as that natural which had darkened the of his life at the same blow his sister too who cried herself to sleep so mournfully had lost as good and true a friend but that is quite beside the question let us waste no words about it and son chapter vn a bird s glimpse of miss s i also of the state of miss s affections miss inhabited a dark little house that had been squeezed at some remote period of english history into a fashionable neighborhood at the west end of the town where it stood in the shade like a poor relation of the great street round the comer coldly looked down upon by mighty it was not exactly in a court and it was not exactly in a yard but it was in the of no rendered anxious and haggard bj distant double the name of this retirement where grass grew between the in the stone pavement was princess s place and in princess s place was princess s chapel with a bell where sometimes as many as five and twenty people attended service on a sunday the princess s arms was also there and much resorted to by splendid a chair was kept inside the railing before the princess s arms but it had never come out within the memory of man and on fine mornings the top of every rail there are forty as miss had often counted was decorated with a pot there was another private house besides miss s in princess s place not to mention an immense pair of gates with an immense pair of lion headed on and son then which were never opened by any chance and were lo a entrance to a indeed there was a of in the air of princess s place j and miss s bedroom which was at the back commanded a vista of where at whatever sort of work engaged were continually accompanying themselves with noises and where the most domestic and garments of and heir wives and families usually like s on the outward walls at his private house in prince ss s by a retired who had married a house keeper were let furnished to a single to wit a wooden feat ui ed blue faced major with his eyes out of his head in whom miss recognised as she herself expressed it something so truly military and between whom nod herself an occasional of newspapers and and such was through the medium of a dark servant of the major s miss was quite content to as a native without connecting him any idea whatever perhaps there never was a smaller entry and stair than the entry and staircase of miss s house p� is taken from top to bottom it was the most inconvenient httle house in england and the but then miss said what a situation i there was very daylight lo be got there in the winter no sun at the best of times air was out of the question and was walled out still miss of the situation i so said the blue faced major whose eyes were starting out of his head who in s place and who delighted to turn and son the conversation at his club whenever he could to something connected with some of the great people in the great street round the corner that he might have the satisfaction of saying they were his neighbors the dingy inhabited by miss was her own having been devised and to her by the deceased owner of the eye in the of whom a miniature portrait with a powdered head and a balanced the kettle on opposite sides of the parlor fire place the greater part of the furniture was of the powdered head and period a always and its four bow legs in somebody s way and an illuminated round the maker s name with a painted of 