being given to low company she was very much in the habit of talking to them on the beach miss and sitting by their boats i have known her to do it when mr james has been away whole days mr james was far from pleased to find out once that she had told the children she was a s daughter and that in her own long ago she had about the beach like them oh unhappy beauty what a picture rose before me of her sitting on the far off shore among the children like herself when she was innocent listening to little voices such as might have called her mother had of david she been a poor man s wife and to the great voice of the sea with its eternal never more i when it was clear that nothing could be done miss � did i tell yon not to speak to me she said with stern contempt you spoke to me miss he replied i beg your pardon but it s my service to obey do your service she returned finish your story and go when it was clear he said with infinite respectability and an obedient bow that she was not to be found i went to mr james at the place where it had been agreed that i should write to him and informed him of what had occurred words passed between us in consequence and i felt it due to my character to leave him i could bear and i have borne a great deal from mr james but he insulted me too far he hurt me knowing the unfortunate difference between himself and his mother and what her anxiety of mind was likely to be i took the liberty of coming home to england and relating for money which i paid him said miss to me just so ma am � and relating what i knew i am not aware said mr a moment s reflection that there is anything else i am at present out of employment and should be happy to meet with a respectable situation miss glanced at me as though she would inquire if there were anything that i desired to ask as there was something which had occurred to my mind i said in reply the personal history and experience i could wish to know from this � creature i could not bring myself to utter any more word whether they a letter that was written to her from home or whether he that she received it he remained calm and silent with his eyes fixed on the ground and the tip of every finger of his right hand delicately poised against the tip of every finger of his left miss turned her head towards him i beg your pardon miss he said awakening from his abstraction but however to you i have my position though a servant mr and you miss are different people if mr wishes to know anything from me i take the liberty of reminding mr that he can put a question to me i have a character to maintain after a momentary struggle with myself i turned my eyes upon him and said you have heard my question consider it addressed to yourself if you choose what answer do you make sir he rejoined with an occasional separation and of those delicate tips my answer must be qualified because to betray mr james s confidence to his mother and to betray it to you are two different actions it is not probable i consider that mr james would encourage the receipt of letters likely to increase low spirits and but further than that i should wish to avoid going is that all inquired miss of me i indicated that i had nothing more to say except i added as i saw him moving off that i under of stand this fellow s part in the wicked story and that as i shall make it known to the honest man who has been her father from her childhood i would recommend him to avoid going too much into public he had stopped the moment i began and had listened with his usual repose of manner thank you sir but you ll excuse me if i say sir that there are neither slaves nor slave drivers in this country and that people are not allowed to take the law into their own hands if they do it is more to their own peril i believe than to other people s consequently speaking i am not at all afraid of going wherever i may wish sir with that he made a polite bow and with another to miss went away through the arch in the wall of by which he had come miss and i regarded each other for a little while in silence her manner being exactly what it was when she had produced the man he says besides she observed with a slow curling of her lip that his master as he hears is spain and this done is away to gratify his tastes till he is weary but that is of no interest to you between these two proud persons mother and son there is a wider breach than before and little hope of its heal ing for they are one at heart and time makes each more obstinate and imperious neither is this of any interest to you but it what i wish to say this devil whom you make an angel of i mean this low girl whom he picked out of the tide mud with her black eyes full upon me and her passionate finger up may be alive � for i believe some common things are hard to die if she is you will desire to have a pearl of such price found the personal history and experience and taken care of we desire that too that he 