whether we ve tea at four or at five o clock he d on till six if you d let him � he s like off his head however mrs herself could not deny that was a very pretty spoken woman she al says she gets as mine nowhere i know that very well � other folks buy em at shops � thick things you as well ate a the sight of little often stirred in s mind a sense of the which had made a fatal blank in her life she had fleeting thoughts that perhaps among her husband s distant relatives there might be some children whom she could help to bring up some little girl whom she might adopt and she promised herself one day or other to hunt a cousin of his � a married woman of whom he had lost sight for many years but at present her hands and heart were too ml for her to carry out that scheme to her great her project of settling mrs at mount had been delayed by the discovery that f pairs were necessary in order to make the house and it was not till september had set in that she had the satisfaction of seeing her old friend comfortably and the rooms destined for mr scenes of life looking pretty and to her heart s content she had taken several of his chief friends into her confidence and they were warmly wishing success to her plan for him to quit poor mrs s dingy house and that he consent to some change was becoming more and more a matter of anxiety to his hearers for though no more decided symptoms were yet in him than increasing a dry cough and an occasional of breath it was felt that the fulfilment of mr s could not long be deferred and that this obstinate in labour and self disregard must soon be x ut short by a total failure of strength any hopes that the influence of mr s father and sister would prevail on him to change his mode of life � that they would perhaps come to live with him or that his sister at least might come to see him and that the arguments which had failed from other lips might be more from hers � were now quite dissipated his father had lately had an attack of and could not spare his only daughter s on mr s return from a visit to his father miss was very anxious to know whether his sister had not urged him to try change of air from his answers she gathered that miss wished him to give up his and travel or at least go to the south coast s repentance and why will you not do so miss said you might come back to us well and strong and have many years of usefulness before you no he answered quietly i think people attach more importance to such measures than is i don t see any good end that is to be served by going to die at nice instead of dying amongst one s friends and one s work i cannot leave � at least i will not leave it voluntarily but though he remained immovable on this point he had been compelled to give up his afternoon service on the sunday and to accept mr s offer of aid in the evening service as well as to his labours and he had even written to mr to request that he would another to the district on the understanding that the new should receive the salary but that mr should co operate with him as long as he was able the which is an almost constant attendant on consumption had not the effect of deceiving him as to the nature of his malady or of making him look forward to ultimate recovery he believed himself to be and he had not yet felt any desire to escape the early death which he had for some time contemplated as probable even hopes will take their direction from the strong habitual bias of the mind and to mr death had for years seemed nothing else than the laying down of a under of life which he sometimes felt himself fainting a only s about his powers of work he flattered hun self that what he was unable to do one l e be equal to the next and he would not admit that in from any part of his labour he was it permanently he had lately delighted mr by accepting his long proffered loan of the little and he so much benefit constant riding exercise for walking hat he to think he should be to i some of the work he had dropped that was a happy afternoon for when after herself busily for a week with her mother and mrs she saw it looking orderly and comfortable from to cellar it was an old red brick house with two in front and two trees the garden gate a simple homely looking place that quiet people might easily get fond of and now it was and polished and and so as to look really b within when there was nothing more to be done delighted herself with contemplating mr s study first sitting down in the and lying for a moment on the sofa that she might have a sense of the repose he g t from these articles of furniture she ha gone to on purpose to choose now mother she said when she had finished s repentance her survey you have done your work as well as j fairy mother or god mother that ever turned a into a coach ao horses ton stay and have tea with mrs while i go to mrs s j ant to tell mary and the good news that i ve got the to promise that he will 