the personal history and experience name your and gave you it s the name i like best to call you by � and i wish i wish i wish you could give it why so i can if i choose said i if anything should ever separate us you must think of me at my best old boy come let us make that bargain think of me at my best if circumstances should ever part us tou have no best to me said i and no worst you are always equally loved and cherished in my heart so much for having ever wronged him even by a thought did i feel within me that the confession of having done so was rising to my lips but for the reluctance i had to betray the confidence of but for my uncertainty how to approach the subject with no risk of doing so it would have reached them before he said god bless you and good night in my doubt it did not reach them and we shook hands and we parted i was up with the dull dawn and having dressed as quietly as i could looked into his room he was fast asleep lying easily with his head upon his arm as i had often seen him he at school the time came in its season and that was very soon when i almost wondered that nothing troubled his repose as i looked at him but he slept � let me think of him so again � as i had often seen him sleep at school and thus in this silent hour i left him � never more oh god forgive you to touch that passive hand in love and friendship never never more xxx a loss i got down to in the evening and went to the inn i knew that s spare room � my room � was likely to have occupation enough in a little while if that great visitor before whose presence all the living must give place were not already in the house so i myself to the inn and dined there and engaged my bed it was ten o clock when i went out many of the shops were shut and the town was dull when i came to and s i found the shutters up but the shop door standing open as i could obtain a perspective view of mr inside smoking his pipe by the parlor door i entered and asked him how he was why bless my life and soul said mr how do you find yourself take a seat � smoke not disagreeable i hope by no means said i i like it � in somebody else s pipe what not in your own eh mr returned laughing all the better sir bad habit for a young man take a seat i smoke myself for the of david mr had made room for me and placed a chair he now sat down again very much out of breath gasping at his pipe as if it contained a supply of that necessary without which he must perish i am sorry to have heard bad news of mr said i mr looked at me with a steady countenance and shook his head do you know how he is to night i asked the very question i should have put to you sir returned mr but on account of delicacy it s one of the of our line of business when a party s ill we ask how the party is the had not occurred to me though i had had my apprehensions too when i went in of hearing the old tune on its being mentioned i recognised it however and said as much yes yes you understand said mr nodding his head we t do it bless you it would be a shock that the of parties t recover to say and s compliments and how do you find yourself this morning � or this afternoon � as it may be mr and i nodded at each other and mr his wind by the aid of his pipe it s one of the things that cut the trade off from attentions they could often wish to show said mr take myself if i have known a year to move to as he went by i have known him forty year but i can t go and say how is he i felt it was rather hard on mr and i told him so i m not more self interested i hope than another man said mr look at me my wind may fail me at any moment and it ain t likely that to my own knowledge i d be self interested under such circumstances i say it ain t likely in a man who knows his wind will go when it does go as if a pair of was cut open and that man a grandfather said mr i said not at all it ain t that i complain of my line of business said mr it ain t that some good and some bad goes no doubt to all what i wish is that parties were brought up stronger minded mr with a very complacent and amiable face took several in silence and then said his first point accordingly we re in how goes on to limit ourselves to em ly she knows what our real objects are and she don t have any more or suspicions about us than if we was so many and have just stepped down to the house in fact she s there after hours helping her aunt a bit to ask her how he is tonight and if you was to please to wait till they come back they d give you full will you take something a glass of and water now i smoke on and water myself said mr taking up 