turn up to part his lips he in the who was so much like captain de to shake the plates of his mail with suppressed laughter the lady with the three pearl and vast expanse of neck to nod with satisfaction and triumphantly signify to her adjoining husband that this was a meet and glorious end the light increased and blown upon by the wind roared round the pictures the and the cradle up to the plaster ceiling and through it into the forest of oak above the best sitting room at the king s arms in was as this evening as a room can be that the furniture on which so largely depends by the fire sat and the former with a shawl round her shoulders to keep off the draught which despite the curtains forced its way in on this night through the windows opening upon the balcony held a letter in her hand the contents of which formed the subject of their conversation happy as she was in her general situation there was for the a tear in her eye my ever dear ran the letter your last letter has just reached me and i have followed your account of your travels and intentions with more interest than i can tell you who know me need no assurance of this at the present moment however i am in the whirl of a change that has resulted from a resolution taken some time ago but concealed from almost everybody till now why well i will own � from cowardice � fear lest i should be reasoned out of my plan i am going to steal from the world from the social world for whose and i never had much liking and whose circles i have not the ability to grace my home and resting place till the great rest comes is with the at whatever may be found in such a community i believe that i shall be happier there than in any other place whatever you may think of my judgment in taking this step i can assure you that i have riot done it without consideration my reasons are good and my determination is but my own very best friend and more than sister don t think that i mean to leave my love and friendship for you behind me no you will always be with me and i believe that if an increase in what i already feel for you be possible it will be by the retirement and meditation i shall enjoy in my secluded home my heart is very full dear � too full to write more god bless you and your husband you must come and see me there i have not so many friends that i can afford to lose you who have been so kind i a write this with the fellow pen to yours that you gave me when we went to together gk od bye ever your own sister had first read this through silently and now in reading it a second time aloud to her voice faltered and she wept outright i had been expecting her to live with us always she said through her tears and to think she should have decided to do this it is a ty certainly said gently she was genuine if anybody ever was and simple as she was true i am the more sorry presently resumed because of a little plan i had been thinking of with regard to her you know that the pictures and of the castle are not included in the things i cannot touch or or whatever it is they are our own to do what we like with my father felt in the estate that however interesting to the de those objects might be they did not concern us � were indeed rather in the way having been come by so strangely through mr though too valuable to be treated lightly now i was going to suggest that we would not sell them � indeed i could not bear to do such a thing with what had belonged to s forefathers � but to hand them over to her as a gift either to keep for herself or to pass on to her brother as she should choose now i fear there is no hope of it and yet i shall never like to see them in the house it can be done still i should think she can ac them for her brother when he settles without absolutely taking them into her own possession it would be a kind of generosity which hardly to more than justice although they were purchased from a to a dear friend � not that i am a exactly well from a representative of the new aristocracy of to a representative of the old aristocracy of what do you call yourself since you are not of your father s creed i suppose i am what poor mr said � by the way we must call and see him � something or other that s in revelation hot but of course that s a sub species � i may be a anything what i really am as far as i know is one of that body to whom is not an accident but a necessity till they see a little more clearly she had crossed over to his side and pulling his head towards her whispered a word in his ear why mr said you were that too you carry your very comfortably i shall be glad when enthusiasm is come again i am going to and correct my one of these days when i have thought a little further she suddenly breathed a sigh and added how our best emotions are in talking of myself i am forgetting and becoming happy again i won t be happy to night for her sake a few minutes after this their attention 