in short might he then he asked me tenderly if i remembered our boyish games at sums and how we had gone together to have me bound and in effect how he had ever been my favorite fancy and my chosen friend if i had taken ten times as many glasses of wine as i had i should have known that he never had stood in that relation towards me and should in my heart of hearts have the idea yet for that i remember feeling convinced that i had been much mistaken in him and that he was a sensible practical good hearted prime fellow by degrees he fell to such great confidence in me as to ask my advice in reference to his own affairs he mentioned that there was an opportunity for a great and of the com and seed trade on those premises if enlarged such as had never occurred before in that or any other neighborhood what expectations � alone was wanting u the of a vast he considered to be more capital those were the two little words � more capital now it appeared to him that if that capital were got into the business through a sleeping partner sir which sleeping partner would have nothing to do but walk in bj self or whenever he pleased and examine the books � and walk in twice a and take his profits in his pocket to the tune of per c nt � it appeared to him that that might be an opening for a young gentleman of spirit combined with property which would be worthy of his attention but what did i think he bad great confidence in my opinion and what did i think i gave it as my opinion � wait a bit i the united vas ness and distinctness of this view so struck him that he no longer if he might shake with me but said he really must � and did we drank all the wine and mr pledged himself over and over again to keep joseph up to tho mark i don t know what mark and to render me and constant service i don t know what service he also made known to me for the first time in my life and certainly after having kept his secret wonderfully wall that he had always said of me that boy is no boy and mark me his will be no com mon he said with a tearful smile that it was a thing to think of now and i said so too finally i went out into the air with a dim perception that re was something unwonted in the conduct of the a � and found that i had got to the without having taken any account of the road i re i was roused by mr s ho was a long way down the sunny street and t expectations was making gestures for me to stop i stopped and he came up breathless no my dear friend said he when he had recovered wind for speech not if i can help it this occasion shall not entirely pass without that on part � may i as an old friend and well may we shook hands for the time at least and he ordered a young out of my way with the greatest indignation then he blessed me and stood waving his hand to me until i had passed the in the road and then i turned into a field and had a long nap under a hedge before i pursued my way home i had scant luggage to take with me to london for little of the little i possessed was adapted to my new station but i began packing that same afternoon and wildly packed up things that i knew i should want next morning in a fiction that there was not a moment to be lost so tuesday wednesday and thursday passed and on friday morning i went to mr s to put on my new clothes and pay my visit to miss mr s own room was given up to me to dress in and was decorated with dean expressly for the event my clothes were rather a disappointment of course probably every new and eagerly expected garment ever put on since clothes came in fell a trifle short of the s expectation but after i had had my new suit on some half an hour and had gone through an of with mr s very limited dressing glass in the futile en to see my legs it to fit me better it being market morning at a neighboring town some ten expectations miles off mr was not at home i bad not told him exactly when i meant to leave and was not to shake hands with him again before departing this was all as it should be and i went oat in mj new array fearfully ashamed of having to pass the and suspicions after all that i was at a personal disadvantage something like joe s in his suit i went to miss s by all the back ways and rang at the bell on account of the stiff long fingers of my gloves pocket came to the gate and positively back when she saw me so changed her shell countenance likewise turned firom brown to green and yellow you said she you good gracious what do you want i am going to miss pocket said i and want to say good by to miss i was not expected for she left me locked in the yard while she went to ask if i were to be admitted after a very short delay she returned and took me up staring at me all the way was taking exercise in the room with the long spread table leaning on her stick the room was lighted as of and at the sound 