need neither remain in town nor return at its as the articles of agreement of which i was to be the subject could easily be sent to her at home for her signature when we had got so far mr offered to take me into court then and there and show me what sort of place it was as i was willing enough to know we went out with this object leaving my aunt behind who would trust herself she said in no such place and who i think regarded all courts of law as a sort of powder mills that might blow up at any time mr conducted me through a paved formed of grave brick houses which i inferred from the doctors names upon the doors to be the official abiding places of the learned of whom had told me and into a large dull room not unlike a chapel to my thinking on the left hand the upper part of this room was off from the rest and there on the two sides of a raised platform of the horse shoe form sitting on easy old fashioned dining room chairs were sundry gentlemen in red gowns and grey whom i found to be the doctors over a little desk a pulpit desk in the curve of the horse shoe was an old gentleman whom if i had seen him in an i should certainly have taken for an owl but who i learned was the judge in the space within the horse shoe lower than these that is to say on about the level of the floor were sundry other gentlemen of mr s rank and dressed like him in black gowns with white fur upon them sitting at a long green table their were in general stiff i thought and their looks haughty but in this last respect i presently conceived i had done them an injustice for when two or three of them had to rise and answer a question of the of david i never saw anything more the public represented by a boy with a and a shabby genteel man secretly eating out of his coat pockets was warming itself at a stove in the centre of the court the languid stillness of the place was only broken by the of this fire and by the voice of one of the doctors who was wandering slowly through a perfect library of evidence and stopping to put up from time to time at little roadside of argument on the journey altogether i have never on any occasion made one at such a old fashioned time forgotten sleepy headed little in all my life and i felt it would be quite a soothing to belong to it in any character � except perhaps as a very well satisfied with the dreamy nature of this retreat i informed mr that i had seen enough for that time and we rejoined my aunt in company with whom i presently departed from the feeling very young when i went out of and s on account of the clerks one another with their pens to point me out we arrived at s inn fields without any new adventures except an unlucky donkey in a s cart who suggested painful associations to my aunt we had another long talk about my plans when we were safely and as knew she was anxious to get home and between fire food and could never be considered at her ease for half an hour in london i urged her not to be uncomfortable on my account but to leave me to take care of myself i have not been here a week to morrow without considering that too my dear she returned there is a furnished little set of chambers to be let in the trot which ought to suit you to a marvel with this brief introduction she produced from her pocket an advertisement carefully cut out of a newspaper setting forth that in street in the there was to be let furnished with a view of the river a singularly desirable and compact set of chambers forming a genteel residence for a young gentleman a member of one of the of court or otherwise with immediate possession terms moderate and could be taken for a month only if required why this is the very thing aunt said i flushed with the possible dignity of living in chambers then come replied my aunt immediately the bonnet she had a minute before laid aside we go and look at em away we went the advertisement directed us to apply to mrs on the premises and we rung the area bell which we supposed to communicate with mrs it was not until we had rung three or four times that we could prevail on mrs to communicate with us but at last she appeared being a stout lady with a of flannel below a gown let us see these chambers of yours if you please ma am said my aunt for this gentleman said mrs feeling in her pocket for her keys yes for my nephew said my aunt and a sweet set they is for said mrs so we went up stairs they were on the top of the house � a great point with my aunt being the personal history and experience near the fire escape � and consisted of a little half blind entry where you could see hardly anything a little stone blind where you could see nothing at all a sitting room and a bed room the furniture was rather faded but quite good enough for me and sure enough the river was outside the windows as i was delighted with the place my aunt and mrs withdrew into the to discuss the terms i remained on the sofa hardly daring to think it possible that i could be destined to live in such a noble residence after a 