as soon os little comprehended that she had been asked this question � for which time was necessary the galloping pace of her new having left her far behind � she answered that she had known mr ever since his return to be sure you couldn t have known him before you had been in china or neither of which is likely for travelling people usually get more or less mahogany and you are not at all so and as to corresponding what about that s very true tea so it was at his mother s was it really that you knew him first highly sensible and firm but dreadfully ought to be � the mother of the man in the iron mask mrs has been kind to me said little really i am sure i am glad to hear it because as s � mother it s ally pleasant to my feelings to have a better opinion � of her than i had before wliat she thinks of me when i run on � as i am certain to do and she sits at me like fate in a � shocking comparison really � invalid and not her fault � i � know or can imagine shall i find my work anywhere ma am asked little � e � looking timidly a ut can i get it you industrious little fairy returned taking in r i cup of tea another of the prescribed by her medical there s not the slightest and it s better that we l � begin by being confidential about ur mutual too cold a for at least i don t mean that very proper expression mutual than become mere not vou but me like th� boy with the fox biting him which i hope you ll my bringing up for of all the tiresome boys that will go tumbling in every sort of company that boy s the little her face very pale sat down again to listen hadn r i better work the while she asked i can work and attend toe i would rather if i her earnestness was so expressive of her being her work that answered well my dear whatever you best and produced a basket of white handkerchiefs little gladly put it by her side took out her little pocket her needle and began to hem what fingers you have said but arc you you are well oh yes indeed put her feet the and settled herself for a thorough good disclosure she started off at score tossing her head in the most manner making a great deal of use of her eyebrows and occasionally but not often glancing at the that bent over the work you must know my dear said but that i have no doubt yon know already not only because i have already thrown it out in a general way but because i feel i it stamped in burning what s his names upon my brow that before i was introduced to the f i had been to arthur � mr in where reserve is necessary arthur here � we were all in all to one another it was the morning of life it was bliss it was frenzy t was everything else of that sort in the highest degree when rent we turned to stone in which capacity arthur went to china � md i became the statue bride of the late mr e these words in a deep voice enjoyed herself immensely to paint said she the emotions of that morning when all was within and mr f s aunt followed in a glass coach which it � to reason must have been in shameful repair or it never could broken down two streets from the house and mr f s aunt brought like the fifth of november in a rush chair i will not � suffice it to say that the hollow form of breakfast took place ui the dining room down stairs that papa too freely of was ill for weeks and that mr f and myself went upon u tour to where the people fought for us on the pier they separated us though not for ever that was not yet to l e the statue bride hardly pausing for breath wont on with the complacency in a rambling manner sometimes to flesh and i will draw a veil over that dreamy life mr f was in good his appetite was good he liked the he considered the wine weak but and all was well we returned to the immediate x of number thirty little street london settled down ere we had yet fully detected the in selling the feathers out of the spare bed flying upwards � with mr f to another sphere his with a glance at his portrait shook her head and wipe tier the memory of mr f as an man and most husband only necessary to mention and it appeared v to hint at any little delicate thing to drink and it came like magic a pint bottle it was not but it was comfort i returned to pa s roof and lived secluded if not happy during years until le day papa came smoothly in and said that arthur un awaited me below i went below and found liim ask me not what found him except that ho was still unmarried still unchanged the dark mystery with which now herself might ve stopped other fingers than the � rs that worked near r they worked on without pause and the busy head bent over m watching the i ask mc not if i love still or if lie still me or what the end is to he or when we are hj y eyes and it may he that we are destined to pine asunder it may be never more to he not a word not a breath not a look to ns all 