truth � that small book against the life of l h that s a book i m very fond of � the life of said mrs he found out all about that woman at as pretended to live without eating stuff and nonsense mrs had become a reader of religious books since mr a advent and as she was in the habit of her perusal to the purely portions which bore a very small proportion to the whole she could make rapid progress through a large number of volumes on taking up the biography of a preacher she immediately l to the end to see what disease he died of and if his legs swelled as her own occasionally did she felt a stronger interest in any earlier facts in the history of the divine � whether he had ever fallen off a stage coach er he had married more than one wife and in general any adventures or recorded of him previous to the epoch of his she then glanced over the letters and and wherever there was a of the river of life and of exclamation she turned over to the next page but any passage in which she saw such promising as small pony or boots and shoes at once arrested her it is half past six now said miss looking at her watch as the servant appeared with the tea tray i suppose the are come back by this time if mr had not so kindly promised to call and let us know i should hardly rest without walking to to know what answer they have brought back it is a great privilege for us mr living at mrs s for he is often able to take us on his way backwards and forwards into the town i wonder if there s another man scenes of life in the world who has been brought up as mr tr an has that would choose to live in those small close rooms on the common among heaps of dirty cottages for the sake of being near the poor people said mrs i m he hurts his health by it he looks to me far from strong ah said miss i understand he is of a highly respectable family indeed in i heard him myself speak of his father s carriage � quite incidentally you know � and tells me what very fine handkerchiefs he uses my eyes are not good enough to see such things but i know what breeding is as well as most people and it is easy to see that mr is quite u to use a french expression i should like to tell him better nor use fine i this place where there s such washing it s a shame to be seen said mrs he em tore to pieces good lawn d be far better i saw what a color his linen looked at the last sunday mary s making him a black silk case to hold his bands but i told her she d more need wash em for him o mother said with solemn severity pray don t think of pocket handkerchiefs and linen when we are talking of such a man and at this moment too when he is perhaps having to bear a heavy blow we don t know but wickedness may have and mr may have to forbid the lecture there have been quite as mysterious and satan is evidently putting forth all his strength to resist the entrance of the gospel into church you spoke a truer word than that my dear said mrs who accepted all religious phrases but was in her interpretation for if old harry appeared in a human form it s that it was all through him as we got cheated oat o s making out as the title was n t good such lawyer s as if paying good money was n t title enough to anything if your father as is dead and gone had been worthy to know it but he have a fall some day will mark my words ah out of his carriage you mean said miss who in the movement occasioned by the clearing of the table had lost the first part of mrs s speech it certainly is alarming to see him driving home from his galloping horse like a madman my brother has often said he expected thursday evening to be called in to set some of s bones but i suppose he may drop that expectation now for we are given to understand from good authority that he has forbidden his wife to call my brother in again either to herself or her mother he no doctor shall attend his family i have reason to believe that pilgrim was called in to mrs s mother the other day poor mrs she s glad to do anything for the sake of peace said mrs bat it s no trifle at her time of life to part with a doctor who knows her constitution what trouble that poor woman has to bear in her old age said mary to see her daughter leading such a life an only daughter too that she on yes indeed said miss we of course know more about it than most people my brother having attended the family so many years for my part i never thought well of the marriage and i endeavored to my brother when mrs asked him to give away at the wedding if you will take my advice richard i said you will have nothing to do with that marriage and he has seen the justice of my opinion since mrs s r� p� was against the at first bat she always spoiled and i fear too she was won over by a foolish pride in having her daughter marry a professional man i fear it was so no one bat myself i think foresaw the 