you are a brave kind girl worthy i be to think of a better brother than i am but i have nothing more to say go to bed go to bed you are tired she whispered presently more in her usual way yes i am quite tired out you have been so hurried and disturbed to day have any discoveries been made only those you have heard of from � him tom have you said to any one that we made a visit to those people and that we saw three together no didn t you yourself particularly ask me to keep it quiet when you asked me to go there with you yes but i did not then what was going to happen nor i neither how could i he was very quick upon her with this retort ought i to say after what has happened said his sister standing by the bed � she had gradually withdrawn herself and risen that i made that visit should i say so must i say so good heavens returned her brother you are not in the habit of asking my advice say what you like if t� you keep it to yourself i shall keep it to if you disclose it there s an end of it it was too dark for either to see the other s face but each seemed very attentive and to consider before speaking tom do you believe the man i gave the money to is really in this crime i don t know i don t see why he shouldn t be he seemed to me an honest man another person may seem to you and yet not be so there was a pause for he had hesitated and stopped in short resumed tom as if he had made up his mind if you come to that perhaps i was so far fix m being altogether in his favor that i took him outside the door to tell him quietly that i thought he might consider himself well off to get such a as he had got j om my sister and that i hoped he would make good use of it you remember whether i took him out or not i say nothing against the man he may be a very good fellow for anything i know i hope he is was he offended by what you said no he took it pretty well he was civil enough where are you loo he sat up in bed and kissed her good night my dear good night you have nothing more to tell me no what should i have you wouldn t have me tell you a lie i wouldn t have you do that to night tom of all the nights in your life many and much happier as i hope they thank you my dear loo i am so tired that i am sure i wonder i don t say anything to get to sleep go to bed go to bed kissing her again he turned drew the over his head and lay as still as if that time had come by which she had him she stood for some time at the bedside before she slowly moved away she stopped at the door looked back when she had opened it and ai ed him if he had called her but he lay stiu and she closed the door and returned to her room then the wretched boy looked cautiously up and found her gone crept out of bed fastened his door and threw himself hard times upon his pillow again tearing his hair crying loving her but himself and no less hate and all the good in the world chapter ix hearing the last of it lying by to recover the tone of her nerves in mr s retreat kept such a sharp look out night and day under her eyebrows that her eyes like a couple of on an iron coast might have warned all prudent fix m that bold rock her roman nose and the dark and region in its neighbourhood but for the of her manner although it was hard to believe that her retiring for the night could be anything but a form so severely wide awake were those classical eyes of hers and so impossible did it seem that her rigid nose could yield to any influence yet her manner of sitting her not to say they were constructed of a cool fabric like a or of to unknown places of destination with her foot in her cotton was so perfectly serene that most would have been constrained to suppose her a dove embodied by some of nature in the earthly of a bird of the hook order she was a most wonderful woman for about the house how she got from story to story was a mystery beyond solution a lady so in herself and so highly connected was not to be suspected of dropping over the or sliding down them yet her extraordinary of suggested the wild idea another noticeable circumstance in mrs was that she was never hurried she would shoot with from the roof to the hall yet would be in possession of her breath and dignity on the moment of her arrival there neither was she ever seen by human vision to go at a great pace she took veiy kindly to mr and had some pleasant conversation with him soon after her arrival she made him her stately in the garden one morning before breakfast it appears but yesterday sir said mrs that i had the honor of receiving you at the bank when you were so good as to wish to be made acquainted with mr s address an occasion i am sure not to be forgotten by myself in the course of ages said mr his head to mrs with the most indolent of all possible airs we live 