and i have no doubt that if knew the old man whom she bv i must have seen so often watching her and his wife who ornaments her sex with as much sweetness although with less splendor than herself she would also acknowledge that the of roses was as fine and fit upon their table as her own is for herself i have so much faith in the perception of that lovely lady it is my habit � i hope i may say my nature � to believe the best of people rather than the worst if i thought that all this sparkling setting of beauty � this fine fashion � these blazing jewels and and airy with and wrought in a thousand exquisite so that i cannot see one of those lovely girls pass me by without thanking god for the vision � if i thought that this was all and that underneath her lace and diamond was a sullen selfish woman then i should turn sadly homeward for i should see that her jewels were flashing scorn upon the object they adorned that her were of a more exquisite loveliness than the woman whom they merely touched with a superficial grace it would be like a gaily decorated � bright to see but silent and dark within great my dear i sometimes myself to say lie concealed in the depths bv spectacles of character like pearls at the bottom of the sea under the laughing glancing surface how little they are suspected perhaps love is nothing else than the sight of them by one person hence every man s mistress is apt to be an to everybody else i have no doubt that when is engaged people will say she is a most admirable certainly but they cannot understand why any man should be in love with her as if it were at all necessary that they should and her lover like a boy who finds a pearl in the public street and wonders as much that others did not see it as that he did will tremble until he knows his passion is returned feeling of course that the whole world must be in love with this who cannot possibly smile upon anything so unworthy as he i hope therefore my dear mrs i continue and my wife looks up with pleased pride from her work as if i were such an irresistible hu you will allow me to believe that the depth may be calm although the surface is dancing if you tell me that is but a giddy girl i shall believe that you think so but i shall know all the while what profound dignity and sweetness and peace lie at the foundation of character bv i i i say such things to during ihe season at the office and i have known him sometimes to reply with a kind of dry sad humor not aa if he enjoyed the joke but as if the joke must be made that he saw no reason why i should be dull because the season was so and what do i know of or a ny other girl he says to me with that abstracted air i whose were of another century and another then he falls into a silence which it seems quite profane to but as we sit upon our high at the desk opposite each other i leaning upon my elbows and looking at him he with face glancing out of the window as if it commanded a boundless landscape instead of a dim dingy court i cannot refrain from saying well � he turns slowly and i go on � a little too perhaps about those girls but i know that regards such an excess as for his sadness is so sweet that you could believe it the reflection of a smile from long long years ago one day after i had been talking for a long time and we had put up our books and were bv s spectacles to leave he stood for some time by the window gazing with a drooping as really saw something move than the dark court and said slowly perhaps you would have different impressions of things if you saw them through my spectacles there was no change in his expression he still looked from the window and i said i did not know that you used glasses i have never seen you wearing spectacles no i don t often wear them i am not very fond of looking through them but sometimes an irresistible necessity me to put them on and i cannot help seeing sighed is it so grievous a fate to see inquired i yes through my spectacles he said turning slowly and looking at me with wan solemnity it grew dark as we stood in the office talking and taking our hats we went out together the narrow street of business was deserted the heavy iron shutters were gloomily closed over the windows from one or two struggled the dim gleam of an early candle by whose light some perplexed sat and hunting for his error a careless clerk passed whistling but the great tide of life had we heard its roar far bv and i away and the sound stole into that silent street like the murmur of the ocean into an inland you will come and dine with us he assented by continuing to walk with me and i think we were both glad when we reached the house and came to meet us saying do you know i hoped you would bring mr to dine smiled gently and answered he might have brought his spectacles with him and have been a happier man lor it looked a little puzzled my dear i said you must know that our friend mr is the possessor of a pair of wonderful spectacles i have never seen them indeed and from what he 