afford the mourning she added with sudden warmth � you have not lost my � no yoa had better give it me back then my mind will be at ko me i it is my only way of getting a word with you why you have never used it but i may want to any day as she went home with her empty basket her black brows and recalled the scene and argued the matter pro and con i don t know why he should face it out like that with me if it was he ah but he would have been jealous and a deal more inquisitive if it was not he well any way i have put him off his guard and won t i watch him i if it is he teach him to try and draw the wool over s eyes and she his � the monster fortune co with these malignant views this very evening declared himself � that is after proposing by and probable for the last seven years he made a direct offer of his hand and organs now this gave great pleasure she could have kissed the little fellow on the spot so she said in an off hand way � well if i were to take anyone it should be yoa but i have pretty well made up my mind not to at all st ah events till my mistress can spare me lies shouted that is what thej all say what says must be true said not unless they stick to it objected and that is a song they all drop at the church door when they do get a chance i am not in such a hurry as to snap at such a small chance retorted with a toss of her head so then the polite had to her well said she one good turn deserves another if i am to marry you what will you do for me gave a glowing description of what he would do for her as soon as she was his wife she let him know that was not the point what would he do for her he would do everything we do know when the blood burns how prodigal the heart the vows � this brought the parties to an understanding first under a vow of she told him young was in love with and she was his then she told him how the youth had insulted her by attempting to deceive her about the purse and finally must watch his movements by night and day that between them they might catch him out made a ce � in � free � i� anything means nothing when he vowed to do anything everything what not and such small phrases he never intended to do anything in particular but he was in for it and and spy were added to his little odd for the latter office his apparent qualified him and so did his petty but real moreover he was daily by � a good soul but no meantime st as the secret benefactor white lies bade them all observe that since that day the had fer been to the the whoever he was little knew the pain was on d hut proud or the hard that en between s and their the tan gold pieces were a perpetual a conflict the words that the an excuse and their poverty enforced il their pride and dignity it but these bright bits of gold co t them many a sharp pang the figures laid before purely im a mere of the hundred would have enabled the poor to keep up with the outside world and yet to mourn their father openly and it went through and through those tender simple to think that they must be even in so small a thing as s that while their mother ed in her weed they must seem no longer to share her e the knew their feeling and lis piety and yet must not say � take of these of and let us all look what we art � one yet in as in everything else they to he all of one mind they resisted they struggled and with a they conquered day hy day at last by general consent they locked up the and looked at it no more but the httle bit of paper met a kinder fate made a little frame for it and it was in a drawer in the and often looked at and blessed mother had of human and with on her lips she bad found paper the sacred word friend written on it it fell all ill a moment on their aching hearts they id not tell whence it � this blessed word but who can tell whence the dew science is in two about thai white then let me go with the poets who it comes from heaven we shall not go far wrong any good thing to that and even so that sweet word friend dropped like the dew heaven on these afflicted ones so thej locked the potent gold away from themselves and took the kind slip of paper to their hearts va the fortnight elapsed and was no � ri er she had to beg a it with an austere brow smiling inwardly meantime s little odd spy gardener lover and all that himself with rustic cunning into the s confidence treachery m its the made him bis � i e yet another set of little odd fell on him he had always been struck by their natural variety bat now what with s and what with s they seemed infinite at one hour he would be holding a long chain while measured the lands of at another he would be set to pump a then it would be hack this meant he was to stand in a while wrote a long calculation or made 