teeth and did you never find them in trouble when you came home oh sir forgive me it is the first time i have in way and sorry indeed i am to have insulted my first impressions s i have done but if you will believe me i have gone through that this which would have a stronger brain than mine who are you asked you don t know me then sir why i m the wife of your own gardener james grant the man you turned away for drinking and he has been out of work these hard times r � why bo sir i can t say that he has exactly out of work but it s the drink sir that s him and us all felt his color as he spoke but his natural pride reminded him that he ought to assume a dignity which he could not feel have you ever talked to your husband oa this subject he asked talked to him said the woman rising from her posture of abject wo i have prayed him on my knees to spare himself and me but when did you know talking of any use in such a case as his yet surely the kind of a faith ful sir � sir � continued the woman fixing her eyes with something more than upon s face i would fain hope to be kept from saying what is from me t ion to one in your station but i am a poor creature and you must forgive me if i do it is fit too that you should learn my history for you of all men ought to be made acquainted with it felt it right to encourage t e poor woman to go on hoping he might be able in his pastoral office to render her some assistance though had his own feelings been consulted he would more willingly have closed an inter tie w which had already cost him sufficient pain the simple history of james grant was soon told he had been a young man of uncertain habits before entering the service of the of when the example of his master the of his mistress and the domestic of their house and family had wrought so great a change in his character that his wife for some time esteemed herself the happiest of women still james was never to be depended upon for he hung his good resolutions upon the principles of other men rather than upon his own � resting his confidence upon what the did instead of upon what he resolved to do himself nor did his wife fear anything even on this ground for she thought if her husband remained steady first impressions long as his master s example was the same there could be no reason for any change one evening however about a year before this time james grant home and himself by t e fireside opposite his wife he looked in her face with a strange kind of meaning in his eye it was half comic half wild and his wife thought he had some strange story to tell her which would afford them both amusement for the evening what was her astonishment then to that his own natural tendency to evil had received a powerful from circumstances which had in his master s family and of which her husband s personal observation permitted her not to the conduct of james grant assumed a different aspect from that time a willing slave to inclination he soon became the victim of and though dismissed on this ground from the en of a kind and generous master he still maintained that it was the example of that master which had been the cause of his ruin and it was so said the poor wife at the conclusion of her story though i say it who perhaps ought not for so long as i could the clergyman as being clear of every thing of the kind n y husband never had a word to say was silent what could he reply taking the first opportunity of a moment s pause to turn away the woman laid her hand upon his arm and with a fresh burst of agony implored him not to leave her until he had told her what to do you can go back to your happy home said she where know there is one who always meets you with love and kindness and you v asked ow n for despite his self reproaches he could not his pity my home said the woman oh sir it is so desolate last night my stayed out later than so i took my child in my arms and crept round by the orchard hedge and down the back lane of the public house where i knew he always was the shutters were closed but through a in the wood i could see into the room where he sat with two or three neighbors and a merry company they were if one might judge by their songs and their laughter that went to my very heart while i stood shivering there in the cold i said there were two or three neighbors and there was that girl the s daughter going in and out and with impressions james about the curtain he would get at home oh sir i could not bear it i think my poor head was turned so instead of going back to our house i wandered over the common and sat down by the hedge and cried while my baby slept and here we have been all night now tell me sir if you have any christian kindness in your heart � tell me what i must do for there is no supporting this misery stood all this while with his eyes fixed upon the ground and his foot unconsciously down some flowers which grew upon the bank the 