idea and very hard up for a change as ready to go in for as for any thing else so he went in he himself up with a blue book or two and his brother put it about among the hard fact fellows and said if you want to bring in for any place a handsome dog who can make you a devilish good speech look after my brother for he s your after a few in the public meeting way mr and a council of political approved of and it was resolved to send him down to to become known there and in the neighborhood hence the letter had last night shown to mrs which mr now held in his hand banker specially to introduce james thomas within an hour of the receipt of this and mr james s card mr put on his hat and went down to the hotel there he found mr james looking out of window in a state of mind so that he was already half disposed to go in for something else my name sir said his visitor is of mr james was very happy indeed though he looked so to have a pleasure he had long expected sir said taking a chair is not the kind of place you have been accustomed to therefore if you ll allow me � or whether you will or not for i am a plain man � i ll tell you something about it before we go any further mr would be charmed don t be too sure of that said i don t promise it first of all you see our smoke that s meat and drink to us it s the thing in the world in all respects and particularly for the lungs if you are one of those who want us to it i differ j om you we are not going to wear the hard times of our out any faster than we wear now for all the sentiment in great britain and by way of going in to the fullest mr rejoined mr i assure you entirely and completely of your way of thinking on i am glad to hear it id now you have heard a lot of talk the work in our mills no doubt you have very good i ll state the fact of it to you it s the work there is and it s the work there is and it ib the best paid work there is more than that we couldn t improve the mills themselves unless we laid down turkey carpets on the floors which we re not a going to do mr perfectly right lastly said as to our hands there s not a hand in this town sir man woman or child but has one mate object in life that object is to be fed on soup and with a gold spoon now they re not a going � none of em � ever to be fed on soup and with a gold spoon and now you know the place mr professed himself in the highest degree instructed and refreshed by this of the whole question why you see replied mr it suits my disposition to have a full understanding with a man particularly with a man when i make his acquaintance i have only one thing more to say to you mr before assuring you of the pleasure with which i shall respond to the utmost of my poor ability to my friend tom s letter of introduction you are a man of family don t you deceive yourself by supposing for a moment that am a man of family i am a bit of dirty and a genuine scrap of rag and if any thing could have exalted s interest in mr it would have been this very circumstance or so he told him so now said we may shake hands on equal terms i say equal terms because although i know what i am and the exact depth of the i have myself out of better than any man does i am as proud as you are i am just as proud as you are having now asserted my independence in proper hard times i to how do find and i hope you re the better mr him i� as ther shook hands for the air el mr received the answer perhaps know said he yoa t know i married tom s tf to do than to walk tip town with me i be g ad to introduce to tom s daughter mr said yon anticipate n dearest wishes they went oat and mr the new who go strongly contrasted with him to the red brick dwelling with the black outside shutters the green inside blinds and the street door up the two white steps in the drawing room of which mansion there presently entered to them the most remarkable girl mr james had ever seen she was so constrained and yet so careless so reserved and yet so watchful so cold and proud and yet so ashamed of her husband s humility � from which she shrunk as if every example of it were a cut or a blow that it was quite a new sensation to observe her in face she was no less remarkable than in manner her features were handsome but their natural play was so suppressed and locked up that it seemed impossible to guess at their genuine expression utterly perfectly self never at a loss and yet never at her ease with her figure in company with them there and her mind apparently quite alone � it was of no use going in yet awhile to comprehend this girl for she all penetration from the mistress of the house the visitor glanced to the house itself there was no mute sign of a woman in the room no graceful little no fanciful little 