of any thing no matter what the sharp sword impending over his head should be instantly shown him he should be strictly examined as to what he knew or suspected should be severely handled by them his masters and should be kept in a state of abject moral bondage and slavery until the time when they should see fit to permit him to purchase his freedom at the price of half his possessions if said mr by of he had in saying only v he trusted to his comrade brother and partner not to hesitate to set him right and to his weakness it might be more according to the rights of things to say two thirds it might be more to the rights of things to say three on those points he was ever open to mr having his attention to this discourse over three successive of tea signified his in the views advanced mr extended his right hand and declared it to be a hand which never yet without entering into more minute particulars mr sticking to his tea briefly professed his belief as polite forms required of him that it was a hand which never yet but con mutual himself with looking at it and did not take it to his bosom brother said when this happy understanding was established i should like to ask you something you remember the night when i first looked in here and found you floating your powerful mind in tea tea mr nodded assent and there you sit sir pursued with an air of thoughtful admiration as if you had never left off i there you sit sir as if you had an unlimited capacity of the article there you sit sir in the midst of your works looking as if you d been called upon for home sweet home and was the company a � from home splendor in o give you preparations again tho birds stuffed so sweetly that can t be expected to come at your call give yon these with the peace of mind dearer than all home home home sweet home � be it ever added mr in prose as he glanced about the shop ever so ghastly all things considered there s no place like it you said you d like to ask something but you haven t asked it very io manner your peace of mind said offering your peace of mind was in a poor way that night how s it going on is it looking up at all she does not wish replied mr with a mixture of indignant obstinacy and tender melancholy mutual to regard herself nor yet to be regarded in that particular light there s no more to be said ah dear me dear i exclaimed with a sigh but him while pretending to keep him company in the fire such is woman i and i remember you said that night sitting there as i sat here � said that night when your peace of mind was first laid low that you had taken an interest in these affairs such is coincidence p her father rejoined and then stopped to swallow more tea her father was mixed up in them you didn t mention her name sir i think no you didn t mention her name that night pleasant in � deed i cried pleasant there s something moving in the name pleasant dear me i seems to express what might have been if she hadn t made that unpleasant remark � and what she ain t in consequence of having made it would it at all pour into your wounds mr to inquire how you came acquainted with her i was down at the water side said taking another of tea and mournfully at the fire � looking for � taking another and stopping mr hinted to his attention you could hardly have been out shooting in the british climate sir no no no said i was down at the water side looking for home by sailors to buy for � and looking for a nice pair of to ai for a � when i was doomed to fall in with her and deal with her it was at the time of that in the river her father had seen the discovery being in the river i made the of the subject a reason for going back to improve the ao and i have never since been the man i was my very bones is rendered by brooding over it if they be to me loose to sort i hardly have the face to claim em as mine to such an extent have i fallen off under it mr less interested than he had been glanced at one shelf in the dark why i remember mr he said in a tone of friendly for i remember every word that falls from yon sir i remember that you said that night you had got up there � and then your words was never mind � the that i bought of her said with a rise and fall of his eyes yes there it lies on its side dried up except for its very like myself never had the heart to prepare it and i never shall have now with a disappointed face mentally consigned this to regions more than tropical and seeming for the time to have lost his power of assuming an interest in the woes of mr fell to his wooden leg as a preparation for departure its performances of that evening having severely tried its constitution after had left the shop hat box in hand and had left mr to lower himself to oblivion point with the requisite weight of tea it greatly on his mind that he had taken this artist into at all he bitterly felt that he had himself in the beginning by grasping at s mere of hints now shown to be 