that he would die in a remembering on further however that under any circumstances he must have paid or handsomely for s debt and being by no means confident that he have succeeded had he undertaken his enterprise alone he regained his and and over more satisfactory until the entrance of interrupted him said arthur what is it what is it now it s the fowl replied holding up a plate containing a little � a very little one � quite a phenomenon of a fowl � so very small and a beautiful bird said arthur after inquiring the price and finding it to the size with a of ham and an egg made into and potatoes and and an apple and a little bit of cheese we shall have a dinner for an emperor there il only be she and me � and you when we ve done don t you complain of the expense afterwards said mrs i m a aid we must live for the first week returned arthur with a groan and then we must make up for it i won t eat more than i can help and i know you love your old master too much to eat more than you can help don t you don t i what said love your old master too much � no not a bit too much said oh dear i wish the devil had this woman cried arthur � love him too much to eat more than you can help at his expense at his what said oh dear she can never hear the most important word and hears all the others at his expense � you the last mentioned tribute to the charms of mrs being uttered in a whisper that lady assented to the general proposition by a harsh growl which was accompanied by a ring at the street door there s the said arthur ay ay i know that rejoined then why don t you go arthur go where retorted ain t doing any harm here am i arthur in reply repeated the word bell as loud as he could roar and his meaning being rendered intelligible to mrs s dull sense of hearing by expressive of ringing at a street door out after sharply demanding why he hadn t said there was a ring before instead of talking about all manner of things that had nothing to do with it and keeping her half pint of beer waiting on the steps there s a change come over you mrs said arthur following her out with his eyes what it means i don t quite know but if it lasts we shan t agree together long i see you are turning crazy i think if you are you must take yourself off mrs or be taken off all s one to me turning over the leaves of his book as he muttered life and of this he soon lighted upon something wliich attracted his attention and forgot and everything else in the interest of its pages the room had no other light than that wliich it derived from a dim and dirt lamp whose lazy being still further obscured by a dark shade cast its feeble rays over a very little space and left all beyond in heavy this lamp the money had drawn so close to him that there was only room between it and himself for the book over whidi he bent and as he sat with his elbows on the desk and his sharp cheek bones resting on his hands it only served to bring out his ugly features in strong relief together with the table at which he sat and to all the rest of chamber in a deep sullen gloom raising his eyes and looking into this gloom as ho made some mental calculation arthur suddenly met the fixed gaze of a man thieves thieves shrieked the starting up and folding his book to his breast robbers murder what is the matter said the form advancing keep off cried the trembling is it a man or a � a � for what do you take me if not for a man was the inquiry yes yes cried arthur his eyes with hia hand it is a man and not a spirit it is a man robbers robbers for what are these cries raised � indeed you know me and have some purpose in your brain said the stranger coming close up to him i am no thief what then and how come you here cried somewhat re assured but still retreating from his visitor what is your name and what do you want my name you need not know was the reply i came here because i was shown the way by your servant i have addressed you twice or thrice but you were too profoundly engaged with your book to hear me and i have been silently waiting you be less abstracted what i want i wiu tell you when you can summon up courage enough to hear and understand me arthur venturing to regard his visitor more attentively and perceiving that he was a yoimg man of good and bearing returned to his seat and muttering that there were bad characters about and that this with former attempts upon his house had made him nervous requested his visitor to sit down this however he declined good god i don t stand up to have you at an advantage said for it was as he observed a gesture of alarm on the part of listen to me you are to be married to morrow morning n � n � no rejoined who said i was how do you know that no matter how replied i know it the young lady who is to give you her hand hates and you her blood runs cold at the mention of your name � the and the lamb the rat 