person who him than have him and not spend his money on himself how can trot and i do best upon our means what do you say say i interposed that i must do something go for a soldier do you mean returned my aunt alarmed or go to sea i won t hear of it you to be a we re not going to have any on the head in this family if you please sir i was about to explain that i was not desirous of introducing that mode of provision into the family when inquired if my rooms were held for any long term you come to the point my dear said my aunt they are not to be got rid of for six months at least unless they could be and that i don t believe the last man died here five people out of six would die � of course � of that woman in with the flannel i have a little ready money and i agree with you the best thing we can do is to live the term out here and get dick a bedroom hard by i thought it my duty to hint at the discomfort my aunt would sustain from living in a continual state of warfare with mrs but she disposed of that objection by declaring that on the first of she was prepared to astonish mrs for the whole remainder of her natural life i have been thinking said that if you had time the history a experience a good deal of time i am always disengaged after four or five o clock and i have time early in the in one way and another said i conscious of a little as i thought of the hours and hours i bad devoted to about town and to and fro the i have abundance of time i know you would not mind said coming to me and speaking in a low voice so full of sweet and hopeful consideration that hear it now the duties of a secretary mind my dear because continued doctor strong has acted on his intention of retiring and has come to live in london and he asked papa i know if he could recommend him me don t you think he would rather have his old pupil near him than anybody else dear said i what should i do without you you are always my good angel i told you so i never think of you in any other light answered with her pleasant laugh that one good angel meaning was enough and went on to remind me that the doctor had been used to occupy himself in his study early in the morning and in the evening � and that probably my leisure would suit his very well i was scarcely more delighted with the prospect of earning my own bread than with the hope of earning it under my old master in short acting on the advice of i sat down and wrote a letter to the doctor stating my object and to call on him next day at ten in the this i addressed to � for in that place so by t of david table to me he lived � and went and posted myself without losing a minute wherever was some agreeable token of her noiseless presence seemed inseparable from the place when i came back i found my aunt s birds hanging just as they had hung so long in the parlor window of the cottage and my easy chair my aunt s much easier chair in its position at the open window and even the round green fan which my aunt had brought away with her on to the window sill i knew who had done all this by its seeming to have quietly done itself and i should have known in a moment who had arranged my neglected books in the old order of my school days even if i had supposed to be miles away instead of seeing her busy with them and smiling at the disorder into which they had fallen my aunt was quite gracious on the subject of the thames it really did look very well with the sun upon it though not like the sea before the cottage but she could not towards the london smoke which she said everything a complete revolution in which bore a prominent part was being effected in every corner of my rooms in regard of this and i was looking on thinking how little even seemed to do with a good deal of bustle and how mu did without any bustle at all when a knock came at the door i think said turning pale it s papa he promised me that he would come i opened the door and admitted not only mr but i had not seen mr for some time i was prepared for a great change in him after what i had heard from j but his ance shocked me the personal and experience � it was not that he looked many years older though still dressed with the old scrupulous cleanliness or that there was an upon his face or that bis eyes were full and or that there was a trembling in his hand the cause of which i knew and had for some years seen at work it was not that he had lost his good looks or his old bearing a gentleman � for that he had bat the thing that struck me most was that with the evidences of his native superiority still upon him he should submit himself to that crawling of meanness the of the two natures in their relative positions s of power and mr s of dependence was a sight more painful to me than i can express if i had seen an taking command of a man i should hardly have thought 