t care a half penny i know i m an ass and you may laugh at me to your heart s delight and as s lips opened with a smile he once more dropped into music there s the land of cherry isle he sang her with his eyes the jim n it s like an opera said rather faintly what should it be said am i not it would be strange if i did not my love oh yes i mean the word my and i mean to win you i am in dreadful trouble and i have not a penny of my own and i have cut the figure and yet i mean to win you look at me if you can and tell me no she looked at him and whatever her eyes may have told him it is to be supposed he took a pleasure in the message for he read it a long while and uncle ned will give us some money to go on upon in the meanwhile he said at last well i call that cool i said a cheerful voice at his elbow and sprang apart with wonderful alacrity the latter annoyed to observe that although they had never moved since they sat down they were now quite close together both presenting faces of a very heightened color to the eyes of mr edward that gentleman coming up the river in his boat had captured the and what had happened had thought to steal a march on miss at her sketch he had unexpectedly brought down two birds with one stone and as he looked upon the pair of flushed and breathless the pleasant human instinct of the match maker softened his heart well i call that cool he repeated you seem to t the box very upon uncle ned but look here i thought i had told you to keep away to keep away from replied but how should i expect to find you here there is something in that mr admitted you see i thought it better that even you should be ignorant of my address those the would have it out of you and just to put them off the scent i hoisted these abominable colors but that is not all you promised me to work and here i find you playing the fool at please mr you must not be hard on mr said poor boy he is in dreadful straits what s this inquired the have you been fighting or is it a bill these in the opinion of the were the two misfortunes incident to gentlemen and indeed both were from his own career he had once put his name as a matter of form on a friend s paper it had cost him a cool thousand and the friend had gone about with the fear of death upon him ever since and never turned a comer without in front of him for mr and the staff as for fighting the was always on the brink of it and once when in the character of president of a radical club he had cleared out the hall of his things had gone even further mr the can the who lay bo long on the bed of was prepared to swear to mr i will swear to it in any court � it was the hand of that brute that struck me down he was reported to have said and when he was thought to be sinking it was known that he had made an statement in that sense it was a cheerful day for the when was restored to his it s much worse than that said a combination of circumstances really unjust � a � in fact a of seem to have perceived my latent ability to rid them of the traces of their crime it s a legal study after all you see i and with these words for the second time that day began to describe the adventures of the grand i must write to the times cried mr do you want to get me asked i come it can t be as bad as that said his uncle it s a good honest liberal government that s in and they would certainly move at my request thank god the days of tory are at an end it wouldn t do uncle ned said but you re not mad enough cried mr to persist in trying to dispose of it self there is no other path open to me said it s not common sense and i will not of it cried mr i command you positively to from this criminal interference the box very well then i hand it over to you said and you can do what you like with the dead body god forbid ejaculated the president of the radical club i ll have nothing to do with it then you must allow me to do the best i can returned his nephew believe me i have a distinct talent for this sort of difficulty we might forward it to that house the club observed mr it might damage them in the eyes of their and it could be worked up in the local if you see any political capital in the thing said you may have it for me no no � no no i thought you might i will have no hand in the thing on reflection it s highly that either i or miss should linger here we might be observed said the president looking up and down the river and in my public position the consequences would be painful for the party and at any rate it s dinner time what cried plunging for his watch and it is great heaven the piano should have been here hours ago i mr was back into his boat but at these words he paused i saw it arrive myself 