judge him sir as you would judge others outside the gates he has been there so long i never saw him outside but i can understand that he must have grown different in some things since my thoughts will never be unjust or harsh towards him believe me not she said with a air as the evidently crept upon her that she might seem to be him not that he has anything to be ashamed of for himself or that i have anything to be ashamed of for him he only requires to be understood i only ask for him that his life may be fairly remembered all that he said was quite true it all happened just as he related it he is very much respected everybody who comes in is glad to know him he is more than any one else he is far more thought of than the is if ever pride were innocent it was innocent in little when she grew of her father it is often said that his manners are a true gentleman s and quite a study i see none like them in that place but he is admitted to be superior to all the rest this is quite as much why they make him presents as because they know him to be he is not to be blamed for being in need poor love who could be in prison a quarter of a century and be prosperous what affection in her words what compassion in her repressed tears what a great soul of fidelity within her how true the light that shed false brightness round him if i have found it best to conceal where my home is it is not because i am ashamed of him god forbid nor am i so much ashamed of the place itself as might be supposed people are not bad because they come there i have known numbers of good honest people come there through misfortune they are almost all kind hearted to one another and it would be ungrateful indeed in me to forget that i have had many quiet comfortable hours there that i had an excellent friend there when i was quite a baby who was very little fond of me that i have been taught there and have worked there and have slept soundly there i think it would be almost cowardly and cruel not to have some little attachment for it after all this she had relieved the faithful fulness of her heart and modestly said raising her eyes to her new friend s i did not mean to say so much nor have i ever but once spoken about this before but it seems to set it more right than it was last night i said i wished you had not followed me sir i don t wish it so much now unless you should think � indeed i don t wish it at all unless i should have spoken so that � that you can scarcely understand me which i am afraid may be the case he told her with perfect truth that it was not the case and putting himself between her and the sharp wind and rain sheltered her as well as he could i feel permitted now he said to ask you a little more concerning your father has he many oh a great number i mean who keep him where he is oh yes a great number can you tell me � i can get the information no doubt elsewhere if you cannot � who is the most influential of them said after considering a little that she used to hear long ago of mr i as a man of great power he was a or a board or a or something he lived in square she thought or very near it he was under government � high in the office she appeared to have acquired in her infancy some awful impression of the might of this formidable mr of square or very near it and the office which quite crushed her when she mentioned him it can do no harm thought arthur if i see this mr the thought did not present itself so quietly but that her quickness it ah said little shaking her head with the mild despair of a lifetime many people used to think once of getting my poor father out but you don t know how hopeless it is she forgot to be shy at the moment in honestly warning him away from the sunken wreck he had a dream of raising and looked at him with eyes which assuredly in association with her patient face her fragile figure her spare dress and the wind and rain did not turn him from his purpose of helping her i even if it could be done said she � and it never can be done now � where could father live or how could he live i have often thought that if such a change could come it might be anything but a service to him now people might not think so well of him outside as they do there he might not be so gently dealt with outside as he is there he might not be so fit himself for the life outside as he is for that here for the first time she could not restrain her tears from falling and the little thin hands he had watched when they were so busy trembled as they clasped each other it would be a new distress to him even to know that i earn a little little money and that a little money he is so anxious about us you see feeling helplessly shut up there such a good good father he let the little of feeling go by before he spoke it was soon gone she was not accustomed to think of herself or to trouble any one 