her that i held her in a sort of veneration the work she did that day there were many things to be brought up from the beach and stored in the out house � as oars sails pots bags of and the like and though there was abundance of assistance rendered there being not a pair of working hands on all that shore but would have labored hard for mr and been well paid in being asked to do it yet she persisted all day long in toiling under that she was quite unequal to and to and fro on all sorts of unnecessary errands as to her misfortune she appeared to have entirely lost the recollection of ever having had any she preserved an cheerfulness in the midst of her sympathy which was not the least astonishing part of the change that had come over her was out of the question i the personal and experience did not even her to or a tear to escape from her eyes the whole day through until light when she and i and mr being alone together and he having fallen asleep in perfect exhaustion she broke into a half fit of sobbing and crying and taking me to the door said ever bless you r be a friend to him poor dear then she immediately ran out of the house to wash her in order that she might sit quietly beside him and be found at work there when he should awake in short i left her when i went away at night the and staff of mr s affliction and i could not enough upon the lesson that i read in mrs and the new experience she unfolded to me it was between nine and ten o clock when strolling in a melancholy manner through the town i stopped at mr s door mr had taken it so much to heart his daughter told me that he had been very low and poorly all day and had gone to bed without his pipe a bad hearted girl said mrs there was no good in her don t say so i returned you don t think so yes i do cried mrs angrily � no no said i mrs tossed her head to be very stern and cross but she could not command her softer self and began to cry i was young to be sure but i thought much the of her for this sympathy and it became her as a virtuous wife and mother very well indeed what will she ever do sobbed where will she go what will become of her oh how could she be so cruel to herself and him i of i remembered the time when was a young and pretty girl and i wag glad that she remembered it too so my little said mrs has only just now been got to sleep even in her sleep she is sobbing for em ly all day long little has cried for her and asked me over and over again whether � was wicked what can i say to her when � m ly tied a ribbon off her own neck round little s the last night she was here and laid her head down on the pillow beside her till she was fast asleep the ribbon s round my little s neck now it ought not to be perhaps but what can i do em ly is very bad but they were fond of one another and the child h nothing mrs was so unhappy that her husband came out to take care of her leaving them together i went home to s more melancholy myself if ble than i had been yet that good creature � i mean � all by her late anxieties and sleepless nights was at her brother s where she meant to stay till morning an old woman who had been employed about the house for some weeks past while had been unable to attend to it was the house s only other beside myself as i had no occasion for her services i sent her to bed by no means against her will and sat down before the kitchen fire a little while to think about all this i was it with the death bed of the late mr and was driving out with the tide towards the distance at which ham had looked so singularly in the morning when i was recalled from my wanderings by a the personal history and experience knock at the door there was a upon the but it was not that which made the sound the tap was from a hand and low down upon the door as if it were given by a child it made me start as much as if it had been the knock of a footman to a person of distinction i opened the door and at first looked down to my amazement on nothing but a great umbrella that appeared to be walking about of itself but presently i discovered underneath it miss i might not have been prepared to give the little creature a very kind reception if on her removing the umbrella her utmost efforts were unable to shut up she had shown me the sion of face which had made so great an impression on me at our first and last meeting but her face as she turned it up to mine was so earnest and when i relieved her of the umbrella which would have been an inconvenient one for the irish giant she wrung her little hands in such an afflicted manner that i inclined towards her miss said i after glancing up and down the empty street without distinctly knowing what i expected to see besides how do you come here what is the matter she to me with her short right arm to shut the umbrella for her and passing 