that day by day what i had learned and thought and delighted in and raised my fancy and my up by would pass away from me little by little never to be brought back any more cannot be written as often as went away in the course of that i mingled my tears with the water in which i was washing the bottles and sobbed as if there were a flaw in my own breast and it were in danger of bursting the counting house clock was at half past twelve and there was general preparation for going to dinner when mr tapped at the counting house window and beckoned to me to go in i went in and found there a middle aged person in a brown and black and shoes with no more hair upon his head which was a large one and very shining than there is upon an egg and with a very extensive face which he turned full upon me his clothes were shabby but he had an imposing shirt collar on he carried a sort of a stick with a large pair of rusty to it and a glass hung outside his coat � for ornament i afterwards found as he very seldom looked through it and couldn t see anything when he did this said mr in allusion to myself is he this said the stranger with a certain roll in his voice and a certain indescribable air of doing something genteel which impressed me very much is master i hope i see you well sir i said i was very well and hoped he was i was sufficiently ill at ease heaven knows but it was not in my nature to complain much at that time of my life so i said i was very well and hoped he was i am said the stranger thank heaven quite well i have received a letter from mr in which he that he would desire me to receive into an apartment in the rear of my house which is at present � and is in short to be let as a � in short said the stranger with a smile and in a burst of confidence as a bed room � the young whom i have now the pleasure to � and the stranger waved his hand and settled his chin in his shirt collar op david this is mr said mr to me said the stranger that is my name mr said mr is known to mr he takes orders for us on commission when he can get any he has been written to by mr on the subject of your lodgings and he will receive you as a my address said mr is terrace city i � in short said mr with the same genteel air and in another burst of confidences � i live there i made him a bow under the impression said mr that your in this metropolis have not as yet been extensive and that you might have some difficulty in penetrating the of the modern in the direction of the city road � in short said mr in another burst of confidence that you might lose yourself � i shall be happy to call this evening and you in the knowledge of the nearest way i thanked him with all my heart for it was friendly in him to offer that trouble at what hour said mr shall i � at about eight said mr at about eight said mr i beg to wish you good day mr i will intrude no longer so he put on his hat and went out with his cane under his arm very upright and humming a tune when he was clear of the counting house mr then formally engaged me to be as useful as i could in the of and at a salary i think of six shillings a week i am not clear whether it was six or seven i am inclined to believe from my uncertainty on this head that it was six at first and seven afterwards he paid me a week down from his own pocket i believe and i gave sixpence out of it to get my trunk carried to terrace at night it being too heavy for my strength small as it was i paid sixpence more for my dinner which was a meat pie and a turn at a neighbouring pump and passed the hour which was allowed for that meal in walking about the streets at the appointed time in the evening mr reappeared i washed my hands and face to do the greater honour to his and we walked to our house as i suppose i must now call it together mr the names of streets and the shapes of corner houses upon me as we went along that i might find my way back easily in the morning arrived at his house in terrace which i noticed was shabby like himself but also like himself made all the show it could he presented me to mrs a thin and faded lady not at all young who was sitting in the parlor the first floor was altogether and the blinds were kept down to the neighbours with a baby at her breast this baby was one of and i may remark here that i hardly ever in all my experience of the family saw both the detached from mrs at the same time one of them was always taking refreshment there were two other children master aged about four and miss aged about three these and a dark i the personal history and experience young woman with a habit of who was servant to the family and informed me before half an hour had expired that she was a and came from st s in the neighbourhood completed the establishment my room was at the top of the house at 