you talk m that way i ll give you in charge to the police and have you five thk person of the house and the bad child the new york public li and foundations r l or mutual shillings when you can t pay and then i won t pay the money for you and you ll be transported for life how should you like to be transported for life r shouldn t like it poor shattered invalid trouble nobody long cried the wretched figure m come said the person of the house tapping the table near her in a business like manner and shaking her head and her chin you know what you ve got to do put down your money this instant the obedient figure began to in its pockets u spent a of your wages fee bound said the person of the house put it here all yon v got left every such a business as he made of collecting it from his pockets of expecting it in this pocket and net finding it of not expecting it in that pocket and passing it over of finding no pocket where that other pocket ought to be is this all demanded the person of the house when a confused heap of pence and shillings lay on the table got no more was the answer with an shake of the head let me make sure yon know what you ve got to do turn all tour pockets inside out and leave em so cried the person of the house he obeyed and if anything could have made him look more abject or more ridiculous than before it would have been so displaying himself here s but seven and exclaimed miss after the heap to order oh you prodigal old son now you shall be starved m no don t starve me he urged tt if you were treated as you ought to be said miss you d he fed upon the of cats meat � only the after the cats had had the meat as it is go to bed when he stumbled out of the corner to he again put out both his hands and pleaded circumstances over which no control get along with yon to bed w cried miss snapping him up don t speak to me i m not going to forgive you go to bed this moment seeing another emphatic what upon way he it by and was heard to heavily np and shut his door and throw himself on his bed within while afterwards came down tt shall we have our supper dear t ah bless us and save us we need have something to keep us going returned miss her shoulders laid a cloth upon tne little bench more handy for the person of the house than an ordinary table and put upon it such plain fare as they were accustomed to have and drew up a stool for herself now for supper what are you thinking of darling mutual friend i was thinking she returned coming out of a deep study i would do to him if he should turn out a oh but he won t said you ll take care of that beforehand shall try to take care of it beforehand but he might deceive me oh my dear all those fellows with their tricks and their manners do deceive with the little fist in full action and if so i tell you what i think i d do when he was asleep i d make a spoon red hot and i d have some boiling liquor in a and i d take it out hissing and i d open his mouth with tho other or perhaps he d sleep with his mouth ready open � and i d pour it down throat and it and choke him am sure you would do no such horrible thing said shouldn t i well perhaps i shouldn t but i should like to am equally sure you would not not even like to well you generally know best only you haven t always lived among it as i have lived � and your back isn t bad and your legs are not queer as they went on with their supper tried to bring her round to that prettier and better state but the charm was broken the person of the house was the person of a house full of sordid and cares with an upper room in which that figure was even innocent sleep with and degradation the doll s had become a little quaint of the world worldly of the earth poor doll s how often so dragged down by hands that should have raised her up how often so when losing her way on the eternal road and asking guidance poor poor little doll s chapter � piece of work sitting meditating one fine day perhaps in the attitude in which she is presented on the copper all of a sudden that she wants in parliament it occurs to her that is i a representative man � which cannot in these times be doubted � and that her majesty s faithful are without him so to a legal gentleman of her acquaintance that if will put down five thousand pounds lie may write a couple of letters after his name at the extremely cheap rate of two thousand five hundred per letter it is clearly understood between and the legal gentleman that nobody is to take up the five thousand pounds but that being put down they will disappear by and enchantment the legal gentleman in s confidence going straight from that lady to thus declares himself highly flattered but requires breathing time to ascertain whether his friends will rally round him above all things he our mutual it him to be clear at a crisis of this importance whether his friends will rally round him the legal gentleman in 