say that he was resolved to disappoint us did you hear him say you cur that he was going to have the cleared off when no doubt the whole place will be if you haven t the spirit of a mouse to defend your rights i have let me go after him as in his he was making a strong struggle for it mr deemed it expedient to lift him throw him and fall with him well knowing that once down ha would not be up again easily with his wooden leg so they both rolled on the floor and as they did so mr shut the gate t b friend chapter vii the friendly move takes up a strong position the friendly sat upright on the floor panting and one another after mr had the gate and gone away in the weak eyes of and in every dust colored hair in his shock of hair there was a marked distrust of and an to fly at him on perceiving the smallest occasion in the hard face of and in his stiff figure he looked like a german wooden toy there was expressed a which had no in it both were flushed and by the late and in coming to the ground had received a humming knock on the back of his devoted head which caused him still to rub it with an air of having been highly � but � astonished each was silent for some time leaving it to the other to begin brother said at length breaking the silence you were right and i was wrong i forgot myself mr cocked his shock of hair as thinking mr had remembered himself in respect of appearing without any disguise but comrade pursued it was never your lot to know miss elizabeth master george aunt jane nor uncle our mutual friend mr admitted that he had never known those distinguished and added in effect that he had never so much as desired the honor of their acquaintance don t say that comrade i retorted no don t say that because without having known them you never can fully know what it is to be to frenzy by the sight of the these words as if they reflected great credit on himself mr impelled himself with his hands toward a chair in a corner of the room and there after a variety of awkward attained a perpendicular position mr also rose comrade said take a seat comrade what a speaking countenance is yours mr involuntarily smoothed his countenance and looked at his hand as if to see whether any of its speaking properties came off for clearly do i know mark you pursued pointing his words with his forefinger clearly do i know what question your expressive features puts to me what question said the question returned with a sort of joyful i didn t mention sooner that i had found something says your speaking countenance to me � why didn t you communicate that when i first came in this evening why did you keep it back till you thought mr had come to look for the article your speaking countenance said puts it than language now you can t read in my face what answer i give mutual ill no i can t said i knew it and why not returned with the same joyful because i lay no claims to a speaking countenance because i am well aware of my all men are not gifted alike but i can answer in words and in what words these i wanted to give you a delightful sap � � having thus and the word surprise mr shook his friend and brother by both hands and then clapped him on both knees like an affectionate patron who entreated him not to mention so small a service as that which it had been his happy privilege to render your speaking countenance said being answered to its satisfaction only asks then what have you found v why i hear it say tlie words i well retorted after waiting in vain if you hear it say the words why don t you answer it hear me out i said im a going to hear me out i man and brother partner in feelings equally with and actions i have found a where � hear me out said he tried to reserve whatever he could and whenever disclosure was forced upon him broke into a radiant of hear me out on a certain day sir � when said n � no returned shaking his head at once thoughtfully and no sir i that s not your expressive countenance which asks that mutual friend question that s your voice merely your voice to proceed on a certain day sir i happened to be walking in the yard � taking my lonely round � for in the words of a friend of my own family the author of well arranged as a deserted as you will remember mr by the moon when stars it will occur to you before i mention it proclaim night s cheerless noon on tower fort or ground the walks his lonely round the walks � under those circumstances sir i happened to be walking in the yard early one and happened to have an iron rod in my band with which i have been sometimes accustomed to the monotony of a literary life when i struck it against an object not necessary to trouble you by � it is necessary what object demanded in a tone � hear me out i said the pump � when i struck it against the pump and found not only that the top was loose and opened with a lid but that something in it rattled that something comrade i discovered to be a small flat cash box shall i say it was light there were papers in it said there your expressive countenance speaks 