in meeting him affected me i brushed away the tears that my utmost resolution had not been able to keep back and i made a clumsy laugh of it and we sat down together side by side why how do you come to be here said clapping me on the shoulder i came here by the coach to day i have been adopted by an aunt down in that part of the country and have just finished my education there how do you come to be here well i am what they call an oxford man he returned that is to say i get bored to death down there � and i am on my way now to my mother s you re a devilish amiable looking fellow just what you used to be now i look at you not altered in the least i knew you immediately i said but you are more easily remembered he laughed as he ran his hand through the curls of his hair and said gaily yes i am on an expedition of duty my mother lives a little way out of town and the roads being in a condition and our house the personal and experience tedious enough i remained here to night instead of going on i have not been in town half a dozen hours and those i have been and grumbling away at the play i have been at the play too said t at garden what a delightful and magnificent entertainment laughed heartily � my dear young he said clapping me on the shoulder again you are a very the of the field at sunrise is not than you are i have been at garden too and there never was a more miserable business � you sir this was addressed to the waiter who had been very attentive to our recognition at a distance and now came forward where have you put my friend mr said beg your pardon sir where does he sleep what s his number you know what i mean said well sir said the waiter with an air mr is at present in forty four sir and what the devil do you mean retorted by putting mr into a little over a stable why you see we wasn t aware sir returned the waiter still as mr was particular we can give mr seventy two sir if it would be preferred next you sir of course it would be ed said and do it at once the waiter immediately withdrew to make the exchange very much amused at my having been put into forty four laughed again and clapped me on the shoulder again and invited me to breakfast with him next morning at ten o clock � an invitation i was only too proud and happy to accept it being now pretty late we took our candles and went up stairs where we parted with friendly at his door and where i found my new room a great improvement on my old one it not being at all and having an immense four post in it which was quite a little landed estate here among pillows enough for six i soon fell asleep in a condition and dreamed of ancient and friendship until the early morning out of the underneath made me dream of thunder and the gods of david chapter xx s home when the tapped at my door at eight o clock and informed me that my water was outside i felt severely the having no occasion for it and blushed in my bed the suspicion that she laughed too when she said it upon my mind all the time i was dressing and gave me i was conscious a and guilty air when i passed her on the staircase as i was going down to breakfast i was so aware indeed of being younger than i could have wished that for some time i could not make up my mind to pass her at all under the circumstances of the case but hearing her there with a stood peeping out of window at king charles on horseback surrounded by a of and looking anything but in a rain and a dark brown fog until i was by the waiter that the gentleman was waiting for me it was not in the coffee room that i found expecting me but in a snug private apartment red and turkey where the fire burnt bright and a fine hot breakfast was set forth on a table covered with a clean cloth and a cheerful miniature of the room the fire the breakfast and all was shining in the little round mirror over the i was rather at first being so and elegant and superior to me in au respects age included but his easy patronage soon put that to rights and made me quite at home i could not enough admire the change he had wrought in the golden cross or compare the dull forlorn state i had held yesterday with this morning s comfort and tliis morning s entertainment as to the waiter s familiarity it was as if it had never been he attended on us as i may say in and ashes l ow said when we were alone i should like to hear what you are doing and where you are going and all about you i feel as if you were my property glowing with pleasure to find that he had still this interest in me i told him how my aunt had proposed the little expedition i had before me and whither it tended as you are in no hurry then said come home with me to and stay a day or two you wiu be pleased with my mother � she is a little vain and about me but that you can forgive her � and she will be pleased with you i should like to be 