you and you may call him old guilt all the days of your life had set his heart upon her and she was giddy and liked him but his master was resolved that no harm should come of it � more for your sake than for hers � and that that was their business here how could i but believe him i saw soothe and please you by his praise of her i tou were the first to mention her name tou owned to an old admiration of her you were hot and cold and red and white all at once when i spoke to you of her what could i think � what did i think � but that you were a young in everything but experience and had fallen into hands that had experience enough and could manage you having the fancy for your own good oh oh oh i they were afraid of my finding out the truth exclaimed miss getting off the and trotting up and down the kitchen with her two short arms lifted up because i am a sharp little thing � i need be to get through the world at all and they deceived me altogether and i gave the poor unfortunate girl a letter which i fully believe was the of her ever speaking to who was left behind on purpose i stood amazed at the revelation of all this looking at miss as she walked up and down the kitchen until she was out of breath when she sat upon the again and drying her face with her handkerchief shook her head for a long time without otherwise moving and without breaking silence my country rounds she added at length brought me to mr the night before last what i happened to find out there about their secret of david way of coming and going without yon � which was strange � led to my something wrong i got into the coach from london last night as it came through and was here this morning oh oh oh too poor little turned so chilly after all her cry ing and that she turned round on the putting her poor little wet feet in among the ashes to warm them and sat looking at the fire like a large doll i sat in a chair on the other side of the hearth lost in unhappy reflections and looking at the fire too and sometimes at her i go she said at last rising as she spoke it s late you don t me meeting her sharp glance which was as sharp as ever when she asked me i could not on that short challenge answer no quite frankly come said she accepting the offer of my hand to help her over the and looking wistfully up into my face you know you wouldn t me if i was a full sized woman i felt that there was much truth in this and i felt rather ashamed of myself you are a young man she said nodding take a word of advice even from three foot nothing try not to associate bodily defects with mental my good friend except for a solid reason she had got over the now and i had got over my suspicion i told her that i believed she had given me a faithful account of herself and that we had both been instruments in hands she thanked me and said i was a good fellow now mind she exclaimed turning back on her the personal experience way to the door and looking at me with her up again i have some reason to what i have heard � my ears are always open i can t afford to spare what powers i have � that they are gone abroad but if ever they return if ever any one of them returns while i am alive i am more likely than another going about as i do to find it out soon i know you shall know if ever i can do anything to serve the poor betrayed girl i will do it faithfully heaven i and had better have a blood hound at his than little i placed faith in this last statement when i marked the look with which it was accompanied trust me no more but trust me no less than you would trust a full sized woman said the little creature touching me on the wrist if ever you see me again unlike what i am now and like what i was when you first saw me observe what company i am in to mind that i am a very helpless and little thing think of me at home with my brother like myself and sister like myself when my day s work is done perhaps you won t then be very hard upon me or surprised if i can be distressed and serious night i gave miss my hand with a very different opinion of her from that which i had hitherto entertained and opened the door to let her out it was not a trifling business to get the great umbrella up and properly balanced in her grasp but at last i successfully accomplished this and saw it go down the street through the rain without the least appearance of having anybody underneath it except when a heavier fall than from some water sent it top of david over on one side and miss struggling violently to get it right after making one ot two to her relief which were rendered futile by the umbrella s on again like an immense bird before i could reach it i came in went to bed and slept till morning in the morning i was joined by mr and by my old nurse and we went at an early hour to the where mrs and ham were waiting to take leave of us r ham whispered 