himself with telling me the fact he would not pain me by dwelling on it or to it nor has he ever done so since but has truly kept his word the man himself � asked martin he has had few opportunities of pursuing his suit i have never walked out alone or remained alone an instant in his presence dear martin i must tell you she continued that the kindness of your grandfather to me remains unchanged i am his companion still an indescribable tenderness and compassion seem to have mingled themselves with his old regard and if i were his only child i could not have a father what former fancy or old habit in this when his heart has turned so cold to you is a mystery i cannot penetrate but it has been and it is a happiness to me that i remained true to him that if he should wake from his delusion even at hie point of death i am here love to recall you to his thoughts martin looked with admiration on her glowing face and pressed his lips to hers i have sometimes heard and read she said that those whose powers had been long ago and whose lives had faded as it were into a dream have been known to rouse themselves before death and inquire for familiar faces once very dear to them but forgotten hated even in the meantime think if with his old impressions of this man he should suddenly resume his former self and find in him his only friend i would not urge you to abandon him dearest said martin though i could count the years we are to wear out asunder but the influence this fellow exercises over him has steadily increased i fear she could not help admitting that steadily life and adventures of and sorely until now it was and supreme she herself had none and yet he treated her with more affection than at any previous time martin thought the a part of his weakness and decay does the influence extend to fear said martin is he timid of asserting his own opinion in the presence of this i fancied so just now i have thought so often often when we are sitting alone almost aa we used to do and i have been reading a favourite book to him or he has been talking quite cheerfully i have observed that the entrance of mr has changed his whole he has broken off immediately and become what you have seen to day when we first came here he had his impetuous in which it was not easy for mr with his utmost to him but these have long since away he to him in everything and has no opinion upon any question but that which is forced upon him by this treacherous man such was the account rapidly furnished in whispers and interrupted brief as it was by many false of mr s return which martin received of his grandfather s decline and of that good gentleman s he heard of tom pinch too and too with not a little about himself into the bargain for though lovers are remarkable for leaving a great deal on all occasions and very properly desiring to come back and say it they are remarkable also for a wonderful power of and can in one way or other give utterance to more language � eloquent language � in any given short space of time than all the six hundred and fifty eight members in the house of parliament of the united kingdom of great britain and ireland who are strong lovers no doubt but of their country only which makes all the difference for in a passion of that kind which is not always returned it is the custom to use as many words as possible and express nothing whatever a caution from mr a hasty of and of something which the proverb says must not be told of afterwards a white hand held out to mr himself which he kissed with the devotion of a knight more more something else s a parting word from martin that he would write from london and would do great martin things there yet heaven knows what but he quite believed it and mark and he stood on the outside of the halls a short interview after such an absence said martin sorrowfully but we are well out of the house we might have placed ourselves in a false position by remaining there even so long mark i don t know about ourselves sir he returned but somebody else would have got into a false position if he had happened to come back again while we was there i had the door all ready sir if had showed his head or had only so much as listened behind it i would have caught him like a he s the sort of man added mr musing as would squeeze soft i know a person who was evidently going to mr s house passed them at this moment he raised his eyes at the mention of the s name and when he had gone on a few yards stopped and gazed at them mr also looked over his shoulder and so did martin for the stranger as he passed had looked very sharply at them who may that be i wonder said martin the face seems familiar to me but i don t know the man he seems to have a amiable desire that his face should be tolerable familiar to us said mr for he s a pretty hard he d better not waste his beauty for he got much to spare coming in sight of the they saw a travelling carriage at the door and a carriage eh said mr that s what he came in depend upon it what s in the wind now a new pupil i 