mrs tj ing the pillow tightly in its case f little s that s what i mean when did you begin to think otherwise never begun to think otherwise at all said mrs seeing as patted the pillow into its place on the that he was still looking at her as if waiting for the rest of her reply she gave it a great in the middle and asked how could i help how could you help yourself fix m being married course said mrs it was no doing o mine never thought of it i d got something to do without thinking indeed she kept me to it when she could go about and she could go about then weu well echoed mrs that s what i said myself well what s the use of considering if them two clever ones has made up their minds to it what s left for to do i was it my mother s project then the lord bless you arthur and forgive me the wish cried speaking always in a low tone if hadn t been both of a mind in it how could it ever have been never me t ant likely that ho would after living in the house with me and ordering me about for as many years as he d done ho said to me one day he said he said now i am going to tell you something what do what do i think of it i says yes he said because you re going to take it ho said take it i says mi ah oh he s a clever one went on to spread the upper sheet over the bed and the blanket over that and the over that as if she had quite concluded her story well said arthur again well echoed mrs again how could i help myself he said to me you and me must be married and i ll tell you why she s failing in health and she ll want pretty constant attendance up in her room and we shall have to be much with her and there ll be nobody about now but ourselves when we re away from her and altogether it wiu be more convenient she s of my opinion he i said if you ll put your bonnet on next monday morning at eight we u get it over mrs tucked up the bed weu well repeated mrs i think so i i sits me down � and says it well � then says to mc as to next sunday being the third time of asking for i ve put em up a fortnight is my reason for monday she ll speak to you about it and now she ll find you prepared that same day she spoke v to mc and she said so i that you and mc going to be married i am glad of it and so are you with reason it ig a very good thing for you and very welcome under the circumstances to me he is a sensible man and a man and a man and a pious man what could i say when it had ine to that why if it had been � a instead of a wedding mrs flint cast about in her mind with great pains for of expression i couldn t have said a word upon it against wn two clever ones in good faith i believe so and you may arthur what girl was that in my mother s room just now said mrs flint in a rather sharp key it was a girl surely whom i saw near almost hidden in the dark comer oh she little i � nothing she of it was a peculiarity of that she never spoke of mrs by name but there s another sort of girls than that have you forgot your old sweetheart long and long ago i u bo bound i suffered enough from mv mother s separating us to remember her i recollect her very well have you got another no here s news for you then she s well to do now and a widow and if you like to have her why you can and how do you know that them two clever ones have been speaking about it � there s on the stairs she was gone in a moment mrs had introduced into the web that his mind was weaving in that old where the loom of his youth had stood last thread wanting to the pattern the airy folly of a boy s love had found its way even into that house and ho had been as wretched under its as if the had been a castle of romance little more than a week ago at the face of the pretty girl from whom he had parted with t had had an unusual interest for him and a tender hold upon him because of some resemblance real or l to this first face that had out of his gloomy life into the bright glories of fancy he leaned ui on the sill of the long low window and looking out upon the blackened forest of chimneys again began to dream for it had been the tendency of this man s life � so much was wanting in it to think about so much that might have n better directed and happier to upon � to make him a after all chapter iv mrs has a dream mrs dreamed she usually dreamed unlike the son of her old with her eyes shut she had a curiously vivid in am that and bi she had left the son of her old mistress many hours in fact it was not at all like a it was so very real in n ct it � in this wise bed chamber by mr and mrs was within a few paces of that to 