ii quarrel with his father and had gone to return at the end of six weeks take up hia old and bis own family who equally expected this issue wi the sole di that the squire w determined this time to forbid hi the old quarters never mentioned his absence and when his uncle or mr noticed it the story of his killed and father t toe f s disappearance with that of the robbery on ihe same day lay quite away from track of every one s thought � even who had reason than any one else to know what his brother was of lie remembered no mention of the between them since the time twelve years ago when it was their boyish sport to him and besides his constantly created an a i bi for he saw him continually in congenial haunt to which he had off on leaving � saw him on chance and meditating a return home to the old of i � � his elder brother if any brain with which in had put the said two whether a nation so to of a family with a monument and would not have been suppressed as of tendency christmas and abundance of the mental originality into the channel of nightmare are great against a dangerous of waking thought when the robbery was talked of nt the rainbow and elsewhere in good company the balance continued to between the rational c tion founded on the box and the theory of an impenetrable that investigation the of the box and view considered the other side a headed and set who because they themselves were supposed everybody else to have the same blank outlook and the of tlie more than hinted that their were animals inclined to crow before they had found any corn � mere dishes in point of depth � whose consisted in supposing there was nothing behind a barn door because they lid n t see through it so that though their did not serve to the fact concerning the robbery it some true opinions of importance but while poor s loss served us to the current of conversation himself was feeling the withering desolation of that about which his were arguing at their ease any one who had observed him fore he lost his gold it have seemed that so withered and a life as bis could hardly be of a could hardly endure any hut such as would i put an end to it altogether but in i reality it had been an eager life filled � him in from ihe wide cheerless it liad been a and though the round its had was a dead dis thing it the need clinging but now the fence no longer move in i round and were hy n blank like that which meets a ant when the earth has broken aj on iti homeward path the loom was there and the weaving and the growing pattern in the cloth bat the bright in the hole under iii was gone the prospect of handling and counting it v as gone evening had no of delight to still the poor s craving the thought of the money he would get by his actual work could bring no joy for its meagre image was only a fresh of his loss and hope was loo heavily crushed by the sudden blow for his imagination to li on the growth of a new from chat small beginning he filled up the blank with grief then he e ii le sign that his thoughts had round again to tlie chasm � to the empty evening time and all the evening as he sat in his loneliness by his dull are he leaned his elbows on his knees and clasped his head with his hands and moaned very low � not as one who seeks tu be heard and yet he was not i in ms trouble the had always created in his neighbors was partly dissipated by the new light in which this misfortune had shown him instead of a man who had cunning than honest fi come by and what was worse not the inclination ta that in a way it was now apparent that had not cunning enough to keep his own lie w is generally spoken of as a poor i and that of his neighbors which had before been referred lo his ill will and to a probable to worse ny was now considered mere this change to a feeling was shown in various ways tlie of christmas cooking being on the wind it was the season when superfluous pork and black are suggestive of charity in well to do families and s misfortune had like mrs mr loo while he that his money had probably been taken from him because he thought too much of it and never came to the doctrine by a of pigs calculated to prejudices against the character who had nothing but verbal consolation to give showed a disposition not only lo greet and discuss his misfortune at some length when hey encountered him in the village to lake the trouble of at his cottage and getting him to repeat all the details on the very spot and then they try to cheer him by saying i suppose one reason why we am seldom to comfort onr neighbors with our words is that oar good will gets in spite of ourselves before it can pass our lips we can black and without giving them a flavor of oar that is almost sure soil there was a fair proportion in but ic was often of a and and took the shape least allied to the and mr for example coming one evening expressly to let know that recent events had given him the advantage of standing more favor in the opinion of a man judgment not lightly opened tlie bj as soon as he 