little after caused many people to turn their heads with a look of interest at last the troublesome deceased was got into the ground to be buried no more and the stately stalked back before ihe solitary as if she were bound in honour to have no notion of the way home those the being thus appeased he left her i must have a very short cry before i cheer up for good said the little creature coming in because after all a child is a child you know it was a longer cry than might have been expected it wore itself out in a shadowy corner and then the came forth and washed her face and made the tea you wouldn t mind my cutting out something while we are at tea would you she asked her friend with a air dear child the old man will yon never rest t oh i it s not work cutting out a pattern isn t said miss with her busy little already at some paper the truth is i want to fix it while i have it correct in my mind u have you seen it to day then asked yes saw it just now it s a that s what it is thing our wear you know explained in consideration of his another faith our mutual friend and what have you to do with that why replied the yon must know that we professors who live upon our taste and invention are obliged to keep our eyes always open and you know already that i have many extra expenses to meet just now so it came into my head while i was weeping at my poor boy s grave that something in my way might be done with a clergyman what can be done asked the old man not a funeral never fear returned miss his objection with a nod the public don t like to be made melancholy i know very well i am seldom called upon to put my young friends into mourning not into real mourning that is court mourning they are rather proud of but a doll clergyman my dear � glossy black curls and whiskers � two of my young friends in matrimony said miss shaking her forefinger is quite another affair if you don t see those three at the altar in bond street in a my name s jack robinson with her expert little ways in sharp action she had got a doll into brown paper orders before the meal was over and was displaying it for the of the mind when a knock was heard at the street door went to open it and presently came back in with the grave and courteous air that sat so well upon him a gentleman the gentleman was a stranger to the but even in the moment of his casting his eyes upon her there was something in his manner which brought to her remembrance mr pardon me said the gentleman you are the t am the sir s friend yes sir replied miss instantly on the and s friend here is a note from her you to to the request of mr the bearer mr chances to know that i am mr and will tell you so bent his head in will you read the note it s very short said with a look of wonder when she had read it there was no time to make it longer time was so very precious my dear friend mr is dying the clasped her hands and uttered a little piteous cry is dying repeated with emotion at some distance from here he is sinking under injuries received at the hands of a villain who attacked him in the dark i come straight from his bedside he is almost always insensible in a short restless interval of sensibility or partial sensibility i made out that he asked for you to be brought to sit by him hardly on my own interpretation of the indistinct sounds he made i caused to hear them we were both sure that he asked for you vol ii r mutual the with her hands still clasped looked from the one to the other of her two companions if yon delay he may die with his request with his last wish � to me � we have long been much more than brothers � i shall break down if i try to say more in a few moments the black bonnet and the stick were on duty the good jew was left in possession of the house and the side by side in a chaise with was out of town chapter x the d ll a word a darkened and hushed room the river outside the windows flowing on to the vast ocean a figure on the bed and and bound lying helpless on its back with its two useless arms in at its sides only two days of usage so the little with this scene that it held the place occupied two days ago by the recollections of years he scarcely moved since her arrival sometimes his eyes were open sometimes closed when they were open there was no meaning in their stare at one spot straight before them unless for a moment the brow into a faint expression of anger or surprise then would speak to him and on occasions he would be so far roused as to make an attempt to pronounce his friend s name but in an instant consciousness was gone again and no spirit of was in s crushed outer form they provided with materials for her work and she had a little table placed at the foot of his bed sitting there with her rich shower of hair falling over the chair back they hoped she might attract his notice with the same object she would sing just above her breath when he opened his 