to the poor child and as the poor child took so lovingly to me i think i should feel jealous of calling another child by it i think i feel as if the name had become to me and i had no right to use it so and that s your opinion remarked mr observant of the secretary s face and again addressing him i say again it is a matter of feeling returned the secretary i think miss s feeling very womanly and pretty now give us your opinion said mrs my opinion old lady returned the golden is your opinion then said mrs we agree not to revive john s name but to let it rest in the grave it is as mr says a matter of feeling but lor how many matters are matters of feeling i well and cur i come to the second thing i hare thought of yon must know mj dear and mr that when i first named to my husband my thoughts of a little orphan boy in remembrance of john i farther named to my that it was comforting to think that how the poor boy would be by john s own money and protected from john s own hear hear i cried mr so she did r no not my dear returned mrs y i am going to say something else i meant that i am sure as much as i still mean it but this little death has made me ask myself the question seriously whether i wasn t too bent upon pleasing my self else why did i seek out so much for a pretty child and a child quite to my liking wanting to do good why not do it for its own sake and put my tastes and by perhaps said and perhaps she said it with some little arising out of those old curious relations of hers toward the murdered man perhaps in the name you would not have liked to give it to a less interesting child than the original he interested you very much well my dear returned mrs giving her a squeeze it s kind of you to find that reason out and i hope it may have been so and indeed to a certain extent i believe it was so but i am afraid not to the whole extent however that don t come in question now because we have done with the name laid it up as a remembrance suggested mutual better said my dear laid it op as a well then i haye been thinking if i take any orphan to provide for let it not be a pet and a for me bnt a to be helped for its own sake not pretty then said no returned mrs nor then said no returned mrs not necessarily so that s as it may happen a well disposed boy comes in my way who may be even a little wanting in such for getting on in life but is honest and in and requires a helping hand and deserves it if i am very much in earnest and quite determined to be unselfish let me take care of aim here the footman whose feelings had been hurt on the former occasion appeared and crossing to b announced the objectionable the four members of council looked at one another and paused shall he be brought here ma am asked yes said mrs whereupon the footman disappeared reappeared presenting and retired much disgusted the consideration of mrs had clothed in a suit of black on which the tailor had received personal directions from to the utmost cunning of his art with a view to the concealment of the and buttons but so much more powerful were the of s form than the strongest resources of science that he now stood before the council a perfect in the way of buttons shining and and gleaming and twinkling oat of a v our friend hundred of eyes of bright metal at the dazzled the artistic taste of some unknown had furnished him with a hat band of which was behind from tlie crown of his to tho brim and terminated in a black bunch from which the imagination and tlie reason some special powers with which his legs were endowed had already np his glossy at the ankles and them at the knees while similar gifts in his arms had raised his coat sleeves from his wrists and them at his elbows thus set forth with th additional of a very little tail to his coat and a yawning gulf nt his stood and how is my good fellow mrs asked said she do pretty nicely and sending her and many thanks for the tea and all and wishing to know tlie family s have you just come y v yes then you have not had your yet p no bat i mean to it for i ain t forgotten handsome orders that i was never to go away cat having had a good un off of meat and beer and no there was four of em for i reckoned em when i had em meat one beer two vegetables and was four � why ke was v here threw his head back opened his month and laughed how are the two poor p asked mm our mutual striking right ont and coming mrs looked on the other three members of council and then said with her finger � yes mom come forward should you like to dine here every day off of all four on em oh i s feelings obliged bim to squeeze his bat and contract one leg at the knee yes and should you like to be always taken care of here if you were industrious and deserving oh � but there s mrs said checking himself in his drawing back and shaking his head with very serious meaning there 