but he got not very far for at the first swell of his voice cut in i will tell you what james more is meaning said she he means we have come to you and have not behaved to you very well and we are ashamed of our ingratitude and ill behaviour now we are wanting to go away and be forgotten and my father will have guided his gear so ill that we cannot even do that unless you will give us some more for that is what we are at all events beggar folk and by your leave miss said i i must speak to your father by myself she went into her own room and shut the door w a word or a look you must excuse her mr says james more she has no delicacy i am not here to discuss that with you said i but to be quit of you and to that end i must talk of your position now mr i have kept the run of your more closely than you for i know you had money of your own when you were mine i know you have had more since you were here in though you concealed it even from your daughter i bid you beware i will stand no more he broke out i am dick of her and you what of a damned trade is this to be a parent i have had expressions used to me there he broke off sir this is the heart of a soldier and a parent he went on again laying his hand on his bosom outraged in both � and i bid you beware if you would have let me finish says i you have found i spoke for your e my dear friend he cried i know i might have relied upon the generosity of your character man will you let me speak said l the fact is that i cannot win to find out if you are rich or poor but it is my idea that your means as they are mysterious in their source so they are something in amount and i do not choose your daughter to be lacking if i speak o herself you may be certain i would never dream of trusting it to you because i know you like the back of my hand and all your talk is that much wind to me however i believe in your way you do still care something for your daughter after all and i must just be doing with that ground of confidence such as it is whereupon i arranged with him that he was to communicate with me as to his whereabouts and s welfare in consideration of which i was to serve him a small he heard the business out with a great deal of eagerness and when it was done my dear fellow my dear son he cried out this is more like yourself than any of it yet i will serve you with a soldier s let me hear no more of it says i you have in which i am left alone got me to that pitch that the bare name of soldier rises on my stomach our traffic is settled i am now going forth and will return in one half hour when i expect to find my chambers of you i gave them good measure of time it was my one fear that i might see again because tears and weakness were ready in my heart and i cherished my anger like a piece of dignity perhaps an hour went by the sun had gone down a little of a new moon was following it across a scarlet sunset already there were stars in the east and in my chambers when at last i entered them the night lay blue i lit a and the rooms in the first there remained nothing so much as to awake a memory of those who were gone but in the second in a corner of the floor i a little heap that brought my heart into my mouth she had left behind at her departure all that ever she had of me it was the blow that i felt perhaps because it was the last and i fell upon that pile of clothing and behaved myself more foolish than i care to tell of late in the night in a strict frost and my teeth chattering i came again by some portion of my manhood and considered with myself the sight of these poor and ribbons and her and the stockings was not to be endured and if i were to recover any constancy of mind i saw i must be rid of them ere the morning it was my first thought to have made a fire and burned them but ray disposition has always been opposed to for one thing and for another to have burned these things that she had worn so close upon her body seemed w in the nature of a cruelty there was a comer cupboard in that chamber there i determined to bestow them the which i did and made it a long business folding them with very little skill indeed but the more care and sometimes dropping them with my tears all the heart was gone out of me i was weary as though i had nm miles and sore like one beaten when as i was folding a that she wore often at her neck i observed there was a corner neatly cut from it it was a of a very pretty hue on which i had frequently remarked and once that she had it on i remembered telling her by way of a that she wore my colours there came a glow of hope and like a tide of sweetness in my bosom and the next moment i was plunged back in a fresh 