. Harper's weekly. s (correct-id not been sufficiently . read it on the table. There wore three hallcrowns, one shilling. ,i sixpence, and threepence icoppers. That amount was also sot down on a lit Certainly, I if you wish it. i That debt! What debt? Fathers debt to Mr. Moreen, you know, IFather owed him eighty-seven pounds nine siingfl and threepence, ho said. I looked at the little heop of money on the taland involuntarily smiled. ? My good hoy, yon dont hope that you can ] You may mean to pay it, and it shows anest) of intention that I can not too highly imend; but you cant pay it, my boy.


. Harper's weekly. s (correct-id not been sufficiently . read it on the table. There wore three hallcrowns, one shilling. ,i sixpence, and threepence icoppers. That amount was also sot down on a lit Certainly, I if you wish it. i That debt! What debt? Fathers debt to Mr. Moreen, you know, IFather owed him eighty-seven pounds nine siingfl and threepence, ho said. I looked at the little heop of money on the taland involuntarily smiled. ? My good hoy, yon dont hope that you can ] You may mean to pay it, and it shows anest) of intention that I can not too highly imend; but you cant pay it, my boy. Nor w Mr. Moreen dream of expecting you to do so. debt as that. Let t ii Tell Mr. Moreen, Sir What are your wages ?Sir; two suits of liveryhat, and eighteenpenc idea into your head? Have you seen him, then?? .No, Sir, not again; but you remember, Sir, hBaid that— The boy paused, and taking a sto 1 Mr. Moreen was angry when Inand not without cause, as you know; foir—well! Your father did him an injury. more emaciated thn I liked te generously fed, and, abovei his sleep. She a-reed with n it ; had intended I., consul months end to another, didnt Jeiimc; not? Why! ho actually preferredsome was like that; and a great mIt wasnt for the saving neither. .stvango party. In fact, Mr. Tapp, haibut one other like him—and he was aparty indeed. I did not attend Lady Fctherstone, Arthurs newmistress, and therefore saw less of. him than he-fore ; although I did occasionally catch a glimpseof him on the box of his, ladys old-fashioned ba-rouche during my professional progresses: till atf her ladyships h mine in the fallowing .June I was awokeilNpasl .six oclock hy a peculiarly ih;irp? professional duor-liell. I had h-en up of that appeal; I was wide awake in a was a short pause, a muttered colloquy be-tween my housemaid and some one else; she knock-ed at my door (I slept on the ground floor), and,opening it, showed a pale and startled countenance. Sir! Sir! she


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