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"Don't you expect to see him?" said I

"O yes, I constantly expect to see him," returned Herbert, "because

I never hear hih the

ceiling But I don't kno long the rafters hed heartily, he becaan to realize Capital, it was his intention

tolady He added as a self-evident proposition,

engendering low spirits, "But you can't marry, you knohile you're

looking about you"

As we conteht what a difficult vision to

realize this same Capital sometimes was, I put my hands in my pockets

A folded piece of paper in one of the my attention, I opened

it and found it to be the play-bill I had received from Joe, relative

to the celebrated provincial amateur of Roscian renown "And bless ht!"

This changed the subject in an instant, and o to the play So, when I had pledged myself to comfort and abet

Herbert in the affair of his heart by all practicable and impracticable

means, and when Herbert had told me that his affianced already knew me

by reputation and that I should be presented to her, and e had

warmly shaken hands upon our mutual confidence, we blew out our candles,

made up our fire, locked our door, and issued forth in quest of Mr

Wopsle and Denmark