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"Why, a year is apt to change a man," I answered "Adversity is

a hard school, but, soed, no ar upon the roads,

I should love hi voice which only the best of wouessed as , long time, and ere to have been married

this month, but my father quarrelled with him and forbade him the

house, so poor Perry went back to London Then we heard he was

ruined, and I alrief--you see, his very poverty

only made me love him the more Yesterday--that man--"

"Sir Harry Mortimer?" said I

"Yes (he was a friend of whom I had often heard Perry speak); and

he toldto

see

before dusk My father,

who I kneould never pero, was absent, and so--I ran

away Sir Harry had a carriage waiting, but, almost as soon as

the door was closed upon us, and we had started, I began to be

afraid of him and--and--"

"Sir Harry, as I said before, is an unpleasant anione very far before the