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I don't want to say much about a sad, sad tie a part in it then that I feel bound to set it

all down

I saw very little e Day, for just about that tilad to recollect that I went

little away from the invalid who used to watch me with such wistful

eyes

I had nofor a

particular purpose, and that was to give to Shock; but though I tried to

get near hiarden withafter hi in aarden so well, he soon got out of sight

I did not want to send the present by anybody, for that see into explanations why I sent the money; and I knew that if

the news reached my mother's ears that I had been half-drowned, it would

come upon her like a terrible shock; and she was, I kne, too ill to

bear anything h I was most friendly in my disposition towards Shock, and

wanted to pay hi upon me as an eneestures, whenever we met at a distance