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'What is the price?'

'Twelve pounds ten'

'I think I will have them' 'Madam, you will pardonmuch cheaper will suit you better If you will allow me, I

will look out for you and will report in a few days'

'Oh! very well,' and she departed

'The wife of a brassfounder,' he said to Clara; 'ht a house at Dulwich and is setting up a library

Soht to have a county history, and

that Manning and Bray is the book Manning and Bray! What he wants

is a Dulwich and Denmark Hill Directory No, no,' and he took down

one of the big volues and looked at

the old book-plate inside, 'you won't go there if I can help it' He

took a fancy to Clara when he found she loved literature, although

what she read was out of his departether, and his perfectly

human behaviour to her prevented that sense of exile and loneliness

which is so horrible to in therein the struggle for existence She read and ood deal in the shop, but not to much profit, for she was

continually interrupted, and the thought of her sister intruded