tranquil enougered it, and ted snugly enoug t: or rat, tied doriped inguisood on table; stle black book, like a prayer-book, by t of ttered to  old  immediately on my entrance: it appeared so finish a paragraph.

    I stood on tting at a distance from t noo trouble one’s calm. S -brim partially s I could see, as s, t it range one. It looked all broled out from beneate band  once,  gaze.

    “ell, and you  your fortune told?” sures.

    “I don’t care about it, mot I ougo warn you, I h.”

    “It’s like your impudence to say so: I expected it of you; I  in your step as you crossed threshold.”

    “Did you? You’ve a quick ear.”

    “I have; and a quick eye and a quick brain.”

    “You need trade.”

    “I do; especially o deal  you tremble?”

    “I’m not cold.”

    “ you turn pale?”

    “I am not sick.”

    “ you consult my art?”

    “I’m not silly.”

    t and bandage; s a s black pipe, and lig began to smoke. ive, s body, took teadily at tely—“You are cold; you are sick; and you are silly.”

    “Prove it,” I rejoined.

    “I act strikes t is in you. You are sick; because t of feelings, t and test given to man, keeps far a beckon it to approacir one step to meet it s you.”

    S  black pipe to h vigour.

    “You mig to almost any one  in a great house.”

    “I mig to almost any one: but  be true of almost any one?”

    “In my circumstances.”

    “Yes; just so, in your circumstances: but find me another precisely pl