e ing in tures."

    On tter; on turn.  me some gruel and dry toast, about, as I supposed, ten o poisoned  comparatively strong and revived: ere long satiety of repose and desire for action stirred me. I   on? Only my damp and bemired apparel; in  aso appear before my benefactors so clad. I ion.

    On a c traces of t; t by t smoot: it e decent. My very sockings able. to smooter a ing every five minutes, I succeeded in dressing myself. My cloted, but I covered deficiencies able looking -- no speck of t, no trace of ted, and  -- I crept doone staircase ers, to a narroly to tchen.

    It  is  difficult to eradicate from t ion: tones. iff, indeed, at t: latterly so relent a little; and widy and well-dressed, she even smiled.

    ", you  up!" ster, t you down in my cone, if you will."

    Sed to took it. Sled about, examining me every nourning to me, as sook some loaves from tly -

    "Did you ever go a-begging afore you came here?"

    I  for a moment; but remembering t anger  of tion, and t I o ly, but still not  a certain marked firmness -

    "You are mistaken in supposing me a beggar. I am no beggar; any more than yourself or your young ladies."

    After a pause s understand t: you've like no house, nor no brass, I guess?"

    "t of  make a beggar in your sense of the word."

    "Are you book-learned?" sly.

    "Yes, very."

    "But you've never b