quot;You are very hungry," he said.

    "I am, sir." It is my  alinct -- ever to meet ty, t h plainness.

    "It is  a loain for t to tite at first. No, till not immoderately."

    "I trust I s eat long at your expense, sir," rived, unpolished answer.

    "No," ed to us te to tored to home."

    "t, I must plainly tell you, is out of my poo do; being absolutely  home and friends."

    t me, but not distrustfully; I felt ty. I speak particularly of t. Joeral sense, in a figurative one  to fato use truments to searcs, ts to reveal ion of keenness and reserve ed to embarrass to encourage.

    "Do you mean to say,"  you are completely isolated from every connection?"

    "I do. Not a tie links me to any living t a claim do I possess to admittance under any roof in England."

    "A most singular position at your age!"

    ed to my able before me. I .

    "You er?"

    Diana laug een or eig. John," said she.

    "I am near nineteen: but I am not married. No."

    I felt a burning glo to my face; for bitter and agitating recollections o marriage. t and tion. Diana and Mary relieved me by turning to my crimsoned visage; but terner brotinued to gaze, till trouble ed forced out tears as well as colour.

    " reside?&