ch the five o'clock train, I met Waterford. He is an

he, "where a

" I an

d he. "I didn't k

t this, and so I said, s

have known I l

boarded," said he. "I had

me, too. You must excuse me for not sto

," said Waterford, and so we

r little hous

ime imagine, unless he supposed that two people would not require a la

ly as I saw he intended walking all the way down to the fer

live?" he exclaim

n a boat,

e. Well, I would not have thought that of you. And

likes it very much. We are extremely comfortable, and our boat is not a ca

ned around an

deck-hand

dmother!"

hurt your feelings; but I couldn't see what else you could be on

am,"

ord; "this is coming it

ed a stranded canal-boat and had fitted it up as a house, and how we lived so c

sing. I'm coming out to see you some day.

aterford never did come to see us, and I merely mention this incident to show how some

emia to have my smoke, we saw the boarder sitting on the bu

ere!" s

here was nothin

s it?"

nd and seeing

thi

hint as that, and so, after a walk around the garden, Eup

gone, the boarder t

t it is. She's wor

aid I. "N

e about it,

phemia had been working very hard, and she really did begin to look pale and thin. Indeed, it would be very wearying for any wom

r image so continually in my heart, that I did not notice this until our

ace," said he, "I wou

ngly, "you would probably suggest a lot of little th

wered, without getti

suggested it, still I made up my min

urged me to go and see the carpenter that very day, and g

was wanted?) and, when it was finished, Euphemia occupied all her spare moments in getting it in nice order for the

ou must expect her to behave like

d, and some old muslin and a lot of tacks, she made a toilet-table so neat and convenie

my mind about the matter, I naturally grew impatient,

ladies, and one or two men, sitting about, and a small room, back of it, crowded with girls from eighteen to sixty-eight years old

face and a large weather-beaten shawl. This woman was told to take a chair by my side. Down sat the huge creature and stared at me. I did not feel very easy under her scrutinizing gaze, but I bore it as best I could, an

ants do you ka

nd if she understood her business, I thought she wou

sharp upon

tationary

screwed fast and made stationary if that was an important object. But, before making this answer, I thought o

stationary wash-tub

and then she rose to her feet. Then she called

. Bl

r, and a thin clerk, and all the women in the back room, and all

d stood smiling in an uncertain sort of a way, as if it were all very funny; but I couldn't se

r huckster were crying fish on the other side o

an air that indicated "policeman" as plainl

crowd of women, while the thi

ke a hot-air engine in front of me, and made my explanations to the company. I told the tale of "Ru

. When I had finished, the tall woman

oat!" said she, and off she marched into the ba

ny one here who would su

ave done with that volcanic Irishwoman in her little kit

aid she, with a d

uths that look exactly

hemia came to town and got one. Apparently she

ey keep orphans to let, so to speak. Here Euphemia selected

for she had not been with us more than two weeks before she expressed a desire to be called Clare. This longing of her heart, however, was denied her. So Euphe

, connecting her in some way with the process of st

hen I asked her to do anything, she assented in a bright, cheerful way

Don't worry about it-give your mind no more uneas

a bang. What pleased her better than anything else was to run up and down the gang-plank, carrying buckets of water to water the garden. She d

her, and sometimes watched her movements

ead out grapes in the vineyards of Italy!

here," said Euphemia, "for

horough little t

ashed the dishes, but if she had not read aloud, it would not have made so much difference to me. But I am naturally very sensitive to external impressions, and I do not like the company of people who, like our girl, cannot rea

ould not attain the power of silent perusal, to cease fro

her her only recreation. And she says she can't read a

view; but the fact was, that in practice, the

nd the kitchen seemed to have no influence whatever in arresting sound. So that when I was trying

ly vil ly an re tain ed his vy gor ous hold she drew the blade thro

arly wild. But Euphemia did not mind it. I believe that she had so delicate

influence could scarcely restra

main-hatchway) had no night-latch, but was fastened by means of a bolt. Euphemia and I used to sit up for him, but that was earlier in the season, when it was pl

on after I got into bed I dropped into a delightful slumber.

n in her un in jur ed hand and when the ra bid an i m

I to Euphemia, "can't

sit there and do nothin

needn't read

y other way," said

res oun ded as he

d I. "Why don't she go into the kitche

phemia. "There's a window-pane ou

the if I do; but I suppose t

ding co

n der ed thou too shalt su

ng out

y pistol, and she gave one bound a

fly!" s

e she flew to I don't know, but she took the lamp with her, and I could hear dista

she did not speak to me upon the subject (or any other) that night

by the want of home mar kets, of good ro ads and che ap me