"I feel tired often, sleepy sometimes, but seldom sad."

     "Then you have some secret hope to buoy you up and please you with whispers of the future?"

     "Not I. The utmost I hope is, to save money enough out of my earnings to set up a school some day in a little house rented by myself."

     "A mean nutriment for the spirit to exist on: and sitting in that window-seat (you see I know your habits )--"

     "You have learned them from the servants."

     "Ah! you think yourself sharp. Well, perhaps I have: to speak truth, I have an acquaintance with one of them, Mrs. Poole--"

     I started to my feet when I heard the name.

     "You have--have you?" thought I; "there is diablerie in the business after all, then!"