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Rh mortal see such eyes?—they shine in the dark like a cat's. Oh, you're a sweet one!" so saying, he gathered up the candle and the candlestick. The former being broken as well as extinguished, he rang for another.

"Benson, your mistress has broken the candle: bring another."

"You expose yourself finely," observed I as the man departed.

"I didn't say I'd broken it, did I?" returned he. He then threw my keys into my lap, saying,—"There! you'll find nothing gone but your money, and the jewels—and a few little trifles I thought it advisable to take into my own possession, lest your mercantile spirit should be tempted to turn them into gold. I've left you a few sovereigns in your purse, which I expect to last you through the month—at all events, when you want more you will be so good as to give me an account of how that's spent. I shall put you upon a small monthly allowance, in future, for your own private expenses; and you needn't trouble yourself any