All my misery vanished-for a child might know that no harm could come with that benignant countenance.My cheerful spirits returned at once,and in sympathy with them the gas flamed up brightly again. Never a lonely outcast was so glad to welcome company as I was to greet the friendly giant,I said:
"why,is it nobody but you?Do you know ,I have been scared to death for the last two or three hours? I am most honestly glad to see you.I wish I had a chair-Here,here,don't try to sit down in that thing-
But it was too late .He was in it before I could stop him and down he went-I never saw a chair shivered so in my life.
Too late again.There was another crash,and another chair was resolved into its original elements.
"Confound it,haven't you got any judgment at all? Do you want to ruin all the furniture on the place?Here here, you petrified fool-
But it was no use.Before I could arrest him he had sat down on the bed,and it was a melancholy ruin.
"Now what sort of a way is that to do ?First you come lumbering about the place bringing a legion of vagabond gobins along with you to worry me to death,and then when I overlook an indelicacy of costume which would not be tolerated anywhere by cultivated people except in a respectable theater,and not ever there if the nudity were of your sex,you repay me by wtecking all the furniture you can find to sit down on.And why will you?You damage yourself as much as you do me.You have broken off the end of your spinal column,and littered up the floor with chips of your hams till the place looks like a marble yard.You ought to be ashamed of yourself-you are big enough to know better
