d his apprentice Tom went on pretty well together until
the hundredweight of liquorice was expended, and then there was a fresh
rising on the part of the injured and oppressed representative of the
lower orders, which continued till a fresh supply from London appeased
his radical feelings which had been called forth, and then the liquorice
made everything go on smoothly as before; but two years afterward Tom
was out of his time, and then the doctor retained him as his assistant,
with a salary added to his board, which enabled Tom to be independent of
the shop, as far as liquorice was concerned, and to cut a very smart
figure among the young men about Greenwich; for on Tom's promotion
another boy was appointed to the carrying out of the medicine as well as
the drudgery, and Tom took good care that this lad should clean his
boots as well as the doctor's, and not make quite so free with the
liquorice as he had done himself. I found out also that he had cut Anny
Whistle.

Mrs. St. Felix continued to vend her tobacco, and I never failed seeing
her on my visits to Greenwich. She appeared to look just as young as she
did when I first knew her, and every one said that there was no apparent
alteration. She was as kind and as cheerful as ever; and I may as well
here remark that during this period a great intimacy had grown up
between her and my sister Virginia, very much to the annoyance of my
mother, who still retained her feelings of ill-will against Mrs. St.
Felix--why, I do not know, except that she was so good-looking a person,
and such a favorite with everybody. But my father, who, when he chose,
would not be contradicted, insisted upon Virginia's being on good terms
with Mrs. St. Felix, and used to take her there himself; and Virginia,
who had never forgotten the widow's kindness to me, was extremely
partial to her, and was much more in her company than my mother had any
idea of, for Virginia would not vex my mother unnecessarily by telling
her she had been with the widow unless she was directly asked.

It was about four months after my father and I had given our money to my
mother that I returned to Greenwich. A letter from Virginia had
acquainted me with the street and the number of the house which my
mother had taken, and I therefore walked from the beach right to it; and
I must say that when I came to the new abode I was very much surprised
at its neat and even handsome appearance. The ground-floor was fitted up
as a