The result of this examination seemed to soften him a little.

No wonder; they were made fully equal to those for which regular shirt-makers receive from seventy-five cents to a dollar a piece.
"Don't you think you can make five such as these in a week--or even six ?" he asked, in a somewhat changed tone.
"I'm afraid not," was the reply.

"There's a good day's work on each one of them, and I cannot possibly sit longer than a few hours at a time.

And, besides, there are two or three hours of every day that I must attend to other duties." "Well, if you can't I suppose you can't," said the tailor, in a disappointed, half-offended tone, and turned away from the counter and walked back to his desk, from which he called out to his salesman, after he had stood there for about a minute-- "Pay her for them, Michael, and if you have any more ready give her another lot." Since the sharp rebuke given by Mr.Perkins, Michael had treated Lizzy with less vulgar assurance.

Sometimes he would endeavor to sport a light word with her, but she never replied, nor seemed to notice his freedom in the least.