Em'ly couldn't speak to her theer, for her loving uncle was come home, and he wouldn't--no, Mas'r Davy,' said Ham, with great earnestness, 'he couldn't, kind-natur'd, tender-hearted as he is, see them two together, side by side, for all the treasures that's wrecked in the sea.' I felt how true this was.

I knew it, on the instant, quite as well as Ham.
'So Em'ly writes in pencil on a bit of paper,' he pursued, 'and gives it to her out o' winder to bring here.

"Show that," she says, "to my aunt, Mrs.Barkis, and she'll set you down by her fire, for the love of me, till uncle is gone out, and I can come." By and by she tells me what I tell you, Mas'r Davy, and asks me to bring her.

What can I do?
She doen't ought to know any such, but I can't deny her, when the tears is on her face.' He put his hand into the breast of his shaggy jacket, and took out with great care a pretty little purse.
'And if I could deny her when the tears was on her face, Mas'r Davy,' said Ham, tenderly adjusting it on the rough palm of his hand, 'how could I deny her when she give me this to carry for her--knowing what she brought it for?
Such a toy as it is!' said Ham, thoughtfully looking on it.

'With such a little money in it, Em'ly my dear.' I shook him warmly by the hand when he had put it away again--for that was more satisfactory to me than saying anything--and we walked up and down, for a minute or two, in silence.