crowd when mr price was only calling out come girls fan come sue take care of yourself keep a sharp i he ould give them his attendance once fairly in the dock yard he began to reckon upon some happy intercourse with as they were yery soon joined by a brother of mr price s who was come to take his daily survey of how things went on and who must prove a far more worthy companion than himself and after a time the two officers seemed very well satisfied in going about together and discussing matters of equal and never failing interest while the young people sat down upon some in the yard or found a seat on board a vessel in the stocks which they all went to look at was most conveniently in want of rest could not have wished her more fatigued or more ready to sit down but he could have wished her sister away a quick looking girl of s age was the very worst third in the world � totally different from lady � all eyes and ears and there was no introducing the main point before her he must content himself with being only generally agreeable and letting have her share of entertainment with the indulgence now and then of a look or hint for the better informed and conscious was what he had mostly to talk of there he had been some time and everything there was rising in importance from his present schemes such a man could come from no place no society without something to amuse his journeys his acquaintance were all of use and was park entertained in a way quite new to her for somewhat more was related than the accidental of the parties he had been in for her approbation the particular reason of his going into at all at this unusual time of year was given it had been real business relative to the renewal of a lease in which the welfare of a large and he believed industrious family was at stake he had suspected his agent of some dealing � of meaning to bias him against the deserving � and he had determined to go himself and thoroughly investigate the merits of the case he had gone had done even more good than he had foreseen had been useful to more than his first plan had comprehended and was now able to congratulate himself upon it and to feel that in performing a duty he had secured agreeable recollections for his own mind he had introduced himself to some tenants whom he had never seen before he had begun making acquaintance with cottages whose very existence though on his own estate had been hitherto unknown to him this was aimed and well aimed at it was pleasing to hear him speak so properly here he had been acting as he ought to do to be the friend of the poor and oppressed i nothing could be more grateful to her and she was on the point of giving him an look when it was all frightened off by his adding a something too pointed of his hoping soon to have an assistant a mend a guide in every plan of utility or charity for a somebody that would make and all about it a dearer object than it had ever been yet fare she turned away and wished he would not say such things she was willing to allow he might have more good qualities than she had been wont to suppose she began to feel the possibility of his turning out well at last but he was and must ever be completely to her and ought not to think of her he perceived that enough had been said of and that it would be as well to talk of something else and turned to he could not have chosen better that was a topic to bring back her attention and her looks almost instantly it was a real indulgence to her to hear or to speak of so long divided from everybody who knew the place she felt it quite the voice of a end when he mentioned it and led the way to her fond exclamations in praise of its beauties and comforts and by his honorable tribute to its inhabitants allowed her to gratify her own heart in the warmest in speaking of her uncle as all that was clever and good and her aunt as having the sweetest of all sweet he had a great attachment to himself he said so he looked forward with the hope of spending much very much of his time there � always there or in the neighborhood he particularly built upon a very happy summer and autumn there this year he felt that it would be so he depended upon it a summer and autumn infinitely superior to the last � as animated as as social but with circumstances of superiority indescribable park he continued � what a society will be in those houses and at perhaps a fourth may be added � some small hunting box in the vicinity of everything so dear for as to any in as once good proposed i hope i foresee two objections � two fair excellent irresistible objections to that plan was doubly silenced here though when the moment was passed could regret that she had not forced herself into the acknowledged comprehension of one half of his meaning and encouraged him to say something more of his sister and it was a subject which she must learn to speak of and the weakness that shrunk from it would soon be quite when mr price and his friend had seen all that they wished or had time for the others were ready to return and in the course of their walk back mr contrived a minute s privacy for telling that his only business in was 