was now cool enough to dispense with any other revenge she did not want exposure to be added to desertion henry gone she could even pity her sister with a purer spirit did rejoice in the intelligence she heard it at dinner and felt it a blessing by all the others it was mentioned with regret and his merits honored with due of feeling from the sincerity of s too partial regard to the of his mother speaking entirely by mrs began to look about her and wonder that his falling in love with had come to nothing and could almost fear that she had been herself in it but with so many to care for how was it possible for even her activity to keep pace with her wishes another day or two and mr was gone likewise in his departure sir thomas felt the chief interest wanting to be alone with his family the presence of a stranger superior to mr must have been irksome but of him trifling and confident idle and expensive it was every way in himself he was wearisome but as the friend of tom and the admirer of he became offensive sir thomas had been quite indifferent park to mr s going or staying but his good wishes for mr a having a pleasant journey as he walked with him to the hall door were given with genuine satisfaction mr had stayed to see the of every theatrical at the removal of everything to the play he left the house in all the of its general character and sir thomas hoped in seeing him out of it to be rid of the worst object connected with the scheme and the last that must be inevitably reminding him of its existence mrs contrived to remove one article from his sight that might have distressed him the curtain over which she had presided with such talent and success went as with her to where she happened to be particularly in want of green chapter thomas s return made a striking change in the ways of the family independent of lovers vows under his government was an altered place some members of their society sent away and the spirits of many others it was all and gloom compared with the past � a sombre family party rarely there was little intercourse with the sir thomas drawing back from in general was particularly at this time for any engagements but in one quarter the were the only addition to his own domestic circle which he could did not wonder that such should be his father s feelings nor could he regret anything but the of the but they he observed to have a claim they seem to belong to us � they seem to be part of ourselves i could wish my father were more sensible of their very great attention to my mother and sisters while he was away i am afraid they may feel themselves neglected but the truth is that my father hardly knows them they had not been here a when he left england if he knew them better he would value their society as it deserves for they are in fact exactly the sort of park people he would like we are sometimes a little in want of animation among ourselves my sisters seem out of spirits and tom is certainly not at his ease dr and mrs grant would us and make our evenings pass away with more enjoyment even to my father do you think so said in my my uncle would not like any addition think he the very you speak of aud that the repose of his own family circle is all he wants and it does not appear to me that we are more serious than we used to be � i mean before my uncle went abroad aa well as i can recollect it was always much the same there was never in his presence or if there ia any difference it is not more i think than such an absence has a tendency to produce at there must be a sort of shyness but i cannot recollect that our evenings formerly were ever merry except when ray waa in town no people s are i suppose when those they look up to are at home i believe you are right was his reply after a short consideration i believe our evenings ate rather returned to what they were than assuming a new character the novelty was in their being lively yet how strong the impression that only a few weeks will give i have been feeling as if we had never lived so before i suppose i am graver than other people said the evenings do not appear long to me i love to heat my uncle talk of the west park indies i could listen to him for an hour together it me more than many other things have done � but then i am unlike other people i dare say why should you dare say that smiling do you want to be told that you are only unlike other people in being more wise and discreet but when did you or anybody ever get a compliment from me go to my father if you want to be he will satisfy you ask your uncle what he thinks and you will hear compliments enough and though they may be chiefly on your person you must put up with it and trust to his seeing as much beauty of mind in time such language was so new to that it quite embarrassed her your uncle thinks you very pretty dear � and that is the long and the short of the matter anybody but myself would have made something more of it and anybody but you would resent tliat you had not been thought very pretty before but the truth is that your uncle never 