with music and sometimes with conversation i am sure miss must have found the evening pleasant you left nothing undone i was glad you made her play so much for having no instrument at her grandmother s it must have been a real indulgence i am happy you approved said smiling but i hope i am not often deficient in what is due to guests at no my dear said her father instantly that i am sure you are not there is nobody half so attentive and civil as you are if any thing you are too attentive the last night if it had been handed round once i think it would have been enough no said mr nearly at the same time you are not often deficient not often deficient either in manner or comprehension i think you understand me therefore an arch look expressed � i understand you well enough but she said only miss is reserved i always told you she was � a little but you will soon overcome all that part of her reserve which ought to be overcome all that has its foundation in what arises from discretion must be honoured you think her i do not see it my dear said he moving from his chair into one close by her you are not going to tell me i hope that you had not a pleasant evening oh no i was pleased with my own perseverance in asking questions and amused to think how little information i obtained i am disappointed was his only answer i o l hope body bad a pleasant said in bis quiet way i bad once i tbe fire too but i moved back my a little a very uttle and it did not disturb me was very and good as always is too quick however is very agreeable and mrs too in a different way i like old friends and miss jane is a very pretty sort of young lady a very pretty and a very well young lady indeed must found uie evening agreeable mn because she bad true sir and because bad miss saw bis anxiety and to it at least for tbe present said and witb a sincerity no one could question � is a sort of elegant creature tbat one cannot keep one s eyes from am always ber to admire and i do pity ber from my mr looked as if he were more gratified than be cared to express and before he could make any reply mr whose thoughts were on the s said � it is a great pity that their circumstances should be so con a great pity indeed and i have often wished � but it is so little one can venture to do � small trifling of any thing uncommon now we have killed a and thinks of sending them a or a leg it is very small and pork is not like any other pork � but still it is pork � and my dear unless one could be sure of their making it into nicely as ours are without the smallest and not roast it for no stomach can bear roast pork � i think we had better send the do not you think so my dear my dear papa i sent tiie whole hind quarter i knew you would wish it there be the leg to be you know which is so very nice and the to be dressed directly in any manner they like t l that s right my dear very right i had not thought of it before but that was the best way they must not the leg and then if it is not over and if it is very thoroughly boiled just as ours and eaten very of with a boiled and a little or i do not consider it said mr presently i have a piece of news for you you like news � and i heard an article in my way hither that i think will interest you news i oh yes i always hke news what is it � why do you smile so � where did you hear it � at he had time only to say � no not at i have not been near � when the door was thrown open and miss and miss walked into the room full of thanks and full of news miss knew not which to give mr soon saw that he had lost his moment and that not another syllable of communication could rest with him oh my dear sir how are you this morning my dear miss � i come quite overpowered such a beautiful hind quarter of pork you are too i have you heard the news mr is going to be married had not had time even to think of mr and she was so completely surprised that she could not avoid a little start and a little blush at the sound there is my news � i thought it would interest you said mr with a smile which implied a conviction of some part of what had passed between them but where could you hear it cried miss where could you possibly hear it mr for it is not five since i received mrs s note � no it cannot be more than five � or at least ten � for i had got my bonnet and on just ready to come out � i was only gone down to speak to again about the pork � jane was standing in the were not you jane for my mother was so afraid that we had not any pan large enough so i said i would go down and see and jane said shall i go down instead for i think you have a little cold and has been washing the kitchen � h my dear said i � well and just then came 