a rock in her own principles has a gentleness of character bo well adapted to recommend them he has chosen his partner indeed with rare felicity he will make you happy i know he will make you happy but you will make him everything i would not engage in such a charge cried in a shrinking accent in such an office of high as usual believing yourself unequal to anything j everything too much for you j well though i may not be able to yon into different feelings you will be persuaded into them i trust i confess myself sincerely anxious that you may i have no common interest in s well doing next to your happiness his has the first claim on me you are aware of my having no common interest in was too well aware of it to have anything to say and they walked on together some fifty yards in mutual silence aad abstraction first began again � i i was very much pleased by her manner of speaking of it yesterday particularly pleased because i had not de i i a upon her seeing everything in bo just a light knew she was very fond of yoa but jet i was afraid of ber not worth to her brother quite as it deserved and of her ihe had not rather fixed on some woman of distinction or fortune was afraid of the bias of those worldly which she been too much used to hear but it was different she spoke of you just as she ought she desires the as warmly as your uncle or myself we had a long talk about it should not have mentioned the subject though very know her sentiments but i had not been in the room five minutes before she began introducing it with all that of heart and sweet peculiarity of manner that spirit and which are so much a part of herself mrs grant laughed at her for her rapidity was mrs grant in the room then yes when i reached the house i found the two together by themselves and when once we had begun � we had not done with you till and dr grant came in it is above a week since i saw miss tes she it yet owns it may have been best you will see her however before she goes she is very angry with you you must be prepared for that she calls herself very angry but you can imagine her anger it the regret and disappointment of a sister who thinks her brother has a right to everything he may wish for at the first moment she is hint as you would be for william but she loves and you with all her heart i knew she be very angry with me my dearest cried pressing her closer to him do not let the idea of her anger you it is anger to be talked of rather than felt her heart is made for love and kindness for resentment i wish you could have overheard her tribute of praise i wish you could have seen her countenance when she said that you be henry s wife and i observed that she always spoke of j c i you as which was never used to do and it had a bound of most cordiality and mrs did she say � did she speak was she there all the time she was agreeing exactly with her sister the surprise of your refusal seems to have heen unbounded i hat you could refuse such a man as henry seems more than they can understand i said what i could for you but in good truth as they stated the case � you prove yourself to be in your senses as soon as you can by a conduct nothing else wiu satisfy them but this is you have done do not turn away from me should have thought j said after a pause of recollection and exertion that eveiy woman must have felt the possibility of a man s not being approved not being loved by some one of her sex at least let him be ever so generally agreeable let him have all the in the world i think it ought not to be set down as certain that a must be acceptable to every woman he may happen to like but even supposing it is so allowing mr to have all the claims which his sisters think he has how was i to be prepared to meet him with any feeling to his own he took me wholly by surprise had not an idea that his behaviour to me before had any meaning and surely i was not to be teaching m self to like him only because he was taking what seemed very idle notice of me in my situation it would have been the extreme of vanity to be forming e on mr am sure his sisters him as they do must have thought it so supposing he had meant nothing how then was i to be � to be in love with him the moment he said he was with how was to have an attachment at ma service t as soon as it was asked his sisters should consider me as well as him tlie higher his deserts the more improper for me ever to have thought of liim and and � we think very differently of the nature of women j if s park they can imagine woman so very soon capable of an affection aa this seems to imply my dear dear now i the truth know to he the truth and most worthy of you are such feelings i had them to you before i thought i could understand you yon have now given exactly the explanation i ventured to make for you to your and mrs grant and they were both better 