directly look for comfort to her cousin and he told her such charming things of what william was to do and be hereafter in consequence of his profession as made her gradually admit that the separation mi t have some use s friendship never her his leaving for oxford made no change in his kind dispositions and only afforded more frequent opportunities of proving them without any display of doing more l than the lest or any fear of doing too he was always to her interests and considerate of her to make her good qualities understood and to conquer the which prevented their being more apparent giving her advice consolation and encouragement kept back as she was by everybody else his single support could not her forward but his attentions were otherwise of the highest importance in assisting the improvement of mind and extending its pleasures he knew her to be clever to have a quick apprehension as well as good sense and a fondness for reading which properly directed must be an education in itself miss lee taught her french and heard her read the daily portion of history but he recommended the books which charmed her leisure hours he encouraged her taste and corrected her judgment he made reading useful by talking to her of what she read and hei its attraction by judicious praise in return for such services she loved him better than anybody in the world except william her heart was divided between the chapter in the first event of any importance in the family was the death of mr which happened when was about fifteen and necessarily introduced alterations and mrs on the removed first to the park and afterwards to a small house of sir thomas s in the village and consoled herself for the loss of her husband by considering that she could do very well without him and for her of income by the evident necessity of economy the living was hereafter for and had his uncle died a few years sooner it would have been duly given to some friend to hold till he were old enough for orders but tom s extravagance had previous to that event been so great as to render a different disposal of the next and the younger brother must help to park i for the pleasures of the there was another living for but this had made the arrangement somewhat easier to sir thomas s conscience he not but feel it to be an act of injustice and he earnestly tried to impress his eldest son with the same conviction in the hope of its producing a better effect than he had yet been able to say or do i for you tom said he in his most dignified manner i blush for the expedient which i am driven on and i trust i may pity your feelings as a brother on the occasion you have robbed for ten twenty thirty years perhaps for hfe of more than half the income which ought to be his it may hereafter be in my power or in yours i hope it will to procure him better but it must not be forgotten that no benefit of that sort would have been beyond his natural claims on us and that nothing can in fact be an equivalent for the certain advantage which he is now obliged to forego through the of your debts tom listened with some shame and some sorrow but escaping as quickly as possible could soon with cheerful selfishness reflect first that he had not been half so much in debt as some of his friends secondly that his father had made a most tiresome piece of work of it and that the future incumbent whoever he might be would in all probability die very soon on mr s death the became the right of a dr grant who came consequently to reside at and on proving to be a hearty man of forty five seemed likely to disappoint mr s calculations but no he was a short sort of fellow and plied well with good things would soon pop off he had a wife about fifteen years his junior but no children and they entered the neighbourhood with the usual fair report of being very respectable agreeable people the time was now come when sir thomas expected his sister in law to claim her share in their niece the change in mrs s situation and the improvement in s age seeming not merely to do away any former objection to their living together but even to give it the most decided c park and u his own were rendered lot fail than heretofore by some recent losses on his west india estate in addition to his eldest son s extravagance it became not to himself to be relieved from the a of her support and the of her future pro vision in fulness of his belief that such a thing must b he mentioned its probability to his wife and the first time of the subject s to her again happening to be when was present she calmly observed to her so you are going to leave us and live with my sister how shall you like it i was too much surprised to do more than repeat her aunt s words going to leave you i yes my dear why should you be astonished yoa have been five years with us and my always meant to take you when mr died but you must come up and tack on my patterns all the same the news was as disagreeable to as it had been unexpected she had never received kindness from her aunt and could not love her i shall be very sorry to go away said she with a voice yes i dare say you will natural enough i suppose you have had as little to vex you since you 