some message which i should have thought of great importance if i had known it had been for you replied he i would have paid more attention to her certainly but i thought she had merely been giving me some to prevent my starving on the road has always so many last words when i am on the point of setting out on a ride either a charge to the woman at the library for not sending her the last volume of some novel or a message to the or a note to drop at aunt margaret s that i now only hear her mechanically and cry ay ay depend upon me without being quite clear whether i am to go to the aunt s the s or the s you do not deserve such a sister as i am afraid said mr � nobody deserves her i replied he with energy nobody in you mean i hope she is not of your way of thinking pretty nearly so i believe � she is used to describe you and your sister as nearly said so we are still when i am at home replied he my father says that and seem always connected with like and said not exactly said � their resemblance was more of person than mind is more of mind than person had now hastily the contents of her letter i village a few towards the conclusion made her blush rosy red and washing to appear she said as she folded it up you seem to have had a very gay spring at such gaiety as a country town always affords answered � a regular succession of parties beginning with the and ending with the repeated mrs � there were no such names in the town when i left park place and yet count them among our old established set now oh there are many among us compared with whom the and are quite antique i dare say mrs you would hardly know again � four or five years in these stirring times make an immense difference i myself can recollect when we had neither library music shop nor bank when cotton row was not built when there was only one s one linen s and one s now we have two handsome two a physician and a does not that speak for the growing importance of but you would see no alteration in park place it stands aloof from the town with the same dignity as ever and the stately old trees have not as yet become the prey of a heir young james perhaps may make the axe play amongst them freely some of these days i hope riot said mrs so do i said for i have lain so often under their shade that i look upon them in some measure as my own property if such a claim as that could be made good in a court of law said � i should have as pretty an estate as any man in the kingdom is nine points of the law said and there is many a nook in the woods of park place which i and the have hitherto had to ourselves � a certain bank in particular that will always be associated in my mind with ah how often have i wished to read exclaimed i think you would be disappointed in him said disappointed in i exclaimed i can only say that devoured his pages with the keenest delight and that his chronicle appeared to me the most vivid and entertaining picture of the times that could well be imagined and what times were they rejoined times when every public and private duty was and the most crimes committed without exciting surprise times full of romantic incident however said yes the incidents were romantic but has a dry uninteresting way of telling them how much more he might have made of some of his stories by some particulars and many others you are difficult to please sir to me i must confess his style has something quaint and delightful he tells you the whole affair from beginning to end so that it seems to rise before your eyes � how that sir john sat at meat when young earl s page after a night of peril brought him the ring � how he washed his hands and sat before he resolved to forget old and go to the earl s assistance all this gives a great deal of spirit and life � but does not argue much more genius for than that possessed by every old nurse � he makes no selection a modern writer would select and leave nothing but the bare skeleton said i like dead heroes to stand before me in all the reality of flesh and blood how i over the exploits of that old sir john and how i loved the pleasant stories of sir de as he and rode at a bridle pace beside some fair river how i enjoyed the of the gallant and pages as they sat round the fire at the court of beam each man telling his tale of war or love how my blood at the murder of little de do you find any thing more poetical in ah a man must be fastidious who cannot relish how say you to tell you the truth replied mr i never read the tea being now removed brought her mother s work bag and her own from the parlour and accepted s offer of holding the of silk she was about to wind on looking round when his task was half finished perceived that mr was helping to water her flowers and he immediately began to wish himself at liberty as soon as he was he walked towards the flower border and seeing a pretty rose be stopped to gather it village ob cried in terror part real and part � you 