the time her spirited revolt against the of its rigid is very natural abbey they met by and as bad arrived nearly five minutes before her friend her first address was my dearest creature what can have made ou so late i have been waiting for you at least this age have ou indeed i am ver sorry for it but really i thought i was in very good time it is but just one i hope you have not been here long oh these ten ages at least i am sure i have been here this half hour but now let us go and sit down at the other end of the room and enjoy i have a hundred things to say to you in the first place i was so afraid it would rain this morning just as i wanted to set off it looked very shower and that would have thrown me into agonies do you know i saw the prettiest you can imagine in a shop window in street just now � ver like ours only with instead of green i quite longed for it but my dearest what have ou been doing with all this morning have ou gone on with yes i have been reading it ever since i woke and i am got to the black veil are ou indeed how delightful oh i would not tell vou what is behind the black veil for the world are not ou wild to know oh es quite what can it be but do not tell me i would not be told upon an account i know street a famous short street in bath devoted to shops and stores it was built in the color of wild that is nearly red or red tinged with orange this is the of miss s time the modem word ribbon would have appeared as oddly to her as does to us mysteries of l by mrs ann published in a romance whose popularity was at its height at the of this century but which finds only occasional readers now chapters from jane it must be a skeleton i am sure it is s skeleton ob i am delighted with the book i should like to spend mj whole life in reading it i assure you if it had not been to meet you i would not have come away from it for all the world dear creature how much i am obliged to you and when you have finished we will read the italian together and i have made out a list of ten or twelve more of the same kind for ou have you indeed how glad i am what are they all � i will read you their names directly here they are in m pocket book castle of mysterious of the black forests midnight bell orphan of the and horrid mysteries those will last us some time yes well but are they all horrid are sure they are all horrid yes quite sure for a particular friend of mine � a miss � a sweet girl one of the sweetest creatures in the world has read ever one of them wish vou knew miss vou would be delighted with her she is herself the sweetest cloak you can conceive i think her as beautiful as an angel and i am so vexed with the men for not her i them all about it them do you them for not admiring her yes that i do there is nothing i would not do for those who are really mj i have no notion of loving people by it is not mj nature my are s excessively strong i told captain hunt at one of our this winter that there is this to im said for the s which enchanted the girls of the last century � that these horrors when founded on the model of mrs s were well and free from inherent moral and license of tone � miss abbey if he was to me all night i would not dance with him unless he would allow miss to be as beautiful as an angel the men think us incapable of real friendship you know and i am determined to show them the difference now if i were to hear anybody speak of you i should fire up in a moment but that is not at all likely for you are just the kind of girl to be a great favorite with the men oh dear cried how can you say so i know you very well vou have so much animation which is exactly what miss wants for i must confess there is something about her oh i must tell you that just after we parted yesterday i saw a man looking at you so i am sure he is in love with you colored and again laughed it is very true upon ray honor but i see how it is you are indifferent to everybody s admiration except that of one gentleman who shall be nameless na i cannot blame ou � speaking more seriously � our feelings are understood where the heart is attached i know very well how httle one can be pleased with the attention of any else everything is so so uninteresting that does not relate to the beloved object i can perfectly comprehend your feelings � but you should not persuade me that i think so much about mr for perhaps i may never see him again not see him again m dearest creature do not talk of it am sure u would be miserable if you thought so no indeed i should not i do not pretend to a that i was not ver much pleased with him but while i have to read i feel as if nobody could make me miserable oh the dreadful black veil mv dear i am sure there must be s 