will hope that the storm may be without our being any of us quite overcome poor she was in all yesterday but i would not alarm you too much says there is nothing materially to be apprehended her constitution is a good one and her resolution equal to anything she has borne it all with the fortitude of an angel she says she never shall think well of any body again and one cannot k and wonder at it after being so deceived � with such ingratitude where so much kindness had been shown bo much confidence had been placed it was quite out of tho benevolence of her heart that she had asked these young women to her house merely because she thought they deserved some attention were harmless well behaved girls and would be pleasant companions for otherwise we both wished very much to have invited you and to be with us while your kind friend there was attending her daughter and now to be so rewarded i i wish with all ray heart says poor in her way that we had asked your sisters instead of them here he stopped to be thanked which being done he went on what poor mrs suffered when first broke it to her is not to be described while she with the truest affection had been planning a most eligible connection for him was it to be supposed that he could be all the time secretly engaged to another person � such a suspicion could never have entered her head if she suspected any elsewhere it could not be in that quarter there to be sure said she i might have thought myself safe she was quite in an agony we consulted together however as to what should be done and at last she determined to send for edward he came but i am sorry to relate what ensued all that mrs could say to make him put an end to the engagement assisted too as you may well suppose by my arguments and s entreaties was of no avail duty affection everything was disregarded i never thought edward so stubborn so before his mother to him her liberal designs in case of his marrying miss told him she would settle on him the estate which clear of land brings in a good thousand a year offered even when matters grew desperate to make it twelve hundred and in opposition to this if he still persisted in this low connection represented to him the certain that must attend the match his own two thousand pounds she protested should be his all she would never see him again and so far would she be from affording him the smallest assistance that if he were to enter into any profession with a view of better support she would do all io her power to prevent him advancing in it sense and sensibility here in an ecstasy of indignation clapped her hands together and cried gracious god can this be possible well may you wonder replied her brother at the obstinacy which could resist such arguments as these your exclamation is very was going to retort but she remembered her promises and all this however he continued was urged in vain edward said very little but what he did say was in the most determined manner nothing should prevail on him to give up his engagement he would stand to it cost him what it might then cried mrs with blunt sincerity no longer able to be silent he has acted like an honest man i i beg your pardon mr but if he had done otherwise i should have thought him a rascal i have some little concern in the business as well as yourself for is my cousin and i believe there is not a better kind of girl in the world nor one who more deserves a good husband john was greatly astonished but his nature was calm not open to provocation and he never wished to any body especially any body of good fortune he therefore replied without any resentment i would by no means speak of any relation of yours madam miss is i dare say a very deserving young woman but in the present case you know the connection must be impossible and to have entered into a secret engagement with a young man under her uncle s care the son of a woman especially of such very large fortune as mrs is perhaps altogether a little extraordinary in short i do not mean to reflect upon the behaviour of any person whom you have a regard for mrs we all wish her extremely happy and mrs s conduct throughout the whole has been such as every conscientious good mother in like circumstances would adopt it has been dignified and liberal edward has drawn his own lot and i fear it will be a bad one sighed out her similar apprehension and s heart wrung for the feelings of edward while his mother s threats for a woman who could not reward him sense and ly well sir said mrs and how did it end i am sorry to say ma in a most unhappy edward is dismissed for ever from his mother s notice he left her house yesterday but where he is gone or whether he is still in town i do not know for we of course can make no poor young man and what is to become of him what indeed ma am it is a melancholy consideration born to the prospect of such i cannot conceive a situation more deplorable the interest of two thousand pounds � how can a man live on it and when to that is added the recollection that he might but for his own folly within three months have been in the receipt of two thousand five hundred a year for miss has thirty thousand pounds i cannot 