with a strong and intention of course he saw more clearly than ever that she was a fine lady � she drew up her long neck and said as she retreated to her chair again i have a great admiration for mr had paused in the act of drawing his chair to the tea table and was looking on at this scene the comers of his eyes with a perplexed smile would not have wished him to know any thing about the volume of but she was too proud to show any concern he is a worldly and vain i fear said mr he knew scarcely any thing of the poet whose books embodied the faith and of young ladies and gentlemen a said lifting a chair with one hand and holding the book open in the other whose notion of a hero was that he should disorder his stomach and despise mankind his and his and are the most paltry that were ever pulled by the strings of lust and pride hand the book to me said mr let me beg of you to put it aside till after tea said however objectionable mr may find its pages they would the be made by being with and that is true my dear said mr laying down the book on the small table behind him he saw that his was angry ho thought her father is frightened at her how came he to have a nice stepping long for his daughter but she shall see that i am not frightened then he said aloud i should like to know how you will justify your admiration for such a writer miss i should not attempt it with you mr said you have such strong words at command that they make the smallest argument seem formidable if i had ever met the giant i should have made a point of agree ing with him in his literary opinions had that thing in woman a soft voice with a clear utterance her was always charming it was without emphasis and was accompanied with graceful little turns of the head laughed at her thrust with young my daughter is a critic of words mr said the minister smiling complacently and often mine on the ground of which i profess are as dark to me as if they were the reports of a sixth sense which i possess not i am an eager for precision and would fain find language subtle enough to follow the utmost of the soul s but i see not why a round word that means some object made and blessed by the creator should be and banished as a oh your � i know what they are said in his usual they all go on your system of make believe rotten ness may suggest what is unpleasant so you d better say sugar or something else such a long way off the fact that nobody is obliged to think of it those are your that dress up till it looks as well as honesty and shoot with boiled instead of bullets i hate your gentlemanly then you would not like mr i think said that reminds me father that to day when i was giving miss her lesson mr came in and spoke to me with grand politeness and asked me at what times you were likely to b disengaged because he wished to make your better acquaintance and consult you on matters of importance he never took the least notice of me before can you guess the reason of his sudden nay child said the minister politics of coarse said he s on some committee an election is coming universal peace is declared and the have si sincere interest in the lives of the poultry eh mr isn t that it � nay not so he is the close ally of the family who are blind hereditary like the and will drive their ten c to the as if they were sheep and it has even been hinted that the heir who is coming from the east may be another tory date and with the younger it is said that he has enormous wealth and could purchase every vote in the county that has a price he is come said i heard miss tell her sister that she had seen him going out of her father s room tis strange said mr something extraordinary must have happened said for mr to intend us miss said to me only the other day tha she could not think how i came to be so well educated and she always thought were ignorant vulgar people i said so they were usually and church people also in small towns she herself a judge of what is and she is vulgarity � with large feet and the most odious scent on her handkerchief and a bonnet that looks like the fashion printed in capital letters one sort of fine is as c ood as another said no indeed pardon me said a real fine lady does not wear clothes that in people eyes or use or make a noise as she moves she is something refined and graceful and charming and never oh yes said contemptuously and she reads also and � gentlemen of unspeakable woes who employ a hair and look seriously at themselves in the glass and gave a little toss went on a fine lady is a headed thing with small airs and small notions about as to the business of life as a pair of to the clearing of a forest ask your father what those old persecuted would have done fine lady wives and daughters oh there is no danger of said men who are unpleasant companions and make of themselves are sure to get wives enough to suit them my dear said mr let not your betray yon into toward those venerable they struggled and endured in order 