time was probably given to it for the press but on the th of the following according to the date on her own manuscript she began a new novel and worked at it up to the th of march the chief part of this manuscript is written in her usual firm and neat hand but some of the latter pages seem to have been first traced in pencil probably when she was too weak to sit long at her desk and written over in ink afterwards the quantity produced does not indicate any decline of power or industry for in those seven weeks twelve chapters had been completed it is more difficult to judge of the quality of a work so little advanced it had received no name there was scarcely any indication what the course of the story was to be nor was any heroine yet perceptible a of jane who like price or anne might draw her the sympathies of the reader such an unfinished fragment cannot he presented to the hut i am persuaded that some of jane s admirers will he glad to learn something the latest which were forming themselves in her mind and therefore as some of the principal characters were already in with a hand i will try to an idea of them illustrated hy from the work the scene is laid at a village on the coast just struggling into as a bathing place under the patronage of the two principal of the parish mr and lady mr was an man with more enthusiasm than judgment whose somewhat shallow mind with the one idea of the prosperity of together with a jealous contempt of the rival village of where a similar attempt was going on to the regret of his wife he had left his family mansion with all its comforts of gardens and shelter situated in a valley some miles inland a new residence � a on the hare of the hill overlooking and the sea exposed to every wind that hut he will confess to no nor suffer his family to feel any from the change the following extract him the reader mounted on his � he wanted to secure the promise of a visit and to get as many of the family as his own house a of jane would hold to follow him to as soon as possible and healthy as all the were he foresaw that every one of them would be by the sea he held it indeed as certain that no person however for the present by of exercise and spirit in a semblance of health could be really in a state of secure and permanent health without spending at least six weeks by the sea every year the sea air and sea bathing together were nearly one or other of them being a match for every disorder of the stomach the lungs or the blood they were anti anti and anti nobody could catch cold by the sea nobody wanted appetite by the sea j nobody wanted spirits nobody wanted strength they were healing softening and seemingly just as was wanted sometimes one sometimes the other if the sea breeze failed the sea bath was the certain and when bathing the was evidently designed by nature for the cure his eloquence however could not prevail mr and mrs never left home the maintenance education and fitting out of fourteen children demanded a very quiet settled careful course of life and obliged them to be stationary and healthy at what prudence had at first was now rendered pleasant by habit they never left home and they had a gratification in saying so lady s was a very different character she was a rich vulgar widow with a sharp but a of jane narrow mind who cared for the prosperity of only so far as it might increase the value of her own property she is thus described � lady had been a rich miss bom to wealth but not to education her first husband had been a mr a man of considerable property in the country of which a large share of the parish of with and mansion house formed a part he had been an elderly man when she married him her own age about thirty her motives for such a match could be little understood at the distance of forty years but she had so well nursed and pleased mr that at his death he left her everything � all his estates and all at her disposal after a of some years she had been induced to marry again the late sir harry of park in the neighborhood of succeeded in removing her and her large income to his own but he could not succeed in the views of permanently his family which were attributed to him she had been too wary to put anything out of her own power and when on sir harry s death she returned again to her own house at she was said to have made this boast that though she had got nothing but her title from the family yet she had given nothing for it for the title it was to be supposed that she married lady was indeed a great lady beyond the common wants of society for she had many thousands a year to and three distinct sets of people to be by � her own q � ov who might very reasonably wish for her original thirty thousand pounds among them the legal of mr who might hope to be more indebted to her sense of justice than he had allowed them to be to his and those members ol the family for whom her second husband had hoped to make a good bargain by all these or by branches of them she had no doubt long and still continued to be well attacked and of these three divisions mr did not hesitate 