was the scene of and discomfort from to end and who had no talent no conversation no affection towards herself no curiosity to know her no desire of her friendship and no inclination for her company that could lessen her sense of such feelings was very anxious to he useful and not to appear her home or in any way or by her foreign education from her help to its comforts and therefore set about working for sam immediately and by working early and late with perseverance and great despatch did so much that the boy was off at last with more than half his linen ready she had great pleasure in feeling her usefulness but could not conceive how they would have managed without her sam loud and as he was she rather regretted when he went for he was clever and intelligent and glad to be employed in any errand in the town and though the of given as they were though very reasonable in themselves with ill timed and park powerless warmth was to be by s services and gentle j and she found that the best of the three younger ones i gone in him � tom and charles being at least as many years as they were his distant from that age of feeling and reason which might suggest the of making friends and of to be less disagreeable their sister soon of making the smallest impression on they were quite by any means of address which she had spirits or time to attempt every afternoon brought a return of their games all over the house and she very early learnt to sigh at the approach of saturday s hall too a spoilt child trained up to think the her greatest enemy left to be with the servants at her pleasure and then encouraged to report any evil of them she was almost i ready to despair of being able to love or assist ad of s temper she had many doubts her continual with her mother her rash with tom and and with were at least so distressing to that though admitting they were by no ins without provocation she feared the disposition that could push them to length must be far from amiable and from affording any repose to herself such was the home which was to put out of her head and teach her to think of her in with feelings on she could think of nothing but park its beloved inmates its happy ways where she now was was in fall contrast to it the elegance propriety regularity harmony and perhaps above all the peace and of were brought to her remembrance every hour of the day by the of everything opposite to them here the living in incessant noise was to a frame and temper delicate and nervous like s an evil which no elegance or harmony could have entirely for it was the greatest misery of all at no sounds of no raised voice no abrupt bursts no tread of violence was ever heard all proceeded in a regular course of cheerful everybody had their due importance everybody s feelings were consulted if tenderness could be ever supposed wanting good sense and good breeding supplied its place and as to the little sometimes introduced by aunt they w ere short they were trifling they were as a drop of water to the ocean compared with the ceaseless tumult of her present abode here everybody was noisy every voice was loud excepting perhaps her mother s which resembled the soft monotony of lady s only worn into whatever was wanted was for and the servants out their excuses from the kitchen the doors were in constant the stairs were never at rest nothing was done without a clatter nobody sat still and nobody could command attention when they spoke in a review of the two houses as they appeared park to her before the end of a week was tempted to apply to them dr johnson s celebrated judgment as to matrimony and and say that though park might have some pains could have no pleasures chapter xvi was right enough in not expecting to hear from miss now at the rapid rate in which their correspondence had mary s next letter was after a decidedly longer interval than the last but she was not right in supposing that such an interval would be felt a great relief to herself here was another strange revolution of mind she was really glad to receive the letter when it did come in her present exile from good society and distance from everything that had been wont to interest her a letter from one belonging to the set where her heart lived written with affection and some degree of elegance was thoroughly acceptable the usual plea of increasing engagements was made in excuse for not having written to her earlier and now that i have begun she continued my letter will not be worth your reading for there will be no little of love at the end no three or four lines from the most devoted h c in the world for henry is in business called him to ton lays ago or perhaps he only pretended the call for the sake of being at the same time that vou were but there he is and by the by his absence may account for any of his sister s in writing for there has been no well mary when do w park is not it time tor you to write bi to spur me on at after nt at meeting i have your dear and dearest mrs found me at home yesterday and we were glad to see h other again we glad to see h other and i do really think we were a little we had a vast deal to shall i tell you how mrs looked when your name waa 