her why would not you speak sooner this will be a bad day s amusement for you if you are to be knocked up every sort of exercise her so soon miss except riding how abominable in you then to let me her horse as i did all last week i i am ashamed of you and of myself but it shall never happen again your and consideration make me more sensible of my own neglect s interest seems in safer hands with you than with me that she should be tired now however gives me no surprise for there is nothing in the course of one s duties so as what we have been doing this morning � seeing a great house from one room to another straining one s eyes and one s attention hearing what one does not understand admiring what one does not care for it is generally allowed to be the greatest bore in the world and miss price has found it so though she did not know it i shall soon be rested said to sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon is the most perfect refreshment after sitting a little while miss was up again i must move said she resting me i have looked across the ha ha till i am weary i must go and look through that iron gate at the same view without being able to see it so well left the seat likewise now miss if you will look up the walk you will convince yourself that it cannot be half a mile long or half half a mile it is an immense distance said she i see that with a glance he still reasoned with her but in vain she would not calculate she would not compare she would only smile and assert the greatest degree of rational could not have been more engaging and they talked with mutual satisfaction at last it was agreed that they should endeavor to determine the dimensions of the wood by walking a little more about it they would go to one end of it in the line they were then in for there was a straight green walk along the bottom by the side of the ha ha and perhaps turn a little way in some other direction if it seemed likely to assist them and be back in a few minutes said she was rested and would have moved too but this was not suffered urged her remaining where she was with an earnestness which she could not resist and she was left on the bench to think with pleasure of her cousin s care but with great regret that she was not stronger she watched them till they had turned the corner and listened till all sound of them had ceased chapter x � a of an twenty passed away and was still thinking of miss and herself without from any one she began to he surprised at being left so long and to listen with an anxious desire of hearing their steps and their voices again she listened and at length she heard she heard voices and feet approaching but she had just satisfied herself that it was not those she wanted when miss mr and mr issued from the same path which she had trod herself and were before her miss price all alone and my dear how comes this were the first she told her story poor dear cried her cousin how ill you have been used by them you had better have stayed with us then herself with a gentleman on each side she resumed the conversation which had engaged them before and discussed the possibility of improvements with much animation nothing was fixed on but henry was full of ideas and projects and generally speaking whatever he proposed was immediately approved first by her and then by mr whose principal business seemed to be to hear the others and park who scarcely risked an original thought of his own beyond a wish that they had seen his friend smith s place after some minutes spent in this way miss observing the iron gate expressed a wish of passing through it into the park that their views and their plans might be more comprehensive it was the very thing of all others to be wished it was the best it was the only way of proceeding with any advantage in henry s opinion j and he directly saw a not half a mile off which would give them exactly the requisite command of the house go therefore they must to that and through that gate but the gate was locked mr wished he had brought the key he had been very near thinking whether he should not bring the key he was determined he would never come without the key again but still this did not remove the present evil they could not get through and as miss s inclination for so doing did by no means lessen it ended in mr s declaring outright that he would go and fetch the key he set off accordingly it is undoubtedly the best thing we can do now as we are so far from the house already said mr when he was gone yes there is nothing else to be done but now sincerely do not you find the place altogether worse than you expected no indeed far otherwise i find it better more complete in its style though that style may not be the best and to tell you the vol i � park truth speaking rather lower i do not think that i shall ever see again with so much pleasure as i do now another summer will hardly improve it to me after a moment s the lady replied you are too much a man of the world not to see with the eyes of the world if 