those of an attached father and a sensible man his loud tones did very well in the open air and there was not a single oath to be heard such was his instinctive compliment to the good manners of mr and be the consequence what it might s immediate feelings were infinitely soothed the conclusion of the two gentlemen s i was an offer of mr price s to take mr the dock yard which mr desirous of as a favor what was intended as such though he had the dock yard again and again and hoping to be so much the longer with was very gratefully disposed to avail himself of if the miss prices were not afraid of the fatigue and as it was somehow or other ascertained or inferred or at least acted upon that they were not at all afraid to the dock yard they were all to go and but for mr mr price would have turned thither directly without the smallest for his daughters in the high street he took care however that they should be allowed to go to the shops they came out to visit and it did not delay them long for so little bear to excite impatience or bo waited for that before the gentlemen as they stood at the door could do more than begin upon the last naval or settle the number of three now in commission their companions were ready to proceed they were then to set forward for the dock yard at once and the walk would have been conducted according to mr s opinion in a manner had mr price been allowed the entire i of it as the two girls he found would have been left to follow and keep up with or not as they could while they walked on together at their own hasty pace he was able to introduce some improvement occasionally though by no means to the extent he wished he absolutely would not walk away from them and at any cross park ing or any crowd when mr price was only calling out come girls come fan come sue take care of yourself keep a sharp he would give them his particular attendance once fairly in the dock yard he began to reckon upon some happy intercourse with as they were very soon joined by a brother of mr price s who was come to take his daily survey of how things went on and who must prove a far more worthy companion than himself and after a time the two officers seemed very well satisfied in going about together and discussing matters of equal and never failing interest while the young people sat down upon some in the yard or found a seat on board a vessel in the stocks which they all went to look at was most conveniently in want of rest could not have wished her more fatigued or more ready to sit down but he could have wished her sister away a quick looking girl of s age was the very worst third in the world � totally different from lady � all eyes and ears and there was no introducing the main point before her he must content himself with being only generally agreeable and letting have her share of entertainment with the indulgence now and then of a look or hint for the better informed and conscious was what he had mostly to talk of there he had been some time and everything there was rising in importance from his present schemes such a man could come from no place no society without something to amuse his journeys and ills were all of use and was i ark entertained in a way new to lier for somewhat more was related the of the parties he had been in for her approbation the particular reason his going into at all at this unusual time of year was given it had been real business relative to the renewal of a lease in which the welfare of a large and he believed industrious family was at stake he had suspected hia agent of some dealing � of meaning to bias him against the deserving � and he had determined to go himself and thoroughly the merits of the case he had gone had done even more good than he foreseen hail been useful to more than his first plan had comprehended and was now able to congratulate himself upon it and to feel that in performing a duty he had secured agreeable recollections for hia own he had introduced himself to some tenants whom he had never seen before he had begun making acquaintance with cottages whose very existence though on his own estate ha l been hitherto unknown to him this was aimed and well at it was pleasing to hear him speak so properly here he had been acting as he ought to do to be the friend of the poor and oppressed nothing could be more grateful to lier and she was on the point of giving him an look when it was all frightened off by his adding a something too pointed of his hoping soon to have an assistant a friend a guide in every plan of utility or charity for a somebody that would make and all about it a dearer object than it had ever been yet park she turned away and wished he would not say such things she was willing to allow he might have more good qualities than she had heen wont to suppose she to feel the of his turning out well at last hut he was and must ever he completely to her and ought not to think of her he perceived that enough had heen said of and that it would he as well to talk of something else and turned to he could not have chosen that was a topic to 