anybody else nobody ever did think well of the i fancy observed mr john coolly but you need not imagine mr to have felt what you would feel in giving up henry or john mr is rather an easy man than a man of strong feelings he takes things as he finds them and makes enjoyment of them somehow or other depending i suspect much more upon what is called society for his comforts � that is upon the power of eating and drinking and playing with his neighbors five times a week � than upon family affection or anything that home affords could not like what bordered on a reflection on mr and had half a mind to take it up but she struggled and let it pass she would keep the peace if possible and there was something honorable and valuable in the strong domestic habits the all of home to himself whence resulted her brother s disposition to look down on the common rate of social intercourse and those to whom it was important it had a high claim to forbearance xii mr was to dine with them rather against the inclination of mr who did not like that any one should share with him in s first day s sense of right however had decided it and besides the consideration of what was due to each brother she had particular pleasure from the circumstance of the late between mr and herself in him the proper invitation she hoped they might now become friends again she thought it was time to make up making up indeed would not do she certainly had not been in the wrong and he would never own that he had concession must be out of the question but it was time to appear to forget that they had ever quarrelled and she hoped it might rather assist the restoration of friendship that when he came into the room she had one of the children with her � the youngest a nice little girl about eight months old who was now making her first visit to and very happy to be danced about in her aunt s arms it did assist for though he began with grave looks and short questions he was soon led on to talk of them all in the usual way and to take the child out of her arms with all the of perfect felt they were friends again and the conviction vol i � giving her at first great satisfaction and then a little she could not help saying as he was admiring the baby � what a comfort it is that we think alike about our and as to men and women our opinions are sometimes very different but with regard to these children i observe we never if you were as much guided by nature in your estimate of men and women and as little under the power of fancy and whim in your dealings with them as you are where these children are concerned we might always think alike to be sure � our must always arise from my being in the wrong yes said he smiling and reason good i was sixteen years old when you were bom a material difference then she replied and no doubt you were much my superior in judgment at that period of our lives but does not the lapse of one and twenty years bring our a good deal nearer yes a good deal nearer but still not near enough to give me a chance of being right if we think differently i have still the advantage of you by sixteen years experience and by not being a pretty young woman and a spoilt child my dear let us be friends and say no more about it tell your aunt little that she ought to set you a better example than to be old and that if she were not wrong before she is now that s true she cried very true little grow up a better woman than your aunt be infinitely and not half so conceited now mr a word or two more and i have done as far as good intentions went we were both right and i must say that no effects on my side of the argument have yet proved wrong i only want to know that mr martin is not very bitterly disappointed a man cannot be more so was his short full answer indeed i am very sorry come shake hands with me this had just taken place and with great cordiality when john made his appearance and how d ye do george and john how are you succeeded in the true english style burying under a calmness that seemed all but indifference the real attachment which would have led either of them if requisite to do everything for the good of the other the evening was quiet and as mr declined cards entirely for the sake of comfortable talk with his dear and the little party made two natural divisions � on one side he and his daughter on the other the two mr their subjects totally distinct or very rarely mixing and only occasionally joining in one or the other the brothers talked of their own concerns and pursuits but principally of those of the elder whose temper was by much the most and who was always the greater as a magistrate he had generally some point of aw to consult john about or at least some curious anecdote to give and as a farmer as keeping in hand the home farm at he had to tell what every field was to bear next year and to give all such local information as could not fail of being interesting to a brother whose home it had equally been the longest part of his life and whose were strong the plan of a drain the change of a fence 