as nay my dear i m sure i don t pretend to say that there ain t i m sure there s a vast many smart in but you know how could i tell what smart there might be about and i was only afraid the might find it dull at if they had not so many as they used to have but perhaps you young ladies may not care about the and had as be without them as with them for my part i think they are vastly agreeable provided they dress smart and behave civil i can t bear to see them dirty and nasty now there s mr rose at a prodigious smart young man quite a beau clerk to mr you know and yet if you do but meet of a morning he is not fit to be seen i suppose your brother was quite a beau miss before he married as he was so rich upon my word replied i cannot tell you for i do not perfectly comprehend the meaning of the word but this i can say that if he ever was a beau before he married he is one still for there is not the smallest alteration in him en e and en oh dear one never thinks of married men s being � they have something else to do lord anne cried her sister you can talk of nothing but you will make miss believe you think of nothing else and then to turn the discourse she began admiring the house and the furniture this specimen of the was enough the vulgar freedom and folly of the eldest left her no recommendation and as was not blinded by the beauty or the shrewd look of the youngest to her want of real elegance and she left the house without any wish of knowing them better not so the they came from well provided with admiration for the use of sir john his family and all his relations and no proportion was now dealt out to his fair cousins whom they declared to be the most beautiful elegant accomplished and agreeable girls they had ever beheld and with whom they were particularly anxious to be better acquainted and to be better acquainted therefore soon found was their inevitable lot for as sir jack was entirely on the side of the their party would be too strong for opposition and that kind of intimacy must be submitted to which consists of sitting an hour or two together in the same room almost every day sir john could do no more but he did not know that any more was required to be together was in his opinion to be intimate and while his continual schemes for their meeting were effectual he had not a doubt of their being established friends to do him justice he did every thing in his power to promote their by making the acquainted with whatever he knew or supposed of cousins situations in the most delicate particulars and had not seen them more than twice before the eldest of them wished her joy on her sister s having been so lucky as to make a conquest of a very beau since she came to be a fine thing to have her married so young to be sure said she and i hear he is quite a beau and handsome and i hope you may have as good luck yourself soon but perhaps you may have a friend in the comer already and could not suppose that sir john would be more nice in his suspicions of her regard for edward than bo had been with respect to indeed it was his favourite joke of the two as being somewhat and more and since edward s visit they had never dined together without his drinking to her best affections with so much and so many and as to excite general attention the letter f had been likewise invariably brought forward and found productive of such countless jokes that its character as the letter in the had been long established with the as she expected had now all the benefit of these jokes and in the eldest of them they raised a curiosity to know the name of the gentleman alluded to which though often expressed was perfectly of a piece with her general into the concerns of their family but sir john did not sport long with the curiosity which he delighted to raise for he had at least as much pleasure in telling the name as miss had in hearing it his name is said he in a very audible whisper but pray do not tell it for it s a great secret repeated miss mr is the happy man is he what your sister in law s brother miss od a very agreeable young man to be sure i know him very well how can you say so anne cried who generally made an to all her sister s though we have seen him once or twice at my uncle s it is rather too much to pretend to know him very well heard all this with attention and surprise and who was this uncle where did he live how came they acquainted she wished very much to have the subject continued though she did not choose to join in it hei self but nothing more of it was said and for the first time in her life she thought mrs deficient either in curiosity after petty information or in a disposition to communicate it the manner in which miss had spoken of edward increased her curiosity for it struck her as being rather ill natured and suggested the suspicion of that lady s knowing or herself to know something to his disadvantage but her curiosity was for no farther notice was and taken of mr s name by miss when alluded to or even openly mentioned 