replied i like him very much he seems very agreeable he is as good natured a fellow as ever lived a little of a rattle but that will recommend him to your sex i believe and how do you like the rest of the family very very much indeed particularly i am very glad to hear you say so she is just the kind of young woman i could wish to see you attached to she has abbey much sense and is so thoroughly unaffected and amiable always wanted you to know her and she seems fond of you she said the highest things in your praise that could possibly be and the praise of such a girl as miss y even you taking her hand with affection may be proud of indeed i am she replied i love her exceedingly and am delighted to find that you like her too you hardly mentioned anything of her when you wrote to me after your there because i thought i should soon see you myself i hope you will be a great deal together while you are in bath she is a most amiable girl such a superior understanding how fond all the family are of her she is evidently the general favourite and how much she must be admired in such a place as this is she not yes very much indeed i fancy mr thinks her the prettiest girl in bath i dare say he does and i do not know any man who is a better judge of beauty than mr i need not ask you whether you are happy here my dear with such a companion and friend as it would be impossible for you to be otherwise and the i am sure are very kind to you yes very kind i never was so happy before and now you are come it will be more delightful than ever how good it is of you to come so far on purpose to see me james accepted this tribute of gratitude and qualified his conscience for accepting it too by saying with perfect sincerity indeed i love you dearly inquiries and communications concerning brothers and sisters the situation of some the growth of the rest and other family matters now passed between them and continued with only one small on james s part in praise of miss till they reached street where he was welcomed with great kindness by mr and mrs invited by the former to dine with them and summoned by abbey the latter to guess the price and weigh the merits of a new and a pre engagement in � s buildings prevented his accepting the invitation of one friend and obliged him to hurry away as soon as he had satisfied the demands of the other the time of the two parties in the boom being correctly adjusted was then left to the luxury of a raised restless and imagination over the pages of lost from all worldly concerns of dressing and dinner incapable of soothing mrs s fears on the delay of an expected and having only one minute in sixty to bestow even on the reflection of her own felicity in being already engaged for the evening viii in spite of and the however the party from street reached the upper in very good time the and james were there only two minutes before them and having gone through the usual of meeting her friend with the most smiling and affectionate haste of admiring the set of her gown and the of her hair they followed their arm in arm into the ball room whispering to each other whenever a thought occurred and supplying the place of many ideas by a squeeze of the hand or a smile of affection the dancing began within a few minutes after they were seated and james who had been engaged quite as long as his sister was very to stand up but john was gone into the card room to speak to a friend and nothing she declared should induce her to join the set before her dear could join it too i assure you said she i would not stand up without your dear sister for all the world for if i did we should certainly be separated the whole evening accepted this kindness with and they continued as they were for three minutes abbey longer when who had been talking to james on the other side of her turned again to his sister and whispered my dear creature i am afraid i must leave you your brother so impatient to begin i know you will not mind my going away and i dare say john will be back in a moment and then you may easily find me out though a little disappointed had too much good nature to make any opposition and the others rising up had only time to press her mend s hand and say good bye my dear love before they hurried off the younger miss being also dancing was left to e mercy of mrs and mrs between whom she now remained she could not help being vexed at the non appearance of mr for she not only longed to be dancing but was likewise aware that as the real dignity of her situation could not be known she was sharing with the scores of other young ladies still sitting down all the of wanting a partner to be disgraced in the eye of the world to wear the appearance of while her heart is all purity her actions all innocence and the of another the true source of her is one of those circumstances which peculiarly belong to the heroine s life and her fortitude under it what particularly her character had fortitude too she suffered but no murmur passed her lips from this state of humiliation she was roused at the end often minutes to a 