i can do for you in town nothing i am much obliged to you have you no message for any body my love to your sister if you please and when you see my cousin � my cousin � i wish you would be so good as to say that � i suppose i shall soon hear from him certainly and if he is lazy or i will write his excuses myself he could say no more for would be no longer detained he pressed her hand looked at her and was gone went to while away the next three hours as he could with his other acquaintance till the best dinner that a capital inn afforded was ready for their enjoyment and turned in to her more simple one immediately their general fare bore a very character and park could he have suspected how many besides that of exercise she endured in her father s house he would have wondered that h r looks were not much more affected than he found them she was so little equal to s and s brought to table as they all were with such ts of half cleaned plates and not half cleaned knives forks that she was very often constrained to her meal till she could send her brothers in the evening for and after being nursed up at it was too late in the day to be hardened at and though sir thomas had he known all might have thought his niece in the most promising way of being starved both mind and body into a much value for mr s good company and good fortune he would probably have feared to push his experiment farther lest she might die under the cure was out of spirits all the rest of the day though tolerably secure of not seeing mr again she could not help being low it was parting with somebody of the nature of a friend and though in one light glad to have him gone it seemed as if she was now deserted by every body it was a sort of renewed separation from and she could not think of his returning to town and being with mary and without feelings so near akin to envy as made her hate herself for having them her had no from any thing passing around her a or two of her father s as always happened if he was not with them spent the long long evening there and from six o clock to half past nine there was of noise or she was very low the wonderful improvement which she still fancied in mr was the nearest to comfort of any thing within the current of her thoughts not considering in how different a circle she had been just seeing him nor how much might be owing to contrast she was quite persuaded of his being more and of others than formerly and if in things must it not be so in great so anxious for her health and comfort so very feeling as he now expressed himself and really seemed might not it be fairly supposed that he would not much longer in a suit so distressing to park chapter xii it was presumed that mr was travelling back ic london on the morrow for nothing more was seen of him at mr price s and two days afterwards it was a fact ascertained to by the following letter from his sister opened and read by her on another account with the most anxious curiosity � i have to inform you my dearest that henry has been down to to see you that he had a delightful walk with you to the dock yard last saturday and one still more to be dwelt on the next day on the when the air the sparkling sea and your sweet looks and conversation were altogether in the most delicious harmony and afforded sensations which are to raise ecstasy even in this as well as i understand is to be the substance of my information he makes me write but i do not know what else is to be communicated except this said visit to and these two said walks and his introduction to your family especially to a fair sister of yours a fine girl of fifteen who was of the party on the taking her first lesson i presume in love i have not time for writing much but it would be out of place if i had for this is to be a mere letter of business for the purpose of conveying necessary information which could not be delayed without risk of evil my dear dear if i had you here how i would talk to you � you should listen to me till you were tired and advise me till you were still tired more but it is impossible to put a part of my great mind on paper so i will altogether and leave you to guess what you like i have no news for you you have politics of course and it would be too bad to plague you with the names of people and parties that fill up my time i ought to have sent you an account of your cousin s first party but i was lazy and now it is too long ago suffice it that every thing was just as it ought to be in a style that any of her connections must park have been gratified to witness and that her own dress and manners did her the greatest credit my friend mrs is mad for such a house and it would not make me miserable i go to lady after she seems in high spirits and very happy i fancy lord s is very good humoured and pleasant in his own family and i do not think him so very ill looking as i did j at least one 