perhaps better than i could tell you how and why i am vexed let me talk to you a little you are a kind kind listener i have been pained by her manner this morning and cannot get the better of it i know her disposition to be as sweet and as your own but the influence of her former companions makes her seem gives to her conversation to her professed opinions sometimes a of she does not think evil but she speaks it � speaks it in � and though i know it to be it me to the soul the effect of education said gently could not but agree to it yes that uncle and aunt they had injured the finest mind for sometime i own to you it does appear more than manner it appears as if the mind itself was imagined this to be an appeal to her judgment and therefore after a moment s consideration said if you only want me as a listener cousin i will be as useful as i can but i am not qualified for an adviser do not ask advice of me i am not competent you are right to protest against such an but you need not be afraid it is a subject on which i should never ask advice it is the sort of subject on which it had better never be asked and few i imagine do ask it but when they want to be influenced against their conscience i only want to talk to you one thing more excuse the liberty � but take care you talk to me do not tell me anything now which hereafter you may be sorry for the time may come m f i park � the colour rushed into her as she spoke dearest cried pressing her hand to his lips with almost as h warmth as if it had been miss s you are ail considerate thought but it is unnecessary here the time will never come no such time as vou allude to will ever come i to think it most improbable the chances grow less and less and even if � there will be nothing to be remembered by either you or me that we need be afraid of for i can never be ashamed of my own scruples and if they are removed it must be by changes that will only raise her character more by the recollection of the faults she once had you are the only being upon earth to whom i should say what i have said but you have always known my opinion of you can bear me witness that i have never been blinded how many a time have we talked over her little errors you need not fear me i have almost given up every serious idea of her but i must be a indeed if whatever me i could think of your kindness and sympathy without the gratitude he had said enough to shake the experience of eighteen he had said enough lo give some happier feelings than she had lately known and with a brighter look she answered yes cousin i am convinced that you would be incapable of any thing else though perhaps some might not i cannot be afraid of hearing any thing you wish to say do not check yourself tell me whatever you like they were now on the second floor and the appearance of a prevented any further p or s present comfort it was concluded perhaps at the happiest moment had he been able to talk another five minutes there is no saying that he might not have talked away all miss s its and his own but as it was they parted with looks on his side of grateful affection and with some very precious sensations on hers she had felt nothing like it for hours since the first joy from mr s note to william had worn away she had been in a state absolutely the reverse there had been no comfort around no hope within her now every thing was smiling william s good fortune returned again upon her seemed of greater value than at first the ball too � such an evening of pleasure before her it was now a real animation � and she began to dress for it with much of the happy flutter which belongs to a ball all went well � she did not dislike her own looks and when she came to the again her good fortune seemed complete for upon trial the one given her by miss would by no means go through the ring of the cross she had to oblige resolved to wear it but it was too large for the purpose his therefore must be worn and having with delightful feelings joined the chain and the cross those of the two most beloved of her heart those dearest tokens so formed for each other by every thing real and � and put them round her neck and seen and felt how full of william and were she was able without an effort to resolve on wearing miss s too she it to be right miss had a claim and when it wai no longer to on to interfere with the stronger claims the truer kindness of another she could do her justice even with pleasure to herself the really looked very well and left her room at last comfortably satisfied with herself and all about her her aunt had recollected her on this occasion an unusual degree of it had really occurred to her that preparing for a ball might be glad of better ip than the upper s and when dressed herself she actually sent her own to assist her too late of course to be of any use mrs had just the floor when miss price came out of her room completely dressed and only were but 