very few people i am sorry to see company is always cheerful that is just my way of thinking give me but a little cheerful company let me only have the company of the people i love let me only be where i like and with whom like and the devil take the rest say i and i am heartily glad to hear you say the same but i have a notion miss you and i think pretty much alike upon most matters perhaps we may but it is more than i ever thought of and as to most matters to say the truth there are not many that i know my own mind about by jove no more do i it is not my way to bother my brains with what does not concern me my notion of things is simple enough let me only have the girl i like say i with a comfortable house over my head and what care i for all the rest fortune is i am sure of a good income of my own and if she had not a penny why so much the better very true i think like you there if there is a good fortune on one side there can be no occasion for any on the other no matter which has it so that there is enough i hate the idea of one great fortune looking out for another and to marry for money i think the thing in existence good we shall be very glad to you at whenever it is convenient and away she went it was not in the power of all his gallantry to detain her longer with such news to communicate and such a visit to il north anger abbey prepare for her departure was not to be delayed by anything in his nature to urge and she hurried away leaving him to tlie consciousness of his own happy address and her explicit encouragement the agitation which she had herself experienced on first learning her brother s engagement made her expect to raise no emotion in mr and mrs by the communication of the wonderful event how great was her disappointment the important affair which many words of preparation ushered m had been foreseen by them both ever since her brother s arrival and all that they felt on the occasion was comprehended in a wish for the young people s happiness with a remark on the gentleman s side in favour of s beauty and on the lady s of her great good luck it was to the most the disclosure however of the great secret of james s going to i the day before did raise some emotion in mrs she could not listen to that with calmness but repeatedly regretted the necessity of its concealment wished she could have known his intention wished she could have seen him before he went as she should certainly have troubled him with her best regards to his father and mother and her kind compliments to all the v s expectations of pleasure from her visit in street were so very high that disappointment was inevitable and accordingly though she was most politely received by general and kindly welcomed by his daughter though henry was at home and no one else of the party d e found on her return without spending many hours in the north anger abbey ii examination of her feelings that she had gone to her appointment preparing for happiness which it had not afforded instead of finding herself improved in acquaintance with miss from the intercourse of the day she seemed hardly so intimate with her as before instead of seeing henry to greater advantage than ever in the ease of a family party he had never said so little nor been so little agreeable and in spite of their father s great to her in spite of his thanks invitations and compliments it had been a release to get away from him it puzzled her to account for all this it could not be general s fault that he was perfectly agreeable and good natured and altogether a very charming man did not admit of a doubt for he was tall and handsome and henry s father he could not be for his children s want of spirits or for her want of enjoyment in his company the she hoped at last might have been accidental and the latter she could only attribute to her own stupidity on hearing the particulars of the visit gave a different explanation it was all pride pride and pride she had long suspected the family to be very high and this made it certain such insolence of behaviour as miss s she had never heard of in her life i not to do the honours of her house with common good breeding to behave to her guest with such hardly even to speak to her but it was not so bad as that there was no she was very civil oh don t defend her and then the brother he who had appeared so attached to you good heavens well some people s feelings are incomprehensible and so he hardly looked once at you the whole day i do not say so but he did not seem in good spirits i abbey how contemptible of all things in the world is my aversion let me entreat you never to think of him again my dear indeed he is unworthy of you unworthy i do not suppose he ever thinks of me that is exactly what i say he never thinks of you such oh how different to your brother and to mine i really believe john has the most constant heart but as for general i assure you it would be impossible for any body to behave to me with greater civility and attention it seemed to be his only care to entertain 