oh i ah yes he said directing his gaze upon the tree tops in the park i quite accept m you tell me i don t want to from your friend s merits � poor mean sort of thing to from any man s friend s merits young fellow the little i have seen of him � reminds me of my poor friend his father i liked his father but you see my dear boy there is � well there s no denying it there is � and quite � of course papa we all know what you mean lady interposed with a certain and it must be owned i have never pretended there was not something one had to get accustomed to but really you forget all about it almost immediately � does � one can see that � don t they if you had met sir richard everywhere as we have this season you would how very very soon that is quite forgotten is it though said lord somewhat his face had returned to a sadly condition yes i assure you nobody thinks of it after just the first little shock don t you know � this from lady i think one feels it is not quite nice to dwell on a thing of that kind her sister in again it ought to be ignored � from a girl the speaker had enjoyed a reputation for great refinement of mind i t it to being more than not nice echoed lady i think it is positively wrong for nobody can sir richard tell what accident may not happen to any of us at any moment and so i am not at all sure that it is not actually to make a thing like that into a serious objection you know papa there must be people in some families just as there is consumption or insanity or under breeding or mr softly murmured it becomes evident my dear father you must not expect too much of sons or i of brothers in law think of old lord � i mean the great of the present man of course � of his temper lady proceeded r of comment it amounted almost to and yet lady would certainly have married him there never was any question about it would she though bad old man never did approve of of course she would mrs who always has been devoted to her told me so did she though said lord but the marriage was broken off my dear he made this remark triumphantly feeling it showed great oh dear no indeed it wasn t his daughter replied lord behaved in the most outrageous manner at the last moment he never proposed to her at all and then it came out that for years he had been living with one of the still room maids cried lady turning scarlet had he though the old scoundrel papa cried lady so he was my dear very bad old man very amusing old man too though and overcome by certain reminiscences lord chuckled a little his second daughter thereupon arranged the folds of her with bent head � it is very clear papa and have been together to day she thought s influence over papa is always it s too extraordinary the subjects men joke about and call amusing when they get together a pause followed a brief of during which mr looked at his three companions fancies herself shocked he said to himself and my father fancies himself wicked and fancies herself a chosen vessel strong delusion is upon them all the only a slip cup and lip question is whose delusion is the strongest and who will first renew the ah the chosen vessel i thought as much you see papa one really must be practical lady b an in clear emphatic tones we all know how you have spoiled she and have always been your but even you must admit that s wretched extravagance has you and helped to all your other children and you must also admit notwithstanding your partiality for that � i want to see i want to hear from herself that she � broke out lord his kindly heart over this lamb of his large flock but the eldest of the said flock interposed sternly no no she cried pray papa not yet is quite contented and reasonable � i believe she is out just now too and while you are in this state of yourself it would be the greatest mistake for you to see her it would only disturb and upset her � wouldn t it and the lady thus appealed to assented it is true that when she arrived at the great house in gate that morning she had found little lady with her pretty baby face sadly by tears but she had put that down to the of the situation all young ladies of refined mind cried under kindred circumstances had she not herself wept for the better part of a week before finally deciding to accept george moreover a point of jealousy undoubtedly pricked lady in this connection she was far from being a cruel woman but comparing her own modest material advantages in marriage with the handsome ones offered to her little sister she could not be wholly sorry that the latter s rose was not entirely without thorns that the flower in question should have been as well as so very fine and large would surely have on injustice to herself this thought had perhaps unconsciously influenced her when on the of a refined indifference to sir richard s in her heart of hearts she was disposed perhaps to hail rather than the fact of that same for did it not tend to her lot and that of her little sister and the otherwise humiliating of their respective therefore she lady s speech by saying immediately � yes indeed papa it would only 