incredulity that will be felt at hearing what you have done for as to secrecy henry is quite the hero of an old romance and glories id his you should come to i to know how to estimate your if you were to see how he is and how i am for his sake now am well aware that i shall not be half so welcome to mrs in consequence of his situation with you when she comes to know the truth she will very likely wish me in park i again for there is a dan ter of mr a first wife whom she is wild to get and wants to take oh she has been trying for him to a degree i innocent and quiet as you sit here yoa have an idea of the that you win be the curiosity there will be to sec you of the endless questions i shall have to answer i poor margaret will be at me for ever about your eyes and your teeth and you do your hair and who makes your shoes i wish margaret were married for my poor friend s sake for i look upon the to be about as unhappy as most other married people and yet it was a most desirable match at the time we were all she could not do than accept him for he was rich and she had nothing but he turns out iu tempered and and wants a woman a young woman of five twenty to be as steady as himself and my friend not manage him well she does not seem to know how to make die best of it there is a spirit of irritation which to say nothing worse is certainly very ill bred in their i call to mind the manners of with respect even dr grant does a confidence in my sister and a certain for her judgment which m es one there u attachment but of that i shall see nothing with the i shall be at for ever my own as a wife thomas as a husband are my standards of perfection poor has been sadly taken in and yet was nothing improper on her side she did not run into the match there was no want of foresight she took three days to consider of his proposals and during those three days asked the advice of every body connected with her whose opinion was worth having and especially applied to my late dear aunt whose knowledge of the world her judgment very generally and looked up to by all the young people of her acquaintance and she was in favour of mr this seems as if were a security for matrimonial comfort i have not so much to say for my friend who a very nice young man in die � park the sake of that horrid who has about ai much sense as mi but much looking and with a i my doubts � t the time about her being right for he has not even ae air of a gentleman and now i am sure she was wrong by the by was dying for henry the first winter she came out but were i to attempt to tell you of all the women whom i have known to be in love with him i should never have done it is you only you insensible who can think of him with anything like indifference but are you so insensible as you profess yourself no no i see you are not there was indeed so deep a blush over s ce at that moment as might strong in a mind excellent creature i will not you every thing shall take its course but dear you must allow that you were not so absolutely unprepared to have the asked as your cousin fancies it is not possible but that you must have had some thoughts on the subject some as to what might be you must have seen that he was trying to please you by every attention in his power was not he devoted to you at the ball and then before the ball the oh you received it just as it was meant you were as conscious as heart could i remember it do you mean then that your brother knew of the beforehand ob miss thai was not knew of it it was his own doing entirely his own thought i am ashamed to say that it had never entered my head but i was delighted to act on his proposal for both your i wiu not say replied that i was not half afraid at the time of its being so for there was something in your look that me hut not at first � i was as of it at first i� indeed indeed i was it is as as that i sit here and had i had an idea of it nothing should have induced me to accept the as to brother s behaviour certainly i was sensible of a is i had been sensible of it some little time two a but then i considered it as i pot it down u simply being hia way and was as r � as from wi him to have any thou ts of in i had not an of what was passing between him and some part of in the summer and autumn i was quiet but i was not i could not bat see that mr allowed in which did mean � ah i cannot deny it he has now and then been a and veiy little for the he might be making in ladies affections i have often him for it but it is his only and there is to be � aid that very few young ladies have any affections worth caring for and then the of fixing one who has been shot at by 