the world more likely for i have a notion she is always rather sickly i would lay any it is about miss it ia not so very likely he should be distressed in his circumstances for he is a very prudent man and to be sure must have cleared the estate by this time i wonder what it can be may be his sister is worse at and has for him over his setting off in such a hurry seems very like it well i wish him out of all his trouble with all my heart and a good wife into the bargain so wondered so talked mrs her opinion varying with every conjecture and all seeming equally probable m they arose though she felt really in in the welfare of el could not bestow all the wonder on hia going ao suddenly away which mrs was desirous of her feeling for besides that the circumstance did not in her opinion justify lasting amazement or variety of her wonder was otherwise disposed of it was engrossed by the extraordinary silence of her ai ter and wi ho by on the subject which they must know to be peculiarly interesting to them as this silence continued every day made it appear more and more with the of both why tliey should not openly acknowledge to her mother and herself what their constant behaviour to each other declared to have taken place could not imagine she could easily conceive that marriage might not be im in their power for though was independent there was no reason to believe him rich his had been by sir john at about six or seven hundred a year but he lived at an expense to which that income could and be equal and he had often complained of his but for this strange kind of secrecy maintained by relative to their engagement which in fact concealed at all she could not account and it was so wholly to their general opinions and practice that a sometimes entered her mind of their being really and this doubt was enough to prevent her making ny of nothing could be more expressive of attachment to them q s behaviour to it had all le tenderness which a lover s heart could give to the rest of the family it was the affectionate attention f a son and a brother the cottage seemed to be considered ad loved by him as his home many more of his hours were ent there than at and if no general engagement them at the park the exercise which called him out i the morning was almost certain of ending there where the of the day was spent by himself at the side of ad by his favourite at her feet one evening in particular about a week after colonel had left the country his heart seemed more than open to every feeling of attachment to the objects round him and on mrs s happening to mention er design of improving the in the spring he warmly every alteration of a place which affection had as perfect with him what he exclaimed � improve this dear cottage that i will never consent to not a stone must bo added i its walls not an inch to its size if my feelings are do not be alarmed said of le kind will be done for my mother will never have money to attempt it i am heartily glad of it he cried may she always be or if she can employ her riches no better thank you but you may be assured that i k d se i would not sacrifice one of local attachment of yours or of any one whom i loved for all tlie in the world depend upon it that whatever bum may remain when x make up my ac count b in the would even rather lay it by than of it in a manner bo painful to you but are you really io attached to this place aa to see no defect in it said he is fault nay more i con it as the only form of in which happiness is and were i rich enough i would instantly pull down and build it up again in the exact plan of this cottage with narrow stairs and a kitchen that i suppose said r cried ho in the same eager tone with all and every thing belonging to in no one convenience or m convenience about it should the least be perceptible then and then only under such a roof i might perhaps be aa happy at as i have been at i flatter my s e d tliat even under the disadvantage of better rooms and a broader staircase you will hereafter find your own house as as you now do this there certainly are circumstances said which might greatly it to me but this place will always have one claim on my affection which no other can possibly share mrs looked with pleasure at whose fine eyes were fi so on as plainly how well she understood him how often did i wish added ho when i was at this time that cottage were inhabited i never passed within view of it without admiring its situation and that no one should live in it how little did i then think that the very first news should hear from mrs smith when i next came into the country would he that cottage was taken and i felt an immediate sense and sensibility and interest in the event which nothing bat a kind of science of what happiness i should experience from it can for must it not have been so speaking lier in a lowered voice then continuing his former tone said and yet this house you would spoil mrs dash d you would rob it of its simplicity by imaginary and this dear parlour in which 