evenings are i i returned to what they were than a new the novelty was in their being lively yet how i strong the impression that only a few weeks will give ill have been feeling as if we had never lived so before i i suppose i am graver than other people said ii the evenings do not appear long to me i love to hear m my talk of the west indies i could listen to him for an hour together it me more than many other have done � but then i am unlike other people v i dare say why should you dare say smiling � do yoa want to be told tliat you are only unlike other people in being more wise and but when did you or any body ever get a compliment from me go to my father if you want to be he will satisfy you ask your what he thinks and you will hear compliments enough and though they may be chiefly on your person you must put up with it and trust to his seeing as much beauty of mind in time such language was so new to that it quite her your thinks you very pretty dear � and that is the long and the short of the matter any body but myself would have made something more of it and any body but you would resent that you had not been thought very pretty before but the truth is that your uncle never did admire you till now � and now he does your complexion is so improved � and you have gained so much countenance � and your figure � nay do not turn away about it � it is but an uncle if you can not bear an uncle s admiration what is to become of you you must really begin to yourself to the idea of worth looking at yoa must try not to mind grow up into a pretty woman oh don t talk so don t talk no cried dis by more feelings than he was aware of but seeing t she was distressed he had done with the subject and y added more seriously � your uncle is disposed to be pleased with you in every and i only wish you would talk to him more yoa of those who are too silent in the evening circle but i do talk to him more than i used i am sure i did not you hear me ask him about the slave trade i did � and was in hopes the question would be wed up by others it would have pleased your uncle to of farther and i longed to do it � but there was such a dead ence and while my cousins were sitting by without a word or seeming at all interested in the subject did not like � i thought it would appear as if i wanted set myself off at their expense by showing a curiosity id pleasure in his information which he must wish hia ni daughters to feel miss was very right in what she said of yon e other day � that you seemed almost as fearful of and praise as other women were of neglect we were king of you at the and those were her words le has great i know nobody who characters better for so young a woman it is she certainly understands you better than you i understood by the greater part of those who have known n so long and with regard to some others i can ve from occasional lively hints the � ns of the moment that she could define many as ac did not delicacy forbid it i wonder what she of my father she must admire him as a fine man with most like dignified con tent manners but perhaps having seen him so seldom i reserve may be a little repulsive could they be much ther i feel sure of their liking each other he joy � and she has talents to f powers i wish they met more frequently i hope h does not suppose there is any dislike on his side she must know herself too secure of the regard of all the rest of you said with half a sigh to have such apprehension and sir thomas s wishing just at first to be only with his family is so very natural that she can argue nothing from that after a little while i dare say we shall be meeting again in the same sort of way allowing for the of the time of year this is the first october that she has passed in the country since her infancy i do not call or the country and november is a still more serious month and i can see that mrs grant is very anxious for her not finding dull as winter comes on could have said a great deal but it was safer to say nothing and leave untouched all miss s resources her accomplishments her spirits her importance her friends lest it should betray her into any observations seemingly miss s kind opinion of herself deserved at least a grateful forbearance and she to talk of something else to morrow i think my uncle at and you and mr too we shall be quite a small party at home i hope my uncle may continue to like mr worth that is impossible he must like him less after to morrow s visit for we shall be ye hours in his com i should dread the stupidity of the day if there were not a greater evil to follow � the impression it must leave on sir thomas he cannot much longer deceive himself i am sorry for them all and would give something that and maria had never met in this quarter indeed disappointment was impending over sir 