if he were here for he thinks exactly as i do on the subject we were speaking of it only yesterday and agreeing how fortunate it was for that there should be such a girl in for her to associate with mr i shall not allow you to be a fair judge in this case you are so much used to live alone that you do not know the value of a companion and perhaps no man can be a good judge of the comfort a woman feels in the society of one of her own sex after being used to it all her life i can imagine your objection to smith she is not the superior young woman which s friend ought to be but on the other hand as wants to see her better informed it will be an to her to read more herself they will read together she means it i know has been meaning to read more ever since she was twelve years old i have seen a great many lists of her drawing up at various times of books that she meant to read regularly through � and very good lists they were very well chosen and very neatly arranged � sometimes and sometimes by some other rule the list she drew up when only fourteen � i remember thinking it did her judgment so much credit that i preserved it some time and i dare say she may have made out a very good list now but i have done with expecting any course of steady reading from she will never submit to anything requiring industry and patience and a of the fancy to the understanding where miss failed to i may safely affirm that smith will do nothing you never could persuade her to read half so much as you wished you know you could not i dare say replied mrs smiling that i thought so then but since we have parted t can never remember s to do anything i wished there is hardly any desiring to refresh such a memory as that said mr and for a moment or two he had done but i he soon added who have had no such charm thrown over my senses must still see hear and remember is spoiled by being the of her family at ten years old she had the misfortune of being able to answer questions which puzzled her sister at seventeen she was always quick and assured slow and and ever since she was twelve has been mistress of the house and of you all in her mother she lost the only person able to cope with her she her mother s talents and must have been under to her i should have been sorry mr to be dependent on your recommendation had i quitted mr s family and wanted another situation i do not think you would have spoken a good word for me to anybody i am sure you always thought me unfit for the office i held yes said he smiling you are better placed here very fit for a wife but not at all for a but you were preparing yourself to be an excellent wife all the time you were at you might not give such a complete education as your powers would seem to promise but you were receiving a very good education from her on the very material matrimonial point of your own will and doing as you were bid and if had asked me to recommend him a wife i should certainly have named miss thank you there will be very little merit in making a good wife to such a man as mr why to own the truth i am afraid you are rather thrown away and that with every disposition to bear there will be nothing to be borne we will not despair however may grow cross from the of comfort or his son may plague him i hope not that it is not likely ko mr do not vexation from that quarter indeed i only name possibilities i do not pretend to s genius for and i hope with all my heart the young man may be a in merit and a in fortune but smith � i have not half done about smith i think her the very worst sort of companion that could possibly have she knows nothing herself and looks upon as knowing everything she is a in all her ways and so much the worse because her ignorance is flattery how can imagine she has anything to learn herself while is presenting such a delightful inferiority and as for i will venture to say that she cannot gain by the acquaintance will only put her out of conceit with all the other places she belongs to she will grow just refined enough to be un vol i � comfortable with those among whom birth and circumstances have placed her home i am much mistaken if s doctrines give any strength of mind or tend at all to make a girl herself to the varieties of her situation in life they only give a little polish i either depend more upon s good sense than you do or am more anxious for her present comfort for i cannot lament the acquaintance how well she looked last night oh you would rather talk of her person than her mind would you very well i shall not attempt to deny s being pretty pretty say beautiful rather can you imagine anything nearer perfect beauty than altogether � face and figure i do not know what i could imagine but i confess that i have seldom seen a face or figure more pleasing to me than hers but i am a partial old friend such an eye � the true eye and so brilliant � regular features open countenance with a complexion � oh what a bloom of 