different and was a little but her conviction of being really the one her under it and enabled her to receive s parting attentions as she ought he was ly better pleased to hand her into the than t her in ascending the box � and his complacency i confirmed by the arrangement ell this has been a fine day for you upon � rd said mrs as they drove through the nothing but pleasure from beginning to end j e you ought to be very much obliged to your m and me for to let you go a pretty aj s you have had i park maria was enough to say i think you have done pretty yourself ma am your lap seems of good things and here is a basket of something between us which has been knocking my elbow my dear it is only a beautiful little which that nice old gardener would make me take but if it is in your way i will have it in my lap there you carry that parcel me � take great care of it � do not let it fall it is a cream cheese just like the excellent one we had at dinner nothing would satisfy that good old but my taking one of the i stood out as long as i could till the tears almost came into her eyes and i knew it was just the sort that my sister would be delighted with that mrs is a sure she was quite shocked when i asked her whether wine was allowed at the second table and she has turned away two for wearing white gowns take care of the cheese now i can manage the other parcel and the basket very well what else have you been said maria half pleased that should be so my dear it is nothing but four of those beautiful s eggs whidi mrs would quite force upon me she would not take a denial she said it must be such an amusement to me as she understood i lived quite alone to have a few living creatures of that sort and so to be sure it will i shall get the maid to set them under the first spare hen and if come to good i can have them moved to my own house and borrow a and it will be a great delight to me in my lonely hours to attend to them and if i have good luck your mother shall have some it was a beautiful evening mild and and the drive was as pleasant as the serenity of nature could make it but when mrs ceased speaking it was ther a silent drive to those within their spirits were in general exhausted and to determine whether the day had most pleasure or pain might occupy the meditations of almost park chapter xi r at with all its s much more agreeable feelings than from the letters from which soon ds reached it was much pleasanter to henry than of their father and to r their father in england again within a certain these letters obliged them to do was a most me exercise was the black fixed for his return � wrote of it with as much decision as od anxiety could his business was so as to justify him in proposing to take his in the september packet and he consequently with the hope of being with his n early in november ji was more to be pitied than for to her the a husband and the return of the friend for her happiness would unite her to the whom she had chosen happiness should it was a gloomy prospect and all that she could to throw a mist over it and hope when the mist away she should see something else it ye early in november there were generally passage or that something very body who their eyes they look or while they reason feels the comfort would probably be the middle of november at he middle of november was three months off thirteen weeks much mi t in thirteen weeks would have been deeply by a n of half that his dan on the subject of m and would hardly have found consolation in a ge of the interest it excited in the breast of an lady miss on walking up with her to spend the evening at park heard i news seeming to have no i park the affair beyond politeness and to have all feelings in a quiet heard it with an at tion not so easily satisfied mrs gave the p of the letters and the subject was i tea as miss was standing at an open win with and looking out on a twilight sc while the miss mr and hi were all busy with candles at the piano fc she suddenly revived it by turning round towards group and sayings how happy mr he is thinking of november looked at mr too but nothing to say your father s return will be a i interesting event it will indeed after such an absence an not only long but including so many dangers it will be the also of other interest events your sisters marriage and your taking orders yes don t be said she laughing but it i ut me in mind of some of the old heathen heroes � performing great exploits in a foreign land sacrifices to the gods on their safe return there is no sacrifice in the case replied with a serious smile and glancing at the piano it is entirely her own doing oh yes i know it is i was merely joking i has done no more than what every young woman wo do and i have no doubt of her being extremely hap my other sacrifice of course you do not understand my taking orders i assure you is quite as 