always pleasant society to an indolent stay man and mr s being his guest was an excuse for drinking every day the miss admiration of mr was more than anything which miss s habits made her likely to feel she acknowledged however that the mr were very fine young men that two such young men were not often seen together even in london and that their manners particularly those of the eldest were very good he had been much in london and had more and gallantry park than and must therefore he preferred and indeed his the eldest was another strong claim she had felt an early that she should like the eldest she knew it was her way tom must have heen thought pleasant indeed at any rate he was the sort of young man to he generally liked his was of the kind to he oftener found than some of a higher stamp for he had easy manners excellent spirits a large acquaintance and a great deal to say and the of park and a did no harm to all this miss soon felt that he and his situation might do she looked her with due consideration and found almost everything in his favor � a park a real park five miles round a spacious modern house so well placed and well as to deserve to he in any collection of of gentlemen s seats in the kingdom and wanting only to he completely new furnished pleasant sisters a quiet mother and an man himself � with the advantage of tied up from much at present hy a promise to his father and of sir thomas hereafter it might do very well she she should accept him and she accordingly to interest herself a little the horse which he had ta run at the b races these races were to call him away not long after their acquaintance and as it appeared that the family did not from his usual on expect him hack again for many weeks it would bring his passion to an early proof was said on his side to her to attend the and schemes were made for a large party to them with all the eagerness of inclination bat it would only do to be talked of and � what was she doing and thinking all this while and what was her opinion of the new comers few young ladies of eighteen could be less called on to speak their opinion than in a quiet way very little attended to she paid her tribute of admiration to miss s beauty but as she still continued to think mr very plain in spite of her two cousins having repeatedly proved the contrary she never mentioned him the notice which she excited herself was to this effect i begin now to understand you all except miss price said miss as she was walking with the mr pray is she out or is she not i am puzzled she dined at the with the rest of you which seemed like being out and yet she says so little that i can hardly suppose she is to whom this was chiefly addressed relied i believe i know what you mean but i will not undertake to answer the question my cousin is grown up she has the age and sense of a woman but the and not are beyond me and yet in general nothing can be more easily ascertained the distinction is so broad manners as well as appearance are generally so totally different till now i park not have supposed it possible to be mistaken as to a girl s being out or not a girl not out has always the same sort of dress � a close bonnet for instance � looks very and never says a word you may smile but it is so i assure you and except that it is sometimes carried a little too far it is all very proper girls should be quiet and modest the most objectionable part is that the alteration of manners on being introduced into company is frequently too sudden they sometimes pass in such very little time from reserve to quite the opposite � to confidence that is the part of the present system one does not like to see a girl of eighteen or nineteen so immediately up to everything � and perhaps when one has seen her hardly able to speak the year before mr i dare say you have sometimes met with such changes i believe i have but this is hardly fair i see what you are at you are me and miss no indeed miss i i do not know who or what you mean i am quite in the dark but i will you with a great deal of pleasure if you will tell me what about ah you carry it off very well but i cannot be quite so far imposed on you must have had miss in your eye in describing an altered young lady you paint too accurately for mistake it was exactly so the of baker street we were speaking of them the other day you know you have heard me mention charles the circumstance vol i � if was precisely as this lady has represented it when first introduced me to his about two years ago his sister was not out and i could not get her to speak to me i sat there an hour one morning waiting for with only her and a little girl or two in the room the being sick or run away and the mother in and out every moment with letters of business and i could hardly get a word or a look from the young lady � nothing like a civil answer � she np her mouth and turned from me with such an air i did not see her again for a she was 