i am an advocate for the prevailing fashion of acquiring a perfect knowledge of all languages arts and it is throwing time away to be mistress of french italian and german music singing and drawing etc will gain a woman some applause but will not add one lover to her list � grace and manner after all are of the greatest importance i do not mean there lady fore that s should be more than superficial and i flatter myself that she will not remain long enough at school to understand anything thoroughly i hope to see her the wife of sir james within a you know on what i ground my hope and it is certainly a good foundation for school must he very humiliating to a girl of s age and by the by you had better not invite her any more on that account as i wish her to find her situation as un pleasant as possible i am sure of sir james at any time and could make him renew his application by a line i shall trouble you meanwhile to prevent his forming any other attachment when he comes to town ask him to your house and talk to him of that he may not forget her upon the whole i commend my own conduct in this affair extremely and regard it as a very happy instance of and tenderness some mothers would have insisted on their daughter s accepting so good an offer on the first but i could not reconcile it to myself to force into a marriage from which her heart and instead of so harsh a measure merely propose to make it her own choice by rendering her thoroughly uncomfortable till she does accept him � but enough of this tiresome girl you may well wonder how i contrive to pass my time here and for the first week it was dull now however we begin to mend our party is enlarged by mrs s brother a handsome young man who promises me some amusement there is lady about him which rather interests me a sort of and familiarity which i shall teach him to correct he is lively and seems clever and when i have inspired him with greater respect for me than his sister s kind offices have he may be an agreeable there is exquisite pleasure in an insolent spirit in making a person to dislike acknowledge one s superiority i have disconcerted him already by my calm reserve and it shall be my endeavor to humble the pride of these de still lower to convince mrs that her have been bestowed in vain and to persuade that she has me this project will serve at least to amuse me and prevent my feeling so this dreadful separation from you and all whom i love yours ever s mrs to lady de my dear mother � you must not expect back again for some time he desires me to tell you that the present open weather him to accept mr s invitation to his stay in that they may have some hunting together he means to send for his horses immediately and it is impossible to say lady when you may see him in i will not disguise my sentiments on this change from you my dear mother though i think you had better not communicate them to my father whose excessive anxiety about would subject him to an alarm which might seriously affect his health and spirits lady has certainly contrived in the space of a fortnight to make my brother like her in short i am persuaded that his continuing here beyond the time originally fixed for his return is occasioned as much by a degree of fascination towards her as by the wish of hunting with mr and of course i cannot receive that pleasure from the length of his visit which my brother s company would otherwise give me i am indeed provoked at the of this woman what stronger proof of her dangerous abilities can be given than this of � s judgment which when he entered the house was so decidedly against her in his last letter he actually gave me some particulars of her behavior at such as he received from a gentleman who knew her perfectly well which if true must raise against her and which himself was entirely disposed to credit his opinion of her i am sure was as low as of any woman in england and when he first came it was evident that he considered her as one entitled neither to delicacy nor respect and that he felt she would be delighted with the attentions of any man inclined to with her her behavior i confess ha been calculated to do away with such an idea i have not detected the smallest lady in it � nothing of vanity of of levity and she is altogether so attractive that i should not wonder at his being delighted with her had he known nothing of her previous to this personal acquaintance but against reason against conviction to be so well pleased with her as i am sure he is does really astonish me his admiration was at first very strong but no more than was natural and i did not wonder at his being much struck by the gentleness and delicacy of her manners but when he has mentioned her of late it has been in terms of more extraordinary praise and yesterday he actually said that he could not be surprised at any effect produced on the heart of man by such loveliness and such abilities and when i lamented in reply the of her disposition he observed that whatever might have been her errors they were to be to her neglected education and early marriage and that she was altogether a wonderful woman this tendency to excuse her conduct or to forget it in the 