her intending to do it if the elders objected but confided in her having good reasons i don t know i can t tell what i shall do till i get are often wrong they foresee what is likely i am not fond of what is likely it is always dull i do what is unlikely ah there you tell me a secret when once i knew what people in general would be likely to do i should know you would do the opposite so you would have come round to a of your own sort i shall be able to calculate on you you couldn t surprise me yes i could i should turn round and do what was likely for people in general said with a musical laugh daniel d� you see you can t escape some sort of and makes the strongest of all you must give up a plan no i shall not my plan is to do what pleases me here should any young lady incline to imitate let her consider the set of her head and neck if the angle there had been different the chin and the a trifle more curved in their position ten to one s words have had a jar in them for the sweet natured but everything odd in her speech was humour and pretty which he was only anxious to turn towards one point can you manage to feel only what pleases you said he of course not that comes from what other people do but if the world were pleasanter one would only feel what was pleasant girls lives are so stupid they never do what they like i thought that was more the case of the men they are forced to do hard things and are often dreadfully bored and knocked to pieces too and then if we love a girl very dearly we want to do as she likes so after all you have your own way i don t believe it i never saw a married woman who had her own way book l � the spoiled child what should you like to do said quite and in real anxiety oh i don t know � go to the north pole or ride or go to be a queen in the east like lady said her words were bom on her lips but she would have been at a loss to give an answer of deeper origin you don t mean you would never be married no i didn t say that only when i married i should not do as other women do you might do just as you liked if you married a man who loved you more dearly than anything else in the world said who poor youth was moving in outside the in which he had promised to win distinction i know one who does don t talk of mr for heaven s sake said hastily a quick blush spreading over her face and neck that is s chant hear the hounds let us go on she put her chestnut to a and had no choice but to her still he felt encouraged was perfectly aware that her cousin was in love with her but she had no idea that the matter was of any consequence having never had the slightest of pain daniel d� ful love herself she wished the small romance of s devotion to fill up the time of his stay at and to avoid explanations which would bring it to an end besides she objected with a sort of physical to being directly made love to with all her imaginative delight in being adored there was a certain of in her but all other thoughts were soon lost for her in the excitement of the scene at the three several gentlemen of the hunt knew her and she exchanged pleasant greetings could not get another word with her the colour the stir of the field had taken possession of with a strength which was not due to habitual association for she had never yet ridden after the hounds � only said she should like to do it and so drawn forth a her mamma the danger and her uncle declaring that for his part he held that kind of violent exercise in a woman and that whatever might be done in other parts of the country no lady of good position followed the hunt no one but mrs the captain s wife who had been a kitchen maid and still spoke like one this last argument had some on and had kept her halting between her desire to assert her book i � the spoiled child freedom and her horror of being with mrs some of the most women in the neighbourhood occasionally went to see the hounds throw oflf but it happened that none of them were present this morning to from following while mrs with her doubtful and otherwise was not visible to make following seem thus felt no check on the animal that came from the stir and tongue of the hounds the of the horses the varying voices of men the movement hither and thither of vivid colour on the background of green and grey stillness � that utmost excitement of the coming chase which consists in feeling something like a combination of dog and horse with the thrill of social and consciousness of power which belong to human kind would have felt more of the same enjoyment if he could have kept nearer to and not seen her constantly occupied with acquaintances or looked at by would be acquaintances all on lively horses which about and swept the surrounding space as effectually as a revolving glad to see you here this fine morning miss daniel said lord a middle aged peer of aristocratic in stained pink with easy going manners which would have made the threatened seem of no consequence we 