that he should never have been able to indulge so amiable a feeling before passed suspiciously through s brain but still if it were a falsehood it was a pleasant one and pleasantly handled his ner had no air of study or exaggeration he did really look and speak as if in a state of no common enjoyment their subjects in general were such as belong to an opening acquaintance on his side were the inquiries � was she a � pleasant rides � pleasant walks � had they a large neighborhood � perhaps afforded society enough � there were several very pretty houses in and about it � balls � had they balls � was it a musical society but when satisfied on all these points and their acquaintance advanced he contrived to find an opportunity while their two fathers were engaged with each other of introducing his law and speaking of her with so much handsome praise so much warm admiration so much gratitude for the happiness she secured to his father and her very kind reception of himself as was an additional proof of his knowing how to please � and of his certainly thinking it worth while to try to please her he did not advance a word of praise beyond what she knew to be thoroughly deserved by mrs but undoubtedly he could know very little of the matter he understood what would be welcome he could be sure of little else his father s marriage he said had been the wisest measure every friend must rejoice in it and the family from whom he had received such a blessing must be ever considered as having conferred the highest obligation on him he got as near as he could to thanking her for miss s merits without seeming quite to for get that in the common course of things it was to be rather supposed that miss had formed miss s character than miss miss s and at last as if resolved to his opinion completely for travelling round to its object he wound it all up with astonishment at the youth and beauty of her person elegant agreeable manners i was prepared for said he but i confess that considering everything i had not expected more than a very tolerably well looking woman of a certain age i did not know that i was to find a pretty young woman in mrs you cannot see too much perfection in mrs for my feelings said were you to guess her to be eighteen i should listen with pleasure but she would be ready to quarrel with you for using such words don t let her imagine that you have spoken of her as a pretty young woman i hope i should know better he replied no depend upon it with a gallant bow that in addressing mrs i shall understand whom i might praise without any danger of being thought extravagant in my terms wondered whether the same suspicion of what might be expected from their knowing each other which had taken strong possession of her mind had ever crossed his and whether his compliments were to be considered as marks of acquiescence or proofs of defiance she must see more of him to understand his ways at present she only felt they were agreeable she had no doubt of what mr was often thinking about his quick eye she detected again and again glancing towards them with a happy expression and even when he might have determined not to look she was confident that he was often listening her own father s perfect from any thought of the kind the entire deficiency in him of all such sort o penetration or suspicion was a most comfortable circumstance happily he was not farther from matrimony than from it though always to every marriage that was arranged he never suffered beforehand from the apprehension of any it seemed as if he could not think so ill of any two persons understanding as to suppose they meant to marry till it were proved against them she blessed the blindness he could now without the of a single unpleasant without a glance forward at any possible treachery in his guest give way to all his natural kind hearted civility in inquiries after mr frank s accommodation on his journey through the sad evils of sleeping two nights on the road and express very genuine anxiety to know that he had certainly escaped catching cold � which however he could not allow him to feel quite assured of himself till after another night a reasonable visit paid mr began to move he must be going he had business at the crown about his hay and a great many errands for mrs at ford s but he need not hurry anybody else his son too well bred to hear the hint rose immediately also saying � as you are going farther on business sir i will take the opportunity of paying a visit which must be paid some day or other and therefore may as well be paid now i have the honor of being acquainted with a neighbor of yours turning to a lady in or near a family of the name of i shall have no difficulty i suppose in finding the house though i believe is not the proper name � i should rather say or do you know any family of that name to be sure we do cried his father mrs � we passed her house � i saw miss at the window true true you are acquainted with miss i remember you knew her at and a fine girl she is call upon her by all means there is no necessity for my calling this morning said the young man another day would do as well but there was that degree of acquaintance at which � oh go to day go to day do 