so and or ill bred as he wished to appear his temper t pe be a little by finding like many of his that through some bias in of he was the husband of a veiy silly woman she knew that this kind of blunder was too common for any sensible man to be hurt by it it was rather a wish of distinction she which im his treatment of everybody and his general abuse of before him it was the of appearing superior to other people the motive was too common to be wondered at but the means however they t succeed by establishing his superiority in ill breeding were not to attach any one to him except his wife oh my dear miss said mrs soon afterwards i have got such a favour to ask of you and your sister you come and spend some time at this christmas t now pray do � and come while the are with us you cannot think how happy i shall be it will be quite delightful my love applying to her husband don t you long to have the miss come to t certainly he replied with a sneer i came into with no other view there now said his lady you see mr you so you cannot refuse to come tliey both eagerly and resolutely declined her invitation but indeed you must and shall come i am sure you will like it of all things the will be with us and it will be quite delightful you cannot think what a sweet place is and we are so gay now for mr is always going about the country against the election and so many people come to dine with us that i never saw before it is quite charming but poor fellow it is very to him for he is forced to make everybody like him could hardly keep her countenance as she assented to the hardship of such an obligation how charming it will be said when he is in parliament i� won t it t how i shall laugh t it be so � f to see all his letters directed to him with aa m p but do a he says he will never for me i he declares he won t don t you mr mr took no notice of her he cannot bear writing yon know she he says it is quite no said he i never said anything so don t palm all your of language upon me there now you see how droll he is this is always the way with him i sometimes he won t speak to me for half a day t and then he comes out with something so droll � all about anything in the world she surprised very much as they returned into the drawing room by asking her whether she did not like mr excessively certainly said he seems very agreeable well i am so glad you do i thought you would he is so pleasant and mr is pleased with you and your sisters i can tell you and you can t think how disappointed he will be if you don t come to i can t imagine why you should object to it was again obliged to decline her invitation and by changing the subject put a stop to her entreaties she thou t it probable that as they lived in the same county mrs might be able to give some more particular account of general character than could be gathered fix m the partial acquaintance with him and she was eager to gain from any one such a of his merits as t remove the possibility of fear fix m she b an by if they saw much of mr at and whether they were intimately acquainted with him oh dear yes i know him extremely well replied mrs � not that i ever spoke to him indeed but i have seen him for ever in town somehow or other i never happened to be staying at while he was at saw him here once before but i was with my uncle at however i dare say we should have seen a great deal of him in if it had not happened veiy that we should never have been in the md he is very little at i believe but if he were ever so much there i do not think mr would visit him for he is in the opposition you know and besides it is such a way o� i know why you about him veiy well � your sister is to many him i am monstrous glad of it for then i shall have her for a ne you know upon my word replied you know much more of the matter than i do if you have any reason to expect such a match i don t pretend to deny it because you know it is what everybody talks oc i assure you i heard of it in my way through town my dear mrs upon my honour i did i met colonel monday morning in bond street just before we left town and he told me of it directly you surprise me veiy colonel tell you of it surely you must be mistaken to give such to a person who could not be interested in it even if it true is not what i should e colonel to do but i do assure you it was so for all that and i will tell you how it happened when we met him he turned back and walked with us and so we began talking of my brother and sister and one thing and another and i said to him so colonel there is a new family come to cottage i hear and mamma sends me word they are very pretty and that one of them is going to 