profitable thankful pupil was her s explanations and remarks were a most important addition to every essay or every chapter of history what told her of former times dwelt more on her mind than the pages of and she paid her sister the compliment of preferring her style to that of any printed author the early habit of reading was wanting park their however were not always on subjects ao high as history or others had their hour and of lesser matters none returned often or remained so long between them as park a of the people the manners the amusements the ways of park who had an innate taste for the genteel and well appointed was eager to hear and could not but indulge herself in dwelling on so beloved a theme she hoped it was wrong though after a time s very great admiration of everything said or done in her uncle s house and earnest longing to go into seemed almost to blame her for exciting feelings which not be gratified poor was very little better fitted for home than her elder sister and as grew to understand this she began to feel that when her own release from came her happiness would have a material in leaving behind that a girl so capable of being made everything good should be left in such hands distressed her more and more were she likely to have a home to invite her to what a blessing it would be and had it been possible for her to return mr s regard the probability of his being very far from to such a measure would have been the greatest increase of all her comforts she thought he was really good tempered and could fancy his entering into a plan of that sort most p chapter xx weeks of the two months were very nearly when the one letter the letter from long expected was put into s hands as she opened and saw its length she prepared herself for a minute detail of happiness and a profusion of love and praise towards the fortunate creature who was now mistress of his fate these were the contents � park mt dear � excuse me that i have not written before told me that yon were wishing to hear from me bat i found it impossible to write from london and persuaded myself that you would understand my silence could i have sent a few happy lines they should not have been wanting but nothing of that nature was ever in my power i am returned to in a less assured state than when i left it my hopes are much weaker you are probably aware of this already so very fond of you as miss is it is most natural that she should tell you enough of her own feelings to furnish a tolerable guess at mine i will not be prevented however from making my own communication our confidences in you need not clash i ask no questions there is something soothing in the idea that we have the same friend and that whatever unhappy differences of may exist between us we are united in our love of you it will be a comfort to me to tell you how things now are and what are my park present plans if plane i can be said to have been since i was three weeks in london and ber for very often i had ever attention from the tliat could be expected i dare i was not in carrying with me hopes of an at all that of it was her manner however r than any of had the n different when i did her i should have made no complaint but from the very first she was my first reception so unlike what i had hoped that i had resolved on leaving london again directly i need you know the weak side of her character and may imagine the sentiments and expressions which were tne she was in high spirits and surrounded by those who were giving all the support of their own bad sense to her too lively mind i do not like mrs she is a hearted vain woman who married entirely from convenience and though evidently unhappy in her marriage places her disappointment not to faults of judgment or temper or of age but to her being after all less than many of her a� especially than her sister lady and is the of everything and ambitious provided it be only and ambitious enough i look upon her intimacy with those too sisters as the greatest misfortune of her life and mine have been leading her for years she he detached from them i � and sometimes i do not despair of it for the affection appears to be principally on their they are v ry fond of her hut i am sure she does not love them as she loves you when i think of her great attachment to you indeed and the whole of her judicious upright conduct as a sister she appears a very creature capable of everything noble and i am ready to blame myself for a too harsh of a playful manner i cannot give her up she park is the only woman in the world whom i could think of as a wife if i did not believe that she had some regard for me of coarse i should not say this but i do believe it i am convinced that she is not without a decided preference i have no jealousy of any individual it is the influence of the fashionable world altogether that i am jealous of it is the habits of wealth that i fear her ideas are not higher than her own fortune may warrant but they are beyond what our united could there is comfort however even here i could better bear to lose her because 