extreme of vanity to be forming expectations on mr i am sure his sisters him as they do must have thought it so supposing he had meant nothing how then was i to be � to be in love with him the moment he said he was with me how was i to have an attachment at his service as soon as it was asked for his sisters should consider me as well as him the higher his deserts the more improper for me ever to have thought of him and and � we think very differently of the nature of women if they can imagine a woman so very soon capable of returning an affection as this seems to imply my dear dear now i have the truth i know this to be the truth and most worthy of you are such feelings i had attributed them to you before i thought i could understand you you have now given exactly the explanation which i ventured to make for you to your friend and mrs grant and they were both better satisfied though your warm hearted friend was still run away with a little by the enthusiasm of her fondness for henry i told them that you were of all human creatures the one over whom habit had most power and novelty least and that the very circumstance of the novelty of s addresses was against him their being so new and so recent was all in their that you could nothing that you were not used to and a great deal more to the same purpose to give them a knowledge of your character miss made ns by her plans of encouragement for her brother she meant to urge him to in the hope of being loved in time and of having his addresses most kindly received at the end of about ten years happy marriage could with difficulty give the smile that was here asked for her feelings were all in revolt she feared she had been doing wrong saying too much the caution which she had been necessary in guarding against one evil laying herself open to another and to have miss s repeated to her at such a moment and on such a subject was a bitter saw weariness and distress in her face and immediately resolved to forbear all further discussion and not even to mention the name ol again except as it might be connected with what must be agreeable to her on this principle he soon afterwards observed � they go on monday you are sure therefore of seeing your friend either to morrow or sunday they really go on monday and i was within a trifle of being persuaded to stay at till that very day i had almost promised it what a difference it might have made those five or six days more at might have been felt all my life you were staying there very i was most kindly pressed and had nearly consented had i received any letter from to tell me how you were all going on i park believe i should certainly have stayed but i knew nothing that had happened here for a fortnight and felt that i had been away long enough you spent your time pleasantly there yes that is it was the fault of my own mind if i did not they were all very pleasant i doubt their finding me so i took uneasiness with me and there was no getting rid of it till i was in again the miss � you liked them did not you yes very well pleasant good unaffected girls but i am spoilt for common female society unaffected girls will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women they are two distinct orders of being you and miss have made me too nice still however was oppressed and wearied he saw it in her looks it could not be talked away and attempting it no more he led her directly with the kind authority of a privileged guardian into the house chapter now believed himself perfectly acquainted with all that could tell or could leave to be of her sentiments and he was satisfied it had been as he before presumed too hasty a measure on s side and time must be given to make the idea first familiar and then agreeable to her she must be used to the consideration of his being in love with her and then a return of affection might not be very distant he gave this opinion as the result of the conversation to his father and recommended there being nothing more said to her no further attempts to influence or persuade but that everything should be left to s and the natural workings of her own mind sir thomas promised that it should be so s account of s disposition he could believe to be just he supposed she had all those feelings but he must consider it as very unfortunate that she had for less willing than his son to trust to the future he could not help fearing that if such very long of time and habit were necessary for her she might not have persuaded herself into receiving his addresses properly before the young man s inclination for paying them were over there was nothing to be done however but to submit quietly and hope the best park the promised visit from her friend as called miss was a formidable threat to and she lived in continual terror of it as a sister so partial and so angry and so little scrupulous of what she said and in another light so triumphant and secure she was in every way an object of painful alarm her displeasure her penetration and her happiness were all fearful to encounter and the dependence of having others present when they met was s only support in 