i what is your opinion i i always come to you to know what i am to think of public my dear tom cried his aunt soon aa yon lot ui are not i si to join m in a robber shall � seal and to him to the added in a we to duke a mo b quite k but cannot ve time to sit down became td her and i and dr grant just do and aw job know bet half i be most t� replied be and with it the greatest c bat that i am this moment to dance come � � n� � g her hand do be any v the dance will be was led os willingly though it was for her to feel gratitude towards her as he certainly did between the selfishness of another person and his own a pretty modest request upon my i he indignantly exclaimed as they w ed away to want to nail me to a card table for the next two hours with herself and dr grant who are always quarrelling and that old woman who knows no more of than of i wish my good aunt would be a little less busy and to ask me in such a way too without ceremony before them all so as to leave no possibility of a is what i dislike most particularly it raises my more than any thing to have the pretence of being asked of ber given a choice and at the same time addressed in such a way as to oblige one to do the very thing � whatever it be if i had not luckily thought of standing up with you i could not have got out of it it is a great deal too bad but when my aunt has got a fancy in her head nothing can tt q her park chapter xiii ths john this new friend had not to him habits of fashion and and being the younger son of a lord with a tolerable independence and sir thomas would probably have his introduction at by no means mr s acquaintance with him had begun it where they had spent ten days together in society and the friendship if friendship it might be called had been proved and by mr s being invited to take in his way whenever he and by his promising to come and he did come than had been expected in consequence of the breaking up of a large party assembled for gaiety at the house as er friend which he had left to join he came on the wings of disappointment aud with his head fuu of acting for it had been a theatrical and the play in which he had borne a part was two days of representation when the sudden death cf one of the nearest connections of the family had destroyed scheme and dispersed the to be so near so near fame so near the long paragraph in of the private at the seat of the right hon lord in which would of course have the whole party for at least a i and being so near to lose it all was an injury to be keenly felt and mr could talk of nothing else and its theatre with its and dresses and jokes was his never failing subject and to boast of the past his only consolation happily for him a love of the theatre is so general an for acting so strong among young people that he could hardly out talk the interest of his hearers from the first casting of the parts to the it was all and there were few who did not wish to have been a par concerned or would have to try their i � park the had been and was to have been count a and not at all to mj and a one as i would not accept again but i wm to make no difficulties lord and the duke had the only two worth playing i reached and thou to m it was impossible to take i know i was aim that he should hare so mi his te ha was no more equal to the � a little man always after the ten it bare injured the piece materially bat j was f ea ui ted to make no difficulties sir the duke not equal to but that was because sir wanted the part himself it was certainly in the best hands of the two i was to see sir a stick luckily the strength of the piece did not upon him our was and the duke was very great by many and upon the it would certain have gone off wonderfully it was a hard case upon my word i do think you wore very much to be pitied � were the kind of listening sympathy it is not worth complaining about but to be sure the poor old could not have died at a w time and it is impossible to help wishing the news could have been suppressed for just the three days we wanted it was but three days and being only a grandmother and all happening two hundred miles o i think there would have been no great and i know bat lord who i suppose is one of the most correct men in england would not hear of it an after piece instead of a comedy said mr lovers vows were at an end and lord and lady left to act my grandmother by themselves well the may comfort and perhaps between friends he b an to tremble for his credit and his lungs in the baron and was not sorry to withdraw and to make you amends i think we must raise a little theatre at and ask you to be our manager r � the t the did end with for die to 