all this while and what was her opinion of the new comers few young ladies of eighteen could be less called on to speak their opinion than in a quiet way very little attended to she paid her tribute of admiration to miss s beauty but as she still continued to think mr very plain in spite of her two cousins having repeatedly proved the contrary she never mentioned him the notice which she excited herself was to this effect i begin now to understand you all except miss price said miss as she was walking with the mr pray is she out or is she not i am puzzled she dined at the with the rest of you which seemed like being out and yet she says so little that i can hardly suppose she is to whom was chiefly addressed replied i believe i know what you mean but i will not undertake to answer the question my cousin is grown up she has the age and sense of a woman but the and not are beyond me and yet in general nothing can be more easily ascertained the distinction is so broad manners as well as appearance are generally speaking so totally different till now i could park not have supposed it possible to be mistaken as to a girl s being out or not a girl not out has always the same sort of dress � a close bonnet for instance � looks very and never says a word you may smile but it is so i assure you and except that it is sometimes carried a little too far it is all very proper girls should be quiet and modest the most objectionable part is that the alteration of manners on being introduced into company is frequently too sudden they sometimes pass in such very little time from reserve to quite the opposite � to confidence that is the part of the present system one does not like to see a girl of eighteen or nineteen so immediately up to everything � and perhaps when one has seen her hardly able to speak the year before mr i dare say you have sometimes met with such changes i believe i have but this is hardly fair i see what you are at you are me and miss no indeed miss i do not know who or what you mean i am quite in the dark but i will you with a great deal of pleasure if you will tell me what about ah you carry it off very well but i cannot be quite so far imposed on you must have had miss in your eye in describing an altered young lady you paint too accurately for mistake it was exactly so the of baker street we were speaking of them the other day you know you have heard me mention charles the circumstance vol i � park was precisely as this lady has represented it when first introduced me to his family about two years ago his sister was not out and i could not get her to speak to me i sat there an hour one morning waiting for with only her and a little girl or two in the room the being sick or run away and the mother in and out every moment with letters of business and i could hardly get a word or a look from the young lady � nothing like a civil answer � she up her mouth and turned from me with such an air i did not see her again for a she was then out met her at mrs s and did not recollect her she came up to me claimed me as an acquaintance stared me out of countenance and talked and laughed till i did not know which way to look i felt that i must be the jest of the room at the time and miss it is plain has heard the story and a very pretty story it is and with more truth in it i dare say than does credit to miss it is too common a fault mothers certainly have not yet got quite the right way of managing their daughters i do not know where the error lies i do not pretend to set people right but i do see that they are often wrong those who are showing the world what female manners should be said mr gallantly are doing a great deal to set them right the error is plain enough said the less courteous such girls are ill brought up they are given wrong notions from the be park they are always acting upon motives of vanity and there is no more real modesty in their behavior before they appear in public than afterwards i do not know replied miss hesitatingly yes i cannot agree with you there it is certainly the part of the business it is much worse to have girls not out give themselves the same airs and take the same liberties as if they were which i have seen done that is worse than anything quite disgusting yes that is very inconvenient indeed said mr it leads one astray one does not know what to do the close bonnet and air you describe so well and nothing was ever tell one what is expected but i got into a dreadful scrape last year from the want of them i went down to for a week with a friend last september just after my return from the west indies my friend � you have heard me speak of his father and mother and sisters were there all new to me when we reached place they were out we went after them and found them on the pier � mrs and the two miss with others of their acquaintance i made my bow in form and as mrs was surrounded by men 