real but i would hardly walk from this room to the next look at the raw of those who have not been bred the trade � a set of gentlemen and ladies who have the of education and decorum to through after a short pause however the subject still and was discussed with eagerness every on inclination increasing by the discussion and a of the inclination of the rest and though nothing v settled but that tom would prefer a comedy a his sisters and henry a tragedy and that in the world could be easier than to find a piece j an f ill please them all the resolution to act or ther seemed so decided as to make quite he was determined to prevent it if possible his mother who equally heard the conversation passed at table did not the least the same evening afforded him an opportunity of trying lis strength maria henry and mr in the room tom returning from them into he drawing room where was standing by the fire while lady was on the sofa at a distance and close beside her arranging her thus began as he entered � such a horribly vile table as ours is not to be net with i believe above ground i can stand it no and i think i may say that nothing shall ever me to it again � but one good thing i have just it is the very room for a theatre precisely the and length for it and the doors at the farther end with each other as they may be made to lo in five minutes by merely moving the in my s room is the very thing we could have desired if ire had set down to wish for it and my father s room be an excellent green room it seems to join the room on purpose you are not serious tom in meaning to act said in a low voice as his brother approached the fire not serious never more so i assure you what is here to surprise you in it i think it would be very wrong in a general light private are open to some objections but as we ire i must think it would be highly and more than to attempt any thing f the kind it would show great want of feeling on my s account absent as he is and in some degree of x danger and it would be i think with regard to maria whose situation is a very delicate one every thing extremely delicate you take up a thing so seriously i as if we were to act three times a week till my father s return and invite all the country but it is not to be a that sort we mean nothing but a little ourselves just to vary the scene and exercise o in something new we want no audience no we may be trusted i think in choosing some perfectly and i can conceive i harm or danger to any of us in conversing in tl language of some respectable author than in words of our own i have no fears and no and as to my father s being absent it is so objection that i consider it rather as a motive expectation of his return must be a very anxious my mother and if we can be the means of ami anxiety and keeping up her spirits for the i shall think our time very well spent and so he it is a very anxious period for her as he said this each looked towards lady sunk back in one comer of the picture of health wealth ease and tranquillity falling into a dose while was the few difficulties of her work for her smiled and shook his head by jove this won t do cried tom � into a chair with a hearty laugh to be dear mother your anxiety � i was unlucky ther what is the matter asked her in tone of one half roused � i was not asleep oh dear no ma am � nobody well � he continued returning to tl subject posture and voice as soon as lady to nod again but this i will maintain be doing no harm i cannot agree with you � i am father would totally it � and i am convinced to the contrary of the exercise of talent in young it more than my father and for any thi acting kind i think he has taste i am sure he encouraged it in us as bo many a time have mourned over the dead park s and to not to he d in this very room for his amusement and i am sure my name was every evening of my life through one christmas holidays it was a very different thing you must see the difference yourself my father wished us as to well hut he would never wish his grown up daughters to be acting plays his sense of decorum is strict i know all that said tom displeased i know father as well as you do and i take care that his daughters do nothing to distress him manage your own and i ll take care of the rest of the family if you are resolved on acting replied the � i must hope it will be in a very small and way and i think a theatre ought not to be attempted it would be taking liberties with my father s house in his absence which could not be justified for every thing of that nature i will be said tom in a decided tone his house shall not be hurt i have quite as great an interest in being careful of his house as you can have and as to such alterations a i was suggesting just now such as moving a or a door or 