but with real care and vision for their half hidden pains and with long enjoyment of uttle pleasures prepared for them perhaps the of his admiration did not fall precisely on this quality in her � perhaps he his own choice of her chiefly because she did not strike him as a remarkable a man likes his wife to be pretty well was pretty but not to a extent a man likes his wife to be accomplished gentle affectionate and not stupid and had all these was not surprised to find himself in love with her and was conscious of excellent judgment in preferring her to miss the daughter of the county member although was only the daughter of his father s subordinate partner besides he had had to defy and overcome a slight and disappointment in his father and sisters � a circumstance which gives a young man an agreeable consciousness of his own dignity was aware that he had sense and independence enough to choose the wife who was likely to make him happy by any considerations he meant to choose she was a little darling and exactly the sort of woman he had always most admired chapter n he is very clever said she was kneeling on a at s feet after placing that dark lady in the large crimson velvet chair i feel sure you wiu like him i hope you will i shall be very difficult to please said smiling the on thb and up one of s long curls that the sunlight might shine through it a gentleman who thinks he is good enough for must expect to be sharply indeed he s a great deal too good for me and sometimes when he is away i almost think it can t really be that he loves me but i can never doubt it when he is with me � though i couldn t bear any one but you to know that i feel in that way oh then if i of him you can give him up since you are not engaged said with playful gravity i would rather not be engaged when people are engaged they begin to think of being married soon said too thoroughly to notice s joke and i should like everything to go on for a long while just as it is s i am quite frightened lest should say that he has spoken to papa and from something that fell from papa the other day i feel sure he and mr guest are that and s sisters are very civil to me now at first i think they didn t like his paying me attention and that was natural it does seem out of keeping that i should ever live in a great place like the park house a little insignificant thing as i am but people are not expected to be large in proportion to the houses they live in like said laughing pray are mr guest s sisters oh no j and not handsome � that is not very said half at this remark but he is � at least he is generally considered very handsome though you are unable to share that opinion oh i don t know said blushing pink over brow and neck it is a bad plan to raise expectation you will perhaps be disappointed but i have prepared a charming surprise for him i shall have a glorious laugh against him i shall not tell you what it is though rose from her knees and went to a little distance holding her pretty head on one side as if she had been arranging for a portrait and wished to judge of the general effect stand up a moment what is your pleasure now said smiling as she rose from her chair and looked down on her slight cousin whose figure was quite subordinate to her of silk and kept her attitude a moment or two in silence ana then said r ths mill on i can t think wliat it is in yon that makes you look best in shabby clothes though you must have a new dress now but do you know last night i was trying to fancy you in a handsome dress and do what i would that old limp would back as the only right thing for you i wonder if looked all the when her gown was at the elbows now if i were to put shabby on i be quite � i should be a mere rag oh quite said with mock gravity you would be liable to be swept out of the room with the and carpet dust and to find yourself under the grate like t i sit down now yes now you may said laughing then with an air of serious reflection un her hu jet but you must change mi that little looks silly on you but won t that mar the charming effect of my said herself while knelt again and un the contemptible butterfly i wish my mother were of your opinion for she was last night because this is my best frock i ve been saving my money to pay for some lessons i shall never get a better situation without more accomplishments gave a little sigh w don t put on that sad look again said the large below s fine throat you re forgetting that you ve left that dreary behind you and have no little girls clothes to mend yes said it is with me as i used to think it would be with the poor uneasy white bear i saw at the show i thought he must have got so stupid with the habit of ing backwards and forwards in that narrow space that he would keep doing it if they set him free one gets a bad habit of being unhappy but i put you under a discipline of pleasure that will 