approve of � in a most way you should have known how improper such conduct is a woman can t be too careful not to be seen alone with i don t know whom c you saw us papa and have never said a word my fault of course my fault what the deuce could i be thinking of he a s son and we connections of the we have been to nothing for centuries and now i believe we have got there what shall i next invite here i wonder began to cry at this very aspect of affairs o papa papa forgive me and him we care so much for one another papa � o so much and what he was going to ask you is if you will allow of an engagement between us till he is a gentleman as good as you we are not in a hurry dear papa we don t want in the least to marry now not until he is richer only will you let us be engaged because i love him so and he loves me mr s feelings were a little touched by this appeal and he was annoyed that such should be the case certainly not he replied he pronounced the and so that the not sounded like n o o o t no no no don t say it i a fine story it is not enough that i have been and disgraced by having him here � the son of one of my village � but now i am to make him my son in law heavens above us are you mad you have seen his letters come to me ever since his first visit papa and you knew they were a sort of � and since he has been here you have let him be a pair of blue eyes alone with me almost entirely and you guessed you must have guessed what we were thinking of and doing and you didn t stop him next to love making comes love winning and you knew it would come to that papa the this common sense thrust i know � since you press me so � i know i did guess some childish attachment might arise between you i own i did not take much trouble to prevent it but i have not particularly it and how can you expect that i should now it is impossible no father in england would hear of such a thing but he is the same man papa the same in every particular and how can he be less fit for me than he was before he appeared a young man with well to do friends and a little property but having neither he is another man you inquired nothing about him i went by s introduction he should have told me so should the young man himself of course he should i consider it a most thing to come into a man s house like a treacherous i don t but he was afraid to tell you and so should i have been he loved me too well to like to run the risk and as to speaking of his friends on his first visit i don t see why he should have done so at all he came here on business it was no affair of ours who his parents were and then he knew that if he told you he would never be asked here and would perhaps never see me again and he wanted to see me who can blame him for trying by any means to stay near me � the girl he loves all is fair in love i have heard you say so yourself papa and you yourself would have done just as he so would any man and any man on discovering what i have discovered would also do as i do and mend my mistake that is get shot of him again as soon as the laws of a pair of blue eyes hospitality will allow but mr then remembered that he was a christian i would not for the world seem to turn him out of doors he added but i think he will have the tact to see that he cannot stay long after this with good taste he will because he s a gentleman see how graceful his manners are went on though perhaps s manners like the of owed their in her eyes rather to the of his person than to their own excellence ay anybody can be what you call graceful if he lives a little time in a city and keeps his eyes open and he might have picked up his by going to the galleries of theatres and watching stage drawing room manners he reminds me of one of the worst stories i ever heard in my life what story was that oh no thank you i wouldn t tell you such an improper matter for the world if his father and mother had lived in the north or east of england gallantly persisted though her sobs began to interrupt her anywhere but here � you � would only regarded � him and not them his station � would have � been what � his profession makes it � and not fixed by � his father s humble position � at all whom he never lives with � now though john smith has saved lots of money and is better off than we are they say or he couldn t have put his son to such an expensive profession and it is clever and � honourable � of to be the best of his family yes let a beast be lord of beasts and his shall stand at the king s mess you insult me papa she burst out you do you do he is my own he is that may or may not be 