succeeded in removing her and her large income to his own but he could not succeed in the views of permanently his family which were attributed to him she had been too wary to put anything out of her own power and when on sir harry s death she returned again to her own house at she was said to have made this boast that though she had got nothing but her title from the family yet she had given nothing for it for the title it was to be supposed that she married lady was indeed a great lady beyond the common wants of society for she had many thousands a year to and three distinct sets of people to be by � her own a of jane tions who might very reasonably wish for her original thirty thousand pounds among them the legal of mr who might hope to be more indebted to her sense of justice than he had allowed them to be to his and those members of the family for whom her second husband had hoped to make a good bargain by all or by branches of them she had no doubt been long and still continued to be well attacked and of these three divisions mr did not hesitate to say that mr s kindred were the least in favor and sir harry s the most the former he believed had done themselves harm by expressions of very unwise resentment at the time of mr s death the latter to the advantage of being the remnant of a con which she certainly valued joined those of having been known to her from their childhood and of being always at hand to pursue their in by attentions but another was now to be taken into account a young female relation whom lady had been induced to receive into her family after having always protested against any such addition and often enjoyed the repeated defeat she had given to every attempt of her own relations to introduce this young lady or that young lady as a com at house she had brought back with her from london last a miss who bid fair to in favor with sir edward and to secure for herself and her family that share of the accumulated property which they had certainly the best right to inherit a of lady s character comes out in a con which takes place at mr s the turned entirely upon its present number of and the chances of a good season it was evident that had more anxiety more fears of loss than her she wanted to have the place fill faster and seemed to have apprehensions of the lodgings being in some instances to a report that a large boarding school was expected she replies ah well no harm in that they will stay their six weeks and out of such a number who knows but some may be and want milk and i have two at this very time but perhaps the little may hurt the furniture i hope they will have a good sharp to look after them but she wholly of mr s wish to secure the residence of a medical man amongst them why what should we do with a doctor here it would only be encouraging our servants and the poor to fancy themselves ill if there was a doctor at hand oh pray let us have none of that tribe at we go on very well as we are there is the sea and the downs and my and i have told mrs that if anybody for a chamber horse they may be supplied at a fair rate poor mr s chamber horse as good as new and what can people want more i have lived seventy good years in the world and never took except twice and never saw the face of a doctor in all my a of jane life on my own account and i really if my poor dear sir harry had never seen one neither he would have been alive now ten one after another did the men take who sent him out of the world i you mr no doctors here this lady s character comes out more strongly in a conversation with mr s g est miss sir edward with his sister and have just left them accepted an invitation from lady to remain with her on the terrace when the others to the library lady like a true great lady talked and talked only of her own concerns and listened taking hold of s arm with the ease of one who felt that any notice from her was a favor and from the same sense of importance or from a natural love of talking she immediately said in a tone of great satisfaction and with a look of arch sagacity � miss wants me to invite her and her brother to spend a week with me at house as i did last summer but i sha n t she has been trying to get round me every way with her praise of this and her praise of that but i saw what she was about i saw through it all i am not very easily taken in my dear could think of nothing more harmless to be said than the simple inquiry of sir edward and miss yes my dear my young folks as i call a of sometimes for i take them very much by the band and had them with me last summer about this time for a week � from monday to monday � and very delighted and thankful they were for they are very good young people my dear i would not have you think that i only notice them for poor dear sir harry s sake no no they are very deserving themselves or trust me they would not be so much in my 