sense i think you now and then discover sense said hark there is calling to us beneath the window said running to the will some of you come down cried he we cannot we are dressing wait a little while i cannot wait he replied i have run down the lane to tell you i shall not be able to go with you to mrs a old has sent over express for mr good so i can t be spared oh what a disappointment yes it is a disappointment however i am in tha � place to that you know will make some amends added he laughing where is f i know she can t have her hair in curl papers oh there you are good by give my love to my mother looks quite like a it is a pity is not here to play i am glad you have such a cool day kissed his hand and ran off exact to the time appointed mrs s carriage and to the ladies praise be it spoken it was not waiting the five miles drive was extremely pretty and was enchanted with the scenery the weather and the easy motion of the a neat lodge gate admitted them into mrs s grounds and after passing through a winding plantation they found themselves at the the house was such a mixture of all that it was difficult to say whether castle cottage or villa no one would ever have designed a whole such as it now stood and it was evident that each had run up his own portion of the edifice with more regard to his own peculiar taste than to what already displayed that of his time had thrown its hue over all and a variety of creeping plants connecting balcony and what was seen and hid what was in a small hall lighted with coloured glass mrs was waiting to receive her guests accompanied by a f young lady whom she introduced as her niece un and had been laid aside e village s and preliminary subjects discussed mrs proposed a walk through the saying she thought it would be pleasanter to go oyer the grounds in the cool of the evening are you fond of v� rs asked miss of as they proceeded towards the yes said but is much the best perhaps you are like me and think it pleasanter to smell look at flowers than to learn their long names i never could conquer the and of the dictionary or perhaps luckily in my superficial education the learned languages were neglected and i must say i infinitely prefer the poetical and simple names of our flowers to your latin there is a great deal of sentiment in many of them what can be prettier for instance than s eye which men call the eye of the or heart s ease which in france they call again does the ugly word convey any sentimental ideas but forget me not at once reminds us of the of the slain at and the tale of the gallant knight who plunged into a lake to gather a of flowers for his lady love arid had only time to fling them on shore and exclaim forget me not when he was in the watery deep where did you find that romantic story maria mrs i read it in a book aunt i assure you thou not in the magazine the lady must have been very passionately fond of flowers if she did not think them too dearly purchased said mrs and the gentleman must have been a very modest to have set his life at the same value as a of forget me not added mrs oh you ladies view the matter in too straight forward a light how could he take a better method of proving how highly he valued her slightest wishes a method which we need not fear will become too no indeed every spark of romance is now extinguished i should like to tell the story to charles he would say the man not mean to drown or else question the of the story that is the way people meet with any thing which they cannot reconcile to their own of thinking and acting oh i will tell the story to charles and mr hope hy and hy and hear what they say to it so thought other mr and are expected do you visit the hopes said miss turning to no ah i thought the must be too great too great indeed thought but there are distances of rank as well as of � charles can make only one objection to mr hope pursued maria that he does not employ he has offered to introduce them to each other the next time he is in town only think of an introduction being to a tailor strange indeed pray who is charles oh my brother i forgot you did not know him by same charles is a great in dress he has written some valuable notes i assure you on the he says if he ever it shall be a little work which he has long had by him and to which he is making continual additions on the subject of hats he wishes to create a standard of taste oh you laugh but the manuscript really exists and is full of and now do not let me prejudice you against charles by these little anecdotes for he is one of the best creatures in the world only a little inclined to satire and and miss had made the tour of the long before mrs and had sufficiently examined half its contents shall we wait or proceed to the picture gallery said maria oh the picture gallery by means replied � this way then to tell you the truth i am delighted to leave that atmosphere what can be more intolerable than a at the beginning 