where i looked forward to going � no you cannot expect me to go there would not argue upon the propriety of such feelings she only endeavored to them by working on others and represented it therefore as a measure which would fix the time of her returning to that dear mother whom she so much wished to see in a more eligible more comfortable manner than any other plan could do and perhaps without any greater delay which was within a few miles of the distance to was not beyond one day though a long day s journey and their mother s servant might easily come there to attend them down and as there could be no sense and occasion for their staying above a week at they might now be at home in little more than three weeks time as s affection for her mother was sincere it must triumph with little difficulty over the imaginary evils she had started mrs was so far from being weary of her guests that she pressed them very earnestly to return with her again from was grateful for the attention but it could not alter their design and their mother s being readily gained everything relative to their return was arranged as far as it could be and found some relief in drawing up a statement of the hours that were yet to divide her from colonel i do not know what you and i shall do without the miss was mrs s address to him when he first called on her after their leaving her was settled for they are quite resolved upon going home from the and how forlorn we shall be when i come back i lord we shall sit and at one another as dull as two cats perhaps mrs was in hopes by this vigorous sketch of their future to provoke him to make that offer which might give himself an escape from it and if so she had soon after wards good reason to think her object gained for sense and on s moving to the window to take the dimensions of a print which she was going to copy for her friend he followed her to it with a look of particular meaning and conversed with her there for several minutes the effect of his discourse on the lady too could not escape her observation for though she was too honorable to listen and had even changed her seat on purpose that she might not hear to one close by the on which was playing she could not keep herself from seeing that changed color attended with agitation and was too intent on what he said to pursue her employment still further in confirmation of her hopes in the interval of s turning from one lesson to another some words of the colonel s inevitably reached her ear in which he seemed to be for the of his house this set the matter beyond a doubt she wondered indeed at his thinking it necessary to do so but supposed it to be the proper etiquette what said in reply she could not distinguish but judged from the motion of her lips that she did not think that any material objection and mrs commended her in her heart for being so honest they then talked on for a few minutes longer without her catching a syllable when another lucky stop in s performance brought her these words in the colonel s calm voice � sense and i am afraid it cannot take place very soon astonished and shocked at so a speech she was almost ready to cry out lord what should hinder it but checking her desire confined herself to this silent � this is very strange i sure he need not wait to be older this delay on the colonel s side however did not seem to offend or his fair companion in the least for on their breaking up the conference soon afterwards and moving different ways mrs very plainly heard say and with a voice which showed her to feel what she said � i shall always think myself very much obliged to you mrs was delighted with her gratitude and only wondered that after hearing such a sentence the colonel should be able to take leave of them as he immediately did with the utmost bang and go away without making her any reply i she had not thought her old friend could have made so indifferent a what had really passed between them was to this effect i have heard said he with great compassion of the injustice your friend mr has suffered from his family for if i understand the matter right he has been entirely cast off by them for in his engagement with a very sense and young woman have i been rightly informed is it so told him that it was the cruelty the cruelty he replied with great feelings of dividing or attempting to divide two young people long attached to each other is terrible mrs does not know what she may be doing � what she may drive her son to i have seen mr two or three times in street and am much pleased with him he is not a young man with whom one can be intimately acquainted in a short time but i have seen enough of him to wish him well for his own sake and as a friend of yours i wish it still more i understand that he to take orders will you be so good as to tell him that the living of now just vacant as i am informed by this day s post is his if he think it worth his acceptance � but that perhaps so unfortunately as he is now it may be nonsense to appear to doubt i only wish it were more valuable it is a but a small one 