of which was open to all how could she have so imposed on herself heaven forbid that henry should ever know her folly and it was in a great measure his own doing for had not the appeared so exactly to agree with his description of her adventures she would never have felt the smallest about it this was the only comfort that occurred impatient to get rid of those hateful evidences of her folly those detestable papers then scattered over the bed she rose directly and folding them up as nearly as possible in the same shape as before returned them to the same spot within the cabinet with a veiy hearty wish that no accident might ever bring them forward again to disgrace her even with herself why the locks should have been so difficult to open however was still something remarkable for she could now manage them with perfect ease in this there was surely something mysterious and she indulged in the flattering suggestion for half a minute till the possibility of the door b having been at first unlocked and of being herself its darted into her head and cost her another blush she got away as soon as she could from a room in which her conduct produced such unpleasant reflections and found her way with all speed to the breakfast parlour as it had been pointed out to her by miss the evening before henry was alone in it and his hope of her having been undisturbed by the tempest with an arch reference to the character of the building they inhabited was rather distressing for the world would she not have her weakness suspected and yet unequal to an absolute falsehood was abbey constrained to acknowledge that the wind had kept her awake a little but we have a charming morning after it she added desiring to get rid of the subject and storms and are nothing when thej are over what i have just learnt to love a and how might you learn by accident or argument your sister taught me i cannot tell how mrs used to take pains year after year to make me like them but i never could till i saw them the other day in street i am naturally indifferent about flowers but now you love a so much the better you have gained a new source of enjoyment and it is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible besides a taste for flowers is always desirable in your sex as a means of getting you out of doors and tempting you to more frequent than you would otherwise t� e and though the love of a may be rather domestic who can tell the sentiment once raised but you may in time come to love a rose but i do not want any such pursuit to get me out of the pleasure of walking and breathing fresh air is for me and in weaker i am out more than half my time mamma says i am never within at any rate however i am pleased that you have learnt to love a the mere habit of learning to love is the thing and a of disposition in a young lady is a great blessing has my sister a pleasant mode of instruction was saved the embarrassment of attempting an answer by tiie entrance of the general whose smiling compliments announced a happy state of mind but whose gentle hint of sympathetic early rising did not advance her composure the elegance of the breakfast set forced itself on s notice when they were seated at table and luckily it had been the general s choice he was enchanted by her approbation of his taste confessed it to be neat and simple thought it right to encourage the manufacture of his country abbey and for his part to his the tea was as weu ihe clay of as from that of or but this was quite an old set purchased two years ago the manufacture was much improved since that time he had seen some beautiful specimens when last in town and had he not been perfectly without vanity of that kind might have been tempted to order a new set he trusted however that an opportunity might ere long occur of selecting one though not for himself was pro the only one of the party who did not understand him shortly after breakfast henry left them for where business required and would keep him two or three days they all attended in the hall to see him his horse and immediately on re entering the breakfast room walked to a window in the hope of catching another glimpse of his figure this is a somewhat heavy upon your brother s fortitude observed the general to will make but a sombre appearance to is it a pretty place asked what say you speak your opinion for can best tell the taste of ladies in regard to places as well as men i think it would be acknowledged by the most impartial eye to have many the house stands among fine meadows facing the south east with an excellent kitchen garden in the same a the walls surrounding which i built and myself about ten ago for the benefit of my son it is a family living miss and the property in the place being chiefly my own you may believe i take care that it shall not be a bad one did henry s income depend solely on this he would not be ill provided for perhaps it may seem odd that only two younger children i should think any necessary for him and certainly there moments when we could all wish him disengaged from every tie oi but though i may not make ol yoa young ladies i am sure your father miss would agree with me in thinking it expedient to give every 