noon she made her escape with her work to the east room that she might have no concern in another and as she deemed it most unnecessary of the first act which henry was just proposing desirous at once of having her time to herself and of avoiding the sight of mr a glimpse as she passed through the hall of the two ladies walking up from the made no change in her wish of retreat and she worked and meditated in the east room undisturbed for a quarter of an hour when a gentle tap at the door was followed by the entrance of miss am i right yes this is the east room my dear miss d price i beg four but i have made mj way to yon on purpose to entreat your help quite surprised endeavoured to show herself of the room by her and looked at the t bars of her empty grate with thank you � i am quite warm very warm allow me to stay here a while and do have the goodness to bear me my third act i have t my book and it you would but it with me i should be obliged i i came here to day intending to it � by ourselves � against the evening but he u not tn the way and if he were i do not i could go through it with him till i have hardened myself a little for really is a speech or two you will be so good won t you was most civil in her assurances though she could not give them in a very steady voice have you ever to look at the part i meant continued miss opening her book here it is i did not think much of it at first � but upon my � � � there look at thai speech and that and thai how am i ever to look him in the and say such things t could ou do but then he is your cousin which makes all the difference you must it with me that i may fancy you him and get on by degrees you have a look oi ia sometimes have it� i will do my best with the greatest � but i must read the part for i can ray very little of it it i suppose you are to have the book of course now for it we must have two chairs at hand for you to bring forward to the front of the stage there � very good school room chairs not made for a theatre i dare say much more fitted for girls to sit and kick their feet against when they are learning a lesson what would your and your uncle say to see them used for a purpose could sir thomas look in upon us just now he would bless himself for we are all over the house is away in the i heard him as i came upstairs and the is engaged of course by those and if they are not i thai be part i f the b e i looked in upon five ago and it happened to be exactly at one of the when tbey were trying net to embrace and mr witli me i thought he began to look a little queer i turned it off as well as i could by to him we shall have an excellent there is bo in her manner so completely in her voice and was not well done of me t he up directly now for my began and in with all the modest the idea of representing was so calculated to inspire but with looks and voice so truly j as to be no very good picture of a man an however miss had courage enough mad had got half the scene when a tap at the door brought a pause and the of the next moment suspended it all consciousness and pleasure in each of the on this unexpected meeting and as on the veiy same business that had brought consciousness and pleasure were likely to be more than in them he too had his book and was seeking to ask her to with him and help him to prepare for the evening without knowing miss to be in the house and great was the joy and of being thrown of comparing and in praise of s kind offices could not equal them in their warmth her spirit sank under the glow of theirs and she felt herself becoming too nearly nothing to both to have any comfort in having been t by either they must new together proposed urged entreated it � till the lady not very at first could no longer � and was wanted only to prompt and observe them she was invested indeed with the office of judge and critic and earnestly desired to exercise it and tell them all their but from doing so every within her shrank she could not would not not attempt it had she been otherwise for criticism her conscience must have r� her from venturing at s park to feel too much of it in the for honesty oc in to prompt them most be enough for her and it was sometimes for she could not always pay attention to the book in watching then � be forgot herself and agitated by the increasing v of s manner had once the page and turned away exactly as he wanted help it was to very reasonable weariness and she was thanked and pitied bat she deserved their pity more than she hoped they would at last scene was over and forced to add her praise to the compliments each waa the other and when again alone and to recall the whole she was inclined lo their would indeed have such nature and feeling in it as must th� 