� certainly mr john is an affectionate father the children are all fond of him and then their uncle comes in and them up to the ceiling in a very frightful way but they like it papa there is nothing they like so much it is such enjoyment to them that if their uncle did not lay down the rule of their taking turns whichever began would never give way to the other well i cannot understand it that is the case with us all papa one half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other later in the morning and just as the girls were going to separate in preparation for the regular four o clock dinner the hero of this walked in again turned away but could receive him with the usual smile and her quick eye soon discerned in his the consciousness of having made a push � of having thrown a die and she imagined he was come to see how it might turn up his reason however was to ask whether mr s party could be made up in the evening without him or whether he should be in the smallest degree necessary at field if he were everything else must give way but otherwise his friend had been saying so much about his dining with him � had made such a point of it � that he had promised him to come thanked him but could not allow of his his friend on their account her father was sure of his rubber he re urged � she re declined and he seemed then about to make his bow when taking the paper from the table she returned it oh here is the you were so obliging as to leave with us thank you for the sight of it we admired it so much that i have ventured to write it into miss smith s collection your friend will not take it amiss i hope of course i have not beyond the eight first lines mr certainly did not very well know what to say he looked rather rather confused said something about honor glanced at and at and then seeing the book open on the table took it up and examined it very attentively with the view of passing off an awkward moment said � you must make my apologies to your friend but so good a must not be confined to one or two he may be sure of every woman s approbation while he writes with such gallantry i have no hesitation in saying replied mr though hesitating a good deal while he spoke � i have no hesitation in saying � at least if my friend feels at all as i do � i have not the smallest doubt that could he see his little honored as i see it looking at the book again and it on the table he would consider it as the moment of his life after this speech he was gone as soon as possible could not think it too soon for with all his good and agreeable qualities there was a sort of parade in his speeches which was very apt to incline her to laugh she ran away to indulge the inclination leaving the tender and the sublime of pleasure to s share chapter x though now the middle of december there had yet been no weather to prevent the young ladies from tolerably regular exercise and on the morrow had a charitable visit to pay to a poor sick family who lived a little way out of their road to this detached cottage was down lane � a lane leading at right angles from the broad though irregular main street of the place and as may be inferred containing the blessed abode of mr a few inferior dwellings were first to be passed and then about a quarter of a mile down the lane rose the � an old and not very good house almost as close to the road as it could be it had no advantage of situation but had been very much up by the present proprietor and such as it was there could be no possibility of the two friends passing it without a pace and observing eyes s remark was � there it is there go you and your riddle book one of these days s was � oh what a sweet house how very beautiful i there are the yellow curtains that miss so much i do not often walk this way now said as they proceeded but then there will be ill an and i shall gradually get intimately acquainted with all the hedges gates pools and of this part of she found had never in her life been the and her curiosity to see it was so extreme that considering and could only class it as a proof of love with mr s seeing ready wit in her we could contrive it said she but i cannot think of any tolerable pretence for going in � no servant that i want to inquire about of his housekeeper no message from my father she pondered but could think of nothing after a mutual silence of some minutes thus began again � i do so wonder miss that you should not be married or going to be married � � charming as you are laughed and replied � my being charming is not quite enough to induce me to marry i must find other people charming � one other person at least and i am not only not going to be married at present but have very little intention of ever marrying at all ah so you say but i cannot believe it i must see somebody very superior to any one i have seen yet to be tempted mr you know herself is out of the question and i do not wish to see 