a� fringe and ihe would hare answered as urn the good and useful of all the young people as for her own it so to tm to see him again and hear him talk to hare her ear and ho whole filled by his thai she b an to feel how dreadfully she must have him and how impossible it have been for her to bear a lengthened absence mrs was by no means to be compared in to her sister not that the was by many of sir i when the present state of bis house should be known for her judgment had been so blinded that except by the caution with which she bad away mr t pink satin as her brother in law entered she could hardly be said to show any sign of but she was vexed by the manner of his return it had left her to da instead of being sent for out of the room and seeing him first and having to spread the happy through the house sir thomas with a very reasonable dependence perhaps on the nerves of his wife and children had sought no but the butler and had been him almost into the drawing mrs felt herself of an office on which she had always depended whether his arrival or his death were to be the thing and was now trying to be ia a park i j bustle having an r thing to about and to be important where nothing was wanted but and silence would sir thomas have contented to ea the might have gone to the housekeeper with troublesome directions and insulted the with ir tf despatch but sir thomas resolutely declined � n be would take nothing till tea � he would wait for tea still mrs was at urging different and in the most interesting of his passage to england en the alarm of a french was at the height she burst through his with the proposal of soup sure dear thomas a basin of soup would be a much yon tea do have a basin soup sir thomas could not be provoked still the same anxiety for every body s comfort my dear mis was his answer but indeed i would have nothing but then i y suppose you speak for tea directly suppose you hurry a little he seems hand to night she carried this and st thomas s narrative proceeded at length there was a pause his immediate communications were exhausted and it seemed enough to be looking joyfully around him now at one now at another of circle but the pause was not long in the of her spirits lady became and what were the sensations of her children upon bearing her say how do you think the young people have been themselves lately sir thomas they have been we have been all alive with acting indeed and what have you been acting oh tell you all about it the off will be soon told cried tom hastily and with affected but it is not worth while to bore my ti et with it now you will hear enough of it to morrow sir we have just been trying by way of doing something end � � � g my mother just within the last week to get up a few a mere trifle we have had such incessant october that we have been nearly mm v bone fir ft i have on a the his been no an thing c � i tin i m � � � � � � � wood and tbe beyond and we home ax ns and each have tut times as but ve sir i as as could i do not think you find your bv any means than ih von wood ao full of in my life as this year i hope yon will take a day s there soon the present the was and s va feelings subsided but tea was soon in and sir getting up said that he found he could not be any longer in the house without just looking into own dear room n � as he was gone before any thing had been said to prepare him for the change he must find there and a pause of followed his disappearance was the first to speak � something must be done said he it is lime to think of our visitors said maria her hand pressed to henry s heart and caring little for any thing else did you leave hiss t told of their departure and delivered their then poor b all alone cried tom i will go and fetch him he will be no bad assistant when it all comes out to the theatre he went and reached it just in time to witness the first meeting of his ther and his friend thomas had been a good deal surprised to find candles burning in his room and on casting his eye round it to see other of recent habitation and a general air of confusion in the furniture the removal of the from before the room door struck him but he had scarcely more than time to feel astonished at all this before there were sounds from the room to astonish still further some one was talking in fir park a vary loud accent � he did not know the voice � more than almost he stepped to the door rejoicing at that moment in having the means of immediate and opening it found himself on the stage of a theatre and opposed to a young man who appeared likely to knock him down backwards at the very moment of perceiving sir thomas and giving perhaps the very best start he had ever given in the whole course of his tom entered at the other end of the loom and never had he found greater difficulty in keeping bis countenance his father s 