he became what he ought to be � useful to his father steady and quiet and not living merely for himself here was comfort indeed and quite as soon as sir thomas could place dependence on such sources of good was to his father s ease by improvement in the only point in which he had given him pain before � improvement in his spirits after wandering about and sitting under trees with all the summer evenings he had so well talked his mind into submission as to be very tolerably cheerful again these were the circumstances and the hopes which gradually brought their to sir thomas his sense of what was lost and in part him to himself though the anguish arising from the conviction of his own errors in the education of his daughters was never to be entirely done away too late he became aware how to the character of an young people must be the totally opposite treatment which maria and had been always at where the excessive indulgence and flattery of their aunt had been continually contrasted the home of the iu london chapters from jane with his own severity he saw how ill he had judged in expecting to what was wrong in mrs by its reverse in himself clearly saw that he had but increased the evil by teaching them to repress their spirits in his presence as to make their real disposition unknown to him and sending them for all their to a person who had been able to attach them only by the blindness of her affection and the excess of her praise here had been grievous but bad as it was he grew to feel that it had not been the most mistake in his plan of education something must have been wanting within or time would have worn much of its ill effect he feared that principle active principle had been wanting that they had never been taught to govern their inclinations and b that sense of duty which can alone suffice they had been instructed in their religion but never required to bring it into daily practice to be distinguished for elegance and accomplishments � the object of their � could have had no useful influence that way no moral effect on the mind he had meant them to be good but his cares had been directed to the understanding and manners not the disposition and of the necessity of and he feared the had never heard from any lips that could profit them bitterly did he a deficiency which now he could scarcely comprehend to have been possible did he feel that with all the cost and care of an anxious and expensive education he had brought up his daughters without their understanding their first duties or his being acquainted with their character and temper the high spirit and strong passions of mrs especially were made known to him only in their sad result she was not to be prevailed on to leave mr she hoped to marry him and they continued park together till she was obliged to be convinced that such hope was vain and till the disappointment and arising from the conviction rendered her temper so bad and her feelings for him so like hatred as to make them for a while each other s punishment and then induce a voluntary separation she had lived with him to be reproached as the ruin of all his happiness in and carried no better consolation in leaving him than that she had divided them what can exceed the misery of such a mind in such a situation mr had no in a divorce and so ended a acted under such circumstances as to make better end the effect of good luck not to be reckoned on she had despised him and loved another and he had been very much aware that it was so the of stupidity and the x of selfish passion can excite little pit his punishment followed his conduct as did a deeper punishment the deeper guilt of his wife he was released from the engagement to be and till some other girl could attract him into matrimony again and he might set forward a second and it is to be hoped more prosperous trial of the state � if to be at least with good humor and good luck while she must withdraw with infinitely stronger feelings to a retirement and reproach which could allow no second spring of hope or character where she could be placed became a subject of most melancholy and momentous consultation mrs whose attachment seemed to with the of her niece would have had her received at home and b all sir thomas would not hear of it and mrs s anger against was so much the greater from considering her residence there as the motive she persisted in placing his scruples to her account though sir thomas solemnly assured her that had there been no young woman in question chapters from jane had there been no young i of either sex belonging to him to be b the society or hurt by the character of mrs rush worth he would never have offered so great an insult to the neighborhood as to expect it to notice her as a daughter � he hoped a penitent one � she should be protected by him and ed in ever comfort and supported by encouragement to do right which their relative situations admitted but farther than that he would not go maria had destroyed her own character and he would not by a vain attempt to restore what never could be restored be affording his sanction to vice or in seeking to lessen its disgrace be to introducing such misery in another man s family as he had known himself it ended in mrs s to quit and devote herself to her unfortunate maria and in an establishment being 