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This is a gentle delineation, is it not, reader? Yet he whoentle, a

yielding, an impressible, or even of a placid nature Quiescent as

he now sat, there was so about his nostril, his mouth, his

brohich, to my perceptions, indicated eleer He did not speak to lance, till his sisters returned Diana, as

she passed in and out, in the course of preparing tea, brought me a

little cake, baked on the top of the oven

"Eat that now," she said: "you ruel since breakfast"

I did not refuse it, for my appetite akened and keen Mr

Rivers now closed his book, approached the table, and, as he took a

seat, fixed his blue pictorial-looking eyes full on , decided steadfastness in

his gaze nohich told that intention, and not diffidence, had

hitherto kept it averted frory," he said

"I am, sir" It is my way--it alas my way, by instinct--ever

to meet the brief with brevity, the direct with plainness

"It is well for you that a low fever has forced you to abstain for

the last three days: there would have been danger in yielding to