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If in our trio there was a superior and a leader, it was Diana

Physically, she far excelled orous In her animal spirits there was an affluence of life and

certainty of flow, such as excited my wonder, while it baffledcoone, I was fain to sit on a

stool at Diana's feet, to rest my head on her knee, and listen

alternately to her and Mary, while they sounded thoroughly the topic

on which I had but touched Diana offered to teach me German I

liked to learn of her: I saw the part of instructress pleased and

suited her; that of scholar pleased and suited me no less Our

natures dovetailed: est kind--was

the result They discovered I could draw: their pencils and

colour-boxes were ireater in

this one point than theirs, surprised and charether: then she would take lessons;

and a docile, intelligent, assiduous pupil she made Thus occupied,

and mutually entertained, days passed like hours, and weeks like

days

As to Mr St John, the intimacy which had arisen so naturally and

rapidly between me and his sisters did not extend to him One

reason of the distance yet observed between us was, that he was

coe proportion of his ti the scattered

population of his parish