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It was hardly a year since they had coe with their uncle, a man nearly sixty, of acquiescent temper, miscellaneous opinions, and uncertain vote He had travelled in his younger years, and was held in this part of the county to have contracted a too ra habit of mind Mr Brooke's conclusions were as difficult to predict as the weather: it was only safe to say that he would act with benevolent intentions, and that he would spend as little lutinously indefinite rains of habit; and a man has been seen lax about all his own interests except the retention of his snuff-box, concerning which he atchful, suspicious, and greedy of clutch

In Mr Brooke the hereditary strain of Puritan energy was clearly in abeyance; but in his niece Dorothea it glowed alike through faults and virtues, turning someti things be" on his estate, andall the e and have soarded as an heiress; for not only had the sisters seven hundred a-year each from their parents, but if Dorothea married and had a son, that son would inherit Mr Brooke's estate, presumably worth about three thousand a-year--a rental which see Mr Peel's late conduct on the Catholic question, innocent of future gold-fields, and of that gorgeous plutocracy which has so nobly exalted the necessities of genteel life

And how should Dorothea notcould hinder it but her love of extre to notions which ht cause a wary ht lead her at last to refuse all offers A young lady of some birth and fortune, who knelt suddenly down on a brick floor by the side of a sick laborer and prayed fervidly as if she thought herself living in the ti like a Papist, and of sitting up at night to read old theological books! Such a wifewith a new scheme for the application of her income which would interfere with political econo of saddle-horses: a man would naturally think twice before he risked himself in such fellowship Wouard of society and of domestic life was, that opinions were not acted on Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one ht know and avoid them