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"But you are fond of riding, Miss Brooke," Sir Ja "I should have thought you would enter a little into the pleasures of hunting I wish you would let me send over a chestnut horse for you to try It has been trained for a lady I saw you on Saturday cantering over the hill on a nag not worthy of you My groo Corydon for you every day, if you will only ood II shall not ride any ed to this brusque resolution by a little annoyance that Sir Jaive it all to Mr Casaubon

"No, that is too hard," said Sir Ja interest "Your sister is given to self- to Celia, who sat at his right hand

"I think she is," said Celia, feeling afraid lest she should say so as prettily as possible above her necklace "She likes giving up"

"If that were true, Celia, ence, not self- not to do what is very agreeable," said Dorothea

Mr Brooke was speaking at the sa Dorothea, and she are of it

"Exactly," said Sir Jaenerous motive"

"No, indeed, not exactly I did not say that ofUnlike Celia, she rarely blushed, and only frory with the perverse Sir James Why did he not pay attention to Celia, and leave her to listen to Mr Casaubon?--if that learnedhimself to be talked to by Mr Brooke, as just then infor or it did not, that he himself was a Protestant to the core, but that Catholicisround for a Roion, which, properly speaking, was the dread of a Hereafter

"I y at one tiht justof all schools I knew Wilberforce in his best days Do you know Wilberforce?"

Mr Casaubon said, "No"

"Well, Wilberforce was perhaps not enough of a thinker; but if I went into Parliament, as I have been asked to do, I should sit on the independent bench, as Wilberforce did, and work at philanthropy"