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"But you are such a perfect horsewoman"

"Excuse me; I have had very little practice, and I should be easily thrown"

"Then that is a reason for ht to be a perfect horsewoman, that she may accompany her husband"

"You see hoidely we differ, Sir Jaht not to be a perfect horsewoman, and so I should never correspond to your pattern of a lady" Dorothea looked straight before her, and spoke with cold brusquerie, verycontrast with the solicitous amiability of her admirer

"I should like to know your reasons for this cruel resolution It is not possible that you should think horse"

"It is quite possible that I should think it wrong for me"

"Oh, why?" said Sir James, in a tender tone of remonstrance

Mr Casaubon had co

"We must not inquire too curiously into motives," he interposed, in his measured way "Miss Brooke knows that they are apt to becorosser air We ht"

Dorothea colored with pleasure, and looked up gratefully to the speaker Here was a her inward life, and hom there could be some spiritual communion; nay, who could illue aalmost amounted to a proof of whatever he believed!

Dorothea's inferences one on at any period but for this liberal allowance of conclusions, which has facilitated e under the difficulties of civilization Has any one ever pinched into its pilulous smallness the cobweb of pre-ood Sir Jaed to tell reasons she would rather be silent upon I am sure her reasons would do her honor"

He was not in the least jealous of the interest hich Dorothea had looked up at Mr Casaubon: it never occurred to hie could care for a dried bookworious sort of way, as for a clergyman of soed in a conversation with Mr Casaubon about the Vaudois clergy, Sir James betook himself to Celia, and talked to her about her sister; spoke of a house in town, and asked whether Miss Brooke disliked London Away from her sister, Celia talked quite easily, and Sir James said to hireeable as well as pretty, though not, as some people pretended, more clever and sensible than the elder sister He felt that he had chosen the one as in all respects the superior; and athe best He would be the very Maorm of bachelors who pretended not to expect it