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been wanting o and lecture Brooke; and I have reminded her that

her friends had a very poor opinion of the match she made when she

nantly "He must be

fifty, and I don't believe he could ever have been s!"

"Confound you handso it all your

oay in the world You don't under stand women They don't admire

you half so much as you admire yourselves Elinor used to tell her

sisters that shethat it had quite conquered her prudence"

"You! it was easy enough for a woman to love you But this is no

question of beauty I don't like Casaubon" This was Sir Jaht ill of a ainst hi his thumbs into his armholes with an air of

attention

Sir Jaive his reasons:

it seee that people should not know the

told, since he only felt as reasonable At last he said--