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Mrs Sutton could endure everything else better--and she believed

that it was the same with Frederic--than the needless and puerile

trickery to which Rosa resorted to achieve the most trivial

purposes If she wished that one of her sisters should pass the day

with her, or to sit up for a part of the night, she worked upon her

by means of others' intercessions, or broached the subject by covert

passages, the end of which, she flattered herself, was successfully

masked, until her train was ready for explosion Did she set her

fancy upon any particular article of diet, the same tortuous course

was pursued to present the delicacy in question to the ned, should be the provider Under her sauciest

rattle of fun or perversity lurked so She had

either some end to subserve, or wanted to possess herself of soained sooner and ue had becoinal; and it never occurred to her that her

wiles, in her mental and bodily decadence, were transparent as they

had once been artful

A discovery, made on the fourth day of her visit, excited Mrs

Sutton's sy husband to a

pitch it required long and serious pondering upon the wife's