Page 197 (2/2)

theivings

"Do sit down, Mr Melbury You have felled all the trees that were to

be purchased by you this season, except the oaks, I believe"

"Yes," said Melbury

"How very nice! Itto work in the woods just now!"

She was too careless to affect an interest in an extraneous person's

affairs so consummately as to deceive in the manner of the perfect

social ," were

uttered with a perfunctoriness that made them sound absurdly unreal

"Yes, yes," said Melbury, in a reverie He did not take a chair, and

she also rean: "Mrs

Charmond, I have called upon aAnd whateverupon it to you, madam, do me the justice to set 'em down to my

want of practice, and not to my want of care"