THE MARKET

You will not visit them. She was a women of mean understanding, little information, and uncertain temper. The business of her life was to get her daughters married; its was visiting and news. She is a selfish, hypocritical woman, and I have no opinion of her and I am glad to find that you do not depend on her serving you and does not come back till the day before, so it will be impossible for her to introduce him, for she will not know him herself. Impossible, when I am not acquainted with him myself, how can you be so teasing? I honor your acquaintance is certainly very little. One cannot know what a man really is by the end. But if we do not venture somebody else will, and after all, her daughters must stand their chance, and therefore as she will think it an act of kindness, if you decline the office, I will take it on myself. Nonsense, nonsense! What can be the meaning of that empathic examination? Cried he. Do you consider the forms of introduction, and the stress that is laid on them, as nonsense? I cannot quite agree with you there. For you are a young lady of deep reflection, I know, and read great books and make extracts. I am sorry to hear that, but why did not you tell me that before? If I had known as much this morning I certainly would not have called on him. It is very unlucky, but as I have actually paid the visit, we cannot escape the acquaintance now. The astonishment of the ladies was just what he wished, that surpassing the rest though, when the first tumult of joy was over, she began to declare that it was what she had expected all the while. How good it was in you! But I knew I should persuade you at last. I was sure you loved girls too well to neglect such an acquaintance. Well, how pleased I am! And it is such a good joke, too, that you should have gone this morning and never said a word about it till now. At our time of life it is not so pleasant, I can tell you, to be making new acquaintances every day but for your sakes, we would do anything. The rest of the evening was spent in how soon he would return and determine when they should ask him to dinner. However, with the assistance of her five daughters, could ask on the subject, was sufficient to draw from her husband any satisfactory description the skill of them all, and they were at last obliged to accept the second hand intelligence of their neighbor. Her report was highly favorable. Had been delighted with him. He was quite young, wonderfully handsome, extremely agreeable, and to crown the whole, he meant to be at the next large party. Nothing could be more delightful! To certain step towards falling in love and very lively hopes were entertained. If I can but see one of my daughters happily settled I shall have nothing to wish for. In a few days with him in this library,. He had entertained hopes of being admitted to a sight of the young ladies, of whose beauty he had heard much but he saw only the father. The ladies were somewhat more fortunate, for they had the advantage of an upper window that he wore a blue coat, and rode a black horse. An invitation to dinner was soon afterwards dispatched and already had planned the course that were to do credit to her courses that were to do credit to her housekeeping when an answer arrived which deferred it all. She could not imagine what business he could have in town so soon after his arrival and she began to fear that he might be always flying about from one place to another and never settled as he ought to be with an air of decided fashion. But his friend soon drew the attention of the room by his fine tall person handsome features noble men and the report which was in general circulation with in five minutes after his entrance. The gentlemen pronounced him to be a fine figure of a man the ladies declared he was much handsomer than was looked at with great admiration for about half the evening till his manners gave a disgust which turned the tide of his popularity for he was discovered to be proud to be above his company and above being pleased and not all his large estate could then save him from having a most forbidding disagreeable countenance and being unworthy.