A successful scheme of this sort generally brings on another; and the having been to Mansfield Common disposed them all for going somewhere else the day after.

There were many other views to be shewn; and though the weather was hot, there were shady lanes wherever they wanted to go.

A young party is always provided with a shady lane.

Four fine mornings successively were spent in this manner, in shewing the Crawfords the country, and doing the honours of its finest spots.

Everything answered; it was all gaiety and good-humour, the heat only supplying inconvenience enough to be talked of with pleasure--till the fourth day, when the happiness of one of the party was exceedingly clouded.