He did not boast, but it naturally betrayed itself, that he had persuaded his aunt where his uncle could do nothing, and on her laughing and noticing it, he owned that he believed (excepting one or two points) he could _with_ _time_ persuade her to any thing.

One of those points on which his influence failed, he then mentioned.

He had wanted very much to go abroad--had been very eager indeed to be allowed to travel--but she would not hear of it.

This had happened the year before.

_Now_, he said, he was beginning to have no longer the same wish.
The unpersuadable point, which he did not mention, Emma guessed to be good behaviour to his father.
"I have made a most wretched discovery," said he, after a short pause .-- "I have been here a week to-morrow--half my time.