We are rather out of distance of the very striking beauties which attract the sort of parties you speak of; and we are a very quiet set of people, I believe; more disposed to stay at home than engage in schemes of pleasure." "Ah! there is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.

Nobody can be more devoted to home than I am.

I was quite a proverb for it at Maple Grove.

Many a time has Selina said, when she has been going to Bristol, 'I really cannot get this girl to move from the house.

I absolutely must go in by myself, though I hate being stuck up in the barouche-landau without a companion; but Augusta, I believe, with her own good-will, would never stir beyond the park paling.' Many a time has she said so; and yet I am no advocate for entire seclusion.