He reads the Agricultural Reports, and some other books that lay in one of the window seats--but he reads all _them_ to himself.

But sometimes of an evening, before we went to cards, he would read something aloud out of the Elegant Extracts, very entertaining.

And I know he has read the Vicar of Wakefield.

He never read the Romance of the Forest, nor The Children of the Abbey.

He had never heard of such books before I mentioned them, but he is determined to get them now as soon as ever he can." The next question was-- "What sort of looking man is Mr.Martin ?" "Oh! not handsome--not at all handsome.