_Perfection_ should not have come quite so soon." "Oh! for myself, I protest I must be excused," said Mrs.Elton; "_I_ really cannot attempt--I am not at all fond of the sort of thing.

I had an acrostic once sent to me upon my own name, which I was not at all pleased with.

I knew who it came from.

An abominable puppy!--You know who I mean (nodding to her husband).

These kind of things are very well at Christmas, when one is sitting round the fire; but quite out of place, in my opinion, when one is exploring about the country in summer.
Miss Woodhouse must excuse me.