His understanding and opinions all please me; he wants nothing but a little more liveliness, and _that_, if he marry _prudently_, his wife may teach him.

I thought him very sly;--he hardly ever mentioned your name.

But slyness seems the fashion.
"Pray forgive me if I have been very presuming, or at least do not punish me so far as to exclude me from P.I shall never be quite happy till I have been all round the park.

A low phaeton, with a nice little pair of ponies, would be the very thing.
"But I must write no more.

The children have been wanting me this half hour.
"Yours, very sincerely, "M.GARDINER." The contents of this letter threw Elizabeth into a flutter of spirits, in which it was difficult to determine whether pleasure or pain bore the greatest share.