Give him a book, and he will read all day long." "Yes, that he will!" exclaimed Mary, tauntingly.

"He will sit poring over his book, and not know when a person speaks to him, or when one drop's one's scissors, or anything that happens.

Do you think Lady Russell would like that ?" Lady Russell could not help laughing.

"Upon my word," said she, "I should not have supposed that my opinion of any one could have admitted of such difference of conjecture, steady and matter of fact as I may call myself.

I have really a curiosity to see the person who can give occasion to such directly opposite notions.