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e; and so I put on my bon after tea; and ran up the valley to see her: this is she?” pointing to me。
“It is;” said St。 John。
“Do you think you shall like Morton?” she asked of me; with a direct and naive simplicity of tone and manner; pleasing; if child…like。
“I hope I shall。 I have many inducements to do so。”
“Did you find your scholars as attentive as you expected?”
“Quite。”
“Do you like your house?”
“Very much。”
“Have I furnished it nicely?”
“Very nicely; indeed。”
“And made a good choice of an attendant for you in Alice Wood?”
“You have indeed。 She is teachable and handy。” (This then; I thought; is Miss Oliver; the heiress; favoured; it seems; in the gifts of fortune; as well as in those of nature! What happy bination of the plas presided over her birth; I wonder?)
“I shall e up and help you to teach sometimes;” she added。 “It will be a change for me to visit you now and then; and I like a change。 Mr。 Rivers; I have been SO gay during my stay at S…。 night; or rather this morning; I was dancing till two o’clock。 The—th regiment are stationed there since the riots; and the officers are the most agreeable men in the world: they put all our young knife…grinders and scissor merchants to shame。”
It seemed to me that Mr。 St。 John’s under lip protruded; and his upper lip curled a moment。 His mouth certainly looked a good deal pressed; and the lower part of his face unusually stern and squar
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