Part 32 (1/2)

MY DEAR CassANDRA,--This is exactly the weather we could wish for, if you are but well enough to enjoy it I shall be glad to hear that you are not confined to the house by an increase of cold

We quite run over with books My ot Sir John Carr's _Travels in Spain_ fro a Society octavo, _An Essay on the Military Police and Institutions of the British Eineers: a book which I protested against at first, but which upon trial I find delightfully written and highly entertaining I am as much in love with the author as ever I ith Clarkson or Buchanan, or even the two Mr Shed for--but he does write with extraordinary force and spirit Yesterday, ht us Mrs Grant's _Letters_ with Mr White's compliments; but I have disposed of theht to Miss Papillon, and a so many readers or retainers of books as we have in Chawton I dare say there will be no difficulty in getting rid of theht if necessary I learn from Sir J Carr that there is no Government House at Gibraltar; I must alter it to the Coreeable

We were eleven altogether, as you will find on coentle in Alton, and his friend Mr Wilkes

I don't know that Mr T is anything except very dark-co an easy, talking, pleasantish younge, and spoke very highly of H Walter as a scholar He said he was considered as the best classic in the University

How such a report would have interestedthat she had sent the _Rejected Addresses_ to Mr H, I began talking to her a little about the amused her Her ansas 'Oh dear, yes, veryof the House and the striking up of the fiddles!'

What she ht no farther The P's have now got the book, and like it very much; their niece Eleanor has recommended it most warmly to them--_She_ looks like a rejected addresser As soon as a whist party was formed, and a round table threatened, Ijust as many for _their_ round table as there were at Mrs Grant's[239] I wish they reeable a set

The Miss Sibleys want to establish a Book Society in their side of the country like ours What can be a stronger proof of that superiority in ours over the Manydown and Steventon society, which I have always foreseen and felt? No es; no such wish of the Miss Sibleys was ever heard in the course of the lands and their Barrows, their Macartneys and Mackenzies to Captain Pasley's _Essay on the Military Police of the British Empire_ and the _Rejected Addresses_?

I have walked once to Alton, and yesterday Miss Papillon and I walked together to call on the Garnets_I_ had a very agreeable walk, and if _she_ had not,as she was Dame G is pretty well, and we found her surrounded by her well-behaved, healthy, large-eyed children I took her an old shi+ft, and promised her a set of our linen, and my companion left some of her Bank Stock with her

Tell Martha that I hunt away the rogues every night froone

Friday [January 29, 1813]

I hope you received , my dear Cassandra, and that you will be ready to hear froain on Sunday, for I feel that I must write to you to-dayI want to tell you that I have gotchild from London On Wednesday I received one copy sent down by Falkener, with three lines froiven another to Charles and sent a third by the coach to Godmersham

The advertisement is in our paper to-day for the first time: 18_s_ He shall ask 1_l_ 1_s_ for my two next, and 1_l_ 8_s_ for my stupidest of all[240] Miss Benn dined with us on the very day of the book's co we set fairly at it, and read half the first vol to her, prefacing that, having intelligence from Henry that such a ould soon appear, we had desired him to send it whenever it came out, and I believe it passed with her unsuspected She was amused, poor soul! _That_ she could not help, you knoith two such people to lead the way, but she really does seem to adhtful a creature as ever appeared in print, and how I shall be able to tolerate those who do not like _her_ at least I do not know There are a few typical[241] errors; and a 'said he,' or a 'said she,' would soue more immediately clear; but--

I do not write for such dull elves As have not a great deal of ingenuity themselves[242]

The second volume is shorter than I could wish, but the difference is not so er proportion of narrative in that part I have lop't and crop't so successfully, however, that I iine it ether Noill try and write of soe of subject--ordination[243] I alad to find your enquiries have ended so well If you could discover whether Northaain

Thursday [February 4, 1813]

Your letter was truly welcoed to you for all your praise; it caust

Our second evening's reading to Miss Benn had not pleasedon: though she perfectly understands the characters herself, she cannot speak as they ought Upon the whole, however, I ah The work is rather too light, and bright, and sparkling; it wants shade; it wants to be stretched out here and there with a long chapter of sense, if it could be had; if not, of sole unconnected with the story; an essay on writing, a critique on Walter Scott, or the history of Buonaparte, or anything that would forht to the playfulness and epigra with me here I know your starched notions The caution observed at Steventon[244] with regard to the possession of the book is an agreeable surprise toyou frohbourhood being perhaps already infor such a work in the world and in the Chaorld

The greatest blunder in the printing that I have e 220, l 3, where two speeches are ht as well have been no supper at Longbourn; but I suppose it was the remains of Mrs Bennet's old Meryton habits

Tuesday [February 9, 1813]

This will be a quick return for yours,; it htful letter

I aly pleased that you can say what you do, after having gone through the whole work, and fanny's praise is very gratifying My hopes were tolerably strong of _her_, but nothing like a certainty Her liking Darcy and Elizabeth is enough She ht hate all the others if she would I have her opinion under her own hand this , but your transcript of it, which I read first, was not, and is not, the less acceptable

To _me_ it is of course all praise, but the h