for me to fetch her instead of him; — I think I shouldhave discovered the truth in the course of a Thirty milesJourney. —

The small Pianoforté has been removed withinthese few days at Lady Susan's request, into her Dreſs::ing room, & Frederica spends great part of the daythere; —practising it is called, but I seldom hearany noise when I paſs that way. — What she does with herself there I do not know, there are plenty of books in the room, but it is not every girl who has been running wild the first fifteen years of herlife, whothat¹ can or will read. — Poor Creature! the pro::spect from her window is not very instructive, forthat room overlooks the Lawn you know with theShrubbery on one side, where she may see her Mo::ther walking for an hour together, in earnest conver::sation with Reginald. — A girl of Frederica's age must be childish indeed, if such things do not strike