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Henly in the city, and who also possessed a country house near his own villa. These circumstances had induced an intimacy between the families that was cemented by the good opinion each entertained of the qualities of the other, and which had been so long and so often tried in scenes of happiness and misery, that were known to both.
"Pretty fight!" said Herbert Gerrish to Mr. Cameron, who was watching in silence, but with keen admiration. "Fine!" said Mr. Cameron. "Never saw a better." "Think he'll land the fish?" asked John Newby. "If he does not now, he is bound to do it some day," replied Mr. Cameron. "That fish might just as well give it up now as any time. I know Lee Henly."
This concluded the conversation; for Charlotte instantly left the room, and was occupied for some time in giving such orders as her office of assistant in housekeeping to her mother rendered necessary. Charlotte Henly was the only child that had been left from six who were born to her parents, the others having died in their infancy.
"It is no hardship to ride a few miles in a comfortable coach," said George, with a feeble smile, "nor can I consider it a privation of enjoyment, to be able to assist the distressed," he hesitated a moment, and a flush gradually stole over his features as he continued, "It is true, Sir, that I prize the good opinion of Miss Henly highly, but I look to another quarter for approbation on such a subject."
"To be sure he can; he can do more than you or I could, my dear; he can pick his parents from the best in the city and, therefore, he ought to be well provided." "And could he be better provided, as you call it, in that respect, than ourselves?" asked Miss Henly, a little reproachfully.
Charlotte Henly, of course, was of the party, although she was absolutely ignorant of a single note, nor knew how to praise a scientific execution, or to manifest disgust at simple melody. But, her importance in the world of fashion, and her friend Maria, obtained her a place.
"Rather say," cried Charlotte, laughing, "that the want of taste in Miss Henly renders her ears of but little use to her." "You are not fond of music, then?" asked the youth, a little vexed at thinking that an accomplishment on which he prided himself would fail to make its usual impression.
"It is a charmed number, indeed! and is it on the door? is it the number of the house?" "Oh! not at all only the number of the family, the baker's dozen, that I mentioned last evening; now in visiting Miss Henly there is no such interruption to be apprehended."
"I am fearful that we idle spectators," continued the gentleman, "suffered in your estimation, in not discovering equal benevolence with Mr. Morton." Charlotte glanced her mild eyes at the speaker, but made no reply. "Your silence, Miss Henly, assures me of the truth of my conjecture."
Henly loved their child, neither of them entertained the selfish wish of monopolizing all of her affections to themselves during life. It was natural, and a thing to he expected, that Charlotte should marry; and among the whole of their acquaintance there appeared no one so unobjectionable as her new admirer.
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