By his Manner of leaving us however, he seems to have been perfectly indifferent about it. How very odd, that he should go without giving us Notice of it, or taking leave of any one! Butit is just like a young Man, governed by the whim of the moment, or actuated merely by the love of doing anything oddly! Unaccount::[.]able¹ Beings indeed! And Young Women are equally ridiculous! I shall soon begin tothink like my Aunt that everything isgoing to sixes & Sevens, and that the wholerace of Mankind are degenerating." She wasjust dreſsed, and on the point of leaving her room to make her personal enquiries afterM^rs Peterson, when Miſs Stanley knocked at her door, & on her being admitted began inher Usual Strain a long harangue upon her Father's being so shocking as to make Edward go at all, and upon Edward's being so horridas to leave them at such an hour in the Morn::ing. "You have no idea, said she, how surprised