rightly understanding each other's meaning. – This idea struck me at the moment, & I instantly deter=:mined that an accidental dispute in which I might probably be as much to blame as himself, should notdeprive you of your Brother. — If you remember, Ileft the room almost immediately. — I was resolved to lose no time in clearing up these mistakes asfar as I could. — The case was this. — Frederica hadset herself violently against marrying Sir James"–––

— "And can your Ladyship wonder that she should?cried I with some warmth. — Frederica has an ex::cellent Understanding, & Sir James has none."

"I am at least very far from regretting it, mydear Sister, said she; on the contrary, I am grate::ful for so favourable a sign of my Daughter's sense.Sir James is certainly under par — (his boyish man::ners make him appear the worse) — & had Fre::derica poſseſsed the penetration, the abilities, which