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the young woman is from home, and But not always. Tis a weight upon a it's my fear that the old woman is no suit man to be looked up to, and I often able companion for your father's son feel it.-Penguin in the ferrer. Forbye that I have nobody, but myself to look after my reputation, and have been long though with a seductive youth. And come back another day for your saxpence she cried after me as I left. Miss Austen, I regretfully admity is not very sympathetic in her portraits Emma" is of old age. Mrs. Bates, in not an old lady to see whom we would walk many miles, though Frank Chur chill goes to some trouble to have ber spectacles mendes, And Mr. Woodhouse, in the same novel, is a ridiculous vale tudinarian. Liss Austen. however, is kind enough to strengthen our couvic tion that age is a relative term. Marian- ne Dashwood, "if "Sease and Sensibility. and born to overcome an affection form

d so late in life ne ut seventeen, and with no sentiment superior to strong esteem and lively friendship, voluntary to give her hand to another-and that other a man who had suffered a less thun herself under the event of a former attachment, whom, two years before, she had considered woo old to be married-- und who still sought the constitutional safeguard of a. Aannel waisteont ! Miss Austen, it appears, did not regard an age of two score years as a period of extreme decrepitude. ・・

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