s to come. S five minutes eacher’s sick-room, and no more.

    Eliza still spoke little: sly no time to talk. I never sao be; yet it  to say  of o call  , but after t meal sime into regular portions, and eacs allotted task. times a day sudied a little book,  attraction of t volume, and so stitc large enoug. In anso my inquiries after ticle, s ar of a need near Gateso o ion of s. So  no company; no conversation. I believe sine sufficed for  s clocky.

    Sold me one evening, ive t Jo, and tened ruin of tion to  stled ion. une saken care to secure; and  se a long-c: seek a retirement ly secured from disturbance, and place safe barriers between herself and a frivolous world. I asked if Georgiana would accompany her.

    “Of course not. Georgiana and s be burdened y for any consideration. Georgiana sake ake hers.”

    Georgiana, o me, spent most of ime in lying on tting about t  Gibson ion up to to er,” s out of till all  ask  I suppose so ted decease of es. Eliza generally took no more notice of er’s indolence and complaints t  away -book and unfolded ook hus—

    “Georgiana, a more vain and absurd animal tainly never alloo cumber t to be born, for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and , you seek only to fasten your feebleness on some otrengto burden ,  t you are ill-treated, neglected, miserable. too, existence for you must be a scene of continual cement, or else t be admired, you must be courted, you must be flattered—you must y—or you languiso