Mrs.Allen used to take pains, year after year, to make me like them; but I never could, till I saw them the other day in Milsom Street; I am naturally indifferent about flowers." "But now you love a hyacinth.

So much the better.

You have gained a new source of enjoyment, and it is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible.

Besides, a taste for flowers is always desirable in your sex, as a means of getting you out of doors, and tempting you to more frequent exercise than you would otherwise take.

And though the love of a hyacinth may be rather domestic, who can tell, the sentiment once raised, but you may in time come to love a rose ?" "But I do not want any such pursuit to get me out of doors.