I hope you think Louisa perfectly recovered now ?" He answered rather hesitatingly, "Yes, I believe I do; very much recovered; but she is altered; there is no running or jumping about, no laughing or dancing; it is quite different.

If one happens only to shut the door a little hard, she starts and wriggles like a young dab-chick in the water; and Benwick sits at her elbow, reading verses, or whispering to her, all day long." Anne could not help laughing.

"That cannot be much to your taste, I know," said she; "but I do believe him to be an excellent young man." "To be sure he is.

Nobody doubts it; and I hope you do not think I am so illiberal as to want every man to have the same objects and pleasures as myself.

I have a great value for Benwick; and when one can but get him to talk, he has plenty to say.