morning (ought it not in strict propriety to be termed
yester-morning?) on Miss A. and was introduced to her father and
mother. Like other young ladies she is considerably genteeler than
her parents. Mrs. A. sat darning a pair of stockings the whole of my
visit. But do not mention this at home, lest a warning should act as
an example. We afterwards walked together for an hour on the Cobb;
she is very converseable in a common way; I do not perceive wit or
genius, but she has sense and some degree of taste, and her manners
are very engaging. She seems to like people rather too easily.

'Yours affectly,
'J. A.'

Letter from Jane Austen to her sister Cassandra at Ibthorp, alluding to
the sudden death of Mrs. Lloyd at that place:--

'25 Gay Street (Bath), Monday,

April 8, 1805.

'MY DEAR CASSANDRA,--Here is a day for you. Did Bath or Ibthorp ever
see such an 8th of April? It is March and April together; the glare
of the one and the warmth of the other. We do nothing but walk about.
As far as your means will admit, I hope you profit by such weather
too. I dare say you are already the better for change of place. We
were out again last night. Miss Irvine invited us, when I met her in
the Crescent, to drink tea with them, but I rather declined it, having
no idea that my mother would be disposed for another evening visit
there so soon; but when I gave her the message, I found her very well
inclined to go; and accordingly, on leaving Chapel, we walked to