I went up to my chamber, and there with my faithful Hannah deplored
the determined face which the new proposal it was plain they had to
make me wore.

I had not recovered myself when I was sent for down to tea. I begged
my maid to be excused attending; but on the repeated command, went
down with as much cheerfulness as I could assume; and had a new fault
to clear myself of: for my brother, so pregnant a thing is determined
ill-will, by intimations equally rude and intelligible, charged my
desire of being excused coming down, to sullens, because a certain
person had been spoken against, upon whom, as he supposed, my fancy
ran.

I could easily answer you, Sir, said I, as such a reflection deserves:
but I forbear. If I do not find a brother in you, you shall have a
sister in me.

Pretty meekness! Bella whisperingly said; looking at my brother, and
lifting up her lip in contempt.

He, with an imperious air, bid me deserve his love, and I should be
sure to have it.

As we sat, my mother, in her admirable manner, expatiated upon
brotherly and sisterly love; indulgently blamed my brother and sister
for having taken up displeasure too lightly against me; and
politically, if I may say so, answered for my obedience to my father's
will.--The it would be all well, my father was pleased to say: Then
they should dote upon me, was my brother's expression: Love me as well