visits, besides my share in his more general ones; and find it is
impossible I should ever endure him. He has but a very ordinary share
of understanding; is very illiterate; knows nothing but the value of
estates, and how to improve them, and what belongs to land-jobbing and
husbandry. Yet I am as one stupid, I think. They have begun so
cruelly with me, that I have not spirit enough to assert my own
negative.

They had endeavoured it seems to influence my good Mrs. Norton before
I came home--so intent are they to carry their point! And her opinion
not being to their liking, she has been told that she would do well to
decline visiting here for the present: yet she is the person of all
the world, next to my mother, the most likely to prevail upon me, were
the measures they are engaged in reasonable measures, or such as she
could think so.

My aunt likewise having said that she did not think her niece could
ever be brought to like Mr. Solmes, has been obliged to learn another
lesson.

I am to have a visit from her to-morrow. And, since I have refused so
much as to hear from my brother and sister what the noble settlements
are to be, she is to acquaint me with the particulars; and to receive
from me my determination: for my father, I am told, will not have
patience but to suppose that I shall stand in opposition to his will.

Mean time it has been signified to me, that it will be acceptable if I
do not think of going to church next Sunday.

The same signification was made for me last Sunday; and I obeyed.