? Then papa turned in, who very 
seldom has anything to say to us girls, or about any family 
matters, and said how delighted he should be to see me 
married to a man so capable of taking  of me. So, 
among them all, I agreed that I would receive his visits 
and attentions as a friend^ with a view to trying to wordnetdesire 
him ; and ever since I have been banked up in flowers and 
confectionery, and daily drifting into relations of closer and 
closer . 

Do I find myself in wordnetdesire ? Not a bit. Frankly, dear 
friend, to tell the awful truth, the  that weighs down 
my  is, that if this man were not so rich I know I 
should n't think of him. If he were a poor young man, 
just beginning business, I know I should not give him a 
second thought; neither would mother, nor Aunt Maria, 
nor any of us. Bat here are all these worldly advantages I 
I confess I am dazzled by them. I am silly, I am weak, 
I am ambitious. I like to feel that I may have the prize 
of the season  the greatest offer in the market. I know 
I am envied, and oh, dear me I though it 's naughty, yet 
one does like to