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There was Sir Christopher Cloudy, who knew much but said nothing; with his very conversable Lady, who scarce knew by halves, but spoke by wholesale.

One Morning, as I lay in Bed, Matty threw her Arms about me, and hiding her blushing Face in my Bosom, my Harry, says she, if you could handsomely bring it about to my poor Papa, perhaps it would be some Matter of Consolation to him to know that I am with Child. [Page 56] When I broke the Matter to him, he did not, at first, appear to be sensibly affected; in time, however, the Weight of his Affliction seemed considerably lightened, and, as my Wife advanced in her Pregnancy, he began to look us in the Face, he sat with us at one Table, and became conversable as formerly.

It was very delicate and touching what Madame d'Egmont said to her daughter-in-law on this occasion:--"Vous voyez, ma ch`ere, combien j'aime mes enfans d'adoption!" This daughter-in-law is delightfully pretty, and civil, and gay, and conversable, though not a regular beauty like Madame de Monaco.

The women do not seem of the same country: if they are less gay than they were, they are more informed, enough to make them very conversable.

I found them little altered; Lady Lucy was much undressed, but looks better than when I saw her last, and as well as one could expect; no shyness nor singularity, but very easy and conversable.

Their more exalted faculties, not being tied down by wearisome attention to mathematical investigations, metaphysical chimeras, or abstrusescholastic learning, are more at liberty to observe with care, see with perspicuity, and judge without prejudice, concerning the amazing world of wonders round them than those of men, who, very frequently by attempting to arrive at every kind of knowledge, find themselves stopped short in their career by the limited period of life, before they can properly be said to have reached any To gratify and furnish food for this laudable curiosity, therefore, in both these branches of knowledge, shall be one of our principal aims in the prosecution of this work; yet as amusement no less than instruction will ever constitute one of the main columns of our edifice, and that our wish is to render the ladies though learned not pedantic, conversable rather than scientific, we shall avoid entering into any of those minutiae, or diving into those depths of literature, which may make their study dry to themselves, or occasion its becoming tiresome to others.

But it is demonstrable to all who know how to make observations on their acquaintance of both sexes, arrogant as some are of their superficialities, that a lady at eighteen, take the world through, is more prudent and conversable than a man at twenty-five.

It was easy to see that she was a less conversable and more homely person than Caroline.

Caroline was one of the beauties of the county, clever and conversable, "drew young men," and set the fashion to young ladies, especially when she returned from spending the season with Lady Elizabeth.

When the old gentleman returned about midnight, he found Maltravers awaiting him in the library; and Cleveland, having won fourteen points, was in a very gay, conversable humour. "You perverse hermit!" said he, "talk of solitude, indeed, with so pleasant a family a hundred yards distant! I now put some questions to the hadji, but he looked at me askance with his sullen eye, pouted with his lip, and remained silent; as much as to say, “Speak not to me, I am holier than thou.” I found his negroes, however, far more conversable.

She is one of those delicious creatures who, in spite of not being married, are actually conversable.

However, while I thus sat, working away with my pencil, Mrs. Murray came, half-sailing, half-bustling, into the room. ‘Miss Grey,’ she began,-‘dear! how can you sit at your drawing such a day as this?’ (She thought I was doing it for my own pleasure.) ‘I wonder you don’t put on your bonnet and go out with the young ladies.’ ‘I think, ma’am, Miss Murray is reading; and Miss Matilda is amusing herself with her dogs.’ ‘If you would try to amuse Miss Matilda yourself a little more, I think she would not be driven to seek amusement in the companionship of dogs and horses and grooms, so much as she is; and if you would be a little more cheerful and conversable with Miss Murray, she would not so often go wandering in the fields with a book in her hand.

On the other hand, Miss Wilson was as affable and courteous as heart could wish, and though I was in no very conversable humour myself, the two ladies between them managed to keep up a pretty continuous fire of small talk.

I saw that paragon of manly perfections in London: he seemed scarcely to merit the eulogiums of his mother and sister, though he certainly appeared more conversable and agreeable than Lord Lowborough, more candid and high-minded than Mr. Grimsby, and more polished and gentlemanly than Mr. Hattersley, Arthur’s only other friend whom he judged fit to introduce to me.-Oh, Arthur, why won’t you come? why won’t you write to me at least?
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