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they will not report a word more of his; so now he declares 

 they shall not report at all, and he had the gallery cleared 

 of all the strangers and the reporters amongst them yester- 

 day. It was a most foolish passionate thing to do as the 

 Reporters are sure to gain the day in the end. 



Aunt Emma is in much better heart about Isabella now than 

 she was at the beginning of the holidays, but she is entirely 

 dissatisfied with the school. It is a pity Aunt Emma is so 

 easily cast down about her, as girls are sure to turn out well, 

 and high spirits and troublesomeness seems to be I. 's faults, 

 which are sure to mend. 



Emma Wedgwood to her aunt Madame Sismondi. 



MAER, Thursday [10 Oct. 1833]. 

 MY DEAREST AUNT JESSIE, 



. . . Papa and Eliz. came home on Tuesday after 

 spending a week at Onibury. They took a walk every 

 morning though they had very middling weather to see the 

 pretty country in. Mr Langton used to be rather afraid 

 of Papa, but I think he has quite got over that, and they 

 talked away together very well, Eliz. says. I think he is 

 never quite at his ease when any of our men are there, 

 at least he is not near so merry as when there is nobody by 

 but Mamma, or one of us. Papa has persuaded them to 

 come here for all the winter months, as though this is not a 

 very warm house, it is much warmer than theirs. He was 

 going to have a curate any how for the winter, so he may 

 just as well come here, and it will be very pleasant for us 

 having them for so long a visit. I was there the week 

 before with aunt Sarah, and saw a good many of their 

 neighbours. Charlotte was rather unhappy at the outside 

 of her house being so untidy when some smart people called, 

 but Charles takes everything easy and Charlotte has a 

 decided turn against scrattling, so that their tidying goes 

 on at a very slow pace, and as they are to leave the place, they 

 have no inclination to do much. Susan Darwin says they 



