UNCLE IN ENGLAND. 191 



both finer and stronger than silk, and of which the 

 fishing-nets are sometimes made. How useful 

 it would be if this tree could be induced to grow 

 in England and how my uncle and aunt would 

 laugh at me if they saw this sentence ! 



We returned by a different road, and I enjoyed 

 the day very much ; the drive was in itself so 

 pleasant, and it is so satisfactory to see any thing 

 new with people who have real knowledge like 

 my companions, and who are alive to the pleasure 

 of seeing what is curious. The Miss Lumleys 

 have seen very little, they have seldom been out 

 of the forest in their lives ; yet they are not at 

 all ignorant. They told me that they have not 

 much time for reading, but that what little know- 

 ledge thay have, has been acquired by the con- 

 versation of their father and mother. 



Mrs. Lumley is rather silent in company; she 

 seems to have much tenderness, mixed with a 

 firm mind and though always cheerful, she looks 

 as if she had suffered a great deal. I imagine 

 they are in confined circumstances, for she said 

 to-day that till the morning they came here 

 she had not been for many years in a car- 

 riage. 



9A. Sunday. After breakfast this morning 

 my uncle conversed a little with us about the 

 Epistles of St. Paul, which I had been saying 

 were very difficult to understand ; he remarked, 



