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206 his estate of eight hundred per annum, with a good house upon it, being nearly in possession, rendered him easy, as to money matters; and if Lady Anne had wanted a little cash, (and she did always want,) he would have furnished her with it; but Louisa did not mention the circumstance, having no doubt whatever that it would form a reason for a demand; and she could not reconcile herself to sending her husband's money to Howell and James's, through her mother's fingers, at the time when her sisters were kept in a state of poverty, no decent tradesman could have borne to witness in his daughters. That Isabella and Mary would help them as far as they could, she was certain; but she knew how they felt on the subject, from her own feelings, and she was aware, that although Isabella, from her alliance with great wealth, might be supposed to have the most money at command, she was, in some circumstances, more awkwardly circumstanced than any of her sisters. She was the wife of a man so much older than herself, she never could presume to dispute his judgment; he had done one such great thing for her family, (in her own case,) that he might omit little ones, and his very love to their father had rendered their mother an object of mistrust and dislike. At present, these feelings were suspended by one engrossing object, to which might be added the emotions naturally called forth