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 teems with that weariness, that a dearth of all rational employment nurses up for the listless and uncultured, when folly and ignorance out-live mere thoughtless merriment. Accustomed to follow, in every thing, the uncontrolled bent of their own humours, they felt fatigued by the very word decorum; and thought themselves oppressed by any representation of what was due to propriety. Their brother, on the contrary, taking the opposite extreme, had neither care nor wish but what related to the opinion of the virtuosi: because, though possessed of whatever could give pecuniary, he was destitute of all that could inspire mental independence.

"Oh ho! The Ellis!" cried Miss Crawley, mimicking her brother: "you are come to be our school-mistress, are you? Quick, quick, Di; put on your dumpish face, and begin your task."

"Be quiet, be quiet!" cried Miss Di; "I shall like to learn of all things. The Ellis shall make me The Crawley.