--Why, my
dear, said he, you may better do this than half your sex; because they
too generally act in such a manner, as if they seemed to think it the
privilege of birth and fortune, to turn day into night, and night into
day, and are seldom stirring till it is time to sit down to dinner; and
so all the good old family rules are reversed: For they breakfast, when
they should dine; dine, when they should sup; and sup, when they should
go to bed; and, by the help of dear quadrille, sometimes go to bed when
they should rise.--In all things but these, my dear, continued he, I
expect you to be a lady. And my good mother was one of this oldfashioned
cut, and, in all other respects, as worthy a lady as any in the kingdom.
And so you have not been used to the new way, and may the easier practise
the other.
Dear sir, said I, pray give me more of your sweet injunctions. Why then,
continued he, I shall, in the usual course, and generally, if not
hindered by company, like to go to bed with my dearest by eleven; and, if
I don't, shan't hinder you. I ordinarily now rise by six in summer. I
will allow you to be half an hour after me, or so.
Then you'll have some time you may call your own, till you give me your
company to breakfast; which may be always so, as that we may have done at
a little after nine.
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