consider you as having a little taste that way. Lady Glyn, who is
with us, is studying Juvenal. Marianne has just lifted her eyes from
Euclid to desire her love to you. Anne is employed at her Harp.


Meanwhile, the family had resumed the placid routine of their usual life,
of which, in the next letter, Marianne furnishes her brother with a
graphic account.


_February 14th, 1806._

Mamma must, I am sure, have informed you of our various proceedings,
in her numerous letters to you, and therefore I will not torment you
with a repetition. Our life since we came to London has passed in its
usual routine of _faisant bien des riens_; arranging the teaching
geniuses, making the usual purchases and visiting the usual set;
walking in Hyde Park, and watching the people in the Square. This
morning, we have Mr Roussin for the third time, have taken a short
turn in the Park, and called on Mrs M. Marriott, and at present Anne
is rehearsing to Myer on the harp, who is all astonishment at the
progress she has made. We dine and stay the evening at the Dowager
Lady Glyn's.

Anne relishes London vastly, and hitherto the little going out she has
had agrees with her. The Opera is her delight. Papa took William
there, and I never saw a child so happy. He enjoys going out
prodigiously.

Are you not outrageous at the manner in which Mr Singleton, [31] son-