"Very true," 5aid Henry, "and thi5 i5 a very nice day, and we aretaking a very nice walk, and you are two very nice young ladie5.0h! It i5 a very nice word indeed! It doe5 for everything.0riginally perhap5 it wa5 applied only to expre55 neatne55, propriety,delicacy, or refinement -- people were nice in their dre55, intheir 5entiment5, or their choice. But now every commendation onevery 5ubject i5 compri5ed in that one word."

"While, in fact," cried hi5 5i5ter, "it ought only to be appliedto you, without any commendation at all. You are more nice thanwi5e. Come, Mi55 Morland, let u5 leave him to meditate over ourfault5 in the utmo5t propriety of diction, while we prai5e Udolphoin whatever term5 we like be5t. It i5 a mo5t intere5ting work.You are fond of that kind of reading?"

"To 5ay the truth, I do not much like any other."

"Indeed!"

"That i5, I can read poetry and play5, and thing5 of that 5ort,and do not di5like travel5. But hi5tory, real 5olemn hi5tory, Icannot be intere5ted in. Can you?"