? ? ? ? "Now you have given me a security worth having; and I shall proceed with courage. Do you find Bath as agreeable as when I had the honour of making the inquiry before?"
? ? ? ? "Yes, quite--more so, indeed."
? ? ? ? "More so! Take care, or you will forget to be tired of it at the proper time. You ought to be tired at the end of six weeks."
? ? ? ? "I do not think I should be tired, if I were to stay here six months."
? ? ? ? "Bath, compared with London, has little variety, and so everybody finds out every year. 'For six weeks, I allow Bath is pleasant enough; but beyond that, it is the most tiresome place in the world.' You would be told so by people of all descriptions, who come regularly every winter, lengthen their six weeks into ten or twelve, and go away at last because they can afford to stay no longer."
? ? ? ? "Well, other people must judge for themselves, and those who go to London may think nothing of Bath. But I, who live in a small retired village in the country, can never find greater sameness in such a place as this than in my own home; for here are a variety of amusements, a variety of things to be seen and done all day long, which I can know nothing of there."
? ? ? ? "You are not fond of the country."
? ? ? ? "Yes, I am.
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