Various The Whole Family (Esprios Classics): A Novel by Twelve Authors

As soon as we heard the pleasant newsI suppose the news of an engagement ought always to be called pleasantit was decided that I ought to speak first about it, and speak to the father. We had not been a great while in the neighborhood, and it would look less like a bid for the familiar acquaintance of people living on a larger scale than ourselves, and less of an opening for our own intimacy if they turned out to be not quite so desirable in other ways as they were in the worldly way. For the ladies of the respective families first to offer and receive congratulations would be very much more committing on both sides at the same time, to avoid the appearance of stiffness, some one ought to speak, and speak promptly. | Various The Whole Family (Esprios Classics): A Novel by Twelve Authors