for Yourself?

Of course it came to pass that Lily Dale and Emily Dunstable were
soon very intimate, and that they saw each other every day. Indeed,
before long they would have been living together in the same house
had it not been that the squire had felt reluctant to abandon the
independence of his own lodgings. When Mrs. Thorne had pressed her
invitation for the second, and then for the third time, asking them
both to come to her large house, he had begged his niece to go and
leave him alone. "You need not regard me," he had said, speaking
not with the whining voice of complaint, but with that thin tinge
of melancholy which was usual to him. "I am so much alone down in
Allington, that you need not mind leaving me." But Lily would not
go on those terms, and therefore they still lived together in the
lodgings. Nevertheless Lily was every day at Mrs. Thorne's house, and
thus a great intimacy grew up between the girls. Emily Dunstable had
neither brother nor sister, and Lily's nearest male relative in her
own degree was now Miss Dunstable's betrothed husband. It was natural
therefore that they should at any rate try to like each other. It
afterwards came to pass that Lily did go to Mrs. Thorne's house, and
she stayed there for awhile; but when that occurred the squire had
gone back to Allington.

Among other generous kindnesses Mrs. Thorne insisted that Bernard
should hire a horse for his cousin Lily. Emily Dunstable rode daily,
and of course Captain Dale rode with her;--and now Lily joined the
party. Almost before she knew what was being done she found herself
provided with hat and habit and horse and whip. It was a way with
Mrs. Thorne that they who came within the influence of her immediate
sphere should be made to feel that the comforts and luxuries arising
from her wealth belonged to a common stock, and were the joint
property of them all. Things were not offered and taken and talked
about, but they made their appearance, and were used as a matter of
course. If you go to stay at a gentleman's house you understand that,
as a matter of course, you will be provided with meat and drink. Some
hosts furnish you also with cigars. A small number give you stabling
and forage for your horse; and a very select few mount you on
hunting days, and send you out with a groom and a second horse.
Mrs. Thorne went beyond all others in this open-handed hospitality.
She had enormous wealth at her command, and had but few of those
a