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Jane Austen's 'Ino' - Chapter 5

"I do not know what your opinion may be, Kurenai," said Shikamaru Nara, "of this great intimacy between Ino and Hinata Hyuuga, but I think it a bad thing."

"A bad thing! Do you really think it a bad thing?— why so?"

"I think they will neither of them do the other any good."

"You surprize me! Ino must do Hinata good: and by supplying her with a new object of interest, Hinata may be said to do Ino good. I have been seeing their intimacy with the greatest pleasure. How very differently we feel!— Not think they will do each other any good! This will certainly be the beginning of one of our quarrels about Ino, Shikamaru."

"Perhaps you think I am come on purpose to quarrel with you, knowing Asuma to be out, and that you must still fight your own battle."

"Asuma would undoubtedly support me, if he were here, for he thinks exactly as I do on the subject. We were speaking of it only yesterday, and agreeing how fortunate it was for Ino, that there should be such a girl in Konoha for her to associate with. Shikamaru, I shall not allow you to be a fair judge in this case. You are so much used to live alone, that you do not know the value of a companion; and, perhaps no man can be a good judge of the comfort a woman feels in the society of one of her own sex, after being used to it all her life. I can imagine your objection to Hinata Hyuuga. She is not the superior young woman which Ino's friend ought to be. But on the other hand, as Ino wants to see her better informed, it will be an inducement to her to read more herself. They will read together. She means it, I know."

"Ino has been meaning to read more ever since she was twelve years old. I have seen a great many lists of her drawingup at various times of books that she meant to read regularly through—and very good lists they were—very well chosen, and very neatly arranged—sometimes alphabetically, and sometimes by some other rule. The list she drew up when only fourteen—I remember thinking it did her judgment so much credit, that I preserved it some time; and I dare say she may have made out a very good list now. But I have done with expecting any course of steady reading from Ino. She will never submit to any thing requiring industry and patience, and a subjection of the fancy to the understanding. Where you failed to stimulate, I may safely affirm that Hinata Hyuuga will do nothing.— You never could persuade her to read half so much as you wished.—You know you could not."

"I dare say," replied Kurenai, smiling, "that I thought so then;—but since we have parted, I can never remember Ino's omitting to do any thing I wished."

"There is hardly any desiring to refresh such a memory as that,"—said Shikamaru, feelingly; and for a moment or two he had done. "But I," he soon added, "who have had no such charm thrown over my senses, must still see, hear, and remember. Ino is spoiled by being the cleverest of her family. At ten years old, she had the misfortune of being able to answer questions which puzzled her sister at seventeen. She was always quick and assured: Ayame slow and diffident. And ever since she was twelve, Ino has been mistress of the house and of you all. In her mother she lost the only person able to cope with her. She inherits her mother's talents, and must have been under subjection to her."

"I should have been sorry, Shikamaru, to be dependent on your recommendation, had I quitted Yamanaka's family and wanted another situation; I do not think you would have spoken a good word for me to any body. I am sure you always thought me unfit for the office I held."

"Yes," said he, smiling. "You are better placed here; very fit for a wife, but not at all for a governess. But you were preparing yourself to be an excellent wife all the time you were at Flowerhall. You might not give Ino such a complete education as your powers would seem to promise; but you were receiving a very good education from her, on the very material matrimonial point of submitting your own will, and doing as you were bid; and if Asuma had asked me to recommend him a wife, I should certainly have named you."

"Thank you. There will be very little merit in making a good wife to such a man as Asuma."

"Why, to own the truth, I am afraid you are rather thrown away, and that with every disposition to bear, there will be nothing to be borne. We will not despair, however. Asuma may grow cross from the wantonness of comfort, or his foster-son may plague him."

"I hope not that.—It is not likely. No, Shikamaru, do not foretell vexation from that quarter."

"Not I, indeed. I only name possibilities. I do not pretend to Ino's genius for foretelling and guessing. I hope, with all my heart, the young man may be a lucky in merit and in fortune.—But Hinata Hyuuga—I have not half done about her. I think her the very worst sort of companion that Ino could possibly have. She knows nothing herself, and looks upon Ino as knowing every thing. She is a flatterer in all her ways; and so much the worse, because undesigned. Her ignorance is hourly flattery. How can Ino imagine she has any thing to learn herself, while Hinata is presenting such a delightful inferiority? And as for Hinata, I will venture to say that she cannot gain by the acquaintance. Flowerhall will only put her out of conceit with all the other places she belongs to. She will grow just refined enough to be uncomfortable with those among whom birth and circumstances have placed her home. I am much mistaken if Ino's doctrines give any strength of mind, or tend at all to make a girl adapt herself rationally to the varieties of her situation in life.—They only give a little polish."

"I either depend more upon Ino's good sense than you do, or am more anxious for her present comfort; for I cannot lament the acquaintance. How well she looked last night!"

"Oh! you would rather talk of her person than her mind, would you? Very well; I shall not attempt to deny Ino's being pretty."

"Pretty! say beautiful rather. Can you imagine any thing nearer perfect beauty than Ino altogether— face and figure?"

"I do not know what I could imagine, but I confess that I have seldom seen a face or figure more pleasing to me than hers. But I am a partial old friend."

"Such an eye!—the true skye blue eye—and so brilliant! Regular features, open countenance, with a complexion! oh! what a bloom of full health, and such a pretty height and size; such a firm and upright figure! There is health, not merely in her bloom, but in her air, her head, her glance. One hears sometimes of a child being `the picture of health;' now, Ino always gives me the idea of being the complete picture of grownup health. She is loveliness itself. Shikamaru, is not she?"

"I have not a fault to find with her person," he replied. "I think her all you describe. I love to look at her; and I will add this praise, that I do not think her personally vain. Considering how very handsome she is, she appears to be little occupied with it; her vanity lies another way. Kurenai, I am not to be talked out of my dislike of Hinata Hyuuga, or my dread of its doing them both harm."

"And I, Shikamaru, am equally stout in my confidence of its not doing them any harm. With all dear Ino's little faults, she is an excellent creature. Where shall we see a better daughter, or a kinder sister, or a truer friend? No, no; she has qualities which may be trusted; she will never lead any one really wrong; she will make no lasting blunder; where Ino errs once, she is in the right a hundred times."

"Very well; I will not plague you any more. Ino shall be an angel, and I will keep my spleen to myself till Christmas brings Chouji and Ayame. Chouji loves Ino with a reasonable and therefore not a blind affection, and Ayame always thinks as he does; except when he is not quite frightened enough about the children. I am sure of having their opinions with me."

"I know that you all love her really too well to be unjust or unkind; but excuse me, Shikamaru, if I take the liberty to, as I consider myself, you know, as having somewhat of the privilege of speech that Ino's mother might have had, the liberty of hinting that I do not think any possible good can arise from Hinata Hyuuga's intimacy being made a matter of much discussion among you. Pray excuse me; but supposing any little inconvenience may be apprehended from the intimacy, it cannot be expected that Ino, accountable to nobody but her father, who perfectly approves the acquaintance, should put an end to it, so long as it is a source of pleasure to herself. It has been so many years my province to give advice, that you cannot be surprized, Shikamaru, at this little remains of office."

"Not at all," cried he; "I am much obliged to you for it. It is very good advice, and it shall have a better fate than your advice has often found; for it shall be attended to."

"Chouji is easily alarmed, and might be made unhappy about her sister."

"Be satisfied," said he, "I will not raise any outcry. I will keep my ill-humour to myself. I have a very sincere interest in Ino. Ayame does not seem more my sister; has never excited a greater interest; perhaps hardly so great. There is an anxiety, a curiosity in what one feels for Ino. I wonder what will become of her!"

"So do I," said Kurenai gently, "very much."

"She always declares she will never marry, which, of course, means just nothing at all. But I have no idea that she has yet ever seen a man she cared for. It would not be a bad thing for her to be very much in love with a proper object. I should like to see Ino in love, and in some doubt of a return; it would do her good. But there is nobody hereabouts to attach her; and she goes so seldom from home."

"There does, indeed, seem as little to tempt her to break her resolution at present," said Kurenai, "as can well be; and while she is so happy at Flowerhall, I cannot wish her to be forming any attachment which would be creating such difficulties on poor Inoichi's account. I do not recommend matrimony at present to Ino, though I mean no slight to the state, I assure you."

Part of her meaning was to conceal some favourite thoughts of her own and Asuma's on the subject, as much as possible. There were wishes in her home respecting Ino's destiny, but it was not desirable to have them suspected; and the quiet transition which Shikamaru soon afterwards made to "What does Asuma think of the weather; shall we have rain?" convinced her that he had nothing more to say or surmise about Flowerhall.

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