Gather ye rosebuds while ye may

Gather ye rosebuds while ye may
Gustav Klimt Kiss painting
Head of Christ
Hylas and the Nymphs
WITHIN a few days after this meeting, the newspapers announced to the world, that the lady of Thomas Palmer, Esq. was safely delivered of a son and heir; a very interesting and satisfactory paragraph, at least to all those intimate connections who knew it before. 　　 This event, highly important to Mrs. Jennings's happiness, produced a temporary alteration in the disposal of her time, and influenced, in a like degree, the engagements of her young friends; for as she wished to be as much as possible with Charlotte, she went thither every morning as soon as she was dressed, and did not return till late in the evening; and the Misses Dashwood, at the particular request of the Middletons, spent the whole of every day, in every day, in Conduit Street. For their own comfort, they would much rather have remained, at least all the morning, in Mrs. Jennings's house; but it was not a thing to be urged against the wishes of everybody. Their hours were therefore made over to Lady Middleton and the two Misses Steele, by whom their company, in fact, was as little valued as it was professedly sought.