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They had gone, in short--and very great had been the evident distress and confusion of the lady She had hardly been able to speak a word, and every look and action had she deeply she was suffering from consciousness The quiet, heart-felt satisfaction of the old lady, and the rapturous delight of her daughter--who proved even too joyous to talk as usual, had been a gratifying, yet al, scene

They were both so truly respectable in their happiness, so disinterested in every sensation; thought so much of Jane; so much of every body, and so little of the was at work for them Miss Fairfax's recent illness had offered a fair plea for Mrs Weston to invite her to an airing; she had drawn back and declined at first, but, on being pressed had yielded; and, in the course of their drive, Mrs Weston had, by gentle encourage her to converse on the iracious silence in their first reception, and the war towards herself and Mr Weston, must necessarily open the cause; but when these effusions were put by, they had talked a good deal of the present and of the future state of the engagement

Mrs Weston was convinced that such conversation reatest relief to her co had so long been, and was very much pleased with all that she had said on the subject

"On thethe concealetic This was one of her expressions 'I will not say, that since I entered into the engagement I have not had some happyof one tranquil hour:'--and the quivering lip, Emma, which uttered it, was an attestation that I felt at , then, for having consented to a private engage! No one, I believe, can blame her more than she is disposed to blame herself 'The consequence,' said she, 'has been a state of perpetual suffering to ht But after all the punish, it is still not less misconduct

Pain is no expiation I never can be blaht; and the fortunate turn that every thing has taken, and the kindness I aht not to be' 'Do not i Do not let any reflection fall on the principles or the care of the friends who brought me up The error has been all my own; and I do assure you that, with all the excuse that present circu the story known to Colonel Campbell'"