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No sooner did she perceive any symptom of love in his behaviour to Elinor, than she considered their serious attache as rapidly approaching

"In a few months, my dear Marianne" said she, "Elinor will, in all probability be settled for life We shall miss her; but SHE will be happy"

"Oh! Mamma, how shall we do without her?"

"My love, it will be scarcely a separation We shall live within a few miles of each other, and shall ain a brother, a real, affectionate brother I have the highest opinion in the world of Edward's heart But you look grave, Marianne; do you disapprove your sister's choice?"

"Perhaps," said Marianne, "I may consider it with some surprise

Edward is very amiable, and I love hi ; it has none of that grace which I should expect in the man who could seriously attach my sister His eyes want all that spirit, that fire, which at once announce virtue and intelligence And besides all this, I am afraid, Mamma, he has no real taste Music seeh he ads very much, it is not the admiration of a person who can understand their worth It is evident, in spite of his frequent attention to her while she draws, that in fact he knows nothing of the matter He admires as a lover, not as a connoisseur To satisfy me, those characters must be united I could not be happy with a man whose taste did not in every point coincide with s; the same books, the same music must charm us both Oh!to us last night!

I felt for my sister most severely Yet she bore it with so much composure, she seemed scarcely to notice it I could hardly keep my seat To hear those beautiful lines which have frequently almost driven me wild, pronounced with such impenetrable calmness, such dreadful indifference!"-- "He would certainly have done ht so at the tiive him Cowper"

"Nay, Mamma, if he is not to be animated by Cowper!--but we s, and therefore she may overlook it, and be happy with him But it would have broke MY heart, had I loved him, to hear him read with so little sensibility