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"What a pity it is, Elinor," said Marianne, "that Edward should have no taste for drawing"

"No taste for drawing!" replied Elinor, "why should you think so? He does not draw hi the performances of other people, and I assure you he is by no h he has not had opportunities of i, I think he would have drawn very well He distrusts his own judgive his opinion on any picture; but he has an innate propriety and siht"

Marianne was afraid of offending, and said no more on the subject; but the kind of approbation which Elinor described as excited in his of other people, was very far froht, which, in her opinion, could alone be called taste Yet, though s within herself at the mistake, she honoured her sister for that blind partiality to Edhich produced it

"I hope, Marianne," continued Elinor, "you do not consider hieneral taste Indeed, I think I may say that you cannot, for your behaviour to him is perfectly cordial, and if THAT were your opinion, I am sure you could never be civil to him"

Marianne hardly knehat to say She would not wound the feelings of her sister on any account, and yet to say what she did not believe was ith she replied: "Do not be offended, Elinor, ifequal to your sense of histhe minuter propensities of his mind, his inclinations and tastes, as you have; but I have the highest opinion in the world of his goodness and sense I think hi that is worthy and amiable"

"I am sure," replied Elinor, with a smile, "that his dearest friends could not be dissatisfied with such commendation as that I do not perceive how you could express yourself more warmly"

Marianne was rejoiced to find her sister so easily pleased

"Of his sense and his goodness," continued Elinor, "no one can, I think, be in doubt, who has seen hie him in unreserved conversation The excellence of his understanding and his principles can be concealed only by that shyness which too often keeps hih of him to do justice to his solid worth