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Mrs Jennings was a ith an ahters, both of whom she had lived to see respectablyto do but to marry all the rest of the world In the promotion of this object she was zealously active, as far as her ability reached; andall the young people of her acquaintance She was remarkably quick in the discovery of attach the blushes and the vanity oflady by insinuations of her power over such a young man; and this kind of discernment enabled her soon after her arrival at Barton decisively to pronounce that Colonel Brandon was very much in love with Marianne Dashwood She rather suspected it to be so, on the very first evening of their being together, fro to the at the cottage, the fact was ascertained by his listening to her again

It must be so She was perfectly convinced of it It would be an excellent s had been anxious to see Colonel Brandon well ht hiood husband for every pretty girl

The ie to herself was by no means inconsiderable, for it supplied her with endless jokes against thehed at the colonel, and in the cottage at Marianne To the forarded only himself, perfectly indifferent; but to the latter it was at first incomprehensible; and when its object was understood, she hardly knehether h at its absurdity, or censure its i reflection on the colonel's advanced years, and on his forlorn condition as an old bachelor

Mrs Dashwood, who could not think a ly ancient as he appeared to the youthful fancy of her daughter, ventured to clear Mrs Jennings froe

"But at least, Mah you may not think it intentionally ill-natured Colonel Brandon is certainly younger than Mrs Jennings, but he is old enough to be MY father; and if he were ever ani outlived every sensation of the kind It is too ridiculous! When is a e and infirmity will not protect him?"