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It was settled that there should be a dance in the evening, and that every body should be extre Some more of the Careys ca down nearly twenty to table, which Sir John observed with great contenthby took his usual place between the two elder Miss Dashwoods

Mrs Jennings sat on Elinor's right hand; and they had not been long seated, before she leant behind her and Willoughby, and said to Marianne, loud enough for them both to hear, "I have found you out in spite of all your tricks I knohere you spent the "

Marianne coloured, and replied very hastily, "Where, pray?"-"Did not you know," said Willoughby, "that we had been out in my curricle?"

"Yes, yes, Mr Impudence, I know that very well, and I was determined to find out WHERE you had been to-- I hope you like your house, Miss Marianne It is a very large one, I know; and when I come to see you, I hope you will have new-furnished it, for it wanted it very o"

Marianne turned away in great confusion Mrs Jennings laughed heartily; and Elinor found that in her resolution to knohere they had been, she had actually room; and that she had by that one to Allenhaarden and going all over the house

Elinor could hardly believe this to be true, as it seehby should propose, or Marianne consent, to enter the house while Mrs Smith was in it, hom Marianne had not the s-rooreat was her surprise when she found that every circus was perfectly true Marianne was quite angry with her for doubting it

"Why should you io there, or that we did not see the house? Is not it what you have often wished to do yourself?"

"Yes, Marianne, but I would not go while Mrs Shby"

"Mr Willoughby however is the only person who can have a right to shew that house; and as he went in an open carriage, it was impossible to have any other co in my life"