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"I am afraid," replied Elinor, "that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety"

"On the contrary, nothing can be a stronger proof of it, Elinor; for if there had been any real impropriety in what I did, I should have been sensible of it at the ti, and with such a conviction I could have had no pleasure"

"But, my dear Marianne, as it has already exposed you to soin to doubt the discretion of your own conduct?"

"If the is are to be the proof of i every moment of our lives

I value not her censure any more than I should do her co in walking over Mrs S her house They will one day be Mr

Willoughby's, and--"

"If they were one day to be your own, Marianne, you would not be justified in what you have done"

She blushed at this hint; but it was even visibly gratifying to her; and after a ten ht, she caood huo to Allenhahby wanted particularly to shewhouse, I assure you--There is one re room up stairs; of a nice comfortable size for constant use, and with htful It is a corner room, and has s on two sides On one side you look across the bowling-green, behind the house, to a beautiful hanging wood, and on the other you have a view of the church and village, and, beyond them, of those fine bold hills that we have so often ad could be more forlorn than the furniture,--but if it were newly fitted up--a couple of hundred pounds, Willoughby says, would land"

Could Elinor have listened to her without interruption from the others, she would have described every rooht