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She could easily conceive that h Willoughby was independent, there was no reason to believe him rich His estate had been rated by Sir John at about six or seven hundred a year; but he lived at an expense to which that income could hardly be equal, and he had hie kind of secrecy e at all, she could not account; and it was so wholly contradictory to their general opinions and practice, that a doubt soed, and this doubt was enough to prevent hercould be hby's behaviour To Marianne it had all the distinguishing tenderness which a lover's heart could give, and to the rest of the family it was the affectionate attention of a son and a brother The cottage seemed to be considered and loved by him as his home; many more of his hours were spent there than at Allenhaement collected them at the park, the exercise which called hi there, where the rest of the day was spent by himself at the side of Marianne, and by his favourite pointer at her feet

One evening in particular, about a week after Colonel Brandon left the country, his heart see of attachment to the objects around hin of i, he warmly opposed every alteration of a place which affection had established as perfect with hie! No THAT I will never consent to Not a stone must be added to its walls, not an inch to its size, if arded"

"Do not be alar of the kind will be done; for h to attelad of it," he cried "May she always be poor, if she can ehby But you may be assured that I would not sacrifice one sentiment of local attachment of yours, or of any one whom I loved, for all the improvements in the world Depend upon it that whatever unemployed su, I would even rather lay it uselessly by than dispose of it in a manner so painful to you But are you really so attached to this place as to see no defect in it?"