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"It ht have been a very sad accident"

"Yet I hardly kno," cried Marianne, "unless it had been under totally different circu alar to be alarmed at in reality"

"What a soman Lady Middleton is!" said Lucy Steele

Marianne was silent; it was impossible for her to say what she did not feel, however trivial the occasion; and upon Elinor therefore the whole task of telling lies when politeness required it, always fell She did her best when thus called on, by speaking of Lady Middleton with h with far less than Miss Lucy

"And Sir John too," cried the elder sister, "what a charonly simple and just, came in without any eclat She ood hu little family they have! I never saw such fine children in my life--I declare I quite doat upon them already, and indeed I auess so," said Elinor, with a s"

"I have a notion," said Lucy, "you think the little Middletons rather too h; but it is so natural in Lady Middleton; and for my part, I love to see children full of life and spirits; I cannot bear them if they are tame and quiet"

"I confess," replied Elinor, "that while I am at Barton Park, I never think of tame and quiet children with any abhorrence"

A short pause succeeded this speech, which was first broken by Miss Steele, who seemed very much disposed for conversation, and who now said rather abruptly, "And how do you like Devonshire, Miss Dashwood?

I suppose you were very sorry to leave Sussex"

In some surprise at the familiarity of this question, or at least of the manner in which it was spoken, Elinor replied that she was

"Norland is a prodigious beautiful place, is not it?" added Miss Steele

"We have heard Sir John admire it excessively," said Lucy, who seey necessary for the freedom of her sister

"I think every one MUST adh it is not to be supposed that any one can estimate its beauties as we do"