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"And had you a great many smart beaux there? I suppose you have not so many in this part of the world; for my part, I think they are a vast addition always"

"But why should you think," said Lucy, looking asha men in Devonshire as Sussex?"

"Nay, my dear, I'm sure I don't pretend to say that there an't I'm sure there's a vast many smart beaux in Exeter; but you kno could I tell what sht be about Norland; and I was only afraid the Miss Dashwoods ht find it dull at Barton, if they had not soladies may not care about the beaux, and had as lief be without thereeable, provided they dress smart and behave civil But I can't bear to see theious s man, quite a beau, clerk to Mr Si, he is not fit to be seen-- I suppose your brother was quite a beau, Miss Dashwood, before he married, as he was so rich?"

"Upon my word," replied Elinor, "I cannot tell you, for I do not perfectly co of the word But this I can say, that if he ever was a beau before he married, he is one still for there is not the smallest alteration in hi beaux--they have so else to do"

"Lord! Anne," cried her sister, "you can talk of nothing but beaux;--you willelse"

And then to turn the discourse, she began ad the house and the furniture

This speciar freedom and folly of the eldest left her no recommendation, and as Elinor was not blinded by the beauty, or the shrewd look of the youngest, to her want of real elegance and artlessness, she left the house without any wish of knowing them better

Not so the Miss Steeles--They came from Exeter, well provided with admiration for the use of Sir John Middleton, his faardly proportion was now dealt out to his fair cousins, whoant, accoirls they had ever beheld, and hom they were particularly anxious to be better acquainted-- And to be better acquainted therefore, Elinor soon found was their inevitable lot, for as Sir John was entirely on the side of the Miss Steeles, their party would be too strong for opposition, and that kind of inti an hour or two together in the same room almost every day Sir John could do no more; but he did not know that any ether was, in his opinion, to be inti were effectual, he had not a doubt of their being established friends