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"Nay," cried Mrs Jennings, "I alad of Miss Marianne's coo or not, only the ht it would be ot tired of h at my old ways behind my back But one or the other, if not both of them, Iby myself, I who have been always used till this winter to have Charlotte with ain, and if Miss Dashill change her mind by and bye, why so much the better"

"I thank you, ma'am, sincerely thank you," said Marianne, arratitude for ever, and it would give reatest happiness I am capable of, to be able to accept it But my mother, my dearest, kindest ed, and if she were to be made less happy, less co should tele"

Mrs Jennings repeated her assurance that Mrs Dashwood could spare them perfectly well; and Elinor, who now understood her sister, and sahat indifference to alerness to be with Willoughby again, made no farther direct opposition to the plan, and merely referred it to her mother's decision, from whom however she scarcely expected to receive any support in her endeavour to prevent a visit, which she could not approve of for Marianne, and which on her own account she had particular reasons to avoid Whatever Marianne was desirous of, her er to promote--she could not expect to influence the latter to cautiousness of conduct in an affair respecting which she had never been able to inspire her with distrust; and she dared not explain theto London That Marianne, fastidious as she was, thoroughly acquainted with Mrs Jennings' usted by them, should overlook every inconvenience of that kind, should disregard whatever s, in her pursuit of one object, was such a proof, so strong, so full, of the importance of that object to her, as Elinor, in spite of all that had passed, was not prepared to witness