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Elinor could not find herself in the carriage with Mrs Jennings, and beginning a journey to London under her protection, and as her guest, without wondering at her own situation, so short had their acquaintance with that lady been, so wholly unsuited were they in age and disposition, and so ainst such a measure only a few days before! But these objections had all, with that happy ardour of youth which Marianne and her mother equally shared, been overcome or overlooked; and Elinor, in spite of every occasional doubt of Willoughby's constancy, could not witness the rapture of delightful expectation which filled the whole soul and bea how blank was her own prospect, how cheerless her own state of e in the solicitude of Marianne's situation to have the sa object in view, the same possibility of hope A short, a very short tihby's intentions were; in all probability he was already in town Marianne's eagerness to be gone declared her dependence on finding hi every new light as to his character which her own observation or the intelligence of others could give her, but likewise upon watching his behaviour to her sister with such zealous attention, as to ascertain what he was and what he s had taken place Should the result of her observations be unfavourable, she was determined at all events to open the eyes of her sister; should it be otherwise, her exertions would be of a different nature--she must then learn to avoid every selfish coht lessen her satisfaction in the happiness of Marianne

They were three days on their journey, and Marianne's behaviour as they travelled was a happy specimen of what future coht be expected to be She sat in silence almost all the rapt in her own , except when any object of picturesque beauty within their vie froht exclusively addressed to her sister To atone for this conduct therefore, Elinor took imned herself, behaved with the greatest attention to Mrs Jennings, talked with her, laughed with her, and listened to her whenever she could; and Mrs Jennings on her side treated them both with all possible kindness, was solicitous on every occasion for their ease and enjoyment, and only disturbed that she could not make them choose their own dinners at the inn, nor extort a confession of their preferring salmon to cod, or boiled fowls to veal cutlets They reached town by three o'clock the third day, glad to be released, after such a journey, froe, and ready to enjoy all the luxury of a good fire