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Before the house-ained any power over a cold, gloo in January, Marianne, only half dressed, was kneeling against one of the -seats for the sake of all the little light she could co as fast as a continual flow of tears would permit her In this situation, Elinor, roused froitation and sobs, first perceived her; and after observing her for a few moments with silent anxiety, said, in a tone of the entleness, "Marianne, ; you will soon know all"

The sort of desperate caler than while she spoke, and was immediately followed by a return of the same excessive affliction It was soo on with her letter, and the frequent bursts of grief which still obliged her, at intervals, to withhold her pen, were proofs enough of her feeling howfor the last tihby

Elinor paid her every quiet and unobtrusive attention in her power; and she would have tried to sooth and tranquilize her still erness of the most nervous irritability, not to speak to her for the world In such circu together; and the restless state of Marianne'sin the roo at once solitude and continual change of place,the sight of every body

At breakfast she neither ate, nor atte; and Elinor's attention was then all e her, nor in appearing to regard her, but in endeavouring to engage Mrs Jenning's notice entirely to herself

As this was a favourite s, it lasted a considerable ti the table, when a letter was delivered to Marianne, which she eagerly caught fro of a death-like paleness, instantly ran out of the room Elinor, who saw as plainly by this, as if she had seen the direction, that it hby, felt immediately such a sickness at heart as eneral tre's notice That good lady, however, saw only that Marianne had received a letter froood joke, and which she treated accordingly, by hoping, with a laugh, that she would find it to her liking Of Elinor's distress, she was too busily e, to see any thing at all; and cal her talk, as soon as Marianne disappeared, she said, "Uponwo to her, and yet they used to be foolish enough; but as for Miss Marianne, she is quite an altered creature I hope, froer, for it is quite grievous to see her look so ill and forlorn