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Oh! how easy for those, who have no sorrow of their own to talk of exertion! Happy, happy Elinor, YOU cannot have an idea of what I suffer"

"Do you call ME happy, Marianne? Ah! if you knew!--And can you believe iveher arms round her sister's neck; "I know you feel for me; I knohat a heart you have; but yet you are--you must be happy; Edward loves you--what, oh what, can do away such happiness as that?"

"Many, many circumstances," said Elinor, solemnly

"No, no, no," cried Marianne wildly, "he loves you, and only you You CAN have no grief"

"I can have no pleasure while I see you in this state"

"And you will never seecan do away"

"You must not talk so, Marianne Have you no co for consolation? Much as you suffer now, think of what you would have suffered if the discovery of his character had been delayed to a later period--if your engageht have been, before he chose to put an end to it Every additional day of unhappy confidence, on your side, would have made the blow more dreadful"

"Engageeement!"

"No, he is not so unworthy as you believe him He has broken no faith with me"

"But he told you that he loved you"

"Yes--no--never absolutely It was every day iht it had been--but it never was"

"Yet you wrote to hi after all that had passed?-- But I cannot talk"

Elinor said no ain to the three letters which now raised a er curiosity than before, directly ran over the contents of all The first, which hat her sister had sent him on their arrival in toas to this effect

Berkeley Street, January

"How surprised you will be, Willoughby, on receiving this; and I think you will feel so more than surprise, when you know that I ah with Mrs Jennings, was a temptation we could not resist

I wish you ht, but I will not depend on it At any rate I shall expect you to-morrow For the present, adieu