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Mrs Jennings came i to have her request of admittance answered, opened the door and walked in with a look of real concern

"How do you do reat compassion to Marianne, who turned away her face without atte! she looks very bad-- No wonder Ay, it is but too true He is to befellow! I have no patience with hio, and she was told it by a particular friend of Miss Grey herself, else I am sure I should not have believed it; and I was almost ready to sink as it was Well, said I, all I can say is, that if this be true, he has used a young lady of my acquaintance aboue his heart out And so I shall always say,on in this way; and if ever Ias he has not had this many a day But there is one co ; and with your pretty face you will never want ader, for she had better have her cry out at once and have done with The Parrys and Sandersons luckily are coht you know, and that will a on tiptoe out of the roo friend's affliction could be increased by noise

Marianne, to the surprise of her sister, deterainst it But "no, she would go down; she could bear it very well, and the bustle about her would be less"

Elinor, pleased to have her governed for ait hardly possible that she could sit out the dinner, said noher dress for her as well as she could, while Marianne still re rooh looking most wretchedly, she ate more and was calmer than her sister had expected Had she tried to speak, or had she been conscious of half Mrs Jennings's well-ed attentions to her, this calmness could not have been maintained; but not a syllable escaped her lips; and the abstraction of her thoughts preserved her in ignorance of every thing that was passing before her