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Elinor, who did justice to Mrs Jennings's kindness, though its effusions were often distressing, and soments, and returned her those civilities, which her sister could not ood friend saw that Marianne was unhappy, and felt that every thing was due to her which ht make her at all less so She treated her therefore, with all the indulgent fondness of a parent towards a favourite child on the last day of its holidays Marianne was to have the best place by the fire, was to be tempted to eat by every delicacy in the house, and to be amused by the relation of all the news of the day Had not Elinor, in the sad countenance of her sister, seen a check to all s's endeavours to cure a disappointood fire As soon, however, as the consciousness of all this was forced by continual repetition on Marianne, she could stay no longer

With a hasty exclan to her sister not to follow her, she directly got up and hurried out of the rooone, "how it grieves one aithout finishing her wine! And the dried cherries too! Lord! nothing see she would like, I would send all over the town for it Well, it is the oddest thing to irl so ill! But when there is plenty of money on one side, and next to none on the other, Lord bless you! they care no s!--"

"The lady then--Miss Grey I think you called her--is very rich?"

"Fifty thousand pounds, irl they say, but not handsome I remember her aunt very well, Biddy Henshawe; she ether Fifty thousand pounds! and by all accounts, it won't come before it's wanted; for they say he is all to pieces No wonder! dashing about with his curricle and hunters! Well, it don't signify talking; but when a young irl, and proe, he has no business to fly off froirl is ready to have him Why don't he, in such a case, sell his horses, let his house, turn off his servants, and h reform at once? I warrant you, Miss Marianne would have been ready to wait tillin the way of pleasure can ever be given up by the young e"