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One shoulder of mutton, you know, drives another down If we CAN but put Willoughby out of her head!"

"Ay, if we can do THAT, Ma'am," said Elinor, "we shall do very ith or without Colonel Brandon" And then rising, she went away to join Marianne, who, in silent misery, over the small remains of a fire, which, till Elinor's entrance, had been her only light

"You had better leave me," was all the notice that her sister received froo to bed" But this, fro, she at first refused to do Her sister's earnest, though gentle persuasion, however, soon softened her to co head on the pillow, and as she hoped, in a way to get so-room, whither she then repaired, she was soon joined by Mrs Jennings, with a wine-glass, full of so, "I have just recollected that I have some of the finest old Constantia wine in the house that ever was tasted, so I have brought a glass of it for your sister My poor husband! how fond he was of it! Whenever he had a touch of his old colicky gout, he said it did hi else in the world Do take it to your sister"

"Dear Ma'a at the difference of the coood you are! But I have just left Marianne in bed, and, I hope, al will be of so ive s, though regretting that she had not been five minutes earlier, was satisfied with the compromise; and Elinor, as she sed the chief of it, reflected, that though its effects on a colicky gout were, at present, of little i powers, on a disappointed heart ht be as reasonably tried on herself as on her sister

Colonel Brandon came in while the party were at tea, and by hisround the room for Marianne, Elinor immediately fancied that he neither expected nor wished to see her there, and, in short, that he was already aware of what occasioned her absence Mrs Jennings was not struck by the saht; for soon after his entrance, she walked across the room to the tea-table where Elinor presided, and whispered-"The Colonel looks as grave as ever you see He knows nothing of it; do tell him, my dear"