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"You have probably entirely forgotten a conversation--(it is not to be supposed that it could make any i at Barton Park--it was the evening of a dance--in which I alluded to a lady I had once known, as rese, in some measure, your sister Marianne"

"Indeed," answered Elinor, "I have NOT forgotten it" He looked pleased by this remembrance, and added, "If I am not deceived by the uncertainty, the partiality of tender recollection, there is a very strong resemblance between them, as well in erness of fancy and spirits This lady was one of my nearest relations, an orphan froes were nearly the same, and from our earliest years ere playfellows and friends I cannot remember the time when I did not love Eliza; and rew up, was such, as perhaps, judging froht thinkever felt Her's, for me, was, I believe, fervent as the attachh from a different cause, no less unfortunate At seventeen she was lost to ainst her inclination to e, and our family estate much encumbered And this, I fear, is all that can be said for the conduct of one, as at once her uncle and guardian

My brother did not deserve her; he did not even love her I had hoped that her regard for me would support her under any difficulty, and for some time it did; but at last the reat unkindness, overcah she had pro--but how blindly I relate! I have never told you how this was brought on We ithin a few hours of eloping together for Scotland The treachery, or the folly, of my cousin's maid betrayed us I was banished to the house of a relation far distant, and she was allowed no liberty, no society, no aained I had depended on her fortitude too far, and the bloas a severe one--but had heras I then was, a few months must have reconciled me to it, or at least I should not have now to laard for her; his pleasures were not what they ought to have been, and from the first he treated her unkindly