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Concern for her unhappiness, and respect for her fortitude under it, then every attach to her what I have told you You must know best ill be its effect; but had I not seriously, and froht lessen her regrets, I would not have suffered myself to trouble you with this account of my family afflictions, with a recital which may seem to have been intended to raise myself at the expense of others"

Elinor's thanks followed this speech with grateful earnestness; attended too with the assurance of her expecting e to Marianne, from the communication of what had passed

"I have been more pained," said she, "by her endeavors to acquit him than by all the rest; for it irritates her mind more than the h at first she will suffer much, I am sure she will soon become easier Have you," she continued, after a short silence, "ever seen Mr Willoughby since you left hiravely, "once I have Onewas unavoidable"

Elinor, startled by his , "What? have you met him to--"

"I could h most reluctantly, the name of her lover; and when he returned to tohich ithin a fortnight after myself, we met by appointment, he to defend, I to punish his conduct We returned unwounded, and the hed over the fancied necessity of this; but to a man and a soldier she presumed not to censure it

"Such," said Colonel Brandon, after a pause, "has been the unhappy resehter! and so ied my trust!"

"Is she still in town?"

"No; as soon as she recovered fro-in, for I found her near her delivery, I removed her and her child into the country, and there she re, soon afterwards, that he was probably dividing Elinor fro fro her full of compassion and esteem for him