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He would not speak another word to hiht, for all the world! No, not if it were to be by the side of Barton covert, and they were kept watching for two hours together Such a scoundrel of a fellow! such a deceitful dog! It was only the last time they met that he had offered him one of Folly's puppies! and this was the end of it!"

Mrs Palry "She was determined to drop his acquaintance immediately, and she was very thankful that she had never been acquainted with hina was not so near Cleveland; but it did not signify, for it was a great deal too far off to visit; she hated hiain, and she should tell everybody she sa good-for-nothing he was"

The rest of Mrs Pal all the particulars in her power of the approachingthem to Elinor She could soon tell at what coach, by what painter Mr Willoughby's portrait was drawn, and at arehouse Miss Grey's clothes ht be seen

The calm and polite unconcern of Lady Middleton on the occasion was a happy relief to Elinor's spirits, oppressed as they often were by the clareat co no interest in ONE person at least areat comfort to know that there was ONE ouldany curiosity after particulars, or any anxiety for her sister's health

Every qualification is raised at times, by the circumstances of the moment, to more than its real value; and she was soood-breeding as ood-nature

Lady Middleton expressed her sense of the affair about once every day, or twice, if the subject occurred very often, by saying, "It is very shocking, indeed!" and by the entle vent, was able not only to see the Miss Dashwoods from the first without the smallest e a word of the nity of her own sex, and spoken her decided censure of rong in the other, she thought herself at liberty to attend to the interest of her own asseainst the opinion of Sir John) that as Mrs Willoughby would at once be a woance and fortune, to leave her card with her as soon as she married