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Mrs Ferrars was a little, thin woure, and serious, even to sourness, in her aspect Her complexion was sallow; and her features small, without beauty, and naturally without expression; but a lucky contraction of the brow had rescued her countenance fro characters of pride and ill nature She was not a woeneral, she proportioned them to the number of her ideas; and of the few syllables that did escape her, not one fell to the share of Miss Dashwood, who her at all events

Elinor could not NOW be o it would have hurt her exceedingly; but it was not in Mrs Ferrars' power to distress her by it now;--and the difference of her manners to the Miss Steeles, a difference which seemed purposely made to humble her raciousness of both hter towards the very person-- for Lucy was particularly distinguished--whom of all others, had they known as much as she did, they would have been most anxious to mortify; while she herself, who had cohted by both But while she sraciousness so misapplied, she could not reflect on the , nor observe the studied attentions hich the Miss Steeles courted its continuance, without thoroughly despising the so honorably distinguished; and Miss Steele wanted only to be teazed about Dr Davies to be perfectly happy

The dinner was a grand one, the servants were nu bespoke the Mistress's inclination for show, and the Master's ability to support it In spite of the i to the Norland estate, and in spite of its owner having once been within soed to sell out at a loss, nothing gave any syence which he had tried to infer from it;--no poverty of any kind, except of conversation, appeared--but there, the deficiency was considerable John Dashwood had not , and his wife had still less But there was no peculiar disgrace in this; for it was very much the case with the chief of their visitors, who almost all laboured under one or other of these disqualifications for being agreeable--Want of sense, either natural or iance--want of spirits--or want of temper