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Perhaps Fanny thought for a h,--for, colouring a little, she immediately said, "They are very pretty,been too civil, too encouraging herself, probably came over her, for she presently added, "Do you not think they are so, Ma'ahtfully!--How beautifully her last landscape is done!"
"Beautifully indeed! But SHE does every thing well"
Marianne could not bear this--She was already greatly displeased with Mrs Ferrars; and such ill-tih she had not any notion of as principally meant by it, provoked her immediately to say armth, "This is admiration of a very particular kind!--what is Miss Morton to us?--who knows, or who cares, for her?--it is Elinor of who, she took the screens out of her sister-in-law's hands, to adht to be ad herself up more stiffly than ever, pronounced in retort this bitter philippic, "Miss Morton is Lord Morton's daughter"
Fanny looked very angry too, and her husband was all in a fright at his sister's audacity Elinor was much more hurt by Marianne's warmth than she had been by what produced it; but Colonel Brandon's eyes, as they were fixed on Marianne, declared that he noticed only as amiable in it, the affectionate heart which could not bear to see a sister slighted in the ss did not stop here The cold insolence of Mrs Ferrars's general behaviour to her sister, seemed, to her, to foretell such difficulties and distresses to Elinor, as her oounded heart taught her to think of with horror; and urged by a strong impulse of affectionate sensibility, sheone arm round her neck, and one cheek close to hers, said in a low, but eager, voice, "Dear, dear Elinor, don't mind them Don't let them make YOU unhappy"
She could say noher face on Elinor's shoulder, she burst into tears Every body's attention was called, and almost every body was concerned--Colonel Brandon rose up and went to thes, with a very intelligent "Ah! poor dear," iave her her salts; and Sir John felt so desperately enraged against the author of this nervous distress, that he instantly changed his seat to one close by Lucy Steele, and gave her, in a whisper, a brief account of the whole shocking affair