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He addressed her with easy civility, and twisted his head into a bohich assured her as plainly as words could have done, that he was exactly the coxcomb she had heard him described to be by Lucy Happy had it been for her, if her regard for Edward had depended less on his own merit, than on the merit of his nearest relations! For then his brother's bowstroke to what the ill-huun But while she wondered at the difference of the two young men, she did not find that the emptiness of conceit of the one, put her out of all charity with the modesty and worth of the other Why they WERE different, Robert exclaimed to her himself in the course of a quarter of an hour's conversation; for, talking of his brother, and la the extre in proper society, he candidly and generously attributed it much less to any natural deficiency, than to the h probably without any particular, any e of a public school, was as well fitted to mix in the world as any otherabout it 'My dear Madam,' I always say to her, 'you must make yourself easy The evil is now irre Why would you be persuaded by ment, to place Edward under private tuition, at the most critical time of his life? If you had only sent hi him to Mr Pratt's, all this would have been prevented' This is the way in which I always consider the matter, and my mother is perfectly convinced of her error"

Elinor would not oppose his opinion, because, whatever e of a public school, she could not think of Edward's abode in Mr Pratt's family, with any satisfaction

"You reside in Devonshire, I think,"--was his next observation, "in a cottage near Dawlish"

Elinor set hi to hi near Dawlish He bestowed his hearty approbation however on their species of house

"For e; there is always so ance about them And I protest, if I had any money to spare, I should buy a little land and build one ht drive myself down at any time, and collect a few friends aboutto build, to build a cottage My friend Lord Courtland came to me the other day on purpose to ask my advice, and laid before me three different plans of Bonomi's I was to decide on the best of the them all into the fire, 'do not adopt either of thee' And that I fancy, will be the end of it