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"Soine that there can be no accoe; but this is all a mistake I was last month at ive a dance 'But how can it be done?' said she; 'ed There is not a rooe that will hold ten couple, and where can the supper be?' I immediately saw that there could be no difficulty in it, so I said, 'My dear Lady Elliott, do not be uneasy The dining parlour will adhteen couple with ease; card-tables -room; the library may be open for tea and other refreshments; and let the supper be set out in the saloon' Lady Elliott was delighted with the thought We hteen couple, and the affair was arranged precisely after my plan So that, in fact, you see, if people do but kno to set about it, every coe as in the reed to it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition

As John Dashwood had no more pleasure in music than his eldest sister, hiselse; and a thought struck hi, which he coot ho his sisters their guests, had suggested the propriety of their being really invited to becoe, the inconvenience not ether an attention which the delicacy of his conscience pointed out to be requisite to its complete enfranchisement from his promise to his father Fanny was startled at the proposal

"I do not see how it can be done," said she, "without affronting Lady Middleton, for they spend every day with her; otherwise I should be exceedingly glad to do it You know I am always ready to pay the the shews But they are Lady Middleton's visitors How can I ask thereat humility, did not see the force of her objection "They had already spent a week in this manner in Conduit Street, and Lady Middleton could not be displeased at their giving the same number of days to such near relations"