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Fanny paused a or, said, "My love I would ask them with all my heart, if it was in my power

But I had just settled within myself to ask the Miss Steeles to spend a few days with us They are very well behaved, good kind of girls; and I think the attention is due to them, as their uncle did so very well by Edward We can ask your sisters some other year, you know; but the Miss Steeles may not be in town any more I am sure you will like them; indeed, you DO like them, you know, very much already, and so does my mother; and they are such favourites with Harry!"

Mr Dashas convinced He saw the necessity of inviting the Miss Steeles immediately, and his conscience was pacified by the resolution of inviting his sisters another year; at the sa that another year wouldElinor to town as Colonel Brandon's wife, and Marianne as THEIR visitor

Fanny, rejoicing in her escape, and proud of the ready wit that had procured it, wrote the nextto Lucy, to request her company and her sister's, for some days, in Harley Street, as soon as Lady Middleton could spare theh to make Lucy really and reasonably happy Mrs Dashwood see all her hopes, and pro with Edward and his fas, the most ratifying to her feelings! It was an advantage that could not be too gratefully acknowledged, nor too speedily made use of; and the visit to Lady Middleton, which had not before had any precise limits, was instantly discovered to have been always meant to end in two days' time

When the note was shown to Elinor, as it ithin ten ave her, for the first time, some share in the expectations of Lucy; for such a mark of uncommon kindness, vouchsafed on so short an acquaintance, seeood-will towards her arose froht be brought, by ti that Lucy wished Her flattery had already subdued the pride of Lady Middleton, and made an entry into the close heart of Mrs John Dashwood; and these were effects that laid open the probability of greater

The Miss Steeles removed to Harley Street, and all that reached Elinor of their influence there, strengthened her expectation of the event