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how snug they er--with two maids, and two men; and I believe I could help them to a housemaid, for my Betty has a sister out of place, that would fit thes ceased, and as Elinor had had tiive such an answer, and ht naturally be supposed to produce

Happy to find that she was not suspected of any extraordinary interest in it; that Mrs Jennings (as she had of late often hoped ine her at all attached to Edward; and happy above all the rest, in the absence of Marianne, she felt very well able to speak of the affair without ement, as she believed, with impartiality on the conduct of every one concerned in it

She could hardly deterh she earnestly tried to drive away the notion of its being possible to end otherwise at last, than in the e of Edward and Lucy What Mrs Ferrars would say and do, though there could not be a doubt of its nature, she was anxious to hear; and still more anxious to knoard would conduct himself For HIM she felt much compassion;--for Lucy very little--and it cost her some pains to procure that little;--for the rest of the party none at all

As Mrs Jennings could talk on no other subject, Elinor soon saw the necessity of preparing Marianne for its discussion No ti her acquainted with the real truth, and in endeavouring to bring her to hear it talked of by others, without betraying that she felt any uneasiness for her sister, or any resentainst Edward

Elinor's office was a painful one--She was going to remove what she really believed to be her sister's chief consolation,--to give such particulars of Edward as she feared would ruin hiood opinion,-and to make Marianne, by a resemblance in their situations, which to HER fancy would seeain But unwelcome as such a task must be, it was necessary to be done, and Elinor therefore hastened to perfor to dwell on her own feelings, or to represent herself as suffering much, any otherwise than as the self-coe of Edward's engageest a hint of as practicable to Marianne