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Here he stopped to be thanked; which being done, he went on

"What poor Mrs Ferrars suffered, when first Fanny broke it to her, is not to be described While she with the truest affection had been planning a ible connection for him, was it to be supposed that he could be all the tied to another person!--such a suspicion could never have entered her head! If she suspected ANY prepossession elsewhere, it could not be in THAT quarter 'THERE, to be sure,' said she, 'I ony We consulted together, however, as to what should be done, and at last she determined to send for Edward He came But I am sorry to relate what ensued All that Mrs Ferrars could say to euments, and Fanny's entreaties, was of no avail

Duty, affection, every thing was disregarded I never thought Edward so stubborn, so unfeeling before His ns, in case of hisMiss Morton; told him she would settle on hiood thousand a-year; offered even, when rew desperate, to make it twelve hundred; and in opposition to this, if he still persisted in this low connection, represented to him the certain penury that must attend the match His oo thousand pounds she protested should be his all; she would never see hi him the smallest assistance, that if he were to enter into any profession with a view of better support, she would do all in her power to prevent hination, clapped her hands together, and cried, "Gracious God! can this be possible!"

"Well may you wonder, Marianne," replied her brother, "at the obstinacy which could resist such arguments as these Your excla to retort, but she remembered her promises, and forbore

"All this, however," he continued, "was urged in vain Edward said very little; but what he did say, was in the ive up his engageht"

"Then," cried Mrs Jennings with blunt sincerity, no longer able to be silent, "he has acted like an honestyour pardon, Mr Dashwood, but if he had done otherwise, I should have thought him a rascal I have some little concern in the business, as well as yourself, for Lucy Steele is irl in the world, nor one who ood husband"