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Mrs Jennings immediately whispered to Elinor, "Get it all out of her,if you ask You see I cannot leave Mrs Clarke"

It was lucky, however, for Mrs Jennings's curiosity and Elinor's too, that she would tell any thing WITHOUT being asked; for nothing would otherwise have been learnt

"I a her fas in the world" And then lowering her voice, "I suppose Mrs Jennings has heard all about it Is she angry?"

"Not at all, I believe, with you"

"That is a good thing And Lady Middleton, is SHE angry?"

"I cannot suppose it possible that she should"

"I aracious! I have had such a tie in my life She vowed at first she would never triain, so long as she lived; but now she is quite coood friends as ever Look, she ht There now, YOU are going to laugh at me too But why should not I wear pink ribbons? I do not care if it IS the Doctor's favourite colour I am sure, for my part, I should never have known he DID like it better than any other colour, if he had not happened to say so My cousins have been so plaguing me! I declare sometimes I do not knohich way to look before them"

She had wandered away to a subject on which Elinor had nothing to say, and therefore soon judged it expedient to find her way back again to the first

"Well, but Miss Dashwood," speaking triumphantly, "peoplehe would not have Lucy, for it is no such thing I can tell you; and it is quite a shame for such ill-natured reports to be spread abroad Whatever Lucy ht think about it herself, you know, it was no business of other people to set it down for certain"

"I never heard any thing of the kind hinted at before, I assure you," said Elinor

"Oh, did not you? But it WAS said, I know, very well, and by more than one; for Miss Godby told Miss Sparks, that nobody in their senses could expect Mr Ferrars to give up a woman like Miss Morton, with thirty thousand pounds to her fortune, for Lucy Steele that had nothing at all; and I had it from Miss Sparks myself And besides that, my cousin Richard said himself, that when it came to the point he was afraid Mr Ferrars would be off; and when Edward did not come near us for three days, I could not tell what to think ave it up all for lost; for we ca of him not all Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, and did not knoas becoht to write to hiainst that However thishe came just as we came home from church; and then it all came out, how he had been sent for Wednesday to Harley Street, and been talked to by his mother and all of them, and how he had declared before them all that he loved nobody but Lucy, and nobody but Lucy would he have And how he had been so worried by what passed, that as soon as he had went away froot upon his horse, and rid into the country, some where or other; and how he had stayed about at an inn all Thursday and Friday, on purpose to get the better of it And after thinking it all over and over again, he said, it see at all, it would be quite unkind to keep her on to the engage but two thousand pounds, and no hope of any thing else; and if he was to go into orders, as he had so but a curacy, and hoas they to live upon that?--He could not bear to think of her doing no better, and so he begged, if she had the least mind for it, to put an end to the matter directly, and leave him shift for himself I heard him say all this as plain as could possibly be And it was entirely for HER sake, and upon HER account, that he said a word about being off, and not upon his own I will taketired of her, or of wishing tolike it But, to be sure, Lucy would not give ear to such kind of talking; so she told hireat deal about sweet and love, you know, and all that--Oh, la! one can't repeat such kind of things you know)--she told him directly, she had not the least mind in the world to be off, for she could live with hiht have, she should be very glad to have it all, you know, or so of the kind So then he was monstrous happy, and talked on soreed he should take orders directly, and they