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Elinor said no more, and John was also for a short ti,in an ahisper,--"I ratify you I have good reason to think--indeed I have it from the best authority, or I should not repeat it, for otherwise it would be very wrong to say any thing about it--but I have it from the very best authority--not that I ever precisely heard Mrs Ferrars say it herself--but her daughter DID, and I have it froainst a certain--a certain connection--you understand me--it would have been far preferable to her, it would not have given her half the vexation that THIS does I was exceedingly pleased to hear that Mrs Ferrars considered it in that light--a very gratifying circumstance you know to us all 'It would have been beyond comparison,' she said, 'the least evil of the two, and she would be glad to co worse' But however, all that is quite out of the question--not to be thought of or mentioned--as to any attachone by But I thought I would just tell you of this, because I kne ret, ly well--quite as well, or better, perhaps, all things considered Has Colonel Brandon been with you lately?"
Elinor had heard enough, if not to gratify her vanity, and raise her self-iitate her nerves and fill her lad to be spared froany thing more from her brother, by the entrance of Mr Robert Ferrars After a fewthat Fanny was yet uninfor there, quitted the room in quest of her; and Elinor was left to iay unconcern, the happy self-co so unfair a division of his mother's love and liberality, to the prejudice of his banished brother, earned only by his own dissipated course of life, and that brother's integrity, was confir her most unfavourable opinion of his head and heart
They had scarcely been two an to speak of Edward; for he, too, had heard of the living, and was very inquisitive on the subject Elinor repeated the particulars of it, as she had given theh very different, was not less striking than it had been on HIM He laughed ye-house, diverted him beyond ery of Edward reading prayers in a white surplice, and publishing the banns of e between John S more ridiculous