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Of Edward, or at least of soence from Colonel Brandon, who had been into Dorsetshire lately; and who, treating her at once as the disinterested friend of Mr Ferrars, and the kind of confidant of hie at Delaford, described its deficiencies, and told her what hethem--His behaviour to her in this, as well as in every other particular, his open pleasure inher after an absence of only ten days, his readiness to converse with her, and his deference for her opinion, s's persuasion of his attachh, perhaps, had not Elinor still, as from the first, believed Marianne his real favourite, to make her suspect it herself But as it was, such a notion had scarcely ever entered her head, except by Mrs Jennings's suggestion; and she could not help believing herself the nicest observer of the two;--she watched his eyes, while Mrs Jennings thought only of his behaviour;--and while his looks of anxious solicitude on Marianne's feeling, in her head and throat, the beginning of a heavy cold, because unexpressed by words, entirely escaped the latter lady's observation;--SHE could discover in thes, and needless alarht walks on the third and fourth evenings of her being there, not rounds, and especially in themore of wildness than in the rest, where the trees were the oldest, and the grass was the longest and wettest, had--assisted by the still greater iiven Marianne a cold so violent as, though for a day or two trifled with or denied, would force itself by increasing ailments on the concern of every body, and the notice of herself

Prescriptions poured in froh heavy and feverish, with a pain in her liht's rest was to cure her entirely; and it ith difficulty that Elinor prevailed on her, when she went to bed, to try one or two of the simplest of the remedies