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She was on the point of sending again for Mr Harris, or if HE could not come, for some other advice, when the former--but not till after five o'clock--arrived His opinion, however, ing a very unexpected and unpleasant alteration in his patient, he would not allow the danger to be material, and talked of the relief which a fresh mode of treatree, was coain in the course of three or four hours, and left both the patient and her anxious attendantconcern, and withcalled to their aid, did Mrs Jennings hear in theof what had passed

Her forreater reason restored, left her no doubt of the event; and though trying to speak coer would not allow her to offer the corieved The rapid decay, the early death of a girl so young, so lovely as Marianne, must have struck a less interested person with concern On Mrs Jennings's compassion she had other claims She had been for three months her companion, was still under her care, and she was known to have been greatly injured, and long unhappy The distress of her sister too, particularly a favourite, was before her;--and as for their ht probably be to HER what Charlotte was to herself, her sys was very sincere

Mr Harris was punctual in his second visit;--but he came to be disappointed in his hopes of what the last would produce His medicines had failed;--the fever was unabated; and Marianne only more quiet--notall, and more than all, his fears in a ed it unnecessary: he had still so more to try, some more fresh application, of whose success he was as confident as the last, and his visit concluded with encouraging assurances which reached the ear, but could not enter the heart of Miss Dashwood She was calht of her mother; but she was almost hopeless; and in this state she continued till noon, scarcely stirring frorief, one suffering friend to another, and her spirits oppressed to the uts, who scrupled not to attribute the severity and danger of this attack to the many weeks of previous indisposition which Marianne's disappointht on Elinor felt all the reasonableness of the idea, and it gave fresh misery to her reflections