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"I understand you," he replied, with an expressive smile, and a voice perfectly calm; "yes, I am very drunk-- A pint of porter with h to over-set h!"--cried Elinor, more and more at a loss to understand what he would be at

"Yes,--I left London this ht o'clock, and the only ten minutes I have spent out of h"

The steadiness of his ence of his eye as he spoke, convincing Elinor, that whatever other unpardonable folly ht there by intoxication, she said, after a hby, you OUGHT to feel, and I certainly DO--that after what has passed--your co yourself upon my notice, requires a very particular excuse--What is it, that you y--"if I can, to ree less than you do NOW I y, for the past; to open h I have been always a blockhead, I have not been always a rascal, to obtain soiveness from Ma--fro?"

"Upon ht all the forhby to her remembrance, and in spite of herself made her think him sincere

"If that is all, you may be satisfied already,-- for Marianne DOES--she has LONG forgiven you"

"Has she?"--he cried, in the saht to have done it But she shall forgive rounds--NOW will you listen to me?"

Elinor bowed her assent

"I do not know," said he, after a pause of expectation on her side, and thoughtfulness on his own,--"how YOU may have accounted for my behaviour to your sister, or what diabolical motive you may have imputed to me-- Perhaps you will hardly think the better of me,--it is worth the trial however, and you shall hear every thing When I first became intimate in your family, I had no other intention, no other view in the acquaintance than to pass ed to remain in Devonshire, more pleasantly than I had ever done before