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Your sister's lovely person and interesting manners could not but please me; and her behaviour to , when I reflect on what it was, and what SHE was, that my heart should have been so insensible! But at first I must confess, my vanity only was elevated by it Careless of her happiness, thinking only of s which I had always been too , I endeavoured, by everyto her, without any design of returning her affection"

Miss Dashwood, at this point, turning her eyes on hi, "It is hardly worth while, Mr Willoughby, for you to relate, or foras this cannot be followed by any thing-- Do not letthe whole of it," he replied, "My fortune was never large, and I had always been expensive, always in the habit of associating with people of better incoe, or even before, I believe, had added to h the death of my old cousin, Mrs S uncertain, and possibly far distant, it had been for some ti a woman of fortune To attach ht of;--and with a nant, no contemptuous look, even of yours, Miss Dashwood, can ever reprobate too ard, without a thought of returning it--But one thing may be said for me: even in that horrid state of selfish vanity, I did not know the extent of the injury I meditated, because I did not THEN knohat it was to love But have I ever known it?--Well may it be doubted; for, had I really loved, could I have sacrificed s to vanity, to avarice?--or, what is more, could I have sacrificed hers?-- But I have done it To avoid a comparative poverty, which her affection and her society would have deprived of all its horrors, I have, by raisingthat could "

"You did then," said Elinor, a little softened, "believe yourself at one time attached to her?"