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Youyourself in Devonshire pursuing fresh scheay, always happy, she was reduced to the extreence"

"But, upon my soul, I did NOT know it," he warive her ht have told her how to find it out"

"Well, sir, and what said Mrs Smith?"

"She taxed uessed The purity of her life, the for was against me The matter itself I could not deny, and vain was every endeavour to soften it She was previously disposed, I believe, to doubt the eneral, and was moreover discontented with the very little attention, the very little portion of my time that I had bestowed on her, in my present visit In short, it ended in a total breach By one ht of her ive the past, if I would marry Eliza That could not be--and I was forht following this affair--I was to go the nexton what reat--but it ended too soon My affection for Marianne, h conviction of her attachh that dread of poverty, or get the better of those false ideas of the necessity of riches, which I was naturally inclined to feel, and expensive society had increased I had reason to believe myself secure of my present wife, if I chose to address her, and I persuadedelse in common prudence remained for me to do A heavy scene however awaited ed to dine with you on that very day; soey, or deliver it in person, was a point of long debate To see Marianne, I felt, would be dreadful, and I even doubted whether I could see her again, and keep to my resolution In that point, however, I undervalued nanimity, as the event declared; for I went, I saw her, and saw hernever to see her again"

"Why did you call, Mr Willoughby?" said Elinor, reproachfully; "a note would have answered every purpose-- Why was it necessary to call?"