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"Watched us out of the house!"

"Even so You would be surprised to hear how often I watched you, how often I was on the point of falling in with you I have entered e drove by Lodging as I did in Bond Street, there was hardly a day in which I did not catch a gli but the most constant watchfulness ondesire to keep out of your sight, could have separated us so long I avoided the Middletons as much as possible, as well as everybody else as likely to prove an acquaintance in co in town, however, I blundered on Sir John, I believe, the first day of his cos's He asked --Had he NOT told me as an inducement that you and your sister were to be there, I should have felt it too certain a thing, to trust ht another short note fro--everything that could make MY conduct most hateful I could not answer it I tried--but could not fraht of her, I believe, every moment of the day

If you CAN pity me, Miss Dashwood, pity my situation as it was THEN

With my head and heart full of your sister, I was forced to play the happy lover to another woman!--Those three or four weeks orse than all Well, at last, as I need not tell you, you were forced on ony it was!-Marianne, beautiful as an angel on one side, callingout her hand toeyes fixed in such speaking solicitude on my face!--and Sophia, jealous as the devil on the other hand, looking all that was--Well, it does not signify; it is over now-- Such an evening!--I ran away from you all as soon as I could; but not before I had seen Marianne's sweet face as white as death--THAT was the last, last look I ever had of her;--the last ht!--yet when I thought of her to-day as really dying, it was a kind of coine that I knew exactly how she would appear to those, who saw her last in this world She was before me, constantly before me, as I travelled, in the same look and hue"