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Elinor hts were silently fixed on the irreparable injury which too early an independence and its consequent habits of idleness, dissipation, and luxury, had made in the mind, the character, the happiness, of a e of person and talents, united a disposition naturally open and honest, and a feeling, affectionate teance and vanity hadits own guilty triumph at the expense of another, had involved hiance, or at least its offspring, necessity, had required to be sacrificed Each faulty propensity in leading him to evil, had led hiainst honour, against feeling, against every better interest he had outwardly torn hiht; and the connection, for the sake of which he had, with little scruple, left her sister to misery, was likely to prove a source of unhappiness to himself of a far more incurable nature From a reverie of this kind she was recalled at the end of so himself from a reverie at least equally painful, started up in preparation for going, and said-"There is no use in staying here; Iback to town?"

"No--to Cona I have business there; from thence to town in a day or two Good bye"

He held out his hand She could not refuse to give him hers's;--he pressed it with affection

"And you DO think so it fall, and leaning against the o

Elinor assured hiave, pitied, wished hientle counsel as to the behaviour

"As to that," said he, "I h the world as well as I can

Domestic happiness is out of the question If, however, I am allowed to think that you and yours feel an interest in my fate and actions, it uard--at least, itto live for Marianne to be sure is lost to ain--"

Elinor stopped hiood bye I shall now go away and live in dread of one event"