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"Was Mr Ferrars in the carriage with her?"
"Yes,back in it, but he did not look up;--he never was a gentle"
Elinor's heart could easily account for his not putting himself forward; and Mrs Dashwood probably found the sae?"
"No, ma'am, only they two"
"Do you knohere they caht from town, as Miss Lucy-- Mrs Ferrars toldfarther ard?"
"Yes, ain, and then they'd be sure and call here"
Mrs Dashwood now looked at her daughter; but Elinor knew better than to expect thee, and was very confident that Edould never come near them She observed in a low voice, to herdown to Mr Pratt's, near Plyence seemed over Elinor looked as if she wished to hear more
"Did you see them off, before you ca out, but I could not bide any longer; I was afraid of being late"
"Did Mrs Ferrars look well?"
"Yes, ma'am, she said how she was very well; and tolady--and she seemed vastly contented"
Mrs Dashwood could think of no other question, and Thomas and the tablecloth, now alike needless, were soon afterwards dismissed
Marianne had already sent to say, that she should eat nothing more
Mrs Dashwood's and Elinor's appetites were equally lost, and Margaret ht think herself very well off, that with so much uneasiness as both her sisters had lately experienced, so much reason as they had often had to be careless of their o without her dinner before
When the dessert and the ere arranged, and Mrs Dashwood and Elinor were left by thehtfulness and silence Mrs Dashwood feared to hazard any remark, and ventured not to offer consolation She now found that she had erred in relying on Elinor's representation of herself; and justly concluded that every thing had been expressly softened at the ti as she then had suffered for Marianne She found that she had been hter, to think the attachhter in reality, than she had been wont to believe, or than it was now proved to be She feared that under this persuasion she had been unjust, inattentive, nay, almost unkind, to her Elinor;--that Marianne's affliction, because ed, rossed her tenderness, and led her away to forget that in Elinor shealreater fortitude