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Elinor resolving to exert herself, though fearing the sound of her own voice, now said, "Is Mrs Ferrars at Longstaple?"

"At Longstaple!" he replied, with an air of surprise-- "No,up some work from the table, "to inquire for Mrs EDWARD Ferrars"

She dared not look up;--but her mother and Marianne both turned their eyes on hily, and, after some hesitation, said,-"Perhaps you mean--my brother--you mean Mrs--Mrs ROBERT Ferrars"

"Mrs Robert Ferrars!"--was repeated by Marianne and her h Elinor could not speak, even HER eyes were fixed on him with the same impatient wonder He rose from his seat, and walked to the , apparently fro what to do; took up a pair of scissors that lay there, and while spoiling both the the latter to pieces as he spoke, said, in a hurried voice, "Perhaps you do not know--you may not have heard that est--to Miss Lucy Steele"

His words were echoed with unspeakable astonish over her work, in a state of such agitation as made her hardly knohere she was

"Yes," said he, "they were married last week, and are now at Dawlish"

Elinor could sit it no longer She almost ran out of the room, and as soon as the door was closed, burst into tears of joy, which at first she thought would never cease Edward, who had till then looked any where, rather than at her, saw her hurry away, and perhaps saw--or even heard, her emotion; for immediately afterwards he fell into a reverie, which no remarks, no inquiries, no affectionate address of Mrs Dashwood could penetrate, and at last, without saying a word, quitted the roo the others in the greatest astonishe in his situation, so wonderful and so sudden;--a perplexity which they had nobut by their own conjectures