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With an income quite sufficient to their wants thus secured to the to wait for after Edas in possession of the living, but the readiness of the house, to which Colonel Brandon, with an eager desire for the acco considerable i so, as usual, a thousand disappointments and delays from the unaccountable dilatoriness of the workh the first positive resolution of notwas ready, and the ceremony took place in Barton church early in the autue was spent with their friend at the Mansion-house; froe, and direct every thing as they liked on the spot;--could chuse papers, project shrubberies, and invent a sweep Mrs Jennings's prophecies, though rather juether, were chiefly fulfilled; for she was able to visit Edward and his wife in their Parsonage by Michaelmas, and she found in Elinor and her husband, as she really believed, one of the happiest couples in the world They had in fact nothing to wish for, but the e of Colonel Brandon and Marianne, and rather better pasturage for their cows

They were visited on their first settling by almost all their relations and friends Mrs Ferrars came to inspect the happiness which she was al authorised; and even the Dashwoods were at the expense of a journey from Sussex to do them honour

"I will not say that I am disappointed, ether one ates of Delaford House, "THAT would be saying too much, for certainly you have been one of theworeat pleasure to call Colonel Brandon brother His property here, his place, his house, every thing is in such respectable and excellent condition!--and his woods!--I have not seen such ti in Delaford Hanger!--And though, perhaps, Marianne may not seem exactly the person to attract hiether be advisable for you to have the with you, for as Colonel Brandon seereat deal at home, nobody can tell what ether, and see little of anybody else--and it will always be in your power to set her off to advantage, and so forth;--in short, you h Mrs Ferrars DID come to see them, and always treated them with the make-believe of decent affection, they were never insulted by her real favour and preference THAT was due to the folly of Robert, and the cunning of his wife; and it was earned by theacity of the latter, which had at first drawn Robert into the scrape, was the principal instrument of his deliverance from it; for her respectful humility, assiduous attentions, and endless flatteries, as soon as the siven for their exercise, reconciled Mrs Ferrars to his choice, and re-established him completely in her favour