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What Edward had done to forfeit the right of eldest son, ht have puzzled many people to find out; and what Robert had done to succeed to it, ement, however, justified in its effects, if not in its cause; for nothing ever appeared in Robert's style of living or of talking to give a suspicion of his regretting the extent of his inco hied froe of his duties in every particular, fro attachular cheerfulness of his spirits, he ht be supposed no less contented with his lot, no less free froe divided her as little fro the cottage at Barton entirely useless, for her mother and sisters spent muchon motives of policy as well as pleasure in the frequency of her visits at Delaford; for her wish of bringing Marianne and Colonel Brandon together was hardly less earnest, though rather more liberal than what John had expressed It was now her darling object Precious as was the co so ive up its constant enjoyment to her valued friend; and to see Marianne settled at the mansion-house was equally the wish of Edward and Elinor They each felt his sorrows, and their own obligations, and Marianne, by general consent, was to be the reward of all

With such a confederacy against her--with a knowledge so intioodness--with a conviction of his fond attach after it was observable to everybody else--burst on her--what could she do?

Marianne Dashas born to an extraordinary fate She was born to discover the falsehood of her own opinions, and to counteract, by her conduct, her most favourite maxims She was born to overcome an affection formed so late in life as at seventeen, and with no senti esteeive her hand to another!--and THAT other, a man who had suffered no less than herself under the event of a former attachment, whom, two years before, she had considered too old to be uard of a flannel waistcoat!

But so it was Instead of falling a sacrifice to an irresistible passion, as once she had fondly flattered herself with expecting,--instead of re her only pleasures in retirement she had deter to new attach on new duties, placed in a new home, a wife, the e