Austen Said:

"Yes, ma'am." —

"Gracious God! can this be possible!"

"Not at all, I believe, with you."

"I cannot suppose it possible that she should."

"I never heard any thing of the kind hinted at before, I assure you,"

"I do not understand what you mean by interrupting them,"

"you were all in the same room together, were not you?"

"How!"

"have you been repeating to me what you only learnt yourself by listening at the door? I am sorry I did not know it before; for I certainly would not have suffered you to give me particulars of a conversation which you ought not to have known yourself. How could you behave so unfairly by your sister?"

"Well,"

"it is a comfort to be prepared against the worst. You have got your answer ready."

"Cleveland!" —

"No, I cannot go to Cleveland." —

"You forget,"

"that its situation is not...that it is not in the neighbourhood of..."

"But it is in Somersetshire. — I cannot go into Somersetshire. — There, where I looked forward to going...No, Elinor, you cannot expect me to go there."

"I shall always think myself very much obliged to you."

"The smallness of the house,"

"I cannot imagine any inconvenience to them, for it will be in proportion to their family and income."

"Thank you, ma'am,"

"It is a matter of great joy to me; and I feel the goodness of Colonel Brandon most sensibly. There are not many men who would act as he has done. Few people who have so compassionate a heart! I never was more astonished in my life."

"You judged from your knowledge of the Colonel's general benevolence; but at least you could not foresee that the opportunity would so very soon occur."

"You mean to go to Delaford after them I suppose,"

"He spoke of its being out of repair."

"Certainly, ma'am, I shall tell Marianne of it; but I shall not mention it at present to any body else."

"No, ma'am, not even Lucy if you please. One day's delay will not be very material; and till I have written to Mr. Ferrars, I think it ought not to be mentioned to any body else. I shall do THAT directly. It is of importance that no time should be lost with him, for he will of course have much to do relative to his ordination."

"Colonel Brandon is so delicate a man, that he rather wished any one to announce his intentions to Mr. Ferrars than himself."

"Certainly, ma'am,"

"You would not have gone, however,"

"without receiving our good wishes, even if we had not been able to give them in person. Mrs. Jennings was quite right in what she said. I have something of consequence to inform you of, which I was on the point of communicating by paper. I am charged with a most agreeable office

Colonel Brandon,

who was here only ten minutes ago,

has desired me to say, that

Allow me to congratulate you on having so respectable and well-judging a friend, and to join in his wish that the living — it is about two hundred a-year — were much more considerable, and such as might better enable you to — as might be more than a temporary accommodation to yourself — such, in short, as might establish all your views of happiness."

"Yes,"

"Colonel Brandon means it as a testimony of his concern for what has lately passed — for the cruel situation in which the unjustifiable conduct of your family has placed you — a concern which I am sure Marianne, myself, and all your friends, must share; and likewise as a proof of his high esteem for your general character, and his particular approbation of your behaviour on the present occasion."

"The unkindness of your own relations has made you astonished to find friendship any where."

"You are very much mistaken. I do assure you that you owe it entirely, at least almost entirely, to your own merit, and Colonel Brandon's discernment of it. I have had no hand in it. I did not even know, till I understood his design, that the living was vacant; nor had it ever occurred to me that he might have had such a living in his gift. As a friend of mine, of my family, he may, perhaps — indeed I know he HAS, still greater pleasure in bestowing it; but, upon my word, you owe nothing to my solicitation."

"Indeed,"

"I believe that you will find him, on farther acquaintance, all that you have heard him to be, and as you will be such very near neighbours (for I understand the parsonage is almost close to the mansion-house,) it is particularly important that he SHOULD be all this."

"When I see him again,"

"I shall see him the husband of Lucy."

"No, ma'am; THAT was not very likely."

"Really,"

"I know so little of these kind of forms, that I can hardly even conjecture as to the time, or the preparation necessary; but I suppose two or three months will complete his ordination."

"My dear ma'am,"

"what can you be thinking of? — Why, Colonel Brandon's only object is to be of use to Mr. Ferrars."

"But Colonel Brandon does not seem to have any idea of the living's being enough to allow them to marry."

"It is perfectly true. — Colonel Brandon has given the living of Delaford to Edward."

"About two hundred a year."