Austen Said:

"What? have you met him to — "

"I could meet him no other way. Eliza had confessed to me, though most reluctantly, the name of her lover; and when he returned to town, which was within a fortnight after myself, we met by appointment, he to defend, I to punish his conduct. We returned unwounded, and the meeting, therefore, never got abroad."

"Such,"

"has been the unhappy resemblance between the fate of mother and daughter! and so imperfectly have I discharged my trust!"

"Is she still in town?"

"No; as soon as she recovered from her lying-in, for I found her near her delivery, I removed her and her child into the country, and there she remains."

his seduction and desertion of Miss Williams, the misery of that poor girl, and the doubt of what his designs might ONCE have been on herself,

entirely wrong, formed on mistaken grounds, and that by requiring her longer continuance in London it deprived her of the only possible alleviation of her wretchedness, the personal sympathy of her mother, and doomed her to such society and such scenes as must prevent her ever knowing a moment's rest.

what brought evil to herself would bring good to her sister;

though their longer stay would therefore militate against her own happiness, it would be better for Marianne than an immediate return into Devonshire.

he was married.

"I should have been quite disappointed if I had not found you here STILL,"

"But I always thought I SHOULD. I was almost sure you would not leave London yet awhile; though you TOLD me, you know, at Barton, that you should not stay above a MONTH. But I thought, at the time, that you would most likely change your mind when it came to the point. It would have been such a great pity to have went away before your brother and sister came. And now to be sure you will be in no hurry to be gone. I am amazingly glad you did not keep to YOUR WORD."

"Not in the stage, I assure you,"

"we came post all the way, and had a very smart beau to attend us. Dr. Davies was coming to town, and so we thought we'd join him in a post-chaise; and he behaved very genteelly, and paid ten or twelve shillings more than we did."

"There now,"

"everybody laughs at me so about the Doctor, and I cannot think why.

My cousins say

but for my part I declare I never think about him from one hour's end to another.

my cousin said t'other day,

when she saw him crossing the street to the house. My beau, indeed! said I — I cannot think who you mean. The Doctor is no beau of mine."

"No, indeed!"

"and I beg you will contradict it, if you ever hear it talked of."

"I suppose you will go and stay with your brother and sister, Miss Dashwood, when they come to town,"

"No, I do not think we shall."

"Oh, yes, I dare say you will."

"What a charming thing it is that Mrs. Dashwood can spare you both for so long a time together!"

"I am sorry we cannot see your sister, Miss Dashwood,"

"I am sorry she is not well — "

"You are very good. My sister will be equally sorry to miss the pleasure of seeing you; but she has been very much plagued lately with nervous head-aches, which make her unfit for company or conversation."

"Oh, dear, that is a great pity! but such old friends as Lucy and me! — I think she might see US; and I am sure we would not speak a word."

"Oh, if that's all,"

"we can just as well go and see HER."

"Excellent indeed. Their attention to our comfort, their friendliness in every particular, is more than I can express."

"Yes; he has very good property in Dorsetshire."

"Me, brother! what do you mean?"

"I believe about two thousand a year."

"Indeed I believe you,"

"but I am very sure that Colonel Brandon has not the smallest wish of marrying ME."

"Is Mr. Edward Ferrars,"

"going to be married?"

"Your expenses both in town and country must certainly be considerable; but your income is a large one."

"More than you think it really and intrinsically worth."

"Certainly,"

"and assisted by her liberality, I hope you may yet live to be in easy circumstances."

"Where is the green-house to be?"

"Nothing at all, I should rather suppose; for she has only her jointure, which will descend to her children."

"And do you not think it more likely that she should leave it to her daughters, than to us?"

"But she raises none in those most concerned. Indeed, brother, your anxiety for our welfare and prosperity carries you too far."

"She is not well, she has had a nervous complaint on her for several weeks."