made his apology in form as as be could say anything after taking a chair sense and sensibility mrs told me said he that wished to speak with me � at least i understood her so � or i certainly should not have on you in a manner though at the same time i should have been extremely sorry to leave london without seeing you and your sister especially as it will moat likely be some time � it ia not probable that i should soon have the pleasure of meeting you again i go to oxford to morrow you would not have gone however said recovering herself and determined to get over what she so much dreaded aa soon as possible without our good wishes even if we had not been able to give them in person mrs was quite right in what she said i have something of consequence to inform you of which i was ou the point of communicating by paper i am charged with a most agreeable office breathing rather faster than usual as she spoke colonel who was here only ten minutes ago has desired me to say that understanding you mean to take orders he has great pleasure in offering you the living of now just vacant and only wishes it were more valuable allow me to congratulate you on having so respectable find well judging a friend and to join iu his wish that the living � it ia about two hundred a year � were much more considerable and such as might r enable you to � as it ib ft sense and temporary accommodation to yourself � short as might establish all your views what edward felt as he could not say it himself it cannot be expected that any one else should say for him he looked all the astonishment which such unexpected such of could not fail of exciting but he said these two words � colonel yes continued gathering more as some of the worst was over means it as a testimony of his what has lately passed � for cruel situation in which the conduct of your family has placed you � a concern which i am sure myself and all your friends must likewise as a proof of his high esteem of general character and his particular of your behavior on the present occasion colonel give me a can be possible the of your own relations has mad you astonished to find friendship anywhere no replied he with sudden consciousness not to find it in you for i cannot be ignorant that to you to your goodness i owe it all i feel it � i would express it if i could � but as you know i am no orator m b lid l sense and sensibility tou are very much i do you that you owe it entirely at least entirely to your own merit and colonel s of it i have had no hand in it i did not j know till i understood hia design that the ng was vacant nor had it ever occurred to me that he might have had such a living in his gift i friend of mine of mj family he may perhaps indeed i know he has still greater pleasure a it but upon my word you owe nothing to my truth obliged her to acknowledge some small share in the action but she was at the same time to appear as the of edward that she acknowledged it with hesitation � which probably to fix that suspicion in his mind which had recently entered it for a short time he sat deep in thought after had k at last and as if it were an effort he said � colonel a man of great worth and respectability i have always heard him spoken of as such and your brother i know bim he is undoubtedly a sensible man and in his manners perfectly the gentleman � indeed replied i believe that you � will find him on further acquaintance all that you have heard him to be and as you will be such neat neighbors for i th e o sense and age in almost close to the it ia par that lie should be all this edward no answer but when she had turned her head gave her a look so serious earnest so aa seemed to say that he might hereafter wish the distance between the and the mansion house much greater colonel i think in st james s street said he soon afterwards rising from his told him the number of the house i must hurry away then to give him t thanks which you will not allow me to give you y to assure him that lie has made me a very � exceedingly happy n did not to detain him and they j parted with a very earnest assurance on her side of her good for his happiness in every change of situation that might befall him on his with rather an attempt to return the s good will than the power of expressing it when i see him again said to hai self as the door shut him out i see i the husband of and with this pleasing anticipation she sat down to the past recall the words and endeavor to com re all the feelings of edward and of course to reflect on her own with discontent they b side v i lame l him h sense and sensibility when came seeing people whom she hai seen before and oi whom therefore she mu a great deal to say her mind was so much n by the important secret in her by anything else that she to it again a appeared well my dear she cried i sent you up e young man did not i do right and i you had no great difficulty � 