were explained to you yet unable to prepare you for it in the least it was told me � it was in a manner forced on me by the very person herself whose prior engagement all my prospects and told me as i thought with triumph this person s suspicious fore have had to oppose by to to h sense and sensibility � indifferent i have moat deeply � interested and it has not been only once i have i bad her hopes and exultation to listen to again and i have known myself to be divided � edward forever without hearing one circumstance � that could make me less the connection i nothing has proved him unworthy nor has anything declared him indifferent to me i have had to contend the of and the insolence of his mother and have suffered the punishment of aa attachment without enjoying its advantages and all this has heen going on at a time when aa you too well know it has not been k my only if you can think me of ever feeling surely you may suppose that have suffered now the composure of mind with i have brought myself at present to consider matter the consolation that i have been willing to admit have heen the effect of constant and painful exertion tliey did not spring up of themselves they did not occur to relieve my spirits at first no if i had not been bound to perhaps nothing could have kept me entirely not even what i owed to my dearest friends � from openly showing that i was very unhappy was quite subdued oh she cried you have made me a myself forever how barbarous have i been � you who have been my only comfort sense and who have borne with me in all my who have seemed to he only suffering for me is thia my gratitude is thia the only return i can make you because your merit cries out upon myself i have been trying to do it away the tenderest caresses followed this confession in such a frame of mind as she was now in had no difficulty in obtaining from her whatever promise she required and at her request engaged never to speak of the affair to any one with the least appearance of to meet without betraying the smallest increase of dislike to her and even to see edward himself if chance should bring them together without any of her usual cordiality these were i great but where felt that � she bad injured no could be too much for her to make she performed her promise of being discreet to admiration she attended to all that mrs had to say upon the subject with an complexion from her in nothing and was heard three times to yes ma i she listened to her praise of with only ing from one chair to another and when mrs talked of edward s affection it cost hei only a in her throat such advances to wards heroism in her sister made feel equal to anything herself sense and sensibility the next morning brought a further trial of it in a visit from their brother who came with a most serious aspect to talk over the dreadful affair and bring them news of his wife you have heard i suppose said he with great solemnity as soon as he was seated of the very shocking discovery that took place under our roof yesterday they all looked their assent it seemed too awful a moment for speech your sister he continued has suffered dreadfully mrs too � in short it has been a scene of such complicated distress � but i will hope that the storm may be without our being any of us quite overcome poor she was in all yesterday but i would not alarm you too much says there is nothing materially to be apprehended her constitution is a good one and her resolution equal to anything she has borne it all with the fortitude of an angel she says she never shall think well of anybody again and one cannot wonder at it after being so deceived � meeting with such ingratitude where so much kindness had been shown so much confidence had been placed it was quite out of the benevolence of her heart that she had asked these young women to her house � merely because she thought they deserved some attention were harmless an i sense and and would be pleasant companions for we both wished very much to have invited you and to be with while your kind friend there was attending her daughter and now to be bo rewarded i i wish with all my heart says poor in her affectionate way that we had your sisters instead of them here he stopped to be thanked which being done he went on what poor mrs suffered when first broke it to her is not to be described while she with the truest affection had been planning a most eligible connection for him was it to be supposed that he could be all the time secretly engaged to another person � such a suspicion could never have entered her if she suspected elsewhere it could not be in that quarter there to be sure said she i might have thought myself safe she was quite in an agony we consulted together however as to what should be done and at last she determined to send for edward he came cut i am sorry to relate what ensued all that mrs say to make him an end to the engagement assisted too as you may well suppose by my and s entreaties was of no avail duty affection everything was disregarded i never thought edward so so before hia mother explained to him sense and sensibility � i she be i that if he i a view of 