but before the could turn from the house her husband accidentally came out he expressed great pleasure in meeting told her that he had been just going to call in street and assuring her that would be yery glad to see her invited her to come in they walked upstairs into the drawing room nobody was there is in her own room i suppose said he i will go to her presently for i am sure she will not have the least objection in the world to seeing you very far from it indeed now especially there cannot be � but however you and were always great why would not come made what excuse she could or her i am not sorry to see you alone he replied for i have a good deal to say to you this living of colonel s � can it be true has he really given it to edward i heard it yesterday by chance and was coming to you on purpose to inquire further about it it is perfectly true colonel has given the living of to edward well this is very astonishing i � no relationship � no connection between � and now that fetch such a price � what was the value of this sense and sensibility two hundred a year very well and for the next to a living of that value supposing the late incumbent to have been old and sickly and likely to it soon he might have got i dare say � fourteen hundred pounds and how came he not to have settled that matter before this person s death now indeed it would be too late to sell it but a man of colonel s sense � i wonder he should be so in a point of such common such natural concern well i am convinced that there is a vast deal of in almost every human character i suppose however on recollection that the case may probably be this edward is only to hold the living till the person to whom the colonel has really sold the is old enough to take it ay ay that is the fact depend upon it contradicted it however very positively and by relating that she had herself been employed in conveying the offer from colonel to edward and therefore must understand the terms on which it was give obliged him to submit to her authority it is truly astonishing he cried after hearing what she said what could be the colonel s motive a very simple one � to be of use to mr sense and well well whatever colonel may be edward is a very lucky man you will not mention the matter to however for though i have broke it to her and she bears it vastly well she will not like to hear it much talked of had some difficulty here to refrain from observing that she thought might have borne with composure an acquisition of wealth to her brother by which neither she nor her child could be possibly mrs added he lowering his voice to the tone becoming so important a subject knows nothing about it at present and i believe it will be best to keep it entirely concealed from her as long as may be when the marriage takes place i fear she must hear of it all but why should such precaution be used though it is not to be supposed that mrs can have the smallest satisfaction in knowing that her son has money enough to live upon for that must be quite out of the question yet why after her late behavior is she supposed to feel at all she has done with her son � she has cast him off forever and has made all those over whom she had any influence cast him off likewise surely after doing so she cannot be imagined liable to any impression of sorrow or of joy on his account she cannot be interested in anything that him she would not be so weak as to throw away the sense and sensibility comfort of a child and yet retain the anxiety of a parent ah said john your reasoning is very good but it is founded on ignorance of human nature when edward s unhappy match takes place depend upon it his mother will feel as much as if she had never discarded him and therefore every circumstance that may that dreadful event must be concealed from her as much as possible mrs can never forget that edward is her son you surprise me i should think it must nearly have escaped her memory by this time you wrong her exceedingly mrs is one of the most affectionate mothers in the world was silent we think said mr after a short pause of marrying miss smiling at the grave and decisive importance of her brother s tone calmly replied � the lady i suppose has no choice in the affair choice how do you mean i only mean that i suppose from your manner of speaking it must be the same to miss whether she marry edward or robert certainly there can be no difference for robert will now to all and purposes be considered as the eldest son and as to anything else vol ii � they are both young men i do not know that one is superior to the other said no more and john was also for a short time silent his reflections ended thus � of one thing my dear sister kindly taking her hand and speaking in an awful whisper i may assure you and i wiu do it because i know it must gratify you i have good reason to think � indeed i have it from the best authority or i should not repeat it for otherwise it would be yery wrong to say anything about it � but i have it from 