miss from your slight acquaintance poor edward his manners are certainly not the happiest in nature but we are not all born you know with the same powers � the same address poor fellow to see him in a circle of strangers i to be sure it was pitiable enough but upon my soul i believe he has as good a heart as any in the kingdom and i declare and protest to you i never was so shocked in my life as when it au burst forth i could not believe it my mother was the first person who told me of it and i feeling myself called on to act with resolution immediately said to her � my madam i do not know what you may intend to do on the occasion but as for myself i must say that if does marry this young woman never will see him again that was what i said immediately i was most uncommonly shocked indeed poor edward he has done for himself completely � shut himself out for ever from all decent society i but as i directly said to my mother i am not in sense and sensibility the least surprised at it from his style of education it was always to be expected my poor mother was half frantic have you ever seen the lady yes once while she was in this house i hj to drop in for ten minutes and i saw quite enough of her the merest awkward country girl without style or elegance and almost without beauty i remember her perfectly just the kind of girl i should suppose likely to poor edward i offered immediately its soon as my mother related the affair to me to talk to him myself and him from the match but it was too late i to do any thing for i was not in the way at first and knew nothing of it till after the breach had taken place when it was not for me you know to interfere but had i been informed of it a few hours earlier i think it is most probable that something might have been hit on i certainly should have represented it to edward in a very strong light my dear fellow i should have said consider what you are doing you are making a most disgraceful connection and such a one as your family are unanimous in i cannot help thinking in short that means might have been found but now it is all too late he must be starved you know that is certain absolutely starved he had just settled this point with great composure when the entrance of mrs john dash wood put an end to the subject but though she never spoke of it out of her own family could see its influence on her mind in the something like confusion of countenance with which she entered and an attempt at cordiality in her behaviour to herself she even proceeded so far as to be concerned to find that and her sister were so soon to leave town as she had hoped to see more of them an exertion in which her husband who attended her into the room and hung over her accents seemed to distinguish every thing was most affectionate and graceful chapter one other short call in street in which received her brother s congratulations on their travelling bo far towards without any expense and on colonel s being to follow them to in a day or two completed the intercourse of the brother and sisters in town and a faint invitation from to come to whenever it should happen to be in their way which of all things was the most unlikely to occur with a more warm though less public assurance from john to of the with which he should come to see her at was all that foretold any meeting in the country it amused her to observe that all her friends seemed determined to send her to a place in which of all others she would now least choose to visit or wish to reside for not only was it considered as her future home by her brother and mrs but even when they parted gave her a pressing invitation to visit her there very early in april and tolerably early in the day the two parties from and street set out their to meet by appointment on the road for the convenience of and her child they were to be more than two days on their journey and mr travelling more with colonel was to join them at soon after their arrival few as had been her hours of comfort in london and eager as she had long been to quit it could not when it came to the point bid adieu to the house in which she had for the last time enjoyed those hopes and that confidence in which were now extinguished for ever without great pain nor could she leave the in which remained busy in new engagements and new schemes in which she could have no share without shedding many tears s satisfaction at the moment of removal was more positive she had no such object for her lingering thoughts to fix on she left no creature behind from whom it would give her a moment s regret to be divided for ever she was pleased to be free herself from the persecution of s e friendship she was grateful for bringing her sister away unseen by since his marriage and she looked forward with hope to what a few months of tranquillity at might do towards restoring s peace of mind and her own their journey was safely performed the second day brought them into the cherished or the county of for as such was it dwelt on by turns in s imagination and in the of the third they drove up 