nothing could restore him with a faith unbroken a character to nothing could do away the knowledge of what the latter had through his means nor remove the guilt of his conduct towards nothing could him therefore in her former esteem nor injure the interests of colonel had mrs like her daughter heard s story from himself � had she witnessed his distress and been under the influence of his countenance and his manner � it is probable that her compassion would have been greater but it was neither in s power nor in her wish to rouse such feelings in another by her explanation as had at first been called forth in herself reflection had given calmness to her judgment and her own opinion of s deserts she wished therefore to declare only the simple truth and lay open such facts as were really due to his character without any of tenderness to lead the fancy astray in the evening when they were all three together began voluntarily to speak of him again but that it was not without an effort the restless in which she had been for some time previously sitting her rising colour as she spoke and her unsteady voice plainly showed t sense and i wish to e you both she that i every thing as u can desire me to do mi dash wood would have interrupted her instantly soothing s had not who really wished t hear her sister s opinion by an eager sign engaged her silence slowly continued � it is a great relief to me what told me this morning i have now heard exactly what i wished to for some moments her voice was lost but she added and with greater calmness than before j � i am now perfectly satisfied i wish for no change never could have been with mm after knowing as sooner or later i must have known all this i should have had no no esteem nothing could have done it away to my feelings know it i know it cried her mother happy a man of with one who had so injured the peace of the dearest of our friends and the best of men i no � my has not a heart to be made happy with a man her conscience her sensitive conscience have felt all that the conscience of her husband ought to have felt sighed and repeated i wish for no you consider the matter said as i good mind and a sound understanding must consider it and i dare say you perceive as well as myself not only in this in many other circumstances j reason to be convinced that your marriage must have involved you in many certain troubles and disappointments in which yon would have been poorly by an affection on his side much less certain had you married yon must have been always poor his is acknowledged even by himself and whole conduct declares that self denial is a word hardly understood by liim his demands and your together on a small very i income must have brought on would not be the less grievous to you from been entirely ti t du ht of e of and honesty would liave led yon i w en e of your to attempt all the economy that would appear to you and perhaps as as your on your own comfort you might have been suffered to it but beyond that � and bow little could tbe of your single management do to the ruin which had begun before your marriage beyond am f had you endeavoured j however reasonably to u is it not to be feared that instead of prevailing on feelings bo to consent to it you would have lessened your own influence on his heart and made him regret tbe which bad him in such difficulties s lips quivered and she repeated the word selfish t in that implied do you really think him the whole of his behaviour replied from the beginning to the end of the affair has been on it was selfishness which first made him sport witli affections which afterwards when bis own were engaged made him delay the confession of it and which finally carried him from his own enjoyment or his own ease i was in every particular his ra ling principle it is veiy true my happiness never was bis object at present continued be regrets what done and why does he regret it because he finds it not answered towards himself it has not made him happy his are now be suffers from no evil of that kind and he thinks only that he has married a woman of a less amiable temper than yourself but does it ce follow that bad he married you he would have been y the would been different he then have suffered under the pecuniary they are removed be now as he would have bad a wife of whose temper he could make no complaint j bat he would have been always � always poor and probably would soon t j s x o and the com of a clear estate and good of far importance even to domestic happiness than the mere temper of a wife i have not a doubt of it said and i have nothing to regret � nothing but my own folly say your mother s my child mrs dash wood she must be � not let her proceed and that each felt their own error wished to avoid any s of the past that might her sister s spirits she therefore pursuing the first subject immediately continue � owe observation may i think be fairly drawn from the whole of the � that all s difficulties have arisen from the offence against virtue in his behaviour to a that crime has been the origin of every lesser one and of all his present assented 