was very warm in her praise of edward s conduct but only and understood its true merit they only knew how little he had had to tempt him to be and how small was the consolation beyond the consciousness of doing right that could remain to him in the loss of friends and fortune in his integrity and forgave all his in compassion for his punishment but though confidence between them was by this public discovery restored to its proper state it was not a subject on which either of them was fond of dwelling when alone avoided it upon principle as tending to fix still more npon her thoughts by the too warm too positive assurances of that belief of edward s continued affection for herself which she rather wished to do away and s courage soon failed her in trying to converse upon a topic which always left her more dissatisfied with herself than ever by the comparison it necessarily produced between s conduct and her own sense and she felt all the force of that comparison but not as her sister had hoped to urge her to exertion now she felt it with all the pain of continual self reproach regretted moat bitterly that she had never exerted herself before but it brought only f the torture of without the hope of her mind was so much weakened that she still fancied present exertion impossible and therefore it only her more nothing new was heard by them for a day or two afterwards of affairs in street or s buildings but though so much of the matter known to them already that mrs might have had enough to do in spreading that knowledge further without seeking after more she had resolved from the first to pay a visit comfort and inquiry to her cousins as soon as he could and nothing but the of more than usual had prevented her going to em within that time the third day succeeding their knowledge of the � was so fine so beautiful a sunday as draw many to gardens though it only the second week in march mrs and were of the number but who knew that the were again town and had a constant dread of meeting lose rather to stay at home than venture a place sense and an intimate acquaintance of mrs joined them soon after they entered the gardens and was not sorry that by her with them and engaging all mrs s conversation she was left to quiet reflection she saw nothing of the nothing of edward and for some time nothing of anybody who could by any chance whether grave or gay be interesting to her but at last she found herself with some surprise by miss who though looking rather shy great satisfaction in meeting them and on receiving encouragement from the particular kindness of mrs left her own party for a short time to join theirs mrs immediately whispered to � get it all out of her my dear she will tell yon anything if you ask you see i cannot leave mrs it waa lucky however for mrs s curiosity and s too that she would tell anything without being asked for nothing would otherwise have been learned i am so glad to meet you said miss taking her familiarly by the arm for i wanted to see you of all things in the world and then her voice i suppose mrs has heard all about it la she angry not at all i believe with you j sense and sensibility that is a good thing and lady is she angry i cannot suppose it possible that she should i am monstrous glad of it good gracious i have had such a time of it i never saw in such a rage in my life she vowed at first she would never trim me up a new bonnet nor do anything else for me again so long as she lived but now she is quite come to and we are as good friends as ever look she made me this bow to my hat and put in the feather last night there now you are going to laugh at me too but why should not i wear pink i do not care if it is the doctor s favorite color i am sure for my part i should never have known he did like it better than any other color if he had not happened to say so my cousins have been so me i declare sometimes i do not know which way to look before them she had wandered away to a subject on which had nothing to say and therefore soon judged it expedient to find her way back again to the first well but miss speaking triumphantly people may say what they choose about mr s declaring he would not have � for it s no such thing i can tell you and it s quite a shame for such ill natured reports to be spread abroad whatever might think about sense it you know it was people to set it down for certain i never heard anything of the kind hinted at before i assure you said ob did not you but it was said i know very well and by more than one for miss told miss sparks that nobody in their senses could mr to give up a woman like mis with thirty thousand pounds to her fortune for that had nothing at all and i bad it from miss sparks myself and that my cousin richard said himself that when it came to the point he was afraid mr would bo off and when edward did not come near us for three days i could not tell what to think myself and i believe in my heart gave it up al for lost for we came away from your brother s wednesday and 