The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-28

and haV1nS Ralned her own DurSL iHto tears-they were tears of joy. Edward, after few commonplace observations, quilted the house and walked in the di- rection of the villaSa.
 But he returned next day, Exd rne cb- ject of his visit was a. very simple one ito ask Elinor to marry him. He opened his heart to Elinor-with all It's fears and all It's weaknesses. He told her how he had been entrapped into an engagement with Lucy Steele while he was still boy; he told her how he had thought that honor prevented his breaking that engagement, although he had come to love Elinor and to know that Lucy was a designing woman. He told how, when his mother had cast him off and settled the bulk of her for tune upon his brother, Lucy had skill fully lured on that brother to marry her and had coldly repudiated her en- gagement with him.
 The change which a few hours wrought in the minds of the Dashw oods was so great that 1t promised them all the satisfaction of a sleepless night. Mrs. Dashwood was too happy to be comfortable knew not how to love Ed ward or praise Elinor enough: how to be sufficiently thankful for his release without offending his delicacy; how at once to give them leisure for unre- strained conversation together and yet enjoy, as she wished. the sight and society of both. Marianne could speak her happiness only in tears. Compari- sons would occur, regrets would arise, and her joy, though as sincere as her love for. her sister, was of a kind to give her neither spirits nor language. As for Elinor, she was oppressed, she was overcome, by the sense of her own felicity.
 Edward was now fixed at the cottage at date was settled upon for the marriage of himself and Elinor and their removal to the parsonage at Delaford In the meantime Colonel Brandon arrived. No news of the marriage of Lucy and Robert Ferras had reached him, and his aston ishment was only less than his gratihca- ton that now the living which he had presented to Edward would be shared by Elinor. It would be needless to explain how the Colonel had been advancing grad ualy in the good opinion of all the Dash- woods. On this visit he saw much of Marianne, and she began at last to appre- ciate his sterling qualities and his devo- tion to herself. Mrs. Ferras, after a proper resistance, just so violent and steady as to preserve her from that re- proach which she seemed always fearful of incurring-the reproach of being too amiable-admitted Edward to her presence and pronounced him again to be her son.
 Her family had been of late exceedingly huctuating. For many years of her life she had had two sons but the crime and annihilation of Edward had robbed her of one; the similar crime of Robert had robbed her of another and left her for a fortnight without any. And now, by the resuscitation of Edward, she had one again. But in spite of his being allowed once more to live, Edward did not feel the continuance of his existence secure until he had told his mother of his pro- posed marriage with Elinor. At first Mrs. Ferras ordered him to give up Elinor and marry Lord Morton's daughter At length, however, seeing that Edward would posi- lively not marry Lord Mortons daughter Mrs. Ferras issued her decree allowing him ten thousand pounds.
 So Elinor and Edward were married and went to live happily ever after in Delaford parsonage. And then, not long after, the devotion of Colonel Bran- don to Marianne was rewarded by the bestowal of her hand. So she went to live in the colonels great mansion house, near her sister.
 She was born to no ordinary fate. She was born to discover the falsehoods of her own opinions and to counteract by her actions he'd most favorite maxims. She was born to overcome an affection formed at 1T, and, with no sentiment su- perior to strong esteem and lively friendship, voluntarily to give her hand to another man and that other one who had suffered no less than herself un- der the event of a former attachment. But so it was, and, instead of falling a sacrifice to an irresistible passsion-as once she had fondly ffattered herself she would--instead of remaining for ever with her mother and finding her plea sures in retirement and study. she found herself at 19 submitting to new attachments. entering upon new duties, placed in a new home wife, the mis- tress of family and the patroness of village.
 Mrs Dashwood was prudent enough to remain at Barton cottage with her youngest daughter and not to remove to Delaford, though she paid visits both to the hall and parsonage.
 As for Robert Ferras and Lucy, that happened which might have been ex- pected from a woman of the character of Mrs. Ferras. She, after a while. con- sented to see her errant son and his wife. He had always been her favorite, and now Lucy, with her wiles, so com pletely captured her mother-in-la law that. after due display or anger. Rob- ert and his wife were. installed in the first place in her esteem and inherited most of her property.
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