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1The letters from town, which a few days before would have made every nerve in Elinor's body thrill with transport, now
2arrived to be read with less emotion than mirth. Mrs. Jennings wrote to tell the wonderful tale, to vent her honest
3indignation against the jilting girl, and pour forth her compassion towards poor Mr. Edward, who, she was sure, had
4quite doted upon the worthless hussy, and was now, by all accounts, almost broken-hearted, at Oxford. "I do think," she
5continued, "nothing was ever carried on so sly; for it was but two days before Lucy called and sat a couple of hours
6with me. Not a soul suspected anything of the matter, not even Nancy, who, poor soul! came crying to me the day after,
7in a great fright for fear of Mrs. Ferrars, as well as not knowing how to get to Plymouth; for Lucy it seems borrowed
8all her money before she went off to be married, on purpose we suppose to make a show with, and poor Nancy had not seven
9shillings in the world; so I was very glad to give her five guineas to take her down to Exeter, where she thinks of
10staying three or four weeks with Mrs. Burgess, in hopes, as I tell her, to fall in with the Doctor again. And I must say
11that Lucy's crossness not to take them along with them in the chaise is worse than all. Poor Mr. Edward! I cannot get
12him out of my head, but you must send for him to Barton, and Miss Marianne must try to comfort him." Mr. Dashwood's
13strains were more solemn. Mrs. Ferrars was the most unfortunate of women--poor Fanny had suffered agonies of
14sensibility--and he considered the existence of each, under such a blow, with grateful wonder. Robert's offence was
15unpardonable, but Lucy's was infinitely worse. Neither of them were ever again to be mentioned to Mrs. Ferrars; and
16even, if she might hereafter be induced to forgive her son, his wife should never be acknowledged as her daughter, nor
17be permitted to appear in her presence. The secrecy with which everything had been carried on between them, was
18rationally treated as enormously heightening the crime, because, had any suspicion of it occurred to the others, proper
19measures would have been taken to prevent the marriage; and he called on Elinor to join with him in regretting that
20Lucy's engagement with Edward had not rather been fulfilled, than that she should thus be the means of spreading misery
21farther in the family. He thus continued:-- "Mrs. Ferrars has never yet mentioned Edward's name, which does not surprise
22us; but, to our great astonishment, not a line has been received from him on the occasion. Perhaps, however, he is kept
23silent by his fear of offending, and I shall, therefore, give him a hint, by a line to Oxford, that his sister and I
24both think a letter of proper submission from him, addressed perhaps to Fanny, and by her shown to her mother, might not
25be taken amiss; for we all know the tenderness of Mrs. Ferrars's heart, and that she wishes for nothing so much as to be
26on good terms with her children." This paragraph was of some importance to the prospects and conduct of Edward. It
27determined him to attempt a reconciliation, though not exactly in the manner pointed out by their brother and sister. "A
28letter of proper submission!" repeated he; "would they have me beg my mother's pardon for Robert's ingratitude to her,
29and breach of honour to me? I can make no submission. I am grown neither humble nor penitent by what has passed. I am
30grown very happy; but that would not interest. I know of no submission that is proper for me to make." "You may
31certainly ask to be forgiven," said Elinor, "because you have offended;--and I should think you might now venture so far
32as to profess some concern for having ever formed the engagement which drew on you your mother's anger." He agreed that
33he might. "And when she has forgiven you, perhaps a little humility may be convenient while acknowledging a second
34engagement, almost as imprudent in her eyes as the first." He had nothing to urge against it, but still resisted the
35idea of a letter of proper submission; and therefore, to make it easier to him, as he declared a much greater
36willingness to make mean concessions by word of mouth than on paper, it was resolved that, instead of writing to Fanny,
37he should go to London, and personally intreat her good offices in his favour. "And if they really do interest
38themselves," said Marianne, in her new character of candour, "in bringing about a reconciliation, I shall think that
39even John and Fanny are not entirely without merit." After a visit on Colonel Brandon's side of only three or four days,
40the two gentlemen quitted Barton together. They were to go immediately to Delaford, that Edward might have some personal
41knowledge of his future home, and assist his patron and friend in deciding on what improvements were needed to it; and
42from thence, after staying there a couple of nights, he was to proceed on his journey to town. CHAPTER L. After a proper
43resistance on the part of Mrs. Ferrars, just so violent and so steady as to preserve her from that reproach which she
44always seemed fearful of incurring, the reproach of being too amiable, Edward was admitted to her presence, and
45pronounced to be again her son. Her family had of late been exceedingly fluctuating. For many years of her life she had
46had two sons; but the crime and annihilation of Edward a few weeks ago, had robbed her of one; the similar annihilation
47of Robert had left her for a fortnight without any; and now, by the resuscitation of Edward, she had one again. In spite
48of his being allowed once more to live, however, he did not feel the continuance of his existence secure, till he had
49revealed his present engagement; for the publication of that circumstance, he feared, might give a sudden turn to his
50constitution, and carry him off as rapidly as before. With apprehensive caution therefore it was revealed, and he was
51listened to with unexpected calmness. Mrs. Ferrars at first reasonably endeavoured to dissuade him from marrying Miss
52Dashwood, by every argument in her power;--told him, that in Miss Morton he would have a woman of higher rank and larger
53fortune;--and enforced the assertion, by observing that Miss Morton was the daughter of a nobleman with thirty thousand
54pounds, while Miss Dashwood was only the daughter of a private gentleman with no more than three; but when she found
55that, though perfectly admitting the truth of her representation, he was by no means inclined to be guided by it, she
56judged it wisest, from the experience of the past, to submit--and therefore, after such an ungracious delay as she owed
57to her own dignity, and as served to prevent every suspicion of good-will, she issued her decree of consent to the
58marriage of Edward and Elinor. What she would engage to do towards augmenting their income was next to be considered;
59and here it plainly appeared, that though Edward was now her only son, he was by no means her eldest; for while Robert
60was inevitably endowed with a thousand pounds a-year, not the smallest objection was made against Edward's taking orders
61for the sake of two hundred and fifty at the utmost; nor was anything promised either for the present or in future,
62beyond the ten thousand pounds, which had been given with Fanny. It was as much, however, as was desired, and more than
63was expected, by Edward and Elinor; and Mrs. Ferrars herself, by her shuffling excuses, seemed the only person surprised
64at her not giving more. With an income quite sufficient to their wants thus secured to them, they had nothing to wait
65for after Edward was in possession of the living, but the readiness of the house, to which Colonel Brandon, with an
66eager desire for the accommodation of Elinor, was making considerable improvements; and after waiting some time for
67their completion, after experiencing, as usual, a thousand disappointments and delays from the unaccountable
68dilatoriness of the workmen, Elinor, as usual, broke through the first positive resolution of not marrying till every
69thing was ready, and the ceremony took place in Barton church early in the autumn.
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