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1As the Miss Dashwoods entered the drawing-room of the park the next day, at one door, Mrs. Palmer came running in at the
2other, looking as good humoured and merry as before. She took them all most affectionately by the hand, and expressed
3great delight in seeing them again. "I am so glad to see you!" said she, seating herself between Elinor and Marianne,
4"for it is so bad a day I was afraid you might not come, which would be a shocking thing, as we go away again tomorrow.
5We must go, for the Westons come to us next week you know. It was quite a sudden thing our coming at all, and I knew
6nothing of it till the carriage was coming to the door, and then Mr. Palmer asked me if I would go with him to Barton.
7He is so droll! He never tells me any thing! I am so sorry we cannot stay longer; however we shall meet again in town
8very soon, I hope." They were obliged to put an end to such an expectation. "Not go to town!" cried Mrs. Palmer, with a
9laugh, "I shall be quite disappointed if you do not. I could get the nicest house in the world for you, next door to
10ours, in Hanover-square. You must come, indeed. I am sure I shall be very happy to chaperon you at any time till I am
11confined, if Mrs. Dashwood should not like to go into public." They thanked her; but were obliged to resist all her
12entreaties. "Oh, my love," cried Mrs. Palmer to her husband, who just then entered the room--"you must help me to
13persuade the Miss Dashwoods to go to town this winter." Her love made no answer; and after slightly bowing to the
14ladies, began complaining of the weather. "How horrid all this is!" said he. "Such weather makes every thing and every
15body disgusting. Dullness is as much produced within doors as without, by rain. It makes one detest all one's
16acquaintance. What the devil does Sir John mean by not having a billiard room in his house? How few people know what
17comfort is! Sir John is as stupid as the weather." The rest of the company soon dropt in. "I am afraid, Miss Marianne,"
18said Sir John, "you have not been able to take your usual walk to Allenham today." Marianne looked very grave and said
19nothing. "Oh, don't be so sly before us," said Mrs. Palmer; "for we know all about it, I assure you; and I admire your
20taste very much, for I think he is extremely handsome. We do not live a great way from him in the country, you know. Not
21above ten miles, I dare say." "Much nearer thirty," said her husband. "Ah, well! there is not much difference. I never
22was at his house; but they say it is a sweet pretty place." "As vile a spot as I ever saw in my life," said Mr. Palmer.
23Marianne remained perfectly silent, though her countenance betrayed her interest in what was said. "Is it very ugly?"
24continued Mrs. Palmer--"then it must be some other place that is so pretty I suppose." When they were seated in the
25dining room, Sir John observed with regret that they were only eight all together. "My dear," said he to his lady, "it
26is very provoking that we should be so few. Why did not you ask the Gilberts to come to us today?" "Did not I tell you,
27Sir John, when you spoke to me about it before, that it could not be done? They dined with us last." "You and I, Sir
28John," said Mrs. Jennings, "should not stand upon such ceremony." "Then you would be very ill-bred," cried Mr. Palmer.
29"My love you contradict every body," said his wife with her usual laugh. "Do you know that you are quite rude?" "I did
30not know I contradicted any body in calling your mother ill-bred." "Ay, you may abuse me as you please," said the
31good-natured old lady, "you have taken Charlotte off my hands, and cannot give her back again. So there I have the whip
32hand of you." Charlotte laughed heartily to think that her husband could not get rid of her; and exultingly said, she
33did not care how cross he was to her, as they must live together. It was impossible for any one to be more thoroughly
34good-natured, or more determined to be happy than Mrs. Palmer. The studied indifference, insolence, and discontent of
35her husband gave her no pain; and when he scolded or abused her, she was highly diverted. "Mr. Palmer is so droll!" said
36she, in a whisper, to Elinor. "He is always out of humour." Elinor was not inclined, after a little observation, to give
37him credit for being so genuinely and unaffectedly ill-natured or ill-bred as he wished to appear. His temper might
38perhaps be a little soured by finding, like many others of his sex, that through some unaccountable bias in favour of
39beauty, he was the husband of a very silly woman--but she knew that this kind of blunder was too common for any sensible
40man to be lastingly hurt by it. It was rather a wish of distinction, she believed, which produced his contemptuous
41treatment of every body, and his general abuse of every thing before him. It was the desire of appearing superior to
42other people. The motive was too common to be wondered at; but the means, however they might succeed by establishing his
43superiority in ill-breeding, were not likely to attach any one to him except his wife. "Oh, my dear Miss Dashwood," said
44Mrs. Palmer soon afterwards, "I have got such a favour to ask of you and your sister. Will you come and spend some time
45at Cleveland this Christmas? Now, pray do,--and come while the Westons are with us. You cannot think how happy I shall
46be! It will be quite delightful!--My love," applying to her husband, "don't you long to have the Miss Dashwoods come to
47Cleveland?" "Certainly," he replied, with a sneer--"I came into Devonshire with no other view." "There now,"--said his
48lady, "you see Mr. Palmer expects you; so you cannot refuse to come." They both eagerly and resolutely declined her
49invitation. "But indeed you must and shall come. I am sure you will like it of all things. The Westons will be with us,
50and it will be quite delightful. You cannot think what a sweet place Cleveland is; and we are so gay now, for Mr. Palmer
51is always going about the country canvassing against the election; and so many people came to dine with us that I never
52saw before, it is quite charming! But, poor fellow! it is very fatiguing to him! for he is forced to make every body
53like him." Elinor could hardly keep her countenance as she assented to the hardship of such an obligation. "How charming
54it will be," said Charlotte, "when he is in Parliament!--won't it? How I shall laugh! It will be so ridiculous to see
55all his letters directed to him with an M.P.--But do you know, he says, he will never frank for me? He declares he
56won't. Don't you, Mr. Palmer?" Mr. Palmer took no notice of her. "He cannot bear writing, you know," she continued--"he
57says it is quite shocking." "No," said he, "I never said any thing so irrational. Don't palm all your abuses of language
58upon me." "There now; you see how droll he is. This is always the way with him! Sometimes he won't speak to me for half
59a day together, and then he comes out with something so droll--all about any thing in the world." She surprised Elinor
60very much as they returned into the drawing-room, by asking her whether she did not like Mr. Palmer excessively.
61"Certainly," said Elinor; "he seems very agreeable." "Well--I am so glad you do. I thought you would, he is so pleasant;
62and Mr. Palmer is excessively pleased with you and your sisters I can tell you, and you can't think how disappointed he
63will be if you don't come to Cleveland.--I can't imagine why you should object to it." Elinor was again obliged to
64decline her invitation; and by changing the subject, put a stop to her entreaties. She thought it probable that as they
65lived in the same county, Mrs. Palmer might be able to give some more particular account of Willoughby's general
66character, than could be gathered from the Middletons' partial acquaintance with him; and she was eager to gain from any
67one, such a confirmation of his merits as might remove the possibility of fear from Marianne. She began by inquiring if
68they saw much of Mr. Willoughby at Cleveland, and whether they were intimately acquainted with him.
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