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1"You surprise me; I should think it must nearly have escaped her memory by this time." "You wrong her exceedingly. Mrs.
2Ferrars is one of the most affectionate mothers in the world." Elinor was silent. "We think now,"--said Mr. Dashwood,
3after a short pause, "of Robert's marrying Miss Morton." Elinor, smiling at the grave and decisive importance of her
4brother's tone, calmly replied,-- "The lady, I suppose, has no choice in the affair." "Choice!--how do you mean?" "I
5only mean that I suppose, from your manner of speaking, it must be the same to Miss Morton whether she marry Edward or
6Robert." "Certainly, there can be no difference; for Robert will now to all intents and purposes be considered as the
7eldest son;--and as to any thing else, they are both very agreeable young men: I do not know that one is superior to the
8other." Elinor said no more, and John was also for a short time silent.--His reflections ended thus. "Of one thing, my
9dear sister," kindly taking her hand, and speaking in an awful whisper, "I may assure you;--and I will do it, because I
10know it must gratify you. I have good reason to think--indeed I have it from the best authority, or I should not repeat
11it, for otherwise it would be very wrong to say any thing about it,--but I have it from the very best authority,--not
12that I ever precisely heard Mrs. Ferrars say it herself--but her daughter did, and I have it from her,--that in short,
13whatever objections there might be against a certain--a certain connection, you understand me,--it would have been far
14preferable to her,--it would not have given her half the vexation that this does. I was exceedingly pleased to hear that
15Mrs. Ferrars considered it in that light; a very gratifying circumstance you know to us all. 'It would have been beyond
16comparison,' she said, 'the least evil of the two, and she would be glad to compound now for nothing worse.' But
17however, all that is quite out of the question,--not to be thought of or mentioned--as to any attachment you know, it
18never could be: all that is gone by. But I thought I would just tell you of this, because I knew how much it must please
19you. Not that you have any reason to regret, my dear Elinor. There is no doubt of your doing exceedingly well,--quite as
20well, or better, perhaps, all things considered. Has Colonel Brandon been with you lately?" Elinor had heard enough, if
21not to gratify her vanity, and raise her self-importance, to agitate her nerves and fill her mind;--and she was
22therefore glad to be spared from the necessity of saying much in reply herself, and from the danger of hearing any thing
23more from her brother, by the entrance of Mr. Robert Ferrars. After a few moments' chat, John Dashwood, recollecting
24that Fanny was yet uninformed of her sister's being there, quitted the room in quest of her; and Elinor was left to
25improve her acquaintance with Robert, who, by the gay unconcern, the happy self-complacency of his manner while enjoying
26so unfair a division of his mother's love and liberality, to the prejudice of his banished brother, earned only by his
27own dissipated course of life, and that brother's integrity, was confirming her most unfavourable opinion of his head
28and heart. They had scarcely been two minutes by themselves, before he began to speak of Edward; for he, too, had heard
29of the living, and was very inquisitive on the subject. Elinor repeated the particulars of it, as she had given them to
30John; and their effect on Robert, though very different, was not less striking than it had been on him. He laughed most
31immoderately. The idea of Edward's being a clergyman, and living in a small parsonage-house, diverted him beyond
32measure;--and when to that was added the fanciful imagery of Edward reading prayers in a white surplice, and publishing
33the banns of marriage between John Smith and Mary Brown, he could conceive nothing more ridiculous. Elinor, while she
34waited in silence and immovable gravity, the conclusion of such folly, could not restrain her eyes from being fixed on
35him with a look that spoke all the contempt it excited. It was a look, however, very well bestowed, for it relieved her
36own feelings, and gave no intelligence to him. He was recalled from wit to wisdom, not by any reproof of hers, but by
37his own sensibility. "We may treat it as a joke," said he, at last, recovering from the affected laugh which had
38considerably lengthened out the genuine gaiety of the moment; "but, upon my soul, it is a most serious business. Poor
39Edward! he is ruined for ever. I am extremely sorry for it; for I know him to be a very good-hearted creature; as
40well-meaning a fellow perhaps, as any in the world. You must not judge of him, Miss Dashwood, from your slight
41acquaintance. Poor Edward! His manners are certainly not the happiest in nature. But we are not all born, you know, with
42the same powers,--the same address. Poor fellow! to see him in a circle of strangers! To be sure it was pitiable enough;
43but upon my soul, I believe he has as good a heart as any in the kingdom; and I declare and protest to you I never was
44so shocked in my life, as when it all burst forth. I could not believe it. My mother was the first person who told me of
45it; and I, feeling myself called on to act with resolution, immediately said to her, 'My dear madam, I do not know what
46you may intend to do on the occasion, but as for myself, I must say, that if Edward does marry this young woman, I never
47will see him again.' That was what I said immediately. I was most uncommonly shocked, indeed! Poor Edward! he has done
48for himself completely,--shut himself out for ever from all decent society! But, as I directly said to my mother, I am
49not in the least surprised at it; from his style of education, it was always to be expected. My poor mother was half
50frantic." "Have you ever seen the lady?" "Yes; once, while she was staying in this house, I happened to drop in for ten
51minutes; and I saw quite enough of her. The merest awkward country girl, without style, or elegance, and almost without
52beauty. I remember her perfectly. Just the kind of girl I should suppose likely to captivate poor Edward. I offered
53immediately, as soon as my mother related the affair to me, to talk to him myself, and dissuade him from the match; but
54it was too late then, I found, to do any thing, for unluckily, I was not in the way at first, and knew nothing of it
55till after the breach had taken place, when it was not for me, you know, to interfere. But had I been informed of it a
56few hours earlier, I think it is most probable that something might have been hit on. I certainly should have
57represented it to Edward in a very strong light. 'My dear fellow,' I should have said, 'consider what you are doing. You
58are making a most disgraceful connection, and such a one as your family are unanimous in disapproving.' I cannot help
59thinking, in short, that means might have been found. But now it is all too late. He must be starved, you know, that is
60certain; absolutely starved." He had just settled this point with great composure, when the entrance of Mrs. John
61Dashwood put an end to the subject. But though she never spoke of it out of her own family, Elinor could see its
62influence on her mind, in the something like confusion of countenance with which she entered, and an attempt at
63cordiality in her behaviour to herself. She even proceeded so far as to be concerned to find that Elinor and her sister
64were so soon to leave town, as she had hoped to see more of them;--an exertion in which her husband, who attended her
65into the room, and hung enamoured over her accents, seemed to distinguish every thing that was most affectionate and
66graceful. CHAPTER XLII.
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