naturally. i am also shy of strangers and i have nothing like her excuse.
very much. your stables are very handsome and beautifully kept, mrs dashwood.
an oversight, fanny, led me to the wrong room. i have rectified the situation and am happily settled in the guest quarters.
my dear fanny, they have just lost their father their lives will never be the same again.
oh? no. the dust, perhaps.
i hear you have great plans for the walnut grove.
how picturesque. will you show me the site?
pardon my intrusion, but i believe i have found what you are looking for.
oh, miss dashwood! excuse me i was wondering do you by any chance have such a thing as a reliable atlas?
excellent. i wish to check the position of the nile.
my sister says it is in south america.
belgium? surely not. you must be thinking of the volga.
vladivostok, and ends in.
indeed. where the coffee beans come from.
is it? good heavens. how do you do. edward ferrars.
not at all. i enjoy her company.
not yet. would you do me the honour, miss dashwood? it is very fine out.
i know. she is heading an expedition to china shortly. i am to go as her servant but only on the understanding that i will be very badly treated.
sword-fighting, administering rum and swabbing.
all i want--all i have ever wanted is the quiet of a private life but my mother is determined to see me distinguished.
she hardly knows. any fine figure will suit a great orator, a leading politician, even a barrister would serve, but only on the condition that i drive my own barouche and dine in the first circles.
i always preferred the church, but that is not smart enough for my mother she prefers the army, but that is a great deal too smart for me.
i hate london. no peace. a country living is my ideal a small parish where i might do some good, keep chickens and give very short sermons.
our circumstances are therefore precisely the same.
perhaps margaret is right.
piracy is our only option.
what is swabbing exactly?
no voice divine the storm allayed no light propitious shone, when snatched from all effectual aid, we perished each alone: but i beneath a rougher sea, and whelmed in deeper gulfs than he.
devonshire!
but you will not leave before the summer?
i should like that very much.
cannot you take him with you?
perhaps he could make himself useful in the kitchen?
miss dashwood--elinor. i must talk to you.
there is something of great importance i need.  to tell you--
--about--about my education.
yes. it was less.  successful than it might have been.
it was conducted in plymouth--oddly enough.
yes. do you know it?
yes.
oh--well--i spent four years there-- at a school run by a--a mr pratt--
precisely--mr pratt--and there, i-- that is to say, he has a--
fanny, i am leaving this afternoon as it is--
excuse me, miss dashwood.
miss dashwood, how can i--
how do you do, miss steele.
forgive me, marianne, my visit is shamefully overdue. you are pale. i hope you have not been unwell?
how do you like london, marianne?
i have been much engaged elsewhere.
forgive me but i must take my leave--
you must excuse me, i have a commission to attend to for fanny--
i would be honoured. goodbye, miss dashwood, miss marianne.
miss dashwood.
i was most grateful to receive it. i-- miss dashwood, god knows what you must think of me.
i have no right to speak, i know--
yes, i have heard his name.
colonel brandon?
colonel brandon give me a parish? can it be possible?
no. not to find it in you. i cannot be ignorant that to you--to your goodness--i owe it all. i feel it. i would express it if i could, but, as you know, i am no orator.
colonel brandon must be a man of great worth and respect ability.
may i enquire why the colonel did not tell me himself?
your friendship has been the most important of my life.
forgive me.
goodbye, miss dashwood.
mrs dashwood. miss marianne. margaret. miss dashwood. i hope i find you all well.
i am glad of it. the.  the roads were very dry.
tolerably, thank you.
i--but edward cannot seem to find any words.
no--my mother is in town.
then you have not heard--the news--i think you mean my brother--you mean mrs robert ferrars.
yes. i received a letter from miss steele--or mrs ferrars, i should say-- communicating the.  the transfer of her affections to my brother robert. they were much thrown together in london, i believe, and.  and in view of the change in my circumstances, i felt it only fair that miss steele be released from our engagement. at any rate, they were married last week and are now in plymouth.
no.
elinor! i met lucy when i was very young. had i had an active profession, i should never have felt such an idle, foolish inclination. at norland my behaviour was very wrong. but i convinced myself you felt only friendship for me and it was my heart alone that i was risking. i have come with no expectations. only to profess, now that i am at liberty to do so, that my heart is and always will be yours.
the more so since she settled the money upon him so irrevocably--
her family fluctuates at an alarming rate. then, in london, when you told me of the colonel's offer, i became convinced that you wanted me to marry lucy and that--well, that you and colonel brandon.
i shall not forget attempting to thank him for making it possible for me to marry the woman i did not love while convinced he had designs upon the woman i did--do--love.
would you--can you--excuse me--