Oh! my love, I could not then talk of hope to him or to myself.Marianne might at that moment be dying. But he did not ask for hope orencouragement. His was an involuntary confidence, an irrepressibleeffusion to a soothing friend--not an application to a parent.  for at first I was quite overcome--that if shelived, as I trusted she might, my greatest happiness would lie inpromoting their marriage; and since university course  our arrival, since our delightfulsecurity, I have repeated it to him more fully, have given him everyencouragement in my power. Time, a very little time, I tell him, willdo everything;--Marianne's heart is not to be wasted for ever on such aman as Willoughby.-- His own merits must soon secure it.

To judge from the Colonel's spirits, however, you have not yet madehim equally sanguine.

No.--He thinks Marianne's affection too deeply rooted for any changein it under a great length of time, and even supposing her heart againfree, is too diffident of himself to hong kong hospitality & tourism academy  believe, that with such adifference of age and disposition he could ever attach her.

There,however, he is quite mistaken. His age is only so much beyond hers asto be an advantage, as to make his character and principles fixed;--andhis disposition, I am well convinced, is exactly the very one to makeyour sister happy. And his person, his manners too, are all in hisfavour.

My partiality does not blind me; he certainly is not sohandsome as Willoughby--but at the same time, there is something muchmore pleasing in his countenance.-- There Business School was always a something,--ifyou remember,--in Willoughby's eyes at times, which I did not like.