said Elinor.

“Yes,” cried he in the same eager tone, “with all and every thing belonging to it; — in no one convenience or INconvenience about it, should the least variation be perceptible.

Then, and then only, under such a roof, I might perhaps be as happy at Combe as I have been at Barton.”

“I flatter myself,” replied Elinor, “that even under the disadvantage of better rooms and a broader staircase, you will hereafter find your own house as faultless as you now do this.”

“There certainly are circumstances,” said Willoughby, “which might greatly endear it to me; but this place will always have one claim of my affection, which no other can possibly share.”