than yourself. But does it follow that had he married you, he would have been happy? — The inconveniences would have been different.

He would then have suffered under the pecuniary distresses which, because they are removed, he now reckons as nothing. He would have had a wife of whose temper he could make no complaint, but he would have been always necessitous — always poor; and probably would soon have learned to rank the innumerable comforts of a clear estate and good income as of far more importance, even to domestic happiness, than the mere temper of a wife.”

“I have not a doubt of it,” said Marianne; “and I have nothing to regret — nothing but my own folly.”

“Rather say your mother's imprudence, my child,”