I am sure I wonder my heart is not quite broke." Here she took out her handkerchief; but Elinor did not feel very compassionate.
"Sometimes." continued Lucy, after wiping her eyes, "I think whether it would not be better for us both to break off the matter entirely." As she said this, she looked directly at her companion.

"But then at other times I have not resolution enough for it.-- I cannot bear the thoughts of making him so miserable, as I know the very mention of such a thing would do.

And on my own account too--so dear as he is to me--I don't think I could be equal to it.

What would you advise me to do in such a case, Miss Dashwood?
What would you do yourself ?" "Pardon me," replied Elinor, startled by the question; "but I can give you no advice under such circumstances.

Your own judgment must direct you." "To be sure," continued Lucy, after a few minutes silence on both sides, "his mother must provide for him sometime or other; but poor Edward is so cast down by it! Did you not think him dreadful low-spirited when he was at Barton?
He was so miserable when he left us at Longstaple, to go to you, that I was afraid you would think him quite ill." "Did he come from your uncle's, then, when he visited us ?" "Oh, yes; he had been staying a fortnight with us.