Well! I was young once, but I never was very handsome--worse luck for me.

However, I got a very good husband, and I don't know what the greatest beauty can do more.

Ah! poor man! he has been dead these eight years and better.

But Colonel, where have you been to since we parted?
And how does your business go on?
Come, come, let's have no secrets among friends." He replied with his accustomary mildness to all her inquiries, but without satisfying her in any.

Elinor now began to make the tea, and Marianne was obliged to appear again.
After her entrance, Colonel Brandon became more thoughtful and silent than he had been before, and Mrs.Jennings could not prevail on him to stay long.