? ? ? ? "I shall not attempt it. I have no wish to be distinguished; and have every reason to hope I never shall. Thank Heaven! I cannot be forced into genius and eloquence."
? ? ? ? "You have no ambition, I well know. Your wishes are all moderate."
? ? ? ? "As moderate as those of the rest of the world, I believe. I wish as well as every body else to be perfectly happy; but, like every body else it must be in my own way. Greatness will not make me so."
? ? ? ? "Strange that it would!" cried Marianne. "What have wealth or grandeur to do with happiness?"
? ? ? ? "Grandeur has but little," said Elinor, "but wealth has much to do with it."
? ? ? ? "Elinor, for shame!" said Marianne, "money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it. Beyond a competence, it can afford no real satisfaction, as far as mere self is concerned."
? ? ? ? "Perhaps," said Elinor, smiling, "we may come to the same point. YOUR competence and MY wealth are very much alike, I dare say; and without them, as the world goes now, we shall both agree that every kind of external comfort must be wanting.
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