? ? ? ? "Poor little creatures!" said Miss Steele, as soon as they were gone. "It might have been a very sad accident."
? ? ? ? "Yet I hardly know how," cried Marianne, "unless it had been under totally different circumstances. But this is the usual way of heightening alarm, where there is nothing to be alarmed at in reality."
? ? ? ? "What a sweet woman Lady Middleton is!" said Lucy Steele.
? ? ? ? Marianne was silent; it was impossible for her to say what she did not feel, however trivial the occasion; and upon Elinor therefore the whole task of telling lies when politeness required it, always fell. She did her best when thus called on, by speaking of Lady Middleton with more warmth than she felt, though with far less than Miss Lucy.
? ? ? ? "And Sir John too," cried the elder sister, "what a charming man he is!"
? ? ? ? Here too, Miss Dashwood's commendation, being only simple and just, came in without any eclat. She merely observed that he was perfectly good humoured and friendly.
? ? ? ? "And what a charming little family they have! I never saw such fine children in my life.
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