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Eleanor for a few moments, remain silent. Her astonishment at what she heard was at first too great for words but at length, forcing herself to speak and to speak cautiously, she said, with calmness of manner, which tolerably well concealed her surprise and solicitude. May I ask if your engagement is off long standing. We have been engaged for years. Four years? Yes. Eleanor, though greatly shocked, still felt unable to believe it. I did not know, said she, that you were even acquainted until the other day. Our acquaintance, however, is of many years date. He was under my uncle's care, you know, a considerable while your uncle? Yes, Mr Pratt. Did you never hear him talk of Mr Brandt? I think I have replied Eleanor, with an exertion of spirits which increased promotion. He was four years with my uncle who loves it. Long staple near Plymouth. It was there that our acquaintance begun. My sister and I often stayed with my uncle, and it was there that our engagement was formed, though not to a year after he had quitted as a pupil. But he was almost always with us afterwards,