His own enjoyment, or his own ease, was, in every particular, his ruling principle." "It is very true.

MY happiness never was his object." "At present," continued Elinor, "he regrets what he has done.

And why does he regret it ?--Because he finds it has not answered towards himself.

It has not made him happy.

His circumstances are now unembarrassed--he suffers from no evil of that kind; and he thinks only that he has married a woman of a less amiable temper than yourself.
But does it follow that had he married you, he would have been happy ?--The inconveniences would have been different.