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obligingly bestowed on me' -- That is unpardonable. Willoughby, where was your heart, when you wrote those words? Oh! barbarously insolent! -- Elinor, can he be justified?"
"No, Marianne, in no possible way."
"And yet this woman -- who knows what her art may have been -- how long it may have been premeditated, and how deeply contrived by her! -- Who is she? -- Who can she be? -- Whom did I ever hear him talk of as young and attractive among his female acquaintance? -- Oh! no one, no one -- he talked to me only of myself."
Another pause ensued; Marianne was greatly agitated, and it ended thus --
"Elinor, I must go home. I must go and comfort mama. Cannot we be gone to-morrow?"
"To-morrow, Marianne!"
"Yes; why should I stay here? I came only for Willoughby's sake -- and now who cares for me? Who regards me?"
"It would be impossible to go to-morrow. We owe Mrs. Jennings much more than civility; and civility of the commonest kind must prevent such a hasty removal as that."
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
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