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might yet,
cheat Marianne, at times, into some interest beyond herself, and even into some amusement, much as the ideas of both might now be spurned by her.
he and his wife were to be in town before the middle of February,
one of the most charming women in the world!
they were done by Miss Dashwood.
her mother had been quite rude enough, —
the exceedingly great inconvenience of sending her carriage for the Miss Dashwoods,
who could tell that they might not expect to go out with her a second time?
The expense would be nothing, the inconvenience not more;
it was altogether an attention
requisite to its complete enfranchisement from his promise to his father.
another year would make the invitation needless, by bringing Elinor to town as Colonel Brandon's wife, and Marianne as THEIR visitor.
to request her company and her sister's, for some days, in Harley Street, as soon as Lady Middleton could spare them.
Mrs. Dashwood had never been so much pleased with any young women in her life, as she was with them; had given each of them a needle book made by some emigrant; called Lucy by her Christian name; and did not know
whether she should ever be able to part with them.
he really believed there was no material danger in Fanny's indisposition, and that they need not therefore be very uneasy about it,
concerned to find that Elinor and her sister were so soon to leave town, as she had hoped to see more of them;
their travelling so far towards Barton without any expense, and on Colonel Brandon's being to follow them to Cleveland in a day or two,
to come to Norland whenever it should happen to be in their way,
one of the happiest women in the world.
Marianne was restored to her from a danger in which,
her own mistaken judgment in encouraging the unfortunate attachment to Willoughby, had contributed to place her;
something more than gratitude already dawned.
she was sorry for him; — she wished him happy.
every thing had been expressly softened at the time, to spare her from an increase of unhappiness, suffering as she then had suffered for Marianne.
she had been misled by the careful, the considerate attention of her daughter, to think the attachment, which once she had so well understood, much slighter in reality, than she had been wont to believe, or than it was now proved to be.
she had been unjust, inattentive, nay, almost unkind, to her Elinor;
— that Marianne's affliction, because more acknowledged, more immediately before her, had too much engrossed her tenderness, and led her away to forget that in Elinor she might have a daughter suffering almost as much, certainly with less self-provocation, and greater fortitude.
to hope that he had left Mrs. Ferrars very well.
Mrs. Ferrars was the most unfortunate of women — poor Fanny had suffered agonies of sensibility —
Robert's offence was unpardonable, but Lucy's was infinitely worse. Neither of them were ever again to be mentioned to Mrs. Ferrars; and even, if she might hereafter be induced to forgive her son, his wife should never be acknowledged as her daughter, nor be permitted to appear in her presence. The secrecy with which everything had been carried on between them, was rationally treated as enormously heightening the crime, because, had any suspicion of it occurred to the others, proper measures would have been taken to prevent the marriage;
join with him in regretting that Lucy's engagement with Edward had not rather been fulfilled, than that she should thus be the means of spreading misery farther in the family. —
in Miss Morton he would have a woman of higher rank and larger fortune;
Miss Morton was the daughter of a nobleman with thirty thousand pounds, while Miss Dashwood was only the daughter of a private gentleman with no more than THREE;
as bearing no comparison with Mrs. Brandon.