Austen Said:

Absence might have weakened his regard, and convenience might have determined him to overcome it, but that such a regard had formerly existed she could not bring herself to doubt.

while she could

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Edward as much as ever, however they might be divided in future, her mind might be always supported. But every circumstance that could embitter such an evil seemed uniting to heighten the misery of Marianne in a final separation from Willoughby — in an immediate and irreconcilable rupture with him.

not to speak to her for the world.

it must come from Willoughby,

by hoping,

she would find it to her liking.

Willoughby capable of departing so far from the appearance of every honourable and delicate feeling — so far from the common decorum of a gentleman, as to send a letter so impudently cruel: a letter which, instead of bringing with his desire of a release any professions of regret, acknowledged no breach of faith, denied all peculiar affection whatever — a letter of which every line was an insult, and which proclaimed its writer to be deep in hardened villainy.

they contained nothing but what any one would have written in the same situation.

it might be many weeks before we met again —

'The lock of hair,

which you so obligingly bestowed on me'

she believed Mr. and Mrs. Ellison would not be sorry to have Miss Grey married, for she and Mrs. Ellison could never agree." —

No positive engagement

it did him more good than any thing else in the world.

though its effects on a colicky gout were, at present, of little importance to her, its healing powers, on a disappointed heart might be as reasonably tried on herself as on her sister.

every thing was now finally settled respecting his marriage with Miss Grey — it was no longer to be a secret — it would take place even within a few weeks, with many particulars of preparations and other matters.

as soon as the ceremony was over, they were to go to Combe Magna, his seat in Somersetshire.

greater openness towards them both;

of his daughter's being entirely unconcerned in the business.

his seduction and desertion of Miss Williams, the misery of that poor girl, and the doubt of what his designs might ONCE have been on herself,

bear up with fortitude under this misfortune.

by all means not to shorten their visit to Mrs. Jennings;

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,

entirely wrong, formed on mistaken grounds, and that by requiring her longer continuance in London it deprived her of the only possible alleviation of her wretchedness, the personal sympathy of her mother, and doomed her to such society and such scenes as must prevent her ever knowing a moment's rest.

what brought evil to herself would bring good to her sister;

though their longer stay would therefore militate against her own happiness, it would be better for Marianne than an immediate return into Devonshire.

to think that, instead of Midsummer, they would not be married till Michaelmas,

it would not be a match at all.

he was married.

they are sure I have made a conquest;

'Lord! here comes your beau, Nancy,'

she should not stand upon ceremony, for they were all cousins, or something like it, and she should certainly wait on Mrs. John Dashwood very soon, and bring her sisters to see her.

one of the most charming women in the world!

He dared not come to Bartlett's Buildings for fear of detection, and though their mutual impatience to meet, was not to be told, they could do nothing at present but write.

Edward who lived with his mother, must be asked as his mother was, to a party given by his sister; and to see him for the first time, after all that passed, in the company of Lucy! —

she hardly knew how she could bear it!

Edward certainly would not be in Harley Street on Tuesday,

he was kept away by the extreme affection for herself, which he could not conceal when they were together.

she did pity her —

the graciousness of both mother and daughter towards the very person —

whom of all others, had they known as much as she did, they would have been most anxious to mortify;

the boys were both remarkably tall for their age, and could not conceive that there could be the smallest difference in the world between them;

she had no opinion to give, as she had never thought about it.

they were done by Miss Dashwood.

her mother had been quite rude enough, —

She had found in her every thing that could tend to make a farther connection between the families undesirable. —