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Chapter 10

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 December 2020

Edward Copeland
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Pomona College, California
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MARIANNE'S illness, though weakening in its kind, had not been long enough to make her recovery slow; and with youth, natural strength, and her mother's presence in aid, it proceeded so smoothly as to enable her to remove within four days after the arrival of the latter, into Mrs. Palmer's dressingroom. When there, at her own particular request, for she was impatient to pour forth her thanks to him for fetching her mother, Colonel Brandon was invited to visit her.

His emotion in entering the room, in seeing her altered looks, and in receiving the pale hand which she immediately held out to him, was such, as, in Elinor's conjecture, must arise from something more than his affection for Marianne, or the consciousness of its being known to others; and she soon discovered in his melancholy eye and varying complexion as he looked at her sister, the probable recurrence of many past scenes of misery to his mind, brought back by that resemblance between Marianne and Eliza already acknowledged, and now strengthened by the hollow eye, the sickly skin, the posture of reclining weakness, and the warm acknowledgment of peculiar obligation.

Mrs. Dashwood, not less watchful of what passed than her daughter, but with a mind very differently influenced, and therefore watching to very different effect, saw nothing in the Colonel's behaviour but what arose from the most simple and self-evident sensations, while in the actions and words of Marianne she persuaded herself to think that something more than gratitude already dawned.

At the end of another day or two, Marianne growing visibly stronger every twelve hours, Mrs. Dashwood, urged equally by her own and her daughter's wishes, began to talk of removing to Barton. On her measures depended those of her two friends; Mrs. Jennings could not quit Cleveland during the Dashwoods’ stay, and Colonel Brandon was soon brought, by their united request, to consider his own abode there as equally determinate, if not equally indispensable.

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Sense and Sensibility , pp. 385 - 394
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2006

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  • Chapter 10
  • Jane Austen
  • Edited by Edward Copeland, Pomona College, California
  • Book: Sense and Sensibility
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  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009026772.050
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  • Jane Austen
  • Edited by Edward Copeland, Pomona College, California
  • Book: Sense and Sensibility
  • Online publication: 19 December 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009026772.050
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  • Chapter 10
  • Jane Austen
  • Edited by Edward Copeland, Pomona College, California
  • Book: Sense and Sensibility
  • Online publication: 19 December 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009026772.050
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