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1"No, he is not so unworthy as you believe him. He has broken no faith with me." "But he told you that he loved you."
2"Yes--no--never absolutely. It was every day implied, but never professedly declared. Sometimes I thought it had been,
3but it never was." "Yet you wrote to him?" "Yes: could that be wrong after all that had passed? But I cannot talk."
4Elinor said no more, and turning again to the three letters which now raised a much stronger curiosity than before,
5directly ran over the contents of all. The first, which was what her sister had sent him on their arrival in town, was
6to this effect. Berkeley Street, January. "How surprised you will be, Willoughby, on receiving this; and I think you
7will feel something more than surprise, when you know that I am in town. An opportunity of coming hither, though with
8Mrs. Jennings, was a temptation we could not resist. I wish you may receive this in time to come here to-night, but I
9will not depend on it. At any rate I shall expect you to-morrow. For the present, adieu. "M.D." Her second note, which
10had been written on the morning after the dance at the Middletons', was in these words:-- "I cannot express my
11disappointment in having missed you the day before yesterday, nor my astonishment at not having received any answer to a
12note which I sent you above a week ago. I have been expecting to hear from you, and still more to see you, every hour of
13the day. Pray call again as soon as possible, and explain the reason of my having expected this in vain. You had better
14come earlier another time, because we are generally out by one. We were last night at Lady Middleton's, where there was
15a dance. I have been told that you were asked to be of the party. But could it be so? You must be very much altered
16indeed since we parted, if that could be the case, and you not there. But I will not suppose this possible, and I hope
17very soon to receive your personal assurance of its being otherwise. "M.D." The contents of her last note to him were
18these:-- "What am I to imagine, Willoughby, by your behaviour last night? Again I demand an explanation of it. I was
19prepared to meet you with the pleasure which our separation naturally produced, with the familiarity which our intimacy
20at Barton appeared to me to justify. I was repulsed indeed! I have passed a wretched night in endeavouring to excuse a
21conduct which can scarcely be called less than insulting; but though I have not yet been able to form any reasonable
22apology for your behaviour, I am perfectly ready to hear your justification of it. You have perhaps been misinformed, or
23purposely deceived, in something concerning me, which may have lowered me in your opinion. Tell me what it is, explain
24the grounds on which you acted, and I shall be satisfied, in being able to satisfy you. It would grieve me indeed to be
25obliged to think ill of you; but if I am to do it, if I am to learn that you are not what we have hitherto believed you,
26that your regard for us all was insincere, that your behaviour to me was intended only to deceive, let it be told as
27soon as possible. My feelings are at present in a state of dreadful indecision; I wish to acquit you, but certainty on
28either side will be ease to what I now suffer. If your sentiments are no longer what they were, you will return my
29notes, and the lock of my hair which is in your possession. "M.D." That such letters, so full of affection and
30confidence, could have been so answered, Elinor, for Willoughby's sake, would have been unwilling to believe. But her
31condemnation of him did not blind her to the impropriety of their having been written at all; and she was silently
32grieving over the imprudence which had hazarded such unsolicited proofs of tenderness, not warranted by anything
33preceding, and most severely condemned by the event, when Marianne, perceiving that she had finished the letters,
34observed to her that they contained nothing but what any one would have written in the same situation. "I felt myself,"
35she added, "to be as solemnly engaged to him, as if the strictest legal covenant had bound us to each other." "I can
36believe it," said Elinor; "but unfortunately he did not feel the same." "He did feel the same, Elinor--for weeks and
37weeks he felt it. I know he did. Whatever may have changed him now, (and nothing but the blackest art employed against
38me can have done it), I was once as dear to him as my own soul could wish. This lock of hair, which now he can so
39readily give up, was begged of me with the most earnest supplication. Had you seen his look, his manner, had you heard
40his voice at that moment! Have you forgot the last evening of our being together at Barton? The morning that we parted
41too! When he told me that it might be many weeks before we met again--his distress--can I ever forget his distress?" For
42a moment or two she could say no more; but when this emotion had passed away, she added, in a firmer tone, "Elinor, I
43have been cruelly used; but not by Willoughby." "Dearest Marianne, who but himself? By whom can he have been
44instigated?" "By all the world, rather than by his own heart. I could rather believe every creature of my acquaintance
45leagued together to ruin me in his opinion, than believe his nature capable of such cruelty. This woman of whom he
46writes--whoever she be--or any one, in short, but your own dear self, mama, and Edward, may have been so barbarous to
47bely me. Beyond you three, is there a creature in the world whom I would not rather suspect of evil than Willoughby,
48whose heart I know so well?" Elinor would not contend, and only replied, "Whoever may have been so detestably your
49enemy, let them be cheated of their malignant triumph, my dear sister, by seeing how nobly the consciousness of your own
50innocence and good intentions supports your spirits. It is a reasonable and laudable pride which resists such
51malevolence." "No, no," cried Marianne, "misery such as mine has no pride. I care not who knows that I am wretched. The
52triumph of seeing me so may be open to all the world. Elinor, Elinor, they who suffer little may be proud and
53independent as they like--may resist insult, or return mortification--but I cannot. I must feel--I must be wretched--and
54they are welcome to enjoy the consciousness of it that can." "But for my mother's sake and mine--" "I would do more than
55for my own. But to appear happy when I am so miserable--Oh! who can require it?" Again they were both silent. Elinor was
56employed in walking thoughtfully from the fire to the window, from the window to the fire, without knowing that she
57received warmth from one, or discerning objects through the other; and Marianne, seated at the foot of the bed, with her
58head leaning against one of its posts, again took up Willoughby's letter, and, after shuddering over every sentence,
59exclaimed,-- "It is too much! Oh, Willoughby, Willoughby, could this be yours! Cruel, cruel--nothing can acquit you.
60Elinor, nothing can. Whatever he might have heard against me--ought he not to have suspended his belief? ought he not to
61have told me of it, to have given me the power of clearing myself? 'The lock of hair, (repeating it from the letter,)
62which you so obligingly bestowed on me'--That is unpardonable. Willoughby, where was your heart when you wrote those
63words? Oh, barbarously insolent!--Elinor, can he be justified?" "No, Marianne, in no possible way." "And yet this
64woman--who knows what her art may have been?--how long it may have been premeditated, and how deeply contrived by
65her!--Who is she?--Who can she be?--Whom did I ever hear him talk of as young and attractive among his female
66acquaintance?--Oh! no one, no one--he talked to me only of myself." Another pause ensued; Marianne was greatly agitated,
67and it ended thus. "Elinor, I must go home. I must go and comfort mama. Can not we be gone to-morrow?" "To-morrow,
68Marianne!" "Yes, why should I stay here? I came only for Willoughby's sake--and now who cares for me? Who regards me?"
69"It would be impossible to go to-morrow. We owe Mrs. Jennings much more than civility; and civility of the commonest
70kind must prevent such a hasty removal as that."
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