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1"At Delaford, she will be within an easy distance of me," added Mrs. Dashwood, "even if I remain at Barton; and in all
2probability,--for I hear it is a large village,--indeed there certainly must be some small house or cottage close by,
3that would suit us quite as well as our present situation." Poor Elinor!--here was a new scheme for getting her to
4Delaford!--but her spirit was stubborn. "His fortune too!--for at my time of life you know, everybody cares about
5that;--and though I neither know nor desire to know, what it really is, I am sure it must be a good one." Here they were
6interrupted by the entrance of a third person, and Elinor withdrew to think it all over in private, to wish success to
7her friend, and yet in wishing it, to feel a pang for Willoughby. CHAPTER XLVI. Marianne's illness, though weakening in
8its kind, had not been long enough to make her recovery slow; and with youth, natural strength, and her mother's
9presence in aid, it proceeded so smoothly as to enable her to remove, within four days after the arrival of the latter,
10into Mrs. Palmer's dressing-room. When there, at her own particular request, for she was impatient to pour forth her
11thanks to him for fetching her mother, Colonel Brandon was invited to visit her. His emotion on entering the room, in
12seeing her altered looks, and in receiving the pale hand which she immediately held out to him, was such, as, in
13Elinor's conjecture, must arise from something more than his affection for Marianne, or the consciousness of its being
14known to others; and she soon discovered in his melancholy eye and varying complexion as he looked at her sister, the
15probable recurrence of many past scenes of misery to his mind, brought back by that resemblance between Marianne and
16Eliza already acknowledged, and now strengthened by the hollow eye, the sickly skin, the posture of reclining weakness,
17and the warm acknowledgment of peculiar obligation. Mrs. Dashwood, not less watchful of what passed than her daughter,
18but with a mind very differently influenced, and therefore watching to very different effect, saw nothing in the
19Colonel's behaviour but what arose from the most simple and self-evident sensations, while in the actions and words of
20Marianne she persuaded herself to think that something more than gratitude already dawned. At the end of another day or
21two, Marianne growing visibly stronger every twelve hours, Mrs. Dashwood, urged equally by her own and her daughter's
22wishes, began to talk of removing to Barton. On her measures depended those of her two friends; Mrs. Jennings could not
23quit Cleveland during the Dashwoods' stay; and Colonel Brandon was soon brought, by their united request, to consider
24his own abode there as equally determinate, if not equally indispensable. At his and Mrs. Jennings's united request in
25return, Mrs. Dashwood was prevailed on to accept the use of his carriage on her journey back, for the better
26accommodation of her sick child; and the Colonel, at the joint invitation of Mrs. Dashwood and Mrs. Jennings, whose
27active good-nature made her friendly and hospitable for other people as well as herself, engaged with pleasure to redeem
28it by a visit at the cottage, in the course of a few weeks. The day of separation and departure arrived; and Marianne,
29after taking so particular and lengthened a leave of Mrs. Jennings, one so earnestly grateful, so full of respect and
30kind wishes as seemed due to her own heart from a secret acknowledgment of past inattention, and bidding Colonel Brandon
31farewell with a cordiality of a friend, was carefully assisted by him into the carriage, of which he seemed anxious that
32she should engross at least half. Mrs. Dashwood and Elinor then followed, and the others were left by themselves, to
33talk of the travellers, and feel their own dullness, till Mrs. Jennings was summoned to her chaise to take comfort in
34the gossip of her maid for the loss of her two young companions; and Colonel Brandon immediately afterwards took his
35solitary way to Delaford. The Dashwoods were two days on the road, and Marianne bore her journey on both, without
36essential fatigue. Every thing that the most zealous affection, the most solicitous care could do to render her
37comfortable, was the office of each watchful companion, and each found their reward in her bodily ease, and her calmness
38of spirits. To Elinor, the observation of the latter was particularly grateful. She, who had seen her week after week so
39constantly suffering, oppressed by anguish of heart which she had neither courage to speak of, nor fortitude to conceal,
40now saw with a joy, which no other could equally share, an apparent composure of mind, which, in being the result as she
41trusted of serious reflection, must eventually lead her to contentment and cheerfulness. As they approached Barton,
42indeed, and entered on scenes of which every field and every tree brought some peculiar, some painful recollection, she
43grew silent and thoughtful, and turning away her face from their notice, sat earnestly gazing through the window. But
44here, Elinor could neither wonder nor blame; and when she saw, as she assisted Marianne from the carriage, that she had
45been crying, she saw only an emotion too natural in itself to raise any thing less tender than pity, and in its
46unobtrusiveness entitled to praise. In the whole of her subsequent manner, she traced the direction of a mind awakened
47to reasonable exertion; for no sooner had they entered their common sitting-room, than Marianne turned her eyes around
48it with a look of resolute firmness, as if determined at once to accustom herself to the sight of every object with
49which the remembrance of Willoughby could be connected.--She said little, but every sentence aimed at cheerfulness, and
50though a sigh sometimes escaped her, it never passed away without the atonement of a smile. After dinner she would try
51her piano-forte. She went to it; but the music on which her eye first rested was an opera, procured for her by
52Willoughby, containing some of their favourite duets, and bearing on its outward leaf her own name in his
53hand-writing.--That would not do.--She shook her head, put the music aside, and after running over the keys for a
54minute, complained of feebleness in her fingers, and closed the instrument again; declaring however with firmness as she
55did so, that she should in future practice much. The next morning produced no abatement in these happy symptoms. On the
56contrary, with a mind and body alike strengthened by rest, she looked and spoke with more genuine spirit, anticipating
57the pleasure of Margaret's return, and talking of the dear family party which would then be restored, of their mutual
58pursuits and cheerful society, as the only happiness worth a wish. "When the weather is settled, and I have recovered my
59strength," said she, "we will take long walks together every day. We will walk to the farm at the edge of the down, and
60see how the children go on; we will walk to Sir John's new plantations at Barton Cross, and the Abbeyland; and we will
61often go to the old ruins of the Priory, and try to trace its foundations as far as we are told they once reached. I
62know we shall be happy. I know the summer will pass happily away. I mean never to be later in rising than six, and from
63that time till dinner I shall divide every moment between music and reading. I have formed my plan, and am determined to
64enter on a course of serious study. Our own library is too well known to me, to be resorted to for any thing beyond mere
65amusement. But there are many works well worth reading at the Park; and there are others of more modern production which
66I know I can borrow of Colonel Brandon. By reading only six hours a-day, I shall gain in the course of a twelve-month a
67great deal of instruction which I now feel myself to want." Elinor honoured her for a plan which originated so nobly as
68this; though smiling to see the same eager fancy which had been leading her to the extreme of languid indolence and
69selfish repining, now at work in introducing excess into a scheme of such rational employment and virtuous self-control.
70Her smile however changed to a sigh when she remembered that promise to Willoughby was yet unfulfilled, and feared she
71had that to communicate which might again unsettle the mind of Marianne, and ruin at least for a time this fair prospect
72of busy tranquillity. Willing therefore to delay the evil hour, she resolved to wait till her sister's health were more
73secure, before she appointed it. But the resolution was made only to be broken.
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