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Chapter 32

When the particulars of this conversation were repeated by Ms. Dashwood to her sister,

as they very soon were, the effect on her was not entirely, such as the former had hoped

to see. Not that Maryann appeared to distrust the truth of any part of it, for she listened

to it all, with the most steady and submissive attention, made neither objection nor remark,

attempted no vindication of Willoughby, and seemed to show by her tears that she felt

it to be impossible. But, though this behavior assured Eleanor, the

the conviction of this guilt, was carried home to her mind, though she saw a satisfaction

the effect of it, in her no longer avoidant, Colonel Brandon, when he called. In her speaking

to him, even voluntarily speaking, with a kind of compassionate respect. And though she

saw her spirits less violently irritated them before, she did not see her, less wretched.

Her mind did become settled, but it was settled in a gloomy dejection. She felt the loss

of Willoughby's character, yet more heavily, than she had felt the loss of his heart. 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, prayed all together so much on her

spirits, that she could not bring herself to speak of what she felt, even to Eleanor.

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