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Good evening and welcome to the sleepy bookshelf

where we put down our worries from the day and pick up a good book.

I'm Elizabeth, your host. Thank you for being here this evening. Tonight we are returning to

sense and sensibility, but before that, let's take some time to settle in.

Have a big stretch and release any tension you might be holding in your muscles.

Focus on how your body feels and allow yourself to physically relax.

Next, let's take a deep breath in and hold it for a moment before exhaling and breathing out all your worries and concerns.

Once more now,

Inhale, hold it for a moment,

and exhale.

Wonderful.

Last time, a letter was received for Marianne from their mother, who was still unaware of Willoughby's engagement.

It was filled with praise, uncertainty for their future felicity, and prompted Eleanor to write a response filling their mother in of the recent

disappointments.

When Colonel Brandon rang the doorbell, Mariam, and Eleanor received him.

He confessed he had intel on Willoughby that he felt he could now reveal.

Colonel Brandon had grown up alongside the orphaned daughter of a family friend named Eliza. He had loved her from childhood and they wanted to be together.

But at the age of 14 she was betrothed to his brother who was set to receive the family inheritance.

Distralled and knowing his brother didn't love her.

After a failed elopement, Colonel Brandon signed up for the army in order to take him away for a few years.

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