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and start your seven-day free trial tonight. 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, and it is wonderful to have you here tonight as we read the final pages of sense and sensibility.

Before we get started, I'd like you now to concentrate on how your body feels.

Acknowledge for a moment where you might be holding any tension in your muscles and take a big stretch,

allowing those areas to fully relax and sink into your bed.

Now let's take some nice deep breaths.

Inhale and collect all your thoughts and concerns for the day. And exhale, letting them all go.

Once more, inhale and exhale.

Lovely.

Mrs. Dashwood felt some relief for telling us his retelling of Willoughby's story, but could never see him as she once did.

When Marianne came to dinner, she openly talked about him, and her decision that she would never have been happy with him after finding

out his past discretion.

Everyone agreed and Eleanor went on to declare him inherently selfish and that he would always be unsatisfied with his lot.

Days later, Mrs. Dashwood's man's servant arrived from Exeter,

whereupon he asked Eleanor if she were aware of Edward's marriage to Miss Steele.

He bumped into their carriage on the way to Plymouth and spoke to the new Mrs Ferras

directly.

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