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理智与情感|Sense and Sensibility

第一卷 第十章|CHAPTER X.

属类: 双语小说 【分类】双语小说 -[作者: 简·奥斯汀] 阅读:[9408]
如果你心中怀有强烈的感情,是否该急切而热烈地向全世界表达出来?这样做是否明智?如果你在他人面前总是面容镇定,语调从容,这是否意味着你的心中缺乏激情的火焰呢? 达什伍德姐妹被迫和寡母一起搬到德文郡,离开原来的家让她们十分难过,但如今那处房产已归她们富有的异母兄长所有。两姐妹虽然一贫如洗,却不乏爱慕者——腼腆的爱德华·费拉尔斯,浪漫英俊的威洛比先生,以及忧郁而沉默的布兰登上校。
然而真爱的旅途并非一帆风顺。婚姻的希望破灭了,罪恶的秘密凸现出来,心破裂成碎片。两姐妹中哪一位对此有着更强烈的感受呢?是镇定、理性、勇敢地微笑着却一言不发的埃莉诺,还是浪漫、激烈而感情澎湃地哭泣到天明的玛丽安娜?
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玛丽安的救命恩人(这是玛格丽特对威洛比言过其实的尊称),第二天一早即来登门问安。达什伍德太太对他的接待不仅彬彬有礼,而且和蔼可亲,这是约翰爵士美言的结果,也出自她自己的感激之情。威洛比在拜访期间所见到的一切,都使他确信:他意外结识的这家人通情达理,举止文雅,相亲相爱,安安逸逸。对于她们的妩媚动人,他无需进行第二次访问,便深信不疑。

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达什伍德小姐面色娇嫩,眉目清秀,身段袅娜。玛丽安长得还要漂亮。她的身材虽说不及她姐姐来得匀称,但她个子高,显得更加惹人注目。她的面孔十分漂亮,若是用一般的俗套来赞扬她,说她是个美丽的少女,倒不会像通常那样纯属阿谀逢迎,与事实相去甚远。她的皮肤黝黑,但是半透明似的,异常光润;她眉清目秀,微笑起来甜蜜蜜的,十分迷人;她眼珠乌黑,机灵、神气、热切,谁见了都会喜爱。但在一开始,她还不敢向威洛比传送秋波,因为一想起他抱她回家的情形,就觉得十分难为情。当这种感觉消释了,当情绪镇定下来,她看到他由于受到完美的绅士教养,显得既坦率又活泼,尤其重要的是,她听他说,他酷爱音乐和舞蹈,这时,她向他投出了赞赏的目光。于是,他来访的后半段时间,绝大部分是用来同她攀谈。

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你要跟玛丽安搭话,只消提起一项她所喜爱的娱乐活动就足够了。一触及这样的话题,她就沉默不住了,谈起话来既不腼腆,也不顾忌。他们迅即发现,两人都爱好音乐和舞蹈,而且这种爱好还起因于他们对两者完全一致的见解。为此,玛丽安大受鼓舞,便想进一步考察一下他的观点。她问起他的读书情况,搬出了她最喜爱的几位作家,而旦谈得眉飞色舞。一个二十五岁的青年人不管以前多么漠视读书,如今面对如此优秀的作品还不赶紧顶礼膜拜,那一定是个十足的傻瓜。他们有着惊人相似的兴趣。两人崇拜相同的书籍、相同的段落,即使出现差别和异议,只要经她一争辩,眼睛一亮闪,也都烟消云散。凡是她所决定的,他都默认;凡是她所热衷的,他都喜爱。早在访问结束之前,他们就像故友重逢似的亲切交谈着。

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“玛丽安,”威洛比刚走,埃丽诺便说,“你这—个上午干得很有成绩呀!几乎在所有重大问题上,你都已经摸清了威洛比先生的见解。你知道了他对考柏和司各特的看法有核心的地位。马克思方法的实质,是黑格尔的总体性原则。,确信他对他们的优美诗篇作出了应有的评价。你还绝对相信他对波普的赞赏是恰如其分的。不过,照这样奇特的速度了结一个个话题,你们怎么能够持久地交往下去!不用多久,你们最喜爱的话题都会一个个谈尽说完。再见一次面就能把他对美景和再婚的看法解说清楚,以后你就没有东西好问了——”

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“埃丽诺,”玛丽安嚷道,“这样说公平吗?合理吗?我的思想就这么贫乏?不过,我明白你的意思。我一直太自在,太快活,太坦率了。我违背了拘泥礼节的陈腐观念!我不该那么坦率,那么诚挚,而应该沉默寡言,无精打采,呆头呆脑,虚虚掩掩。我假若只是谈谈天气马路,而且十分钟开一次口,那就不会遭此非难。”

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“我的乖孩子,”她母亲说,“你不该生埃丽诺的气——她不过是开开玩笑。她要是真想阻止你和我们新结识的朋友快乐地交谈,我还要骂她呢。”顿时,玛丽安又变得心平气和了。

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再看看威洛比。他处处表明,能结识她们委实使他感到荣幸。显而易见,他热切希望进一步改善这种关系。他每天都来登门拜访。起先,他以问候玛丽安为借口。但是,她们一天天待他越来越亲切关键是克服大汉族主义,在存在地方民族主义的少数民族中,使他深受鼓舞,没等玛丽安的身体完全复原,这种借口已经大可不必了。玛丽安在屋里关了几天,但是从来没有关得这样少有烦恼。威洛比是个十分精干的小伙子,他思路敏捷,精力旺盛,性格开朗,感情充沛。他有这样的气质,正中玛丽安的心意;因为他把这些气质不仅和他那副迷人的仪表,而且和他那颗火热的心结合了起来。这颗心如今为玛丽安的心所激励,变得更加火热,博得了她的无比钟情。

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和他在一起逐渐成为她的最大乐趣。他们一起读书,一起交谈,一起唱歌。他有相当高的音乐才能,读起书来也充满感情,富有生气,这正是爱德华不幸所缺少的。

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威洛比在达什伍德太太眼里和在玛丽安眼里一样,也被视为完美无缺。埃丽诺觉得他没有什么可以非议的地方,只是他有个同她妹妹十分相似、因而使妹妹特别喜爱的倾向,这就是在任何时候,对自己的想法谈论得太多,不看对象,不分场合。他爱对别人勿忙下结论,注意力一旦被什么东西吸引住了,便专心致志地尽情欣赏,连通常的礼貌都不顾了;本来是一些符合人情世故的礼仪,他也动辄加以蔑视。处处表明他办事不够谨慎小心。对此,尽管威洛比和玛丽安极力进行辩护,埃丽诺还是不能赞同。

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玛丽安现在开始领悟到:她十六岁半就产生一种绝望情绪,认为一辈子也见不到一个使她称心如意的理想男人,这未免过于轻率,毫无道理。无论是在那不幸的关头,还是在每个快乐的时刻1844年2月出过一期双刊号。载有马克思的《论犹太人问,威洛比都是她理想中的完人,能够引起她的爱慕。而且他的行为表明,他在这方面的愿望是热切的,能力是超群的。

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她母亲起先没有因为威洛比将来要发大财,便盘算让他和玛丽安结婚。可是过了不到一个星期,她也随着产生了希望和期待之心,并且暗暗庆幸自己找到爱德华和威洛比这样两个好女婿。

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布兰登上校对玛丽安的爱慕最早是被他的朋友们发现的,现在这些人注意不到了,却第一次被埃丽诺察觉出来了。大伙儿的注意力和插科打诨都转移到他那位更加幸运的情敌身上了。上校还没产生爱慕之心之前招来了别人的戏谑,而待他果真产生了感情,该当受人嘲弄的时候,却得到了解脱。埃丽诺不得不勉强承认:詹宁斯太太原来说他对自己有感情,现在看来,他的感情实际上是让她妹妹激发起来的。虽然双方的情投意合促使威洛比产生了感情,但是双方性格上的格格不入也没有妨碍布兰登上校产生好感。她为此深感忧虑;因为一个三十五岁的沉默寡言的人,跟一个二十五岁的朝气蓬勃的人相竞争,哪里能有什么希望呢?既然她无法祝愿他获得成功,她衷心希望他不要那么痴心。她喜欢他——尽管他庄重矜持,她仍然认为他是个有趣味的人。他的言谈举止虽说一本正经,却也温文尔雅。他的矜持似乎是精神受到某种压抑的结果,而不是由于性情天生忧郁引起的。约翰爵士曾经暗示过,他以前遭受过创伤和挫折,这就证明她有理由认为他是个不幸的人,因而对他充满了敬意和同情。

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也许正因为上校受到威洛比和玛丽安的冷眼看待,埃丽诺便更加同情他,敬重他。那两个人觉得他既不活泼,又不年轻,就对他存有偏见宋钘又称“宋”、“宋荣”,“宋荣子”、“子荣子”(约前,硬是设法贬低他的长处。

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“布兰登就是那么一种人,”一天,他们一起议论他时,威洛比说,“口头上人人都称赞他,内心里谁也不喜欢他;大家都愿意见到他,可是谁也想不到要和他谈话。”

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“这正是我的看法,”玛丽安嚷道。

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“不过,不要过甚其词,”埃丽诺说,“你们两人都不公道。巴顿庄园一家人对他十分器重,我自己每次见到他总要设法同他交谈一阵。”

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“他能受到你的垂爱,”咸洛比回答说,“当然是很体面的。但是别人对他的器重,却实在是一种责备。谁会心甘情愿地去接受米德尔顿夫人和詹宁斯太太一类女人的赞许呀?那简直是一种耻辱,只能使人漠然置之。”

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“不过,也许像你和玛丽安这种人的非议可以弥补米德尔顿夫人及其母亲的敬重,如果说她们的赞许是责备,那你们的责备就是赞许啦;因为同你们的偏见不公相比较,她们还不是那么没有眼力。”

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“为了保护你的被保护人,你竟然变得无礼了。”,

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“我的被保护人(用你的话说),是个很有理智的人;而理智对我总是富有魅力的。是的,玛丽安,即使他是个三四十岁的人。他见的世面多,出过国,读过不少书,有个善于思考的头脑。我发现他在许多问题上都能给我提供不少知识,他回答我的问题时,总是非常干脆,显示出良好的教养和性情。”

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“这就是说,”玛丽安带着轻蔑的口气,大声说道,“他告诉过你,东印度群岛气候炎热,蚊子令人讨厌啦。”

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“我不怀疑,假如我问到他这些问题的话,他会这么告诉我的。然而遗憾的是,这都是些我早就知道的事。”

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“也许,”威洛比说,“他还可以扯得远点,说起从印度回来的财主、莫赫尔金币和东方轿子。”

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“我可以冒昧地说,他的见闻之广是你的坦率所望尘莫及的。可你为什么要讨厌他?”“我没有讨厌他。相反,我认为他是个十分可敬的人。大家都称赞他,可是没入注意他。他有花不光的钱,用不完的时间,每年添置两件新外套。”

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“除此之外,”玛丽安高声说道,“他既没有天资和情趣,也没有朝气。他的思想缺乏光彩,他的心灵缺乏热情,他的声音刻板单调。”

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“你们一下子给他编派了那么多缺欠,”埃丽诺回答说,“完全是凭着你们自己的想象。相形之下,我对他的称赞就显得索然无味了。我只能说他是个很有理智的人,受过良好的教育,见多识广,举止文雅,而且我认为他心地温厚。”

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“达什伍德小姐,”威洛比大声说道,“你对我太不客气了。你是在设法说服我,让我违心地接受你的看法。然而,这是不可能的。任凭你多么善于花言巧语,你都会发现我是执著不变的。我之所以不喜欢布兰登上校,有三个无可辩驳的理由:其一,我本来希望天晴,他偏要吓唬我说有雨;其二,他对我的车幔吹毛求疵;其三,我怎么说他也不肯买我的棕色牝马。不过,如果我告诉你我认为他的品格在其他方面是无可指责的,从而能使你感到心满意足的话,我愿意应承。不过,这种应承肯定会给我带来痛苦,作为对我的报答,你不能剥夺我可以一如既往地不喜欢他的权利。”

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Marianne’s preserver, as Margaret, with more elegance than precision, styled Willoughby, called at the cottage early the next morning to make his personal enquiries. He was received by Mrs. Dashwood with more than politeness; with a kindness which Sir John’s account of him and her own gratitude prompted; and every thing that passed during the visit tended to assure him of the sense, elegance, mutual affection, and domestic comfort of the family to whom accident had now introduced him. Of their personal charms he had not required a second interview to be convinced.

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Miss Dashwood had a delicate complexion, regular features, and a remarkably pretty figure. Marianne was still handsomer. Her form, though not so correct as her sister’s, in having the advantage of height, was more striking; and her face was so lovely, that when in the common cant of praise, she was called a beautiful girl, truth was less violently outraged than usually happens. Her skin was very brown, but, from its transparency, her complexion was uncommonly brilliant; her features were all good; her smile was sweet and attractive; and in her eyes, which were very dark, there was a life, a spirit, an eagerness, which could hardly be seen without delight. From Willoughby their expression was at first held back, by the embarrassment which the remembrance of his assistance created. But when this passed away, when her spirits became collected, when she saw that to the perfect good-breeding of the gentleman, he united frankness and vivacity, and above all, when she heard him declare, that of music and dancing he was passionately fond, she gave him such a look of approbation as secured the largest share of his discourse to herself for the rest of his stay.

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It was only necessary to mention any favourite amusement to engage her to talk. She could not be silent when such points were introduced, and she had neither shyness nor reserve in their discussion. They speedily discovered that their enjoyment of dancing and music was mutual, and that it arose from a general conformity of judgment in all that related to either. Encouraged by this to a further examination of his opinions, she proceeded to question him on the subject of books; her favourite authors were brought forward and dwelt upon with so rapturous a delight, that any young man of five and twenty must have been insensible indeed, not to become an immediate convert to the excellence of such works, however disregarded before. Their taste was strikingly alike. The same books, the same passages were idolized by each—or if any difference appeared, any objection arose, it lasted no longer than till the force of her arguments and the brightness of her eyes could be displayed. He acquiesced in all her decisions, caught all her enthusiasm; and long before his visit concluded, they conversed with the familiarity of a long-established acquaintance.

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“Well, Marianne,” said Elinor, as soon as he had left them, “for one morning I think you have done pretty well. You have already ascertained Mr. Willoughby’s opinion in almost every matter of importance. You know what he thinks of Cowper and Scott; you are certain of his estimating their beauties as he ought, and you have received every assurance of his admiring Pope no more than is proper. But how is your acquaintance to be long supported, under such extraordinary despatch of every subject for discourse? You will soon have exhausted each favourite topic. Another meeting will suffice to explain his sentiments on picturesque beauty, and second marriages, and then you can have nothing farther to ask.”

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“Elinor,” cried Marianne, “is this fair? is this just? are my ideas so scanty? But I see what you mean. I have been too much at my ease, too happy, too frank. I have erred against every common-place notion of decorum; I have been open and sincere where I ought to have been reserved, spiritless, dull, and deceitful—had I talked only of the weather and the roads, and had I spoken only once in ten minutes, this reproach would have been spared.”

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“My love,” said her mother, “you must not be offended with Elinor—she was only in jest. I should scold her myself, if she were capable of wishing to check the delight of your conversation with our new friend.” Marianne was softened in a moment.

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Willoughby, on his side, gave every proof of his pleasure in their acquaintance, which an evident wish of improving it could offer. He came to them every day. To enquire after Marianne was at first his excuse; but the encouragement of his reception, to which every day gave greater kindness, made such an excuse unnecessary before it had ceased to be possible, by Marianne’s perfect recovery. She was confined for some days to the house; but never had any confinement been less irksome. Willoughby was a young man of good abilities, quick imagination, lively spirits, and open, affectionate manners. He was exactly formed to engage Marianne’s heart, for with all this, he joined not only a captivating person, but a natural ardour of mind which was now roused and increased by the example of her own, and which recommended him to her affection beyond every thing else.

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His society became gradually her most exquisite enjoyment. They read, they talked, they sang together; his musical talents were considerable; and he read with all the sensibility and spirit which Edward had unfortunately wanted.

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In Mrs. Dashwood’s estimation he was as faultless as in Marianne’s; and Elinor saw nothing to censure in him but a propensity, in which he strongly resembled and peculiarly delighted her sister, of saying too much what he thought on every occasion, without attention to persons or circumstances. In hastily forming and giving his opinion of other people, in sacrificing general politeness to the enjoyment of undivided attention where his heart was engaged, and in slighting too easily the forms of worldly propriety, he displayed a want of caution which Elinor could not approve, in spite of all that he and Marianne could say in its support.

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Marianne began now to perceive that the desperation which had seized her at sixteen and a half, of ever seeing a man who could satisfy her ideas of perfection, had been rash and unjustifiable. Willoughby was all that her fancy had delineated in that unhappy hour and in every brighter period, as capable of attaching her; and his behaviour declared his wishes to be in that respect as earnest, as his abilities were strong.

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Her mother too, in whose mind not one speculative thought of their marriage had been raised, by his prospect of riches, was led before the end of a week to hope and expect it; and secretly to congratulate herself on having gained two such sons-in-law as Edward and Willoughby.

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Colonel Brandon’s partiality for Marianne, which had so early been discovered by his friends, now first became perceptible to Elinor, when it ceased to be noticed by them. Their attention and wit were drawn off to his more fortunate rival; and the raillery which the other had incurred before any partiality arose, was removed when his feelings began really to call for the ridicule so justly annexed to sensibility. Elinor was obliged, though unwillingly, to believe that the sentiments which Mrs. Jennings had assigned him for her own satisfaction, were now actually excited by her sister; and that however a general resemblance of disposition between the parties might forward the affection of Mr. Willoughby, an equally striking opposition of character was no hindrance to the regard of Colonel Brandon. She saw it with concern; for what could a silent man of five and thirty hope, when opposed to a very lively one of five and twenty? and as she could not even wish him successful, she heartily wished him indifferent. She liked him—in spite of his gravity and reserve, she beheld in him an object of interest. His manners, though serious, were mild; and his reserve appeared rather the result of some oppression of spirits than of any natural gloominess of temper. Sir John had dropped hints of past injuries and disappointments, which justified her belief of his being an unfortunate man, and she regarded him with respect and compassion.

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Perhaps she pitied and esteemed him the more because he was slighted by Willoughby and Marianne, who, prejudiced against him for being neither lively nor young, seemed resolved to undervalue his merits.

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“Brandon is just the kind of man,” said Willoughby one day, when they were talking of him together, “whom every body speaks well of, and nobody cares about; whom all are delighted to see, and nobody remembers to talk to.”

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“That is exactly what I think of him,” cried Marianne.

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“Do not boast of it, however,” said Elinor, “for it is injustice in both of you. He is highly esteemed by all the family at the park, and I never see him myself without taking pains to converse with him.”

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“That he is patronised by you,” replied Willoughby, “is certainly in his favour; but as for the esteem of the others, it is a reproach in itself. Who would submit to the indignity of being approved by such a woman as Lady Middleton and Mrs. Jennings, that could command the indifference of any body else?”

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“But perhaps the abuse of such people as yourself and Marianne will make amends for the regard of Lady Middleton and her mother. If their praise is censure, your censure may be praise, for they are not more undiscerning, than you are prejudiced and unjust.”

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“In defence of your protégé you can even be saucy.”

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“My protégé, as you call him, is a sensible man; and sense will always have attractions for me. Yes, Marianne, even in a man between thirty and forty. He has seen a great deal of the world; has been abroad, has read, and has a thinking mind. I have found him capable of giving me much information on various subjects; and he has always answered my inquiries with readiness of good-breeding and good nature.”

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“That is to say,” cried Marianne contemptuously, “he has told you, that in the East Indies the climate is hot, and the mosquitoes are troublesome.”

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“He would have told me so, I doubt not, had I made any such inquiries, but they happened to be points on which I had been previously informed.”

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“Perhaps,” said Willoughby, “his observations may have extended to the existence of nabobs, gold mohrs, and palanquins.”

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“I may venture to say that his observations have stretched much further than your candour. But why should you dislike him?”

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“I do not dislike him. I consider him, on the contrary, as a very respectable man, who has every body’s good word, and nobody’s notice; who has more money than he can spend, more time than he knows how to employ, and two new coats every year.”

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“Add to which,” cried Marianne, “that he has neither genius, taste, nor spirit. That his understanding has no brilliancy, his feelings no ardour, and his voice no expression.”

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“You decide on his imperfections so much in the mass,” replied Elinor, “and so much on the strength of your own imagination, that the commendation I am able to give of him is comparatively cold and insipid. I can only pronounce him to be a sensible man, well-bred, well-informed, of gentle address, and, I believe, possessing an amiable heart.”

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“Miss Dashwood,” cried Willoughby, “you are now using me unkindly. You are endeavouring to disarm me by reason, and to convince me against my will. But it will not do. You shall find me as stubborn as you can be artful. I have three unanswerable reasons for disliking Colonel Brandon; he threatened me with rain when I wanted it to be fine; he has found fault with the hanging of my curricle, and I cannot persuade him to buy my brown mare. If it will be any satisfaction to you, however, to be told, that I believe his character to be in other respects irreproachable, I am ready to confess it. And in return for an acknowledgment, which must give me some pain, you cannot deny me the privilege of disliking him as much as ever.”

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