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it was, such a notion had scarcely ever entered her head, except by Mrs. Jenningss suggestion; and she could not help believing herself the nicest observer of the two;she watched his eyes, while Mrs. Jennings thought only of his behaviour;and while his looks of anxious solicitude on Mariannes feeling, in her head and throat, the beginning of a heavy cold, because unexpressed by words, entirely escaped the latter ladys observation;she could discover in them the quick feelings, and needless alarm of a lover. Two delighful twilight walks on the third and fourth evenings of her being there, not merely on the dry gravel of the shrubbery, but all over the grounds, and especially in the most distant parts of them, where there was something more of wildness than in the rest, where the trees were the oldest, and the grass was the longest and wettest, hadassisted by the still greater imprudence of sitting in her wet shoes and stockingsgiven Marianne a cold so violent as, though for a day or two trifled with or denied, would force itself by increasing ailments on the concern of every body, and the notice of herself. Prescriptions poured in from all quarters, and as usual, were all declined. Though heavy and feverish, with a pain in her limbs, and a cough, and a sore throat, a good nights rest was to cure her entirely; and it was with difficulty that Elinor prevailed on her, when she went to bed, to try one or two of the simplest of the remedies. |
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