HISTORY 3H03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Sense And Sensibility
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Passage : (cid:838)my illness has made me think it has given me leisure and calmness for serious recollection. Long before i was enough recovered to talk, i was perfectly able to reflect. I considered the past: i saw in my own behaviour, since the beginning of our acquaintance with him last autumn, nothing but a series of imprudence towards myself, and want of kindness to others. I saw that my own feelings had prepared my sufferings, and that my want of fortitude under them had almost led me to the grave. How could you have consoled her! i cannot express my own abhorrence of myself. Whenever i looked towards the past, i saw some duty neglected, or some failing indulged. Every body seemed injured by me. (cid:839: reminiscent dialogue, marianne says what austen needs for her to say, this type of speech is actually the best austen does to prepare us to the marriage to colonel brandon.
