“Elinor looked at him with greater astonishment than ever. She began to think that he must be in liquor...”
“Elinor agreed to it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.”
“She tried to explain the real state of the case to her sister."I do not attempt to deny," said she, "that I think very highly of him--that I greatly esteem, that I like him."Marianne here burst with forth with indignation:"Esteem him! Like him! Cold-hearted Elinor. Oh! worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise. Use those words again, and I will leave the room this moment."Elinor could not help laughing. "Excuse me," said she, "and be assured that I meant no offence to you, by speaking, in so quiet a way, of my own feelings.”
“…Elinor was then at liberty to think and be wretched.”
“convincing Elinor, that whatever other unpardonable folly might bring him to Cleveland, he was not brought there by intoxication.”
“Esteem him! Like him! Cold-hearted Elinor! Oh! worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise. Use those words again, and I will leave the room this moment.”
“Cold-hearted Elinor! Oh! Worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise.”