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The Dashwoods were two days on the road, and Marianne bore her journey on both, without essential fatigue Every thing that the most zealous affection, the most solicitous care could do to render her comfortable, was the office of each watchful companion, and each found their reward in her bodily ease, and her calmness of spirits To Elinor, the observation of the latter was particularly grateful She, who had seen her week after week so constantly suffering, oppressed by anguish of heart which she had neither courage to speak of, nor fortitude to conceal, noith a joy, which no other could equally share, an apparent co the result as she trusted of serious reflection, must eventually lead her to contentment and cheerfulness
As they approached Barton, indeed, and entered on scenes of which every field and every tree brought sorew silent and thoughtful, and turning away her face froh theBut here, Elinor could neither wonder nor blame; and when she saw, as she assisted Marianne fro, she saw only an e less tender than pity, and in its unobtrusiveness entitled to praise In the whole of her subsequent manner, she traced the direction of a mind awakened to reasonable exertion; for no sooner had they entered their co-room, than Marianne turned her eyes around it with a look of resolute firht of every object hich the rehby could be connected--She said little, but every sentence aih sometimes escaped her, it never passed aithout the atonement of a smile After dinner she would try her piano-forte
She went to it; but the music on which her eye first rested was an opera, procured for her by Willoughby, containing so on its outward leaf her own na--That would not do--She shook her head, put theover the keys for a ers, and closed the instru however with firmness as she did so, that she should in future practiceproduced no abatement in these happy sythened by rest, she looked and spoke with aret's return, and talking of the dear family party which would then be restored, of their mutual pursuits and cheerful society, as the only happiness worth a wish