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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen: me to"--
"How then," asked her sister, "would you account
for his behaviour?"
"I would suppose him,--Oh, how gladly would I suppose him,
only fickle, very, very fickle."
Elinor said no more. She was debating within herself
on the eligibility of beginning her story directly,
or postponing it till Marianne were in stronger health;--
and they crept on for a few minutes in silence.
"I am not wishing him too much good," said Marianne
at last with a sigh, "when I wish his secret reflections
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