Sense and Sensibility: with original illustrated

She was assured of his affection; and that heart in return was solicited, which, perhaps, they pretty equally knew was already entirely his own; for, though Henry was now sincerely attached to her, though he felt and delighted in all the excellencies of her character and truly loved her society, I must confess that his affection originated in nothi

Her awareness of these attitudes also appears in a letter discussing a subscription to a local library, in which she writes, “As an inducement to subscribe Mrs. Martin tells us that her Collection is not to consist only of Novels, but of every kind of Literature, &c. &c—She might have spared this pretension to our family, who are great Nove

and the man whom she could not bear to speak of the day before was now high in her good graces.