? ? ? ? When she told Marianne what she had done, however, her first reply was not very auspicious.
? ? ? ? "Cleveland!"--she cried, with great agitation. "No, I cannot go to Cleveland."--
? ? ? ? "You forget," said Elinor gently, "that its situation is not...that it is not in the neighbourhood of..."
? ? ? ? "But it is in Somersetshire.--I cannot go into Somersetshire.--There, where I looked forward to going...No, Elinor, you cannot expect me to go there."
? ? ? ? Elinor would not argue upon the propriety of overcoming such feelings;--she only endeavoured to counteract them by working on others;--represented it, therefore, as a measure which would fix the time of her returning to that dear mother, whom she so much wished to see, in a more eligible, more comfortable manner, than any other plan could do, and perhaps without any greater delay.
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