Sense And Sensibility

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Austen, Jane

"Sense And Sensibility"

-- Perhaps you will hardly think the better of me,--it is worth the trial however, and you shall hear every thing. When I first became intimate in your family, I had no other intention, no other view in the acquaintance than to pass my time pleasantly while I was obliged to remain in Devonshire, more pleasantly than I had ever done before. Your sister's lovely person and interesting manners could not but please me; and her behaviour to me almost from the first, was of a kind--It is astonishing, when I reflect on what it was, and what SHE was, that my heart should have been so insensible! But at first I must confess, my vanity only was elevated by it. Careless of her happiness, thinking only of my own amusement, giving way to feelings which I had always been too much in the habit of indulging, I endeavoured, by every means in my power, to make myself pleasing to her, without any design of returning her affection."

? ? ? ? Miss Dashwood, at this point, turning her eyes on him with the most angry contempt, stopped him, by saying,

? ? ? ? "It is hardly worth while, Mr. Willoughby, for you to relate, or for me to listen any longer.

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Austen, Jane

"Sense And Sensibility"