Chapter 3
Edward's introduction: 'He was not handsome, and his manners required intimacy to make them pleasing.' Marianne's disappointment in him stands as a verdict of sensibility.
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Edward is deliberately drawn as an anti-Willoughby: diffident, unimpressive, bound by honor to a foolish prior engagement.
Chapter 49
Edward's proposal to Elinor, which Austen famously declines to dramatize—'How soon he had walked himself into the offer, need not be particularly told.'
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