Chapter 43
The crisis of Marianne's illness; Elinor's terror and Brandon's silent devotion as he rides to fetch Mrs. Dashwood.
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From Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Marianne's near-fatal fever, brought on by indulged grief and walks in wet grass, is the novel's climactic crisis and the catalyst for her moral transformation.
Chapter 46
Marianne's convalescent self-reproach: 'Had I died, it would have been self-destruction.' Her renunciation of romantic excess.
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