Chapter 1
Marianne's character sketch: 'sensible and clever; but eager in everything: her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation.'
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From Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Marianne is the embodiment of Romantic sensibility—passionate, expressive, contemptuous of restraint, and devoted to Cowper, Scott, and second attachments being impossible.
Chapter 11
Marianne's declaration that a woman of seven-and-twenty 'can never hope to feel or inspire affection again'—her famous condemnation of second attachments, which the novel will overturn.
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