Chapter 12
Marianne lets Willoughby cut a lock of her hair—a near-betrothal token Margaret reports to Elinor.
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From Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Material tokens—hair, letters, miniatures, music—carry the secret currents of attachment that polite speech cannot.
Chapter 22
Lucy Steele's miniature of Edward—the physical proof of the secret engagement.
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Marianne's returned letters and her own anguished correspondence with Willoughby in London—the epistolary collapse of her hopes.
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Marianne's pianoforte and Willoughby's favorite songs as recurring elegiac motifs.
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