1 My mother was quite sick of it.
2 She happened to be quite alone.
3 But indeed this is quite another thing.
4 Marianne was quite angry with her for doubting it.
5 Marianne's abilities were, in many respects, quite equal to Elinor's.
6 "Quite the contrary," replied Elinor, looking expressively at Marianne.
7 The Miss Steeles kept their station at the park, and were to quit it only with the rest of the family.
8 They had begun to fail him before he entered the house, and they were quite overcome by the captivating manners of Mrs. Dashwood.
9 Her unwillingness to quit her mother was her only restorative to calmness; and at the moment of parting her grief on that score was excessive.
10 Amongst them were Sir John and Lady Middleton and Mrs. Jennings, but there were two others, a gentleman and lady, who were quite unknown to her.
11 Willoughby opened the piano-forte, and asked Marianne to sit down to it; and thus amidst the various endeavours of different people to quit the topic, it fell to the ground.
12 Determined not to quit Marianne, though hopeless of contributing, at present, to her ease, she hurried away to excuse herself from attending Mrs. Jennings, on account of her sister being indisposed.
13 In a short time Elinor saw Willoughby quit the room by the door towards the staircase, and telling Marianne that he was gone, urged the impossibility of speaking to him again that evening, as a fresh argument for her to be calm.
14 She avoided the looks of them all, could neither eat nor speak, and after some time, on her mother's silently pressing her hand with tender compassion, her small degree of fortitude was quite overcome, she burst into tears and left the room.
15 On HER measures depended those of her two friends; Mrs. Jennings could not quit Cleveland during the Dashwoods' stay; and Colonel Brandon was soon brought, by their united request, to consider his own abode there as equally determinate, if not equally indispensable.
16 To quit the neighbourhood of Norland was no longer an evil; it was an object of desire; it was a blessing, in comparison of the misery of continuing her daughter-in-law's guest; and to remove for ever from that beloved place would be less painful than to inhabit or visit it while such a woman was its mistress.
17 Marianne, few as had been her hours of comfort in London, and eager as she had long been to quit it, could not, when it came to the point, bid adieu to the house in which she had for the last time enjoyed those hopes, and that confidence, in Willoughby, which were now extinguished for ever, without great pain.
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