1 A mutual silence took place for some time.
2 They then proceeded a few paces in silence.
3 He shared it, however, in a silence even greater than her own.
4 Elinor could no longer witness this torrent of unresisted grief in silence.
5 Elinor made her a civil reply, and they walked on for a few minutes in silence.
6 After a short silence on both sides, Mrs. Jennings, with all her natural hilarity, burst forth again.
7 Elinor could not deny the truth of this, and she tried to find in it a motive sufficient for their silence.
8 As this silence continued, every day made it appear more strange and more incompatible with the disposition of both.
9 After a short silence which succeeded the first surprise and enquiries of meeting, Marianne asked Edward if he came directly from London.
10 It was engrossed by the extraordinary silence of her sister and Willoughby on the subject, which they must know to be peculiarly interesting to them all.
11 She remembered too, her own surprise at the time, at his mentioning nothing farther of those friends, at his total silence with respect even to their names.
12 In one thing, however, she was uniform, when it came to the point, in avoiding, where it was possible, the presence of Mrs. Jennings, and in a determined silence when obliged to endure it.
13 Mrs. Dashwood would have interrupted her instantly with soothing tenderness, had not Elinor, who really wished to hear her sister's unbiased opinion, by an eager sign, engaged her silence.
14 They walked along the road through the valley, and chiefly in silence, for Marianne's MIND could not be controlled, and Elinor, satisfied with gaining one point, would not then attempt more.
15 Elinor, while she waited in silence and immovable gravity, the conclusion of such folly, could not restrain her eyes from being fixed on him with a look that spoke all the contempt it excited.
16 She sat in silence almost all the way, wrapt in her own meditations, and scarcely ever voluntarily speaking, except when any object of picturesque beauty within their view drew from her an exclamation of delight exclusively addressed to her sister.
17 But as it was her determination to subdue it, and to prevent herself from appearing to suffer more than what all her family suffered on his going away, she did not adopt the method so judiciously employed by Marianne, on a similar occasion, to augment and fix her sorrow, by seeking silence, solitude and idleness.
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