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“ Such , ” said Colonel Brandon , after a pause , “ has been the unhappy resemblance between the fate of mother and daughter ! and so imperfectly have I discharged my trust ! ” “ Is she still in town ? ” “ No ; as soon as she recovered from her lying - in , for I found her near her delivery , I removed her and her child into the country , and there she remains . ” Recollecting , soon afterwards , that he was probably dividing Elinor from her sister , he put an end to his visit , receiving from her again the same grateful acknowledgments , and leaving her full of compassion and esteem for him . CHAPTER XXXII . When the particulars of this conversation were repeated by Miss Dashwood to her sister , as they very soon were , the effect on her was not entirely such as the former had hoped to see . Not that Marianne appeared to distrust the truth of any part of it , for she listened to it all with the most steady and submissive attention , made neither objection nor remark , attempted no vindication of Willoughby , and seemed to show by her tears that she felt it to be impossible . But though this behaviour assured Elinor that the conviction of this guilt was carried home to her mind , though she saw with satisfaction the effect of it , in her no longer avoiding Colonel Brandon when he called , in her speaking to him , even voluntarily speaking , with a kind of compassionate respect , and though she saw her spirits less violently irritated than before , she did not see her less wretched . Her mind did become settled , but it was settled in a gloomy dejection . She felt the loss of Willoughby’s character yet more heavily than she had felt the loss of his heart ; his seduction and desertion of Miss Williams , the misery of that poor girl , and the doubt of what his designs might once have been on herself , preyed altogether so much on her spirits , that she could not bring herself to speak of what she felt even to Elinor ; and , brooding over her sorrows in silence , gave more pain to her sister than could have been communicated by the most open and most frequent confession of them . To give the feelings or the language of Mrs . Dashwood on receiving and answering Elinor’s letter would be only to give a repetition of what her daughters had already felt and said ; of a disappointment hardly less painful than Marianne’s , and an indignation even greater than Elinor’s . Long letters from her , quickly succeeding each other , arrived to tell all that she suffered and thought ; to express her anxious solicitude for Marianne , and entreat she would bear up with fortitude under this misfortune . Bad indeed must the nature of Marianne’s affliction be , when her mother could talk of fortitude ! mortifying and humiliating must be the origin of those regrets , which she could wish her not to indulge !
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