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CHAPTER XXXIX . The Miss Dashwoods had now been rather more than two months in town , and Marianne’s impatience to be gone increased every day . She sighed for the air , the liberty , the quiet of the country ; and fancied that if any place could give her ease , Barton must do it . Elinor was hardly less anxious than herself for their removal , and only so much less bent on its being effected immediately , as that she was conscious of the difficulties of so long a journey , which Marianne could not be brought to acknowledge . She began , however , seriously to turn her thoughts towards its accomplishment , and had already mentioned their wishes to their kind hostess , who resisted them with all the eloquence of her good - will , when a plan was suggested , which , though detaining them from home yet a few weeks longer , appeared to Elinor altogether much more eligible than any other . The Palmers were to remove to Cleveland about the end of March , for the Easter holidays ; and Mrs . Jennings , with both her friends , received a very warm invitation from Charlotte to go with them . This would not , in itself , have been sufficient for the delicacy of Miss Dashwood ; — but it was inforced with so much real politeness by Mr . Palmer himself , as , joined to the very great amendment of his manners towards them since her sister had been known to be unhappy , induced her to accept it with pleasure . When she told Marianne what she had done , however , her first reply was not very auspicious . “ Cleveland ! ” — she cried , with great agitation . “ No , I cannot go to Cleveland . ” “ You forget , ” said Elinor gently , “ that its situation is not — that it is not in the neighbourhood of — ” “ But it is in Somersetshire . — I cannot go into Somersetshire . — There , where I looked forward to going . . . No , Elinor , you cannot expect me to go there . ” Elinor would not argue upon the propriety of overcoming such feelings ; — she only endeavoured to counteract them by working on others ; — represented it , therefore , as a measure which would fix the time of her returning to that dear mother , whom she so much wished to see , in a more eligible , more comfortable manner , than any other plan could do , and perhaps without any greater delay . From Cleveland , which was within a few miles of Bristol , the distance to Barton was not beyond one day , though a long day’s journey ; and their mother’s servant might easily come there to attend them down ; and as there could be no occasion of their staying above a week at Cleveland , they might now be at home in little more than three weeks ’ time . As Marianne’s affection for her mother was sincere , it must triumph with little difficulty , over the imaginary evils she had started . Mrs . Jennings was so far from being weary of her guests , that she pressed them very earnestly to return with her again from Cleveland . Elinor was grateful for the attention , but it could not alter her design ; and their mother’s concurrence being readily gained , every thing relative to their return was arranged as far as it could be ; — and Marianne found some relief in drawing up a statement of the hours that were yet to divide her from Barton . “ Ah ! Colonel , I do not know what you and I shall do without the Miss Dashwoods ; ” — was Mrs . Jennings’s address to him when he first called on her , after their leaving her was settled — “ for they are quite resolved upon going home from the Palmers ; — and how forlorn we shall be , when I come back ! — Lord ! we shall sit and gape at one another as dull as two cats . ”
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