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Quotation from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
“Marianne would have thought herself very inexcusable had she been able to sleep at all the first night after parting from Willoughby”
Sense and Sensibility, Vol. I, Ch. 16 (1813 text)
Austen's irony at the code of sensibility, which makes sleeplessness a duty of grief.
Citation: "Marianne would have thought herself very inexcusable had she been able to sleep at all the first night after parting from Willoughby" — Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility, Vol. I, Ch. 16 (1813 text). (id sense-and-sensibility-q5)
Portrait: CassandraAusten-JaneAusten(c.1810) hires, Cassandra Austen, Public domain.
