Chapter 16
Marianne would have thought herself very inexcusable had she
been able to sleep at all the first night after parting from
Willoughby. She would have been ashamed to look her family in the
face the next morning, had she not risen from her bed in more need
of repose than when she lay down in it. But the feelings which made
such composure a disgrace, left her in no danger of incurring it.
She was awake the whole night, and she wept the greatest part of
it. She got up with a headache, was unable to talk, and unwilling
to take any nourishment; giving pain every moment to her mother and
sisters, and forbidding all attempt at consolation from either. Her
sensibility was potent enough!
When breakfast was over she walked out by herself, and wandered
about the village of Alle
