Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Quotes: Mood (3)

Mood 172 "…Marianne, too restless for employment, too anxious for conversation, walked from one window to the other, or sat down by the fire in melancholy meditation." Austen, Sense and Sensibility.

Mood 175 "…and for this party, Marianne, wholly dispirited, careless of her appearance, and seeming equally indifferent whether she went or stayed, prepared, without one look of hope, or one expression of pleasure…sat by the drawing room fire after tea…without once stirring from her seat, or altering her attitude, lost in her own thoughts and insensible of her sister’s presence." Austen, Sense and Sensibility.

Mood 190 "Elinor was employed in walking thoughtfully from the fire to the window, from the window to the fire, without knowing that she received warmth from one, or discerning objects through the other." Austen, Sense and Sensibility.

Mood 201 "From a night of more sleep than she had expected, Marianne awoke the next morning to the same consciousness of misery in which she had closed her eyes." Austen, Sense and Sensibility.

Mood 212 "Her mind did become settled, but it was settled in a gloomy dejection." Austen, Sense and Sensibility.

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