But whether I should write this apology, or deliver it in person, was a point of long debate.

To see Marianne, I felt, would be dreadful, and I even doubted whether I could see her again, and keep to my resolution.

In that point, however, I undervalued my own magnanimity, as the event declared; for I went, I saw her, and saw her miserable, and left her miserable--and left her hoping never to see her again." "Why did you call, Mr.Willoughby ?" said Elinor, reproachfully; "a note would have answered every purpose.-- Why was it necessary to call ?" "It was necessary to my own pride.

I could not bear to leave the country in a manner that might lead you, or the rest of the neighbourhood, to suspect any part of what had really passed between Mrs.Smith and myself--and I resolved therefore on calling at the cottage, in my way to Honiton.

The sight of your dear sister, however, was really dreadful; and, to heighten the matter, I found her alone.
You were all gone I do not know where.