She must be attached to you, or she would not have married you.

To treat her with unkindness, to speak of her slightingly is no atonement to Marianne--nor can I suppose it a relief to your own conscience." "Do not talk to me of my wife," said he with a heavy sigh.-- "She does not deserve your compassion .-- She knew I had no regard for her when we married .-- Well, married we were, and came down to Combe Magna to be happy, and afterwards returned to town to be gay .-- And now do you pity me, Miss Dashwood ?--or have I said all this to no purpose?
-- Am I--be it only one degree--am I less guilty in your opinion than I was before ?--My intentions were not always wrong.

Have I explained away any part of my guilt ?" "Yes, you have certainly removed something--a little.-- You have proved yourself, on the whole, less faulty than I had believed you.

You have proved your heart less wicked, much less wicked.

But I hardly know--the misery that you have inflicted--I hardly know what could have made it worse." "Will you repeat to your sister when she is recovered, what I have been telling you ?--Let me be a little lightened too in her opinion as well as in yours.