“I wish with all my soul his wife may plague his heart out.”
sweet, kind Mrs. Jennings, about Willoughby
Sense & Sensibility, volume 2, chapter 8
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With all my soul
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Willoughby’s fate
“…he long thought of Colonel Brandon with envy and of Marianne with regret. But that he was forever inconsolable, that he fled from society, or contracted an habitual gloom of temper, or died of a broken heart, must not be depended on; for he did neither. He lived to exert, and frequently to enjoy himself. His wife was not always out of humour, nor his home always uncomfortable; and in his breed of horses and dogs, and in sporting of every kind, he found no inconsiderable degree of domestic felicity.”
Sense & Sensibility, volume 3, chapter 14
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The measure of a man?
“’Brandon is just the kind of man,’ said Willoughby one day when they were talking of him together, ‘whom everybody speaks well of, and nobody cares about; whom all are delighted to see, and nobody remembers to talk to.’”
Sense & Sensibility, volume 1, chapter 10
Then again, Willoughby is the kind of boy who gets girls pregnant and leaves them to fend for themselves, disgraced and alone in the world.
David Morissey as Colonel Brandon. ©BBC 2007 for Masterpiece™
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