Violent sorrow

. . . she thought with the tenderest compassion of that violent sorrow which Marianne was in all probability not merely giving way to as a relief, but feeding and encouraging as a duty.

Sense and Sensibility, volume 1, chapter 15

Elinor considers Marianne’s broken heart

Marianne is devoted to feeling everything to the extreme.

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