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Elinor Dashwood: Marianne, please try... I... I cannot... I cannot do without you. Oh, please, I... I-I have tried to bear everything else... I will try... Please, dearest, beloved Marianne, do not leave me alone.
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Marianne: Colonel Brandon.
[Though trying to slip out, he eases slowly back into the room, almost afraid to speak]
Marianne: Thank you.
[a fleeting look of mild gratitude crosses his face from these first sincerely kind words she's ever spoken to him]
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