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Roger

16 March, 20:53

Read the excerpt below and answer the question

For shame, for shame, Miss Dashwood! how can you talk so? Don't we all know that it must be a match, that

they were over head and ears in love with each other from the first moment they met? Did not see them

together in Devonshire every day, and all day long and did not know that your sister came to town with me

on purpose to buy wedding clothes? Come, come, this won't do. Because you are so sly about it yourself, you

think nobody else has any senses, but it is no such thing. I can tell you, for it has been known all over town

this ever so long I tell every body of it and so does Charlotte" (Sense and Sensibility, chapter 29, p. 39)

Within this excerpt, Austen portrays

as ironic when she talks about Marianne and Willoughby's

supposed engagement