Chapter 22

⁠​​​‌​​​​​‌‌‌‌​‌‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​‌​‌​‌​​​​‌‌‌​​‌​​​‌​​‌​‌‌‌‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌‌⁠Marianne, who had never much toleration for any thing like impertinence, vulgarity, inferiority of parts, or even difference of taste from herself, was at this time particularly ill-disposed, from the state of her spirits, to be pleased with the Miss Steeles, or to encourage their advances; and to the invariable coldness of her behaviour towards them, which checked every endeavour at intimacy on t