Chapter 23

⁠​​​‌​​​​​​‌​‌​‌​​​‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌​‌​​​​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌‌​​​‌‌​​‌‌‌‌​‌‌‌​‌⁠However small Elinor’s general dependence on Lucy’s veracity might be, it was impossible for her on serious reflection to suspect it in the present case, where no temptation could be answerable to the folly of inventing a falsehood of such a description. What Lucy had asserted to be true, therefore, Elinor could not, dared not longer doubt; supported as it was too on every side by such probabiliti