``I am afraid,`` replied Elinor, ``that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.`` -- Sense & Sensibility Elinor is as prudent as her sister Marianne is impetuous.
The charms of unsuitable men and the schemes of rival ladies mean that their paths to success are thwart with disappointment but toget.
Each must learn from the other after they are they are forced by their father\'s death to leave their home and enter into the contests of polite society. ``I am afraid,`` replied Elinor, ``that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.`` -- Sense & Sensibility Elinor is as prudent as her sister Marianne is impetuous