“My illness has… given me leisure and calmness for serious recollection” “I saw in my own behaviour since the beginning of our acquaintance with him last autumn, nothing but a series of imprudence towards myself, and want of kindness to others… My illness, I well knew, had been entirely brought on by myself, by such negligence of my own health, as I had felt even at the time to be wrong. Had I died, it would have been self-destruction.

"The kindness, the unceasing kindness of Mrs. Jennings, I had repaid with ungrateful contempt. To the Middletons, the Palmers, the Steeles, to every common acquaintance even, I had been insolent and unjust"

I believe that, in this speech, Marianne fairly concisely acknowledges everything we faulted her for in this group read. She used her time for reflection for a most serious introspection. Her innate intelligence and keen self-awareness can only leave the reader feeling good about her future. She sees her mistakes with such clarity, that I have know doubt she won't repeat them again. And as far as any future mistakes she may make, I believe now, she's ready to deal with them in a substantially more dignified manner.