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] what Colonel Brandon sees in Marianne is the reincarnation of Eliza (Snip)

] "I once knew a lady who in temper and mind greatly resembled your sister, who thought and judged like her", "If I am not deceived by the uncertainty, the partiality of tender recollection, there is a very strong resemblance between them, as well in mind as person -- the same warmth of heart, the same eagerness of fancy and spirits )

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] His emotion in entering the room, in seeing her altered looks, and in receiving the pale hand which she immediately held out to him, was such as in Elinor's conjecture, must arise from something more than his affection for Marianne, (Snip)

] So, voila, the colonel finds another girl, who looks and thinks and acts like her former lost love and tries to grasp the second chance (Snip)