"Reserved!--how, in what manner?
What am I to tell you?
What can you suppose ?" Elinor looked surprised at his emotion; but trying to laugh off the subject, she said to him, "Do not you know my sister well enough to understand what she means?
Do not you know she calls every one reserved who does not talk as fast, and admire what she admires as rapturously as herself ?" Edward made no answer.

His gravity and thoughtfulness returned on him in their fullest extent--and he sat for some time silent and dull..