My thoughts on Sense and Sensibillity

[Yashasvi]

“In seasons of cheerfulness, no temper could be more cheerful than hers, or possess, in a greater degree, that sanguine expectation of happiness which is happiness itself. But in sorrow, she must be equally carried away by her fancy, and as far beyond consolation as in pleasure she was beyond alloy."

In this paragraph, the author compares a combination of metal (alloy) to Mrs. John Dashwood in the context of her mixed temper. She was very optimistic but also she was inconsolable.