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{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Contents:","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
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{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Renascence","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"       All I could see from where I stood","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Interim","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"       The room is full of you!--As I came in","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  The Suicide","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"       \"Curse thee, Life, I will live with thee no more!","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  God's World","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"       O world, I cannot hold thee close enough!","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Afternoon on a Hill","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"       I will be the gladdest thing","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Sorrow","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"       Sorrow like a ceaseless rain","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Tavern","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"       I'll keep a little tavern","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Ashes of Life","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"       Love has gone and left me and the days are all alike;","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  The Little Ghost","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"       I knew her for a little ghost","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Kin to Sorrow","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"       Am I kin to Sorrow,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Three Songs of Shattering","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
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{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  I","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"       The first rose on my rose-tree","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  II","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"       Let the little birds sing;","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
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{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  III","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"       All the dog-wood blossoms are underneath the tree!","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  The Shroud","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"       Death, I say, my heart is bowed","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  The Dream","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"       Love, if I weep it will not matter,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Indifference","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"       I said,--for Love was laggard, O, Love was slow to come,--","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Witch-Wife","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"       She is neither pink nor pale,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Blight","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"       Hard seeds of hate I planted","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  When the Year Grows Old","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"       I cannot but remember","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Sonnets","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
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{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  I","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"       Thou art not lovelier than lilacs,--no,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  II","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"       Time does not bring relief; you all have lied","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  III","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"       Mindful of you the sodden earth in spring,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  IV","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"       Not in this chamber only at my birth--","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  V","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"       If I should learn, in some quite casual way,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  VI     Bluebeard","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"       This door you might not open, and you did;","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
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{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Renascence and Other Poems","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Renascence","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  All I could see from where I stood","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Was three long mountains and a wood;","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  I turned and looked another way,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  And saw three islands in a bay.","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  So with my eyes I traced the line","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Of the horizon, thin and fine,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Straight around till I was come","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Back to where I'd started from;","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  And all I saw from where I stood","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Was three long mountains and a wood.","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Over these things I could not see;","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  These were the things that bounded me;","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  And I could touch them with my hand,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Almost, I thought, from where I stand.","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  And all at once things seemed so small","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  My breath came short, and scarce at all.","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  But, sure, the sky is big, I said;","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Miles and miles above my head;","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  So here upon my back I'll lie","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  And look my fill into the sky.","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  And so I looked, and, after all,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  The sky was not so very tall.","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  The sky, I said, must somewhere stop,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  And--sure enough!--I see the top!","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  The sky, I thought, is not so grand;","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  I 'most could touch it with my hand!","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  And reaching up my hand to try,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  I screamed to feel it touch the sky.","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  I screamed, and--lo!--Infinity","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Came down and settled over me;","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Forced back my scream into my chest,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Bent back my arm upon my breast,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  And, pressing of the Undefined","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  The definition on my mind,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Held up before my eyes a glass","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Through which my shrinking sight did pass","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Until it seemed I must behold","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Immensity made manifold;","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Whispered to me a word whose sound","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Deafened the air for worlds around,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  And brought unmuffled to my ears","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  The gossiping of friendly spheres,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  The creaking of the tented sky,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  The ticking of Eternity.","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  I saw and heard, and knew at last","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  The How and Why of all things, past,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  And present, and forevermore.","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  The Universe, cleft to the core,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Lay open to my probing sense","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  That, sick'ning, I would fain pluck thence","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  But could not,--nay! But needs must suck","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  At the great wound, and could not pluck","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  My lips away till I had drawn","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  All venom out.--Ah, fearful pawn!","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  For my omniscience paid I toll","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  In infinite remorse of soul.","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  All sin was of my sinning, all","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Atoning mine, and mine the gall","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Of all regret. Mine was the weight","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Of every brooded wrong, the hate","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  That stood behind each envious thrust,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Mine every greed, mine every lust.","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  And all the while for every grief,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Each suffering, I craved relief","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  With individual desire,--","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Craved all in vain!  And felt fierce fire","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  About a thousand people crawl;","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Perished with each,--then mourned for all!","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  A man was starving in Capri;","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  He moved his eyes and looked at me;","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  I felt his gaze, I heard his moan,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  And knew his hunger as my own.","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  I saw at sea a great fog bank","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Between two ships that struck and sank;","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  A thousand screams the heavens smote;","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  And every scream tore through my throat.","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  No hurt I did not feel, no death","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  That was not mine; mine each last breath","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  That, crying, met an answering cry","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  From the compassion that was I.","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  All suffering mine, and mine its rod;","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Mine, pity like the pity of God.","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Ah, awful weight!  Infinity","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Pressed down upon the finite Me!","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  My anguished spirit, like a bird,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Beating against my lips I heard;","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Yet lay the weight so close about","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  There was no room for it without.","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  And so beneath the weight lay I","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  And suffered death, but could not die.","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Long had I lain thus, craving death,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  When quietly the earth beneath","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Gave way, and inch by inch, so great","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  At last had grown the crushing weight,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Into the earth I sank till I","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Full six feet under ground did lie,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  And sank no more,--there is no weight","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Can follow here, however great.","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  From off my breast I felt it roll,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  And as it went my tortured soul","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Burst forth and fled in such a gust","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  That all about me swirled the dust.","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Deep in the earth I rested now;","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Cool is its hand upon the brow","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  And soft its breast beneath the head","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Of one who is so gladly dead.","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  And all at once, and over all","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  The pitying rain began to fall;","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  I lay and heard each pattering hoof","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Upon my lowly, thatched roof,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  And seemed to love the sound far more","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Than ever I had done before.","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  For rain it hath a friendly sound","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  To one who's six feet underground;","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  And scarce the friendly voice or face:","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  A grave is such a quiet place.","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  The rain, I said, is kind to come","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  And speak to me in my new home.","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  I would I were alive again","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  To kiss the fingers of the rain,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  To drink into my eyes the shine","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Of every slanting silver line,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  To catch the freshened, fragrant breeze","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  From drenched and dripping apple-trees.","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  For soon the shower will be done,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  And then the broad face of the sun","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Will laugh above the rain-soaked earth","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Until the world with answering mirth","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Shakes joyously, and each round drop","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Rolls, twinkling, from its grass-blade top.","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  How can I bear it; buried here,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  While overhead the sky grows clear","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  And blue again after the storm?","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  O, multi-colored, multiform,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Beloved beauty over me,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  That I shall never, never see","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Again!  Spring-silver, autumn-gold,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  That I shall never more behold!","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Sleeping your myriad magics through,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Close-sepulchred away from you!","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  O God, I cried, give me new birth,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  And put me back upon the earth!","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Upset each cloud's gigantic gourd","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  And let the heavy rain, down-poured","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  In one big torrent, set me free,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Washing my grave away from me!","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  I ceased; and through the breathless hush","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  That answered me, the far-off rush","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Of herald wings came whispering","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Like music down the vibrant string","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Of my ascending prayer, and--crash!","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Before the wild wind's whistling lash","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  The startled storm-clouds reared on high","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  And plunged in terror down the sky,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  And the big rain in one black wave","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Fell from the sky and struck my grave.","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  I know not how such things can be;","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  I only know there came to me","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  A fragrance such as never clings","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  To aught save happy living things;","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  A sound as of some joyous elf","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Singing sweet songs to please himself,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  And, through and over everything,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  A sense of glad awakening.","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  The grass, a-tiptoe at my ear,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Whispering to me I could hear;","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  I felt the rain's cool finger-tips","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Brushed tenderly across my lips,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Laid gently on my sealed sight,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  And all at once the heavy night","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Fell from my eyes and I could see,--","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  A drenched and dripping apple-tree,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  A last long line of silver rain,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  A sky grown clear and blue again.","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  And as I looked a quickening gust","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Of wind blew up to me and thrust","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Into my face a miracle","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Of orchard-breath, and with the smell,--","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  I know not how such things can be!--","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  I breathed my soul back into me.","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Ah!  Up then from the ground sprang I","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  And hailed the earth with such a cry","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  As is not heard save from a man","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Who has been dead, and lives again.","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  About the trees my arms I wound;","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Like one gone mad I hugged the ground;","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  I raised my quivering arms on high;","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  I laughed and laughed into the sky,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Till at my throat a strangling sob","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Caught fiercely, and a great heart-throb","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Sent instant tears into my eyes;","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  O God, I cried, no dark disguise","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Can e'er hereafter hide from me","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Thy radiant identity!","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Thou canst not move across the grass","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  But my quick eyes will see Thee pass,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Nor speak, however silently,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  But my hushed voice will answer Thee.","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  I know the path that tells Thy way","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Through the cool eve of every day;","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  God, I can push the grass apart","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  And lay my finger on Thy heart!","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  The world stands out on either side","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  No wider than the heart is wide;","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Above the world is stretched the sky,--","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  No higher than the soul is high.","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  The heart can push the sea and land","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Farther away on either hand;","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  The soul can split the sky in two,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  And let the face of God shine through.","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  But East and West will pinch the heart","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  That can not keep them pushed apart;","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  And he whose soul is flat--the sky","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Will cave in on him by and by.","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Interim","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  The room is full of you!--As I came in","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  And closed the door behind me, all at once","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  A something in the air, intangible,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Yet stiff with meaning, struck my senses sick!--","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Sharp, unfamiliar odors have destroyed","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Each other room's dear personality.","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  The heavy scent of damp, funereal flowers,--","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  The very essence, hush-distilled, of Death--","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Has strangled that habitual breath of home","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Whose expiration leaves all houses dead;","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  And wheresoe'er I look is hideous change.","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Save here.  Here 'twas as if a weed-choked gate","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Had opened at my touch, and I had stepped","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Into some long-forgot, enchanted, strange,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Sweet garden of a thousand years ago","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  And suddenly thought, \"I have been here before!\"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  You are not here.  I know that you are gone,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  And will not ever enter here again.","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  And yet it seems to me, if I should speak,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Your silent step must wake across the hall;","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  If I should turn my head, that your sweet eyes","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Would kiss me from the door.--So short a time","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  To teach my life its transposition to","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  This difficult and unaccustomed key!--","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  The room is as you left it; your last touch--","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  A thoughtless pressure, knowing not itself","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  As saintly--hallows now each simple thing;","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Hallows and glorifies, and glows between","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  The dust's grey fingers like a shielded light.","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  There is your book, just as you laid it down,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Face to the table,--I cannot believe","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  That you are gone!--Just then it seemed to me","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  You must be here.  I almost laughed to think","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  How like reality the dream had been;","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Yet knew before I laughed, and so was still.","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  That book, outspread, just as you laid it down!","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Perhaps you thought, \"I wonder what comes next,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  And whether this or this will be the end\";","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  So rose, and left it, thinking to return.","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Perhaps that chair, when you arose and passed","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Out of the room, rocked silently a while","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Ere it again was still. When you were gone","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Forever from the room, perhaps that chair,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Stirred by your movement, rocked a little while,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Silently, to and fro. . .","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  And here are the last words your fingers wrote,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Scrawled in broad characters across a page","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  In this brown book I gave you. Here your hand,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Guiding your rapid pen, moved up and down.","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Here with a looping knot you crossed a \"t\",","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  And here another like it, just beyond","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  These two eccentric \"e's\".  You were so small,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  And wrote so brave a hand!","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"                           How strange it seems","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  That of all words these are the words you chose!","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  And yet a simple choice; you did not know","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  You would not write again.  If you had known--","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  But then, it does not matter,--and indeed","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  If you had known there was so little time","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  You would have dropped your pen and come to me","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  And this page would be empty, and some phrase","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Other than this would hold my wonder now.","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Yet, since you could not know, and it befell","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  That these are the last words your fingers wrote,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  There is a dignity some might not see","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  In this, \"I picked the first sweet-pea to-day.\"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  To-day!  Was there an opening bud beside it","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  You left until to-morrow?--O my love,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  The things that withered,--and you came not back!","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  That day you filled this circle of my arms","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  That now is empty.  (O my empty life!)","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  That day--that day you picked the first sweet-pea,--","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  And brought it in to show me!  I recall","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  With terrible distinctness how the smell","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Of your cool gardens drifted in with you.","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  I know, you held it up for me to see","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  And flushed because I looked not at the flower,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  But at your face; and when behind my look","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  You saw such unmistakable intent","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  You laughed and brushed your flower against my lips.","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  (You were the fairest thing God ever made,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  I think.)  And then your hands above my heart","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Drew down its stem into a fastening,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  And while your head was bent I kissed your hair.","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  I wonder if you knew.  (Beloved hands!","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Somehow I cannot seem to see them still.","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Somehow I cannot seem to see the dust","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  In your bright hair.)  What is the need of Heaven","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  When earth can be so sweet?--If only God","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Had let us love,--and show the world the way!","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Strange cancellings must ink th' eternal books","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  When love-crossed-out will bring the answer right!","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  That first sweet-pea!  I wonder where it is.","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  It seems to me I laid it down somewhere,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  And yet,--I am not sure. I am not sure,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Even, if it was white or pink; for then","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  'Twas much like any other flower to me,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Save that it was the first.  I did not know,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Then, that it was the last.  If I had known--","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  But then, it does not matter.  Strange how few,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  After all's said and done, the things that are","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Of moment.","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"       Few indeed!  When I can make","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Of ten small words a rope to hang the world!","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  \"I had you and I have you now no more.\"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  There, there it dangles,--where's the little truth","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  That can for long keep footing under that","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  When its slack syllables tighten to a thought?","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Here, let me write it down!  I wish to see","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Just how a thing like that will look on paper!","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  \"*I had you and I have you now no more*.\"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  O little words, how can you run so straight","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Across the page, beneath the weight you bear?","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  How can you fall apart, whom such a theme","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Has bound together, and hereafter aid","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  In trivial expression, that have been","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  So hideously dignified?--Would God","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  That tearing you apart would tear the thread","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  I strung you on!  Would God--O God, my mind","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Stretches asunder on this merciless rack","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Of imagery!  O, let me sleep a while!","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Would I could sleep, and wake to find me back","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  In that sweet summer afternoon with you.","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Summer?  'Tis summer still by the calendar!","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  How easily could God, if He so willed,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Set back the world a little turn or two!","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Correct its griefs, and bring its joys again!","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  We were so wholly one I had not thought","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  That we could die apart.  I had not thought","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  That I could move,--and you be stiff and still!","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  That I could speak,--and you perforce be dumb!","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  I think our heart-strings were, like warp and woof","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  In some firm fabric, woven in and out;","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Your golden filaments in fair design","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Across my duller fibre.  And to-day","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  The shining strip is rent; the exquisite","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Fine pattern is destroyed; part of your heart","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Aches in my breast; part of my heart lies chilled","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  In the damp earth with you.  I have been torn","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  In two, and suffer for the rest of me.","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  What is my life to me?  And what am I","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  To life,--a ship whose star has guttered out?","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  A Fear that in the deep night starts awake","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Perpetually, to find its senses strained","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Against the taut strings of the quivering air,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Awaiting the return of some dread chord?","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Dark, Dark, is all I find for metaphor;","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  All else were contrast,--save that contrast's wall","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Is down, and all opposed things flow together","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Into a vast monotony, where night","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  And day, and frost and thaw, and death and life,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Are synonyms.  What now--what now to me","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Are all the jabbering birds and foolish flowers","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  That clutter up the world?  You were my song!","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Now, let discord scream!  You were my flower!","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Now let the world grow weeds!  For I shall not","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Plant things above your grave--(the common balm","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Of the conventional woe for its own wound!)","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Amid sensations rendered negative","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  By your elimination stands to-day,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Certain, unmixed, the element of grief;","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  I sorrow; and I shall not mock my truth","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  With travesties of suffering, nor seek","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  To effigy its incorporeal bulk","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  In little wry-faced images of woe.","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  I cannot call you back; and I desire","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  No utterance of my immaterial voice.","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  I cannot even turn my face this way","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Or that, and say, \"My face is turned to you\";","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  I know not where you are, I do not know","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  If Heaven hold you or if earth transmute,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Body and soul, you into earth again;","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  But this I know:--not for one second's space","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Shall I insult my sight with visionings","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Such as the credulous crowd so eager-eyed","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Beholds, self-conjured, in the empty air.","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Let the world wail!  Let drip its easy tears!","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  My sorrow shall be dumb!","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  --What do I say?","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  God! God!--God pity me!  Am I gone mad","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  That I should spit upon a rosary?","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Am I become so shrunken?  Would to God","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  I too might feel that frenzied faith whose touch","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Makes temporal the most enduring grief;","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Though it must walk a while, as is its wont,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  With wild lamenting!  Would I too might weep","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Where weeps the world and hangs its piteous wreaths","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  For its new dead!  Not Truth, but Faith, it is","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  That keeps the world alive.  If all at once","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Faith were to slacken,--that unconscious faith","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Which must, I know, yet be the corner-stone","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Of all believing,--birds now flying fearless","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Across would drop in terror to the earth;","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Fishes would drown; and the all-governing reins","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Would tangle in the frantic hands of God","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  And the worlds gallop headlong to destruction!","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  O God, I see it now, and my sick brain","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Staggers and swoons!  How often over me","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Flashes this breathlessness of sudden sight","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  In which I see the universe unrolled","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Before me like a scroll and read thereon","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Chaos and Doom, where helpless planets whirl","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Dizzily round and round and round and round,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Like tops across a table, gathering speed","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  With every spin, to waver on the edge","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  One instant--looking over--and the next","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  To shudder and lurch forward out of sight--","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"       *    *    *    *    *","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Ah, I am worn out--I am wearied out--","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  It is too much--I am but flesh and blood,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  And I must sleep.  Though you were dead again,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  I am but flesh and blood and I must sleep.","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  The Suicide","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  \"Curse thee, Life, I will live with thee no more!","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Thou hast mocked me, starved me, beat my body sore!","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  And all for a pledge that was not pledged by me,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  I have kissed thy crust and eaten sparingly","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  That I might eat again, and met thy sneers","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  With deprecations, and thy blows with tears,--","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Aye, from thy glutted lash, glad, crawled away,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  As if spent passion were a holiday!","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  And now I go.  Nor threat, nor easy vow","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Of tardy kindness can avail thee now","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  With me, whence fear and faith alike are flown;","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Lonely I came, and I depart alone,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  And know not where nor unto whom I go;","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  But that thou canst not follow me I know.\"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Thus I to Life, and ceased; but through my brain","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  My thought ran still, until I spake again:","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  \"Ah, but I go not as I came,--no trace","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Is mine to bear away of that old grace","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  I brought!  I have been heated in thy fires,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Bent by thy hands, fashioned to thy desires,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Thy mark is on me!  I am not the same","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Nor ever more shall be, as when I came.","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Ashes am I of all that once I seemed.","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  In me all's sunk that leapt, and all that dreamed","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Is wakeful for alarm,--oh, shame to thee,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  For the ill change that thou hast wrought in me,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Who laugh no more nor lift my throat to sing!","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Ah, Life, I would have been a pleasant thing","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  To have about the house when I was grown","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  If thou hadst left my little joys alone!","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  I asked of thee no favor save this one:","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  That thou wouldst leave me playing in the sun!","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  And this thou didst deny, calling my name","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Insistently, until I rose and came.","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  I saw the sun no more.--It were not well","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  So long on these unpleasant thoughts to dwell,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Need I arise to-morrow and renew","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Again my hated tasks, but I am through","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  With all things save my thoughts and this one night,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  So that in truth I seem already quite","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Free and remote from thee,--I feel no haste","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  And no reluctance to depart; I taste","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Merely, with thoughtful mien, an unknown draught,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  That in a little while I shall have quaffed.\"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Thus I to Life, and ceased, and slightly smiled,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Looking at nothing; and my thin dreams filed","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Before me one by one till once again","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  I set new words unto an old refrain:","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  \"Treasures thou hast that never have been mine!","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Warm lights in many a secret chamber shine","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Of thy gaunt house, and gusts of song have blown","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Like blossoms out to me that sat alone!","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  And I have waited well for thee to show","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  If any share were mine,--and now I go!","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Nothing I leave, and if I naught attain","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  I shall but come into mine own again!\"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Thus I to Life, and ceased, and spake no more,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  But turning, straightway, sought a certain door","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  In the rear wall.  Heavy it was, and low","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  And dark,--a way by which none e'er would go","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  That other exit had, and never knock","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Was heard thereat,--bearing a curious lock","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Some chance had shown me fashioned faultily,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Whereof Life held content the useless key,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  And great coarse hinges, thick and rough with rust,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Whose sudden voice across a silence must,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  I knew, be harsh and horrible to hear,--","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  A strange door, ugly like a dwarf.--So near","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  I came I felt upon my feet the chill","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Of acid wind creeping across the sill.","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  So stood longtime, till over me at last","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Came weariness, and all things other passed","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  To make it room; the still night drifted deep","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Like snow about me, and I longed for sleep.","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  But, suddenly, marking the morning hour,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Bayed the deep-throated bell within the tower!","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Startled, I raised my head,--and with a shout","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Laid hold upon the latch,--and was without.","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"       *    *    *    *    *","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Ah, long-forgotten, well-remembered road,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Leading me back unto my old abode,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  My father's house!  There in the night I came,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  And found them feasting, and all things the same","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  As they had been before.  A splendour hung","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Upon the walls, and such sweet songs were sung","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  As, echoing out of very long ago,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Had called me from the house of Life, I know.","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  So fair their raiment shone I looked in shame","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  On the unlovely garb in which I came;","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Then straightway at my hesitancy mocked:","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  \"It is my father's house!\" I said and knocked;","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  And the door opened.  To the shining crowd","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Tattered and dark I entered, like a cloud,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Seeing no face but his; to him I crept,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  And \"Father!\" I cried, and clasped his knees, and wept.","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Ah, days of joy that followed!  All alone","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  I wandered through the house.  My own, my own,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  My own to touch, my own to taste and smell,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  All I had lacked so long and loved so well!","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  None shook me out of sleep, nor hushed my song,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Nor called me in from the sunlight all day long.","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  I know not when the wonder came to me","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Of what my father's business might be,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  And whither fared and on what errands bent","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  The tall and gracious messengers he sent.","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Yet one day with no song from dawn till night","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Wondering, I sat, and watched them out of sight.","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  And the next day I called; and on the third","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Asked them if I might go,--but no one heard.","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Then, sick with longing, I arose at last","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  And went unto my father,--in that vast","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Chamber wherein he for so many years","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Has sat, surrounded by his charts and spheres.","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  \"Father,\" I said, \"Father, I cannot play","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  The harp that thou didst give me, and all day","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  I sit in idleness, while to and fro","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  About me thy serene, grave servants go;","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  And I am weary of my lonely ease.","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Better a perilous journey overseas","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Away from thee, than this, the life I lead,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  To sit all day in the sunshine like a weed","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  That grows to naught,--I love thee more than they","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Who serve thee most; yet serve thee in no way.","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Father, I beg of thee a little task","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  To dignify my days,--'tis all I ask","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Forever, but forever, this denied,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  I perish.\"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"            \"Child,\" my father's voice replied,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  \"All things thy fancy hath desired of me","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Thou hast received.  I have prepared for thee","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Within my house a spacious chamber, where","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Are delicate things to handle and to wear,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  And all these things are thine.  Dost thou love song?","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  My minstrels shall attend thee all day long.","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Or sigh for flowers?  My fairest gardens stand","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Open as fields to thee on every hand.","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  And all thy days this word shall hold the same:","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  No pleasure shalt thou lack that thou shalt name.","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  But as for tasks--\" he smiled, and shook his head;","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  \"Thou hadst thy task, and laidst it by\", he said.","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  God's World","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  O world, I cannot hold thee close enough!","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    Thy winds, thy wide grey skies!","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    Thy mists, that roll and rise!","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Thy woods, this autumn day, that ache and sag","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  And all but cry with colour!  That gaunt crag","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  To crush!  To lift the lean of that black bluff!","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  World, World, I cannot get thee close enough!","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Long have I known a glory in it all,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"            But never knew I this;","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"            Here such a passion is","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  As stretcheth me apart,--Lord, I do fear","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Thou'st made the world too beautiful this year;","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  My soul is all but out of me,--let fall","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  No burning leaf; prithee, let no bird call.","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Afternoon on a Hill","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  I will be the gladdest thing","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    Under the sun!","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  I will touch a hundred flowers","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    And not pick one.","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  I will look at cliffs and clouds","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    With quiet eyes,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Watch the wind bow down the grass,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    And the grass rise.","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  And when lights begin to show","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    Up from the town,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  I will mark which must be mine,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    And then start down!","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Sorrow","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Sorrow like a ceaseless rain","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    Beats upon my heart.","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  People twist and scream in pain,--","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Dawn will find them still again;","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  This has neither wax nor wane,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    Neither stop nor start.","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  People dress and go to town;","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    I sit in my chair.","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  All my thoughts are slow and brown:","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Standing up or sitting down","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Little matters, or what gown","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    Or what shoes I wear.","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Tavern","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  I'll keep a little tavern","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    Below the high hill's crest,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Wherein all grey-eyed people","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    May set them down and rest.","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  There shall be plates a-plenty,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    And mugs to melt the chill","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Of all the grey-eyed people","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    Who happen up the hill.","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  There sound will sleep the traveller,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    And dream his journey's end,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  But I will rouse at midnight","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    The falling fire to tend.","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Aye, 'tis a curious fancy--","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    But all the good I know","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Was taught me out of two grey eyes","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    A long time ago.","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Ashes of Life","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Love has gone and left me and the days are all alike;","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    Eat I must, and sleep I will,--and would that night were here!","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  But ah!--to lie awake and hear the slow hours strike!","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    Would that it were day again!--with twilight near!","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Love has gone and left me and I don't know what to do;","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    This or that or what you will is all the same to me;","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  But all the things that I begin I leave before I'm through,--","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    There's little use in anything as far as I can see.","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Love has gone and left me,--and the neighbors knock and borrow,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    And life goes on forever like the gnawing of a mouse,--","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  And to-morrow and to-morrow and to-morrow and to-morrow","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    There's this little street and this little house.","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  The Little Ghost","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  I knew her for a little ghost","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    That in my garden walked;","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  The wall is high--higher than most--","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    And the green gate was locked.","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  And yet I did not think of that","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    Till after she was gone--","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  I knew her by the broad white hat,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    All ruffled, she had on.","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  By the dear ruffles round her feet,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    By her small hands that hung","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  In their lace mitts, austere and sweet,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    Her gown's white folds among.","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  I watched to see if she would stay,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    What she would do--and oh!","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  She looked as if she liked the way","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    I let my garden grow!","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  She bent above my favourite mint","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    With conscious garden grace,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  She smiled and smiled--there was no hint","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    Of sadness in her face.","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  She held her gown on either side","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    To let her slippers show,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  And up the walk she went with pride,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    The way great ladies go.","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  And where the wall is built in new","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    And is of ivy bare","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  She paused--then opened and passed through","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    A gate that once was there.","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Kin to Sorrow","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Am I kin to Sorrow,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    That so oft","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Falls the knocker of my door--","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    Neither loud nor soft,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  But as long accustomed,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    Under Sorrow's hand?","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Marigolds around the step","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    And rosemary stand,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  And then comes Sorrow--","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    And what does Sorrow care","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  For the rosemary","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    Or the marigolds there?","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Am I kin to Sorrow?","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    Are we kin?","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  That so oft upon my door--","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    *Oh, come in*!","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Three Songs of Shattering","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"            I","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  The first rose on my rose-tree","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    Budded, bloomed, and shattered,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  During sad days when to me","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"            Nothing mattered.","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Grief of grief has drained me clean;","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    Still it seems a pity","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  No one saw,--it must have been","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"            Very pretty.","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"            II","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Let the little birds sing;","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    Let the little lambs play;","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Spring is here; and so 'tis spring;--","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    But not in the old way!","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  I recall a place","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    Where a plum-tree grew;","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  There you lifted up your face,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    And blossoms covered you.","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  If the little birds sing,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    And the little lambs play,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Spring is here; and so 'tis spring--","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    But not in the old way!","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"            III","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  All the dog-wood blossoms are underneath the tree!","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    Ere spring was going--ah, spring is gone!","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  And there comes no summer to the like of you and me,--","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    Blossom time is early, but no fruit sets on.","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  All the dog-wood blossoms are underneath the tree,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    Browned at the edges, turned in a day;","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  And I would with all my heart they trimmed a mound for me,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    And weeds were tall on all the paths that led that way!","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  The Shroud","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Death, I say, my heart is bowed","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    Unto thine,--O mother!","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  This red gown will make a shroud","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    Good as any other!","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  (I, that would not wait to wear","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    My own bridal things,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  In a dress dark as my hair","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    Made my answerings.","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  I, to-night, that till he came","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    Could not, could not wait,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  In a gown as bright as flame","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    Held for them the gate.)","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Death, I say, my heart is bowed","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    Unto thine,--O mother!","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  This red gown will make a shroud","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    Good as any other!","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  The Dream","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Love, if I weep it will not matter,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    And if you laugh I shall not care;","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Foolish am I to think about it,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    But it is good to feel you there.","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Love, in my sleep I dreamed of waking,--","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    White and awful the moonlight reached","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Over the floor, and somewhere, somewhere,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    There was a shutter loose,--it screeched!","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Swung in the wind,--and no wind blowing!--","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    I was afraid, and turned to you,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Put out my hand to you for comfort,--","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    And you were gone!  Cold, cold as dew,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Under my hand the moonlight lay!","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    Love, if you laugh I shall not care,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  But if I weep it will not matter,--","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    Ah, it is good to feel you there!","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Indifference","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  I said,--for Love was laggard, O, Love was slow to come,--","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    \"I'll hear his step and know his step when I am warm in bed;","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  But I'll never leave my pillow, though there be some","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    As would let him in--and take him in with tears!\" I said.","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  I lay,--for Love was laggard, O, he came not until dawn,--","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    I lay and listened for his step and could not get to sleep;","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  And he found me at my window with my big cloak on,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    All sorry with the tears some folks might weep!","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Witch-Wife","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  She is neither pink nor pale,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    And she never will be all mine;","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  She learned her hands in a fairy-tale,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    And her mouth on a valentine.","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  She has more hair than she needs;","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    In the sun 'tis a woe to me!","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  And her voice is a string of colored beads,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"   Or steps leading into the sea.","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  She loves me all that she can,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    And her ways to my ways resign;","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  But she was not made for any man,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    And she never will be all mine.","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Blight","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Hard seeds of hate I planted","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    That should by now be grown,--","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Rough stalks, and from thick stamens","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    A poisonous pollen blown,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  And odors rank, unbreathable,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    From dark corollas thrown!","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  At dawn from my damp garden","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    I shook the chilly dew;","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  The thin boughs locked behind me","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    That sprang to let me through;","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  The blossoms slept,--I sought a place","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    Where nothing lovely grew.","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  And there, when day was breaking,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    I knelt and looked around:","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  The light was near, the silence","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    Was palpitant with sound;","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  I drew my hate from out my breast","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    And thrust it in the ground.","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Oh, ye so fiercely tended,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    Ye little seeds of hate!","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  I bent above your growing","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    Early and noon and late,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Yet are ye drooped and pitiful,--","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    I cannot rear ye straight!","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  The sun seeks out my garden,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    No nook is left in shade,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  No mist nor mold nor mildew","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    Endures on any blade,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Sweet rain slants under every bough:","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    Ye falter, and ye fade.","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  When the Year Grows Old","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  I cannot but remember","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    When the year grows old--","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  October--November--","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    How she disliked the cold!","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  She used to watch the swallows","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    Go down across the sky,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  And turn from the window","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    With a little sharp sigh.","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  And often when the brown leaves","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    Were brittle on the ground,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  And the wind in the chimney","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    Made a melancholy sound,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  She had a look about her","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    That I wish I could forget--","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  The look of a scared thing","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    Sitting in a net!","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Oh, beautiful at nightfall","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    The soft spitting snow!","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  And beautiful the bare boughs","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    Rubbing to and fro!","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  But the roaring of the fire,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    And the warmth of fur,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  And the boiling of the kettle","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    Were beautiful to her!","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  I cannot but remember","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    When the year grows old--","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  October--November--","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    How she disliked the cold!","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Sonnets","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"            I","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Thou art not lovelier than lilacs,--no,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    Nor honeysuckle; thou art not more fair","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    Than small white single poppies,--I can bear","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Thy beauty; though I bend before thee, though","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  From left to right, not knowing where to go,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    I turn my troubled eyes, nor here nor there","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    Find any refuge from thee, yet I swear","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  So has it been with mist,--with moonlight so.","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Like him who day by day unto his draught","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    Of delicate poison adds him one drop more","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Till he may drink unharmed the death of ten,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Even so, inured to beauty, who have quaffed","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    Each hour more deeply than the hour before,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  I drink--and live--what has destroyed some men.","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"            II","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Time does not bring relief; you all have lied","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    Who told me time would ease me of my pain!","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    I miss him in the weeping of the rain;","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  I want him at the shrinking of the tide;","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  The old snows melt from every mountain-side,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    And last year's leaves are smoke in every lane;","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    But last year's bitter loving must remain","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Heaped on my heart, and my old thoughts abide!","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  There are a hundred places where I fear","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    To go,--so with his memory they brim!","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  And entering with relief some quiet place","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Where never fell his foot or shone his face","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  I say, \"There is no memory of him here!\"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    And so stand stricken, so remembering him!","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"            III","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Mindful of you the sodden earth in spring,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    And all the flowers that in the springtime grow,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    And dusty roads, and thistles, and the slow","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Rising of the round moon, all throats that sing","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  The summer through, and each departing wing,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    And all the nests that the bared branches show,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    And all winds that in any weather blow,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  And all the storms that the four seasons bring.","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  You go no more on your exultant feet","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    Up paths that only mist and morning knew,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Or watch the wind, or listen to the beat","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    Of a bird's wings too high in air to view,--","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  But you were something more than young and sweet","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    And fair,--and the long year remembers you.","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"            IV","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Not in this chamber only at my birth--","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    When the long hours of that mysterious night","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    Were over, and the morning was in sight--","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  I cried, but in strange places, steppe and firth","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  I have not seen, through alien grief and mirth;","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    And never shall one room contain me quite","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    Who in so many rooms first saw the light,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Child of all mothers, native of the earth.","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  So is no warmth for me at any fire","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    To-day, when the world's fire has burned so low;","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  I kneel, spending my breath in vain desire,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  At that cold hearth which one time roared so strong,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  And straighten back in weariness, and long","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    To gather up my little gods and go.","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"            V","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  If I should learn, in some quite casual way,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    That you were gone, not to return again--","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Read from the back-page of a paper, say,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    Held by a neighbor in a subway train,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  How at the corner of this avenue","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    And such a street (so are the papers filled)","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  A hurrying man--who happened to be you--","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    At noon to-day had happened to be killed,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  I should not cry aloud--I could not cry","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    Aloud, or wring my hands in such a place--","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  I should but watch the station lights rush by","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    With a more careful interest on my face,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Or raise my eyes and read with greater care","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Where to store furs and how to treat the hair.","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"            VI     Bluebeard","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  This door you might not open, and you did;","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    So enter now, and see for what slight thing","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  You are betrayed. . . .  Here is no treasure hid,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    No cauldron, no clear crystal mirroring","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  The sought-for truth, no heads of women slain","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    For greed like yours, no writhings of distress,","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  But only what you see. . . .  Look yet again--","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    An empty room, cobwebbed and comfortless.","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  Yet this alone out of my life I kept","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    Unto myself, lest any know me quite;","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  And you did so profane me when you crept","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    Unto the threshold of this room to-night","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"  That I must never more behold your face.","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":109,"text":"    This now is yours.  I seek another place.","title":"Renascence, and Other Poems","author":"Millay, Edna St. Vincent"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Persuasion","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"by Jane Austen","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"(1818)","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Contents","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":" CHAPTER I.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":" CHAPTER II.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":" CHAPTER III.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":" CHAPTER IV.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":" CHAPTER V.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":" CHAPTER VI.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":" CHAPTER VII.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":" CHAPTER VIII.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":" CHAPTER IX.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":" CHAPTER X.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":" CHAPTER XI.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":" CHAPTER XII.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":" CHAPTER XIII.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":" CHAPTER XIV.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":" CHAPTER XV.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":" CHAPTER XVI.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":" CHAPTER XVII.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":" CHAPTER XVIII.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":" CHAPTER XIX.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":" CHAPTER XX.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":" CHAPTER XXI.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":" CHAPTER XXII.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":" CHAPTER XXIII.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":" CHAPTER XXIV.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"CHAPTER I.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Sir Walter Elliot, of Kellynch Hall, in Somersetshire, was a man who,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"for his own amusement, never took up any book but the Baronetage; there","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"he found occupation for an idle hour, and consolation in a distressed","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"one; there his faculties were roused into admiration and respect, by","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"contemplating the limited remnant of the earliest patents; there any","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"unwelcome sensations, arising from domestic affairs changed naturally","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"into pity and contempt as he turned over the almost endless creations","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"of the last century; and there, if every other leaf were powerless, he","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"could read his own history with an interest which never failed. This","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"was the page at which the favourite volume always opened:","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“ELLIOT OF KELLYNCH HALL.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Walter Elliot, born March 1, 1760, married, July 15, 1784, Elizabeth,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"daughter of James Stevenson, Esq. of South Park, in the county of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Gloucester, by which lady (who died 1800) he has issue Elizabeth, born","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"June 1, 1785; Anne, born August 9, 1787; a still-born son, November 5,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"1789; Mary, born November 20, 1791.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Precisely such had the paragraph originally stood from the printer’s","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"hands; but Sir Walter had improved it by adding, for the information of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"himself and his family, these words, after the date of Mary’s","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"birth—“Married, December 16, 1810, Charles, son and heir of Charles","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Musgrove, Esq. of Uppercross, in the county of Somerset,” and by","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"inserting most accurately the day of the month on which he had lost his","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"wife.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Then followed the history and rise of the ancient and respectable","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"family, in the usual terms; how it had been first settled in Cheshire;","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"how mentioned in Dugdale, serving the office of high sheriff,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"representing a borough in three successive parliaments, exertions of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"loyalty, and dignity of baronet, in the first year of Charles II, with","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"all the Marys and Elizabeths they had married; forming altogether two","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"handsome duodecimo pages, and concluding with the arms and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"motto:—“Principal seat, Kellynch Hall, in the county of Somerset,” and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Sir Walter’s handwriting again in this finale:—","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Heir presumptive, William Walter Elliot, Esq., great grandson of the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"second Sir Walter.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot’s character;","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"vanity of person and of situation. He had been remarkably handsome in","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
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{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"thing deserved by his own. Lady Elliot had been an excellent woman,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
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{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"weight, her convenience was always to give way—she was only Anne.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
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{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"neighbourhood worsting, and the rapid increase of the crow’s foot about","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Lady Russell’s temples had long been a distress to him.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
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{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"afforded, and thirteen springs shewn their blossoms, as she travelled","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
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{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"allowance for the modest drawing-back of youth; and, in one of their","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"spring excursions to London, when Elizabeth was in her first bloom, Mr","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
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{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"several years, felt with anger by Elizabeth, who had liked the man for","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
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{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"family pride could see only in _him_ a proper match for Sir Walter","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
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{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"miserably had he conducted himself, that though she was at this present","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"time (the summer of 1814) wearing black ribbons for his wife, she could","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
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{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"prosperity and the nothingness of her scene of life; such the feelings","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
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{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"added to these. Her father was growing distressed for money. She knew,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"that when he now took up the Baronetage, it was to drive the heavy","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"bills of his tradespeople, and the unwelcome hints of Mr Shepherd, his","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"agent, from his thoughts. The Kellynch property was good, but not equal","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"to Sir Walter’s apprehension of the state required in its possessor.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"While Lady Elliot lived, there had been method, moderation, and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"economy, which had just kept him within his income; but with her had","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"died all such right-mindedness, and from that period he had been","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"constantly exceeding it. It had not been possible for him to spend","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"less; he had done nothing but what Sir Walter Elliot was imperiously","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"called on to do; but blameless as he was, he was not only growing","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"dreadfully in debt, but was hearing of it so often, that it became vain","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"to attempt concealing it longer, even partially, from his daughter. He","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"had given her some hints of it the last spring in town; he had gone so","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"far even as to say, “Can we retrench? Does it occur to you that there","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"is any one article in which we can retrench?” and Elizabeth, to do her","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"justice, had, in the first ardour of female alarm, set seriously to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"think what could be done, and had finally proposed these two branches","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
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{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"new furnishing the drawing-room; to which expedients she afterwards","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"added the happy thought of their taking no present down to Anne, as had","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"been the usual yearly custom. But these measures, however good in","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"themselves, were insufficient for the real extent of the evil, the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"whole of which Sir Walter found himself obliged to confess to her soon","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"afterwards. Elizabeth had nothing to propose of deeper efficacy. She","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"felt herself ill-used and unfortunate, as did her father; and they were","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"neither of them able to devise any means of lessening their expenses","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
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{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"a way not to be borne.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
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{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"There was only a small part of his estate that Sir Walter could dispose","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"of; but had every acre been alienable, it would have made no","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"difference. He had condescended to mortgage as far as he had the power,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"but he would never condescend to sell. No; he would never disgrace his","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"name so far. The Kellynch estate should be transmitted whole and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"entire, as he had received it.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Their two confidential friends, Mr Shepherd, who lived in the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"neighbouring market town, and Lady Russell, were called on to advise them;","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and both father and daughter seemed to expect that something should be","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"struck out by one or the other to remove their embarrassments and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"reduce their expenditure, without involving the loss of any indulgence","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"of taste or pride.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
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{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"CHAPTER II.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Mr Shepherd, a civil, cautious lawyer, who, whatever might be his hold","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"or his views on Sir Walter, would rather have the _disagreeable_","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"prompted by anybody else, excused himself from offering the slightest","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"hint, and only begged leave to recommend an implicit reference to the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"excellent judgement of Lady Russell, from whose known good sense he","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"fully expected to have just such resolute measures advised as he meant","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"to see finally adopted.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Lady Russell was most anxiously zealous on the subject, and gave it","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"much serious consideration. She was a woman rather of sound than of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"quick abilities, whose difficulties in coming to any decision in this","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"instance were great, from the opposition of two leading principles. She","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"was of strict integrity herself, with a delicate sense of honour; but","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"she was as desirous of saving Sir Walter’s feelings, as solicitous for","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the credit of the family, as aristocratic in her ideas of what was due","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"to them, as anybody of sense and honesty could well be. She was a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"benevolent, charitable, good woman, and capable of strong attachments,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"most correct in her conduct, strict in her notions of decorum, and with","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"manners that were held a standard of good-breeding. She had a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"cultivated mind, and was, generally speaking, rational and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"consistent—but she had prejudices on the side of ancestry; she had a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"value for rank and consequence, which blinded her a little to the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"faults of those who possessed them. Herself the widow of only a knight,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"she gave the dignity of a baronet all its due; and Sir Walter,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"independent of his claims as an old acquaintance, an attentive","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"neighbour, an obliging landlord, the husband of her very dear friend,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the father of Anne and her sisters, was, as being Sir Walter, in her","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"apprehension, entitled to a great deal of compassion and consideration","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"under his present difficulties.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"They must retrench; that did not admit of a doubt. But she was very","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"anxious to have it done with the least possible pain to him and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Elizabeth. She drew up plans of economy, she made exact calculations,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and she did what nobody else thought of doing: she consulted Anne, who","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"never seemed considered by the others as having any interest in the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"question. She consulted, and in a degree was influenced by her in","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"marking out the scheme of retrenchment which was at last submitted to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Sir Walter. Every emendation of Anne’s had been on the side of honesty","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"against importance. She wanted more vigorous measures, a more complete","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"reformation, a quicker release from debt, a much higher tone of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"indifference for everything but justice and equity.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“If we can persuade your father to all this,” said Lady Russell,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"looking over her paper, “much may be done. If he will adopt these","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"regulations, in seven years he will be clear; and I hope we may be able","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"to convince him and Elizabeth, that Kellynch Hall has a respectability","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"in itself which cannot be affected by these reductions; and that the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"true dignity of Sir Walter Elliot will be very far from lessened in the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"eyes of sensible people, by acting like a man of principle. What will","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"he be doing, in fact, but what very many of our first families have","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"done, or ought to do? There will be nothing singular in his case; and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"it is singularity which often makes the worst part of our suffering, as","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"it always does of our conduct. I have great hope of prevailing. We must","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"be serious and decided; for after all, the person who has contracted","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"debts must pay them; and though a great deal is due to the feelings of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the gentleman, and the head of a house, like your father, there is","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"still more due to the character of an honest man.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"This was the principle on which Anne wanted her father to be","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"proceeding, his friends to be urging him. She considered it as an act","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"of indispensable duty to clear away the claims of creditors with all","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the expedition which the most comprehensive retrenchments could secure,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and saw no dignity in anything short of it. She wanted it to be","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"prescribed, and felt as a duty. She rated Lady Russell’s influence","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"highly; and as to the severe degree of self-denial which her own","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"conscience prompted, she believed there might be little more difficulty","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"in persuading them to a complete, than to half a reformation. Her","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"knowledge of her father and Elizabeth inclined her to think that the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"sacrifice of one pair of horses would be hardly less painful than of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"both, and so on, through the whole list of Lady Russell’s too gentle","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"reductions.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"How Anne’s more rigid requisitions might have been taken is of little","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"consequence. Lady Russell’s had no success at all: could not be put up","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"with, were not to be borne. “What! every comfort of life knocked off!","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Journeys, London, servants, horses, table—contractions and restrictions","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"every where! To live no longer with the decencies even of a private","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"gentleman! No, he would sooner quit Kellynch Hall at once, than remain","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"in it on such disgraceful terms.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Quit Kellynch Hall.” The hint was immediately taken up by Mr Shepherd,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"whose interest was involved in the reality of Sir Walter’s retrenching,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and who was perfectly persuaded that nothing would be done without a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"change of abode. “Since the idea had been started in the very quarter","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"which ought to dictate, he had no scruple,” he said, “in confessing his","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"judgement to be entirely on that side. It did not appear to him that","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Sir Walter could materially alter his style of living in a house which","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"had such a character of hospitality and ancient dignity to support. In","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"any other place Sir Walter might judge for himself; and would be looked","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"up to, as regulating the modes of life in whatever way he might choose","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"to model his household.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Sir Walter would quit Kellynch Hall; and after a very few days more of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"doubt and indecision, the great question of whither he should go was","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"settled, and the first outline of this important change made out.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"There had been three alternatives, London, Bath, or another house in","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the country. All Anne’s wishes had been for the latter. A small house","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"in their own neighbourhood, where they might still have Lady Russell’s","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"society, still be near Mary, and still have the pleasure of sometimes","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"seeing the lawns and groves of Kellynch, was the object of her","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"ambition. But the usual fate of Anne attended her, in having something","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"very opposite from her inclination fixed on. She disliked Bath, and did","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"not think it agreed with her; and Bath was to be her home.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Sir Walter had at first thought more of London; but Mr Shepherd felt","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"that he could not be trusted in London, and had been skilful enough to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"dissuade him from it, and make Bath preferred. It was a much safer","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"place for a gentleman in his predicament: he might there be important","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"at comparatively little expense. Two material advantages of Bath over","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"London had of course been given all their weight: its more convenient","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"distance from Kellynch, only fifty miles, and Lady Russell’s spending","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"some part of every winter there; and to the very great satisfaction of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Lady Russell, whose first views on the projected change had been for","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Bath, Sir Walter and Elizabeth were induced to believe that they should","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"lose neither consequence nor enjoyment by settling there.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Lady Russell felt obliged to oppose her dear Anne’s known wishes. It","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"would be too much to expect Sir Walter to descend into a small house in","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"his own neighbourhood. Anne herself would have found the mortifications","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"of it more than she foresaw, and to Sir Walter’s feelings they must","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"have been dreadful. And with regard to Anne’s dislike of Bath, she","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"considered it as a prejudice and mistake arising, first, from the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"circumstance of her having been three years at school there, after her","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"mother’s death; and secondly, from her happening to be not in perfectly","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"good spirits the only winter which she had afterwards spent there with","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"herself.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Lady Russell was fond of Bath, in short, and disposed to think it must","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"suit them all; and as to her young friend’s health, by passing all the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"warm months with her at Kellynch Lodge, every danger would be avoided;","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and it was in fact, a change which must do both health and spirits","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"good. Anne had been too little from home, too little seen. Her spirits","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"were not high. A larger society would improve them. She wanted her to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"be more known.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"The undesirableness of any other house in the same neighbourhood for","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Sir Walter was certainly much strengthened by one part, and a very","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"material part of the scheme, which had been happily engrafted on the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"beginning. He was not only to quit his home, but to see it in the hands","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"of others; a trial of fortitude, which stronger heads than Sir Walter’s","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"have found too much. Kellynch Hall was to be let. This, however, was a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"profound secret, not to be breathed beyond their own circle.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Sir Walter could not have borne the degradation of being known to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"design letting his house. Mr Shepherd had once mentioned the word","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“advertise,” but never dared approach it again. Sir Walter spurned the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"idea of its being offered in any manner; forbad the slightest hint","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"being dropped of his having such an intention; and it was only on the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"supposition of his being spontaneously solicited by some most","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"unexceptionable applicant, on his own terms, and as a great favour,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"that he would let it at all.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"How quick come the reasons for approving what we like! Lady Russell had","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"another excellent one at hand, for being extremely glad that Sir Walter","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and his family were to remove from the country. Elizabeth had been","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"lately forming an intimacy, which she wished to see interrupted. It was","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"with the daughter of Mr Shepherd, who had returned, after an","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"unprosperous marriage, to her father’s house, with the additional","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"burden of two children. She was a clever young woman, who understood","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the art of pleasing—the art of pleasing, at least, at Kellynch Hall;","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and who had made herself so acceptable to Miss Elliot, as to have been","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"already staying there more than once, in spite of all that Lady","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Russell, who thought it a friendship quite out of place, could hint of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"caution and reserve.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Lady Russell, indeed, had scarcely any influence with Elizabeth, and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"seemed to love her, rather because she would love her, than because","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Elizabeth deserved it. She had never received from her more than","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"outward attention, nothing beyond the observances of complaisance; had","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"never succeeded in any point which she wanted to carry, against","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"previous inclination. She had been repeatedly very earnest in trying to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"get Anne included in the visit to London, sensibly open to all the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"injustice and all the discredit of the selfish arrangements which shut","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"her out, and on many lesser occasions had endeavoured to give Elizabeth","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the advantage of her own better judgement and experience; but always in","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"vain: Elizabeth would go her own way; and never had she pursued it in","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"more decided opposition to Lady Russell than in this selection of Mrs","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Clay; turning from the society of so deserving a sister, to bestow her","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"affection and confidence on one who ought to have been nothing to her","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"but the object of distant civility.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"From situation, Mrs Clay was, in Lady Russell’s estimate, a very","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"unequal, and in her character she believed a very dangerous companion;","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and a removal that would leave Mrs Clay behind, and bring a choice of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"more suitable intimates within Miss Elliot’s reach, was therefore an","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"object of first-rate importance.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"CHAPTER III.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“I must take leave to observe, Sir Walter,” said Mr Shepherd one","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"morning at Kellynch Hall, as he laid down the newspaper, “that the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"present juncture is much in our favour. This peace will be turning all","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"our rich naval officers ashore. They will be all wanting a home. Could","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"not be a better time, Sir Walter, for having a choice of tenants, very","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"responsible tenants. Many a noble fortune has been made during the war.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"If a rich admiral were to come in our way, Sir Walter—”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“He would be a very lucky man, Shepherd,” replied Sir Walter; “that’s","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"all I have to remark. A prize indeed would Kellynch Hall be to him;","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"rather the greatest prize of all, let him have taken ever so many","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"before; hey, Shepherd?”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Mr Shepherd laughed, as he knew he must, at this wit, and then added—","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“I presume to observe, Sir Walter, that, in the way of business,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"gentlemen of the navy are well to deal with. I have had a little","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"knowledge of their methods of doing business; and I am free to confess","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"that they have very liberal notions, and are as likely to make","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"desirable tenants as any set of people one should meet with. Therefore,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Sir Walter, what I would take leave to suggest is, that if in","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"consequence of any rumours getting abroad of your intention; which must","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"be contemplated as a possible thing, because we know how difficult it","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"is to keep the actions and designs of one part of the world from the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"notice and curiosity of the other; consequence has its tax; I, John","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Shepherd, might conceal any family-matters that I chose, for nobody","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"would think it worth their while to observe me; but Sir Walter Elliot","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"has eyes upon him which it may be very difficult to elude; and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"therefore, thus much I venture upon, that it will not greatly surprise","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"me if, with all our caution, some rumour of the truth should get","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"abroad; in the supposition of which, as I was going to observe, since","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"applications will unquestionably follow, I should think any from our","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"wealthy naval commanders particularly worth attending to; and beg leave","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"to add, that two hours will bring me over at any time, to save you the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"trouble of replying.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Sir Walter only nodded. But soon afterwards, rising and pacing the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"room, he observed sarcastically—","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“There are few among the gentlemen of the navy, I imagine, who would","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"not be surprised to find themselves in a house of this description.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“They would look around them, no doubt, and bless their good fortune,”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"said Mrs Clay, for Mrs Clay was present: her father had driven her","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"over, nothing being of so much use to Mrs Clay’s health as a drive to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Kellynch: “but I quite agree with my father in thinking a sailor might","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"be a very desirable tenant. I have known a good deal of the profession;","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and besides their liberality, they are so neat and careful in all their","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"ways! These valuable pictures of yours, Sir Walter, if you chose to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"leave them, would be perfectly safe. Everything in and about the house","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"would be taken such excellent care of! The gardens and shrubberies","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"would be kept in almost as high order as they are now. You need not be","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"afraid, Miss Elliot, of your own sweet flower gardens being neglected.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“As to all that,” rejoined Sir Walter coolly, “supposing I were induced","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"to let my house, I have by no means made up my mind as to the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"privileges to be annexed to it. I am not particularly disposed to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"favour a tenant. The park would be open to him of course, and few navy","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"officers, or men of any other description, can have had such a range;","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"but what restrictions I might impose on the use of the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"pleasure-grounds, is another thing. I am not fond of the idea of my","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"shrubberies being always approachable; and I should recommend Miss","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Elliot to be on her guard with respect to her flower garden. I am very","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"little disposed to grant a tenant of Kellynch Hall any extraordinary","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"favour, I assure you, be he sailor or soldier.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"After a short pause, Mr Shepherd presumed to say—","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“In all these cases, there are established usages which make everything","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"plain and easy between landlord and tenant. Your interest, Sir Walter,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"is in pretty safe hands. Depend upon me for taking care that no tenant","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"has more than his just rights. I venture to hint, that Sir Walter","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Elliot cannot be half so jealous for his own, as John Shepherd will be","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"for him.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Here Anne spoke—","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“The navy, I think, who have done so much for us, have at least an","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"equal claim with any other set of men, for all the comforts and all the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"privileges which any home can give. Sailors work hard enough for their","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"comforts, we must all allow.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Very true, very true. What Miss Anne says, is very true,” was Mr","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Shepherd’s rejoinder, and “Oh! certainly,” was his daughter’s; but Sir","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Walter’s remark was, soon afterwards—","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“The profession has its utility, but I should be sorry to see any","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"friend of mine belonging to it.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Indeed!” was the reply, and with a look of surprise.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Yes; it is in two points offensive to me; I have two strong grounds of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"objection to it. First, as being the means of bringing persons of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"obscure birth into undue distinction, and raising men to honours which","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"their fathers and grandfathers never dreamt of; and secondly, as it","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"cuts up a man’s youth and vigour most horribly; a sailor grows old","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"sooner than any other man. I have observed it all my life. A man is in","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"greater danger in the navy of being insulted by the rise of one whose","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"father, his father might have disdained to speak to, and of becoming","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"prematurely an object of disgust himself, than in any other line. One","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"day last spring, in town, I was in company with two men, striking","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"instances of what I am talking of; Lord St Ives, whose father we all","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"know to have been a country curate, without bread to eat; I was to give","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"place to Lord St Ives, and a certain Admiral Baldwin, the most","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"deplorable-looking personage you can imagine; his face the colour of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"mahogany, rough and rugged to the last degree; all lines and wrinkles,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"nine grey hairs of a side, and nothing but a dab of powder at top. ‘In","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the name of heaven, who is that old fellow?’ said I to a friend of mine","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"who was standing near, (Sir Basil Morley). ‘Old fellow!’ cried Sir","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Basil, ‘it is Admiral Baldwin. What do you take his age to be?’","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"‘Sixty,’ said I, ‘or perhaps sixty-two.’ ‘Forty,’ replied Sir Basil,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"‘forty, and no more.’ Picture to yourselves my amazement; I shall not","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"easily forget Admiral Baldwin. I never saw quite so wretched an example","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"of what a sea-faring life can do; but to a degree, I know it is the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"same with them all: they are all knocked about, and exposed to every","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"climate, and every weather, till they are not fit to be seen. It is a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"pity they are not knocked on the head at once, before they reach","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Admiral Baldwin’s age.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Nay, Sir Walter,” cried Mrs Clay, “this is being severe indeed. Have a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"little mercy on the poor men. We are not all born to be handsome. The","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"sea is no beautifier, certainly; sailors do grow old betimes; I have","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"observed it; they soon lose the look of youth. But then, is not it the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"same with many other professions, perhaps most other? Soldiers, in","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"active service, are not at all better off: and even in the quieter","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"professions, there is a toil and a labour of the mind, if not of the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"body, which seldom leaves a man’s looks to the natural effect of time.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"The lawyer plods, quite care-worn; the physician is up at all hours,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and travelling in all weather; and even the clergyman—” she stopt a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"moment to consider what might do for the clergyman;—“and even the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"clergyman, you know is obliged to go into infected rooms, and expose","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"his health and looks to all the injury of a poisonous atmosphere. In","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"fact, as I have long been convinced, though every profession is","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"necessary and honourable in its turn, it is only the lot of those who","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"are not obliged to follow any, who can live in a regular way, in the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"country, choosing their own hours, following their own pursuits, and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"living on their own property, without the torment of trying for more;","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"it is only _their_ lot, I say, to hold the blessings of health and a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"good appearance to the utmost: I know no other set of men but what lose","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"something of their personableness when they cease to be quite young.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"It seemed as if Mr Shepherd, in this anxiety to bespeak Sir Walter’s","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"good will towards a naval officer as tenant, had been gifted with","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"foresight; for the very first application for the house was from an","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Admiral Croft, with whom he shortly afterwards fell into company in","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"attending the quarter sessions at Taunton; and indeed, he had received","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"a hint of the Admiral from a London correspondent. By the report which","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"he hastened over to Kellynch to make, Admiral Croft was a native of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Somersetshire, who having acquired a very handsome fortune, was wishing","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"to settle in his own country, and had come down to Taunton in order to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"look at some advertised places in that immediate neighbourhood, which,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"however, had not suited him; that accidentally hearing—(it was just as","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"he had foretold, Mr Shepherd observed, Sir Walter’s concerns could not","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"be kept a secret,)—accidentally hearing of the possibility of Kellynch","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Hall being to let, and understanding his (Mr Shepherd’s) connection","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"with the owner, he had introduced himself to him in order to make","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"particular inquiries, and had, in the course of a pretty long","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"conference, expressed as strong an inclination for the place as a man","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"who knew it only by description could feel; and given Mr Shepherd, in","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"his explicit account of himself, every proof of his being a most","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"responsible, eligible tenant.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“And who is Admiral Croft?” was Sir Walter’s cold suspicious inquiry.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Mr Shepherd answered for his being of a gentleman’s family, and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"mentioned a place; and Anne, after the little pause which followed,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"added—","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“He is a rear admiral of the white. He was in the Trafalgar action, and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"has been in the East Indies since; he was stationed there, I believe,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"several years.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Then I take it for granted,” observed Sir Walter, “that his face is","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"about as orange as the cuffs and capes of my livery.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Mr Shepherd hastened to assure him, that Admiral Croft was a very hale,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"hearty, well-looking man, a little weather-beaten, to be sure, but not","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"much, and quite the gentleman in all his notions and behaviour; not","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"likely to make the smallest difficulty about terms, only wanted a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"comfortable home, and to get into it as soon as possible; knew he must","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"pay for his convenience; knew what rent a ready-furnished house of that","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"consequence might fetch; should not have been surprised if Sir Walter","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"had asked more; had inquired about the manor; would be glad of the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"deputation, certainly, but made no great point of it; said he sometimes","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"took out a gun, but never killed; quite the gentleman.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Mr Shepherd was eloquent on the subject; pointing out all the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"circumstances of the Admiral’s family, which made him peculiarly","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"desirable as a tenant. He was a married man, and without children; the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"very state to be wished for. A house was never taken good care of, Mr","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Shepherd observed, without a lady: he did not know, whether furniture","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"might not be in danger of suffering as much where there was no lady, as","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"where there were many children. A lady, without a family, was the very","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"best preserver of furniture in the world. He had seen Mrs Croft, too;","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"she was at Taunton with the admiral, and had been present almost all","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the time they were talking the matter over.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“And a very well-spoken, genteel, shrewd lady, she seemed to be,”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"continued he; “asked more questions about the house, and terms, and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"taxes, than the Admiral himself, and seemed more conversant with","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"business; and moreover, Sir Walter, I found she was not quite","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"unconnected in this country, any more than her husband; that is to say,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"she is sister to a gentleman who did live amongst us once; she told me","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"so herself: sister to the gentleman who lived a few years back at","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Monkford. Bless me! what was his name? At this moment I cannot","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"recollect his name, though I have heard it so lately. Penelope, my","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"dear, can you help me to the name of the gentleman who lived at","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Monkford: Mrs Croft’s brother?”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"But Mrs Clay was talking so eagerly with Miss Elliot, that she did not","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"hear the appeal.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“I have no conception whom you can mean, Shepherd; I remember no","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"gentleman resident at Monkford since the time of old Governor Trent.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Bless me! how very odd! I shall forget my own name soon, I suppose. A","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"name that I am so very well acquainted with; knew the gentleman so well","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"by sight; seen him a hundred times; came to consult me once, I","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"remember, about a trespass of one of his neighbours; farmer’s man","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"breaking into his orchard; wall torn down; apples stolen; caught in the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"fact; and afterwards, contrary to my judgement, submitted to an","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"amicable compromise. Very odd indeed!”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"After waiting another moment—","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“You mean Mr Wentworth, I suppose?” said Anne.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Mr Shepherd was all gratitude.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Wentworth was the very name! Mr Wentworth was the very man. He had the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"curacy of Monkford, you know, Sir Walter, some time back, for two or","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"three years. Came there about the year —5, I take it. You remember","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"him, I am sure.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Wentworth? Oh! ay, Mr Wentworth, the curate of Monkford. You misled me","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"by the term _gentleman_. I thought you were speaking of some man of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"property: Mr Wentworth was nobody, I remember; quite unconnected;","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"nothing to do with the Strafford family. One wonders how the names of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"many of our nobility become so common.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"As Mr Shepherd perceived that this connexion of the Crofts did them no","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"service with Sir Walter, he mentioned it no more; returning, with all","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"his zeal, to dwell on the circumstances more indisputably in their","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"favour; their age, and number, and fortune; the high idea they had","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"formed of Kellynch Hall, and extreme solicitude for the advantage of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"renting it; making it appear as if they ranked nothing beyond the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"happiness of being the tenants of Sir Walter Elliot: an extraordinary","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"taste, certainly, could they have been supposed in the secret of Sir","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Walter’s estimate of the dues of a tenant.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"It succeeded, however; and though Sir Walter must ever look with an","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"evil eye on anyone intending to inhabit that house, and think them","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"infinitely too well off in being permitted to rent it on the highest","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"terms, he was talked into allowing Mr Shepherd to proceed in the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"treaty, and authorising him to wait on Admiral Croft, who still","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"remained at Taunton, and fix a day for the house being seen.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Sir Walter was not very wise; but still he had experience enough of the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"world to feel, that a more unobjectionable tenant, in all essentials,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"than Admiral Croft bid fair to be, could hardly offer. So far went his","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"understanding; and his vanity supplied a little additional soothing, in","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the Admiral’s situation in life, which was just high enough, and not","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"too high. “I have let my house to Admiral Croft,” would sound extremely","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"well; very much better than to any mere _Mr._——; a _Mr._ (save,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"perhaps, some half dozen in the nation,) always needs a note of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"explanation. An admiral speaks his own consequence, and, at the same","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"time, can never make a baronet look small. In all their dealings and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"intercourse, Sir Walter Elliot must ever have the precedence.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Nothing could be done without a reference to Elizabeth: but her","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"inclination was growing so strong for a removal, that she was happy to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"have it fixed and expedited by a tenant at hand; and not a word to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"suspend decision was uttered by her.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Mr Shepherd was completely empowered to act; and no sooner had such an","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"end been reached, than Anne, who had been a most attentive listener to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the whole, left the room, to seek the comfort of cool air for her","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"flushed cheeks; and as she walked along a favourite grove, said, with a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"gentle sigh, “A few months more, and _he_, perhaps, may be walking","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"here.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"CHAPTER IV.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"_He_ was not Mr Wentworth, the former curate of Monkford, however","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"suspicious appearances may be, but a Captain Frederick Wentworth, his","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"brother, who being made commander in consequence of the action off St","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Domingo, and not immediately employed, had come into Somersetshire, in","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the summer of 1806; and having no parent living, found a home for half","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"a year at Monkford. He was, at that time, a remarkably fine young man,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"with a great deal of intelligence, spirit, and brilliancy; and Anne an","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"extremely pretty girl, with gentleness, modesty, taste, and feeling.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Half the sum of attraction, on either side, might have been enough, for","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"he had nothing to do, and she had hardly anybody to love; but the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"encounter of such lavish recommendations could not fail. They were","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"gradually acquainted, and when acquainted, rapidly and deeply in love.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"It would be difficult to say which had seen highest perfection in the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"other, or which had been the happiest: she, in receiving his","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"declarations and proposals, or he in having them accepted.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"A short period of exquisite felicity followed, and but a short one.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Troubles soon arose. Sir Walter, on being applied to, without actually","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"withholding his consent, or saying it should never be, gave it all the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"negative of great astonishment, great coldness, great silence, and a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"professed resolution of doing nothing for his daughter. He thought it a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"very degrading alliance; and Lady Russell, though with more tempered","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and pardonable pride, received it as a most unfortunate one.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Anne Elliot, with all her claims of birth, beauty, and mind, to throw","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"herself away at nineteen; involve herself at nineteen in an engagement","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"with a young man, who had nothing but himself to recommend him, and no","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"hopes of attaining affluence, but in the chances of a most uncertain","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"profession, and no connexions to secure even his farther rise in the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"profession, would be, indeed, a throwing away, which she grieved to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"think of! Anne Elliot, so young; known to so few, to be snatched off by","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"a stranger without alliance or fortune; or rather sunk by him into a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"state of most wearing, anxious, youth-killing dependence! It must not","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"be, if by any fair interference of friendship, any representations from","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"one who had almost a mother’s love, and mother’s rights, it would be","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"prevented.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Captain Wentworth had no fortune. He had been lucky in his profession;","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"but spending freely, what had come freely, had realized nothing. But he","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"was confident that he should soon be rich: full of life and ardour, he","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"knew that he should soon have a ship, and soon be on a station that","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"would lead to everything he wanted. He had always been lucky; he knew","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"he should be so still. Such confidence, powerful in its own warmth, and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"bewitching in the wit which often expressed it, must have been enough","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"for Anne; but Lady Russell saw it very differently. His sanguine","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"temper, and fearlessness of mind, operated very differently on her. She","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"saw in it but an aggravation of the evil. It only added a dangerous","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"character to himself. He was brilliant, he was headstrong. Lady Russell","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"had little taste for wit, and of anything approaching to imprudence a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"horror. She deprecated the connexion in every light.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Such opposition, as these feelings produced, was more than Anne could","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"combat. Young and gentle as she was, it might yet have been possible to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"withstand her father’s ill-will, though unsoftened by one kind word or","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"look on the part of her sister; but Lady Russell, whom she had always","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"loved and relied on, could not, with such steadiness of opinion, and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"such tenderness of manner, be continually advising her in vain. She was","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"persuaded to believe the engagement a wrong thing: indiscreet,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"improper, hardly capable of success, and not deserving it. But it was","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"not a merely selfish caution, under which she acted, in putting an end","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"to it. Had she not imagined herself consulting his good, even more than","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"her own, she could hardly have given him up. The belief of being","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"prudent, and self-denying, principally for _his_ advantage, was her","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"chief consolation, under the misery of a parting, a final parting; and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"every consolation was required, for she had to encounter all the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"additional pain of opinions, on his side, totally unconvinced and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"unbending, and of his feeling himself ill used by so forced a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"relinquishment. He had left the country in consequence.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"A few months had seen the beginning and the end of their acquaintance;","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"but not with a few months ended Anne’s share of suffering from it. Her","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"attachment and regrets had, for a long time, clouded every enjoyment of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"youth, and an early loss of bloom and spirits had been their lasting","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"effect.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"More than seven years were gone since this little history of sorrowful","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"interest had reached its close; and time had softened down much,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"perhaps nearly all of peculiar attachment to him, but she had been too","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"dependent on time alone; no aid had been given in change of place","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"(except in one visit to Bath soon after the rupture), or in any novelty","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"or enlargement of society. No one had ever come within the Kellynch","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"circle, who could bear a comparison with Frederick Wentworth, as he","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"stood in her memory. No second attachment, the only thoroughly natural,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"happy, and sufficient cure, at her time of life, had been possible to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the nice tone of her mind, the fastidiousness of her taste, in the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"small limits of the society around them. She had been solicited, when","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"about two-and-twenty, to change her name, by the young man, who not","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"long afterwards found a more willing mind in her younger sister; and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Lady Russell had lamented her refusal; for Charles Musgrove was the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"eldest son of a man, whose landed property and general importance were","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"second in that country, only to Sir Walter’s, and of good character and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"appearance; and however Lady Russell might have asked yet for something","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"more, while Anne was nineteen, she would have rejoiced to see her at","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"twenty-two so respectably removed from the partialities and injustice","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"of her father’s house, and settled so permanently near herself. But in","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"this case, Anne had left nothing for advice to do; and though Lady","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Russell, as satisfied as ever with her own discretion, never wished the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"past undone, she began now to have the anxiety which borders on","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"hopelessness for Anne’s being tempted, by some man of talents and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"independence, to enter a state for which she held her to be peculiarly","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"fitted by her warm affections and domestic habits.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"They knew not each other’s opinion, either its constancy or its change,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"on the one leading point of Anne’s conduct, for the subject was never","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"alluded to; but Anne, at seven-and-twenty, thought very differently","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"from what she had been made to think at nineteen. She did not blame","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Lady Russell, she did not blame herself for having been guided by her;","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"but she felt that were any young person, in similar circumstances, to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"apply to her for counsel, they would never receive any of such certain","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"immediate wretchedness, such uncertain future good. She was persuaded","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"that under every disadvantage of disapprobation at home, and every","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"anxiety attending his profession, all their probable fears, delays, and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"disappointments, she should yet have been a happier woman in","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"maintaining the engagement, than she had been in the sacrifice of it;","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and this, she fully believed, had the usual share, had even more than","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the usual share of all such solicitudes and suspense been theirs,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"without reference to the actual results of their case, which, as it","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"happened, would have bestowed earlier prosperity than could be","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"reasonably calculated on. All his sanguine expectations, all his","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"confidence had been justified. His genius and ardour had seemed to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"foresee and to command his prosperous path. He had, very soon after","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"their engagement ceased, got employ: and all that he had told her would","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"follow, had taken place. He had distinguished himself, and early gained","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the other step in rank, and must now, by successive captures, have made","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"a handsome fortune. She had only navy lists and newspapers for her","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"authority, but she could not doubt his being rich; and, in favour of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"his constancy, she had no reason to believe him married.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"How eloquent could Anne Elliot have been! how eloquent, at least, were","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"her wishes on the side of early warm attachment, and a cheerful","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"confidence in futurity, against that over-anxious caution which seems","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"to insult exertion and distrust Providence! She had been forced into","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"With all these circumstances, recollections and feelings, she could not","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"hear that Captain Wentworth’s sister was likely to live at Kellynch","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"without a revival of former pain; and many a stroll, and many a sigh,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"were necessary to dispel the agitation of the idea. She often told","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"herself it was folly, before she could harden her nerves sufficiently","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"to feel the continual discussion of the Crofts and their business no","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"evil. She was assisted, however, by that perfect indifference and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"apparent unconsciousness, among the only three of her own friends in","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the secret of the past, which seemed almost to deny any recollection of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"it. She could do justice to the superiority of Lady Russell’s motives","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"in this, over those of her father and Elizabeth; she could honour all","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the better feelings of her calmness; but the general air of oblivion","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"among them was highly important from whatever it sprung; and in the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"event of Admiral Croft’s really taking Kellynch Hall, she rejoiced anew","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"over the conviction which had always been most grateful to her, of the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"past being known to those three only among her connexions, by whom no","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"syllable, she believed, would ever be whispered, and in the trust that","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"among his, the brother only with whom he had been residing, had","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"received any information of their short-lived engagement. That brother","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"had been long removed from the country and being a sensible man, and,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"moreover, a single man at the time, she had a fond dependence on no","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"human creature’s having heard of it from him.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"The sister, Mrs Croft, had then been out of England, accompanying her","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"husband on a foreign station, and her own sister, Mary, had been at","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"school while it all occurred; and never admitted by the pride of some,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and the delicacy of others, to the smallest knowledge of it afterwards.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"With these supports, she hoped that the acquaintance between herself","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and the Crofts, which, with Lady Russell, still resident in Kellynch,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and Mary fixed only three miles off, must be anticipated, need not","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"involve any particular awkwardness.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"CHAPTER V.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"On the morning appointed for Admiral and Mrs Croft’s seeing Kellynch","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Hall, Anne found it most natural to take her almost daily walk to Lady","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Russell’s, and keep out of the way till all was over; when she found it","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"most natural to be sorry that she had missed the opportunity of seeing","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"them.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"This meeting of the two parties proved highly satisfactory, and decided","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the whole business at once. Each lady was previously well disposed for","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"an agreement, and saw nothing, therefore, but good manners in the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"other; and with regard to the gentlemen, there was such an hearty good","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"humour, such an open, trusting liberality on the Admiral’s side, as","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"could not but influence Sir Walter, who had besides been flattered into","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"his very best and most polished behaviour by Mr Shepherd’s assurances","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"of his being known, by report, to the Admiral, as a model of good","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"breeding.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"The house and grounds, and furniture, were approved, the Crofts were","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"approved, terms, time, every thing, and every body, was right; and Mr","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Shepherd’s clerks were set to work, without there having been a single","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"preliminary difference to modify of all that “This indenture sheweth.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Sir Walter, without hesitation, declared the Admiral to be the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"best-looking sailor he had ever met with, and went so far as to say,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"that if his own man might have had the arranging of his hair, he should","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"not be ashamed of being seen with him any where; and the Admiral, with","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"sympathetic cordiality, observed to his wife as they drove back through","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the park, “I thought we should soon come to a deal, my dear, in spite","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"of what they told us at Taunton. The Baronet will never set the Thames","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"on fire, but there seems to be no harm in him.”—reciprocal compliments,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"which would have been esteemed about equal.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"The Crofts were to have possession at Michaelmas; and as Sir Walter","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"proposed removing to Bath in the course of the preceding month, there","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"was no time to be lost in making every dependent arrangement.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Lady Russell, convinced that Anne would not be allowed to be of any","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"use, or any importance, in the choice of the house which they were","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"going to secure, was very unwilling to have her hurried away so soon,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and wanted to make it possible for her to stay behind till she might","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"convey her to Bath herself after Christmas; but having engagements of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"her own which must take her from Kellynch for several weeks, she was","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"unable to give the full invitation she wished, and Anne though dreading","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the possible heats of September in all the white glare of Bath, and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"grieving to forego all the influence so sweet and so sad of the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"autumnal months in the country, did not think that, everything","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"considered, she wished to remain. It would be most right, and most","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"wise, and, therefore must involve least suffering to go with the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"others.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Something occurred, however, to give her a different duty. Mary, often","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"a little unwell, and always thinking a great deal of her own","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"complaints, and always in the habit of claiming Anne when anything was","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the matter, was indisposed; and foreseeing that she should not have a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"day’s health all the autumn, entreated, or rather required her, for it","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"was hardly entreaty, to come to Uppercross Cottage, and bear her","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"company as long as she should want her, instead of going to Bath.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“I cannot possibly do without Anne,” was Mary’s reasoning; and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Elizabeth’s reply was, “Then I am sure Anne had better stay, for nobody","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"will want her in Bath.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"To be claimed as a good, though in an improper style, is at least","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"better than being rejected as no good at all; and Anne, glad to be","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"thought of some use, glad to have anything marked out as a duty, and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"certainly not sorry to have the scene of it in the country, and her own","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"dear country, readily agreed to stay.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"This invitation of Mary’s removed all Lady Russell’s difficulties, and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"it was consequently soon settled that Anne should not go to Bath till","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Lady Russell took her, and that all the intervening time should be","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"divided between Uppercross Cottage and Kellynch Lodge.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"So far all was perfectly right; but Lady Russell was almost startled by","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the wrong of one part of the Kellynch Hall plan, when it burst on her,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"which was, Mrs Clay’s being engaged to go to Bath with Sir Walter and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Elizabeth, as a most important and valuable assistant to the latter in","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"all the business before her. Lady Russell was extremely sorry that such","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"a measure should have been resorted to at all, wondered, grieved, and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"feared; and the affront it contained to Anne, in Mrs Clay’s being of so","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"much use, while Anne could be of none, was a very sore aggravation.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Anne herself was become hardened to such affronts; but she felt the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"imprudence of the arrangement quite as keenly as Lady Russell. With a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"great deal of quiet observation, and a knowledge, which she often","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"wished less, of her father’s character, she was sensible that results","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the most serious to his family from the intimacy were more than","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"possible. She did not imagine that her father had at present an idea of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the kind. Mrs Clay had freckles, and a projecting tooth, and a clumsy","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"wrist, which he was continually making severe remarks upon, in her","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"absence; but she was young, and certainly altogether well-looking, and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"possessed, in an acute mind and assiduous pleasing manners, infinitely","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"more dangerous attractions than any merely personal might have been.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Anne was so impressed by the degree of their danger, that she could not","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"excuse herself from trying to make it perceptible to her sister. She","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"had little hope of success; but Elizabeth, who in the event of such a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"reverse would be so much more to be pitied than herself, should never,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"she thought, have reason to reproach her for giving no warning.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"She spoke, and seemed only to offend. Elizabeth could not conceive how","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"such an absurd suspicion should occur to her, and indignantly answered","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"for each party’s perfectly knowing their situation.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Mrs Clay,” said she, warmly, “never forgets who she is; and as I am","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"rather better acquainted with her sentiments than you can be, I can","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"assure you, that upon the subject of marriage they are particularly","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"nice, and that she reprobates all inequality of condition and rank more","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"strongly than most people. And as to my father, I really should not","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"have thought that he, who has kept himself single so long for our","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"sakes, need be suspected now. If Mrs Clay were a very beautiful woman,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"I grant you, it might be wrong to have her so much with me; not that","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"anything in the world, I am sure, would induce my father to make a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"degrading match, but he might be rendered unhappy. But poor Mrs Clay","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"who, with all her merits, can never have been reckoned tolerably","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"pretty, I really think poor Mrs Clay may be staying here in perfect","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"safety. One would imagine you had never heard my father speak of her","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"personal misfortunes, though I know you must fifty times. That tooth of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"hers and those freckles. Freckles do not disgust me so very much as","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"they do him. I have known a face not materially disfigured by a few,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"but he abominates them. You must have heard him notice Mrs Clay’s","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"freckles.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“There is hardly any personal defect,” replied Anne, “which an","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“I think very differently,” answered Elizabeth, shortly; “an agreeable","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"manner may set off handsome features, but can never alter plain ones.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"However, at any rate, as I have a great deal more at stake on this","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"point than anybody else can have, I think it rather unnecessary in you","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"to be advising me.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Anne had done; glad that it was over, and not absolutely hopeless of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"doing good. Elizabeth, though resenting the suspicion, might yet be","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"made observant by it.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"The last office of the four carriage-horses was to draw Sir Walter,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Miss Elliot, and Mrs Clay to Bath. The party drove off in very good","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"spirits; Sir Walter prepared with condescending bows for all the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"afflicted tenantry and cottagers who might have had a hint to show","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"themselves, and Anne walked up at the same time, in a sort of desolate","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"tranquillity, to the Lodge, where she was to spend the first week.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Her friend was not in better spirits than herself. Lady Russell felt","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"this break-up of the family exceedingly. Their respectability was as","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"dear to her as her own, and a daily intercourse had become precious by","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"habit. It was painful to look upon their deserted grounds, and still","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"worse to anticipate the new hands they were to fall into; and to escape","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the solitariness and the melancholy of so altered a village, and be out","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"of the way when Admiral and Mrs Croft first arrived, she had determined","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"to make her own absence from home begin when she must give up Anne.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Accordingly their removal was made together, and Anne was set down at","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Uppercross Cottage, in the first stage of Lady Russell’s journey.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Uppercross was a moderate-sized village, which a few years back had","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"been completely in the old English style, containing only two houses","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"superior in appearance to those of the yeomen and labourers; the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"mansion of the squire, with its high walls, great gates, and old trees,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"substantial and unmodernized, and the compact, tight parsonage,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"enclosed in its own neat garden, with a vine and a pear-tree trained","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"round its casements; but upon the marriage of the young ’squire, it had","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"received the improvement of a farm-house elevated into a cottage, for","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"his residence, and Uppercross Cottage, with its veranda, French","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"windows, and other prettiness, was quite as likely to catch the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"traveller’s eye as the more consistent and considerable aspect and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"premises of the Great House, about a quarter of a mile farther on.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Here Anne had often been staying. She knew the ways of Uppercross as","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"well as those of Kellynch. The two families were so continually","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"meeting, so much in the habit of running in and out of each other’s","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"house at all hours, that it was rather a surprise to her to find Mary","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"alone; but being alone, her being unwell and out of spirits was almost","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"a matter of course. Though better endowed than the elder sister, Mary","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"had not Anne’s understanding nor temper. While well, and happy, and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"properly attended to, she had great good humour and excellent spirits;","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"but any indisposition sunk her completely. She had no resources for","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"solitude; and inheriting a considerable share of the Elliot","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"self-importance, was very prone to add to every other distress that of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"fancying herself neglected and ill-used. In person, she was inferior to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"both sisters, and had, even in her bloom, only reached the dignity of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"being “a fine girl.” She was now lying on the faded sofa of the pretty","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"little drawing-room, the once elegant furniture of which had been","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"gradually growing shabby, under the influence of four summers and two","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"children; and, on Anne’s appearing, greeted her with—","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“So, you are come at last! I began to think I should never see you. I","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"am so ill I can hardly speak. I have not seen a creature the whole","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"morning!”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“I am sorry to find you unwell,” replied Anne. “You sent me such a good","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"account of yourself on Thursday!”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Yes, I made the best of it; I always do: but I was very far from well","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"at the time; and I do not think I ever was so ill in my life as I have","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"been all this morning: very unfit to be left alone, I am sure. Suppose","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"I were to be seized of a sudden in some dreadful way, and not able to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"ring the bell! So, Lady Russell would not get out. I do not think she","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"has been in this house three times this summer.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Anne said what was proper, and enquired after her husband. “Oh! Charles","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"is out shooting. I have not seen him since seven o’clock. He would go,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"though I told him how ill I was. He said he should not stay out long;","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"but he has never come back, and now it is almost one. I assure you, I","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"have not seen a soul this whole long morning.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“You have had your little boys with you?”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Yes, as long as I could bear their noise; but they are so unmanageable","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"that they do me more harm than good. Little Charles does not mind a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"word I say, and Walter is growing quite as bad.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Well, you will soon be better now,” replied Anne, cheerfully. “You","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"know I always cure you when I come. How are your neighbours at the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Great House?”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“I can give you no account of them. I have not seen one of them to-day,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"except Mr Musgrove, who just stopped and spoke through the window, but","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"without getting off his horse; and though I told him how ill I was, not","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"one of them have been near me. It did not happen to suit the Miss","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Musgroves, I suppose, and they never put themselves out of their way.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“You will see them yet, perhaps, before the morning is gone. It is","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"early.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“I never want them, I assure you. They talk and laugh a great deal too","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"much for me. Oh! Anne, I am so very unwell! It was quite unkind of you","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"not to come on Thursday.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“My dear Mary, recollect what a comfortable account you sent me of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"yourself! You wrote in the cheerfullest manner, and said you were","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"perfectly well, and in no hurry for me; and that being the case, you","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"must be aware that my wish would be to remain with Lady Russell to the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"last: and besides what I felt on her account, I have really been so","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"busy, have had so much to do, that I could not very conveniently have","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"left Kellynch sooner.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Dear me! what can _you_ possibly have to do?”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“A great many things, I assure you. More than I can recollect in a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"moment; but I can tell you some. I have been making a duplicate of the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"catalogue of my father’s books and pictures. I have been several times","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"in the garden with Mackenzie, trying to understand, and make him","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"understand, which of Elizabeth’s plants are for Lady Russell. I have","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"had all my own little concerns to arrange, books and music to divide,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and all my trunks to repack, from not having understood in time what","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"was intended as to the waggons: and one thing I have had to do, Mary,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"of a more trying nature: going to almost every house in the parish, as","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"a sort of take-leave. I was told that they wished it. But all these","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"things took up a great deal of time.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Oh! well!” and after a moment’s pause, “but you have never asked me","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"one word about our dinner at the Pooles yesterday.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Did you go then? I have made no enquiries, because I concluded you","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"must have been obliged to give up the party.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Oh yes! I went. I was very well yesterday; nothing at all the matter","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"with me till this morning. It would have been strange if I had not","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"gone.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“I am very glad you were well enough, and I hope you had a pleasant","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"party.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Nothing remarkable. One always knows beforehand what the dinner will","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"be, and who will be there; and it is so very uncomfortable not having a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"carriage of one’s own. Mr and Mrs Musgrove took me, and we were so","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"crowded! They are both so very large, and take up so much room; and Mr","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Musgrove always sits forward. So, there was I, crowded into the back","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"seat with Henrietta and Louisa; and I think it very likely that my","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"illness to-day may be owing to it.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"A little further perseverance in patience and forced cheerfulness on","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Anne’s side produced nearly a cure on Mary’s. She could soon sit","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"upright on the sofa, and began to hope she might be able to leave it by","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"dinner-time. Then, forgetting to think of it, she was at the other end","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"of the room, beautifying a nosegay; then, she ate her cold meat; and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"then she was well enough to propose a little walk.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Where shall we go?” said she, when they were ready. “I suppose you","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"will not like to call at the Great House before they have been to see","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"you?”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“I have not the smallest objection on that account,” replied Anne. “I","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"should never think of standing on such ceremony with people I know so","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"well as Mrs and the Miss Musgroves.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Oh! but they ought to call upon you as soon as possible. They ought to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"feel what is due to you as _my_ sister. However, we may as well go and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"sit with them a little while, and when we have that over, we can enjoy","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"our walk.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Anne had always thought such a style of intercourse highly imprudent;","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"but she had ceased to endeavour to check it, from believing that,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"though there were on each side continual subjects of offence, neither","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"family could now do without it. To the Great House accordingly they","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"went, to sit the full half hour in the old-fashioned square parlour,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"with a small carpet and shining floor, to which the present daughters","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"of the house were gradually giving the proper air of confusion by a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"grand piano-forte and a harp, flower-stands and little tables placed in","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"every direction. Oh! could the originals of the portraits against the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"wainscot, could the gentlemen in brown velvet and the ladies in blue","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"satin have seen what was going on, have been conscious of such an","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"overthrow of all order and neatness! The portraits themselves seemed to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"be staring in astonishment.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"The Musgroves, like their houses, were in a state of alteration,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"perhaps of improvement. The father and mother were in the old English","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"style, and the young people in the new. Mr and Mrs Musgrove were a very","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"good sort of people; friendly and hospitable, not much educated, and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"not at all elegant. Their children had more modern minds and manners.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"There was a numerous family; but the only two grown up, excepting","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Charles, were Henrietta and Louisa, young ladies of nineteen and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"twenty, who had brought from school at Exeter all the usual stock of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"accomplishments, and were now like thousands of other young ladies,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"living to be fashionable, happy, and merry. Their dress had every","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"advantage, their faces were rather pretty, their spirits extremely","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"good, their manner unembarrassed and pleasant; they were of consequence","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"at home, and favourites abroad. Anne always contemplated them as some","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"of the happiest creatures of her acquaintance; but still, saved as we","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"all are, by some comfortable feeling of superiority from wishing for","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the possibility of exchange, she would not have given up her own more","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"elegant and cultivated mind for all their enjoyments; and envied them","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"nothing but that seemingly perfect good understanding and agreement","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"together, that good-humoured mutual affection, of which she had known","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"so little herself with either of her sisters.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"They were received with great cordiality. Nothing seemed amiss on the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"side of the Great House family, which was generally, as Anne very well","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"knew, the least to blame. The half hour was chatted away pleasantly","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"enough; and she was not at all surprised, at the end of it, to have","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"their walking party joined by both the Miss Musgroves, at Mary’s","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"particular invitation.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"CHAPTER VI.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Anne had not wanted this visit to Uppercross, to learn that a removal","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"from one set of people to another, though at a distance of only three","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"miles, will often include a total change of conversation, opinion, and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"idea. She had never been staying there before, without being struck by","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"it, or without wishing that other Elliots could have her advantage in","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"seeing how unknown, or unconsidered there, were the affairs which at","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Kellynch Hall were treated as of such general publicity and pervading","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"interest; yet, with all this experience, she believed she must now","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"submit to feel that another lesson, in the art of knowing our own","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"nothingness beyond our own circle, was become necessary for her; for","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"certainly, coming as she did, with a heart full of the subject which","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"had been completely occupying both houses in Kellynch for many weeks,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"she had expected rather more curiosity and sympathy than she found in","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the separate but very similar remark of Mr and Mrs Musgrove: “So, Miss","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Anne, Sir Walter and your sister are gone; and what part of Bath do you","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"think they will settle in?” and this, without much waiting for an","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"answer; or in the young ladies’ addition of, “I hope _we_ shall be in","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Bath in the winter; but remember, papa, if we do go, we must be in a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"good situation: none of your Queen Squares for us!” or in the anxious","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"supplement from Mary, of—“Upon my word, I shall be pretty well off,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"when you are all gone away to be happy at Bath!”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
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{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"She could only resolve to avoid such self-delusion in future, and think","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"with heightened gratitude of the extraordinary blessing of having one","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"such truly sympathising friend as Lady Russell.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"The Mr Musgroves had their own game to guard, and to destroy, their own","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"horses, dogs, and newspapers to engage them, and the females were fully","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"occupied in all the other common subjects of housekeeping, neighbours,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"dress, dancing, and music. She acknowledged it to be very fitting, that","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"every little social commonwealth should dictate its own matters of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"discourse; and hoped, ere long, to become a not unworthy member of the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"one she was now transplanted into. With the prospect of spending at","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"least two months at Uppercross, it was highly incumbent on her to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"clothe her imagination, her memory, and all her ideas in as much of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Uppercross as possible.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
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{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"She had no dread of these two months. Mary was not so repulsive and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"unsisterly as Elizabeth, nor so inaccessible to all influence of hers;","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"neither was there anything among the other component parts of the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"cottage inimical to comfort. She was always on friendly terms with her","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"brother-in-law; and in the children, who loved her nearly as well, and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"respected her a great deal more than their mother, she had an object of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"interest, amusement, and wholesome exertion.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Charles Musgrove was civil and agreeable; in sense and temper he was","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"undoubtedly superior to his wife, but not of powers, or conversation,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"or grace, to make the past, as they were connected together, at all a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"dangerous contemplation; though, at the same time, Anne could believe,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"with Lady Russell, that a more equal match might have greatly improved","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"him; and that a woman of real understanding might have given more","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"consequence to his character, and more usefulness, rationality, and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"elegance to his habits and pursuits. As it was, he did nothing with","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"much zeal, but sport; and his time was otherwise trifled away, without","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"benefit from books or anything else. He had very good spirits, which","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"never seemed much affected by his wife’s occasional lowness, bore with","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"her unreasonableness sometimes to Anne’s admiration, and upon the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"whole, though there was very often a little disagreement (in which she","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"had sometimes more share than she wished, being appealed to by both","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"parties), they might pass for a happy couple. They were always","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"perfectly agreed in the want of more money, and a strong inclination","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"for a handsome present from his father; but here, as on most topics, he","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"had the superiority, for while Mary thought it a great shame that such","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"a present was not made, he always contended for his father’s having","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"many other uses for his money, and a right to spend it as he liked.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"As to the management of their children, his theory was much better than","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"his wife’s, and his practice not so bad. “I could manage them very","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"well, if it were not for Mary’s interference,” was what Anne often","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"heard him say, and had a good deal of faith in; but when listening in","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"turn to Mary’s reproach of “Charles spoils the children so that I","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"cannot get them into any order,” she never had the smallest temptation","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"to say, “Very true.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"One of the least agreeable circumstances of her residence there was her","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"being treated with too much confidence by all parties, and being too","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"much in the secret of the complaints of each house. Known to have some","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"influence with her sister, she was continually requested, or at least","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"receiving hints to exert it, beyond what was practicable. “I wish you","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"could persuade Mary not to be always fancying herself ill,” was","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Charles’s language; and, in an unhappy mood, thus spoke Mary: “I do","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"believe if Charles were to see me dying, he would not think there was","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"anything the matter with me. I am sure, Anne, if you would, you might","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"persuade him that I really am very ill—a great deal worse than I ever","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"own.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Mary’s declaration was, “I hate sending the children to the Great","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"House, though their grandmamma is always wanting to see them, for she","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"humours and indulges them to such a degree, and gives them so much","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"trash and sweet things, that they are sure to come back sick and cross","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"for the rest of the day.” And Mrs Musgrove took the first opportunity","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"of being alone with Anne, to say, “Oh! Miss Anne, I cannot help wishing","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Mrs Charles had a little of your method with those children. They are","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"quite different creatures with you! But to be sure, in general they are","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"so spoilt! It is a pity you cannot put your sister in the way of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"managing them. They are as fine healthy children as ever were seen,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"poor little dears! without partiality; but Mrs Charles knows no more","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"how they should be treated—! Bless me! how troublesome they are","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"sometimes. I assure you, Miss Anne, it prevents my wishing to see them","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"at our house so often as I otherwise should. I believe Mrs Charles is","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"not quite pleased with my not inviting them oftener; but you know it is","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"very bad to have children with one that one is obligated to be checking","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"every moment; “don’t do this,” and “don’t do that;” or that one can","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"only keep in tolerable order by more cake than is good for them.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"She had this communication, moreover, from Mary. “Mrs Musgrove thinks","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"all her servants so steady, that it would be high treason to call it in","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"question; but I am sure, without exaggeration, that her upper","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"house-maid and laundry-maid, instead of being in their business, are","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"gadding about the village, all day long. I meet them wherever I go; and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"I declare, I never go twice into my nursery without seeing something of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"them. If Jemima were not the trustiest, steadiest creature in the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"world, it would be enough to spoil her; for she tells me, they are","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"always tempting her to take a walk with them.” And on Mrs Musgrove’s","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"side, it was, “I make a rule of never interfering in any of my","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"daughter-in-law’s concerns, for I know it would not do; but I shall","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"tell _you_, Miss Anne, because you may be able to set things to rights,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"that I have no very good opinion of Mrs Charles’s nursery-maid: I hear","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"strange stories of her; she is always upon the gad; and from my own","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"knowledge, I can declare, she is such a fine-dressing lady, that she is","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"enough to ruin any servants she comes near. Mrs Charles quite swears by","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"her, I know; but I just give you this hint, that you may be upon the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"watch; because, if you see anything amiss, you need not be afraid of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"mentioning it.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Again, it was Mary’s complaint, that Mrs Musgrove was very apt not to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"give her the precedence that was her due, when they dined at the Great","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"House with other families; and she did not see any reason why she was","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"to be considered so much at home as to lose her place. And one day when","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Anne was walking with only the Musgroves, one of them after talking of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"rank, people of rank, and jealousy of rank, said, “I have no scruple of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"observing to _you_, how nonsensical some persons are about their place,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"because all the world knows how easy and indifferent you are about it;","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"but I wish anybody could give Mary a hint that it would be a great deal","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"better if she were not so very tenacious, especially if she would not","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"be always putting herself forward to take place of mamma. Nobody doubts","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"her right to have precedence of mamma, but it would be more becoming in","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"her not to be always insisting on it. It is not that mamma cares about","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"it the least in the world, but I know it is taken notice of by many","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"persons.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
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{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"How was Anne to set all these matters to rights? She could do little","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"more than listen patiently, soften every grievance, and excuse each to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the other; give them all hints of the forbearance necessary between","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"such near neighbours, and make those hints broadest which were meant","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"for her sister’s benefit.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"In all other respects, her visit began and proceeded very well. Her own","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"spirits improved by change of place and subject, by being removed three","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"miles from Kellynch; Mary’s ailments lessened by having a constant","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"companion, and their daily intercourse with the other family, since","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"there was neither superior affection, confidence, nor employment in the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"cottage, to be interrupted by it, was rather an advantage. It was","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"certainly carried nearly as far as possible, for they met every","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"morning, and hardly ever spent an evening asunder; but she believed","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"they should not have done so well without the sight of Mr and Mrs","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Musgrove’s respectable forms in the usual places, or without the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"talking, laughing, and singing of their daughters.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"She played a great deal better than either of the Miss Musgroves, but","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"having no voice, no knowledge of the harp, and no fond parents, to sit","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"by and fancy themselves delighted, her performance was little thought","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"of, only out of civility, or to refresh the others, as she was well","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"aware. She knew that when she played she was giving pleasure only to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"herself; but this was no new sensation. Excepting one short period of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"her life, she had never, since the age of fourteen, never since the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"loss of her dear mother, known the happiness of being listened to, or","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"encouraged by any just appreciation or real taste. In music she had","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"been always used to feel alone in the world; and Mr and Mrs Musgrove’s","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"fond partiality for their own daughters’ performance, and total","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"indifference to any other person’s, gave her much more pleasure for","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"their sakes, than mortification for her own.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"The party at the Great House was sometimes increased by other company.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"The neighbourhood was not large, but the Musgroves were visited by","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"everybody, and had more dinner-parties, and more callers, more visitors","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"by invitation and by chance, than any other family. They were more","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"completely popular.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"The girls were wild for dancing; and the evenings ended, occasionally,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"in an unpremeditated little ball. There was a family of cousins within","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"a walk of Uppercross, in less affluent circumstances, who depended on","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the Musgroves for all their pleasures: they would come at any time, and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"help play at anything, or dance anywhere; and Anne, very much","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"preferring the office of musician to a more active post, played country","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"dances to them by the hour together; a kindness which always","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"recommended her musical powers to the notice of Mr and Mrs Musgrove","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"more than anything else, and often drew this compliment;—“Well done,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Miss Anne! very well done indeed! Lord bless me! how those little","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"fingers of yours fly about!”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"So passed the first three weeks. Michaelmas came; and now Anne’s heart","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"must be in Kellynch again. A beloved home made over to others; all the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"precious rooms and furniture, groves, and prospects, beginning to own","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"other eyes and other limbs! She could not think of much else on the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"29th of September; and she had this sympathetic touch in the evening","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"from Mary, who, on having occasion to note down the day of the month,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"exclaimed, “Dear me, is not this the day the Crofts were to come to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Kellynch? I am glad I did not think of it before. How low it makes me!”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"The Crofts took possession with true naval alertness, and were to be","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"visited. Mary deplored the necessity for herself. “Nobody knew how much","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"she should suffer. She should put it off as long as she could;” but was","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"not easy till she had talked Charles into driving her over on an early","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"day, and was in a very animated, comfortable state of imaginary","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"agitation, when she came back. Anne had very sincerely rejoiced in","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"there being no means of her going. She wished, however, to see the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Crofts, and was glad to be within when the visit was returned. They","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"came: the master of the house was not at home, but the two sisters were","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"together; and as it chanced that Mrs Croft fell to the share of Anne,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"while the Admiral sat by Mary, and made himself very agreeable by his","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"good-humoured notice of her little boys, she was well able to watch for","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"a likeness, and if it failed her in the features, to catch it in the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"voice, or in the turn of sentiment and expression.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Mrs Croft, though neither tall nor fat, had a squareness, uprightness,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and vigour of form, which gave importance to her person. She had bright","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"dark eyes, good teeth, and altogether an agreeable face; though her","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"reddened and weather-beaten complexion, the consequence of her having","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"been almost as much at sea as her husband, made her seem to have lived","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"some years longer in the world than her real eight-and-thirty. Her","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"manners were open, easy, and decided, like one who had no distrust of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"herself, and no doubts of what to do; without any approach to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"coarseness, however, or any want of good humour. Anne gave her credit,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"indeed, for feelings of great consideration towards herself, in all","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"that related to Kellynch, and it pleased her: especially, as she had","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"satisfied herself in the very first half minute, in the instant even of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"introduction, that there was not the smallest symptom of any knowledge","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"or suspicion on Mrs Croft’s side, to give a bias of any sort. She was","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"quite easy on that head, and consequently full of strength and courage,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"till for a moment electrified by Mrs Croft’s suddenly saying,—","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“It was you, and not your sister, I find, that my brother had the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"pleasure of being acquainted with, when he was in this country.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Anne hoped she had outlived the age of blushing; but the age of emotion","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"she certainly had not.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Perhaps you may not have heard that he is married?” added Mrs Croft.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"She could now answer as she ought; and was happy to feel, when Mrs","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Croft’s next words explained it to be Mr Wentworth of whom she spoke,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"that she had said nothing which might not do for either brother. She","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"immediately felt how reasonable it was, that Mrs Croft should be","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"thinking and speaking of Edward, and not of Frederick; and with shame","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"at her own forgetfulness applied herself to the knowledge of their","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"former neighbour’s present state with proper interest.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"The rest was all tranquillity; till, just as they were moving, she","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"heard the Admiral say to Mary—","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“We are expecting a brother of Mrs Croft’s here soon; I dare say you","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"know him by name.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"He was cut short by the eager attacks of the little boys, clinging to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"him like an old friend, and declaring he should not go; and being too","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"much engrossed by proposals of carrying them away in his coat pockets,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"&c., to have another moment for finishing or recollecting what he had","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"begun, Anne was left to persuade herself, as well as she could, that","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the same brother must still be in question. She could not, however,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"reach such a degree of certainty, as not to be anxious to hear whether","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"anything had been said on the subject at the other house, where the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Crofts had previously been calling.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"The folks of the Great House were to spend the evening of this day at","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the Cottage; and it being now too late in the year for such visits to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"be made on foot, the coach was beginning to be listened for, when the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"youngest Miss Musgrove walked in. That she was coming to apologize, and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"that they should have to spend the evening by themselves, was the first","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"black idea; and Mary was quite ready to be affronted, when Louisa made","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"all right by saying, that she only came on foot, to leave more room for","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the harp, which was bringing in the carriage.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“And I will tell you our reason,” she added, “and all about it. I am","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"come on to give you notice, that papa and mamma are out of spirits this","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"evening, especially mamma; she is thinking so much of poor Richard! And","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"we agreed it would be best to have the harp, for it seems to amuse her","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"more than the piano-forte. I will tell you why she is out of spirits.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"When the Crofts called this morning, (they called here afterwards, did","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"not they?), they happened to say, that her brother, Captain Wentworth,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"is just returned to England, or paid off, or something, and is coming","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"to see them almost directly; and most unluckily it came into mamma’s","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"head, when they were gone, that Wentworth, or something very like it,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"was the name of poor Richard’s captain at one time; I do not know when","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"or where, but a great while before he died, poor fellow! And upon","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"looking over his letters and things, she found it was so, and is","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"perfectly sure that this must be the very man, and her head is quite","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"full of it, and of poor Richard! So we must be as merry as we can, that","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"she may not be dwelling upon such gloomy things.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"The real circumstances of this pathetic piece of family history were,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"that the Musgroves had had the ill fortune of a very troublesome,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"hopeless son; and the good fortune to lose him before he reached his","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"twentieth year; that he had been sent to sea because he was stupid and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"unmanageable on shore; that he had been very little cared for at any","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"time by his family, though quite as much as he deserved; seldom heard","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"of, and scarcely at all regretted, when the intelligence of his death","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"abroad had worked its way to Uppercross, two years before.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"He had, in fact, though his sisters were now doing all they could for","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"him, by calling him “poor Richard,” been nothing better than a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"thick-headed, unfeeling, unprofitable Dick Musgrove, who had never done","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"anything to entitle himself to more than the abbreviation of his name,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"living or dead.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"He had been several years at sea, and had, in the course of those","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"removals to which all midshipmen are liable, and especially such","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"midshipmen as every captain wishes to get rid of, been six months on","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"board Captain Frederick Wentworth’s frigate, the Laconia; and from the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Laconia he had, under the influence of his captain, written the only","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"two letters which his father and mother had ever received from him","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"during the whole of his absence; that is to say, the only two","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"disinterested letters; all the rest had been mere applications for","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"money.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"In each letter he had spoken well of his captain; but yet, so little","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"were they in the habit of attending to such matters, so unobservant and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"incurious were they as to the names of men or ships, that it had made","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"scarcely any impression at the time; and that Mrs Musgrove should have","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"been suddenly struck, this very day, with a recollection of the name of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Wentworth, as connected with her son, seemed one of those extraordinary","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"bursts of mind which do sometimes occur.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"She had gone to her letters, and found it all as she supposed; and the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"re-perusal of these letters, after so long an interval, her poor son","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"gone for ever, and all the strength of his faults forgotten, had","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"affected her spirits exceedingly, and thrown her into greater grief for","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"him than she had known on first hearing of his death. Mr Musgrove was,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"in a lesser degree, affected likewise; and when they reached the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"cottage, they were evidently in want, first, of being listened to anew","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"on this subject, and afterwards, of all the relief which cheerful","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"companions could give them.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"To hear them talking so much of Captain Wentworth, repeating his name","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"so often, puzzling over past years, and at last ascertaining that it","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"_might_, that it probably _would_, turn out to be the very same Captain","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Wentworth whom they recollected meeting, once or twice, after their","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"coming back from Clifton—a very fine young man—but they could not say","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"whether it was seven or eight years ago, was a new sort of trial to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Anne’s nerves. She found, however, that it was one to which she must","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"inure herself. Since he actually was expected in the country, she must","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"teach herself to be insensible on such points. And not only did it","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"appear that he was expected, and speedily, but the Musgroves, in their","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"warm gratitude for the kindness he had shewn poor Dick, and very high","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"respect for his character, stamped as it was by poor Dick’s having been","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"six months under his care, and mentioning him in strong, though not","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"perfectly well-spelt praise, as “a fine dashing felow, only two","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"perticular about the schoolmaster,” were bent on introducing","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"themselves, and seeking his acquaintance, as soon as they could hear of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"his arrival.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"The resolution of doing so helped to form the comfort of their evening.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"CHAPTER VII.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"A very few days more, and Captain Wentworth was known to be at","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Kellynch, and Mr Musgrove had called on him, and come back warm in his","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"praise, and he was engaged with the Crofts to dine at Uppercross, by","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the end of another week. It had been a great disappointment to Mr","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Musgrove to find that no earlier day could be fixed, so impatient was","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"he to shew his gratitude, by seeing Captain Wentworth under his own","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"roof, and welcoming him to all that was strongest and best in his","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"cellars. But a week must pass; only a week, in Anne’s reckoning, and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"then, she supposed, they must meet; and soon she began to wish that she","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"could feel secure even for a week.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Captain Wentworth made a very early return to Mr Musgrove’s civility,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and she was all but calling there in the same half hour. She and Mary","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"were actually setting forward for the Great House, where, as she","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"afterwards learnt, they must inevitably have found him, when they were","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"stopped by the eldest boy’s being at that moment brought home in","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"consequence of a bad fall. The child’s situation put the visit entirely","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"aside; but she could not hear of her escape with indifference, even in","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the midst of the serious anxiety which they afterwards felt on his","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"account.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"His collar-bone was found to be dislocated, and such injury received in","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the back, as roused the most alarming ideas. It was an afternoon of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"distress, and Anne had every thing to do at once; the apothecary to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"send for, the father to have pursued and informed, the mother to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"support and keep from hysterics, the servants to control, the youngest","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"child to banish, and the poor suffering one to attend and soothe;","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"besides sending, as soon as she recollected it, proper notice to the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"other house, which brought her an accession rather of frightened,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"enquiring companions, than of very useful assistants.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Her brother’s return was the first comfort; he could take best care of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"his wife; and the second blessing was the arrival of the apothecary.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Till he came and had examined the child, their apprehensions were the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"worse for being vague; they suspected great injury, but knew not where;","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"but now the collar-bone was soon replaced, and though Mr Robinson felt","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and felt, and rubbed, and looked grave, and spoke low words both to the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"father and the aunt, still they were all to hope the best, and to be","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"able to part and eat their dinner in tolerable ease of mind; and then","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"it was, just before they parted, that the two young aunts were able so","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"far to digress from their nephew’s state, as to give the information of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Captain Wentworth’s visit; staying five minutes behind their father and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"mother, to endeavour to express how perfectly delighted they were with","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"him, how much handsomer, how infinitely more agreeable they thought him","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"than any individual among their male acquaintance, who had been at all","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"a favourite before. How glad they had been to hear papa invite him to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"stay dinner, how sorry when he said it was quite out of his power, and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"how glad again when he had promised in reply to papa and mamma’s","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"farther pressing invitations to come and dine with them on the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"morrow—actually on the morrow; and he had promised it in so pleasant a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"manner, as if he felt all the motive of their attention just as he","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"ought. And in short, he had looked and said everything with such","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"exquisite grace, that they could assure them all, their heads were both","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"turned by him; and off they ran, quite as full of glee as of love, and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"apparently more full of Captain Wentworth than of little Charles.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
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{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"The same story and the same raptures were repeated, when the two girls","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"came with their father, through the gloom of the evening, to make","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"enquiries; and Mr Musgrove, no longer under the first uneasiness about","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"his heir, could add his confirmation and praise, and hope there would","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"be now no occasion for putting Captain Wentworth off, and only be sorry","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"to think that the cottage party, probably, would not like to leave the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"little boy, to give him the meeting. “Oh no; as to leaving the little","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"boy,” both father and mother were in much too strong and recent alarm","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"to bear the thought; and Anne, in the joy of the escape, could not help","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"adding her warm protestations to theirs.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Charles Musgrove, indeed, afterwards, shewed more of inclination; “the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"child was going on so well, and he wished so much to be introduced to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Captain Wentworth, that, perhaps, he might join them in the evening; he","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"would not dine from home, but he might walk in for half an hour.” But","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"in this he was eagerly opposed by his wife, with “Oh! no, indeed,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Charles, I cannot bear to have you go away. Only think if anything","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"should happen?”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"The child had a good night, and was going on well the next day. It must","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"be a work of time to ascertain that no injury had been done to the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"spine; but Mr Robinson found nothing to increase alarm, and Charles","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Musgrove began, consequently, to feel no necessity for longer","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"confinement. The child was to be kept in bed and amused as quietly as","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"possible; but what was there for a father to do? This was quite a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"female case, and it would be highly absurd in him, who could be of no","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"use at home, to shut himself up. His father very much wished him to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"meet Captain Wentworth, and there being no sufficient reason against","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"it, he ought to go; and it ended in his making a bold, public","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"declaration, when he came in from shooting, of his meaning to dress","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"directly, and dine at the other house.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Nothing can be going on better than the child,” said he; “so I told my","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"father, just now, that I would come, and he thought me quite right.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Your sister being with you, my love, I have no scruple at all. You","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"would not like to leave him yourself, but you see I can be of no use.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Anne will send for me if anything is the matter.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Mary knew, from Charles’s manner of speaking, that he was quite","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"determined on going, and that it would be of no use to teaze him. She","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"said nothing, therefore, till he was out of the room, but as soon as","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"there was only Anne to hear—","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
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{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“So you and I are to be left to shift by ourselves, with this poor sick","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"child; and not a creature coming near us all the evening! I knew how it","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"would be. This is always my luck. If there is anything disagreeable","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"going on men are always sure to get out of it, and Charles is as bad as","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"any of them. Very unfeeling! I must say it is very unfeeling of him to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"be running away from his poor little boy. Talks of his being going on","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"so well! How does he know that he is going on well, or that there may","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"not be a sudden change half an hour hence? I did not think Charles","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"would have been so unfeeling. So here he is to go away and enjoy","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"himself, and because I am the poor mother, I am not to be allowed to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"stir; and yet, I am sure, I am more unfit than anybody else to be about","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the child. My being the mother is the very reason why my feelings","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"should not be tried. I am not at all equal to it. You saw how","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"hysterical I was yesterday.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“But that was only the effect of the suddenness of your alarm—of the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"shock. You will not be hysterical again. I dare say we shall have","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"nothing to distress us. I perfectly understand Mr Robinson’s","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"directions, and have no fears; and indeed, Mary, I cannot wonder at","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"your husband. Nursing does not belong to a man; it is not his province.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"A sick child is always the mother’s property: her own feelings","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"generally make it so.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“I hope I am as fond of my child as any mother, but I do not know that","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"I am of any more use in the sick-room than Charles, for I cannot be","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"always scolding and teazing the poor child when it is ill; and you saw,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"this morning, that if I told him to keep quiet, he was sure to begin","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"kicking about. I have not nerves for the sort of thing.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“But, could you be comfortable yourself, to be spending the whole","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"evening away from the poor boy?”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Yes; you see his papa can, and why should not I? Jemima is so careful;","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and she could send us word every hour how he was. I really think","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Charles might as well have told his father we would all come. I am not","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"more alarmed about little Charles now than he is. I was dreadfully","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"alarmed yesterday, but the case is very different to-day.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Well, if you do not think it too late to give notice for yourself,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"suppose you were to go, as well as your husband. Leave little Charles","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"to my care. Mr and Mrs Musgrove cannot think it wrong while I remain","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"with him.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Are you serious?” cried Mary, her eyes brightening. “Dear me! that’s a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"very good thought, very good, indeed. To be sure, I may just as well go","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"as not, for I am of no use at home—am I? and it only harasses me. You,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"who have not a mother’s feelings, are a great deal the properest","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"person. You can make little Charles do anything; he always minds you at","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"a word. It will be a great deal better than leaving him only with","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Jemima. Oh! I shall certainly go; I am sure I ought if I can, quite as","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"much as Charles, for they want me excessively to be acquainted with","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Captain Wentworth, and I know you do not mind being left alone. An","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"excellent thought of yours, indeed, Anne. I will go and tell Charles,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and get ready directly. You can send for us, you know, at a moment’s","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"notice, if anything is the matter; but I dare say there will be nothing","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"to alarm you. I should not go, you may be sure, if I did not feel quite","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"at ease about my dear child.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"The next moment she was tapping at her husband’s dressing-room door,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and as Anne followed her up stairs, she was in time for the whole","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"conversation, which began with Mary’s saying, in a tone of great","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"exultation—","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“I mean to go with you, Charles, for I am of no more use at home than","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"you are. If I were to shut myself up for ever with the child, I should","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"not be able to persuade him to do anything he did not like. Anne will","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"stay; Anne undertakes to stay at home and take care of him. It is","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Anne’s own proposal, and so I shall go with you, which will be a great","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"deal better, for I have not dined at the other house since Tuesday.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“This is very kind of Anne,” was her husband’s answer, “and I should be","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"very glad to have you go; but it seems rather hard that she should be","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"left at home by herself, to nurse our sick child.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Anne was now at hand to take up her own cause, and the sincerity of her","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"manner being soon sufficient to convince him, where conviction was at","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"least very agreeable, he had no farther scruples as to her being left","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"to dine alone, though he still wanted her to join them in the evening,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"when the child might be at rest for the night, and kindly urged her to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"let him come and fetch her, but she was quite unpersuadable; and this","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"being the case, she had ere long the pleasure of seeing them set off","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"together in high spirits. They were gone, she hoped, to be happy,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"however oddly constructed such happiness might seem; as for herself,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"she was left with as many sensations of comfort, as were, perhaps, ever","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"likely to be hers. She knew herself to be of the first utility to the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"child; and what was it to her if Frederick Wentworth were only half a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"mile distant, making himself agreeable to others?","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"She would have liked to know how he felt as to a meeting. Perhaps","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"indifferent, if indifference could exist under such circumstances. He","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"must be either indifferent or unwilling. Had he wished ever to see her","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"again, he need not have waited till this time; he would have done what","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"she could not but believe that in his place she should have done long","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"ago, when events had been early giving him the independence which alone","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"had been wanting.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Her brother and sister came back delighted with their new acquaintance,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and their visit in general. There had been music, singing, talking,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"laughing, all that was most agreeable; charming manners in Captain","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Wentworth, no shyness or reserve; they seemed all to know each other","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"perfectly, and he was coming the very next morning to shoot with","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Charles. He was to come to breakfast, but not at the Cottage, though","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"that had been proposed at first; but then he had been pressed to come","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"to the Great House instead, and he seemed afraid of being in Mrs","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Charles Musgrove’s way, on account of the child, and therefore,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"somehow, they hardly knew how, it ended in Charles’s being to meet him","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"to breakfast at his father’s.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Anne understood it. He wished to avoid seeing her. He had inquired","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"after her, she found, slightly, as might suit a former slight","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"acquaintance, seeming to acknowledge such as she had acknowledged,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"actuated, perhaps, by the same view of escaping introduction when they","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"were to meet.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"The morning hours of the Cottage were always later than those of the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"other house, and on the morrow the difference was so great that Mary","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and Anne were not more than beginning breakfast when Charles came in to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"say that they were just setting off, that he was come for his dogs,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"that his sisters were following with Captain Wentworth; his sisters","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"meaning to visit Mary and the child, and Captain Wentworth proposing","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"also to wait on her for a few minutes if not inconvenient; and though","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Charles had answered for the child’s being in no such state as could","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"make it inconvenient, Captain Wentworth would not be satisfied without","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"his running on to give notice.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Mary, very much gratified by this attention, was delighted to receive","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"him, while a thousand feelings rushed on Anne, of which this was the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"most consoling, that it would soon be over. And it was soon over. In","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"two minutes after Charles’s preparation, the others appeared; they were","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"in the drawing-room. Her eye half met Captain Wentworth’s, a bow, a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"curtsey passed; she heard his voice; he talked to Mary, said all that","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"was right, said something to the Miss Musgroves, enough to mark an easy","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"footing; the room seemed full, full of persons and voices, but a few","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"minutes ended it. Charles shewed himself at the window, all was ready,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"their visitor had bowed and was gone, the Miss Musgroves were gone too,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"suddenly resolving to walk to the end of the village with the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"sportsmen: the room was cleared, and Anne might finish her breakfast as","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"she could.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“It is over! it is over!” she repeated to herself again and again, in","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"nervous gratitude. “The worst is over!”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Mary talked, but she could not attend. She had seen him. They had met.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"They had been once more in the same room.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Soon, however, she began to reason with herself, and try to be feeling","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"less. Eight years, almost eight years had passed, since all had been","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"given up. How absurd to be resuming the agitation which such an","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"interval had banished into distance and indistinctness! What might not","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"eight years do? Events of every description, changes, alienations,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"removals—all, all must be comprised in it, and oblivion of the past—","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"how natural, how certain too! It included nearly a third part of her","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"own life.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Alas! with all her reasoning, she found, that to retentive feelings","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"eight years may be little more than nothing.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Now, how were his sentiments to be read? Was this like wishing to avoid","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"her? And the next moment she was hating herself for the folly which","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"asked the question.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"On one other question which perhaps her utmost wisdom might not have","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"prevented, she was soon spared all suspense; for, after the Miss","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Musgroves had returned and finished their visit at the Cottage she had","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"this spontaneous information from Mary:—","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Captain Wentworth is not very gallant by you, Anne, though he was so","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"attentive to me. Henrietta asked him what he thought of you, when they","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"went away, and he said, ‘You were so altered he should not have known","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"you again.’”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Mary had no feelings to make her respect her sister’s in a common way,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"but she was perfectly unsuspicious of being inflicting any peculiar","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"wound.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Altered beyond his knowledge.” Anne fully submitted, in silent, deep","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"mortification. Doubtless it was so, and she could take no revenge, for","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"he was not altered, or not for the worse. She had already acknowledged","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"it to herself, and she could not think differently, let him think of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"her as he would. No: the years which had destroyed her youth and bloom","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"had only given him a more glowing, manly, open look, in no respect","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"lessening his personal advantages. She had seen the same Frederick","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Wentworth.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“So altered that he should not have known her again!” These were words","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"which could not but dwell with her. Yet she soon began to rejoice that","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"she had heard them. They were of sobering tendency; they allayed","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"agitation; they composed, and consequently must make her happier.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Frederick Wentworth had used such words, or something like them, but","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"without an idea that they would be carried round to her. He had thought","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"her wretchedly altered, and in the first moment of appeal, had spoken","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"as he felt. He had not forgiven Anne Elliot. She had used him ill,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"deserted and disappointed him; and worse, she had shewn a feebleness of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"character in doing so, which his own decided, confident temper could","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"not endure. She had given him up to oblige others. It had been the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"effect of over-persuasion. It had been weakness and timidity.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"He had been most warmly attached to her, and had never seen a woman","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"since whom he thought her equal; but, except from some natural","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"sensation of curiosity, he had no desire of meeting her again. Her","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"power with him was gone for ever.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"It was now his object to marry. He was rich, and being turned on shore,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"fully intended to settle as soon as he could be properly tempted;","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"actually looking round, ready to fall in love with all the speed which","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"a clear head and a quick taste could allow. He had a heart for either","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"of the Miss Musgroves, if they could catch it; a heart, in short, for","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"any pleasing young woman who came in his way, excepting Anne Elliot.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"This was his only secret exception, when he said to his sister, in","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"answer to her suppositions:—","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Yes, here I am, Sophia, quite ready to make a foolish match. Anybody","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"between fifteen and thirty may have me for asking. A little beauty, and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"a few smiles, and a few compliments to the navy, and I am a lost man.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Should not this be enough for a sailor, who has had no society among","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"women to make him nice?”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"He said it, she knew, to be contradicted. His bright proud eye spoke","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the conviction that he was nice; and Anne Elliot was not out of his","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"thoughts, when he more seriously described the woman he should wish to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"meet with. “A strong mind, with sweetness of manner,” made the first","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and the last of the description.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“That is the woman I want,” said he. “Something a little inferior I","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"shall of course put up with, but it must not be much. If I am a fool, I","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"shall be a fool indeed, for I have thought on the subject more than","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"most men.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"CHAPTER VIII.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"From this time Captain Wentworth and Anne Elliot were repeatedly in the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"same circle. They were soon dining in company together at Mr","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Musgrove’s, for the little boy’s state could no longer supply his aunt","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"with a pretence for absenting herself; and this was but the beginning","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"of other dinings and other meetings.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Whether former feelings were to be renewed must be brought to the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"proof; former times must undoubtedly be brought to the recollection of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"each; _they_ could not but be reverted to; the year of their engagement","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"could not but be named by him, in the little narratives or descriptions","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"which conversation called forth. His profession qualified him, his","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"disposition lead him, to talk; and “_That_ was in the year six;”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“_That_ happened before I went to sea in the year six,” occurred in the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"course of the first evening they spent together: and though his voice","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"did not falter, and though she had no reason to suppose his eye","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"wandering towards her while he spoke, Anne felt the utter","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"impossibility, from her knowledge of his mind, that he could be","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"unvisited by remembrance any more than herself. There must be the same","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"immediate association of thought, though she was very far from","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"conceiving it to be of equal pain.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"They had no conversation together, no intercourse but what the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"commonest civility required. Once so much to each other! Now nothing!","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"There _had_ been a time, when of all the large party now filling the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"drawing-room at Uppercross, they would have found it most difficult to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"cease to speak to one another. With the exception, perhaps, of Admiral","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and Mrs Croft, who seemed particularly attached and happy, (Anne could","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"allow no other exceptions even among the married couples), there could","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"in unison, no countenances so beloved. Now they were as strangers; nay,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted. It was a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"perpetual estrangement.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"When he talked, she heard the same voice, and discerned the same mind.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"There was a very general ignorance of all naval matters throughout the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"party; and he was very much questioned, and especially by the two Miss","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Musgroves, who seemed hardly to have any eyes but for him, as to the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"manner of living on board, daily regulations, food, hours, &c., and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"their surprise at his accounts, at learning the degree of accommodation","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and arrangement which was practicable, drew from him some pleasant","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"ridicule, which reminded Anne of the early days when she too had been","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"ignorant, and she too had been accused of supposing sailors to be","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"living on board without anything to eat, or any cook to dress it if","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"there were, or any servant to wait, or any knife and fork to use.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"From thus listening and thinking, she was roused by a whisper of Mrs","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Musgrove’s who, overcome by fond regrets, could not help saying—","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Ah! Miss Anne, if it had pleased Heaven to spare my poor son, I dare","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"say he would have been just such another by this time.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Anne suppressed a smile, and listened kindly, while Mrs Musgrove","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"relieved her heart a little more; and for a few minutes, therefore,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"could not keep pace with the conversation of the others.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"When she could let her attention take its natural course again, she","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"found the Miss Musgroves just fetching the Navy List (their own navy","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"list, the first that had ever been at Uppercross), and sitting down","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"together to pore over it, with the professed view of finding out the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"ships that Captain Wentworth had commanded.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Your first was the Asp, I remember; we will look for the Asp.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“You will not find her there. Quite worn out and broken up. I was the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"last man who commanded her. Hardly fit for service then. Reported fit","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"for home service for a year or two, and so I was sent off to the West","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Indies.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"The girls looked all amazement.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“The Admiralty,” he continued, “entertain themselves now and then, with","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"sending a few hundred men to sea, in a ship not fit to be employed. But","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"they have a great many to provide for; and among the thousands that may","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"just as well go to the bottom as not, it is impossible for them to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"distinguish the very set who may be least missed.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Phoo! phoo!” cried the Admiral, “what stuff these young fellows talk!","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Never was a better sloop than the Asp in her day. For an old built","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"sloop, you would not see her equal. Lucky fellow to get her! He knows","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"there must have been twenty better men than himself applying for her at","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the same time. Lucky fellow to get anything so soon, with no more","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"interest than his.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“I felt my luck, Admiral, I assure you;” replied Captain Wentworth,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"seriously. “I was as well satisfied with my appointment as you can","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"desire. It was a great object with me at that time to be at sea; a very","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"great object, I wanted to be doing something.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“To be sure you did. What should a young fellow like you do ashore for","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"half a year together? If a man had not a wife, he soon wants to be","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"afloat again.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“But, Captain Wentworth,” cried Louisa, “how vexed you must have been","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"when you came to the Asp, to see what an old thing they had given you.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“I knew pretty well what she was before that day;” said he, smiling. “I","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"had no more discoveries to make than you would have as to the fashion","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and strength of any old pelisse, which you had seen lent about among","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"half your acquaintance ever since you could remember, and which at","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"last, on some very wet day, is lent to yourself. Ah! she was a dear old","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Asp to me. She did all that I wanted. I knew she would. I knew that we","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"should either go to the bottom together, or that she would be the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"making of me; and I never had two days of foul weather all the time I","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"was at sea in her; and after taking privateers enough to be very","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"entertaining, I had the good luck in my passage home the next autumn,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"to fall in with the very French frigate I wanted. I brought her into","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Plymouth; and here another instance of luck. We had not been six hours","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"in the Sound, when a gale came on, which lasted four days and nights,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and which would have done for poor old Asp in half the time; our touch","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"with the Great Nation not having much improved our condition.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Four-and-twenty hours later, and I should only have been a gallant","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Captain Wentworth, in a small paragraph at one corner of the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"newspapers; and being lost in only a sloop, nobody would have thought","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"about me.” Anne’s shudderings were to herself alone; but the Miss","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Musgroves could be as open as they were sincere, in their exclamations","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"of pity and horror.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“And so then, I suppose,” said Mrs Musgrove, in a low voice, as if","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"thinking aloud, “so then he went away to the Laconia, and there he met","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"with our poor boy. Charles, my dear,” (beckoning him to her), “do ask","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Captain Wentworth where it was he first met with your poor brother. I","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"always forgot.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“It was at Gibraltar, mother, I know. Dick had been left ill at","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Gibraltar, with a recommendation from his former captain to Captain","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Wentworth.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Oh! but, Charles, tell Captain Wentworth, he need not be afraid of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"mentioning poor Dick before me, for it would be rather a pleasure to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"hear him talked of by such a good friend.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Charles, being somewhat more mindful of the probabilities of the case,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"only nodded in reply, and walked away.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"The girls were now hunting for the Laconia; and Captain Wentworth could","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"not deny himself the pleasure of taking the precious volume into his","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"own hands to save them the trouble, and once more read aloud the little","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"statement of her name and rate, and present non-commissioned class,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"observing over it that she too had been one of the best friends man","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"ever had.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Ah! those were pleasant days when I had the Laconia! How fast I made","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"money in her. A friend of mine and I had such a lovely cruise together","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"off the Western Islands. Poor Harville, sister! You know how much he","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"wanted money: worse than myself. He had a wife. Excellent fellow. I","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"shall never forget his happiness. He felt it all, so much for her sake.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"I wished for him again the next summer, when I had still the same luck","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"in the Mediterranean.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“And I am sure, Sir,” said Mrs Musgrove, “it was a lucky day for _us_,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"when you were put captain into that ship. _We_ shall never forget what","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"you did.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Her feelings made her speak low; and Captain Wentworth, hearing only in","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"part, and probably not having Dick Musgrove at all near his thoughts,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"looked rather in suspense, and as if waiting for more.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“My brother,” whispered one of the girls; “mamma is thinking of poor","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Richard.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Poor dear fellow!” continued Mrs Musgrove; “he was grown so steady,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and such an excellent correspondent, while he was under your care! Ah!","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"it would have been a happy thing, if he had never left you. I assure","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"you, Captain Wentworth, we are very sorry he ever left you.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"There was a momentary expression in Captain Wentworth’s face at this","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"speech, a certain glance of his bright eye, and curl of his handsome","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"mouth, which convinced Anne, that instead of sharing in Mrs Musgrove’s","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"kind wishes, as to her son, he had probably been at some pains to get","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"rid of him; but it was too transient an indulgence of self-amusement to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"be detected by any who understood him less than herself; in another","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"moment he was perfectly collected and serious, and almost instantly","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"afterwards coming up to the sofa, on which she and Mrs Musgrove were","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"sitting, took a place by the latter, and entered into conversation with","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"her, in a low voice, about her son, doing it with so much sympathy and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"natural grace, as shewed the kindest consideration for all that was","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"real and unabsurd in the parent’s feelings.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"They were actually on the same sofa, for Mrs Musgrove had most readily","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"made room for him; they were divided only by Mrs Musgrove. It was no","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"insignificant barrier, indeed. Mrs Musgrove was of a comfortable,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"substantial size, infinitely more fitted by nature to express good","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"cheer and good humour, than tenderness and sentiment; and while the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"agitations of Anne’s slender form, and pensive face, may be considered","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"as very completely screened, Captain Wentworth should be allowed some","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"credit for the self-command with which he attended to her large fat","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"sighings over the destiny of a son, whom alive nobody had cared for.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Personal size and mental sorrow have certainly no necessary","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"proportions. A large bulky figure has as good a right to be in deep","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"affliction, as the most graceful set of limbs in the world. But, fair","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"or not fair, there are unbecoming conjunctions, which reason will","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"patronize in vain—which taste cannot tolerate—which ridicule will","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"seize.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"The Admiral, after taking two or three refreshing turns about the room","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"with his hands behind him, being called to order by his wife, now came","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"up to Captain Wentworth, and without any observation of what he might","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"be interrupting, thinking only of his own thoughts, began with—","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“If you had been a week later at Lisbon, last spring, Frederick, you","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"would have been asked to give a passage to Lady Mary Grierson and her","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"daughters.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Should I? I am glad I was not a week later then.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"The Admiral abused him for his want of gallantry. He defended himself;","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"though professing that he would never willingly admit any ladies on","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"board a ship of his, excepting for a ball, or a visit, which a few","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"hours might comprehend.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“But, if I know myself,” said he, “this is from no want of gallantry","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"towards them. It is rather from feeling how impossible it is, with all","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"one’s efforts, and all one’s sacrifices, to make the accommodations on","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"board such as women ought to have. There can be no want of gallantry,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Admiral, in rating the claims of women to every personal comfort","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"_high_, and this is what I do. I hate to hear of women on board, or to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"see them on board; and no ship under my command shall ever convey a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"family of ladies anywhere, if I can help it.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"This brought his sister upon him.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Oh! Frederick! But I cannot believe it of you.—All idle","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"refinement!—Women may be as comfortable on board, as in the best house","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"in England. I believe I have lived as much on board as most women, and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"I know nothing superior to the accommodations of a man-of-war. I","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"declare I have not a comfort or an indulgence about me, even at","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Kellynch Hall,” (with a kind bow to Anne), “beyond what I always had in","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"most of the ships I have lived in; and they have been five altogether.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Nothing to the purpose,” replied her brother. “You were living with","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"your husband, and were the only woman on board.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“But you, yourself, brought Mrs Harville, her sister, her cousin, and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"three children, round from Portsmouth to Plymouth. Where was this","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"superfine, extraordinary sort of gallantry of yours then?”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“All merged in my friendship, Sophia. I would assist any brother","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"officer’s wife that I could, and I would bring anything of Harville’s","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"from the world’s end, if he wanted it. But do not imagine that I did","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"not feel it an evil in itself.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Depend upon it, they were all perfectly comfortable.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“I might not like them the better for that perhaps. Such a number of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"women and children have no _right_ to be comfortable on board.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“My dear Frederick, you are talking quite idly. Pray, what would become","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"of us poor sailors’ wives, who often want to be conveyed to one port or","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"another, after our husbands, if everybody had your feelings?”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“My feelings, you see, did not prevent my taking Mrs Harville and all","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"her family to Plymouth.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“But I hate to hear you talking so like a fine gentleman, and as if","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"women were all fine ladies, instead of rational creatures. We none of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"us expect to be in smooth water all our days.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Ah! my dear,” said the Admiral, “when he has got a wife, he will sing","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"a different tune. When he is married, if we have the good luck to live","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"to another war, we shall see him do as you and I, and a great many","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"others, have done. We shall have him very thankful to anybody that will","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"bring him his wife.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Ay, that we shall.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Now I have done,” cried Captain Wentworth. “When once married people","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"begin to attack me with,—‘Oh! you will think very differently, when you","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"are married.’ I can only say, ‘No, I shall not;’ and then they say","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"again, ‘Yes, you will,’ and there is an end of it.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"He got up and moved away.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“What a great traveller you must have been, ma’am!” said Mrs Musgrove","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"to Mrs Croft.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Pretty well, ma’am, in the fifteen years of my marriage; though many","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"women have done more. I have crossed the Atlantic four times, and have","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"been once to the East Indies, and back again, and only once; besides","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"being in different places about home: Cork, and Lisbon, and Gibraltar.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"But I never went beyond the Streights, and never was in the West","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Indies. We do not call Bermuda or Bahama, you know, the West Indies.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Mrs Musgrove had not a word to say in dissent; she could not accuse","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"herself of having ever called them anything in the whole course of her","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"life.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“And I do assure you, ma’am,” pursued Mrs Croft, “that nothing can","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"exceed the accommodations of a man-of-war; I speak, you know, of the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"higher rates. When you come to a frigate, of course, you are more","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"confined; though any reasonable woman may be perfectly happy in one of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"them; and I can safely say, that the happiest part of my life has been","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"spent on board a ship. While we were together, you know, there was","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"nothing to be feared. Thank God! I have always been blessed with","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"excellent health, and no climate disagrees with me. A little disordered","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"always the first twenty-four hours of going to sea, but never knew what","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"sickness was afterwards. The only time I ever really suffered in body","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"or mind, the only time that I ever fancied myself unwell, or had any","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"ideas of danger, was the winter that I passed by myself at Deal, when","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the Admiral (_Captain_ Croft then) was in the North Seas. I lived in","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"perpetual fright at that time, and had all manner of imaginary","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"complaints from not knowing what to do with myself, or when I should","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"hear from him next; but as long as we could be together, nothing ever","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"ailed me, and I never met with the smallest inconvenience.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Aye, to be sure. Yes, indeed, oh yes! I am quite of your opinion, Mrs","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Croft,” was Mrs Musgrove’s hearty answer. “There is nothing so bad as a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"separation. I am quite of your opinion. _I_ know what it is, for Mr","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Musgrove always attends the assizes, and I am so glad when they are","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"over, and he is safe back again.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"The evening ended with dancing. On its being proposed, Anne offered her","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"services, as usual; and though her eyes would sometimes fill with tears","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"as she sat at the instrument, she was extremely glad to be employed,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and desired nothing in return but to be unobserved.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"It was a merry, joyous party, and no one seemed in higher spirits than","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Captain Wentworth. She felt that he had every thing to elevate him","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"which general attention and deference, and especially the attention of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"all the young women, could do. The Miss Hayters, the females of the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"family of cousins already mentioned, were apparently admitted to the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"honour of being in love with him; and as for Henrietta and Louisa, they","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"both seemed so entirely occupied by him, that nothing but the continued","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"appearance of the most perfect good-will between themselves could have","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"made it credible that they were not decided rivals. If he were a little","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"spoilt by such universal, such eager admiration, who could wonder?","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"These were some of the thoughts which occupied Anne, while her fingers","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"were mechanically at work, proceeding for half an hour together,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"equally without error, and without consciousness. _Once_ she felt that","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"he was looking at herself, observing her altered features, perhaps,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"trying to trace in them the ruins of the face which had once charmed","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"him; and _once_ she knew that he must have spoken of her; she was","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"hardly aware of it, till she heard the answer; but then she was sure of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"his having asked his partner whether Miss Elliot never danced? The","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"answer was, “Oh, no; never; she has quite given up dancing. She had","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"rather play. She is never tired of playing.” Once, too, he spoke to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"her. She had left the instrument on the dancing being over, and he had","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"sat down to try to make out an air which he wished to give the Miss","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Musgroves an idea of. Unintentionally she returned to that part of the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"room; he saw her, and, instantly rising, said, with studied politeness—","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“I beg your pardon, madam, this is your seat;” and though she","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"immediately drew back with a decided negative, he was not to be induced","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"to sit down again.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Anne did not wish for more of such looks and speeches. His cold","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"politeness, his ceremonious grace, were worse than anything.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"CHAPTER IX.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Captain Wentworth was come to Kellynch as to a home, to stay as long as","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"he liked, being as thoroughly the object of the Admiral’s fraternal","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"kindness as of his wife’s. He had intended, on first arriving, to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"proceed very soon into Shropshire, and visit the brother settled in","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"that country, but the attractions of Uppercross induced him to put this","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"off. There was so much of friendliness, and of flattery, and of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"everything most bewitching in his reception there; the old were so","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"hospitable, the young so agreeable, that he could not but resolve to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"remain where he was, and take all the charms and perfections of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Edward’s wife upon credit a little longer.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"It was soon Uppercross with him almost every day. The Musgroves could","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"hardly be more ready to invite than he to come, particularly in the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"morning, when he had no companion at home, for the Admiral and Mrs","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Croft were generally out of doors together, interesting themselves in","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"their new possessions, their grass, and their sheep, and dawdling about","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"in a way not endurable to a third person, or driving out in a gig,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"lately added to their establishment.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Hitherto there had been but one opinion of Captain Wentworth among the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Musgroves and their dependencies. It was unvarying, warm admiration","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"everywhere; but this intimate footing was not more than established,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"when a certain Charles Hayter returned among them, to be a good deal","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"disturbed by it, and to think Captain Wentworth very much in the way.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Charles Hayter was the eldest of all the cousins, and a very amiable,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"pleasing young man, between whom and Henrietta there had been a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"considerable appearance of attachment previous to Captain Wentworth’s","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"introduction. He was in orders; and having a curacy in the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"neighbourhood, where residence was not required, lived at his father’s","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"house, only two miles from Uppercross. A short absence from home had","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"left his fair one unguarded by his attentions at this critical period,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and when he came back he had the pain of finding very altered manners,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and of seeing Captain Wentworth.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Mrs Musgrove and Mrs Hayter were sisters. They had each had money, but","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"their marriages had made a material difference in their degree of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"consequence. Mr Hayter had some property of his own, but it was","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"insignificant compared with Mr Musgrove’s; and while the Musgroves were","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"in the first class of society in the country, the young Hayters would,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"from their parents’ inferior, retired, and unpolished way of living,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and their own defective education, have been hardly in any class at","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"all, but for their connexion with Uppercross, this eldest son of course","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"excepted, who had chosen to be a scholar and a gentleman, and who was","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"very superior in cultivation and manners to all the rest.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"The two families had always been on excellent terms, there being no","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"pride on one side, and no envy on the other, and only such a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"consciousness of superiority in the Miss Musgroves, as made them","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"pleased to improve their cousins. Charles’s attentions to Henrietta had","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"been observed by her father and mother without any disapprobation. “It","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"would not be a great match for her; but if Henrietta liked him,”—and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Henrietta _did_ seem to like him.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Henrietta fully thought so herself, before Captain Wentworth came; but","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"from that time Cousin Charles had been very much forgotten.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Which of the two sisters was preferred by Captain Wentworth was as yet","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"quite doubtful, as far as Anne’s observation reached. Henrietta was","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"perhaps the prettiest, Louisa had the higher spirits; and she knew not","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"_now_, whether the more gentle or the more lively character were most","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"likely to attract him.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Mr and Mrs Musgrove, either from seeing little, or from an entire","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"confidence in the discretion of both their daughters, and of all the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"young men who came near them, seemed to leave everything to take its","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"chance. There was not the smallest appearance of solicitude or remark","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"about them in the Mansion-house; but it was different at the Cottage:","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the young couple there were more disposed to speculate and wonder; and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Captain Wentworth had not been above four or five times in the Miss","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Musgroves’ company, and Charles Hayter had but just reappeared, when","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Anne had to listen to the opinions of her brother and sister, as to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"_which_ was the one liked best. Charles gave it for Louisa, Mary for","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Henrietta, but quite agreeing that to have him marry either could be","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"extremely delightful.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Charles “had never seen a pleasanter man in his life; and from what he","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"had once heard Captain Wentworth himself say, was very sure that he had","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"not made less than twenty thousand pounds by the war. Here was a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"fortune at once; besides which, there would be the chance of what might","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"be done in any future war; and he was sure Captain Wentworth was as","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"likely a man to distinguish himself as any officer in the navy. Oh! it","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"would be a capital match for either of his sisters.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Upon my word it would,” replied Mary. “Dear me! If he should rise to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"any very great honours! If he should ever be made a baronet! ‘Lady","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Wentworth’ sounds very well. That would be a noble thing, indeed, for","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Henrietta! She would take place of me then, and Henrietta would not","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"dislike that. Sir Frederick and Lady Wentworth! It would be but a new","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"creation, however, and I never think much of your new creations.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"It suited Mary best to think Henrietta the one preferred on the very","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"account of Charles Hayter, whose pretensions she wished to see put an","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"end to. She looked down very decidedly upon the Hayters, and thought it","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"would be quite a misfortune to have the existing connection between the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"families renewed—very sad for herself and her children.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“You know,” said she, “I cannot think him at all a fit match for","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Henrietta; and considering the alliances which the Musgroves have made,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"she has no right to throw herself away. I do not think any young woman","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"has a right to make a choice that may be disagreeable and inconvenient","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"to the _principal_ part of her family, and be giving bad connections to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"those who have not been used to them. And, pray, who is Charles Hayter?","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Nothing but a country curate. A most improper match for Miss Musgrove","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"of Uppercross.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Her husband, however, would not agree with her here; for besides having","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"a regard for his cousin, Charles Hayter was an eldest son, and he saw","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"things as an eldest son himself.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Now you are talking nonsense, Mary,” was therefore his answer. “It","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"would not be a _great_ match for Henrietta, but Charles has a very fair","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"chance, through the Spicers, of getting something from the Bishop in","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the course of a year or two; and you will please to remember, that he","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"is the eldest son; whenever my uncle dies, he steps into very pretty","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"property. The estate at Winthrop is not less than two hundred and fifty","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"acres, besides the farm near Taunton, which is some of the best land in","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the country. I grant you, that any of them but Charles would be a very","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"shocking match for Henrietta, and indeed it could not be; he is the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"only one that could be possible; but he is a very good-natured, good","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"sort of a fellow; and whenever Winthrop comes into his hands, he will","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"make a different sort of place of it, and live in a very different sort","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"of way; and with that property, he will never be a contemptible","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"man—good, freehold property. No, no; Henrietta might do worse than","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"marry Charles Hayter; and if she has him, and Louisa can get Captain","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Wentworth, I shall be very well satisfied.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Charles may say what he pleases,” cried Mary to Anne, as soon as he","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"was out of the room, “but it would be shocking to have Henrietta marry","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Charles Hayter; a very bad thing for _her_, and still worse for _me;_","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and therefore it is very much to be wished that Captain Wentworth may","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"soon put him quite out of her head, and I have very little doubt that","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"he has. She took hardly any notice of Charles Hayter yesterday. I wish","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"you had been there to see her behaviour. And as to Captain Wentworth’s","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"liking Louisa as well as Henrietta, it is nonsense to say so; for he","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"certainly _does_ like Henrietta a great deal the best. But Charles is","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"so positive! I wish you had been with us yesterday, for then you might","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"have decided between us; and I am sure you would have thought as I did,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"unless you had been determined to give it against me.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"A dinner at Mr Musgrove’s had been the occasion when all these things","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"should have been seen by Anne; but she had staid at home, under the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"mixed plea of a headache of her own, and some return of indisposition","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"in little Charles. She had thought only of avoiding Captain Wentworth;","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"but an escape from being appealed to as umpire was now added to the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"advantages of a quiet evening.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"As to Captain Wentworth’s views, she deemed it of more consequence that","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"he should know his own mind early enough not to be endangering the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"happiness of either sister, or impeaching his own honour, than that he","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"should prefer Henrietta to Louisa, or Louisa to Henrietta. Either of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"them would, in all probability, make him an affectionate, good-humoured","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"wife. With regard to Charles Hayter, she had delicacy which must be","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"pained by any lightness of conduct in a well-meaning young woman, and a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"heart to sympathize in any of the sufferings it occasioned; but if","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Henrietta found herself mistaken in the nature of her feelings, the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"alteration could not be understood too soon.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Charles Hayter had met with much to disquiet and mortify him in his","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"cousin’s behaviour. She had too old a regard for him to be so wholly","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"estranged as might in two meetings extinguish every past hope, and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"leave him nothing to do but to keep away from Uppercross: but there was","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"such a change as became very alarming, when such a man as Captain","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Wentworth was to be regarded as the probable cause. He had been absent","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"only two Sundays, and when they parted, had left her interested, even","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"to the height of his wishes, in his prospect of soon quitting his","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"present curacy, and obtaining that of Uppercross instead. It had then","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"seemed the object nearest her heart, that Dr Shirley, the rector, who","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"for more than forty years had been zealously discharging all the duties","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"of his office, but was now growing too infirm for many of them, should","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"be quite fixed on engaging a curate; should make his curacy quite as","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"good as he could afford, and should give Charles Hayter the promise of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"it. The advantage of his having to come only to Uppercross, instead of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"going six miles another way; of his having, in every respect, a better","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"curacy; of his belonging to their dear Dr Shirley, and of dear, good Dr","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Shirley’s being relieved from the duty which he could no longer get","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"through without most injurious fatigue, had been a great deal, even to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Louisa, but had been almost everything to Henrietta. When he came back,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"alas! the zeal of the business was gone by. Louisa could not listen at","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"all to his account of a conversation which he had just held with Dr","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Shirley: she was at a window, looking out for Captain Wentworth; and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"even Henrietta had at best only a divided attention to give, and seemed","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"to have forgotten all the former doubt and solicitude of the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"negotiation.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Well, I am very glad indeed: but I always thought you would have it; I","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"always thought you sure. It did not appear to me that—in short, you","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"know, Dr Shirley _must_ have a curate, and you had secured his promise.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Is he coming, Louisa?”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"One morning, very soon after the dinner at the Musgroves, at which Anne","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"had not been present, Captain Wentworth walked into the drawing-room at","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the Cottage, where were only herself and the little invalid Charles,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"who was lying on the sofa.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"The surprise of finding himself almost alone with Anne Elliot, deprived","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"his manners of their usual composure: he started, and could only say,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“I thought the Miss Musgroves had been here: Mrs Musgrove told me I","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"should find them here,” before he walked to the window to recollect","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"himself, and feel how he ought to behave.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“They are up stairs with my sister: they will be down in a few moments,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"I dare say,” had been Anne’s reply, in all the confusion that was","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"natural; and if the child had not called her to come and do something","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"for him, she would have been out of the room the next moment, and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"released Captain Wentworth as well as herself.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"He continued at the window; and after calmly and politely saying, “I","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"hope the little boy is better,” was silent.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"She was obliged to kneel down by the sofa, and remain there to satisfy","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"her patient; and thus they continued a few minutes, when, to her very","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"great satisfaction, she heard some other person crossing the little","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"vestibule. She hoped, on turning her head, to see the master of the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"house; but it proved to be one much less calculated for making matters","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"easy—Charles Hayter, probably not at all better pleased by the sight of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Captain Wentworth than Captain Wentworth had been by the sight of Anne.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"She only attempted to say, “How do you do? Will you not sit down? The","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"others will be here presently.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Captain Wentworth, however, came from his window, apparently not","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"ill-disposed for conversation; but Charles Hayter soon put an end to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"his attempts by seating himself near the table, and taking up the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"newspaper; and Captain Wentworth returned to his window.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Another minute brought another addition. The younger boy, a remarkable","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"stout, forward child, of two years old, having got the door opened for","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"him by some one without, made his determined appearance among them, and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"went straight to the sofa to see what was going on, and put in his","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"claim to anything good that might be giving away.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"There being nothing to eat, he could only have some play; and as his","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"aunt would not let him tease his sick brother, he began to fasten","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"himself upon her, as she knelt, in such a way that, busy as she was","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"about Charles, she could not shake him off. She spoke to him, ordered,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"entreated, and insisted in vain. Once she did contrive to push him","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"away, but the boy had the greater pleasure in getting upon her back","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"again directly.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Walter,” said she, “get down this moment. You are extremely","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"troublesome. I am very angry with you.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Walter,” cried Charles Hayter, “why do you not do as you are bid? Do","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"not you hear your aunt speak? Come to me, Walter, come to cousin","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Charles.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"But not a bit did Walter stir.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"In another moment, however, she found herself in the state of being","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"released from him; some one was taking him from her, though he had bent","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"down her head so much, that his little sturdy hands were unfastened","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"from around her neck, and he was resolutely borne away, before she knew","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"that Captain Wentworth had done it.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Her sensations on the discovery made her perfectly speechless. She","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"could not even thank him. She could only hang over little Charles, with","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"most disordered feelings. His kindness in stepping forward to her","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"relief, the manner, the silence in which it had passed, the little","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"particulars of the circumstance, with the conviction soon forced on her","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"by the noise he was studiously making with the child, that he meant to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"avoid hearing her thanks, and rather sought to testify that her","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"conversation was the last of his wants, produced such a confusion of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"varying, but very painful agitation, as she could not recover from,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"till enabled by the entrance of Mary and the Miss Musgroves to make","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"over her little patient to their cares, and leave the room. She could","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"not stay. It might have been an opportunity of watching the loves and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"jealousies of the four—they were now altogether; but she could stay for","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"none of it. It was evident that Charles Hayter was not well inclined","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"towards Captain Wentworth. She had a strong impression of his having","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"said, in a vext tone of voice, after Captain Wentworth’s interference,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“You ought to have minded _me_, Walter; I told you not to teaze your","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"aunt;” and could comprehend his regretting that Captain Wentworth","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"should do what he ought to have done himself. But neither Charles","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Hayter’s feelings, nor anybody’s feelings, could interest her, till she","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"had a little better arranged her own. She was ashamed of herself, quite","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"ashamed of being so nervous, so overcome by such a trifle; but so it","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"was, and it required a long application of solitude and reflection to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"recover her.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"CHAPTER X.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Other opportunities of making her observations could not fail to occur.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Anne had soon been in company with all the four together often enough","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"to have an opinion, though too wise to acknowledge as much at home,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"where she knew it would have satisfied neither husband nor wife; for","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"while she considered Louisa to be rather the favourite, she could not","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"but think, as far as she might dare to judge from memory and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"experience, that Captain Wentworth was not in love with either. They","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"were more in love with him; yet there it was not love. It was a little","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"fever of admiration; but it might, probably must, end in love with","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"some. Charles Hayter seemed aware of being slighted, and yet Henrietta","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"had sometimes the air of being divided between them. Anne longed for","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the power of representing to them all what they were about, and of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"pointing out some of the evils they were exposing themselves to. She","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"did not attribute guile to any. It was the highest satisfaction to her","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"to believe Captain Wentworth not in the least aware of the pain he was","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"occasioning. There was no triumph, no pitiful triumph in his manner. He","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"had, probably, never heard, and never thought of any claims of Charles","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Hayter. He was only wrong in accepting the attentions (for accepting","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"must be the word) of two young women at once.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"After a short struggle, however, Charles Hayter seemed to quit the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"field. Three days had passed without his coming once to Uppercross; a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"most decided change. He had even refused one regular invitation to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"dinner; and having been found on the occasion by Mr Musgrove with some","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"large books before him, Mr and Mrs Musgrove were sure all could not be","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"right, and talked, with grave faces, of his studying himself to death.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"It was Mary’s hope and belief that he had received a positive dismissal","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"from Henrietta, and her husband lived under the constant dependence of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"seeing him to-morrow. Anne could only feel that Charles Hayter was","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"wise.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"One morning, about this time Charles Musgrove and Captain Wentworth","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"being gone a-shooting together, as the sisters in the Cottage were","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"sitting quietly at work, they were visited at the window by the sisters","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"from the Mansion-house.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"It was a very fine November day, and the Miss Musgroves came through","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the little grounds, and stopped for no other purpose than to say, that","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"they were going to take a _long_ walk, and, therefore, concluded Mary","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"could not like to go with them; and when Mary immediately replied, with","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"some jealousy at not being supposed a good walker, “Oh, yes, I should","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"like to join you very much, I am very fond of a long walk;” Anne felt","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"persuaded, by the looks of the two girls, that it was precisely what","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"they did not wish, and admired again the sort of necessity which the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"family habits seemed to produce, of everything being to be","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"communicated, and everything being to be done together, however","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"undesired and inconvenient. She tried to dissuade Mary from going, but","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"in vain; and that being the case, thought it best to accept the Miss","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Musgroves’ much more cordial invitation to herself to go likewise, as","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"she might be useful in turning back with her sister, and lessening the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"interference in any plan of their own.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“I cannot imagine why they should suppose I should not like a long","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"walk,” said Mary, as she went up stairs. “Everybody is always supposing","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"that I am not a good walker; and yet they would not have been pleased,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"if we had refused to join them. When people come in this manner on","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"purpose to ask us, how can one say no?”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Just as they were setting off, the gentlemen returned. They had taken","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"out a young dog, who had spoilt their sport, and sent them back early.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Their time and strength, and spirits, were, therefore, exactly ready","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"for this walk, and they entered into it with pleasure. Could Anne have","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"foreseen such a junction, she would have staid at home; but, from some","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"feelings of interest and curiosity, she fancied now that it was too","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"late to retract, and the whole six set forward together in the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"direction chosen by the Miss Musgroves, who evidently considered the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"walk as under their guidance.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Anne’s object was, not to be in the way of anybody; and where the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"narrow paths across the fields made many separations necessary, to keep","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"with her brother and sister. Her _pleasure_ in the walk must arise from","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the exercise and the day, from the view of the last smiles of the year","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"upon the tawny leaves, and withered hedges, and from repeating to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"herself some few of the thousand poetical descriptions extant of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"autumn, that season of peculiar and inexhaustible influence on the mind","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"of taste and tenderness, that season which had drawn from every poet,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"worthy of being read, some attempt at description, or some lines of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"feeling. She occupied her mind as much as possible in such like musings","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and quotations; but it was not possible, that when within reach of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Captain Wentworth’s conversation with either of the Miss Musgroves, she","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"should not try to hear it; yet she caught little very remarkable. It","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"was mere lively chat, such as any young persons, on an intimate","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"footing, might fall into. He was more engaged with Louisa than with","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Henrietta. Louisa certainly put more forward for his notice than her","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"sister. This distinction appeared to increase, and there was one speech","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"of Louisa’s which struck her. After one of the many praises of the day,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"which were continually bursting forth, Captain Wentworth added:—","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“What glorious weather for the Admiral and my sister! They meant to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"take a long drive this morning; perhaps we may hail them from some of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"these hills. They talked of coming into this side of the country. I","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"wonder whereabouts they will upset to-day. Oh! it does happen very","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"often, I assure you; but my sister makes nothing of it; she would as","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"lieve be tossed out as not.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Ah! You make the most of it, I know,” cried Louisa, “but if it were","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"really so, I should do just the same in her place. If I loved a man, as","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"she loves the Admiral, I would always be with him, nothing should ever","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"separate us, and I would rather be overturned by him, than driven","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"safely by anybody else.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"It was spoken with enthusiasm.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Had you?” cried he, catching the same tone; “I honour you!” And there","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"was silence between them for a little while.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Anne could not immediately fall into a quotation again. The sweet","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"scenes of autumn were for a while put by, unless some tender sonnet,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"fraught with the apt analogy of the declining year, with declining","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"happiness, and the images of youth and hope, and spring, all gone","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"together, blessed her memory. She roused herself to say, as they struck","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"by order into another path, “Is not this one of the ways to Winthrop?”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"But nobody heard, or, at least, nobody answered her.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Winthrop, however, or its environs—for young men are, sometimes to be","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"met with, strolling about near home—was their destination; and after","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"another half mile of gradual ascent through large enclosures, where the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"ploughs at work, and the fresh made path spoke the farmer counteracting","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the sweets of poetical despondence, and meaning to have spring again,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"they gained the summit of the most considerable hill, which parted","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Uppercross and Winthrop, and soon commanded a full view of the latter,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"at the foot of the hill on the other side.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Winthrop, without beauty and without dignity, was stretched before","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"them; an indifferent house, standing low, and hemmed in by the barns","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and buildings of a farm-yard.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Mary exclaimed, “Bless me! here is Winthrop. I declare I had no idea!","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Well now, I think we had better turn back; I am excessively tired.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Henrietta, conscious and ashamed, and seeing no cousin Charles walking","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"along any path, or leaning against any gate, was ready to do as Mary","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"wished; but “No!” said Charles Musgrove, and “No, no!” cried Louisa","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"more eagerly, and taking her sister aside, seemed to be arguing the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"matter warmly.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Charles, in the meanwhile, was very decidedly declaring his resolution","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"of calling on his aunt, now that he was so near; and very evidently,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"though more fearfully, trying to induce his wife to go too. But this","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"was one of the points on which the lady shewed her strength; and when","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"he recommended the advantage of resting herself a quarter of an hour at","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Winthrop, as she felt so tired, she resolutely answered, “Oh! no,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"indeed! walking up that hill again would do her more harm than any","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"sitting down could do her good;” and, in short, her look and manner","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"declared, that go she would not.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"After a little succession of these sort of debates and consultations,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"it was settled between Charles and his two sisters, that he and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Henrietta should just run down for a few minutes, to see their aunt and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"cousins, while the rest of the party waited for them at the top of the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"hill. Louisa seemed the principal arranger of the plan; and, as she","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"went a little way with them, down the hill, still talking to Henrietta,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Mary took the opportunity of looking scornfully around her, and saying","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"to Captain Wentworth—","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“It is very unpleasant, having such connexions! But, I assure you, I","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"have never been in the house above twice in my life.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"She received no other answer, than an artificial, assenting smile,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"followed by a contemptuous glance, as he turned away, which Anne","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"perfectly knew the meaning of.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"The brow of the hill, where they remained, was a cheerful spot: Louisa","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"returned; and Mary, finding a comfortable seat for herself on the step","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"of a stile, was very well satisfied so long as the others all stood","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"about her; but when Louisa drew Captain Wentworth away, to try for a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"gleaning of nuts in an adjoining hedge-row, and they were gone by","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"degrees quite out of sight and sound, Mary was happy no longer; she","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"quarrelled with her own seat, was sure Louisa had got a much better","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"somewhere, and nothing could prevent her from going to look for a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"better also. She turned through the same gate, but could not see them.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Anne found a nice seat for her, on a dry sunny bank, under the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"hedge-row, in which she had no doubt of their still being, in some spot","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"or other. Mary sat down for a moment, but it would not do; she was sure","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Louisa had found a better seat somewhere else, and she would go on till","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"she overtook her.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Anne, really tired herself, was glad to sit down; and she very soon","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"heard Captain Wentworth and Louisa in the hedge-row, behind her, as if","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"making their way back along the rough, wild sort of channel, down the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"centre. They were speaking as they drew near. Louisa’s voice was the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"first distinguished. She seemed to be in the middle of some eager","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"speech. What Anne first heard was—","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“And so, I made her go. I could not bear that she should be frightened","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"from the visit by such nonsense. What! would I be turned back from","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"doing a thing that I had determined to do, and that I knew to be right,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"by the airs and interference of such a person, or of any person I may","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"say? No, I have no idea of being so easily persuaded. When I have made","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"up my mind, I have made it; and Henrietta seemed entirely to have made","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"up hers to call at Winthrop to-day; and yet, she was as near giving it","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"up, out of nonsensical complaisance!”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“She would have turned back then, but for you?”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“She would indeed. I am almost ashamed to say it.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Happy for her, to have such a mind as yours at hand! After the hints","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"you gave just now, which did but confirm my own observations, the last","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"time I was in company with him, I need not affect to have no","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"comprehension of what is going on. I see that more than a mere dutiful","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"morning visit to your aunt was in question; and woe betide him, and her","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"too, when it comes to things of consequence, when they are placed in","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"circumstances requiring fortitude and strength of mind, if she have not","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"resolution enough to resist idle interference in such a trifle as this.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Your sister is an amiable creature; but _yours_ is the character of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"decision and firmness, I see. If you value her conduct or happiness,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"infuse as much of your own spirit into her as you can. But this, no","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"doubt, you have been always doing. It is the worst evil of too yielding","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and indecisive a character, that no influence over it can be depended","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"on. You are never sure of a good impression being durable; everybody","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"may sway it. Let those who would be happy be firm. Here is a nut,” said","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"he, catching one down from an upper bough, “to exemplify: a beautiful","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"glossy nut, which, blessed with original strength, has outlived all the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"storms of autumn. Not a puncture, not a weak spot anywhere. This nut,”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"he continued, with playful solemnity, “while so many of his brethren","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"have fallen and been trodden under foot, is still in possession of all","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the happiness that a hazel nut can be supposed capable of.” Then","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"returning to his former earnest tone—“My first wish for all whom I am","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"interested in, is that they should be firm. If Louisa Musgrove would be","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"beautiful and happy in her November of life, she will cherish all her","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"present powers of mind.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"He had done, and was unanswered. It would have surprised Anne if Louisa","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"could have readily answered such a speech: words of such interest,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"spoken with such serious warmth! She could imagine what Louisa was","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"feeling. For herself, she feared to move, lest she should be seen.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"While she remained, a bush of low rambling holly protected her, and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"they were moving on. Before they were beyond her hearing, however,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Louisa spoke again.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Mary is good-natured enough in many respects,” said she; “but she does","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"sometimes provoke me excessively, by her nonsense and pride—the Elliot","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"pride. She has a great deal too much of the Elliot pride. We do so wish","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"that Charles had married Anne instead. I suppose you know he wanted to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"marry Anne?”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"After a moment’s pause, Captain Wentworth said—","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Do you mean that she refused him?”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Oh! yes; certainly.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“When did that happen?”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“I do not exactly know, for Henrietta and I were at school at the time;","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"but I believe about a year before he married Mary. I wish she had","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"accepted him. We should all have liked her a great deal better; and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"papa and mamma always think it was her great friend Lady Russell’s","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"doing, that she did not. They think Charles might not be learned and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"bookish enough to please Lady Russell, and that therefore, she","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"persuaded Anne to refuse him.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"The sounds were retreating, and Anne distinguished no more. Her own","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"emotions still kept her fixed. She had much to recover from, before she","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"could move. The listener’s proverbial fate was not absolutely hers; she","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"had heard no evil of herself, but she had heard a great deal of very","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"painful import. She saw how her own character was considered by Captain","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Wentworth, and there had been just that degree of feeling and curiosity","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"about her in his manner which must give her extreme agitation.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"As soon as she could, she went after Mary, and having found, and walked","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"back with her to their former station, by the stile, felt some comfort","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"in their whole party being immediately afterwards collected, and once","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"more in motion together. Her spirits wanted the solitude and silence","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"which only numbers could give.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Charles and Henrietta returned, bringing, as may be conjectured,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Charles Hayter with them. The minutiae of the business Anne could not","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"attempt to understand; even Captain Wentworth did not seem admitted to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"perfect confidence here; but that there had been a withdrawing on the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"gentleman’s side, and a relenting on the lady’s, and that they were now","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"very glad to be together again, did not admit a doubt. Henrietta looked","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"a little ashamed, but very well pleased;—Charles Hayter exceedingly","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"happy: and they were devoted to each other almost from the first","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"instant of their all setting forward for Uppercross.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Everything now marked out Louisa for Captain Wentworth; nothing could","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"be plainer; and where many divisions were necessary, or even where they","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"were not, they walked side by side nearly as much as the other two. In","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"a long strip of meadow land, where there was ample space for all, they","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"were thus divided, forming three distinct parties; and to that party of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the three which boasted least animation, and least complaisance, Anne","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"necessarily belonged. She joined Charles and Mary, and was tired enough","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"to be very glad of Charles’s other arm; but Charles, though in very","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"good humour with her, was out of temper with his wife. Mary had shewn","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"herself disobliging to him, and was now to reap the consequence, which","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"consequence was his dropping her arm almost every moment to cut off the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"heads of some nettles in the hedge with his switch; and when Mary began","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"to complain of it, and lament her being ill-used, according to custom,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"in being on the hedge side, while Anne was never incommoded on the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"other, he dropped the arms of both to hunt after a weasel which he had","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"a momentary glance of, and they could hardly get him along at all.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"This long meadow bordered a lane, which their footpath, at the end of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"it was to cross, and when the party had all reached the gate of exit,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the carriage advancing in the same direction, which had been some time","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"heard, was just coming up, and proved to be Admiral Croft’s gig. He and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"his wife had taken their intended drive, and were returning home. Upon","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"hearing how long a walk the young people had engaged in, they kindly","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"offered a seat to any lady who might be particularly tired; it would","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"save her a full mile, and they were going through Uppercross. The","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"invitation was general, and generally declined. The Miss Musgroves were","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"not at all tired, and Mary was either offended, by not being asked","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"before any of the others, or what Louisa called the Elliot pride could","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"not endure to make a third in a one horse chaise.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"The walking party had crossed the lane, and were surmounting an","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"opposite stile, and the Admiral was putting his horse in motion again,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"when Captain Wentworth cleared the hedge in a moment to say something","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"to his sister. The something might be guessed by its effects.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Miss Elliot, I am sure _you_ are tired,” cried Mrs Croft. “Do let us","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"have the pleasure of taking you home. Here is excellent room for three,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"I assure you. If we were all like you, I believe we might sit four. You","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"must, indeed, you must.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Anne was still in the lane; and though instinctively beginning to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"decline, she was not allowed to proceed. The Admiral’s kind urgency","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"came in support of his wife’s; they would not be refused; they","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"compressed themselves into the smallest possible space to leave her a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"corner, and Captain Wentworth, without saying a word, turned to her,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and quietly obliged her to be assisted into the carriage.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Yes; he had done it. She was in the carriage, and felt that he had","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"placed her there, that his will and his hands had done it, that she","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"owed it to his perception of her fatigue, and his resolution to give","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"her rest. She was very much affected by the view of his disposition","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"towards her, which all these things made apparent. This little","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"circumstance seemed the completion of all that had gone before. She","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"understood him. He could not forgive her, but he could not be","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"unfeeling. Though condemning her for the past, and considering it with","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"high and unjust resentment, though perfectly careless of her, and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"though becoming attached to another, still he could not see her suffer,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"without the desire of giving her relief. It was a remainder of former","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"sentiment; it was an impulse of pure, though unacknowledged friendship;","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"it was a proof of his own warm and amiable heart, which she could not","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"contemplate without emotions so compounded of pleasure and pain, that","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"she knew not which prevailed.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Her answers to the kindness and the remarks of her companions were at","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"first unconsciously given. They had travelled half their way along the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"rough lane, before she was quite awake to what they said. She then","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"found them talking of “Frederick.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“He certainly means to have one or other of those two girls, Sophy,”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"said the Admiral; “but there is no saying which. He has been running","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"after them, too, long enough, one would think, to make up his mind. Ay,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"this comes of the peace. If it were war now, he would have settled it","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"long ago. We sailors, Miss Elliot, cannot afford to make long","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"courtships in time of war. How many days was it, my dear, between the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"first time of my seeing you and our sitting down together in our","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"lodgings at North Yarmouth?”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“We had better not talk about it, my dear,” replied Mrs Croft,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"pleasantly; “for if Miss Elliot were to hear how soon we came to an","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"understanding, she would never be persuaded that we could be happy","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"together. I had known you by character, however, long before.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Well, and I had heard of you as a very pretty girl, and what were we","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"to wait for besides? I do not like having such things so long in hand.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"I wish Frederick would spread a little more canvass, and bring us home","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"one of these young ladies to Kellynch. Then there would always be","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"company for them. And very nice young ladies they both are; I hardly","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"know one from the other.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Very good humoured, unaffected girls, indeed,” said Mrs Croft, in a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"tone of calmer praise, such as made Anne suspect that her keener powers","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"might not consider either of them as quite worthy of her brother; “and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"a very respectable family. One could not be connected with better","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"people. My dear Admiral, that post! we shall certainly take that post.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"But by coolly giving the reins a better direction herself they happily","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"passed the danger; and by once afterwards judiciously putting out her","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"hand they neither fell into a rut, nor ran foul of a dung-cart; and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Anne, with some amusement at their style of driving, which she imagined","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"no bad representation of the general guidance of their affairs, found","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"herself safely deposited by them at the Cottage.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"CHAPTER XI.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"The time now approached for Lady Russell’s return: the day was even","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"fixed; and Anne, being engaged to join her as soon as she was","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"resettled, was looking forward to an early removal to Kellynch, and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"beginning to think how her own comfort was likely to be affected by it.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"It would place her in the same village with Captain Wentworth, within","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"half a mile of him; they would have to frequent the same church, and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"there must be intercourse between the two families. This was against","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"her; but on the other hand, he spent so much of his time at Uppercross,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"that in removing thence she might be considered rather as leaving him","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"behind, than as going towards him; and, upon the whole, she believed","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"she must, on this interesting question, be the gainer, almost as","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"certainly as in her change of domestic society, in leaving poor Mary","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"for Lady Russell.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"She wished it might be possible for her to avoid ever seeing Captain","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Wentworth at the Hall: those rooms had witnessed former meetings which","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"would be brought too painfully before her; but she was yet more anxious","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"for the possibility of Lady Russell and Captain Wentworth never meeting","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"anywhere. They did not like each other, and no renewal of acquaintance","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"now could do any good; and were Lady Russell to see them together, she","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"might think that he had too much self-possession, and she too little.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"These points formed her chief solicitude in anticipating her removal","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"from Uppercross, where she felt she had been stationed quite long","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"enough. Her usefulness to little Charles would always give some","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"sweetness to the memory of her two months’ visit there, but he was","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"gaining strength apace, and she had nothing else to stay for.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"The conclusion of her visit, however, was diversified in a way which","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"she had not at all imagined. Captain Wentworth, after being unseen and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"unheard of at Uppercross for two whole days, appeared again among them","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"to justify himself by a relation of what had kept him away.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"A letter from his friend, Captain Harville, having found him out at","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"last, had brought intelligence of Captain Harville’s being settled with","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"his family at Lyme for the winter; of their being therefore, quite","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"unknowingly, within twenty miles of each other. Captain Harville had","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"never been in good health since a severe wound which he received two","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"years before, and Captain Wentworth’s anxiety to see him had determined","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"him to go immediately to Lyme. He had been there for four-and-twenty","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"hours. His acquittal was complete, his friendship warmly honoured, a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"lively interest excited for his friend, and his description of the fine","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"country about Lyme so feelingly attended to by the party, that an","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"earnest desire to see Lyme themselves, and a project for going thither","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"was the consequence.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"The young people were all wild to see Lyme. Captain Wentworth talked of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"going there again himself, it was only seventeen miles from Uppercross;","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"though November, the weather was by no means bad; and, in short,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Louisa, who was the most eager of the eager, having formed the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"resolution to go, and besides the pleasure of doing as she liked, being","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"now armed with the idea of merit in maintaining her own way, bore down","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"all the wishes of her father and mother for putting it off till summer;","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and to Lyme they were to go—Charles, Mary, Anne, Henrietta, Louisa, and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Captain Wentworth.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"The first heedless scheme had been to go in the morning and return at","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"night; but to this Mr Musgrove, for the sake of his horses, would not","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"consent; and when it came to be rationally considered, a day in the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"middle of November would not leave much time for seeing a new place,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"after deducting seven hours, as the nature of the country required, for","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"going and returning. They were, consequently, to stay the night there,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and not to be expected back till the next day’s dinner. This was felt","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"to be a considerable amendment; and though they all met at the Great","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"House at rather an early breakfast hour, and set off very punctually,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"it was so much past noon before the two carriages, Mr Musgrove’s coach","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"containing the four ladies, and Charles’s curricle, in which he drove","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Captain Wentworth, were descending the long hill into Lyme, and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"entering upon the still steeper street of the town itself, that it was","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"very evident they would not have more than time for looking about them,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"before the light and warmth of the day were gone.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"After securing accommodations, and ordering a dinner at one of the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"inns, the next thing to be done was unquestionably to walk directly","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"down to the sea. They were come too late in the year for any amusement","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"or variety which Lyme, as a public place, might offer. The rooms were","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"shut up, the lodgers almost all gone, scarcely any family but of the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"residents left; and, as there is nothing to admire in the buildings","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"themselves, the remarkable situation of the town, the principal street","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"almost hurrying into the water, the walk to the Cobb, skirting round","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the pleasant little bay, which, in the season, is animated with bathing","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"machines and company; the Cobb itself, its old wonders and new","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"improvements, with the very beautiful line of cliffs stretching out to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the east of the town, are what the stranger’s eye will seek; and a very","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"strange stranger it must be, who does not see charms in the immediate","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"environs of Lyme, to make him wish to know it better. The scenes in its","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"neighbourhood, Charmouth, with its high grounds and extensive sweeps of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"country, and still more, its sweet, retired bay, backed by dark cliffs,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"where fragments of low rock among the sands, make it the happiest spot","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"for watching the flow of the tide, for sitting in unwearied","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"contemplation; the woody varieties of the cheerful village of Up Lyme;","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and, above all, Pinny, with its green chasms between romantic rocks,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"where the scattered forest trees and orchards of luxuriant growth,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"declare that many a generation must have passed away since the first","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"partial falling of the cliff prepared the ground for such a state,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"where a scene so wonderful and so lovely is exhibited, as may more than","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"equal any of the resembling scenes of the far-famed Isle of Wight:","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"these places must be visited, and visited again, to make the worth of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Lyme understood.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"The party from Uppercross passing down by the now deserted and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"melancholy looking rooms, and still descending, soon found themselves","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"on the sea-shore; and lingering only, as all must linger and gaze on a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"first return to the sea, who ever deserved to look on it at all,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"proceeded towards the Cobb, equally their object in itself and on","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Captain Wentworth’s account: for in a small house, near the foot of an","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"old pier of unknown date, were the Harvilles settled. Captain Wentworth","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"turned in to call on his friend; the others walked on, and he was to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"join them on the Cobb.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"They were by no means tired of wondering and admiring; and not even","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Louisa seemed to feel that they had parted with Captain Wentworth long,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"when they saw him coming after them, with three companions, all well","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"known already, by description, to be Captain and Mrs Harville, and a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Captain Benwick, who was staying with them.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Captain Benwick had some time ago been first lieutenant of the Laconia;","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and the account which Captain Wentworth had given of him, on his return","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"from Lyme before, his warm praise of him as an excellent young man and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"an officer, whom he had always valued highly, which must have stamped","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"him well in the esteem of every listener, had been followed by a little","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"history of his private life, which rendered him perfectly interesting","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"in the eyes of all the ladies. He had been engaged to Captain","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Harville’s sister, and was now mourning her loss. They had been a year","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"or two waiting for fortune and promotion. Fortune came, his prize-money","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"as lieutenant being great; promotion, too, came at _last;_ but Fanny","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Harville did not live to know it. She had died the preceding summer","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"while he was at sea. Captain Wentworth believed it impossible for man","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"to be more attached to woman than poor Benwick had been to Fanny","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Harville, or to be more deeply afflicted under the dreadful change. He","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"considered his disposition as of the sort which must suffer heavily,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"uniting very strong feelings with quiet, serious, and retiring manners,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and a decided taste for reading, and sedentary pursuits. To finish the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"interest of the story, the friendship between him and the Harvilles","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"seemed, if possible, augmented by the event which closed all their","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"views of alliance, and Captain Benwick was now living with them","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"entirely. Captain Harville had taken his present house for half a year;","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"his taste, and his health, and his fortune, all directing him to a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"residence inexpensive, and by the sea; and the grandeur of the country,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and the retirement of Lyme in the winter, appeared exactly adapted to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Captain Benwick’s state of mind. The sympathy and good-will excited","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"towards Captain Benwick was very great.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“And yet,” said Anne to herself, as they now moved forward to meet the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"party, “he has not, perhaps, a more sorrowing heart than I have. I","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"cannot believe his prospects so blighted for ever. He is younger than I","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"am; younger in feeling, if not in fact; younger as a man. He will rally","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"again, and be happy with another.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"They all met, and were introduced. Captain Harville was a tall, dark","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"man, with a sensible, benevolent countenance; a little lame; and from","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"strong features and want of health, looking much older than Captain","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Wentworth. Captain Benwick looked, and was, the youngest of the three,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and, compared with either of them, a little man. He had a pleasing face","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and a melancholy air, just as he ought to have, and drew back from","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"conversation.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Captain Harville, though not equalling Captain Wentworth in manners,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"was a perfect gentleman, unaffected, warm, and obliging. Mrs Harville,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"a degree less polished than her husband, seemed, however, to have the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"same good feelings; and nothing could be more pleasant than their","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"desire of considering the whole party as friends of their own, because","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the friends of Captain Wentworth, or more kindly hospitable than their","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"entreaties for their all promising to dine with them. The dinner,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"already ordered at the inn, was at last, though unwillingly, accepted","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"as a excuse; but they seemed almost hurt that Captain Wentworth should","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"have brought any such party to Lyme, without considering it as a thing","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"of course that they should dine with them.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"There was so much attachment to Captain Wentworth in all this, and such","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"a bewitching charm in a degree of hospitality so uncommon, so unlike","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the usual style of give-and-take invitations, and dinners of formality","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and display, that Anne felt her spirits not likely to be benefited by","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"an increasing acquaintance among his brother-officers. “These would","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"have been all my friends,” was her thought; and she had to struggle","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"against a great tendency to lowness.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"On quitting the Cobb, they all went in-doors with their new friends,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and found rooms so small as none but those who invite from the heart","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"could think capable of accommodating so many. Anne had a moment’s","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"astonishment on the subject herself; but it was soon lost in the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"pleasanter feelings which sprang from the sight of all the ingenious","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"contrivances and nice arrangements of Captain Harville, to turn the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"actual space to the best account, to supply the deficiencies of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"lodging-house furniture, and defend the windows and doors against the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"winter storms to be expected. The varieties in the fitting-up of the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"rooms, where the common necessaries provided by the owner, in the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"common indifferent plight, were contrasted with some few articles of a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"rare species of wood, excellently worked up, and with something curious","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and valuable from all the distant countries Captain Harville had","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"visited, were more than amusing to Anne; connected as it all was with","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"his profession, the fruit of its labours, the effect of its influence","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"on his habits, the picture of repose and domestic happiness it","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"presented, made it to her a something more, or less, than","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"gratification.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Captain Harville was no reader; but he had contrived excellent","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"accommodations, and fashioned very pretty shelves, for a tolerable","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"collection of well-bound volumes, the property of Captain Benwick. His","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"lameness prevented him from taking much exercise; but a mind of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"usefulness and ingenuity seemed to furnish him with constant employment","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"within. He drew, he varnished, he carpentered, he glued; he made toys","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"for the children; he fashioned new netting-needles and pins with","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"improvements; and if everything else was done, sat down to his large","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"fishing-net at one corner of the room.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Anne thought she left great happiness behind her when they quitted the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"house; and Louisa, by whom she found herself walking, burst forth into","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"raptures of admiration and delight on the character of the navy; their","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"friendliness, their brotherliness, their openness, their uprightness;","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"protesting that she was convinced of sailors having more worth and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"warmth than any other set of men in England; that they only knew how to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"live, and they only deserved to be respected and loved.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"They went back to dress and dine; and so well had the scheme answered","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"already, that nothing was found amiss; though its being “so entirely","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"out of season,” and the “no thoroughfare of Lyme,” and the “no","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"expectation of company,” had brought many apologies from the heads of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the inn.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Anne found herself by this time growing so much more hardened to being","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"in Captain Wentworth’s company than she had at first imagined could","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"ever be, that the sitting down to the same table with him now, and the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"interchange of the common civilities attending on it (they never got","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"beyond), was become a mere nothing.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"The nights were too dark for the ladies to meet again till the morrow,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"but Captain Harville had promised them a visit in the evening; and he","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"came, bringing his friend also, which was more than had been expected,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"it having been agreed that Captain Benwick had all the appearance of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"being oppressed by the presence of so many strangers. He ventured among","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"them again, however, though his spirits certainly did not seem fit for","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the mirth of the party in general.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"While Captains Wentworth and Harville led the talk on one side of the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"room, and by recurring to former days, supplied anecdotes in abundance","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"to occupy and entertain the others, it fell to Anne’s lot to be placed","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"rather apart with Captain Benwick; and a very good impulse of her","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"nature obliged her to begin an acquaintance with him. He was shy, and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"disposed to abstraction; but the engaging mildness of her countenance,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and gentleness of her manners, soon had their effect; and Anne was well","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"repaid the first trouble of exertion. He was evidently a young man of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"considerable taste in reading, though principally in poetry; and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"besides the persuasion of having given him at least an evening’s","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"indulgence in the discussion of subjects, which his usual companions","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"had probably no concern in, she had the hope of being of real use to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"him in some suggestions as to the duty and benefit of struggling","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"against affliction, which had naturally grown out of their","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"conversation. For, though shy, he did not seem reserved; it had rather","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the appearance of feelings glad to burst their usual restraints; and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"having talked of poetry, the richness of the present age, and gone","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"through a brief comparison of opinion as to the first-rate poets,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"trying to ascertain whether _Marmion_ or _The Lady of the Lake_ were to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"be preferred, and how ranked the _Giaour_ and _The Bride of Abydos;_","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and moreover, how the _Giaour_ was to be pronounced, he showed himself","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"so intimately acquainted with all the tenderest songs of the one poet,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and all the impassioned descriptions of hopeless agony of the other; he","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"repeated, with such tremulous feeling, the various lines which imaged a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"broken heart, or a mind destroyed by wretchedness, and looked so","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"entirely as if he meant to be understood, that she ventured to hope he","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"did not always read only poetry, and to say, that she thought it was","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the misfortune of poetry to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"enjoyed it completely; and that the strong feelings which alone could","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"estimate it truly were the very feelings which ought to taste it but","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"sparingly.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"His looks shewing him not pained, but pleased with this allusion to his","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"situation, she was emboldened to go on; and feeling in herself the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"right of seniority of mind, she ventured to recommend a larger","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"allowance of prose in his daily study; and on being requested to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"particularize, mentioned such works of our best moralists, such","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"collections of the finest letters, such memoirs of characters of worth","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and suffering, as occurred to her at the moment as calculated to rouse","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and fortify the mind by the highest precepts, and the strongest","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"examples of moral and religious endurances.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Captain Benwick listened attentively, and seemed grateful for the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"interest implied; and though with a shake of the head, and sighs which","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"declared his little faith in the efficacy of any books on grief like","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"his, noted down the names of those she recommended, and promised to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"procure and read them.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"When the evening was over, Anne could not but be amused at the idea of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"her coming to Lyme to preach patience and resignation to a young man","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"whom she had never seen before; nor could she help fearing, on more","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"serious reflection, that, like many other great moralists and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"preachers, she had been eloquent on a point in which her own conduct","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"would ill bear examination.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"CHAPTER XII.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Anne and Henrietta, finding themselves the earliest of the party the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"next morning, agreed to stroll down to the sea before breakfast. They","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"went to the sands, to watch the flowing of the tide, which a fine","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"south-easterly breeze was bringing in with all the grandeur which so","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"flat a shore admitted. They praised the morning; gloried in the sea;","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"sympathized in the delight of the fresh-feeling breeze—and were silent;","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"till Henrietta suddenly began again with—","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Oh! yes,—I am quite convinced that, with very few exceptions, the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"sea-air always does good. There can be no doubt of its having been of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the greatest service to Dr Shirley, after his illness, last spring","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"twelvemonth. He declares himself, that coming to Lyme for a month, did","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"him more good than all the medicine he took; and that being by the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"sea always makes him feel young again. Now, I cannot help thinking it","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"a pity that he does not live entirely by the sea. I do think he had","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"better leave Uppercross entirely, and fix at Lyme. Do not you, Anne? Do","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"not you agree with me, that it is the best thing he could do, both for","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"himself and Mrs Shirley? She has cousins here, you know, and many","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"acquaintance, which would make it cheerful for her, and I am sure she","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"would be glad to get to a place where she could have medical attendance","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"at hand, in case of his having another seizure. Indeed I think it quite","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"melancholy to have such excellent people as Dr and Mrs Shirley, who","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"have been doing good all their lives, wearing out their last days in a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"place like Uppercross, where, excepting our family, they seem shut out","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"from all the world. I wish his friends would propose it to him. I","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"really think they ought. And, as to procuring a dispensation, there","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"could be no difficulty at his time of life, and with his character. My","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"only doubt is, whether anything could persuade him to leave his parish.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"He is so very strict and scrupulous in his notions; over-scrupulous I","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"must say. Do not you think, Anne, it is being over-scrupulous? Do not","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"you think it is quite a mistaken point of conscience, when a clergyman","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"sacrifices his health for the sake of duties, which may be just as well","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"performed by another person? And at Lyme too, only seventeen miles off,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"he would be near enough to hear, if people thought there was anything","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"to complain of.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
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{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Anne smiled more than once to herself during this speech, and entered","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"into the subject, as ready to do good by entering into the feelings of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"a young lady as of a young man, though here it was good of a lower","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"standard, for what could be offered but general acquiescence? She said","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"all that was reasonable and proper on the business; felt the claims of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Dr Shirley to repose as she ought; saw how very desirable it was that","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"he should have some active, respectable young man as a resident","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"curate, and was even courteous enough to hint at the advantage of such","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"resident curate’s being married.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“I wish,” said Henrietta, very well pleased with her companion, “I wish","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Lady Russell lived at Uppercross, and were intimate with Dr Shirley. I","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"have always heard of Lady Russell as a woman of the greatest influence","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"with everybody! I always look upon her as able to persuade a person to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"anything! I am afraid of her, as I have told you before, quite afraid","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"of her, because she is so very clever; but I respect her amazingly, and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"wish we had such a neighbour at Uppercross.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Anne was amused by Henrietta’s manner of being grateful, and amused","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"also that the course of events and the new interests of Henrietta’s","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"views should have placed her friend at all in favour with any of the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Musgrove family; she had only time, however, for a general answer, and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"a wish that such another woman were at Uppercross, before all subjects","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"suddenly ceased, on seeing Louisa and Captain Wentworth coming towards","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"them. They came also for a stroll till breakfast was likely to be","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"ready; but Louisa recollecting immediately afterwards that she had","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"something to procure at a shop, invited them all to go back with her","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"into the town. They were all at her disposal.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"When they came to the steps, leading upwards from the beach, a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"gentleman, at the same moment preparing to come down, politely drew","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"back, and stopped to give them way. They ascended and passed him; and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"as they passed, Anne’s face caught his eye, and he looked at her with a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"degree of earnest admiration, which she could not be insensible of. She","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"was looking remarkably well; her very regular, very pretty features,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"having the bloom and freshness of youth restored by the fine wind which","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"had been blowing on her complexion, and by the animation of eye which","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"it had also produced. It was evident that the gentleman, (completely a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"gentleman in manner) admired her exceedingly. Captain Wentworth looked","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"round at her instantly in a way which shewed his noticing of it. He","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"gave her a momentary glance, a glance of brightness, which seemed to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"say, “That man is struck with you, and even I, at this moment, see","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"something like Anne Elliot again.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
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{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"After attending Louisa through her business, and loitering about a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"little longer, they returned to the inn; and Anne, in passing","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"afterwards quickly from her own chamber to their dining-room, had","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"nearly run against the very same gentleman, as he came out of an","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"adjoining apartment. She had before conjectured him to be a stranger","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"like themselves, and determined that a well-looking groom, who was","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"strolling about near the two inns as they came back, should be his","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"servant. Both master and man being in mourning assisted the idea. It","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"was now proved that he belonged to the same inn as themselves; and this","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"second meeting, short as it was, also proved again by the gentleman’s","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"looks, that he thought hers very lovely, and by the readiness and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"propriety of his apologies, that he was a man of exceedingly good","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"manners. He seemed about thirty, and though not handsome, had an","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"agreeable person. Anne felt that she should like to know who he was.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"They had nearly done breakfast, when the sound of a carriage, (almost","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the first they had heard since entering Lyme) drew half the party to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the window. It was a gentleman’s carriage, a curricle, but only coming","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"round from the stable-yard to the front door; somebody must be going","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"away. It was driven by a servant in mourning.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"The word curricle made Charles Musgrove jump up that he might compare","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"it with his own; the servant in mourning roused Anne’s curiosity, and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the whole six were collected to look, by the time the owner of the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"curricle was to be seen issuing from the door amidst the bows and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"civilities of the household, and taking his seat, to drive off.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
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{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Ah!” cried Captain Wentworth, instantly, and with half a glance at","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Anne, “it is the very man we passed.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"The Miss Musgroves agreed to it; and having all kindly watched him as","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"far up the hill as they could, they returned to the breakfast table.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"The waiter came into the room soon afterwards.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Pray,” said Captain Wentworth, immediately, “can you tell us the name","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"of the gentleman who is just gone away?”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Yes, Sir, a Mr Elliot, a gentleman of large fortune, came in last","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"night from Sidmouth. Dare say you heard the carriage, sir, while you","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"were at dinner; and going on now for Crewkherne, in his way to Bath and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"London.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Elliot!” Many had looked on each other, and many had repeated the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"name, before all this had been got through, even by the smart rapidity","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"of a waiter.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
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{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Bless me!” cried Mary; “it must be our cousin; it must be our Mr","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Elliot, it must, indeed! Charles, Anne, must not it? In mourning, you","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"see, just as our Mr Elliot must be. How very extraordinary! In the very","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"same inn with us! Anne, must not it be our Mr Elliot? my father’s next","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"heir? Pray sir,” turning to the waiter, “did not you hear, did not his","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"servant say whether he belonged to the Kellynch family?”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“No, ma’am, he did not mention no particular family; but he said his","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"master was a very rich gentleman, and would be a baronight some day.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“There! you see!” cried Mary in an ecstasy, “just as I said! Heir to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Sir Walter Elliot! I was sure that would come out, if it was so. Depend","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"upon it, that is a circumstance which his servants take care to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"publish, wherever he goes. But, Anne, only conceive how extraordinary!","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"I wish I had looked at him more. I wish we had been aware in time, who","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"it was, that he might have been introduced to us. What a pity that we","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"should not have been introduced to each other! Do you think he had the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Elliot countenance? I hardly looked at him, I was looking at the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"horses; but I think he had something of the Elliot countenance, I","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"wonder the arms did not strike me! Oh! the great-coat was hanging over","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the panel, and hid the arms, so it did; otherwise, I am sure, I should","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"have observed them, and the livery too; if the servant had not been in","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"mourning, one should have known him by the livery.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Putting all these very extraordinary circumstances together,” said","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Captain Wentworth, “we must consider it to be the arrangement of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Providence, that you should not be introduced to your cousin.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"When she could command Mary’s attention, Anne quietly tried to convince","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"her that their father and Mr Elliot had not, for many years, been on","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"such terms as to make the power of attempting an introduction at all","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"desirable.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"At the same time, however, it was a secret gratification to herself to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"have seen her cousin, and to know that the future owner of Kellynch was","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"undoubtedly a gentleman, and had an air of good sense. She would not,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"upon any account, mention her having met with him the second time;","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"luckily Mary did not much attend to their having passed close by him in","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"their earlier walk, but she would have felt quite ill-used by Anne’s","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"having actually run against him in the passage, and received his very","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"polite excuses, while she had never been near him at all; no, that","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"cousinly little interview must remain a perfect secret.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Of course,” said Mary, “you will mention our seeing Mr Elliot, the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"next time you write to Bath. I think my father certainly ought to hear","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"of it; do mention all about him.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Anne avoided a direct reply, but it was just the circumstance which she","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"considered as not merely unnecessary to be communicated, but as what","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"ought to be suppressed. The offence which had been given her father,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"many years back, she knew; Elizabeth’s particular share in it she","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"suspected; and that Mr Elliot’s idea always produced irritation in both","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"was beyond a doubt. Mary never wrote to Bath herself; all the toil of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"keeping up a slow and unsatisfactory correspondence with Elizabeth fell","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"on Anne.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Breakfast had not been long over, when they were joined by Captain and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Mrs Harville and Captain Benwick; with whom they had appointed to take","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"their last walk about Lyme. They ought to be setting off for Uppercross","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"by one, and in the meanwhile were to be all together, and out of doors","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"as long as they could.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Anne found Captain Benwick getting near her, as soon as they were all","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"fairly in the street. Their conversation the preceding evening did not","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"disincline him to seek her again; and they walked together some time,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"talking as before of Mr Scott and Lord Byron, and still as unable as","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"before, and as unable as any other two readers, to think exactly alike","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"of the merits of either, till something occasioned an almost general","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"change amongst their party, and instead of Captain Benwick, she had","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Captain Harville by her side.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Miss Elliot,” said he, speaking rather low, “you have done a good deed","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"in making that poor fellow talk so much. I wish he could have such","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"company oftener. It is bad for him, I know, to be shut up as he is; but","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"what can we do? We cannot part.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
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{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“No,” said Anne, “that I can easily believe to be impossible; but in","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"time, perhaps—we know what time does in every case of affliction, and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"you must remember, Captain Harville, that your friend may yet be called","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"a young mourner—only last summer, I understand.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Ay, true enough,” (with a deep sigh) “only June.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“And not known to him, perhaps, so soon.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Not till the first week of August, when he came home from the Cape,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"just made into the Grappler. I was at Plymouth dreading to hear of him;","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"he sent in letters, but the Grappler was under orders for Portsmouth.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"There the news must follow him, but who was to tell it? not I. I would","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"as soon have been run up to the yard-arm. Nobody could do it, but that","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"good fellow” (pointing to Captain Wentworth). “The Laconia had come","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"into Plymouth the week before; no danger of her being sent to sea","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"again. He stood his chance for the rest; wrote up for leave of absence,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"but without waiting the return, travelled night and day till he got to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Portsmouth, rowed off to the Grappler that instant, and never left the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"poor fellow for a week. That’s what he did, and nobody else could have","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"saved poor James. You may think, Miss Elliot, whether he is dear to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"us!”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Anne did think on the question with perfect decision, and said as much","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"in reply as her own feeling could accomplish, or as his seemed able to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"bear, for he was too much affected to renew the subject, and when he","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"spoke again, it was of something totally different.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Mrs Harville’s giving it as her opinion that her husband would have","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"quite walking enough by the time he reached home, determined the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"direction of all the party in what was to be their last walk; they","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"would accompany them to their door, and then return and set off","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"themselves. By all their calculations there was just time for this; but","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"as they drew near the Cobb, there was such a general wish to walk along","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"it once more, all were so inclined, and Louisa soon grew so determined,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"that the difference of a quarter of an hour, it was found, would be no","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"difference at all; so with all the kind leave-taking, and all the kind","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"interchange of invitations and promises which may be imagined, they","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"parted from Captain and Mrs Harville at their own door, and still","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"accompanied by Captain Benwick, who seemed to cling to them to the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"last, proceeded to make the proper adieus to the Cobb.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
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{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Anne found Captain Benwick again drawing near her. Lord Byron’s “dark","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"blue seas” could not fail of being brought forward by their present","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"view, and she gladly gave him all her attention as long as attention","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"was possible. It was soon drawn, perforce another way.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"There was too much wind to make the high part of the new Cobb pleasant","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"for the ladies, and they agreed to get down the steps to the lower, and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"all were contented to pass quietly and carefully down the steep flight,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"excepting Louisa; she must be jumped down them by Captain Wentworth. In","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"all their walks, he had had to jump her from the stiles; the sensation","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"was delightful to her. The hardness of the pavement for her feet, made","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"him less willing upon the present occasion; he did it, however. She was","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"safely down, and instantly, to show her enjoyment, ran up the steps to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"be jumped down again. He advised her against it, thought the jar too","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"great; but no, he reasoned and talked in vain, she smiled and said, “I","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"am determined I will:” he put out his hands; she was too precipitate by","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"half a second, she fell on the pavement on the Lower Cobb, and was","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"taken up lifeless! There was no wound, no blood, no visible bruise; but","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"her eyes were closed, she breathed not, her face was like death. The","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"horror of the moment to all who stood around!","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Captain Wentworth, who had caught her up, knelt with her in his arms,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"looking on her with a face as pallid as her own, in an agony of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"silence. “She is dead! she is dead!” screamed Mary, catching hold of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"her husband, and contributing with his own horror to make him","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"immoveable; and in another moment, Henrietta, sinking under the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"conviction, lost her senses too, and would have fallen on the steps,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"but for Captain Benwick and Anne, who caught and supported her between","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"them.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Is there no one to help me?” were the first words which burst from","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Captain Wentworth, in a tone of despair, and as if all his own strength","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"were gone.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
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{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Go to him, go to him,” cried Anne, “for heaven’s sake go to him. I can","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"support her myself. Leave me, and go to him. Rub her hands, rub her","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"temples; here are salts; take them, take them.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Captain Benwick obeyed, and Charles at the same moment, disengaging","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"himself from his wife, they were both with him; and Louisa was raised","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"up and supported more firmly between them, and everything was done that","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Anne had prompted, but in vain; while Captain Wentworth, staggering","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"against the wall for his support, exclaimed in the bitterest agony—","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Oh God! her father and mother!”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“A surgeon!” said Anne.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"He caught the word; it seemed to rouse him at once, and saying","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"only—“True, true, a surgeon this instant,” was darting away, when Anne","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"eagerly suggested—","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Captain Benwick, would not it be better for Captain Benwick? He knows","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"where a surgeon is to be found.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Every one capable of thinking felt the advantage of the idea, and in a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"moment (it was all done in rapid moments) Captain Benwick had resigned","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the poor corpse-like figure entirely to the brother’s care, and was off","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"for the town with the utmost rapidity.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"As to the wretched party left behind, it could scarcely be said which","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"of the three, who were completely rational, was suffering most: Captain","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Wentworth, Anne, or Charles, who, really a very affectionate brother,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"hung over Louisa with sobs of grief, and could only turn his eyes from","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"one sister, to see the other in a state as insensible, or to witness","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the hysterical agitations of his wife, calling on him for help which he","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"could not give.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Anne, attending with all the strength and zeal, and thought, which","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"instinct supplied, to Henrietta, still tried, at intervals, to suggest","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"comfort to the others, tried to quiet Mary, to animate Charles, to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"assuage the feelings of Captain Wentworth. Both seemed to look to her","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"for directions.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Anne, Anne,” cried Charles, “What is to be done next? What, in","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"heaven’s name, is to be done next?”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Captain Wentworth’s eyes were also turned towards her.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Had not she better be carried to the inn? Yes, I am sure: carry her","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"gently to the inn.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Yes, yes, to the inn,” repeated Captain Wentworth, comparatively","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"collected, and eager to be doing something. “I will carry her myself.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Musgrove, take care of the others.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"By this time the report of the accident had spread among the workmen","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and boatmen about the Cobb, and many were collected near them, to be","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"useful if wanted, at any rate, to enjoy the sight of a dead young lady,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"nay, two dead young ladies, for it proved twice as fine as the first","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"report. To some of the best-looking of these good people Henrietta was","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"consigned, for, though partially revived, she was quite helpless; and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"in this manner, Anne walking by her side, and Charles attending to his","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"wife, they set forward, treading back with feelings unutterable, the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"ground, which so lately, so very lately, and so light of heart, they","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"had passed along.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"They were not off the Cobb, before the Harvilles met them. Captain","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Benwick had been seen flying by their house, with a countenance which","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"showed something to be wrong; and they had set off immediately,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"informed and directed as they passed, towards the spot. Shocked as","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Captain Harville was, he brought senses and nerves that could be","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"instantly useful; and a look between him and his wife decided what was","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"to be done. She must be taken to their house; all must go to their","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"house; and await the surgeon’s arrival there. They would not listen to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"scruples: he was obeyed; they were all beneath his roof; and while","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Louisa, under Mrs Harville’s direction, was conveyed up stairs, and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"given possession of her own bed, assistance, cordials, restoratives","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"were supplied by her husband to all who needed them.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Louisa had once opened her eyes, but soon closed them again, without","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"apparent consciousness. This had been a proof of life, however, of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"service to her sister; and Henrietta, though perfectly incapable of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"being in the same room with Louisa, was kept, by the agitation of hope","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and fear, from a return of her own insensibility. Mary, too, was","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"growing calmer.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"The surgeon was with them almost before it had seemed possible. They","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"were sick with horror, while he examined; but he was not hopeless. The","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"head had received a severe contusion, but he had seen greater injuries","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"recovered from: he was by no means hopeless; he spoke cheerfully.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"That he did not regard it as a desperate case, that he did not say a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"few hours must end it, was at first felt, beyond the hope of most; and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the ecstasy of such a reprieve, the rejoicing, deep and silent, after a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"few fervent ejaculations of gratitude to Heaven had been offered, may","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"be conceived.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"The tone, the look, with which “Thank God!” was uttered by Captain","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Wentworth, Anne was sure could never be forgotten by her; nor the sight","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"of him afterwards, as he sat near a table, leaning over it with folded","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"arms and face concealed, as if overpowered by the various feelings of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"his soul, and trying by prayer and reflection to calm them.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Louisa’s limbs had escaped. There was no injury but to the head.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"It now became necessary for the party to consider what was best to be","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"done, as to their general situation. They were now able to speak to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"each other and consult. That Louisa must remain where she was, however","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"distressing to her friends to be involving the Harvilles in such","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"trouble, did not admit a doubt. Her removal was impossible. The","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Harvilles silenced all scruples; and, as much as they could, all","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"gratitude. They had looked forward and arranged everything before the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"others began to reflect. Captain Benwick must give up his room to them,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and get another bed elsewhere; and the whole was settled. They were","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"only concerned that the house could accommodate no more; and yet","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"perhaps, by “putting the children away in the maid’s room, or swinging","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"a cot somewhere,” they could hardly bear to think of not finding room","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"for two or three besides, supposing they might wish to stay; though,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"with regard to any attendance on Miss Musgrove, there need not be the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"least uneasiness in leaving her to Mrs Harville’s care entirely. Mrs","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Harville was a very experienced nurse, and her nursery-maid, who had","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"lived with her long, and gone about with her everywhere, was just such","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"another. Between these two, she could want no possible attendance by","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"day or night. And all this was said with a truth and sincerity of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"feeling irresistible.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Charles, Henrietta, and Captain Wentworth were the three in","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"consultation, and for a little while it was only an interchange of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"perplexity and terror. “Uppercross, the necessity of some one’s going","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"to Uppercross; the news to be conveyed; how it could be broken to Mr","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and Mrs Musgrove; the lateness of the morning; an hour already gone","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"since they ought to have been off; the impossibility of being in","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"tolerable time.” At first, they were capable of nothing more to the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"purpose than such exclamations; but, after a while, Captain Wentworth,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"exerting himself, said—","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“We must be decided, and without the loss of another minute. Every","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"minute is valuable. Some one must resolve on being off for Uppercross","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"instantly. Musgrove, either you or I must go.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Charles agreed, but declared his resolution of not going away. He would","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"be as little incumbrance as possible to Captain and Mrs Harville; but","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"as to leaving his sister in such a state, he neither ought, nor would.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"So far it was decided; and Henrietta at first declared the same. She,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"however, was soon persuaded to think differently. The usefulness of her","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"staying! She who had not been able to remain in Louisa’s room, or to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"look at her, without sufferings which made her worse than helpless! She","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"was forced to acknowledge that she could do no good, yet was still","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"unwilling to be away, till, touched by the thought of her father and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"mother, she gave it up; she consented, she was anxious to be at home.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"The plan had reached this point, when Anne, coming quietly down from","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Louisa’s room, could not but hear what followed, for the parlour door","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"was open.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Then it is settled, Musgrove,” cried Captain Wentworth, “that you","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"stay, and that I take care of your sister home. But as to the rest, as","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"to the others, if one stays to assist Mrs Harville, I think it need be","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"only one. Mrs Charles Musgrove will, of course, wish to get back to her","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"children; but if Anne will stay, no one so proper, so capable as Anne.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"She paused a moment to recover from the emotion of hearing herself so","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"spoken of. The other two warmly agreed with what he said, and she then","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"appeared.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“You will stay, I am sure; you will stay and nurse her;” cried he,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"turning to her and speaking with a glow, and yet a gentleness, which","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"seemed almost restoring the past. She coloured deeply, and he","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"recollected himself and moved away. She expressed herself most willing,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"ready, happy to remain. “It was what she had been thinking of, and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"wishing to be allowed to do. A bed on the floor in Louisa’s room would","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"be sufficient for her, if Mrs Harville would but think so.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"One thing more, and all seemed arranged. Though it was rather desirable","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"that Mr and Mrs Musgrove should be previously alarmed by some share of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"delay; yet the time required by the Uppercross horses to take them","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"back, would be a dreadful extension of suspense; and Captain Wentworth","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"proposed, and Charles Musgrove agreed, that it would be much better for","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"him to take a chaise from the inn, and leave Mr Musgrove’s carriage and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"horses to be sent home the next morning early, when there would be the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"farther advantage of sending an account of Louisa’s night.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Captain Wentworth now hurried off to get everything ready on his part,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and to be soon followed by the two ladies. When the plan was made known","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"to Mary, however, there was an end of all peace in it. She was so","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"wretched and so vehement, complained so much of injustice in being","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"expected to go away instead of Anne; Anne, who was nothing to Louisa,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"while she was her sister, and had the best right to stay in Henrietta’s","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"stead! Why was not she to be as useful as Anne? And to go home without","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Charles, too, without her husband! No, it was too unkind. And in short,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"she said more than her husband could long withstand, and as none of the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"others could oppose when he gave way, there was no help for it; the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"change of Mary for Anne was inevitable.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Anne had never submitted more reluctantly to the jealous and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"ill-judging claims of Mary; but so it must be, and they set off for the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"town, Charles taking care of his sister, and Captain Benwick attending","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"to her. She gave a moment’s recollection, as they hurried along, to the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"little circumstances which the same spots had witnessed earlier in the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"morning. There she had listened to Henrietta’s schemes for Dr Shirley’s","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"leaving Uppercross; farther on, she had first seen Mr Elliot; a moment","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"seemed all that could now be given to any one but Louisa, or those who","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"were wrapped up in her welfare.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Captain Benwick was most considerately attentive to her; and, united as","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"they all seemed by the distress of the day, she felt an increasing","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"degree of good-will towards him, and a pleasure even in thinking that","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"it might, perhaps, be the occasion of continuing their acquaintance.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Captain Wentworth was on the watch for them, and a chaise and four in","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"waiting, stationed for their convenience in the lowest part of the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"street; but his evident surprise and vexation at the substitution of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"one sister for the other, the change in his countenance, the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"astonishment, the expressions begun and suppressed, with which Charles","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"was listened to, made but a mortifying reception of Anne; or must at","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"least convince her that she was valued only as she could be useful to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Louisa.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"She endeavoured to be composed, and to be just. Without emulating the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"feelings of an Emma towards her Henry, she would have attended on","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Louisa with a zeal above the common claims of regard, for his sake; and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"she hoped he would not long be so unjust as to suppose she would shrink","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"unnecessarily from the office of a friend.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"In the meanwhile she was in the carriage. He had handed them both in,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and placed himself between them; and in this manner, under these","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"circumstances, full of astonishment and emotion to Anne, she quitted","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Lyme. How the long stage would pass; how it was to affect their","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"manners; what was to be their sort of intercourse, she could not","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"foresee. It was all quite natural, however. He was devoted to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Henrietta; always turning towards her; and when he spoke at all, always","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"with the view of supporting her hopes and raising her spirits. In","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"general, his voice and manner were studiously calm. To spare Henrietta","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"from agitation seemed the governing principle. Once only, when she had","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"been grieving over the last ill-judged, ill-fated walk to the Cobb,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"bitterly lamenting that it ever had been thought of, he burst forth, as","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"if wholly overcome—","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Don’t talk of it, don’t talk of it,” he cried. “Oh God! that I had not","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"given way to her at the fatal moment! Had I done as I ought! But so","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"eager and so resolute! Dear, sweet Louisa!”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Anne wondered whether it ever occurred to him now, to question the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"justness of his own previous opinion as to the universal felicity and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"advantage of firmness of character; and whether it might not strike him","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"that, like all other qualities of the mind, it should have its","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"proportions and limits. She thought it could scarcely escape him to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"feel that a persuadable temper might sometimes be as much in favour of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"happiness as a very resolute character.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"They got on fast. Anne was astonished to recognise the same hills and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the same objects so soon. Their actual speed, heightened by some dread","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"of the conclusion, made the road appear but half as long as on the day","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"before. It was growing quite dusk, however, before they were in the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"neighbourhood of Uppercross, and there had been total silence among","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"them for some time, Henrietta leaning back in the corner, with a shawl","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"over her face, giving the hope of her having cried herself to sleep;","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"when, as they were going up their last hill, Anne found herself all at","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"once addressed by Captain Wentworth. In a low, cautious voice, he","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"said:—","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“I have been considering what we had best do. She must not appear at","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"first. She could not stand it. I have been thinking whether you had not","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"better remain in the carriage with her, while I go in and break it to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Mr and Mrs Musgrove. Do you think this is a good plan?”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"She did: he was satisfied, and said no more. But the remembrance of the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"appeal remained a pleasure to her, as a proof of friendship, and of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"deference for her judgement, a great pleasure; and when it became a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"sort of parting proof, its value did not lessen.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"When the distressing communication at Uppercross was over, and he had","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"seen the father and mother quite as composed as could be hoped, and the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"daughter all the better for being with them, he announced his intention","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"of returning in the same carriage to Lyme; and when the horses were","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"baited, he was off.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"(End of volume one.)","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"CHAPTER XIII.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"The remainder of Anne’s time at Uppercross, comprehending only two","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"days, was spent entirely at the Mansion House; and she had the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"satisfaction of knowing herself extremely useful there, both as an","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"immediate companion, and as assisting in all those arrangements for the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"future, which, in Mr and Mrs Musgrove’s distressed state of spirits,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"would have been difficulties.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"They had an early account from Lyme the next morning. Louisa was much","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the same. No symptoms worse than before had appeared. Charles came a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"few hours afterwards, to bring a later and more particular account. He","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"was tolerably cheerful. A speedy cure must not be hoped, but everything","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"was going on as well as the nature of the case admitted. In speaking of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the Harvilles, he seemed unable to satisfy his own sense of their","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"kindness, especially of Mrs Harville’s exertions as a nurse. “She","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"really left nothing for Mary to do. He and Mary had been persuaded to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"go early to their inn last night. Mary had been hysterical again this","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"morning. When he came away, she was going to walk out with Captain","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Benwick, which, he hoped, would do her good. He almost wished she had","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"been prevailed on to come home the day before; but the truth was, that","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Mrs Harville left nothing for anybody to do.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Charles was to return to Lyme the same afternoon, and his father had at","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"first half a mind to go with him, but the ladies could not consent. It","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"would be going only to multiply trouble to the others, and increase his","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"own distress; and a much better scheme followed and was acted upon. A","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"chaise was sent for from Crewkherne, and Charles conveyed back a far","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"more useful person in the old nursery-maid of the family, one who","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"having brought up all the children, and seen the very last, the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"lingering and long-petted Master Harry, sent to school after his","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"brothers, was now living in her deserted nursery to mend stockings and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"dress all the blains and bruises she could get near her, and who,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"consequently, was only too happy in being allowed to go and help nurse","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"dear Miss Louisa. Vague wishes of getting Sarah thither, had occurred","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"before to Mrs Musgrove and Henrietta; but without Anne, it would hardly","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"have been resolved on, and found practicable so soon.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"They were indebted, the next day, to Charles Hayter, for all the minute","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"knowledge of Louisa, which it was so essential to obtain every","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"twenty-four hours. He made it his business to go to Lyme, and his","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"account was still encouraging. The intervals of sense and consciousness","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"were believed to be stronger. Every report agreed in Captain","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Wentworth’s appearing fixed in Lyme.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Anne was to leave them on the morrow, an event which they all dreaded.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“What should they do without her? They were wretched comforters for one","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"another.” And so much was said in this way, that Anne thought she could","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"not do better than impart among them the general inclination to which","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"she was privy, and persuaded them all to go to Lyme at once. She had","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"little difficulty; it was soon determined that they would go; go","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"to-morrow, fix themselves at the inn, or get into lodgings, as it","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"suited, and there remain till dear Louisa could be moved. They must be","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"taking off some trouble from the good people she was with; they might","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"at least relieve Mrs Harville from the care of her own children; and in","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"short, they were so happy in the decision, that Anne was delighted with","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"what she had done, and felt that she could not spend her last morning","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"at Uppercross better than in assisting their preparations, and sending","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"them off at an early hour, though her being left to the solitary range","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"of the house was the consequence.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"She was the last, excepting the little boys at the cottage, she was the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"very last, the only remaining one of all that had filled and animated","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"both houses, of all that had given Uppercross its cheerful character. A","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"few days had made a change indeed!","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"If Louisa recovered, it would all be well again. More than former","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"happiness would be restored. There could not be a doubt, to her mind","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"there was none, of what would follow her recovery. A few months hence,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and the room now so deserted, occupied but by her silent, pensive self,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"might be filled again with all that was happy and gay, all that was","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"glowing and bright in prosperous love, all that was most unlike Anne","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Elliot!","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"An hour’s complete leisure for such reflections as these, on a dark","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"November day, a small thick rain almost blotting out the very few","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"objects ever to be discerned from the windows, was enough to make the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"sound of Lady Russell’s carriage exceedingly welcome; and yet, though","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"desirous to be gone, she could not quit the Mansion House, or look an","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"adieu to the Cottage, with its black, dripping and comfortless veranda,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"or even notice through the misty glasses the last humble tenements of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the village, without a saddened heart. Scenes had passed in Uppercross","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"which made it precious. It stood the record of many sensations of pain,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"once severe, but now softened; and of some instances of relenting","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"feeling, some breathings of friendship and reconciliation, which could","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"never be looked for again, and which could never cease to be dear. She","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"left it all behind her, all but the recollection that such things had","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"been.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
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{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Anne had never entered Kellynch since her quitting Lady Russell’s house","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"in September. It had not been necessary, and the few occasions of its","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"being possible for her to go to the Hall she had contrived to evade and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"escape from. Her first return was to resume her place in the modern and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"elegant apartments of the Lodge, and to gladden the eyes of its","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"mistress.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"There was some anxiety mixed with Lady Russell’s joy in meeting her.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"She knew who had been frequenting Uppercross. But happily, either Anne","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"was improved in plumpness and looks, or Lady Russell fancied her so;","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and Anne, in receiving her compliments on the occasion, had the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"amusement of connecting them with the silent admiration of her cousin,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and of hoping that she was to be blessed with a second spring of youth","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and beauty.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"When they came to converse, she was soon sensible of some mental","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"change. The subjects of which her heart had been full on leaving","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Kellynch, and which she had felt slighted, and been compelled to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"smother among the Musgroves, were now become but of secondary interest.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"She had lately lost sight even of her father and sister and Bath. Their","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"concerns had been sunk under those of Uppercross; and when Lady Russell","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"reverted to their former hopes and fears, and spoke her satisfaction in","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the house in Camden Place, which had been taken, and her regret that","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Mrs Clay should still be with them, Anne would have been ashamed to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"have it known how much more she was thinking of Lyme and Louisa","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Musgrove, and all her acquaintance there; how much more interesting to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"her was the home and the friendship of the Harvilles and Captain","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Benwick, than her own father’s house in Camden Place, or her own","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"sister’s intimacy with Mrs Clay. She was actually forced to exert","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"herself to meet Lady Russell with anything like the appearance of equal","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"solicitude, on topics which had by nature the first claim on her.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"There was a little awkwardness at first in their discourse on another","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"subject. They must speak of the accident at Lyme. Lady Russell had not","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"been arrived five minutes the day before, when a full account of the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"whole had burst on her; but still it must be talked of, she must make","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"enquiries, she must regret the imprudence, lament the result, and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Captain Wentworth’s name must be mentioned by both. Anne was conscious","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"of not doing it so well as Lady Russell. She could not speak the name,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and look straight forward to Lady Russell’s eye, till she had adopted","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the expedient of telling her briefly what she thought of the attachment","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"between him and Louisa. When this was told, his name distressed her no","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"longer.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Lady Russell had only to listen composedly, and wish them happy, but","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"internally her heart revelled in angry pleasure, in pleased contempt,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"that the man who at twenty-three had seemed to understand somewhat of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the value of an Anne Elliot, should, eight years afterwards, be charmed","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"by a Louisa Musgrove.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"The first three or four days passed most quietly, with no circumstance","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"to mark them excepting the receipt of a note or two from Lyme, which","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"found their way to Anne, she could not tell how, and brought a rather","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"improving account of Louisa. At the end of that period, Lady Russell’s","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"politeness could repose no longer, and the fainter self-threatenings of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the past became in a decided tone, “I must call on Mrs Croft; I really","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"must call upon her soon. Anne, have you courage to go with me, and pay","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"a visit in that house? It will be some trial to us both.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Anne did not shrink from it; on the contrary, she truly felt as she","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"said, in observing—","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“I think you are very likely to suffer the most of the two; your","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"feelings are less reconciled to the change than mine. By remaining in","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the neighbourhood, I am become inured to it.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"She could have said more on the subject; for she had in fact so high an","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"opinion of the Crofts, and considered her father so very fortunate in","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"his tenants, felt the parish to be so sure of a good example, and the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"poor of the best attention and relief, that however sorry and ashamed","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"for the necessity of the removal, she could not but in conscience feel","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"that they were gone who deserved not to stay, and that Kellynch Hall","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"had passed into better hands than its owners’. These convictions must","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"unquestionably have their own pain, and severe was its kind; but they","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"precluded that pain which Lady Russell would suffer in entering the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"house again, and returning through the well-known apartments.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"In such moments Anne had no power of saying to herself, “These rooms","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"ought to belong only to us. Oh, how fallen in their destination! How","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"unworthily occupied! An ancient family to be so driven away! Strangers","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"filling their place!” No, except when she thought of her mother, and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"remembered where she had been used to sit and preside, she had no sigh","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"of that description to heave.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Mrs Croft always met her with a kindness which gave her the pleasure of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"fancying herself a favourite, and on the present occasion, receiving","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"her in that house, there was particular attention.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"The sad accident at Lyme was soon the prevailing topic, and on","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"comparing their latest accounts of the invalid, it appeared that each","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"lady dated her intelligence from the same hour of yestermorn; that","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Captain Wentworth had been in Kellynch yesterday (the first time since","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the accident), had brought Anne the last note, which she had not been","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"able to trace the exact steps of; had staid a few hours and then","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"returned again to Lyme, and without any present intention of quitting","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"it any more. He had enquired after her, she found, particularly; had","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"expressed his hope of Miss Elliot’s not being the worse for her","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"exertions, and had spoken of those exertions as great. This was","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"handsome, and gave her more pleasure than almost anything else could","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"have done.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"As to the sad catastrophe itself, it could be canvassed only in one","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"style by a couple of steady, sensible women, whose judgements had to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"work on ascertained events; and it was perfectly decided that it had","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"been the consequence of much thoughtlessness and much imprudence; that","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"its effects were most alarming, and that it was frightful to think, how","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"long Miss Musgrove’s recovery might yet be doubtful, and how liable she","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"would still remain to suffer from the concussion hereafter! The Admiral","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"wound it up summarily by exclaiming—","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Ay, a very bad business indeed. A new sort of way this, for a young","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"fellow to be making love, by breaking his mistress’s head, is not it,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Miss Elliot? This is breaking a head and giving a plaster, truly!”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Admiral Croft’s manners were not quite of the tone to suit Lady","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Russell, but they delighted Anne. His goodness of heart and simplicity","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"of character were irresistible.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Now, this must be very bad for you,” said he, suddenly rousing from a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"little reverie, “to be coming and finding us here. I had not","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"recollected it before, I declare, but it must be very bad. But now, do","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"not stand upon ceremony. Get up and go over all the rooms in the house","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"if you like it.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Another time, Sir, I thank you, not now.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Well, whenever it suits you. You can slip in from the shrubbery at any","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"time; and there you will find we keep our umbrellas hanging up by that","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"door. A good place is not it? But,” (checking himself), “you will not","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"think it a good place, for yours were always kept in the butler’s room.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Ay, so it always is, I believe. One man’s ways may be as good as","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"another’s, but we all like our own best. And so you must judge for","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"yourself, whether it would be better for you to go about the house or","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"not.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Anne, finding she might decline it, did so, very gratefully.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“We have made very few changes either,” continued the Admiral, after","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"thinking a moment. “Very few. We told you about the laundry-door, at","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Uppercross. That has been a very great improvement. The wonder was, how","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"any family upon earth could bear with the inconvenience of its opening","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"as it did, so long! You will tell Sir Walter what we have done, and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"that Mr Shepherd thinks it the greatest improvement the house ever had.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Indeed, I must do ourselves the justice to say, that the few","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"alterations we have made have been all very much for the better. My","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"wife should have the credit of them, however. I have done very little","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"besides sending away some of the large looking-glasses from my","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"dressing-room, which was your father’s. A very good man, and very much","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the gentleman I am sure: but I should think, Miss Elliot,” (looking","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"with serious reflection), “I should think he must be rather a dressy","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"man for his time of life. Such a number of looking-glasses! oh Lord!","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"there was no getting away from one’s self. So I got Sophy to lend me a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"hand, and we soon shifted their quarters; and now I am quite snug, with","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"my little shaving glass in one corner, and another great thing that I","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"never go near.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Anne, amused in spite of herself, was rather distressed for an answer,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and the Admiral, fearing he might not have been civil enough, took up","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the subject again, to say—","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“The next time you write to your good father, Miss Elliot, pray give","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"him my compliments and Mrs Croft’s, and say that we are settled here","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"quite to our liking, and have no fault at all to find with the place.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"The breakfast-room chimney smokes a little, I grant you, but it is only","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"when the wind is due north and blows hard, which may not happen three","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"times a winter. And take it altogether, now that we have been into most","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"of the houses hereabouts and can judge, there is not one that we like","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"better than this. Pray say so, with my compliments. He will be glad to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"hear it.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Lady Russell and Mrs Croft were very well pleased with each other: but","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the acquaintance which this visit began was fated not to proceed far at","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"present; for when it was returned, the Crofts announced themselves to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"be going away for a few weeks, to visit their connexions in the north","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"of the county, and probably might not be at home again before Lady","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Russell would be removing to Bath.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"So ended all danger to Anne of meeting Captain Wentworth at Kellynch","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Hall, or of seeing him in company with her friend. Everything was safe","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"enough, and she smiled over the many anxious feelings she had wasted on","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the subject.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"CHAPTER XIV.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Though Charles and Mary had remained at Lyme much longer after Mr and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Mrs Musgrove’s going than Anne conceived they could have been at all","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"wanted, they were yet the first of the family to be at home again; and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"as soon as possible after their return to Uppercross they drove over to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the Lodge. They had left Louisa beginning to sit up; but her head,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"though clear, was exceedingly weak, and her nerves susceptible to the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"highest extreme of tenderness; and though she might be pronounced to be","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"altogether doing very well, it was still impossible to say when she","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"might be able to bear the removal home; and her father and mother, who","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"must return in time to receive their younger children for the Christmas","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"holidays, had hardly a hope of being allowed to bring her with them.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"They had been all in lodgings together. Mrs Musgrove had got Mrs","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Harville’s children away as much as she could, every possible supply","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"from Uppercross had been furnished, to lighten the inconvenience to the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Harvilles, while the Harvilles had been wanting them to come to dinner","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"every day; and in short, it seemed to have been only a struggle on each","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"side as to which should be most disinterested and hospitable.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Mary had had her evils; but upon the whole, as was evident by her","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"staying so long, she had found more to enjoy than to suffer. Charles","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Hayter had been at Lyme oftener than suited her; and when they dined","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"with the Harvilles there had been only a maid-servant to wait, and at","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"first Mrs Harville had always given Mrs Musgrove precedence; but then,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"she had received so very handsome an apology from her on finding out","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"whose daughter she was, and there had been so much going on every day,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"there had been so many walks between their lodgings and the Harvilles,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and she had got books from the library, and changed them so often, that","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the balance had certainly been much in favour of Lyme. She had been","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"taken to Charmouth too, and she had bathed, and she had gone to church,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and there were a great many more people to look at in the church at","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Lyme than at Uppercross; and all this, joined to the sense of being so","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"very useful, had made really an agreeable fortnight.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Anne enquired after Captain Benwick. Mary’s face was clouded directly.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Charles laughed.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Oh! Captain Benwick is very well, I believe, but he is a very odd","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"young man. I do not know what he would be at. We asked him to come home","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"with us for a day or two: Charles undertook to give him some shooting,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and he seemed quite delighted, and, for my part, I thought it was all","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"settled; when behold! on Tuesday night, he made a very awkward sort of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"excuse; ‘he never shot’ and he had ‘been quite misunderstood,’ and he","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"had promised this and he had promised that, and the end of it was, I","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"found, that he did not mean to come. I suppose he was afraid of finding","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"it dull; but upon my word I should have thought we were lively enough","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"at the Cottage for such a heart-broken man as Captain Benwick.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Charles laughed again and said, “Now Mary, you know very well how it","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"really was. It was all your doing,” (turning to Anne). “He fancied that","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"if he went with us, he should find you close by: he fancied everybody","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"to be living in Uppercross; and when he discovered that Lady Russell","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"lived three miles off, his heart failed him, and he had not courage to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"come. That is the fact, upon my honour. Mary knows it is.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"But Mary did not give into it very graciously, whether from not","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"considering Captain Benwick entitled by birth and situation to be in","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"love with an Elliot, or from not wanting to believe Anne a greater","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"attraction to Uppercross than herself, must be left to be guessed.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Anne’s good-will, however, was not to be lessened by what she heard.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"She boldly acknowledged herself flattered, and continued her enquiries.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Oh! he talks of you,” cried Charles, “in such terms—” Mary interrupted","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"him. “I declare, Charles, I never heard him mention Anne twice all the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"time I was there. I declare, Anne, he never talks of you at all.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“No,” admitted Charles, “I do not know that he ever does, in a general","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"way; but however, it is a very clear thing that he admires you","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"exceedingly. His head is full of some books that he is reading upon","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"your recommendation, and he wants to talk to you about them; he has","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"found out something or other in one of them which he thinks—oh! I","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"cannot pretend to remember it, but it was something very fine—I","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"overheard him telling Henrietta all about it; and then ‘Miss Elliot’","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"was spoken of in the highest terms! Now Mary, I declare it was so, I","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"heard it myself, and you were in the other room. ‘Elegance, sweetness,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"beauty.’ Oh! there was no end of Miss Elliot’s charms.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“And I am sure,” cried Mary, warmly, “it was a very little to his","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"credit, if he did. Miss Harville only died last June. Such a heart is","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"very little worth having; is it, Lady Russell? I am sure you will agree","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"with me.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“I must see Captain Benwick before I decide,” said Lady Russell,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"smiling.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“And that you are very likely to do very soon, I can tell you, ma’am,”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"said Charles. “Though he had not nerves for coming away with us, and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"setting off again afterwards to pay a formal visit here, he will make","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"his way over to Kellynch one day by himself, you may depend on it. I","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"told him the distance and the road, and I told him of the church’s","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"being so very well worth seeing; for as he has a taste for those sort","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"of things, I thought that would be a good excuse, and he listened with","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"all his understanding and soul; and I am sure from his manner that you","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"will have him calling here soon. So, I give you notice, Lady Russell.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Any acquaintance of Anne’s will always be welcome to me,” was Lady","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Russell’s kind answer.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Oh! as to being Anne’s acquaintance,” said Mary, “I think he is rather","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"my acquaintance, for I have been seeing him every day this last","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"fortnight.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Well, as your joint acquaintance, then, I shall be very happy to see","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Captain Benwick.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“You will not find anything very agreeable in him, I assure you, ma’am.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"He is one of the dullest young men that ever lived. He has walked with","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"me, sometimes, from one end of the sands to the other, without saying a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"word. He is not at all a well-bred young man. I am sure you will not","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"like him.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“There we differ, Mary,” said Anne. “I think Lady Russell would like","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"him. I think she would be so much pleased with his mind, that she would","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"very soon see no deficiency in his manner.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“So do I, Anne,” said Charles. “I am sure Lady Russell would like him.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"He is just Lady Russell’s sort. Give him a book, and he will read all","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"day long.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Yes, that he will!” exclaimed Mary, tauntingly. “He will sit poring","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"over his book, and not know when a person speaks to him, or when one","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"drops one’s scissors, or anything that happens. Do you think Lady","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Russell would like that?”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Lady Russell could not help laughing. “Upon my word,” said she, “I","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"should not have supposed that my opinion of any one could have admitted","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"of such difference of conjecture, steady and matter of fact as I may","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"call myself. I have really a curiosity to see the person who can give","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"occasion to such directly opposite notions. I wish he may be induced to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"call here. And when he does, Mary, you may depend upon hearing my","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"opinion; but I am determined not to judge him beforehand.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“You will not like him, I will answer for it.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Lady Russell began talking of something else. Mary spoke with animation","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"of their meeting with, or rather missing, Mr Elliot so extraordinarily.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“He is a man,” said Lady Russell, “whom I have no wish to see. His","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"declining to be on cordial terms with the head of his family, has left","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"a very strong impression in his disfavour with me.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"This decision checked Mary’s eagerness, and stopped her short in the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"midst of the Elliot countenance.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"With regard to Captain Wentworth, though Anne hazarded no enquiries,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"there was voluntary communication sufficient. His spirits had been","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"greatly recovering lately as might be expected. As Louisa improved, he","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"had improved, and he was now quite a different creature from what he","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"had been the first week. He had not seen Louisa; and was so extremely","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"fearful of any ill consequence to her from an interview, that he did","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"not press for it at all; and, on the contrary, seemed to have a plan of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"going away for a week or ten days, till her head was stronger. He had","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"talked of going down to Plymouth for a week, and wanted to persuade","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Captain Benwick to go with him; but, as Charles maintained to the last,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Captain Benwick seemed much more disposed to ride over to Kellynch.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"There can be no doubt that Lady Russell and Anne were both occasionally","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"thinking of Captain Benwick, from this time. Lady Russell could not","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"hear the door-bell without feeling that it might be his herald; nor","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"could Anne return from any stroll of solitary indulgence in her","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"father’s grounds, or any visit of charity in the village, without","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"wondering whether she might see him or hear of him. Captain Benwick","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"came not, however. He was either less disposed for it than Charles had","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"imagined, or he was too shy; and after giving him a week’s indulgence,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Lady Russell determined him to be unworthy of the interest which he had","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"been beginning to excite.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"The Musgroves came back to receive their happy boys and girls from","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"school, bringing with them Mrs Harville’s little children, to improve","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the noise of Uppercross, and lessen that of Lyme. Henrietta remained","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"with Louisa; but all the rest of the family were again in their usual","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"quarters.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Lady Russell and Anne paid their compliments to them once, when Anne","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"could not but feel that Uppercross was already quite alive again.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Though neither Henrietta, nor Louisa, nor Charles Hayter, nor Captain","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Wentworth were there, the room presented as strong a contrast as could","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"be wished to the last state she had seen it in.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Immediately surrounding Mrs Musgrove were the little Harvilles, whom","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"she was sedulously guarding from the tyranny of the two children from","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the Cottage, expressly arrived to amuse them. On one side was a table","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"occupied by some chattering girls, cutting up silk and gold paper; and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"on the other were tressels and trays, bending under the weight of brawn","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and cold pies, where riotous boys were holding high revel; the whole","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"completed by a roaring Christmas fire, which seemed determined to be","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"heard, in spite of all the noise of the others. Charles and Mary also","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"came in, of course, during their visit, and Mr Musgrove made a point of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"paying his respects to Lady Russell, and sat down close to her for ten","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"minutes, talking with a very raised voice, but from the clamour of the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"children on his knees, generally in vain. It was a fine family-piece.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Anne, judging from her own temperament, would have deemed such a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"domestic hurricane a bad restorative of the nerves, which Louisa’s","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"illness must have so greatly shaken. But Mrs Musgrove, who got Anne","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"near her on purpose to thank her most cordially, again and again, for","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"all her attentions to them, concluded a short recapitulation of what","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"she had suffered herself by observing, with a happy glance round the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"room, that after all she had gone through, nothing was so likely to do","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"her good as a little quiet cheerfulness at home.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Louisa was now recovering apace. Her mother could even think of her","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"being able to join their party at home, before her brothers and sisters","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"went to school again. The Harvilles had promised to come with her and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"stay at Uppercross, whenever she returned. Captain Wentworth was gone,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"for the present, to see his brother in Shropshire.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“I hope I shall remember, in future,” said Lady Russell, as soon as","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"they were reseated in the carriage, “not to call at Uppercross in the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Christmas holidays.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Everybody has their taste in noises as well as in other matters; and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"sounds are quite innoxious, or most distressing, by their sort rather","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"than their quantity. When Lady Russell not long afterwards, was","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"entering Bath on a wet afternoon, and driving through the long course","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"of streets from the Old Bridge to Camden Place, amidst the dash of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"other carriages, the heavy rumble of carts and drays, the bawling of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"newspapermen, muffin-men and milkmen, and the ceaseless clink of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"pattens, she made no complaint. No, these were noises which belonged to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the winter pleasures; her spirits rose under their influence; and like","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Mrs Musgrove, she was feeling, though not saying, that after being long","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"in the country, nothing could be so good for her as a little quiet","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"cheerfulness.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Anne did not share these feelings. She persisted in a very determined,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"though very silent disinclination for Bath; caught the first dim view","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"of the extensive buildings, smoking in rain, without any wish of seeing","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"them better; felt their progress through the streets to be, however","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"disagreeable, yet too rapid; for who would be glad to see her when she","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"arrived? And looked back, with fond regret, to the bustles of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Uppercross and the seclusion of Kellynch.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Elizabeth’s last letter had communicated a piece of news of some","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"interest. Mr Elliot was in Bath. He had called in Camden Place; had","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"called a second time, a third; had been pointedly attentive. If","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Elizabeth and her father did not deceive themselves, had been taking","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"much pains to seek the acquaintance, and proclaim the value of the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"connection, as he had formerly taken pains to shew neglect. This was","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"very wonderful if it were true; and Lady Russell was in a state of very","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"agreeable curiosity and perplexity about Mr Elliot, already recanting","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the sentiment she had so lately expressed to Mary, of his being “a man","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"whom she had no wish to see.” She had a great wish to see him. If he","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"really sought to reconcile himself like a dutiful branch, he must be","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"forgiven for having dismembered himself from the paternal tree.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Anne was not animated to an equal pitch by the circumstance, but she","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"felt that she would rather see Mr Elliot again than not, which was more","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"than she could say for many other persons in Bath.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"She was put down in Camden Place; and Lady Russell then drove to her","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"own lodgings, in Rivers Street.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"CHAPTER XV.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Sir Walter had taken a very good house in Camden Place, a lofty","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"dignified situation, such as becomes a man of consequence; and both he","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and Elizabeth were settled there, much to their satisfaction.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Anne entered it with a sinking heart, anticipating an imprisonment of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"many months, and anxiously saying to herself, “Oh! when shall I leave","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"you again?” A degree of unexpected cordiality, however, in the welcome","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"she received, did her good. Her father and sister were glad to see her,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"for the sake of shewing her the house and furniture, and met her with","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"kindness. Her making a fourth, when they sat down to dinner, was","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"noticed as an advantage.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Mrs Clay was very pleasant, and very smiling, but her courtesies and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"smiles were more a matter of course. Anne had always felt that she","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"would pretend what was proper on her arrival, but the complaisance of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the others was unlooked for. They were evidently in excellent spirits,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and she was soon to listen to the causes. They had no inclination to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"listen to her. After laying out for some compliments of being deeply","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"regretted in their old neighbourhood, which Anne could not pay, they","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"had only a few faint enquiries to make, before the talk must be all","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"their own. Uppercross excited no interest, Kellynch very little: it was","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"all Bath.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"They had the pleasure of assuring her that Bath more than answered","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"their expectations in every respect. Their house was undoubtedly the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"best in Camden Place; their drawing-rooms had many decided advantages","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"over all the others which they had either seen or heard of, and the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"superiority was not less in the style of the fitting-up, or the taste","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"of the furniture. Their acquaintance was exceedingly sought after.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Everybody was wanting to visit them. They had drawn back from many","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"introductions, and still were perpetually having cards left by people","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"of whom they knew nothing.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Here were funds of enjoyment. Could Anne wonder that her father and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"sister were happy? She might not wonder, but she must sigh that her","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"father should feel no degradation in his change, should see nothing to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"regret in the duties and dignity of the resident landholder, should","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"find so much to be vain of in the littlenesses of a town; and she must","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"sigh, and smile, and wonder too, as Elizabeth threw open the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"folding-doors and walked with exultation from one drawing-room to the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"other, boasting of their space; at the possibility of that woman, who","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"had been mistress of Kellynch Hall, finding extent to be proud of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"between two walls, perhaps thirty feet asunder.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"But this was not all which they had to make them happy. They had Mr","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Elliot too. Anne had a great deal to hear of Mr Elliot. He was not only","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"pardoned, they were delighted with him. He had been in Bath about a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"fortnight; (he had passed through Bath in November, in his way to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"London, when the intelligence of Sir Walter’s being settled there had","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"of course reached him, though only twenty-four hours in the place, but","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"he had not been able to avail himself of it;) but he had now been a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"fortnight in Bath, and his first object on arriving, had been to leave","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"his card in Camden Place, following it up by such assiduous endeavours","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"to meet, and when they did meet, by such great openness of conduct,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"such readiness to apologize for the past, such solicitude to be","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"received as a relation again, that their former good understanding was","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"completely re-established.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"They had not a fault to find in him. He had explained away all the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"appearance of neglect on his own side. It had originated in","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"misapprehension entirely. He had never had an idea of throwing himself","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"off; he had feared that he was thrown off, but knew not why, and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"delicacy had kept him silent. Upon the hint of having spoken","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"disrespectfully or carelessly of the family and the family honours, he","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"was quite indignant. He, who had ever boasted of being an Elliot, and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"whose feelings, as to connection, were only too strict to suit the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"unfeudal tone of the present day. He was astonished, indeed, but his","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"character and general conduct must refute it. He could refer Sir Walter","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"to all who knew him; and certainly, the pains he had been taking on","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"this, the first opportunity of reconciliation, to be restored to the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"footing of a relation and heir-presumptive, was a strong proof of his","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"opinions on the subject.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"The circumstances of his marriage, too, were found to admit of much","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"extenuation. This was an article not to be entered on by himself; but a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"very intimate friend of his, a Colonel Wallis, a highly respectable","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"man, perfectly the gentleman, (and not an ill-looking man, Sir Walter","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"added), who was living in very good style in Marlborough Buildings, and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"had, at his own particular request, been admitted to their acquaintance","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"through Mr Elliot, had mentioned one or two things relative to the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"marriage, which made a material difference in the discredit of it.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Colonel Wallis had known Mr Elliot long, had been well acquainted also","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"with his wife, had perfectly understood the whole story. She was","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"certainly not a woman of family, but well educated, accomplished, rich,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and excessively in love with his friend. There had been the charm. She","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"had sought him. Without that attraction, not all her money would have","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"tempted Elliot, and Sir Walter was, moreover, assured of her having","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"been a very fine woman. Here was a great deal to soften the business. A","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"very fine woman with a large fortune, in love with him! Sir Walter","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"seemed to admit it as complete apology; and though Elizabeth could not","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"see the circumstance in quite so favourable a light, she allowed it be","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"a great extenuation.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Mr Elliot had called repeatedly, had dined with them once, evidently","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"delighted by the distinction of being asked, for they gave no dinners","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"in general; delighted, in short, by every proof of cousinly notice, and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"placing his whole happiness in being on intimate terms in Camden Place.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Anne listened, but without quite understanding it. Allowances, large","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"allowances, she knew, must be made for the ideas of those who spoke.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"She heard it all under embellishment. All that sounded extravagant or","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"irrational in the progress of the reconciliation might have no origin","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"but in the language of the relators. Still, however, she had the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"sensation of there being something more than immediately appeared, in","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Mr Elliot’s wishing, after an interval of so many years, to be well","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"received by them. In a worldly view, he had nothing to gain by being on","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"terms with Sir Walter; nothing to risk by a state of variance. In all","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"probability he was already the richer of the two, and the Kellynch","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"estate would as surely be his hereafter as the title. A sensible man,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and he had looked like a very sensible man, why should it be an object","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"to him? She could only offer one solution; it was, perhaps, for","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Elizabeth’s sake. There might really have been a liking formerly,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"though convenience and accident had drawn him a different way; and now","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"that he could afford to please himself, he might mean to pay his","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"addresses to her. Elizabeth was certainly very handsome, with","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"well-bred, elegant manners, and her character might never have been","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"penetrated by Mr Elliot, knowing her but in public, and when very young","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"himself. How her temper and understanding might bear the investigation","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"of his present keener time of life was another concern and rather a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"fearful one. Most earnestly did she wish that he might not be too nice,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"or too observant if Elizabeth were his object; and that Elizabeth was","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"disposed to believe herself so, and that her friend Mrs Clay was","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"encouraging the idea, seemed apparent by a glance or two between them,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"while Mr Elliot’s frequent visits were talked of.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Anne mentioned the glimpses she had had of him at Lyme, but without","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"being much attended to. “Oh! yes, perhaps, it had been Mr Elliot. They","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"did not know. It might be him, perhaps.” They could not listen to her","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"description of him. They were describing him themselves; Sir Walter","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"especially. He did justice to his very gentlemanlike appearance, his","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"air of elegance and fashion, his good shaped face, his sensible eye;","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"but, at the same time, “must lament his being very much under-hung, a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"defect which time seemed to have increased; nor could he pretend to say","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"that ten years had not altered almost every feature for the worse. Mr","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Elliot appeared to think that he (Sir Walter) was looking exactly as he","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"had done when they last parted;” but Sir Walter had “not been able to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"return the compliment entirely, which had embarrassed him. He did not","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"mean to complain, however. Mr Elliot was better to look at than most","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"men, and he had no objection to being seen with him anywhere.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Mr Elliot, and his friends in Marlborough Buildings, were talked of the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"whole evening. “Colonel Wallis had been so impatient to be introduced","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"to them! and Mr Elliot so anxious that he should!” and there was a Mrs","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Wallis, at present known only to them by description, as she was in","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"daily expectation of her confinement; but Mr Elliot spoke of her as “a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"most charming woman, quite worthy of being known in Camden Place,” and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"as soon as she recovered they were to be acquainted. Sir Walter thought","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"much of Mrs Wallis; she was said to be an excessively pretty woman,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"beautiful. “He longed to see her. He hoped she might make some amends","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"for the many very plain faces he was continually passing in the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"streets. The worst of Bath was the number of its plain women. He did","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"not mean to say that there were no pretty women, but the number of the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"plain was out of all proportion. He had frequently observed, as he","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"walked, that one handsome face would be followed by thirty, or","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"five-and-thirty frights; and once, as he had stood in a shop on Bond","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Street, he had counted eighty-seven women go by, one after another,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"without there being a tolerable face among them. It had been a frosty","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"morning, to be sure, a sharp frost, which hardly one woman in a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"thousand could stand the test of. But still, there certainly were a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"dreadful multitude of ugly women in Bath; and as for the men! they were","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"infinitely worse. Such scarecrows as the streets were full of! It was","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"evident how little the women were used to the sight of anything","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"tolerable, by the effect which a man of decent appearance produced. He","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"had never walked anywhere arm-in-arm with Colonel Wallis (who was a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"fine military figure, though sandy-haired) without observing that every","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"woman’s eye was upon him; every woman’s eye was sure to be upon Colonel","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Wallis.” Modest Sir Walter! He was not allowed to escape, however. His","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"daughter and Mrs Clay united in hinting that Colonel Wallis’s companion","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"might have as good a figure as Colonel Wallis, and certainly was not","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"sandy-haired.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“How is Mary looking?” said Sir Walter, in the height of his good","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"humour. “The last time I saw her she had a red nose, but I hope that","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"may not happen every day.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Oh! no, that must have been quite accidental. In general she has been","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"in very good health and very good looks since Michaelmas.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“If I thought it would not tempt her to go out in sharp winds, and grow","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"coarse, I would send her a new hat and pelisse.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Anne was considering whether she should venture to suggest that a gown,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"or a cap, would not be liable to any such misuse, when a knock at the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"door suspended everything. “A knock at the door! and so late! It was","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"ten o’clock. Could it be Mr Elliot? They knew he was to dine in","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Lansdown Crescent. It was possible that he might stop in his way home","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"to ask them how they did. They could think of no one else. Mrs Clay","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"decidedly thought it Mr Elliot’s knock.” Mrs Clay was right. With all","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the state which a butler and foot-boy could give, Mr Elliot was ushered","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"into the room.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"It was the same, the very same man, with no difference but of dress.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Anne drew a little back, while the others received his compliments, and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"her sister his apologies for calling at so unusual an hour, but “he","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"could not be so near without wishing to know that neither she nor her","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"friend had taken cold the day before,” &c. &c.; which was all as","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"politely done, and as politely taken, as possible, but her part must","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"follow then. Sir Walter talked of his youngest daughter; “Mr Elliot","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"must give him leave to present him to his youngest daughter” (there was","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"no occasion for remembering Mary); and Anne, smiling and blushing, very","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"becomingly shewed to Mr Elliot the pretty features which he had by no","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"means forgotten, and instantly saw, with amusement at his little start","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"of surprise, that he had not been at all aware of who she was. He","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"looked completely astonished, but not more astonished than pleased; his","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"eyes brightened! and with the most perfect alacrity he welcomed the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"relationship, alluded to the past, and entreated to be received as an","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"acquaintance already. He was quite as good-looking as he had appeared","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"at Lyme, his countenance improved by speaking, and his manners were so","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"exactly what they ought to be, so polished, so easy, so particularly","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"agreeable, that she could compare them in excellence to only one","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"person’s manners. They were not the same, but they were, perhaps,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"equally good.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"He sat down with them, and improved their conversation very much. There","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"could be no doubt of his being a sensible man. Ten minutes were enough","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"to certify that. His tone, his expressions, his choice of subject, his","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"knowing where to stop; it was all the operation of a sensible,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"discerning mind. As soon as he could, he began to talk to her of Lyme,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"wanting to compare opinions respecting the place, but especially","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"wanting to speak of the circumstance of their happening to be guests in","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the same inn at the same time; to give his own route, understand","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"something of hers, and regret that he should have lost such an","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"opportunity of paying his respects to her. She gave him a short account","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"of her party and business at Lyme. His regret increased as he listened.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"He had spent his whole solitary evening in the room adjoining theirs;","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"had heard voices, mirth continually; thought they must be a most","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"delightful set of people, longed to be with them, but certainly without","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the smallest suspicion of his possessing the shadow of a right to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"introduce himself. If he had but asked who the party were! The name of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Musgrove would have told him enough. “Well, it would serve to cure him","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"of an absurd practice of never asking a question at an inn, which he","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"had adopted, when quite a young man, on the principle of its being very","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"ungenteel to be curious.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“The notions of a young man of one or two and twenty,” said he, “as to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"what is necessary in manners to make him quite the thing, are more","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"absurd, I believe, than those of any other set of beings in the world.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"The folly of the means they often employ is only to be equalled by the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"folly of what they have in view.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"But he must not be addressing his reflections to Anne alone: he knew","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"it; he was soon diffused again among the others, and it was only at","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"intervals that he could return to Lyme.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"His enquiries, however, produced at length an account of the scene she","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"had been engaged in there, soon after his leaving the place. Having","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"alluded to “an accident,” he must hear the whole. When he questioned,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Sir Walter and Elizabeth began to question also, but the difference in","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"their manner of doing it could not be unfelt. She could only compare Mr","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Elliot to Lady Russell, in the wish of really comprehending what had","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"passed, and in the degree of concern for what she must have suffered in","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"witnessing it.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"He staid an hour with them. The elegant little clock on the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"mantel-piece had struck “eleven with its silver sounds,” and the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"watchman was beginning to be heard at a distance telling the same tale,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"before Mr Elliot or any of them seemed to feel that he had been there","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"long.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Anne could not have supposed it possible that her first evening in","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Camden Place could have passed so well!","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"CHAPTER XVI.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"There was one point which Anne, on returning to her family, would have","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"been more thankful to ascertain even than Mr Elliot’s being in love","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"with Elizabeth, which was, her father’s not being in love with Mrs","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Clay; and she was very far from easy about it, when she had been at","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"home a few hours. On going down to breakfast the next morning, she","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"found there had just been a decent pretence on the lady’s side of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"meaning to leave them. She could imagine Mrs Clay to have said, that","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“now Miss Anne was come, she could not suppose herself at all wanted;”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"for Elizabeth was replying in a sort of whisper, “That must not be any","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"reason, indeed. I assure you I feel it none. She is nothing to me,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"compared with you;” and she was in full time to hear her father say,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“My dear madam, this must not be. As yet, you have seen nothing of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Bath. You have been here only to be useful. You must not run away from","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"us now. You must stay to be acquainted with Mrs Wallis, the beautiful","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Mrs Wallis. To your fine mind, I well know the sight of beauty is a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"real gratification.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"He spoke and looked so much in earnest, that Anne was not surprised to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"see Mrs Clay stealing a glance at Elizabeth and herself. Her","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"countenance, perhaps, might express some watchfulness; but the praise","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"of the fine mind did not appear to excite a thought in her sister. The","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"lady could not but yield to such joint entreaties, and promise to stay.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"In the course of the same morning, Anne and her father chancing to be","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"alone together, he began to compliment her on her improved looks; he","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"thought her “less thin in her person, in her cheeks; her skin, her","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"complexion, greatly improved; clearer, fresher. Had she been using any","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"thing in particular?” “No, nothing.” “Merely Gowland,” he supposed.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“No, nothing at all.” “Ha! he was surprised at that;” and added,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“certainly you cannot do better than to continue as you are; you cannot","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"be better than well; or I should recommend Gowland, the constant use of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Gowland, during the spring months. Mrs Clay has been using it at my","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"recommendation, and you see what it has done for her. You see how it","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"has carried away her freckles.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"If Elizabeth could but have heard this! Such personal praise might have","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"struck her, especially as it did not appear to Anne that the freckles","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"were at all lessened. But everything must take its chance. The evil of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"a marriage would be much diminished, if Elizabeth were also to marry.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"As for herself, she might always command a home with Lady Russell.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Lady Russell’s composed mind and polite manners were put to some trial","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"on this point, in her intercourse in Camden Place. The sight of Mrs","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Clay in such favour, and of Anne so overlooked, was a perpetual","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"provocation to her there; and vexed her as much when she was away, as a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"person in Bath who drinks the water, gets all the new publications, and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"has a very large acquaintance, has time to be vexed.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"As Mr Elliot became known to her, she grew more charitable, or more","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"indifferent, towards the others. His manners were an immediate","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"recommendation; and on conversing with him she found the solid so fully","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"supporting the superficial, that she was at first, as she told Anne,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"almost ready to exclaim, “Can this be Mr Elliot?” and could not","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"seriously picture to herself a more agreeable or estimable man.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Everything united in him; good understanding, correct opinions,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"knowledge of the world, and a warm heart. He had strong feelings of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"family attachment and family honour, without pride or weakness; he","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"lived with the liberality of a man of fortune, without display; he","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"judged for himself in everything essential, without defying public","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"opinion in any point of worldly decorum. He was steady, observant,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"moderate, candid; never run away with by spirits or by selfishness,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"which fancied itself strong feeling; and yet, with a sensibility to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"what was amiable and lovely, and a value for all the felicities of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"domestic life, which characters of fancied enthusiasm and violent","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"agitation seldom really possess. She was sure that he had not been","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"happy in marriage. Colonel Wallis said it, and Lady Russell saw it; but","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"it had been no unhappiness to sour his mind, nor (she began pretty soon","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"to suspect) to prevent his thinking of a second choice. Her","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"satisfaction in Mr Elliot outweighed all the plague of Mrs Clay.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"It was now some years since Anne had begun to learn that she and her","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"excellent friend could sometimes think differently; and it did not","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"surprise her, therefore, that Lady Russell should see nothing","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"suspicious or inconsistent, nothing to require more motives than","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"appeared, in Mr Elliot’s great desire of a reconciliation. In Lady","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Russell’s view, it was perfectly natural that Mr Elliot, at a mature","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"time of life, should feel it a most desirable object, and what would","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"very generally recommend him among all sensible people, to be on good","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"terms with the head of his family; the simplest process in the world of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"time upon a head naturally clear, and only erring in the heyday of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"youth. Anne presumed, however, still to smile about it, and at last to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"mention “Elizabeth.” Lady Russell listened, and looked, and made only","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"this cautious reply:—“Elizabeth! very well; time will explain.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"It was a reference to the future, which Anne, after a little","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"observation, felt she must submit to. She could determine nothing at","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"present. In that house Elizabeth must be first; and she was in the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"habit of such general observance as “Miss Elliot,” that any","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"particularity of attention seemed almost impossible. Mr Elliot, too, it","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"must be remembered, had not been a widower seven months. A little delay","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"on his side might be very excusable. In fact, Anne could never see the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"crape round his hat, without fearing that she was the inexcusable one,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"in attributing to him such imaginations; for though his marriage had","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"not been very happy, still it had existed so many years that she could","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"not comprehend a very rapid recovery from the awful impression of its","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"being dissolved.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"However it might end, he was without any question their pleasantest","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"acquaintance in Bath: she saw nobody equal to him; and it was a great","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"indulgence now and then to talk to him about Lyme, which he seemed to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"have as lively a wish to see again, and to see more of, as herself.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"They went through the particulars of their first meeting a great many","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"times. He gave her to understand that he had looked at her with some","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"earnestness. She knew it well; and she remembered another person’s look","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"also.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"They did not always think alike. His value for rank and connexion she","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"perceived was greater than hers. It was not merely complaisance, it","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"must be a liking to the cause, which made him enter warmly into her","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"father and sister’s solicitudes on a subject which she thought unworthy","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"to excite them. The Bath paper one morning announced the arrival of the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Dowager Viscountess Dalrymple, and her daughter, the Honourable Miss","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Carteret; and all the comfort of No. —, Camden Place, was swept away","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"for many days; for the Dalrymples (in Anne’s opinion, most","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"unfortunately) were cousins of the Elliots; and the agony was how to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"introduce themselves properly.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Anne had never seen her father and sister before in contact with","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"nobility, and she must acknowledge herself disappointed. She had hoped","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"better things from their high ideas of their own situation in life, and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"was reduced to form a wish which she had never foreseen; a wish that","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"they had more pride; for “our cousins Lady Dalrymple and Miss","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Carteret;” “our cousins, the Dalrymples,” sounded in her ears all day","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"long.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Sir Walter had once been in company with the late viscount, but had","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"never seen any of the rest of the family; and the difficulties of the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"case arose from there having been a suspension of all intercourse by","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"letters of ceremony, ever since the death of that said late viscount,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"when, in consequence of a dangerous illness of Sir Walter’s at the same","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"time, there had been an unlucky omission at Kellynch. No letter of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"condolence had been sent to Ireland. The neglect had been visited on","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the head of the sinner; for when poor Lady Elliot died herself, no","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"letter of condolence was received at Kellynch, and, consequently, there","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"was but too much reason to apprehend that the Dalrymples considered the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"relationship as closed. How to have this anxious business set to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"rights, and be admitted as cousins again, was the question: and it was","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"a question which, in a more rational manner, neither Lady Russell nor","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Mr Elliot thought unimportant. “Family connexions were always worth","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"preserving, good company always worth seeking; Lady Dalrymple had taken","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"a house, for three months, in Laura Place, and would be living in","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"style. She had been at Bath the year before, and Lady Russell had heard","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"her spoken of as a charming woman. It was very desirable that the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"connexion should be renewed, if it could be done, without any","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"compromise of propriety on the side of the Elliots.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Sir Walter, however, would choose his own means, and at last wrote a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"very fine letter of ample explanation, regret, and entreaty, to his","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"right honourable cousin. Neither Lady Russell nor Mr Elliot could","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"admire the letter; but it did all that was wanted, in bringing three","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"lines of scrawl from the Dowager Viscountess. “She was very much","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"honoured, and should be happy in their acquaintance.” The toils of the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"business were over, the sweets began. They visited in Laura Place, they","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"had the cards of Dowager Viscountess Dalrymple, and the Honourable Miss","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Carteret, to be arranged wherever they might be most visible: and “Our","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"cousins in Laura Place,”—“Our cousin, Lady Dalrymple and Miss","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Carteret,” were talked of to everybody.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Anne was ashamed. Had Lady Dalrymple and her daughter even been very","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"agreeable, she would still have been ashamed of the agitation they","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"created, but they were nothing. There was no superiority of manner,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"accomplishment, or understanding. Lady Dalrymple had acquired the name","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"of “a charming woman,” because she had a smile and a civil answer for","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"everybody. Miss Carteret, with still less to say, was so plain and so","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"awkward, that she would never have been tolerated in Camden Place but","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"for her birth.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Lady Russell confessed she had expected something better; but yet “it","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"was an acquaintance worth having;” and when Anne ventured to speak her","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"opinion of them to Mr Elliot, he agreed to their being nothing in","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"themselves, but still maintained that, as a family connexion, as good","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"company, as those who would collect good company around them, they had","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"their value. Anne smiled and said,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“My idea of good company, Mr Elliot, is the company of clever,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation; that is","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"what I call good company.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“You are mistaken,” said he gently, “that is not good company; that is","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the best. Good company requires only birth, education, and manners, and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"with regard to education is not very nice. Birth and good manners are","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"essential; but a little learning is by no means a dangerous thing in","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"good company; on the contrary, it will do very well. My cousin Anne","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"shakes her head. She is not satisfied. She is fastidious. My dear","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"cousin” (sitting down by her), “you have a better right to be","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"fastidious than almost any other woman I know; but will it answer? Will","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"it make you happy? Will it not be wiser to accept the society of those","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"good ladies in Laura Place, and enjoy all the advantages of the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"connexion as far as possible? You may depend upon it, that they will","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"move in the first set in Bath this winter, and as rank is rank, your","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"being known to be related to them will have its use in fixing your","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"family (our family let me say) in that degree of consideration which we","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"must all wish for.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Yes,” sighed Anne, “we shall, indeed, be known to be related to them!”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"then recollecting herself, and not wishing to be answered, she added,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“I certainly do think there has been by far too much trouble taken to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"procure the acquaintance. I suppose” (smiling) “I have more pride than","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"any of you; but I confess it does vex me, that we should be so","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"solicitous to have the relationship acknowledged, which we may be very","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"sure is a matter of perfect indifference to them.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Pardon me, dear cousin, you are unjust in your own claims. In London,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"perhaps, in your present quiet style of living, it might be as you say:","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"but in Bath; Sir Walter Elliot and his family will always be worth","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"knowing: always acceptable as acquaintance.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Well,” said Anne, “I certainly am proud, too proud to enjoy a welcome","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"which depends so entirely upon place.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“I love your indignation,” said he; “it is very natural. But here you","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"are in Bath, and the object is to be established here with all the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"credit and dignity which ought to belong to Sir Walter Elliot. You talk","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"of being proud; I am called proud, I know, and I shall not wish to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"believe myself otherwise; for our pride, if investigated, would have","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the same object, I have no doubt, though the kind may seem a little","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"different. In one point, I am sure, my dear cousin,” (he continued,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"speaking lower, though there was no one else in the room) “in one","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"point, I am sure, we must feel alike. We must feel that every addition","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"to your father’s society, among his equals or superiors, may be of use","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"in diverting his thoughts from those who are beneath him.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"He looked, as he spoke, to the seat which Mrs Clay had been lately","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"occupying: a sufficient explanation of what he particularly meant; and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"though Anne could not believe in their having the same sort of pride,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"she was pleased with him for not liking Mrs Clay; and her conscience","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"admitted that his wishing to promote her father’s getting great","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"acquaintance was more than excusable in the view of defeating her.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"CHAPTER XVII.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"While Sir Walter and Elizabeth were assiduously pushing their good","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"fortune in Laura Place, Anne was renewing an acquaintance of a very","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"different description.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"She had called on her former governess, and had heard from her of there","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"being an old schoolfellow in Bath, who had the two strong claims on","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"her attention of past kindness and present suffering. Miss Hamilton,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"now Mrs Smith, had shewn her kindness in one of those periods of her","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"life when it had been most valuable. Anne had gone unhappy to school,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"grieving for the loss of a mother whom she had dearly loved, feeling","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"her separation from home, and suffering as a girl of fourteen, of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"strong sensibility and not high spirits, must suffer at such a time;","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and Miss Hamilton, three years older than herself, but still from the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"want of near relations and a settled home, remaining another year at","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"school, had been useful and good to her in a way which had considerably","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"lessened her misery, and could never be remembered with indifference.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Miss Hamilton had left school, had married not long afterwards, was","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"said to have married a man of fortune, and this was all that Anne had","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"known of her, till now that their governess’s account brought her","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"situation forward in a more decided but very different form.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"She was a widow and poor. Her husband had been extravagant; and at his","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"death, about two years before, had left his affairs dreadfully","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"involved. She had had difficulties of every sort to contend with, and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"in addition to these distresses had been afflicted with a severe","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"rheumatic fever, which, finally settling in her legs, had made her for","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the present a cripple. She had come to Bath on that account, and was","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"now in lodgings near the hot baths, living in a very humble way, unable","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"even to afford herself the comfort of a servant, and of course almost","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"excluded from society.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Their mutual friend answered for the satisfaction which a visit from","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Miss Elliot would give Mrs Smith, and Anne therefore lost no time in","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"going. She mentioned nothing of what she had heard, or what she","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"intended, at home. It would excite no proper interest there. She only","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"consulted Lady Russell, who entered thoroughly into her sentiments, and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"was most happy to convey her as near to Mrs Smith’s lodgings in","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Westgate Buildings, as Anne chose to be taken.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"The visit was paid, their acquaintance re-established, their interest","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"in each other more than re-kindled. The first ten minutes had its","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"awkwardness and its emotion. Twelve years were gone since they had","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"parted, and each presented a somewhat different person from what the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"other had imagined. Twelve years had changed Anne from the blooming,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"silent, unformed girl of fifteen, to the elegant little woman of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"seven-and-twenty, with every beauty except bloom, and with manners as","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"consciously right as they were invariably gentle; and twelve years had","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"transformed the fine-looking, well-grown Miss Hamilton, in all the glow","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"of health and confidence of superiority, into a poor, infirm, helpless","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"widow, receiving the visit of her former protegee as a favour; but all","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"that was uncomfortable in the meeting had soon passed away, and left","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"only the interesting charm of remembering former partialities and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"talking over old times.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Anne found in Mrs Smith the good sense and agreeable manners which she","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"had almost ventured to depend on, and a disposition to converse and be","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"cheerful beyond her expectation. Neither the dissipations of the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"past—and she had lived very much in the world—nor the restrictions of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the present, neither sickness nor sorrow seemed to have closed her","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"heart or ruined her spirits.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"In the course of a second visit she talked with great openness, and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Anne’s astonishment increased. She could scarcely imagine a more","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"cheerless situation in itself than Mrs Smith’s. She had been very fond","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"of her husband: she had buried him. She had been used to affluence: it","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"was gone. She had no child to connect her with life and happiness","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"again, no relations to assist in the arrangement of perplexed affairs,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"no health to make all the rest supportable. Her accommodations were","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"limited to a noisy parlour, and a dark bedroom behind, with no","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"possibility of moving from one to the other without assistance, which","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"there was only one servant in the house to afford, and she never","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"quitted the house but to be conveyed into the warm bath. Yet, in spite","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"of all this, Anne had reason to believe that she had moments only of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"languor and depression, to hours of occupation and enjoyment. How could","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"it be? She watched, observed, reflected, and finally determined that","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"this was not a case of fortitude or of resignation only. A submissive","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"spirit might be patient, a strong understanding would supply","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"resolution, but here was something more; here was that elasticity of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"mind, that disposition to be comforted, that power of turning readily","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"from evil to good, and of finding employment which carried her out of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"herself, which was from nature alone. It was the choicest gift of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Heaven; and Anne viewed her friend as one of those instances in which,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"by a merciful appointment, it seems designed to counterbalance almost","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"every other want.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"There had been a time, Mrs Smith told her, when her spirits had nearly","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"failed. She could not call herself an invalid now, compared with her","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"state on first reaching Bath. Then she had, indeed, been a pitiable","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"object; for she had caught cold on the journey, and had hardly taken","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"possession of her lodgings before she was again confined to her bed and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"suffering under severe and constant pain; and all this among strangers,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"with the absolute necessity of having a regular nurse, and finances at","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"that moment particularly unfit to meet any extraordinary expense. She","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"had weathered it, however, and could truly say that it had done her","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"good. It had increased her comforts by making her feel herself to be in","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"good hands. She had seen too much of the world, to expect sudden or","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"disinterested attachment anywhere, but her illness had proved to her","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"that her landlady had a character to preserve, and would not use her","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"ill; and she had been particularly fortunate in her nurse, as a sister","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"of her landlady, a nurse by profession, and who had always a home in","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"that house when unemployed, chanced to be at liberty just in time to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"attend her. “And she,” said Mrs Smith, “besides nursing me most","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"admirably, has really proved an invaluable acquaintance. As soon as I","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"could use my hands she taught me to knit, which has been a great","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"amusement; and she put me in the way of making these little","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"thread-cases, pin-cushions and card-racks, which you always find me so","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"busy about, and which supply me with the means of doing a little good","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"to one or two very poor families in this neighbourhood. She had a large","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"acquaintance, of course professionally, among those who can afford to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"buy, and she disposes of my merchandise. She always takes the right","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"time for applying. Everybody’s heart is open, you know, when they have","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"recently escaped from severe pain, or are recovering the blessing of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"health, and Nurse Rooke thoroughly understands when to speak. She is a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"shrewd, intelligent, sensible woman. Hers is a line for seeing human","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"nature; and she has a fund of good sense and observation, which, as a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"companion, make her infinitely superior to thousands of those who","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"having only received ‘the best education in the world,’ know nothing","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"worth attending to. Call it gossip, if you will, but when Nurse Rooke","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"has half an hour’s leisure to bestow on me, she is sure to have","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"something to relate that is entertaining and profitable: something that","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"makes one know one’s species better. One likes to hear what is going","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"on, to be _au fait_ as to the newest modes of being trifling and silly.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"To me, who live so much alone, her conversation, I assure you, is a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"treat.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Anne, far from wishing to cavil at the pleasure, replied, “I can easily","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"believe it. Women of that class have great opportunities, and if they","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"are intelligent may be well worth listening to. Such varieties of human","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"nature as they are in the habit of witnessing! And it is not merely in","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"its follies, that they are well read; for they see it occasionally","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"under every circumstance that can be most interesting or affecting.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"What instances must pass before them of ardent, disinterested,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"self-denying attachment, of heroism, fortitude, patience, resignation:","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"of all the conflicts and all the sacrifices that ennoble us most. A","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"sick chamber may often furnish the worth of volumes.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
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{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Yes,” said Mrs Smith more doubtingly, “sometimes it may, though I fear","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"its lessons are not often in the elevated style you describe. Here and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"there, human nature may be great in times of trial; but generally","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"speaking, it is its weakness and not its strength that appears in a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"sick chamber: it is selfishness and impatience rather than generosity","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and fortitude, that one hears of. There is so little real friendship in","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the world! and unfortunately” (speaking low and tremulously) “there are","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"so many who forget to think seriously till it is almost too late.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Anne saw the misery of such feelings. The husband had not been what he","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"ought, and the wife had been led among that part of mankind which made","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"her think worse of the world than she hoped it deserved. It was but a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"passing emotion however with Mrs Smith; she shook it off, and soon","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"added in a different tone—","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“I do not suppose the situation my friend Mrs Rooke is in at present,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"will furnish much either to interest or edify me. She is only nursing","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Mrs Wallis of Marlborough Buildings; a mere pretty, silly, expensive,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"fashionable woman, I believe; and of course will have nothing to report","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"but of lace and finery. I mean to make my profit of Mrs Wallis,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"however. She has plenty of money, and I intend she shall buy all the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"high-priced things I have in hand now.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Anne had called several times on her friend, before the existence of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"such a person was known in Camden Place. At last, it became necessary","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"to speak of her. Sir Walter, Elizabeth and Mrs Clay, returned one","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"morning from Laura Place, with a sudden invitation from Lady Dalrymple","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"for the same evening, and Anne was already engaged, to spend that","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"evening in Westgate Buildings. She was not sorry for the excuse. They","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"were only asked, she was sure, because Lady Dalrymple being kept at","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"home by a bad cold, was glad to make use of the relationship which had","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"been so pressed on her; and she declined on her own account with great","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"alacrity—“She was engaged to spend the evening with an old","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"schoolfellow.” They were not much interested in anything relative to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Anne; but still there were questions enough asked, to make it","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"understood what this old schoolfellow was; and Elizabeth was","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"disdainful, and Sir Walter severe.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Westgate Buildings!” said he, “and who is Miss Anne Elliot to be","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"visiting in Westgate Buildings? A Mrs Smith. A widow Mrs Smith; and who","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"was her husband? One of five thousand Mr Smiths whose names are to be","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"met with everywhere. And what is her attraction? That she is old and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"sickly. Upon my word, Miss Anne Elliot, you have the most extraordinary","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"taste! Everything that revolts other people, low company, paltry rooms,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"foul air, disgusting associations are inviting to you. But surely you","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"may put off this old lady till to-morrow: she is not so near her end, I","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"presume, but that she may hope to see another day. What is her age?","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Forty?”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“No, sir, she is not one-and-thirty; but I do not think I can put off","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"my engagement, because it is the only evening for some time which will","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"at once suit her and myself. She goes into the warm bath to-morrow, and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"for the rest of the week, you know, we are engaged.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“But what does Lady Russell think of this acquaintance?” asked","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Elizabeth.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“She sees nothing to blame in it,” replied Anne; “on the contrary, she","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"approves it, and has generally taken me when I have called on Mrs","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Smith.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Westgate Buildings must have been rather surprised by the appearance","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"of a carriage drawn up near its pavement,” observed Sir Walter. “Sir","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Henry Russell’s widow, indeed, has no honours to distinguish her arms,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"but still it is a handsome equipage, and no doubt is well known to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"convey a Miss Elliot. A widow Mrs Smith lodging in Westgate Buildings!","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"A poor widow barely able to live, between thirty and forty; a mere Mrs","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Smith, an every-day Mrs Smith, of all people and all names in the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"world, to be the chosen friend of Miss Anne Elliot, and to be preferred","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"by her to her own family connections among the nobility of England and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Ireland! Mrs Smith! Such a name!”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Mrs Clay, who had been present while all this passed, now thought it","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"advisable to leave the room, and Anne could have said much, and did","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"long to say a little in defence of _her_ friend’s not very dissimilar","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"claims to theirs, but her sense of personal respect to her father","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"prevented her. She made no reply. She left it to himself to recollect,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"that Mrs Smith was not the only widow in Bath between thirty and forty,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"with little to live on, and no surname of dignity.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Anne kept her appointment; the others kept theirs, and of course she","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"heard the next morning that they had had a delightful evening. She had","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"been the only one of the set absent, for Sir Walter and Elizabeth had","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"not only been quite at her ladyship’s service themselves, but had","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"actually been happy to be employed by her in collecting others, and had","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"been at the trouble of inviting both Lady Russell and Mr Elliot; and Mr","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Elliot had made a point of leaving Colonel Wallis early, and Lady","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Russell had fresh arranged all her evening engagements in order to wait","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"on her. Anne had the whole history of all that such an evening could","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"supply from Lady Russell. To her, its greatest interest must be, in","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"having been very much talked of between her friend and Mr Elliot; in","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"having been wished for, regretted, and at the same time honoured for","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"staying away in such a cause. Her kind, compassionate visits to this","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"old schoolfellow, sick and reduced, seemed to have quite delighted Mr","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Elliot. He thought her a most extraordinary young woman; in her temper,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"manners, mind, a model of female excellence. He could meet even Lady","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Russell in a discussion of her merits; and Anne could not be given to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"understand so much by her friend, could not know herself to be so","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"highly rated by a sensible man, without many of those agreeable","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"sensations which her friend meant to create.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Lady Russell was now perfectly decided in her opinion of Mr Elliot. She","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"was as much convinced of his meaning to gain Anne in time as of his","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"deserving her, and was beginning to calculate the number of weeks which","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"would free him from all the remaining restraints of widowhood, and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"leave him at liberty to exert his most open powers of pleasing. She","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"would not speak to Anne with half the certainty she felt on the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"subject, she would venture on little more than hints of what might be","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"hereafter, of a possible attachment on his side, of the desirableness","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"of the alliance, supposing such attachment to be real and returned.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Anne heard her, and made no violent exclamations; she only smiled,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"blushed, and gently shook her head.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“I am no match-maker, as you well know,” said Lady Russell, “being much","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"too well aware of the uncertainty of all human events and calculations.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"I only mean that if Mr Elliot should some time hence pay his addresses","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"to you, and if you should be disposed to accept him, I think there","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"would be every possibility of your being happy together. A most","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"suitable connection everybody must consider it, but I think it might be","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"a very happy one.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Mr Elliot is an exceedingly agreeable man, and in many respects I","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"think highly of him,” said Anne; “but we should not suit.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Lady Russell let this pass, and only said in rejoinder, “I own that to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"be able to regard you as the future mistress of Kellynch, the future","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Lady Elliot, to look forward and see you occupying your dear mother’s","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"place, succeeding to all her rights, and all her popularity, as well as","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"to all her virtues, would be the highest possible gratification to me.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"You are your mother’s self in countenance and disposition; and if I","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"might be allowed to fancy you such as she was, in situation and name,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and home, presiding and blessing in the same spot, and only superior to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"her in being more highly valued! My dearest Anne, it would give me more","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"delight than is often felt at my time of life!”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Anne was obliged to turn away, to rise, to walk to a distant table,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and, leaning there in pretended employment, try to subdue the feelings","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"this picture excited. For a few moments her imagination and her heart","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"were bewitched. The idea of becoming what her mother had been; of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"having the precious name of “Lady Elliot” first revived in herself; of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"being restored to Kellynch, calling it her home again, her home for","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"ever, was a charm which she could not immediately resist. Lady Russell","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"said not another word, willing to leave the matter to its own","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"operation; and believing that, could Mr Elliot at that moment with","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"propriety have spoken for himself!—she believed, in short, what Anne","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"did not believe. The same image of Mr Elliot speaking for himself","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"brought Anne to composure again. The charm of Kellynch and of “Lady","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Elliot” all faded away. She never could accept him. And it was not only","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"that her feelings were still adverse to any man save one; her","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"judgement, on a serious consideration of the possibilities of such a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"case, was against Mr Elliot.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Though they had now been acquainted a month, she could not be satisfied","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"that she really knew his character. That he was a sensible man, an","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"agreeable man, that he talked well, professed good opinions, seemed to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"judge properly and as a man of principle, this was all clear enough. He","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"certainly knew what was right, nor could she fix on any one article of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"moral duty evidently transgressed; but yet she would have been afraid","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"to answer for his conduct. She distrusted the past, if not the present.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"The names which occasionally dropt of former associates, the allusions","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"to former practices and pursuits, suggested suspicions not favourable","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"of what he had been. She saw that there had been bad habits; that","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Sunday travelling had been a common thing; that there had been a period","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"of his life (and probably not a short one) when he had been, at least,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"careless in all serious matters; and, though he might now think very","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"differently, who could answer for the true sentiments of a clever,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"cautious man, grown old enough to appreciate a fair character? How","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"could it ever be ascertained that his mind was truly cleansed?","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Mr Elliot was rational, discreet, polished, but he was not open. There","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"was never any burst of feeling, any warmth of indignation or delight,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"at the evil or good of others. This, to Anne, was a decided","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"imperfection. Her early impressions were incurable. She prized the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"frank, the open-hearted, the eager character beyond all others. Warmth","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and enthusiasm did captivate her still. She felt that she could so much","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"more depend upon the sincerity of those who sometimes looked or said a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"careless or a hasty thing, than of those whose presence of mind never","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"varied, whose tongue never slipped.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Mr Elliot was too generally agreeable. Various as were the tempers in","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"her father’s house, he pleased them all. He endured too well, stood too","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"well with every body. He had spoken to her with some degree of openness","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"of Mrs Clay; had appeared completely to see what Mrs Clay was about,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and to hold her in contempt; and yet Mrs Clay found him as agreeable as","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"any body.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Lady Russell saw either less or more than her young friend, for she saw","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"nothing to excite distrust. She could not imagine a man more exactly","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"what he ought to be than Mr Elliot; nor did she ever enjoy a sweeter","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"feeling than the hope of seeing him receive the hand of her beloved","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Anne in Kellynch church, in the course of the following autumn.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"CHAPTER XVIII.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"It was the beginning of February; and Anne, having been a month in","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Bath, was growing very eager for news from Uppercross and Lyme. She","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"wanted to hear much more than Mary had communicated. It was three weeks","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"since she had heard at all. She only knew that Henrietta was at home","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"again; and that Louisa, though considered to be recovering fast, was","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"still in Lyme; and she was thinking of them all very intently one","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"evening, when a thicker letter than usual from Mary was delivered to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"her; and, to quicken the pleasure and surprise, with Admiral and Mrs","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Croft’s compliments.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"The Crofts must be in Bath! A circumstance to interest her. They were","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"people whom her heart turned to very naturally.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“What is this?” cried Sir Walter. “The Crofts have arrived in Bath? The","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Crofts who rent Kellynch? What have they brought you?”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“A letter from Uppercross Cottage, Sir.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Oh! those letters are convenient passports. They secure an","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"introduction. I should have visited Admiral Croft, however, at any","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"rate. I know what is due to my tenant.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Anne could listen no longer; she could not even have told how the poor","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Admiral’s complexion escaped; her letter engrossed her. It had been","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"begun several days back.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“February 1st.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“MY DEAR ANNE,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"I make no apology for my silence, because I know how little people","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"think of letters in such a place as Bath. You must be a great deal too","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"happy to care for Uppercross, which, as you well know, affords little","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"to write about. We have had a very dull Christmas; Mr and Mrs Musgrove","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"have not had one dinner party all the holidays. I do not reckon the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Hayters as anybody. The holidays, however, are over at last: I believe","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"no children ever had such long ones. I am sure I had not. The house was","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"cleared yesterday, except of the little Harvilles; but you will be","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"surprised to hear they have never gone home. Mrs Harville must be an","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"odd mother to part with them so long. I do not understand it. They are","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"not at all nice children, in my opinion; but Mrs Musgrove seems to like","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"them quite as well, if not better, than her grandchildren. What","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"dreadful weather we have had! It may not be felt in Bath, with your","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"nice pavements; but in the country it is of some consequence. I have","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"not had a creature call on me since the second week in January, except","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Charles Hayter, who had been calling much oftener than was welcome.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Between ourselves, I think it a great pity Henrietta did not remain at","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Lyme as long as Louisa; it would have kept her a little out of his way.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"The carriage is gone to-day, to bring Louisa and the Harvilles","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"to-morrow. We are not asked to dine with them, however, till the day","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"after, Mrs Musgrove is so afraid of her being fatigued by the journey,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"which is not very likely, considering the care that will be taken of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"her; and it would be much more convenient to me to dine there","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"to-morrow. I am glad you find Mr Elliot so agreeable, and wish I could","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"be acquainted with him too; but I have my usual luck: I am always out","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"of the way when any thing desirable is going on; always the last of my","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"family to be noticed. What an immense time Mrs Clay has been staying","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"with Elizabeth! Does she never mean to go away? But perhaps if she were","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"to leave the room vacant, we might not be invited. Let me know what you","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"think of this. I do not expect my children to be asked, you know. I can","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"leave them at the Great House very well, for a month or six weeks. I","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"have this moment heard that the Crofts are going to Bath almost","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"immediately; they think the Admiral gouty. Charles heard it quite by","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"chance; they have not had the civility to give me any notice, or of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"offering to take anything. I do not think they improve at all as","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"neighbours. We see nothing of them, and this is really an instance of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"gross inattention. Charles joins me in love, and everything proper.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Yours affectionately,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“MARY M——.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“I am sorry to say that I am very far from well; and Jemima has just","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"told me that the butcher says there is a bad sore-throat very much","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"about. I dare say I shall catch it; and my sore-throats, you know, are","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"always worse than anybody’s.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"So ended the first part, which had been afterwards put into an","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"envelope, containing nearly as much more.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“I kept my letter open, that I might send you word how Louisa bore her","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"journey, and now I am extremely glad I did, having a great deal to add.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"In the first place, I had a note from Mrs Croft yesterday, offering to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"convey anything to you; a very kind, friendly note indeed, addressed to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"me, just as it ought; I shall therefore be able to make my letter as","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"long as I like. The Admiral does not seem very ill, and I sincerely","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"hope Bath will do him all the good he wants. I shall be truly glad to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"have them back again. Our neighbourhood cannot spare such a pleasant","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"family. But now for Louisa. I have something to communicate that will","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"astonish you not a little. She and the Harvilles came on Tuesday very","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"safely, and in the evening we went to ask her how she did, when we were","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"rather surprised not to find Captain Benwick of the party, for he had","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"been invited as well as the Harvilles; and what do you think was the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"reason? Neither more nor less than his being in love with Louisa, and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"not choosing to venture to Uppercross till he had had an answer from Mr","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Musgrove; for it was all settled between him and her before she came","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"away, and he had written to her father by Captain Harville. True, upon","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"my honour! Are not you astonished? I shall be surprised at least if you","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"ever received a hint of it, for I never did. Mrs Musgrove protests","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"solemnly that she knew nothing of the matter. We are all very well","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"pleased, however, for though it is not equal to her marrying Captain","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Wentworth, it is infinitely better than Charles Hayter; and Mr Musgrove","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"has written his consent, and Captain Benwick is expected to-day. Mrs","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Harville says her husband feels a good deal on his poor sister’s","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"account; but, however, Louisa is a great favourite with both. Indeed,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Mrs Harville and I quite agree that we love her the better for having","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"nursed her. Charles wonders what Captain Wentworth will say; but if you","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"remember, I never thought him attached to Louisa; I never could see","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"anything of it. And this is the end, you see, of Captain Benwick’s","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"being supposed to be an admirer of yours. How Charles could take such a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"thing into his head was always incomprehensible to me. I hope he will","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"be more agreeable now. Certainly not a great match for Louisa Musgrove,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"but a million times better than marrying among the Hayters.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Mary need not have feared her sister’s being in any degree prepared for","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the news. She had never in her life been more astonished. Captain","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Benwick and Louisa Musgrove! It was almost too wonderful for belief,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and it was with the greatest effort that she could remain in the room,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"preserve an air of calmness, and answer the common questions of the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"moment. Happily for her, they were not many. Sir Walter wanted to know","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"whether the Crofts travelled with four horses, and whether they were","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"likely to be situated in such a part of Bath as it might suit Miss","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Elliot and himself to visit in; but had little curiosity beyond.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“How is Mary?” said Elizabeth; and without waiting for an answer, “And","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"pray what brings the Crofts to Bath?”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“They come on the Admiral’s account. He is thought to be gouty.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Gout and decrepitude!” said Sir Walter. “Poor old gentleman.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Have they any acquaintance here?” asked Elizabeth.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“I do not know; but I can hardly suppose that, at Admiral Croft’s time","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"of life, and in his profession, he should not have many acquaintance in","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"such a place as this.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“I suspect,” said Sir Walter coolly, “that Admiral Croft will be best","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"known in Bath as the renter of Kellynch Hall. Elizabeth, may we venture","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"to present him and his wife in Laura Place?”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Oh, no! I think not. Situated as we are with Lady Dalrymple, cousins,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"we ought to be very careful not to embarrass her with acquaintance she","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"might not approve. If we were not related, it would not signify; but as","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"cousins, she would feel scrupulous as to any proposal of ours. We had","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"better leave the Crofts to find their own level. There are several","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"odd-looking men walking about here, who, I am told, are sailors. The","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Crofts will associate with them.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"This was Sir Walter and Elizabeth’s share of interest in the letter;","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"when Mrs Clay had paid her tribute of more decent attention, in an","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"enquiry after Mrs Charles Musgrove, and her fine little boys, Anne was","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"at liberty.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"In her own room, she tried to comprehend it. Well might Charles wonder","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"how Captain Wentworth would feel! Perhaps he had quitted the field, had","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"given Louisa up, had ceased to love, had found he did not love her. She","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"could not endure the idea of treachery or levity, or anything akin to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"ill usage between him and his friend. She could not endure that such a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"friendship as theirs should be severed unfairly.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Captain Benwick and Louisa Musgrove! The high-spirited, joyous-talking","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Louisa Musgrove, and the dejected, thinking, feeling, reading, Captain","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Benwick, seemed each of them everything that would not suit the other.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Their minds most dissimilar! Where could have been the attraction? The","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"answer soon presented itself. It had been in situation. They had been","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"thrown together several weeks; they had been living in the same small","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"family party: since Henrietta’s coming away, they must have been","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"depending almost entirely on each other, and Louisa, just recovering","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"from illness, had been in an interesting state, and Captain Benwick was","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"not inconsolable. That was a point which Anne had not been able to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"avoid suspecting before; and instead of drawing the same conclusion as","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Mary, from the present course of events, they served only to confirm","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the idea of his having felt some dawning of tenderness toward herself.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"She did not mean, however, to derive much more from it to gratify her","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"vanity, than Mary might have allowed. She was persuaded that any","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"tolerably pleasing young woman who had listened and seemed to feel for","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"him would have received the same compliment. He had an affectionate","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"heart. He must love somebody.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"She saw no reason against their being happy. Louisa had fine naval","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"fervour to begin with, and they would soon grow more alike. He would","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"gain cheerfulness, and she would learn to be an enthusiast for Scott","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and Lord Byron; nay, that was probably learnt already; of course they","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"had fallen in love over poetry. The idea of Louisa Musgrove turned into","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"a person of literary taste, and sentimental reflection was amusing, but","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"she had no doubt of its being so. The day at Lyme, the fall from the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Cobb, might influence her health, her nerves, her courage, her","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"character to the end of her life, as thoroughly as it appeared to have","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"influenced her fate.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"The conclusion of the whole was, that if the woman who had been","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"sensible of Captain Wentworth’s merits could be allowed to prefer","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"another man, there was nothing in the engagement to excite lasting","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"wonder; and if Captain Wentworth lost no friend by it, certainly","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"nothing to be regretted. No, it was not regret which made Anne’s heart","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"beat in spite of herself, and brought the colour into her cheeks when","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"she thought of Captain Wentworth unshackled and free. She had some","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"feelings which she was ashamed to investigate. They were too much like","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"joy, senseless joy!","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"She longed to see the Crofts; but when the meeting took place, it was","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"evident that no rumour of the news had yet reached them. The visit of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"ceremony was paid and returned; and Louisa Musgrove was mentioned, and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Captain Benwick, too, without even half a smile.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"The Crofts had placed themselves in lodgings in Gay Street, perfectly","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"to Sir Walter’s satisfaction. He was not at all ashamed of the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"acquaintance, and did, in fact, think and talk a great deal more about","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the Admiral, than the Admiral ever thought or talked about him.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"The Crofts knew quite as many people in Bath as they wished for, and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"considered their intercourse with the Elliots as a mere matter of form,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and not in the least likely to afford them any pleasure. They brought","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"with them their country habit of being almost always together. He was","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"ordered to walk to keep off the gout, and Mrs Croft seemed to go shares","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"with him in everything, and to walk for her life to do him good. Anne","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"saw them wherever she went. Lady Russell took her out in her carriage","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"almost every morning, and she never failed to think of them, and never","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"failed to see them. Knowing their feelings as she did, it was a most","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"attractive picture of happiness to her. She always watched them as long","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"as she could, delighted to fancy she understood what they might be","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"talking of, as they walked along in happy independence, or equally","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"delighted to see the Admiral’s hearty shake of the hand when he","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"encountered an old friend, and observe their eagerness of conversation","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"when occasionally forming into a little knot of the navy, Mrs Croft","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"looking as intelligent and keen as any of the officers around her.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Anne was too much engaged with Lady Russell to be often walking","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"herself; but it so happened that one morning, about a week or ten days","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"after the Croft’s arrival, it suited her best to leave her friend, or","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"her friend’s carriage, in the lower part of the town, and return alone","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"to Camden Place, and in walking up Milsom Street she had the good","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"fortune to meet with the Admiral. He was standing by himself at a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"printshop window, with his hands behind him, in earnest contemplation","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"of some print, and she not only might have passed him unseen, but was","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"obliged to touch as well as address him before she could catch his","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"notice. When he did perceive and acknowledge her, however, it was done","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"with all his usual frankness and good humour. “Ha! is it you? Thank","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"you, thank you. This is treating me like a friend. Here I am, you see,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"staring at a picture. I can never get by this shop without stopping.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"But what a thing here is, by way of a boat! Do look at it. Did you ever","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"see the like? What queer fellows your fine painters must be, to think","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"that anybody would venture their lives in such a shapeless old","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"cockleshell as that? And yet here are two gentlemen stuck up in it","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"mightily at their ease, and looking about them at the rocks and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"mountains, as if they were not to be upset the next moment, which they","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"certainly must be. I wonder where that boat was built!” (laughing","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"heartily); “I would not venture over a horsepond in it. Well,” (turning","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"away), “now, where are you bound? Can I go anywhere for you, or with","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"you? Can I be of any use?”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“None, I thank you, unless you will give me the pleasure of your","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"company the little way our road lies together. I am going home.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“That I will, with all my heart, and farther, too. Yes, yes we will","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"have a snug walk together, and I have something to tell you as we go","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"along. There, take my arm; that’s right; I do not feel comfortable if I","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"have not a woman there. Lord! what a boat it is!” taking a last look at","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the picture, as they began to be in motion.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Did you say that you had something to tell me, sir?”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Yes, I have, presently. But here comes a friend, Captain Brigden; I","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"shall only say, ‘How d’ye do?’ as we pass, however. I shall not stop.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"‘How d’ye do?’ Brigden stares to see anybody with me but my wife. She,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"poor soul, is tied by the leg. She has a blister on one of her heels,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"as large as a three-shilling piece. If you look across the street, you","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"will see Admiral Brand coming down and his brother. Shabby fellows,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"both of them! I am glad they are not on this side of the way. Sophy","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"cannot bear them. They played me a pitiful trick once: got away with","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"some of my best men. I will tell you the whole story another time.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"There comes old Sir Archibald Drew and his grandson. Look, he sees us;","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"he kisses his hand to you; he takes you for my wife. Ah! the peace has","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"come too soon for that younker. Poor old Sir Archibald! How do you like","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Bath, Miss Elliot? It suits us very well. We are always meeting with","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"some old friend or other; the streets full of them every morning; sure","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"to have plenty of chat; and then we get away from them all, and shut","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"ourselves in our lodgings, and draw in our chairs, and are as snug as","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"if we were at Kellynch, ay, or as we used to be even at North Yarmouth","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and Deal. We do not like our lodgings here the worse, I can tell you,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"for putting us in mind of those we first had at North Yarmouth. The","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"wind blows through one of the cupboards just in the same way.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"When they were got a little farther, Anne ventured to press again for","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"what he had to communicate. She hoped when clear of Milsom Street to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"have her curiosity gratified; but she was still obliged to wait, for","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the Admiral had made up his mind not to begin till they had gained the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"greater space and quiet of Belmont; and as she was not really Mrs","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Croft, she must let him have his own way. As soon as they were fairly","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"ascending Belmont, he began—","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Well, now you shall hear something that will surprise you. But first","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"of all, you must tell me the name of the young lady I am going to talk","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"about. That young lady, you know, that we have all been so concerned","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"for. The Miss Musgrove, that all this has been happening to. Her","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Christian name: I always forget her Christian name.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Anne had been ashamed to appear to comprehend so soon as she really","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"did; but now she could safely suggest the name of “Louisa.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Ay, ay, Miss Louisa Musgrove, that is the name. I wish young ladies","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"had not such a number of fine Christian names. I should never be out if","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"they were all Sophys, or something of that sort. Well, this Miss","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Louisa, we all thought, you know, was to marry Frederick. He was","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"courting her week after week. The only wonder was, what they could be","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"waiting for, till the business at Lyme came; then, indeed, it was clear","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"enough that they must wait till her brain was set to right. But even","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"then there was something odd in their way of going on. Instead of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"staying at Lyme, he went off to Plymouth, and then he went off to see","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Edward. When we came back from Minehead he was gone down to Edward’s,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and there he has been ever since. We have seen nothing of him since","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"November. Even Sophy could not understand it. But now, the matter has","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"taken the strangest turn of all; for this young lady, the same Miss","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Musgrove, instead of being to marry Frederick, is to marry James","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Benwick. You know James Benwick.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“A little. I am a little acquainted with Captain Benwick.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Well, she is to marry him. Nay, most likely they are married already,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"for I do not know what they should wait for.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“I thought Captain Benwick a very pleasing young man,” said Anne, “and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"I understand that he bears an excellent character.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Oh! yes, yes, there is not a word to be said against James Benwick. He","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"is only a commander, it is true, made last summer, and these are bad","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"times for getting on, but he has not another fault that I know of. An","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"excellent, good-hearted fellow, I assure you; a very active, zealous","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"officer too, which is more than you would think for, perhaps, for that","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"soft sort of manner does not do him justice.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Indeed you are mistaken there, sir; I should never augur want of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"spirit from Captain Benwick’s manners. I thought them particularly","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"pleasing, and I will answer for it, they would generally please.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Well, well, ladies are the best judges; but James Benwick is rather","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"too piano for me; and though very likely it is all our partiality,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Sophy and I cannot help thinking Frederick’s manners better than his.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"There is something about Frederick more to our taste.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Anne was caught. She had only meant to oppose the too common idea of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"spirit and gentleness being incompatible with each other, not at all to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"represent Captain Benwick’s manners as the very best that could","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"possibly be; and, after a little hesitation, she was beginning to say,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“I was not entering into any comparison of the two friends,” but the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Admiral interrupted her with—","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“And the thing is certainly true. It is not a mere bit of gossip. We","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"have it from Frederick himself. His sister had a letter from him","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"yesterday, in which he tells us of it, and he had just had it in a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"letter from Harville, written upon the spot, from Uppercross. I fancy","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"they are all at Uppercross.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"This was an opportunity which Anne could not resist; she said,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"therefore, “I hope, Admiral, I hope there is nothing in the style of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Captain Wentworth’s letter to make you and Mrs Croft particularly","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"uneasy. It did seem, last autumn, as if there were an attachment","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"between him and Louisa Musgrove; but I hope it may be understood to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"have worn out on each side equally, and without violence. I hope his","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"letter does not breathe the spirit of an ill-used man.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Not at all, not at all; there is not an oath or a murmur from","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"beginning to end.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Anne looked down to hide her smile.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“No, no; Frederick is not a man to whine and complain; he has too much","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"spirit for that. If the girl likes another man better, it is very fit","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"she should have him.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Certainly. But what I mean is, that I hope there is nothing in Captain","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Wentworth’s manner of writing to make you suppose he thinks himself","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"ill-used by his friend, which might appear, you know, without its being","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"absolutely said. I should be very sorry that such a friendship as has","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"subsisted between him and Captain Benwick should be destroyed, or even","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"wounded, by a circumstance of this sort.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Yes, yes, I understand you. But there is nothing at all of that nature","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"in the letter. He does not give the least fling at Benwick; does not so","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"much as say, ‘I wonder at it, I have a reason of my own for wondering","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"at it.’ No, you would not guess, from his way of writing, that he had","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"ever thought of this Miss (what’s her name?) for himself. He very","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"handsomely hopes they will be happy together; and there is nothing very","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"unforgiving in that, I think.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Anne did not receive the perfect conviction which the Admiral meant to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"convey, but it would have been useless to press the enquiry farther.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"She therefore satisfied herself with common-place remarks or quiet","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"attention, and the Admiral had it all his own way.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Poor Frederick!” said he at last. “Now he must begin all over again","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"with somebody else. I think we must get him to Bath. Sophy must write,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and beg him to come to Bath. Here are pretty girls enough, I am sure.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"It would be of no use to go to Uppercross again, for that other Miss","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Musgrove, I find, is bespoke by her cousin, the young parson. Do not","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"you think, Miss Elliot, we had better try to get him to Bath?”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"CHAPTER XIX.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"While Admiral Croft was taking this walk with Anne, and expressing his","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"wish of getting Captain Wentworth to Bath, Captain Wentworth was","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"already on his way thither. Before Mrs Croft had written, he was","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"arrived, and the very next time Anne walked out, she saw him.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Mr Elliot was attending his two cousins and Mrs Clay. They were in","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Milsom Street. It began to rain, not much, but enough to make shelter","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"desirable for women, and quite enough to make it very desirable for","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Miss Elliot to have the advantage of being conveyed home in Lady","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Dalrymple’s carriage, which was seen waiting at a little distance; she,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Anne, and Mrs Clay, therefore, turned into Molland’s, while Mr Elliot","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"stepped to Lady Dalrymple, to request her assistance. He soon joined","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"them again, successful, of course; Lady Dalrymple would be most happy","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"to take them home, and would call for them in a few minutes.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Her ladyship’s carriage was a barouche, and did not hold more than four","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"with any comfort. Miss Carteret was with her mother; consequently it","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"was not reasonable to expect accommodation for all the three Camden","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Place ladies. There could be no doubt as to Miss Elliot. Whoever","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"suffered inconvenience, she must suffer none, but it occupied a little","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"time to settle the point of civility between the other two. The rain","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"was a mere trifle, and Anne was most sincere in preferring a walk with","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Mr Elliot. But the rain was also a mere trifle to Mrs Clay; she would","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"hardly allow it even to drop at all, and her boots were so thick! much","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"thicker than Miss Anne’s; and, in short, her civility rendered her","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"quite as anxious to be left to walk with Mr Elliot as Anne could be,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and it was discussed between them with a generosity so polite and so","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"determined, that the others were obliged to settle it for them; Miss","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Elliot maintaining that Mrs Clay had a little cold already, and Mr","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Elliot deciding on appeal, that his cousin Anne’s boots were rather the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"thickest.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"It was fixed accordingly, that Mrs Clay should be of the party in the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"carriage; and they had just reached this point, when Anne, as she sat","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"near the window, descried, most decidedly and distinctly, Captain","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Wentworth walking down the street.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Her start was perceptible only to herself; but she instantly felt that","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"she was the greatest simpleton in the world, the most unaccountable and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"absurd! For a few minutes she saw nothing before her; it was all","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"confusion. She was lost, and when she had scolded back her senses, she","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"found the others still waiting for the carriage, and Mr Elliot (always","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"obliging) just setting off for Union Street on a commission of Mrs","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Clay’s.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"She now felt a great inclination to go to the outer door; she wanted to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"see if it rained. Why was she to suspect herself of another motive?","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Captain Wentworth must be out of sight. She left her seat, she would","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"go; one half of her should not be always so much wiser than the other","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"half, or always suspecting the other of being worse than it was. She","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"would see if it rained. She was sent back, however, in a moment by the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"entrance of Captain Wentworth himself, among a party of gentlemen and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"ladies, evidently his acquaintance, and whom he must have joined a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"little below Milsom Street. He was more obviously struck and confused","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"by the sight of her than she had ever observed before; he looked quite","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"red. For the first time, since their renewed acquaintance, she felt","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"that she was betraying the least sensibility of the two. She had the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"advantage of him in the preparation of the last few moments. All the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"overpowering, blinding, bewildering, first effects of strong surprise","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"were over with her. Still, however, she had enough to feel! It was","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"agitation, pain, pleasure, a something between delight and misery.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"He spoke to her, and then turned away. The character of his manner was","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"embarrassment. She could not have called it either cold or friendly, or","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"anything so certainly as embarrassed.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"After a short interval, however, he came towards her, and spoke again.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Mutual enquiries on common subjects passed: neither of them, probably,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"much the wiser for what they heard, and Anne continuing fully sensible","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"of his being less at ease than formerly. They had by dint of being so","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"very much together, got to speak to each other with a considerable","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"portion of apparent indifference and calmness; but he could not do it","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"now. Time had changed him, or Louisa had changed him. There was","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"consciousness of some sort or other. He looked very well, not as if he","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"had been suffering in health or spirits, and he talked of Uppercross,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"of the Musgroves, nay, even of Louisa, and had even a momentary look of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"his own arch significance as he named her; but yet it was Captain","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Wentworth not comfortable, not easy, not able to feign that he was.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"It did not surprise, but it grieved Anne to observe that Elizabeth","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"would not know him. She saw that he saw Elizabeth, that Elizabeth saw","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"him, that there was complete internal recognition on each side; she was","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"convinced that he was ready to be acknowledged as an acquaintance,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"expecting it, and she had the pain of seeing her sister turn away with","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"unalterable coldness.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Lady Dalrymple’s carriage, for which Miss Elliot was growing very","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"impatient, now drew up; the servant came in to announce it. It was","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"beginning to rain again, and altogether there was a delay, and a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"bustle, and a talking, which must make all the little crowd in the shop","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"understand that Lady Dalrymple was calling to convey Miss Elliot. At","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"last Miss Elliot and her friend, unattended but by the servant, (for","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"there was no cousin returned), were walking off; and Captain Wentworth,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"watching them, turned again to Anne, and by manner, rather than words,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"was offering his services to her.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“I am much obliged to you,” was her answer, “but I am not going with","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"them. The carriage would not accommodate so many. I walk: I prefer","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"walking.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“But it rains.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Oh! very little. Nothing that I regard.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"After a moment’s pause he said: “Though I came only yesterday, I have","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"equipped myself properly for Bath already, you see,” (pointing to a new","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"umbrella); “I wish you would make use of it, if you are determined to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"walk; though I think it would be more prudent to let me get you a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"chair.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"She was very much obliged to him, but declined it all, repeating her","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"conviction, that the rain would come to nothing at present, and adding,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“I am only waiting for Mr Elliot. He will be here in a moment, I am","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"sure.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"She had hardly spoken the words when Mr Elliot walked in. Captain","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Wentworth recollected him perfectly. There was no difference between","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"him and the man who had stood on the steps at Lyme, admiring Anne as","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"she passed, except in the air and look and manner of the privileged","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"relation and friend. He came in with eagerness, appeared to see and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"think only of her, apologised for his stay, was grieved to have kept","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"her waiting, and anxious to get her away without further loss of time","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and before the rain increased; and in another moment they walked off","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"together, her arm under his, a gentle and embarrassed glance, and a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Good morning to you!” being all that she had time for, as she passed","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"away.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"As soon as they were out of sight, the ladies of Captain Wentworth’s","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"party began talking of them.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Mr Elliot does not dislike his cousin, I fancy?”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Oh! no, that is clear enough. One can guess what will happen there. He","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"is always with them; half lives in the family, I believe. What a very","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"good-looking man!”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Yes, and Miss Atkinson, who dined with him once at the Wallises, says","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"he is the most agreeable man she ever was in company with.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“She is pretty, I think; Anne Elliot; very pretty, when one comes to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"look at her. It is not the fashion to say so, but I confess I admire","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"her more than her sister.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Oh! so do I.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“And so do I. No comparison. But the men are all wild after Miss","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Elliot. Anne is too delicate for them.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Anne would have been particularly obliged to her cousin, if he would","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"have walked by her side all the way to Camden Place, without saying a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"word. She had never found it so difficult to listen to him, though","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"nothing could exceed his solicitude and care, and though his subjects","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"were principally such as were wont to be always interesting: praise,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"warm, just, and discriminating, of Lady Russell, and insinuations","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"highly rational against Mrs Clay. But just now she could think only of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Captain Wentworth. She could not understand his present feelings,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"whether he were really suffering much from disappointment or not; and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"till that point were settled, she could not be quite herself.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! alas! she must","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"confess to herself that she was not wise yet.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Another circumstance very essential for her to know, was how long he","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"meant to be in Bath; he had not mentioned it, or she could not","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"recollect it. He might be only passing through. But it was more","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"probable that he should be come to stay. In that case, so liable as","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"every body was to meet every body in Bath, Lady Russell would in all","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"likelihood see him somewhere. Would she recollect him? How would it all","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"be?","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"She had already been obliged to tell Lady Russell that Louisa Musgrove","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"was to marry Captain Benwick. It had cost her something to encounter","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Lady Russell’s surprise; and now, if she were by any chance to be","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"thrown into company with Captain Wentworth, her imperfect knowledge of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the matter might add another shade of prejudice against him.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"The following morning Anne was out with her friend, and for the first","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"hour, in an incessant and fearful sort of watch for him in vain; but at","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"last, in returning down Pulteney Street, she distinguished him on the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"right hand pavement at such a distance as to have him in view the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"greater part of the street. There were many other men about him, many","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"groups walking the same way, but there was no mistaking him. She looked","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"instinctively at Lady Russell; but not from any mad idea of her","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"recognising him so soon as she did herself. No, it was not to be","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"supposed that Lady Russell would perceive him till they were nearly","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"opposite. She looked at her however, from time to time, anxiously; and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"when the moment approached which must point him out, though not daring","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"to look again (for her own countenance she knew was unfit to be seen),","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"she was yet perfectly conscious of Lady Russell’s eyes being turned","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"exactly in the direction for him—of her being, in short, intently","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"observing him. She could thoroughly comprehend the sort of fascination","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"he must possess over Lady Russell’s mind, the difficulty it must be for","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"her to withdraw her eyes, the astonishment she must be feeling that","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"eight or nine years should have passed over him, and in foreign climes","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and in active service too, without robbing him of one personal grace!","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"At last, Lady Russell drew back her head. “Now, how would she speak of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"him?”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“You will wonder,” said she, “what has been fixing my eye so long; but","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"I was looking after some window-curtains, which Lady Alicia and Mrs","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Frankland were telling me of last night. They described the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"drawing-room window-curtains of one of the houses on this side of the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"way, and this part of the street, as being the handsomest and best hung","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"of any in Bath, but could not recollect the exact number, and I have","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"been trying to find out which it could be; but I confess I can see no","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"curtains hereabouts that answer their description.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Anne sighed and blushed and smiled, in pity and disdain, either at her","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"friend or herself. The part which provoked her most, was that in all","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"this waste of foresight and caution, she should have lost the right","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"moment for seeing whether he saw them.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"A day or two passed without producing anything. The theatre or the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"rooms, where he was most likely to be, were not fashionable enough for","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the Elliots, whose evening amusements were solely in the elegant","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"stupidity of private parties, in which they were getting more and more","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"engaged; and Anne, wearied of such a state of stagnation, sick of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"knowing nothing, and fancying herself stronger because her strength was","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"not tried, was quite impatient for the concert evening. It was a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"concert for the benefit of a person patronised by Lady Dalrymple. Of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"course they must attend. It was really expected to be a good one, and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Captain Wentworth was very fond of music. If she could only have a few","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"minutes conversation with him again, she fancied she should be","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"satisfied; and as to the power of addressing him, she felt all over","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"courage if the opportunity occurred. Elizabeth had turned from him,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Lady Russell overlooked him; her nerves were strengthened by these","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"circumstances; she felt that she owed him attention.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"She had once partly promised Mrs Smith to spend the evening with her;","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"but in a short hurried call she excused herself and put it off, with","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the more decided promise of a longer visit on the morrow. Mrs Smith","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"gave a most good-humoured acquiescence.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“By all means,” said she; “only tell me all about it, when you do come.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Who is your party?”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Anne named them all. Mrs Smith made no reply; but when she was leaving","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"her said, and with an expression half serious, half arch, “Well, I","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"heartily wish your concert may answer; and do not fail me to-morrow if","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"you can come; for I begin to have a foreboding that I may not have many","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"more visits from you.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Anne was startled and confused; but after standing in a moment’s","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"suspense, was obliged, and not sorry to be obliged, to hurry away.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"CHAPTER XX.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Sir Walter, his two daughters, and Mrs Clay, were the earliest of all","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"their party at the rooms in the evening; and as Lady Dalrymple must be","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"waited for, they took their station by one of the fires in the Octagon","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Room. But hardly were they so settled, when the door opened again, and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Captain Wentworth walked in alone. Anne was the nearest to him, and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"making yet a little advance, she instantly spoke. He was preparing only","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"to bow and pass on, but her gentle “How do you do?” brought him out of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the straight line to stand near her, and make enquiries in return, in","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"spite of the formidable father and sister in the back ground. Their","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"being in the back ground was a support to Anne; she knew nothing of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"their looks, and felt equal to everything which she believed right to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"be done.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"While they were speaking, a whispering between her father and Elizabeth","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"caught her ear. She could not distinguish, but she must guess the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"subject; and on Captain Wentworth’s making a distant bow, she","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"comprehended that her father had judged so well as to give him that","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"simple acknowledgement of acquaintance, and she was just in time by a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"side glance to see a slight curtsey from Elizabeth herself. This,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"though late, and reluctant, and ungracious, was yet better than","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"nothing, and her spirits improved.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"After talking, however, of the weather, and Bath, and the concert,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"their conversation began to flag, and so little was said at last, that","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"she was expecting him to go every moment, but he did not; he seemed in","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"no hurry to leave her; and presently with renewed spirit, with a little","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"smile, a little glow, he said—","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“I have hardly seen you since our day at Lyme. I am afraid you must","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"have suffered from the shock, and the more from its not overpowering","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"you at the time.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"She assured him that she had not.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“It was a frightful hour,” said he, “a frightful day!” and he passed","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"his hand across his eyes, as if the remembrance were still too painful,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"but in a moment, half smiling again, added, “The day has produced some","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"effects however; has had some consequences which must be considered as","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the very reverse of frightful. When you had the presence of mind to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"suggest that Benwick would be the properest person to fetch a surgeon,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"you could have little idea of his being eventually one of those most","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"concerned in her recovery.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Certainly I could have none. But it appears—I should hope it would be","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"a very happy match. There are on both sides good principles and good","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"temper.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Yes,” said he, looking not exactly forward; “but there, I think, ends","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the resemblance. With all my soul I wish them happy, and rejoice over","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"every circumstance in favour of it. They have no difficulties to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"contend with at home, no opposition, no caprice, no delays. The","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Musgroves are behaving like themselves, most honourably and kindly,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"only anxious with true parental hearts to promote their daughter’s","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"comfort. All this is much, very much in favour of their happiness; more","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"than perhaps—”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"He stopped. A sudden recollection seemed to occur, and to give him some","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"taste of that emotion which was reddening Anne’s cheeks and fixing her","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"eyes on the ground. After clearing his throat, however, he proceeded","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"thus—","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“I confess that I do think there is a disparity, too great a disparity,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and in a point no less essential than mind. I regard Louisa Musgrove as","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"a very amiable, sweet-tempered girl, and not deficient in","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"understanding, but Benwick is something more. He is a clever man, a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"reading man; and I confess, that I do consider his attaching himself to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"her with some surprise. Had it been the effect of gratitude, had he","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"learnt to love her, because he believed her to be preferring him, it","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"would have been another thing. But I have no reason to suppose it so.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"It seems, on the contrary, to have been a perfectly spontaneous,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"untaught feeling on his side, and this surprises me. A man like him, in","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"his situation! with a heart pierced, wounded, almost broken! Fanny","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Harville was a very superior creature, and his attachment to her was","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"indeed attachment. A man does not recover from such a devotion of the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"heart to such a woman. He ought not; he does not.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Either from the consciousness, however, that his friend had recovered,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"or from other consciousness, he went no farther; and Anne who, in spite","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"of the agitated voice in which the latter part had been uttered, and in","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"spite of all the various noises of the room, the almost ceaseless slam","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"of the door, and ceaseless buzz of persons walking through, had","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"distinguished every word, was struck, gratified, confused, and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"beginning to breathe very quick, and feel an hundred things in a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"moment. It was impossible for her to enter on such a subject; and yet,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"after a pause, feeling the necessity of speaking, and having not the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"smallest wish for a total change, she only deviated so far as to say—","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“You were a good while at Lyme, I think?”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“About a fortnight. I could not leave it till Louisa’s doing well was","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"quite ascertained. I had been too deeply concerned in the mischief to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"be soon at peace. It had been my doing, solely mine. She would not have","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"been obstinate if I had not been weak. The country round Lyme is very","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"fine. I walked and rode a great deal; and the more I saw, the more I","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"found to admire.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“I should very much like to see Lyme again,” said Anne.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Indeed! I should not have supposed that you could have found anything","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"in Lyme to inspire such a feeling. The horror and distress you were","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"involved in, the stretch of mind, the wear of spirits! I should have","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"thought your last impressions of Lyme must have been strong disgust.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
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{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“The last hours were certainly very painful,” replied Anne; “but when","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure. One does","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"all suffering, nothing but suffering, which was by no means the case at","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Lyme. We were only in anxiety and distress during the last two hours,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and previously there had been a great deal of enjoyment. So much","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"novelty and beauty! I have travelled so little, that every fresh place","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"would be interesting to me; but there is real beauty at Lyme; and in","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"short” (with a faint blush at some recollections), “altogether my","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"impressions of the place are very agreeable.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
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{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"As she ceased, the entrance door opened again, and the very party","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"appeared for whom they were waiting. “Lady Dalrymple, Lady Dalrymple,”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"was the rejoicing sound; and with all the eagerness compatible with","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"anxious elegance, Sir Walter and his two ladies stepped forward to meet","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"her. Lady Dalrymple and Miss Carteret, escorted by Mr Elliot and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Colonel Wallis, who had happened to arrive nearly at the same instant,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"advanced into the room. The others joined them, and it was a group in","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"which Anne found herself also necessarily included. She was divided","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"from Captain Wentworth. Their interesting, almost too interesting","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"conversation must be broken up for a time, but slight was the penance","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"compared with the happiness which brought it on! She had learnt, in the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"last ten minutes, more of his feelings towards Louisa, more of all his","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"feelings than she dared to think of; and she gave herself up to the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"demands of the party, to the needful civilities of the moment, with","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"exquisite, though agitated sensations. She was in good humour with all.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"She had received ideas which disposed her to be courteous and kind to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"all, and to pity every one, as being less happy than herself.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"The delightful emotions were a little subdued, when on stepping back","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"from the group, to be joined again by Captain Wentworth, she saw that","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"he was gone. She was just in time to see him turn into the Concert","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Room. He was gone; he had disappeared, she felt a moment’s regret. But","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“they should meet again. He would look for her, he would find her out","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"before the evening were over, and at present, perhaps, it was as well","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"to be asunder. She was in need of a little interval for recollection.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Upon Lady Russell’s appearance soon afterwards, the whole party was","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"collected, and all that remained was to marshal themselves, and proceed","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"into the Concert Room; and be of all the consequence in their power,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"draw as many eyes, excite as many whispers, and disturb as many people","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"as they could.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Very, very happy were both Elizabeth and Anne Elliot as they walked in.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Elizabeth arm in arm with Miss Carteret, and looking on the broad back","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"of the dowager Viscountess Dalrymple before her, had nothing to wish","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"for which did not seem within her reach; and Anne—but it would be an","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"insult to the nature of Anne’s felicity, to draw any comparison between","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"it and her sister’s; the origin of one all selfish vanity, of the other","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"all generous attachment.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Anne saw nothing, thought nothing of the brilliancy of the room. Her","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"happiness was from within. Her eyes were bright and her cheeks glowed;","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"but she knew nothing about it. She was thinking only of the last half","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"hour, and as they passed to their seats, her mind took a hasty range","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"over it. His choice of subjects, his expressions, and still more his","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"manner and look, had been such as she could see in only one light. His","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"opinion of Louisa Musgrove’s inferiority, an opinion which he had","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"seemed solicitous to give, his wonder at Captain Benwick, his feelings","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"as to a first, strong attachment; sentences begun which he could not","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"finish, his half averted eyes and more than half expressive glance,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"all, all declared that he had a heart returning to her at least; that","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"anger, resentment, avoidance, were no more; and that they were","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"succeeded, not merely by friendship and regard, but by the tenderness","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"of the past. Yes, some share of the tenderness of the past. She could","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"not contemplate the change as implying less. He must love her.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"These were thoughts, with their attendant visions, which occupied and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"flurried her too much to leave her any power of observation; and she","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"passed along the room without having a glimpse of him, without even","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"trying to discern him. When their places were determined on, and they","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"were all properly arranged, she looked round to see if he should happen","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"to be in the same part of the room, but he was not; her eye could not","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"reach him; and the concert being just opening, she must consent for a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"time to be happy in a humbler way.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"The party was divided and disposed of on two contiguous benches: Anne","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"was among those on the foremost, and Mr Elliot had manœuvred so well,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"with the assistance of his friend Colonel Wallis, as to have a seat by","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"her. Miss Elliot, surrounded by her cousins, and the principal object","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"of Colonel Wallis’s gallantry, was quite contented.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Anne’s mind was in a most favourable state for the entertainment of the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"evening; it was just occupation enough: she had feelings for the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"tender, spirits for the gay, attention for the scientific, and patience","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"for the wearisome; and had never liked a concert better, at least","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"during the first act. Towards the close of it, in the interval","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"succeeding an Italian song, she explained the words of the song to Mr","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Elliot. They had a concert bill between them.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
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{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“This,” said she, “is nearly the sense, or rather the meaning of the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"words, for certainly the sense of an Italian love-song must not be","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"talked of, but it is as nearly the meaning as I can give; for I do not","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"pretend to understand the language. I am a very poor Italian scholar.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Yes, yes, I see you are. I see you know nothing of the matter. You","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"have only knowledge enough of the language to translate at sight these","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"inverted, transposed, curtailed Italian lines, into clear,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"comprehensible, elegant English. You need not say anything more of your","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"ignorance. Here is complete proof.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“I will not oppose such kind politeness; but I should be sorry to be","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"examined by a real proficient.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“I have not had the pleasure of visiting in Camden Place so long,”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"replied he, “without knowing something of Miss Anne Elliot; and I do","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"regard her as one who is too modest for the world in general to be","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"aware of half her accomplishments, and too highly accomplished for","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"modesty to be natural in any other woman.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“For shame! for shame! this is too much flattery. I forget what we are","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"to have next,” turning to the bill.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Perhaps,” said Mr Elliot, speaking low, “I have had a longer","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"acquaintance with your character than you are aware of.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Indeed! How so? You can have been acquainted with it only since I came","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"to Bath, excepting as you might hear me previously spoken of in my own","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"family.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“I knew you by report long before you came to Bath. I had heard you","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"described by those who knew you intimately. I have been acquainted with","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"you by character many years. Your person, your disposition,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"accomplishments, manner; they were all present to me.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Mr Elliot was not disappointed in the interest he hoped to raise. No","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"one can withstand the charm of such a mystery. To have been described","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"long ago to a recent acquaintance, by nameless people, is irresistible;","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and Anne was all curiosity. She wondered, and questioned him eagerly;","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"but in vain. He delighted in being asked, but he would not tell.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“No, no, some time or other, perhaps, but not now. He would mention no","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"names now; but such, he could assure her, had been the fact. He had","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"many years ago received such a description of Miss Anne Elliot as had","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"inspired him with the highest idea of her merit, and excited the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"warmest curiosity to know her.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Anne could think of no one so likely to have spoken with partiality of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"her many years ago as the Mr Wentworth of Monkford, Captain Wentworth’s","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"brother. He might have been in Mr Elliot’s company, but she had not","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"courage to ask the question.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“The name of Anne Elliot,” said he, “has long had an interesting sound","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"to me. Very long has it possessed a charm over my fancy; and, if I","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"dared, I would breathe my wishes that the name might never change.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Such, she believed, were his words; but scarcely had she received their","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"sound, than her attention was caught by other sounds immediately behind","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"her, which rendered every thing else trivial. Her father and Lady","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Dalrymple were speaking.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“A well-looking man,” said Sir Walter, “a very well-looking man.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“A very fine young man indeed!” said Lady Dalrymple. “More air than one","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"often sees in Bath. Irish, I dare say.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“No, I just know his name. A bowing acquaintance. Wentworth; Captain","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Wentworth of the navy. His sister married my tenant in Somersetshire,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the Croft, who rents Kellynch.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Before Sir Walter had reached this point, Anne’s eyes had caught the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"right direction, and distinguished Captain Wentworth standing among a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"cluster of men at a little distance. As her eyes fell on him, his","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"seemed to be withdrawn from her. It had that appearance. It seemed as","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"if she had been one moment too late; and as long as she dared observe,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"he did not look again: but the performance was recommencing, and she","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"was forced to seem to restore her attention to the orchestra and look","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"straight forward.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"When she could give another glance, he had moved away. He could not","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"have come nearer to her if he would; she was so surrounded and shut in:","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"but she would rather have caught his eye.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Mr Elliot’s speech, too, distressed her. She had no longer any","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"inclination to talk to him. She wished him not so near her.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"The first act was over. Now she hoped for some beneficial change; and,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"after a period of nothing-saying amongst the party, some of them did","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"decide on going in quest of tea. Anne was one of the few who did not","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"choose to move. She remained in her seat, and so did Lady Russell; but","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"she had the pleasure of getting rid of Mr Elliot; and she did not mean,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"whatever she might feel on Lady Russell’s account, to shrink from","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"conversation with Captain Wentworth, if he gave her the opportunity.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"She was persuaded by Lady Russell’s countenance that she had seen him.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"He did not come however. Anne sometimes fancied she discerned him at a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"distance, but he never came. The anxious interval wore away","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"unproductively. The others returned, the room filled again, benches","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"were reclaimed and repossessed, and another hour of pleasure or of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"penance was to be sat out, another hour of music was to give delight or","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the gapes, as real or affected taste for it prevailed. To Anne, it","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"chiefly wore the prospect of an hour of agitation. She could not quit","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"that room in peace without seeing Captain Wentworth once more, without","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the interchange of one friendly look.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"In re-settling themselves there were now many changes, the result of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"which was favourable for her. Colonel Wallis declined sitting down","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"again, and Mr Elliot was invited by Elizabeth and Miss Carteret, in a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"manner not to be refused, to sit between them; and by some other","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"removals, and a little scheming of her own, Anne was enabled to place","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"herself much nearer the end of the bench than she had been before, much","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"more within reach of a passer-by. She could not do so, without","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"comparing herself with Miss Larolles, the inimitable Miss Larolles; but","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"still she did it, and not with much happier effect; though by what","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"seemed prosperity in the shape of an early abdication in her next","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"neighbours, she found herself at the very end of the bench before the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"concert closed.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Such was her situation, with a vacant space at hand, when Captain","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Wentworth was again in sight. She saw him not far off. He saw her too;","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"yet he looked grave, and seemed irresolute, and only by very slow","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"degrees came at last near enough to speak to her. She felt that","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"something must be the matter. The change was indubitable. The","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"difference between his present air and what it had been in the Octagon","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Room was strikingly great. Why was it? She thought of her father, of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Lady Russell. Could there have been any unpleasant glances? He began by","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"speaking of the concert gravely, more like the Captain Wentworth of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Uppercross; owned himself disappointed, had expected singing; and in","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"short, must confess that he should not be sorry when it was over. Anne","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"replied, and spoke in defence of the performance so well, and yet in","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"allowance for his feelings so pleasantly, that his countenance","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"improved, and he replied again with almost a smile. They talked for a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"few minutes more; the improvement held; he even looked down towards the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"bench, as if he saw a place on it well worth occupying; when at that","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"moment a touch on her shoulder obliged Anne to turn round. It came from","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Mr Elliot. He begged her pardon, but she must be applied to, to explain","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Italian again. Miss Carteret was very anxious to have a general idea of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"what was next to be sung. Anne could not refuse; but never had she","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"sacrificed to politeness with a more suffering spirit.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"A few minutes, though as few as possible, were inevitably consumed; and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"when her own mistress again, when able to turn and look as she had done","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"before, she found herself accosted by Captain Wentworth, in a reserved","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"yet hurried sort of farewell. “He must wish her good night; he was","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"going; he should get home as fast as he could.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Is not this song worth staying for?” said Anne, suddenly struck by an","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"idea which made her yet more anxious to be encouraging.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“No!” he replied impressively, “there is nothing worth my staying for;”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and he was gone directly.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Jealousy of Mr Elliot! It was the only intelligible motive. Captain","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Wentworth jealous of her affection! Could she have believed it a week","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"ago; three hours ago! For a moment the gratification was exquisite.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"But, alas! there were very different thoughts to succeed. How was such","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"jealousy to be quieted? How was the truth to reach him? How, in all the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"peculiar disadvantages of their respective situations, would he ever","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"learn of her real sentiments? It was misery to think of Mr Elliot’s","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"attentions. Their evil was incalculable.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"CHAPTER XXI.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Anne recollected with pleasure the next morning her promise of going to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Mrs Smith, meaning that it should engage her from home at the time when","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Mr Elliot would be most likely to call; for to avoid Mr Elliot was","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"almost a first object.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"She felt a great deal of good-will towards him. In spite of the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"mischief of his attentions, she owed him gratitude and regard, perhaps","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"compassion. She could not help thinking much of the extraordinary","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"circumstances attending their acquaintance, of the right which he","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"seemed to have to interest her, by everything in situation, by his own","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"sentiments, by his early prepossession. It was altogether very","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"extraordinary; flattering, but painful. There was much to regret. How","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"she might have felt had there been no Captain Wentworth in the case,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"was not worth enquiry; for there was a Captain Wentworth; and be the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"conclusion of the present suspense good or bad, her affection would be","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"his for ever. Their union, she believed, could not divide her more from","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"other men, than their final separation.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Prettier musings of high-wrought love and eternal constancy, could","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"never have passed along the streets of Bath, than Anne was sporting","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"with from Camden Place to Westgate Buildings. It was almost enough to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"spread purification and perfume all the way.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"She was sure of a pleasant reception; and her friend seemed this","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"morning particularly obliged to her for coming, seemed hardly to have","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"expected her, though it had been an appointment.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"An account of the concert was immediately claimed; and Anne’s","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"recollections of the concert were quite happy enough to animate her","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"features and make her rejoice to talk of it. All that she could tell","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"she told most gladly, but the all was little for one who had been","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"there, and unsatisfactory for such an enquirer as Mrs Smith, who had","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"already heard, through the short cut of a laundress and a waiter,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"rather more of the general success and produce of the evening than Anne","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"could relate, and who now asked in vain for several particulars of the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"company. Everybody of any consequence or notoriety in Bath was well","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"know by name to Mrs Smith.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“The little Durands were there, I conclude,” said she, “with their","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"mouths open to catch the music, like unfledged sparrows ready to be","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"fed. They never miss a concert.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Yes; I did not see them myself, but I heard Mr Elliot say they were in","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the room.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“The Ibbotsons, were they there? and the two new beauties, with the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"tall Irish officer, who is talked of for one of them.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“I do not know. I do not think they were.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Old Lady Mary Maclean? I need not ask after her. She never misses, I","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"know; and you must have seen her. She must have been in your own","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"circle; for as you went with Lady Dalrymple, you were in the seats of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"grandeur, round the orchestra, of course.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“No, that was what I dreaded. It would have been very unpleasant to me","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"in every respect. But happily Lady Dalrymple always chooses to be","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"farther off; and we were exceedingly well placed, that is, for hearing;","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"I must not say for seeing, because I appear to have seen very little.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Oh! you saw enough for your own amusement. I can understand. There is","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"a sort of domestic enjoyment to be known even in a crowd, and this you","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"had. You were a large party in yourselves, and you wanted nothing","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"beyond.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“But I ought to have looked about me more,” said Anne, conscious while","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"she spoke that there had in fact been no want of looking about, that","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the object only had been deficient.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“No, no; you were better employed. You need not tell me that you had a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"pleasant evening. I see it in your eye. I perfectly see how the hours","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"passed: that you had always something agreeable to listen to. In the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"intervals of the concert it was conversation.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Anne half smiled and said, “Do you see that in my eye?”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Yes, I do. Your countenance perfectly informs me that you were in","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"company last night with the person whom you think the most agreeable in","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the world, the person who interests you at this present time more than","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"all the rest of the world put together.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"A blush overspread Anne’s cheeks. She could say nothing.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“And such being the case,” continued Mrs Smith, after a short pause, “I","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"hope you believe that I do know how to value your kindness in coming to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"me this morning. It is really very good of you to come and sit with me,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"when you must have so many pleasanter demands upon your time.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Anne heard nothing of this. She was still in the astonishment and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"confusion excited by her friend’s penetration, unable to imagine how","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"any report of Captain Wentworth could have reached her. After another","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"short silence—","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Pray,” said Mrs Smith, “is Mr Elliot aware of your acquaintance with","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"me? Does he know that I am in Bath?”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Mr Elliot!” repeated Anne, looking up surprised. A moment’s reflection","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"shewed her the mistake she had been under. She caught it","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"instantaneously; and recovering her courage with the feeling of safety,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"soon added, more composedly, “Are you acquainted with Mr Elliot?”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“I have been a good deal acquainted with him,” replied Mrs Smith,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"gravely, “but it seems worn out now. It is a great while since we met.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“I was not at all aware of this. You never mentioned it before. Had I","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"known it, I would have had the pleasure of talking to him about you.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“To confess the truth,” said Mrs Smith, assuming her usual air of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"cheerfulness, “that is exactly the pleasure I want you to have. I want","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"you to talk about me to Mr Elliot. I want your interest with him. He","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"can be of essential service to me; and if you would have the goodness,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"my dear Miss Elliot, to make it an object to yourself, of course it is","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"done.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“I should be extremely happy; I hope you cannot doubt my willingness to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"be of even the slightest use to you,” replied Anne; “but I suspect that","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"you are considering me as having a higher claim on Mr Elliot, a greater","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"right to influence him, than is really the case. I am sure you have,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"somehow or other, imbibed such a notion. You must consider me only as","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Mr Elliot’s relation. If in that light there is anything which you","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"suppose his cousin might fairly ask of him, I beg you would not","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"hesitate to employ me.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Mrs Smith gave her a penetrating glance, and then, smiling, said—","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“I have been a little premature, I perceive; I beg your pardon. I ought","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"to have waited for official information. But now, my dear Miss Elliot,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"as an old friend, do give me a hint as to when I may speak. Next week?","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"To be sure by next week I may be allowed to think it all settled, and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"build my own selfish schemes on Mr Elliot’s good fortune.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“No,” replied Anne, “nor next week, nor next, nor next. I assure you","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"that nothing of the sort you are thinking of will be settled any week.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"I am not going to marry Mr Elliot. I should like to know why you","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"imagine I am?”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Mrs Smith looked at her again, looked earnestly, smiled, shook her","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"head, and exclaimed—","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Now, how I do wish I understood you! How I do wish I knew what you","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"were at! I have a great idea that you do not design to be cruel, when","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the right moment occurs. Till it does come, you know, we women never","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"mean to have anybody. It is a thing of course among us, that every man","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"is refused, till he offers. But why should you be cruel? Let me plead","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"for my—present friend I cannot call him, but for my former friend.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Where can you look for a more suitable match? Where could you expect a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"more gentlemanlike, agreeable man? Let me recommend Mr Elliot. I am","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"sure you hear nothing but good of him from Colonel Wallis; and who can","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"know him better than Colonel Wallis?”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“My dear Mrs Smith, Mr Elliot’s wife has not been dead much above half","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"a year. He ought not to be supposed to be paying his addresses to any","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"one.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Oh! if these are your only objections,” cried Mrs Smith, archly, “Mr","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Elliot is safe, and I shall give myself no more trouble about him. Do","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"not forget me when you are married, that’s all. Let him know me to be a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"friend of yours, and then he will think little of the trouble required,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"which it is very natural for him now, with so many affairs and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"engagements of his own, to avoid and get rid of as he can; very","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"natural, perhaps. Ninety-nine out of a hundred would do the same. Of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"course, he cannot be aware of the importance to me. Well, my dear Miss","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Elliot, I hope and trust you will be very happy. Mr Elliot has sense to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"understand the value of such a woman. Your peace will not be","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"shipwrecked as mine has been. You are safe in all worldly matters, and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"safe in his character. He will not be led astray; he will not be misled","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"by others to his ruin.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
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{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“No,” said Anne, “I can readily believe all that of my cousin. He seems","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"to have a calm decided temper, not at all open to dangerous","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"impressions. I consider him with great respect. I have no reason, from","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"any thing that has fallen within my observation, to do otherwise. But I","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"have not known him long; and he is not a man, I think, to be known","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"intimately soon. Will not this manner of speaking of him, Mrs Smith,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"convince you that he is nothing to me? Surely this must be calm enough.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"And, upon my word, he is nothing to me. Should he ever propose to me","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"(which I have very little reason to imagine he has any thought of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"doing), I shall not accept him. I assure you I shall not. I assure you,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Mr Elliot had not the share which you have been supposing, in whatever","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"pleasure the concert of last night might afford: not Mr Elliot; it is","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"not Mr Elliot that—”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"She stopped, regretting with a deep blush that she had implied so much;","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"but less would hardly have been sufficient. Mrs Smith would hardly have","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"believed so soon in Mr Elliot’s failure, but from the perception of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"there being a somebody else. As it was, she instantly submitted, and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"with all the semblance of seeing nothing beyond; and Anne, eager to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"escape farther notice, was impatient to know why Mrs Smith should have","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"fancied she was to marry Mr Elliot; where she could have received the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"idea, or from whom she could have heard it.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Do tell me how it first came into your head.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“It first came into my head,” replied Mrs Smith, “upon finding how much","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"you were together, and feeling it to be the most probable thing in the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"world to be wished for by everybody belonging to either of you; and you","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"may depend upon it that all your acquaintance have disposed of you in","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the same way. But I never heard it spoken of till two days ago.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“And has it indeed been spoken of?”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Did you observe the woman who opened the door to you when you called","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"yesterday?”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“No. Was not it Mrs Speed, as usual, or the maid? I observed no one in","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"particular.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“It was my friend Mrs Rooke; Nurse Rooke; who, by-the-bye, had a great","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"curiosity to see you, and was delighted to be in the way to let you in.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"She came away from Marlborough Buildings only on Sunday; and she it was","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"who told me you were to marry Mr Elliot. She had had it from Mrs Wallis","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"herself, which did not seem bad authority. She sat an hour with me on","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Monday evening, and gave me the whole history.” “The whole history,”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"repeated Anne, laughing. “She could not make a very long history, I","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"think, of one such little article of unfounded news.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Mrs Smith said nothing.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“But,” continued Anne, presently, “though there is no truth in my","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"having this claim on Mr Elliot, I should be extremely happy to be of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"use to you in any way that I could. Shall I mention to him your being","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"in Bath? Shall I take any message?”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“No, I thank you: no, certainly not. In the warmth of the moment, and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"under a mistaken impression, I might, perhaps, have endeavoured to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"interest you in some circumstances; but not now. No, I thank you, I","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"have nothing to trouble you with.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“I think you spoke of having known Mr Elliot many years?”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“I did.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Not before he was married, I suppose?”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Yes; he was not married when I knew him first.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“And—were you much acquainted?”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Intimately.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Indeed! Then do tell me what he was at that time of life. I have a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"great curiosity to know what Mr Elliot was as a very young man. Was he","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"at all such as he appears now?”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“I have not seen Mr Elliot these three years,” was Mrs Smith’s answer,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"given so gravely that it was impossible to pursue the subject farther;","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and Anne felt that she had gained nothing but an increase of curiosity.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"They were both silent: Mrs Smith very thoughtful. At last—","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“I beg your pardon, my dear Miss Elliot,” she cried, in her natural","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"tone of cordiality, “I beg your pardon for the short answers I have","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"been giving you, but I have been uncertain what I ought to do. I have","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"been doubting and considering as to what I ought to tell you. There","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"were many things to be taken into the account. One hates to be","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"officious, to be giving bad impressions, making mischief. Even the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"smooth surface of family-union seems worth preserving, though there may","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"be nothing durable beneath. However, I have determined; I think I am","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"right; I think you ought to be made acquainted with Mr Elliot’s real","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"character. Though I fully believe that, at present, you have not the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"smallest intention of accepting him, there is no saying what may","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"happen. You might, some time or other, be differently affected towards","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"him. Hear the truth, therefore, now, while you are unprejudiced. Mr","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Elliot is a man without heart or conscience; a designing, wary,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"cold-blooded being, who thinks only of himself; whom for his own","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"interest or ease, would be guilty of any cruelty, or any treachery,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"that could be perpetrated without risk of his general character. He has","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"no feeling for others. Those whom he has been the chief cause of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"leading into ruin, he can neglect and desert without the smallest","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"compunction. He is totally beyond the reach of any sentiment of justice","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"or compassion. Oh! he is black at heart, hollow and black!”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Anne’s astonished air, and exclamation of wonder, made her pause, and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"in a calmer manner, she added,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“My expressions startle you. You must allow for an injured, angry","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"woman. But I will try to command myself. I will not abuse him. I will","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"only tell you what I have found him. Facts shall speak. He was the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"intimate friend of my dear husband, who trusted and loved him, and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"thought him as good as himself. The intimacy had been formed before our","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"marriage. I found them most intimate friends; and I, too, became","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"excessively pleased with Mr Elliot, and entertained the highest opinion","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"of him. At nineteen, you know, one does not think very seriously; but","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Mr Elliot appeared to me quite as good as others, and much more","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"agreeable than most others, and we were almost always together. We were","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"principally in town, living in very good style. He was then the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"inferior in circumstances; he was then the poor one; he had chambers in","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the Temple, and it was as much as he could do to support the appearance","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"of a gentleman. He had always a home with us whenever he chose it; he","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"was always welcome; he was like a brother. My poor Charles, who had the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"finest, most generous spirit in the world, would have divided his last","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"farthing with him; and I know that his purse was open to him; I know","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"that he often assisted him.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“This must have been about that very period of Mr Elliot’s life,” said","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Anne, “which has always excited my particular curiosity. It must have","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"been about the same time that he became known to my father and sister.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"I never knew him myself; I only heard of him; but there was a something","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"in his conduct then, with regard to my father and sister, and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"afterwards in the circumstances of his marriage, which I never could","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"quite reconcile with present times. It seemed to announce a different","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"sort of man.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“I know it all, I know it all,” cried Mrs Smith. “He had been","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"introduced to Sir Walter and your sister before I was acquainted with","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"him, but I heard him speak of them for ever. I know he was invited and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"encouraged, and I know he did not choose to go. I can satisfy you,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"perhaps, on points which you would little expect; and as to his","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"marriage, I knew all about it at the time. I was privy to all the fors","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and againsts; I was the friend to whom he confided his hopes and plans;","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and though I did not know his wife previously, her inferior situation","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"in society, indeed, rendered that impossible, yet I knew her all her","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"life afterwards, or at least till within the last two years of her","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"life, and can answer any question you may wish to put.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Nay,” said Anne, “I have no particular enquiry to make about her. I","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"have always understood they were not a happy couple. But I should like","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"to know why, at that time of his life, he should slight my father’s","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"acquaintance as he did. My father was certainly disposed to take very","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"kind and proper notice of him. Why did Mr Elliot draw back?”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Mr Elliot,” replied Mrs Smith, “at that period of his life, had one","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"object in view: to make his fortune, and by a rather quicker process","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"than the law. He was determined to make it by marriage. He was","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"determined, at least, not to mar it by an imprudent marriage; and I","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"know it was his belief (whether justly or not, of course I cannot","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"decide), that your father and sister, in their civilities and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"invitations, were designing a match between the heir and the young","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"lady, and it was impossible that such a match should have answered his","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"ideas of wealth and independence. That was his motive for drawing back,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"I can assure you. He told me the whole story. He had no concealments","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"with me. It was curious, that having just left you behind me in Bath,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"my first and principal acquaintance on marrying should be your cousin;","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and that, through him, I should be continually hearing of your father","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and sister. He described one Miss Elliot, and I thought very","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"affectionately of the other.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Perhaps,” cried Anne, struck by a sudden idea, “you sometimes spoke of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"me to Mr Elliot?”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“To be sure I did; very often. I used to boast of my own Anne Elliot,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and vouch for your being a very different creature from—”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"She checked herself just in time.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“This accounts for something which Mr Elliot said last night,” cried","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Anne. “This explains it. I found he had been used to hear of me. I","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"could not comprehend how. What wild imaginations one forms where dear","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken! But I beg your pardon; I","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"have interrupted you. Mr Elliot married then completely for money? The","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"circumstances, probably, which first opened your eyes to his","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"character.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Mrs Smith hesitated a little here. “Oh! those things are too common.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"When one lives in the world, a man or woman’s marrying for money is too","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"common to strike one as it ought. I was very young, and associated only","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"with the young, and we were a thoughtless, gay set, without any strict","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"rules of conduct. We lived for enjoyment. I think differently now; time","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and sickness and sorrow have given me other notions; but at that period","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"I must own I saw nothing reprehensible in what Mr Elliot was doing. ‘To","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"do the best for himself,’ passed as a duty.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“But was not she a very low woman?”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Yes; which I objected to, but he would not regard. Money, money, was","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"all that he wanted. Her father was a grazier, her grandfather had been","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"a butcher, but that was all nothing. She was a fine woman, had had a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"decent education, was brought forward by some cousins, thrown by chance","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"into Mr Elliot’s company, and fell in love with him; and not a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"difficulty or a scruple was there on his side, with respect to her","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"birth. All his caution was spent in being secured of the real amount of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"her fortune, before he committed himself. Depend upon it, whatever","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"esteem Mr Elliot may have for his own situation in life now, as a young","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"man he had not the smallest value for it. His chance for the Kellynch","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"estate was something, but all the honour of the family he held as cheap","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"as dirt. I have often heard him declare, that if baronetcies were","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"saleable, anybody should have his for fifty pounds, arms and motto,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"name and livery included; but I will not pretend to repeat half that I","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"used to hear him say on that subject. It would not be fair; and yet you","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"ought to have proof, for what is all this but assertion, and you shall","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"have proof.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Indeed, my dear Mrs Smith, I want none,” cried Anne. “You have","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"asserted nothing contradictory to what Mr Elliot appeared to be some","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"years ago. This is all in confirmation, rather, of what we used to hear","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and believe. I am more curious to know why he should be so different","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"now.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“But for my satisfaction, if you will have the goodness to ring for","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Mary; stay: I am sure you will have the still greater goodness of going","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"yourself into my bedroom, and bringing me the small inlaid box which","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"you will find on the upper shelf of the closet.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Anne, seeing her friend to be earnestly bent on it, did as she was","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"desired. The box was brought and placed before her, and Mrs Smith,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"sighing over it as she unlocked it, said—","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“This is full of papers belonging to him, to my husband; a small","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"portion only of what I had to look over when I lost him. The letter I","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"am looking for was one written by Mr Elliot to him before our marriage,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and happened to be saved; why, one can hardly imagine. But he was","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"careless and immethodical, like other men, about those things; and when","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"I came to examine his papers, I found it with others still more","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"trivial, from different people scattered here and there, while many","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"letters and memorandums of real importance had been destroyed. Here it","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"is; I would not burn it, because being even then very little satisfied","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"with Mr Elliot, I was determined to preserve every document of former","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"intimacy. I have now another motive for being glad that I can produce","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"it.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"This was the letter, directed to “Charles Smith, Esq. Tunbridge Wells,”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and dated from London, as far back as July, 1803:—","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Dear Smith,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“I have received yours. Your kindness almost overpowers me. I wish","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"nature had made such hearts as yours more common, but I have lived","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"three-and-twenty years in the world, and have seen none like it. At","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"present, believe me, I have no need of your services, being in cash","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"again. Give me joy: I have got rid of Sir Walter and Miss. They are","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"gone back to Kellynch, and almost made me swear to visit them this","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"summer; but my first visit to Kellynch will be with a surveyor, to tell","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"me how to bring it with best advantage to the hammer. The baronet,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"nevertheless, is not unlikely to marry again; he is quite fool enough.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"If he does, however, they will leave me in peace, which may be a decent","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"equivalent for the reversion. He is worse than last year.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“I wish I had any name but Elliot. I am sick of it. The name of Walter","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"I can drop, thank God! and I desire you will never insult me with my","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"second W. again, meaning, for the rest of my life, to be only yours","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"truly,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“WM. ELLIOT.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Such a letter could not be read without putting Anne in a glow; and Mrs","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Smith, observing the high colour in her face, said—","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“The language, I know, is highly disrespectful. Though I have forgot","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the exact terms, I have a perfect impression of the general meaning.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"But it shows you the man. Mark his professions to my poor husband. Can","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"any thing be stronger?”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Anne could not immediately get over the shock and mortification of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"finding such words applied to her father. She was obliged to recollect","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"that her seeing the letter was a violation of the laws of honour, that","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"no one ought to be judged or to be known by such testimonies, that no","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"private correspondence could bear the eye of others, before she could","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"recover calmness enough to return the letter which she had been","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"meditating over, and say—","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Thank you. This is full proof undoubtedly; proof of every thing you","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"were saying. But why be acquainted with us now?”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“I can explain this too,” cried Mrs Smith, smiling.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Can you really?”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Yes. I have shewn you Mr Elliot as he was a dozen years ago, and I","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"will shew him as he is now. I cannot produce written proof again, but I","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"can give as authentic oral testimony as you can desire, of what he is","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"now wanting, and what he is now doing. He is no hypocrite now. He truly","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"wants to marry you. His present attentions to your family are very","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"sincere: quite from the heart. I will give you my authority: his friend","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Colonel Wallis.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Colonel Wallis! you are acquainted with him?”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“No. It does not come to me in quite so direct a line as that; it takes","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"a bend or two, but nothing of consequence. The stream is as good as at","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"first; the little rubbish it collects in the turnings is easily moved","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"away. Mr Elliot talks unreservedly to Colonel Wallis of his views on","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"you, which said Colonel Wallis, I imagine to be, in himself, a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"sensible, careful, discerning sort of character; but Colonel Wallis has","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"a very pretty silly wife, to whom he tells things which he had better","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"not, and he repeats it all to her. She in the overflowing spirits of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"her recovery, repeats it all to her nurse; and the nurse knowing my","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"acquaintance with you, very naturally brings it all to me. On Monday","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"evening, my good friend Mrs Rooke let me thus much into the secrets of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Marlborough Buildings. When I talked of a whole history, therefore, you","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"see I was not romancing so much as you supposed.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“My dear Mrs Smith, your authority is deficient. This will not do. Mr","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Elliot’s having any views on me will not in the least account for the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"efforts he made towards a reconciliation with my father. That was all","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"prior to my coming to Bath. I found them on the most friendly terms","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"when I arrived.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“I know you did; I know it all perfectly, but—”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Indeed, Mrs Smith, we must not expect to get real information in such","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"a line. Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another, can","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"hardly have much truth left.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Only give me a hearing. You will soon be able to judge of the general","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"credit due, by listening to some particulars which you can yourself","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"immediately contradict or confirm. Nobody supposes that you were his","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"first inducement. He had seen you indeed, before he came to Bath, and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"admired you, but without knowing it to be you. So says my historian, at","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"least. Is this true? Did he see you last summer or autumn, ‘somewhere","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"down in the west,’ to use her own words, without knowing it to be you?”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“He certainly did. So far it is very true. At Lyme. I happened to be at","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Lyme.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Well,” continued Mrs Smith, triumphantly, “grant my friend the credit","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"due to the establishment of the first point asserted. He saw you then","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"at Lyme, and liked you so well as to be exceedingly pleased to meet","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"with you again in Camden Place, as Miss Anne Elliot, and from that","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"moment, I have no doubt, had a double motive in his visits there. But","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"there was another, and an earlier, which I will now explain. If there","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"is anything in my story which you know to be either false or","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"improbable, stop me. My account states, that your sister’s friend, the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"lady now staying with you, whom I have heard you mention, came to Bath","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"with Miss Elliot and Sir Walter as long ago as September (in short when","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"they first came themselves), and has been staying there ever since;","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"that she is a clever, insinuating, handsome woman, poor and plausible,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and altogether such in situation and manner, as to give a general idea,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"among Sir Walter’s acquaintance, of her meaning to be Lady Elliot, and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"as general a surprise that Miss Elliot should be apparently, blind to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the danger.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Here Mrs Smith paused a moment; but Anne had not a word to say, and she","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"continued—","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“This was the light in which it appeared to those who knew the family,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"long before you returned to it; and Colonel Wallis had his eye upon","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"your father enough to be sensible of it, though he did not then visit","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"in Camden Place; but his regard for Mr Elliot gave him an interest in","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"watching all that was going on there, and when Mr Elliot came to Bath","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"for a day or two, as he happened to do a little before Christmas,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Colonel Wallis made him acquainted with the appearance of things, and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the reports beginning to prevail. Now you are to understand, that time","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"had worked a very material change in Mr Elliot’s opinions as to the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"value of a baronetcy. Upon all points of blood and connexion he is a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"completely altered man. Having long had as much money as he could","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"spend, nothing to wish for on the side of avarice or indulgence, he has","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"been gradually learning to pin his happiness upon the consequence he is","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"heir to. I thought it coming on before our acquaintance ceased, but it","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"is now a confirmed feeling. He cannot bear the idea of not being Sir","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"William. You may guess, therefore, that the news he heard from his","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"friend could not be very agreeable, and you may guess what it produced;","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the resolution of coming back to Bath as soon as possible, and of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"fixing himself here for a time, with the view of renewing his former","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"acquaintance, and recovering such a footing in the family as might give","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"him the means of ascertaining the degree of his danger, and of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"circumventing the lady if he found it material. This was agreed upon","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"between the two friends as the only thing to be done; and Colonel","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Wallis was to assist in every way that he could. He was to be","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"introduced, and Mrs Wallis was to be introduced, and everybody was to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"be introduced. Mr Elliot came back accordingly; and on application was","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"forgiven, as you know, and re-admitted into the family; and there it","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"was his constant object, and his only object (till your arrival added","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"another motive), to watch Sir Walter and Mrs Clay. He omitted no","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"opportunity of being with them, threw himself in their way, called at","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"all hours; but I need not be particular on this subject. You can","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"imagine what an artful man would do; and with this guide, perhaps, may","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"recollect what you have seen him do.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Yes,” said Anne, “you tell me nothing which does not accord with what","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"I have known, or could imagine. There is always something offensive in","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the details of cunning. The manœuvres of selfishness and duplicity must","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"ever be revolting, but I have heard nothing which really surprises me.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"I know those who would be shocked by such a representation of Mr","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Elliot, who would have difficulty in believing it; but I have never","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"been satisfied. I have always wanted some other motive for his conduct","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"than appeared. I should like to know his present opinion, as to the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"probability of the event he has been in dread of; whether he considers","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the danger to be lessening or not.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Lessening, I understand,” replied Mrs Smith. “He thinks Mrs Clay","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"afraid of him, aware that he sees through her, and not daring to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"proceed as she might do in his absence. But since he must be absent","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"some time or other, I do not perceive how he can ever be secure while","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"she holds her present influence. Mrs Wallis has an amusing idea, as","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"nurse tells me, that it is to be put into the marriage articles when","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"you and Mr Elliot marry, that your father is not to marry Mrs Clay. A","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"scheme, worthy of Mrs Wallis’s understanding, by all accounts; but my","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"sensible nurse Rooke sees the absurdity of it. ‘Why, to be sure,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"ma’am,’ said she, ‘it would not prevent his marrying anybody else.’","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"And, indeed, to own the truth, I do not think nurse, in her heart, is a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"very strenuous opposer of Sir Walter’s making a second match. She must","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"be allowed to be a favourer of matrimony, you know; and (since self","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"will intrude) who can say that she may not have some flying visions of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"attending the next Lady Elliot, through Mrs Wallis’s recommendation?”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“I am very glad to know all this,” said Anne, after a little","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"thoughtfulness. “It will be more painful to me in some respects to be","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"in company with him, but I shall know better what to do. My line of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"conduct will be more direct. Mr Elliot is evidently a disingenuous,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"artificial, worldly man, who has never had any better principle to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"guide him than selfishness.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"But Mr Elliot was not done with. Mrs Smith had been carried away from","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"her first direction, and Anne had forgotten, in the interest of her own","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"family concerns, how much had been originally implied against him; but","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"her attention was now called to the explanation of those first hints,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and she listened to a recital which, if it did not perfectly justify","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the unqualified bitterness of Mrs Smith, proved him to have been very","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"unfeeling in his conduct towards her; very deficient both in justice","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and compassion.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"She learned that (the intimacy between them continuing unimpaired by Mr","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Elliot’s marriage) they had been as before always together, and Mr","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Elliot had led his friend into expenses much beyond his fortune. Mrs","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Smith did not want to take blame to herself, and was most tender of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"throwing any on her husband; but Anne could collect that their income","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"had never been equal to their style of living, and that from the first","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"there had been a great deal of general and joint extravagance. From his","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"wife’s account of him she could discern Mr Smith to have been a man of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"warm feelings, easy temper, careless habits, and not strong","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"understanding, much more amiable than his friend, and very unlike him,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"led by him, and probably despised by him. Mr Elliot, raised by his","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"marriage to great affluence, and disposed to every gratification of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"pleasure and vanity which could be commanded without involving himself,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"(for with all his self-indulgence he had become a prudent man), and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"beginning to be rich, just as his friend ought to have found himself to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"be poor, seemed to have had no concern at all for that friend’s","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"probable finances, but, on the contrary, had been prompting and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"encouraging expenses which could end only in ruin; and the Smiths","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"accordingly had been ruined.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"The husband had died just in time to be spared the full knowledge of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"it. They had previously known embarrassments enough to try the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"friendship of their friends, and to prove that Mr Elliot’s had better","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"not be tried; but it was not till his death that the wretched state of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"his affairs was fully known. With a confidence in Mr Elliot’s regard,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"more creditable to his feelings than his judgement, Mr Smith had","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"appointed him the executor of his will; but Mr Elliot would not act,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and the difficulties and distress which this refusal had heaped on her,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"in addition to the inevitable sufferings of her situation, had been","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"such as could not be related without anguish of spirit, or listened to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"without corresponding indignation.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Anne was shewn some letters of his on the occasion, answers to urgent","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"applications from Mrs Smith, which all breathed the same stern","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"resolution of not engaging in a fruitless trouble, and, under a cold","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"civility, the same hard-hearted indifference to any of the evils it","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"might bring on her. It was a dreadful picture of ingratitude and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"inhumanity; and Anne felt, at some moments, that no flagrant open crime","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"could have been worse. She had a great deal to listen to; all the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"particulars of past sad scenes, all the minutiae of distress upon","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"distress, which in former conversations had been merely hinted at, were","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"dwelt on now with a natural indulgence. Anne could perfectly comprehend","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the exquisite relief, and was only the more inclined to wonder at the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"composure of her friend’s usual state of mind.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"There was one circumstance in the history of her grievances of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"particular irritation. She had good reason to believe that some","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"property of her husband in the West Indies, which had been for many","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"years under a sort of sequestration for the payment of its own","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"incumbrances, might be recoverable by proper measures; and this","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"property, though not large, would be enough to make her comparatively","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"rich. But there was nobody to stir in it. Mr Elliot would do nothing,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and she could do nothing herself, equally disabled from personal","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"exertion by her state of bodily weakness, and from employing others by","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"her want of money. She had no natural connexions to assist her even","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"with their counsel, and she could not afford to purchase the assistance","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"of the law. This was a cruel aggravation of actually straitened means.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"To feel that she ought to be in better circumstances, that a little","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"trouble in the right place might do it, and to fear that delay might be","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"even weakening her claims, was hard to bear.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"It was on this point that she had hoped to engage Anne’s good offices","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"with Mr Elliot. She had previously, in the anticipation of their","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"marriage, been very apprehensive of losing her friend by it; but on","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"being assured that he could have made no attempt of that nature, since","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"he did not even know her to be in Bath, it immediately occurred, that","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"something might be done in her favour by the influence of the woman he","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"loved, and she had been hastily preparing to interest Anne’s feelings,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"as far as the observances due to Mr Elliot’s character would allow,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"when Anne’s refutation of the supposed engagement changed the face of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"everything; and while it took from her the new-formed hope of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"succeeding in the object of her first anxiety, left her at least the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"comfort of telling the whole story her own way.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"After listening to this full description of Mr Elliot, Anne could not","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"but express some surprise at Mrs Smith’s having spoken of him so","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"favourably in the beginning of their conversation. “She had seemed to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"recommend and praise him!”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“My dear,” was Mrs Smith’s reply, “there was nothing else to be done. I","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"considered your marrying him as certain, though he might not yet have","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"made the offer, and I could no more speak the truth of him, than if he","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"had been your husband. My heart bled for you, as I talked of happiness;","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and yet he is sensible, he is agreeable, and with such a woman as you,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"it was not absolutely hopeless. He was very unkind to his first wife.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"They were wretched together. But she was too ignorant and giddy for","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"respect, and he had never loved her. I was willing to hope that you","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"must fare better.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Anne could just acknowledge within herself such a possibility of having","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"been induced to marry him, as made her shudder at the idea of the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"misery which must have followed. It was just possible that she might","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"have been persuaded by Lady Russell! And under such a supposition,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"which would have been most miserable, when time had disclosed all, too","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"late?","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"It was very desirable that Lady Russell should be no longer deceived;","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and one of the concluding arrangements of this important conference,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"which carried them through the greater part of the morning, was, that","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Anne had full liberty to communicate to her friend everything relative","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"to Mrs Smith, in which his conduct was involved.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"CHAPTER XXII.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Anne went home to think over all that she had heard. In one point, her","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"feelings were relieved by this knowledge of Mr Elliot. There was no","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"longer anything of tenderness due to him. He stood as opposed to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Captain Wentworth, in all his own unwelcome obtrusiveness; and the evil","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"of his attentions last night, the irremediable mischief he might have","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"done, was considered with sensations unqualified, unperplexed. Pity for","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"him was all over. But this was the only point of relief. In every other","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"respect, in looking around her, or penetrating forward, she saw more to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"distrust and to apprehend. She was concerned for the disappointment and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"pain Lady Russell would be feeling; for the mortifications which must","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"be hanging over her father and sister, and had all the distress of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"foreseeing many evils, without knowing how to avert any one of them.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"She was most thankful for her own knowledge of him. She had never","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"considered herself as entitled to reward for not slighting an old","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"friend like Mrs Smith, but here was a reward indeed springing from it!","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Mrs Smith had been able to tell her what no one else could have done.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Could the knowledge have been extended through her family? But this was","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"a vain idea. She must talk to Lady Russell, tell her, consult with her,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and having done her best, wait the event with as much composure as","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"possible; and after all, her greatest want of composure would be in","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"that quarter of the mind which could not be opened to Lady Russell; in","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"that flow of anxieties and fears which must be all to herself.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"She found, on reaching home, that she had, as she intended, escaped","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"seeing Mr Elliot; that he had called and paid them a long morning","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"visit; but hardly had she congratulated herself, and felt safe, when","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"she heard that he was coming again in the evening.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“I had not the smallest intention of asking him,” said Elizabeth, with","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"affected carelessness, “but he gave so many hints; so Mrs Clay says, at","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"least.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Indeed, I do say it. I never saw anybody in my life spell harder for","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"an invitation. Poor man! I was really in pain for him; for your","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"hard-hearted sister, Miss Anne, seems bent on cruelty.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Oh!” cried Elizabeth, “I have been rather too much used to the game to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"be soon overcome by a gentleman’s hints. However, when I found how","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"excessively he was regretting that he should miss my father this","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"morning, I gave way immediately, for I would never really omit an","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"opportunity of bringing him and Sir Walter together. They appear to so","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"much advantage in company with each other. Each behaving so pleasantly.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Mr Elliot looking up with so much respect.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Quite delightful!” cried Mrs Clay, not daring, however, to turn her","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"eyes towards Anne. “Exactly like father and son! Dear Miss Elliot, may","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"I not say father and son?”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Oh! I lay no embargo on any body’s words. If you will have such ideas!","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"But, upon my word, I am scarcely sensible of his attentions being","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"beyond those of other men.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“My dear Miss Elliot!” exclaimed Mrs Clay, lifting her hands and eyes,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and sinking all the rest of her astonishment in a convenient silence.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Well, my dear Penelope, you need not be so alarmed about him. I did","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"invite him, you know. I sent him away with smiles. When I found he was","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"really going to his friends at Thornberry Park for the whole day","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"to-morrow, I had compassion on him.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Anne admired the good acting of the friend, in being able to shew such","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"pleasure as she did, in the expectation and in the actual arrival of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the very person whose presence must really be interfering with her","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"prime object. It was impossible but that Mrs Clay must hate the sight","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"of Mr Elliot; and yet she could assume a most obliging, placid look,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and appear quite satisfied with the curtailed license of devoting","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"herself only half as much to Sir Walter as she would have done","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"otherwise.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
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{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"To Anne herself it was most distressing to see Mr Elliot enter the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"room; and quite painful to have him approach and speak to her. She had","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"been used before to feel that he could not be always quite sincere, but","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"now she saw insincerity in everything. His attentive deference to her","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"father, contrasted with his former language, was odious; and when she","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"thought of his cruel conduct towards Mrs Smith, she could hardly bear","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the sight of his present smiles and mildness, or the sound of his","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"artificial good sentiments.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"She meant to avoid any such alteration of manners as might provoke a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"remonstrance on his side. It was a great object to her to escape all","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"enquiry or eclat; but it was her intention to be as decidedly cool to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"him as might be compatible with their relationship; and to retrace, as","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"quietly as she could, the few steps of unnecessary intimacy she had","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"been gradually led along. She was accordingly more guarded, and more","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"cool, than she had been the night before.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"He wanted to animate her curiosity again as to how and where he could","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"have heard her formerly praised; wanted very much to be gratified by","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"more solicitation; but the charm was broken: he found that the heat and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"animation of a public room was necessary to kindle his modest cousin’s","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"vanity; he found, at least, that it was not to be done now, by any of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"those attempts which he could hazard among the too-commanding claims of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the others. He little surmised that it was a subject acting now exactly","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"against his interest, bringing immediately to her thoughts all those","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"parts of his conduct which were least excusable.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"She had some satisfaction in finding that he was really going out of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Bath the next morning, going early, and that he would be gone the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"greater part of two days. He was invited again to Camden Place the very","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"evening of his return; but from Thursday to Saturday evening his","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"absence was certain. It was bad enough that a Mrs Clay should be always","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"before her; but that a deeper hypocrite should be added to their party,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"seemed the destruction of everything like peace and comfort. It was so","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"humiliating to reflect on the constant deception practised on her","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"father and Elizabeth; to consider the various sources of mortification","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"preparing for them! Mrs Clay’s selfishness was not so complicate nor so","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"revolting as his; and Anne would have compounded for the marriage at","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"once, with all its evils, to be clear of Mr Elliot’s subtleties in","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"endeavouring to prevent it.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"On Friday morning she meant to go very early to Lady Russell, and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"accomplish the necessary communication; and she would have gone","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"directly after breakfast, but that Mrs Clay was also going out on some","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"obliging purpose of saving her sister trouble, which determined her to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"wait till she might be safe from such a companion. She saw Mrs Clay","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"fairly off, therefore, before she began to talk of spending the morning","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"in Rivers Street.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Very well,” said Elizabeth, “I have nothing to send but my love. Oh!","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"you may as well take back that tiresome book she would lend me, and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"pretend I have read it through. I really cannot be plaguing myself for","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"ever with all the new poems and states of the nation that come out.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Lady Russell quite bores one with her new publications. You need not","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"tell her so, but I thought her dress hideous the other night. I used to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"think she had some taste in dress, but I was ashamed of her at the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"concert. Something so formal and _arrangé_ in her air! and she sits so","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"upright! My best love, of course.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“And mine,” added Sir Walter. “Kindest regards. And you may say, that I","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"mean to call upon her soon. Make a civil message; but I shall only","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"leave my card. Morning visits are never fair by women at her time of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"life, who make themselves up so little. If she would only wear rouge","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"she would not be afraid of being seen; but last time I called, I","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"observed the blinds were let down immediately.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"While her father spoke, there was a knock at the door. Who could it be?","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Anne, remembering the preconcerted visits, at all hours, of Mr Elliot,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"would have expected him, but for his known engagement seven miles off.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"After the usual period of suspense, the usual sounds of approach were","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"heard, and “Mr and Mrs Charles Musgrove” were ushered into the room.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Surprise was the strongest emotion raised by their appearance; but Anne","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"was really glad to see them; and the others were not so sorry but that","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"they could put on a decent air of welcome; and as soon as it became","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"clear that these, their nearest relations, were not arrived with any","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"views of accommodation in that house, Sir Walter and Elizabeth were","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"able to rise in cordiality, and do the honours of it very well. They","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"were come to Bath for a few days with Mrs Musgrove, and were at the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"White Hart. So much was pretty soon understood; but till Sir Walter and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Elizabeth were walking Mary into the other drawing-room, and regaling","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"themselves with her admiration, Anne could not draw upon Charles’s","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"brain for a regular history of their coming, or an explanation of some","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"smiling hints of particular business, which had been ostentatiously","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"dropped by Mary, as well as of some apparent confusion as to whom their","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"party consisted of.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"She then found that it consisted of Mrs Musgrove, Henrietta, and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Captain Harville, beside their two selves. He gave her a very plain,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"intelligible account of the whole; a narration in which she saw a great","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"deal of most characteristic proceeding. The scheme had received its","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"first impulse by Captain Harville’s wanting to come to Bath on","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"business. He had begun to talk of it a week ago; and by way of doing","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"something, as shooting was over, Charles had proposed coming with him,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and Mrs Harville had seemed to like the idea of it very much, as an","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"advantage to her husband; but Mary could not bear to be left, and had","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"made herself so unhappy about it, that for a day or two everything","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"seemed to be in suspense, or at an end. But then, it had been taken up","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"by his father and mother. His mother had some old friends in Bath whom","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"she wanted to see; it was thought a good opportunity for Henrietta to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"come and buy wedding-clothes for herself and her sister; and, in short,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"it ended in being his mother’s party, that everything might be","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"comfortable and easy to Captain Harville; and he and Mary were included","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"in it by way of general convenience. They had arrived late the night","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"before. Mrs Harville, her children, and Captain Benwick, remained with","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Mr Musgrove and Louisa at Uppercross.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Anne’s only surprise was, that affairs should be in forwardness enough","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"for Henrietta’s wedding-clothes to be talked of. She had imagined such","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"difficulties of fortune to exist there as must prevent the marriage","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"from being near at hand; but she learned from Charles that, very","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"recently, (since Mary’s last letter to herself), Charles Hayter had","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"been applied to by a friend to hold a living for a youth who could not","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"possibly claim it under many years; and that on the strength of his","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"present income, with almost a certainty of something more permanent","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"long before the term in question, the two families had consented to the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"young people’s wishes, and that their marriage was likely to take place","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"in a few months, quite as soon as Louisa’s. “And a very good living it","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"was,” Charles added: “only five-and-twenty miles from Uppercross, and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"in a very fine country: fine part of Dorsetshire. In the centre of some","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"of the best preserves in the kingdom, surrounded by three great","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"proprietors, each more careful and jealous than the other; and to two","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"of the three at least, Charles Hayter might get a special","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"recommendation. Not that he will value it as he ought,” he observed,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Charles is too cool about sporting. That’s the worst of him.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
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{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“I am extremely glad, indeed,” cried Anne, “particularly glad that this","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"should happen; and that of two sisters, who both deserve equally well,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and who have always been such good friends, the pleasant prospect of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"one should not be dimming those of the other—that they should be so","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"equal in their prosperity and comfort. I hope your father and mother","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"are quite happy with regard to both.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Oh! yes. My father would be well pleased if the gentlemen were richer,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"but he has no other fault to find. Money, you know, coming down with","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"money—two daughters at once—it cannot be a very agreeable operation,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and it streightens him as to many things. However, I do not mean to say","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"they have not a right to it. It is very fit they should have daughters’","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"shares; and I am sure he has always been a very kind, liberal father to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"me. Mary does not above half like Henrietta’s match. She never did, you","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"know. But she does not do him justice, nor think enough about Winthrop.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"I cannot make her attend to the value of the property. It is a very","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"fair match, as times go; and I have liked Charles Hayter all my life,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and I shall not leave off now.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Such excellent parents as Mr and Mrs Musgrove,” exclaimed Anne,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“should be happy in their children’s marriages. They do everything to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"confer happiness, I am sure. What a blessing to young people to be in","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"such hands! Your father and mother seem so totally free from all those","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"ambitious feelings which have led to so much misconduct and misery,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"both in young and old. I hope you think Louisa perfectly recovered","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"now?”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"He answered rather hesitatingly, “Yes, I believe I do; very much","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"recovered; but she is altered; there is no running or jumping about, no","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"laughing or dancing; it is quite different. If one happens only to shut","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the door a little hard, she starts and wriggles like a young dab-chick","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"in the water; and Benwick sits at her elbow, reading verses, or","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"whispering to her, all day long.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Anne could not help laughing. “That cannot be much to your taste, I","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"know,” said she; “but I do believe him to be an excellent young man.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“To be sure he is. Nobody doubts it; and I hope you do not think I am","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"so illiberal as to want every man to have the same objects and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"pleasures as myself. I have a great value for Benwick; and when one can","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"but get him to talk, he has plenty to say. His reading has done him no","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"harm, for he has fought as well as read. He is a brave fellow. I got","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"more acquainted with him last Monday than ever I did before. We had a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"famous set-to at rat-hunting all the morning in my father’s great","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"barns; and he played his part so well that I have liked him the better","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"ever since.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Here they were interrupted by the absolute necessity of Charles’s","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"following the others to admire mirrors and china; but Anne had heard","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"enough to understand the present state of Uppercross, and rejoice in","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"its happiness; and though she sighed as she rejoiced, her sigh had none","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"of the ill-will of envy in it. She would certainly have risen to their","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"blessings if she could, but she did not want to lessen theirs.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"The visit passed off altogether in high good humour. Mary was in","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"excellent spirits, enjoying the gaiety and the change, and so well","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"satisfied with the journey in her mother-in-law’s carriage with four","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"horses, and with her own complete independence of Camden Place, that","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"she was exactly in a temper to admire everything as she ought, and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"enter most readily into all the superiorities of the house, as they","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"were detailed to her. She had no demands on her father or sister, and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"her consequence was just enough increased by their handsome","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"drawing-rooms.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Elizabeth was, for a short time, suffering a good deal. She felt that","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Mrs Musgrove and all her party ought to be asked to dine with them; but","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"she could not bear to have the difference of style, the reduction of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"servants, which a dinner must betray, witnessed by those who had been","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"always so inferior to the Elliots of Kellynch. It was a struggle","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"between propriety and vanity; but vanity got the better, and then","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Elizabeth was happy again. These were her internal persuasions: “Old","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"fashioned notions; country hospitality; we do not profess to give","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"dinners; few people in Bath do; Lady Alicia never does; did not even","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"ask her own sister’s family, though they were here a month: and I dare","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"say it would be very inconvenient to Mrs Musgrove; put her quite out of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"her way. I am sure she would rather not come; she cannot feel easy with","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"us. I will ask them all for an evening; that will be much better; that","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"will be a novelty and a treat. They have not seen two such drawing","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"rooms before. They will be delighted to come to-morrow evening. It","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"shall be a regular party, small, but most elegant.” And this satisfied","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Elizabeth: and when the invitation was given to the two present, and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"promised for the absent, Mary was as completely satisfied. She was","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"particularly asked to meet Mr Elliot, and be introduced to Lady","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Dalrymple and Miss Carteret, who were fortunately already engaged to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"come; and she could not have received a more gratifying attention. Miss","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Elliot was to have the honour of calling on Mrs Musgrove in the course","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"of the morning; and Anne walked off with Charles and Mary, to go and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"see her and Henrietta directly.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Her plan of sitting with Lady Russell must give way for the present.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"They all three called in Rivers Street for a couple of minutes; but","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Anne convinced herself that a day’s delay of the intended communication","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"could be of no consequence, and hastened forward to the White Hart, to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"see again the friends and companions of the last autumn, with an","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"eagerness of good-will which many associations contributed to form.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
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{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"They found Mrs Musgrove and her daughter within, and by themselves, and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Anne had the kindest welcome from each. Henrietta was exactly in that","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"state of recently-improved views, of fresh-formed happiness, which made","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"her full of regard and interest for everybody she had ever liked before","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"at all; and Mrs Musgrove’s real affection had been won by her","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"usefulness when they were in distress. It was a heartiness, and a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"warmth, and a sincerity which Anne delighted in the more, from the sad","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"want of such blessings at home. She was entreated to give them as much","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"of her time as possible, invited for every day and all day long, or","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"rather claimed as part of the family; and, in return, she naturally","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"fell into all her wonted ways of attention and assistance, and on","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Charles’s leaving them together, was listening to Mrs Musgrove’s","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"history of Louisa, and to Henrietta’s of herself, giving opinions on","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"business, and recommendations to shops; with intervals of every help","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"which Mary required, from altering her ribbon to settling her accounts;","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"from finding her keys, and assorting her trinkets, to trying to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"convince her that she was not ill-used by anybody; which Mary, well","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"amused as she generally was, in her station at a window overlooking the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"entrance to the Pump Room, could not but have her moments of imagining.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"A morning of thorough confusion was to be expected. A large party in an","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"hotel ensured a quick-changing, unsettled scene. One five minutes","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"brought a note, the next a parcel; and Anne had not been there half an","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"hour, when their dining-room, spacious as it was, seemed more than half","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"filled: a party of steady old friends were seated around Mrs Musgrove,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and Charles came back with Captains Harville and Wentworth. The","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"appearance of the latter could not be more than the surprise of the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"moment. It was impossible for her to have forgotten to feel that this","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"arrival of their common friends must be soon bringing them together","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"again. Their last meeting had been most important in opening his","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"feelings; she had derived from it a delightful conviction; but she","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"feared from his looks, that the same unfortunate persuasion, which had","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"hastened him away from the Concert Room, still governed. He did not","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"seem to want to be near enough for conversation.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"She tried to be calm, and leave things to take their course, and tried","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"to dwell much on this argument of rational dependence:—“Surely, if","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"there be constant attachment on each side, our hearts must understand","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"each other ere long. We are not boy and girl, to be captiously","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"irritable, misled by every moment’s inadvertence, and wantonly playing","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"with our own happiness.” And yet, a few minutes afterwards, she felt as","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"if their being in company with each other, under their present","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"circumstances, could only be exposing them to inadvertencies and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"misconstructions of the most mischievous kind.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
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{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Anne,” cried Mary, still at her window, “there is Mrs Clay, I am sure,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"standing under the colonnade, and a gentleman with her. I saw them turn","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the corner from Bath Street just now. They seemed deep in talk. Who is","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"it? Come, and tell me. Good heavens! I recollect. It is Mr Elliot","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"himself.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“No,” cried Anne, quickly, “it cannot be Mr Elliot, I assure you. He","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"was to leave Bath at nine this morning, and does not come back till","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"to-morrow.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"As she spoke, she felt that Captain Wentworth was looking at her, the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"consciousness of which vexed and embarrassed her, and made her regret","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"that she had said so much, simple as it was.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Mary, resenting that she should be supposed not to know her own cousin,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"began talking very warmly about the family features, and protesting","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"still more positively that it was Mr Elliot, calling again upon Anne to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"come and look for herself, but Anne did not mean to stir, and tried to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"be cool and unconcerned. Her distress returned, however, on perceiving","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"smiles and intelligent glances pass between two or three of the lady","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"visitors, as if they believed themselves quite in the secret. It was","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"evident that the report concerning her had spread, and a short pause","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"succeeded, which seemed to ensure that it would now spread farther.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Do come, Anne,” cried Mary, “come and look yourself. You will be too","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"late if you do not make haste. They are parting; they are shaking","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"hands. He is turning away. Not know Mr Elliot, indeed! You seem to have","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"forgot all about Lyme.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"To pacify Mary, and perhaps screen her own embarrassment, Anne did move","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"quietly to the window. She was just in time to ascertain that it really","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"was Mr Elliot, which she had never believed, before he disappeared on","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"one side, as Mrs Clay walked quickly off on the other; and checking the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"surprise which she could not but feel at such an appearance of friendly","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"conference between two persons of totally opposite interest, she calmly","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"said, “Yes, it is Mr Elliot, certainly. He has changed his hour of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"going, I suppose, that is all, or I may be mistaken, I might not","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"attend;” and walked back to her chair, recomposed, and with the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"comfortable hope of having acquitted herself well.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
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{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"The visitors took their leave; and Charles, having civilly seen them","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"off, and then made a face at them, and abused them for coming, began","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"with—","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Well, mother, I have done something for you that you will like. I have","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"been to the theatre, and secured a box for to-morrow night. A’n’t I a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"good boy? I know you love a play; and there is room for us all. It","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"holds nine. I have engaged Captain Wentworth. Anne will not be sorry to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"join us, I am sure. We all like a play. Have not I done well, mother?”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Mrs Musgrove was good humouredly beginning to express her perfect","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"readiness for the play, if Henrietta and all the others liked it, when","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Mary eagerly interrupted her by exclaiming—","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Good heavens, Charles! how can you think of such a thing? Take a box","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"for to-morrow night! Have you forgot that we are engaged to Camden","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Place to-morrow night? and that we were most particularly asked to meet","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Lady Dalrymple and her daughter, and Mr Elliot, and all the principal","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"family connexions, on purpose to be introduced to them? How can you be","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"so forgetful?”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Phoo! phoo!” replied Charles, “what’s an evening party? Never worth","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"remembering. Your father might have asked us to dinner, I think, if he","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"had wanted to see us. You may do as you like, but I shall go to the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"play.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Oh! Charles, I declare it will be too abominable if you do, when you","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"promised to go.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“No, I did not promise. I only smirked and bowed, and said the word","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"‘happy.’ There was no promise.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“But you must go, Charles. It would be unpardonable to fail. We were","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"asked on purpose to be introduced. There was always such a great","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"connexion between the Dalrymples and ourselves. Nothing ever happened","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"on either side that was not announced immediately. We are quite near","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"relations, you know; and Mr Elliot too, whom you ought so particularly","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"to be acquainted with! Every attention is due to Mr Elliot. Consider,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"my father’s heir: the future representative of the family.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Don’t talk to me about heirs and representatives,” cried Charles. “I","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"am not one of those who neglect the reigning power to bow to the rising","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"sun. If I would not go for the sake of your father, I should think it","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"scandalous to go for the sake of his heir. What is Mr Elliot to me?”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"The careless expression was life to Anne, who saw that Captain","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Wentworth was all attention, looking and listening with his whole soul;","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and that the last words brought his enquiring eyes from Charles to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"herself.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Charles and Mary still talked on in the same style; he, half serious","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and half jesting, maintaining the scheme for the play, and she,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"invariably serious, most warmly opposing it, and not omitting to make","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"it known that, however determined to go to Camden Place herself, she","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"should not think herself very well used, if they went to the play","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"without her. Mrs Musgrove interposed.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“We had better put it off. Charles, you had much better go back and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"change the box for Tuesday. It would be a pity to be divided, and we","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"should be losing Miss Anne, too, if there is a party at her father’s;","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and I am sure neither Henrietta nor I should care at all for the play,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"if Miss Anne could not be with us.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Anne felt truly obliged to her for such kindness; and quite as much so","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"for the opportunity it gave her of decidedly saying—","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“If it depended only on my inclination, ma’am, the party at home","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"(excepting on Mary’s account) would not be the smallest impediment. I","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"have no pleasure in the sort of meeting, and should be too happy to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"change it for a play, and with you. But, it had better not be","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"attempted, perhaps.” She had spoken it; but she trembled when it was","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"done, conscious that her words were listened to, and daring not even to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"try to observe their effect.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"It was soon generally agreed that Tuesday should be the day; Charles","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"only reserving the advantage of still teasing his wife, by persisting","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"that he would go to the play to-morrow if nobody else would.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Captain Wentworth left his seat, and walked to the fire-place; probably","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"for the sake of walking away from it soon afterwards, and taking a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"station, with less bare-faced design, by Anne.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“You have not been long enough in Bath,” said he, “to enjoy the evening","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"parties of the place.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Oh! no. The usual character of them has nothing for me. I am no","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"card-player.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“You were not formerly, I know. You did not use to like cards; but time","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"makes many changes.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“I am not yet so much changed,” cried Anne, and stopped, fearing she","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"hardly knew what misconstruction. After waiting a few moments he said,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and as if it were the result of immediate feeling, “It is a period,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"indeed! Eight years and a half is a period.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Whether he would have proceeded farther was left to Anne’s imagination","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"to ponder over in a calmer hour; for while still hearing the sounds he","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"had uttered, she was startled to other subjects by Henrietta, eager to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"make use of the present leisure for getting out, and calling on her","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"companions to lose no time, lest somebody else should come in.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"They were obliged to move. Anne talked of being perfectly ready, and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"tried to look it; but she felt that could Henrietta have known the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"regret and reluctance of her heart in quitting that chair, in preparing","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"to quit the room, she would have found, in all her own sensations for","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"her cousin, in the very security of his affection, wherewith to pity","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"her.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Their preparations, however, were stopped short. Alarming sounds were","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"heard; other visitors approached, and the door was thrown open for Sir","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Walter and Miss Elliot, whose entrance seemed to give a general chill.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Anne felt an instant oppression, and wherever she looked saw symptoms","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"of the same. The comfort, the freedom, the gaiety of the room was over,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"hushed into cold composure, determined silence, or insipid talk, to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"meet the heartless elegance of her father and sister. How mortifying to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"feel that it was so!","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Her jealous eye was satisfied in one particular. Captain Wentworth was","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"acknowledged again by each, by Elizabeth more graciously than before.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"She even addressed him once, and looked at him more than once.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Elizabeth was, in fact, revolving a great measure. The sequel explained","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"it. After the waste of a few minutes in saying the proper nothings, she","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"began to give the invitation which was to comprise all the remaining","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"dues of the Musgroves. “To-morrow evening, to meet a few friends: no","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"formal party.” It was all said very gracefully, and the cards with","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"which she had provided herself, the “Miss Elliot at home,” were laid on","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the table, with a courteous, comprehensive smile to all, and one smile","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and one card more decidedly for Captain Wentworth. The truth was, that","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Elizabeth had been long enough in Bath to understand the importance of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"a man of such an air and appearance as his. The past was nothing. The","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"present was that Captain Wentworth would move about well in her","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"drawing-room. The card was pointedly given, and Sir Walter and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Elizabeth arose and disappeared.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"The interruption had been short, though severe, and ease and animation","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"returned to most of those they left as the door shut them out, but not","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"to Anne. She could think only of the invitation she had with such","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"astonishment witnessed, and of the manner in which it had been","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"received; a manner of doubtful meaning, of surprise rather than","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"gratification, of polite acknowledgement rather than acceptance. She","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"knew him; she saw disdain in his eye, and could not venture to believe","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"that he had determined to accept such an offering, as an atonement for","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"all the insolence of the past. Her spirits sank. He held the card in","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"his hand after they were gone, as if deeply considering it.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Only think of Elizabeth’s including everybody!” whispered Mary very","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"audibly. “I do not wonder Captain Wentworth is delighted! You see he","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"cannot put the card out of his hand.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Anne caught his eye, saw his cheeks glow, and his mouth form itself","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"into a momentary expression of contempt, and turned away, that she","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"might neither see nor hear more to vex her.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"The party separated. The gentlemen had their own pursuits, the ladies","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"proceeded on their own business, and they met no more while Anne","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"belonged to them. She was earnestly begged to return and dine, and give","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"them all the rest of the day, but her spirits had been so long exerted","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"that at present she felt unequal to more, and fit only for home, where","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"she might be sure of being as silent as she chose.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Promising to be with them the whole of the following morning,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"therefore, she closed the fatigues of the present by a toilsome walk to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Camden Place, there to spend the evening chiefly in listening to the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"busy arrangements of Elizabeth and Mrs Clay for the morrow’s party, the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"frequent enumeration of the persons invited, and the continually","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"improving detail of all the embellishments which were to make it the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"most completely elegant of its kind in Bath, while harassing herself","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"with the never-ending question, of whether Captain Wentworth would come","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"or not? They were reckoning him as certain, but with her it was a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"gnawing solicitude never appeased for five minutes together. She","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"generally thought he would come, because she generally thought he","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"ought; but it was a case which she could not so shape into any positive","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"act of duty or discretion, as inevitably to defy the suggestions of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"very opposite feelings.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"She only roused herself from the broodings of this restless agitation,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"to let Mrs Clay know that she had been seen with Mr Elliot three hours","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"after his being supposed to be out of Bath, for having watched in vain","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"for some intimation of the interview from the lady herself, she","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"determined to mention it, and it seemed to her there was guilt in Mrs","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Clay’s face as she listened. It was transient: cleared away in an","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"instant; but Anne could imagine she read there the consciousness of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"having, by some complication of mutual trick, or some overbearing","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"authority of his, been obliged to attend (perhaps for half an hour) to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"his lectures and restrictions on her designs on Sir Walter. She","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"exclaimed, however, with a very tolerable imitation of nature:—","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Oh! dear! very true. Only think, Miss Elliot, to my great surprise I","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"met with Mr Elliot in Bath Street. I was never more astonished. He","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"turned back and walked with me to the Pump Yard. He had been prevented","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"setting off for Thornberry, but I really forget by what; for I was in a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"hurry, and could not much attend, and I can only answer for his being","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"determined not to be delayed in his return. He wanted to know how early","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"he might be admitted to-morrow. He was full of ‘to-morrow,’ and it is","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"very evident that I have been full of it too, ever since I entered the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"house, and learnt the extension of your plan and all that had happened,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"or my seeing him could never have gone so entirely out of my head.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"CHAPTER XXIII.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"One day only had passed since Anne’s conversation with Mrs Smith; but a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"keener interest had succeeded, and she was now so little touched by Mr","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Elliot’s conduct, except by its effects in one quarter, that it became","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"a matter of course the next morning, still to defer her explanatory","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"visit in Rivers Street. She had promised to be with the Musgroves from","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"breakfast to dinner. Her faith was plighted, and Mr Elliot’s character,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"like the Sultaness Scheherazade’s head, must live another day.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"She could not keep her appointment punctually, however; the weather was","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"unfavourable, and she had grieved over the rain on her friends’","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"account, and felt it very much on her own, before she was able to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"attempt the walk. When she reached the White Hart, and made her way to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the proper apartment, she found herself neither arriving quite in time,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"nor the first to arrive. The party before her were, Mrs Musgrove,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"talking to Mrs Croft, and Captain Harville to Captain Wentworth; and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"she immediately heard that Mary and Henrietta, too impatient to wait,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"had gone out the moment it had cleared, but would be back again soon,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and that the strictest injunctions had been left with Mrs Musgrove to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"keep her there till they returned. She had only to submit, sit down, be","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"outwardly composed, and feel herself plunged at once in all the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"agitations which she had merely laid her account of tasting a little","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"before the morning closed. There was no delay, no waste of time. She","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"was deep in the happiness of such misery, or the misery of such","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"happiness, instantly. Two minutes after her entering the room, Captain","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Wentworth said—","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“We will write the letter we were talking of, Harville, now, if you","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"will give me materials.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Materials were at hand, on a separate table; he went to it, and nearly","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"turning his back to them all, was engrossed by writing.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Mrs Musgrove was giving Mrs Croft the history of her eldest daughter’s","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"engagement, and just in that inconvenient tone of voice which was","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"perfectly audible while it pretended to be a whisper. Anne felt that","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"she did not belong to the conversation, and yet, as Captain Harville","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"seemed thoughtful and not disposed to talk, she could not avoid hearing","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"many undesirable particulars; such as, “how Mr Musgrove and my brother","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Hayter had met again and again to talk it over; what my brother Hayter","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"had said one day, and what Mr Musgrove had proposed the next, and what","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"had occurred to my sister Hayter, and what the young people had wished,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and what I said at first I never could consent to, but was afterwards","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"persuaded to think might do very well,” and a great deal in the same","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"style of open-hearted communication: minutiae which, even with every","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"advantage of taste and delicacy, which good Mrs Musgrove could not","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"give, could be properly interesting only to the principals. Mrs Croft","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"was attending with great good-humour, and whenever she spoke at all, it","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"was very sensibly. Anne hoped the gentlemen might each be too much","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"self-occupied to hear.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“And so, ma’am, all these thing considered,” said Mrs Musgrove, in her","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"powerful whisper, “though we could have wished it different, yet,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"altogether, we did not think it fair to stand out any longer, for","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Charles Hayter was quite wild about it, and Henrietta was pretty near","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"as bad; and so we thought they had better marry at once, and make the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"best of it, as many others have done before them. At any rate, said I,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"it will be better than a long engagement.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“That is precisely what I was going to observe,” cried Mrs Croft. “I","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"would rather have young people settle on a small income at once, and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"have to struggle with a few difficulties together, than be involved in","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"a long engagement. I always think that no mutual—”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Oh! dear Mrs Croft,” cried Mrs Musgrove, unable to let her finish her","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"speech, “there is nothing I so abominate for young people as a long","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"engagement. It is what I always protested against for my children. It","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"is all very well, I used to say, for young people to be engaged, if","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"there is a certainty of their being able to marry in six months, or","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"even in twelve; but a long engagement—”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Yes, dear ma’am,” said Mrs Croft, “or an uncertain engagement, an","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"engagement which may be long. To begin without knowing that at such a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"time there will be the means of marrying, I hold to be very unsafe and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"unwise, and what I think all parents should prevent as far as they","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"can.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Anne found an unexpected interest here. She felt its application to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"herself, felt it in a nervous thrill all over her; and at the same","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"moment that her eyes instinctively glanced towards the distant table,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Captain Wentworth’s pen ceased to move, his head was raised, pausing,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"listening, and he turned round the next instant to give a look, one","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"quick, conscious look at her.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"The two ladies continued to talk, to re-urge the same admitted truths,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and enforce them with such examples of the ill effect of a contrary","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"practice as had fallen within their observation, but Anne heard nothing","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"distinctly; it was only a buzz of words in her ear, her mind was in","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"confusion.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Captain Harville, who had in truth been hearing none of it, now left","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"his seat, and moved to a window, and Anne seeming to watch him, though","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"it was from thorough absence of mind, became gradually sensible that he","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"was inviting her to join him where he stood. He looked at her with a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"smile, and a little motion of the head, which expressed, “Come to me, I","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"have something to say;” and the unaffected, easy kindness of manner","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"which denoted the feelings of an older acquaintance than he really was,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"strongly enforced the invitation. She roused herself and went to him.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"The window at which he stood was at the other end of the room from","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"where the two ladies were sitting, and though nearer to Captain","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Wentworth’s table, not very near. As she joined him, Captain Harville’s","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"countenance re-assumed the serious, thoughtful expression which seemed","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"its natural character.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Look here,” said he, unfolding a parcel in his hand, and displaying a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"small miniature painting, “do you know who that is?”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Certainly: Captain Benwick.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Yes, and you may guess who it is for. But,” (in a deep tone), “it was","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"not done for her. Miss Elliot, do you remember our walking together at","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Lyme, and grieving for him? I little thought then—but no matter. This","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"was drawn at the Cape. He met with a clever young German artist at the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Cape, and in compliance with a promise to my poor sister, sat to him,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and was bringing it home for her; and I have now the charge of getting","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"it properly set for another! It was a commission to me! But who else","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"was there to employ? I hope I can allow for him. I am not sorry,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"indeed, to make it over to another. He undertakes it;” (looking towards","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Captain Wentworth,) “he is writing about it now.” And with a quivering","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"lip he wound up the whole by adding, “Poor Fanny! she would not have","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"forgotten him so soon!”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“No,” replied Anne, in a low, feeling voice. “That I can easily","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"believe.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“It was not in her nature. She doted on him.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“It would not be the nature of any woman who truly loved.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Captain Harville smiled, as much as to say, “Do you claim that for your","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"sex?” and she answered the question, smiling also, “Yes. We certainly","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"do not forget you as soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our fate","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"rather than our merit. We cannot help ourselves. We live at home,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us. You are forced on","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"exertion. You have always a profession, pursuits, business of some sort","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"or other, to take you back into the world immediately, and continual","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"occupation and change soon weaken impressions.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Granting your assertion that the world does all this so soon for men","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"(which, however, I do not think I shall grant), it does not apply to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Benwick. He has not been forced upon any exertion. The peace turned him","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"on shore at the very moment, and he has been living with us, in our","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"little family circle, ever since.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“True,” said Anne, “very true; I did not recollect; but what shall we","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"say now, Captain Harville? If the change be not from outward","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"circumstances, it must be from within; it must be nature, man’s nature,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"which has done the business for Captain Benwick.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“No, no, it is not man’s nature. I will not allow it to be more man’s","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"nature than woman’s to be inconstant and forget those they do love, or","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"have loved. I believe the reverse. I believe in a true analogy between","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"our bodily frames and our mental; and that as our bodies are the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"strongest, so are our feelings; capable of bearing most rough usage,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and riding out the heaviest weather.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Your feelings may be the strongest,” replied Anne, “but the same","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"spirit of analogy will authorise me to assert that ours are the most","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"tender. Man is more robust than woman, but he is not longer lived;","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"which exactly explains my view of the nature of their attachments. Nay,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"it would be too hard upon you, if it were otherwise. You have","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"difficulties, and privations, and dangers enough to struggle with. You","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"are always labouring and toiling, exposed to every risk and hardship.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Your home, country, friends, all quitted. Neither time, nor health, nor","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"life, to be called your own. It would be hard, indeed” (with a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"faltering voice), “if woman’s feelings were to be added to all this.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“We shall never agree upon this question,” Captain Harville was","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"beginning to say, when a slight noise called their attention to Captain","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Wentworth’s hitherto perfectly quiet division of the room. It was","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"nothing more than that his pen had fallen down; but Anne was startled","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"at finding him nearer than she had supposed, and half inclined to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"suspect that the pen had only fallen because he had been occupied by","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"them, striving to catch sounds, which yet she did not think he could","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"have caught.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Have you finished your letter?” said Captain Harville.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Not quite, a few lines more. I shall have done in five minutes.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“There is no hurry on my side. I am only ready whenever you are. I am","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"in very good anchorage here,” (smiling at Anne), “well supplied, and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"want for nothing. No hurry for a signal at all. Well, Miss Elliot,”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"(lowering his voice), “as I was saying, we shall never agree, I suppose,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"upon this point. No man and woman would, probably. But let me observe","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"that all histories are against you—all stories, prose and verse. If I","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"had such a memory as Benwick, I could bring you fifty quotations in a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"moment on my side the argument, and I do not think I ever opened a book","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"in my life which had not something to say upon woman’s inconstancy.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman’s fickleness. But perhaps you","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"will say, these were all written by men.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Perhaps I shall. Yes, yes, if you please, no reference to examples in","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"books. Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“But how shall we prove anything?”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“We never shall. We never can expect to prove any thing upon such a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"point. It is a difference of opinion which does not admit of proof. We","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"each begin, probably, with a little bias towards our own sex; and upon","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"that bias build every circumstance in favour of it which has occurred","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"within our own circle; many of which circumstances (perhaps those very","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"cases which strike us the most) may be precisely such as cannot be","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"brought forward without betraying a confidence, or in some respect","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"saying what should not be said.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Ah!” cried Captain Harville, in a tone of strong feeling, “if I could","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"but make you comprehend what a man suffers when he takes a last look at","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"his wife and children, and watches the boat that he has sent them off","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"in, as long as it is in sight, and then turns away and says, ‘God knows","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"whether we ever meet again!’ And then, if I could convey to you the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"glow of his soul when he does see them again; when, coming back after a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"twelvemonth’s absence, perhaps, and obliged to put into another port,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"he calculates how soon it be possible to get them there, pretending to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"deceive himself, and saying, ‘They cannot be here till such a day,’ but","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"all the while hoping for them twelve hours sooner, and seeing them","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"arrive at last, as if Heaven had given them wings, by many hours sooner","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"still! If I could explain to you all this, and all that a man can bear","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and do, and glories to do, for the sake of these treasures of his","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"existence! I speak, you know, only of such men as have hearts!”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"pressing his own with emotion.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Oh!” cried Anne eagerly, “I hope I do justice to all that is felt by","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"you, and by those who resemble you. God forbid that I should undervalue","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the warm and faithful feelings of any of my fellow-creatures! I should","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"deserve utter contempt if I dared to suppose that true attachment and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"constancy were known only by woman. No, I believe you capable of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"everything great and good in your married lives. I believe you equal to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"every important exertion, and to every domestic forbearance, so long","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"as—if I may be allowed the expression—so long as you have an object. I","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"mean while the woman you love lives, and lives for you. All the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one; you","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"need not covet it), is that of loving longest, when existence or when","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"hope is gone.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"She could not immediately have uttered another sentence; her heart was","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"too full, her breath too much oppressed.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“You are a good soul,” cried Captain Harville, putting his hand on her","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"arm, quite affectionately. “There is no quarrelling with you. And when","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"I think of Benwick, my tongue is tied.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Their attention was called towards the others. Mrs Croft was taking","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"leave.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Here, Frederick, you and I part company, I believe,” said she. “I am","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"going home, and you have an engagement with your friend. To-night we","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"may have the pleasure of all meeting again at your party,” (turning to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Anne). “We had your sister’s card yesterday, and I understood Frederick","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"had a card too, though I did not see it; and you are disengaged,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Frederick, are you not, as well as ourselves?”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Captain Wentworth was folding up a letter in great haste, and either","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"could not or would not answer fully.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Yes,” said he, “very true; here we separate, but Harville and I shall","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"soon be after you; that is, Harville, if you are ready, I am in half a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"minute. I know you will not be sorry to be off. I shall be at your","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"service in half a minute.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Mrs Croft left them, and Captain Wentworth, having sealed his letter","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"with great rapidity, was indeed ready, and had even a hurried, agitated","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"air, which shewed impatience to be gone. Anne knew not how to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"understand it. She had the kindest “Good morning, God bless you!” from","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Captain Harville, but from him not a word, nor a look! He had passed","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"out of the room without a look!","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"She had only time, however, to move closer to the table where he had","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"been writing, when footsteps were heard returning; the door opened, it","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"was himself. He begged their pardon, but he had forgotten his gloves,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and instantly crossing the room to the writing table, he drew out a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"letter from under the scattered paper, placed it before Anne with eyes","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"of glowing entreaty fixed on her for a time, and hastily collecting his","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"gloves, was again out of the room, almost before Mrs Musgrove was aware","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"of his being in it: the work of an instant!","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"The revolution which one instant had made in Anne, was almost beyond","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"expression. The letter, with a direction hardly legible, to “Miss A.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"E.—,” was evidently the one which he had been folding so hastily. While","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"supposed to be writing only to Captain Benwick, he had been also","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"addressing her! On the contents of that letter depended all which this","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"world could do for her. Anything was possible, anything might be defied","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"rather than suspense. Mrs Musgrove had little arrangements of her own","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"at her own table; to their protection she must trust, and sinking into","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the chair which he had occupied, succeeding to the very spot where he","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"had leaned and written, her eyes devoured the following words:","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“I can listen no longer in silence. I must speak to you by such means","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"as are within my reach. You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"for ever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"than when you almost broke it, eight years and a half ago. Dare not say","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"I have loved none but you. Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"have been, but never inconstant. You alone have brought me to Bath. For","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"you alone, I think and plan. Have you not seen this? Can you fail to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"have understood my wishes? I had not waited even these ten days, could","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"I have read your feelings, as I think you must have penetrated mine. I","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"can hardly write. I am every instant hearing something which overpowers","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"me. You sink your voice, but I can distinguish the tones of that voice","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"when they would be lost on others. Too good, too excellent creature!","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"You do us justice, indeed. You do believe that there is true attachment","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and constancy among men. Believe it to be most fervent, most","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"undeviating, in","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
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{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"F. W.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
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{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“I must go, uncertain of my fate; but I shall return hither, or follow","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"your party, as soon as possible. A word, a look, will be enough to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"decide whether I enter your father’s house this evening or never.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Such a letter was not to be soon recovered from. Half an hour’s","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"solitude and reflection might have tranquillized her; but the ten","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"minutes only which now passed before she was interrupted, with all the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"restraints of her situation, could do nothing towards tranquillity.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Every moment rather brought fresh agitation. It was overpowering","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"happiness. And before she was beyond the first stage of full sensation,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Charles, Mary, and Henrietta all came in.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
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{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"The absolute necessity of seeming like herself produced then an","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"immediate struggle; but after a while she could do no more. She began","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"not to understand a word they said, and was obliged to plead","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"indisposition and excuse herself. They could then see that she looked","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"very ill, were shocked and concerned, and would not stir without her","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"for the world. This was dreadful. Would they only have gone away, and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"left her in the quiet possession of that room it would have been her","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"cure; but to have them all standing or waiting around her was","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"distracting, and in desperation, she said she would go home.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“By all means, my dear,” cried Mrs Musgrove, “go home directly, and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"take care of yourself, that you may be fit for the evening. I wish","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Sarah was here to doctor you, but I am no doctor myself. Charles, ring","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and order a chair. She must not walk.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"But the chair would never do. Worse than all! To lose the possibility","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"of speaking two words to Captain Wentworth in the course of her quiet,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"solitary progress up the town (and she felt almost certain of meeting","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"him) could not be borne. The chair was earnestly protested against, and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Mrs Musgrove, who thought only of one sort of illness, having assured","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"herself with some anxiety, that there had been no fall in the case;","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"that Anne had not at any time lately slipped down, and got a blow on","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"her head; that she was perfectly convinced of having had no fall; could","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"part with her cheerfully, and depend on finding her better at night.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Anxious to omit no possible precaution, Anne struggled, and said—","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“I am afraid, ma’am, that it is not perfectly understood. Pray be so","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"good as to mention to the other gentlemen that we hope to see your","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"whole party this evening. I am afraid there had been some mistake; and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"I wish you particularly to assure Captain Harville and Captain","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Wentworth, that we hope to see them both.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Oh! my dear, it is quite understood, I give you my word. Captain","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Harville has no thought but of going.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Do you think so? But I am afraid; and I should be so very sorry. Will","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"you promise me to mention it, when you see them again? You will see","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"them both this morning, I dare say. Do promise me.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“To be sure I will, if you wish it. Charles, if you see Captain","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Harville anywhere, remember to give Miss Anne’s message. But indeed, my","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"dear, you need not be uneasy. Captain Harville holds himself quite","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"engaged, I’ll answer for it; and Captain Wentworth the same, I dare","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"say.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Anne could do no more; but her heart prophesied some mischance to damp","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the perfection of her felicity. It could not be very lasting, however.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Even if he did not come to Camden Place himself, it would be in her","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"power to send an intelligible sentence by Captain Harville. Another","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"momentary vexation occurred. Charles, in his real concern and good","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"nature, would go home with her; there was no preventing him. This was","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"almost cruel. But she could not be long ungrateful; he was sacrificing","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"an engagement at a gunsmith’s, to be of use to her; and she set off","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"with him, with no feeling but gratitude apparent.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"They were on Union Street, when a quicker step behind, a something of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"familiar sound, gave her two moments’ preparation for the sight of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Captain Wentworth. He joined them; but, as if irresolute whether to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"join or to pass on, said nothing, only looked. Anne could command","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"herself enough to receive that look, and not repulsively. The cheeks","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"which had been pale now glowed, and the movements which had hesitated","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"were decided. He walked by her side. Presently, struck by a sudden","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"thought, Charles said—","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Captain Wentworth, which way are you going? Only to Gay Street, or","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"farther up the town?”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“I hardly know,” replied Captain Wentworth, surprised.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Are you going as high as Belmont? Are you going near Camden Place?","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Because, if you are, I shall have no scruple in asking you to take my","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"place, and give Anne your arm to her father’s door. She is rather done","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"for this morning, and must not go so far without help, and I ought to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"be at that fellow’s in the Market Place. He promised me the sight of a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"capital gun he is just going to send off; said he would keep it","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"unpacked to the last possible moment, that I might see it; and if I do","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"not turn back now, I have no chance. By his description, a good deal","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"like the second size double-barrel of mine, which you shot with one day","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"round Winthrop.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"There could not be an objection. There could be only the most proper","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"alacrity, a most obliging compliance for public view; and smiles reined","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"in and spirits dancing in private rapture. In half a minute Charles was","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"at the bottom of Union Street again, and the other two proceeding","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"together: and soon words enough had passed between them to decide their","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"direction towards the comparatively quiet and retired gravel walk,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"where the power of conversation would make the present hour a blessing","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"indeed, and prepare it for all the immortality which the happiest","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"recollections of their own future lives could bestow. There they","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"exchanged again those feelings and those promises which had once before","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"seemed to secure everything, but which had been followed by so many,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"many years of division and estrangement. There they returned again into","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the past, more exquisitely happy, perhaps, in their re-union, than when","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"it had been first projected; more tender, more tried, more fixed in a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"knowledge of each other’s character, truth, and attachment; more equal","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"to act, more justified in acting. And there, as they slowly paced the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"gradual ascent, heedless of every group around them, seeing neither","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"sauntering politicians, bustling housekeepers, flirting girls, nor","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"nursery-maids and children, they could indulge in those retrospections","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and acknowledgements, and especially in those explanations of what had","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"directly preceded the present moment, which were so poignant and so","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"ceaseless in interest. All the little variations of the last week were","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"gone through; and of yesterday and to-day there could scarcely be an","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"end.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"She had not mistaken him. Jealousy of Mr Elliot had been the retarding","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"weight, the doubt, the torment. That had begun to operate in the very","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"hour of first meeting her in Bath; that had returned, after a short","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"suspension, to ruin the concert; and that had influenced him in","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"everything he had said and done, or omitted to say and do, in the last","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"four-and-twenty hours. It had been gradually yielding to the better","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"hopes which her looks, or words, or actions occasionally encouraged; it","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"had been vanquished at last by those sentiments and those tones which","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"had reached him while she talked with Captain Harville; and under the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"irresistible governance of which he had seized a sheet of paper, and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"poured out his feelings.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Of what he had then written, nothing was to be retracted or qualified.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"He persisted in having loved none but her. She had never been","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"supplanted. He never even believed himself to see her equal. Thus much","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"indeed he was obliged to acknowledge: that he had been constant","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"unconsciously, nay unintentionally; that he had meant to forget her,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and believed it to be done. He had imagined himself indifferent, when","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"he had only been angry; and he had been unjust to her merits, because","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"he had been a sufferer from them. Her character was now fixed on his","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"mind as perfection itself, maintaining the loveliest medium of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"fortitude and gentleness; but he was obliged to acknowledge that only","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"at Uppercross had he learnt to do her justice, and only at Lyme had he","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"begun to understand himself. At Lyme, he had received lessons of more","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"than one sort. The passing admiration of Mr Elliot had at least roused","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"him, and the scenes on the Cobb and at Captain Harville’s had fixed her","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"superiority.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"In his preceding attempts to attach himself to Louisa Musgrove (the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"attempts of angry pride), he protested that he had for ever felt it to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"be impossible; that he had not cared, could not care, for Louisa;","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"though till that day, till the leisure for reflection which followed","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"it, he had not understood the perfect excellence of the mind with which","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Louisa’s could so ill bear a comparison, or the perfect unrivalled hold","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"it possessed over his own. There, he had learnt to distinguish between","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the steadiness of principle and the obstinacy of self-will, between the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"darings of heedlessness and the resolution of a collected mind. There","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"he had seen everything to exalt in his estimation the woman he had","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"lost; and there begun to deplore the pride, the folly, the madness of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"resentment, which had kept him from trying to regain her when thrown in","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"his way.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"From that period his penance had become severe. He had no sooner been","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"free from the horror and remorse attending the first few days of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Louisa’s accident, no sooner begun to feel himself alive again, than he","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"had begun to feel himself, though alive, not at liberty.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“I found,” said he, “that I was considered by Harville an engaged man!","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"That neither Harville nor his wife entertained a doubt of our mutual","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"attachment. I was startled and shocked. To a degree, I could contradict","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"this instantly; but, when I began to reflect that others might have","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"felt the same—her own family, nay, perhaps herself—I was no longer at","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"my own disposal. I was hers in honour if she wished it. I had been","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"unguarded. I had not thought seriously on this subject before. I had","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"not considered that my excessive intimacy must have its danger of ill","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"consequence in many ways; and that I had no right to be trying whether","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"I could attach myself to either of the girls, at the risk of raising","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"even an unpleasant report, were there no other ill effects. I had been","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"grossly wrong, and must abide the consequences.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"He found too late, in short, that he had entangled himself; and that","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"precisely as he became fully satisfied of his not caring for Louisa at","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"all, he must regard himself as bound to her, if her sentiments for him","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"were what the Harvilles supposed. It determined him to leave Lyme, and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"await her complete recovery elsewhere. He would gladly weaken, by any","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"fair means, whatever feelings or speculations concerning him might","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"exist; and he went, therefore, to his brother’s, meaning after a while","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"to return to Kellynch, and act as circumstances might require.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“I was six weeks with Edward,” said he, “and saw him happy. I could","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"have no other pleasure. I deserved none. He enquired after you very","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"particularly; asked even if you were personally altered, little","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"suspecting that to my eye you could never alter.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
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{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Anne smiled, and let it pass. It was too pleasing a blunder for a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"reproach. It is something for a woman to be assured, in her","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"eight-and-twentieth year, that she has not lost one charm of earlier","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"youth; but the value of such homage was inexpressibly increased to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Anne, by comparing it with former words, and feeling it to be the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"result, not the cause of a revival of his warm attachment.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"He had remained in Shropshire, lamenting the blindness of his own","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"pride, and the blunders of his own calculations, till at once released","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"from Louisa by the astonishing and felicitous intelligence of her","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"engagement with Benwick.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Here,” said he, “ended the worst of my state; for now I could at least","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"put myself in the way of happiness; I could exert myself; I could do","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"something. But to be waiting so long in inaction, and waiting only for","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"evil, had been dreadful. Within the first five minutes I said, ‘I will","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"be at Bath on Wednesday,’ and I was. Was it unpardonable to think it","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"worth my while to come? and to arrive with some degree of hope? You","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"were single. It was possible that you might retain the feelings of the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"past, as I did; and one encouragement happened to be mine. I could","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"never doubt that you would be loved and sought by others, but I knew to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"a certainty that you had refused one man, at least, of better","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"pretensions than myself; and I could not help often saying, ‘Was this","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"for me?’”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Their first meeting in Milsom Street afforded much to be said, but the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"concert still more. That evening seemed to be made up of exquisite","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"moments. The moment of her stepping forward in the Octagon Room to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"speak to him: the moment of Mr Elliot’s appearing and tearing her away,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and one or two subsequent moments, marked by returning hope or","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"increasing despondency, were dwelt on with energy.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“To see you,” cried he, “in the midst of those who could not be my","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"well-wishers; to see your cousin close by you, conversing and smiling,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and feel all the horrible eligibilities and proprieties of the match!","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"To consider it as the certain wish of every being who could hope to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"influence you! Even if your own feelings were reluctant or indifferent,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"to consider what powerful supports would be his! Was it not enough to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"make the fool of me which I appeared? How could I look on without","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"agony? Was not the very sight of the friend who sat behind you, was not","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the recollection of what had been, the knowledge of her influence, the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"indelible, immoveable impression of what persuasion had once done—was","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"it not all against me?”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“You should have distinguished,” replied Anne. “You should not have","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"suspected me now; the case is so different, and my age is so different.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"If I was wrong in yielding to persuasion once, remember that it was to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"persuasion exerted on the side of safety, not of risk. When I yielded,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"I thought it was to duty, but no duty could be called in aid here. In","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"marrying a man indifferent to me, all risk would have been incurred,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and all duty violated.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Perhaps I ought to have reasoned thus,” he replied, “but I could not.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"I could not derive benefit from the late knowledge I had acquired of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"your character. I could not bring it into play; it was overwhelmed,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"buried, lost in those earlier feelings which I had been smarting under","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"year after year. I could think of you only as one who had yielded, who","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"had given me up, who had been influenced by any one rather than by me.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"I saw you with the very person who had guided you in that year of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"misery. I had no reason to believe her of less authority now. The force","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"of habit was to be added.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“I should have thought,” said Anne, “that my manner to yourself might","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"have spared you much or all of this.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“No, no! your manner might be only the ease which your engagement to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"another man would give. I left you in this belief; and yet, I was","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"determined to see you again. My spirits rallied with the morning, and I","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"felt that I had still a motive for remaining here.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"At last Anne was at home again, and happier than any one in that house","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"could have conceived. All the surprise and suspense, and every other","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"painful part of the morning dissipated by this conversation, she","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"re-entered the house so happy as to be obliged to find an alloy in some","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"momentary apprehensions of its being impossible to last. An interval of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"dangerous in such high-wrought felicity; and she went to her room, and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"grew steadfast and fearless in the thankfulness of her enjoyment.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"The evening came, the drawing-rooms were lighted up, the company","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"assembled. It was but a card party, it was but a mixture of those who","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"had never met before, and those who met too often; a commonplace","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"business, too numerous for intimacy, too small for variety; but Anne","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"had never found an evening shorter. Glowing and lovely in sensibility","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and happiness, and more generally admired than she thought about or","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"cared for, she had cheerful or forbearing feelings for every creature","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"around her. Mr Elliot was there; she avoided, but she could pity him.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"The Wallises, she had amusement in understanding them. Lady Dalrymple","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and Miss Carteret—they would soon be innoxious cousins to her. She","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"cared not for Mrs Clay, and had nothing to blush for in the public","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"manners of her father and sister. With the Musgroves, there was the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"happy chat of perfect ease; with Captain Harville, the kind-hearted","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"intercourse of brother and sister; with Lady Russell, attempts at","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"conversation, which a delicious consciousness cut short; with Admiral","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and Mrs Croft, everything of peculiar cordiality and fervent interest,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"which the same consciousness sought to conceal; and with Captain","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Wentworth, some moments of communications continually occurring, and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"always the hope of more, and always the knowledge of his being there.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"It was in one of these short meetings, each apparently occupied in","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"admiring a fine display of greenhouse plants, that she said—","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“I have been thinking over the past, and trying impartially to judge of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the right and wrong, I mean with regard to myself; and I must believe","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"that I was right, much as I suffered from it, that I was perfectly","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"right in being guided by the friend whom you will love better than you","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"do now. To me, she was in the place of a parent. Do not mistake me,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"however. I am not saying that she did not err in her advice. It was,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"perhaps, one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only as the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"event decides; and for myself, I certainly never should, in any","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"circumstance of tolerable similarity, give such advice. But I mean,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"that I was right in submitting to her, and that if I had done","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"otherwise, I should have suffered more in continuing the engagement","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"than I did even in giving it up, because I should have suffered in my","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"conscience. I have now, as far as such a sentiment is allowable in","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"human nature, nothing to reproach myself with; and if I mistake not, a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"strong sense of duty is no bad part of a woman’s portion.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"He looked at her, looked at Lady Russell, and looking again at her,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"replied, as if in cool deliberation—","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Not yet. But there are hopes of her being forgiven in time. I trust to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"being in charity with her soon. But I too have been thinking over the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"past, and a question has suggested itself, whether there may not have","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"been one person more my enemy even than that lady? My own self. Tell me","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"if, when I returned to England in the year eight, with a few thousand","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"pounds, and was posted into the Laconia, if I had then written to you,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"would you have answered my letter? Would you, in short, have renewed","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"the engagement then?”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Would I!” was all her answer; but the accent was decisive enough.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"“Good God!” he cried, “you would! It is not that I did not think of it,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"or desire it, as what could alone crown all my other success; but I was","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"proud, too proud to ask again. I did not understand you. I shut my","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"eyes, and would not understand you, or do you justice. This is a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"recollection which ought to make me forgive every one sooner than","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"myself. Six years of separation and suffering might have been spared.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"It is a sort of pain, too, which is new to me. I have been used to the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"gratification of believing myself to earn every blessing that I","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"enjoyed. I have valued myself on honourable toils and just rewards.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Like other great men under reverses,” he added, with a smile. “I must","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"endeavour to subdue my mind to my fortune. I must learn to brook being","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"happier than I deserve.”","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"CHAPTER XXIV.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Who can be in doubt of what followed? When any two young people take it","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"into their heads to marry, they are pretty sure by perseverance to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"carry their point, be they ever so poor, or ever so imprudent, or ever","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"so little likely to be necessary to each other’s ultimate comfort. This","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"may be bad morality to conclude with, but I believe it to be truth; and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"if such parties succeed, how should a Captain Wentworth and an Anne","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Elliot, with the advantage of maturity of mind, consciousness of right,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and one independent fortune between them, fail of bearing down every","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"opposition? They might in fact, have borne down a great deal more than","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"they met with, for there was little to distress them beyond the want of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"graciousness and warmth. Sir Walter made no objection, and Elizabeth","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"did nothing worse than look cold and unconcerned. Captain Wentworth,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"with five-and-twenty thousand pounds, and as high in his profession as","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"merit and activity could place him, was no longer nobody. He was now","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"esteemed quite worthy to address the daughter of a foolish, spendthrift","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"baronet, who had not had principle or sense enough to maintain himself","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"in the situation in which Providence had placed him, and who could give","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"his daughter at present but a small part of the share of ten thousand","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"pounds which must be hers hereafter.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Sir Walter, indeed, though he had no affection for Anne, and no vanity","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"flattered, to make him really happy on the occasion, was very far from","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"thinking it a bad match for her. On the contrary, when he saw more of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Captain Wentworth, saw him repeatedly by daylight, and eyed him well,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"he was very much struck by his personal claims, and felt that his","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"superiority of appearance might be not unfairly balanced against her","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"superiority of rank; and all this, assisted by his well-sounding name,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"enabled Sir Walter at last to prepare his pen, with a very good grace,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"for the insertion of the marriage in the volume of honour.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"The only one among them, whose opposition of feeling could excite any","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"serious anxiety was Lady Russell. Anne knew that Lady Russell must be","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"suffering some pain in understanding and relinquishing Mr Elliot, and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"be making some struggles to become truly acquainted with, and do","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"justice to Captain Wentworth. This however was what Lady Russell had","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"now to do. She must learn to feel that she had been mistaken with","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"regard to both; that she had been unfairly influenced by appearances in","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"each; that because Captain Wentworth’s manners had not suited her own","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"ideas, she had been too quick in suspecting them to indicate a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"character of dangerous impetuosity; and that because Mr Elliot’s","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"manners had precisely pleased her in their propriety and correctness,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"their general politeness and suavity, she had been too quick in","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"receiving them as the certain result of the most correct opinions and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"well-regulated mind. There was nothing less for Lady Russell to do,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"than to admit that she had been pretty completely wrong, and to take up","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"a new set of opinions and of hopes.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"There is a quickness of perception in some, a nicety in the discernment","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"of character, a natural penetration, in short, which no experience in","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"others can equal, and Lady Russell had been less gifted in this part of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"understanding than her young friend. But she was a very good woman, and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"if her second object was to be sensible and well-judging, her first was","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"to see Anne happy. She loved Anne better than she loved her own","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"abilities; and when the awkwardness of the beginning was over, found","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"little hardship in attaching herself as a mother to the man who was","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"securing the happiness of her other child.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
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{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Of all the family, Mary was probably the one most immediately gratified","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"by the circumstance. It was creditable to have a sister married, and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"she might flatter herself with having been greatly instrumental to the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"connexion, by keeping Anne with her in the autumn; and as her own","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"sister must be better than her husband’s sisters, it was very agreeable","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"that Captain Wentworth should be a richer man than either Captain","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Benwick or Charles Hayter. She had something to suffer, perhaps, when","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"they came into contact again, in seeing Anne restored to the rights of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"seniority, and the mistress of a very pretty landaulette; but she had a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"future to look forward to, of powerful consolation. Anne had no","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Uppercross Hall before her, no landed estate, no headship of a family;","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"and if they could but keep Captain Wentworth from being made a baronet,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"she would not change situations with Anne.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
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{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"It would be well for the eldest sister if she were equally satisfied","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"with her situation, for a change is not very probable there. She had","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"soon the mortification of seeing Mr Elliot withdraw, and no one of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"proper condition has since presented himself to raise even the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"unfounded hopes which sunk with him.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
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{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"The news of his cousin Anne’s engagement burst on Mr Elliot most","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"unexpectedly. It deranged his best plan of domestic happiness, his best","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"hope of keeping Sir Walter single by the watchfulness which a","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"son-in-law’s rights would have given. But, though discomfited and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"disappointed, he could still do something for his own interest and his","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"own enjoyment. He soon quitted Bath; and on Mrs Clay’s quitting it soon","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"afterwards, and being next heard of as established under his protection","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"in London, it was evident how double a game he had been playing, and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"how determined he was to save himself from being cut out by one artful","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"woman, at least.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
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{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Mrs Clay’s affections had overpowered her interest, and she had","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"sacrificed, for the young man’s sake, the possibility of scheming","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"longer for Sir Walter. She has abilities, however, as well as","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"affections; and it is now a doubtful point whether his cunning, or","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"hers, may finally carry the day; whether, after preventing her from","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"being the wife of Sir Walter, he may not be wheedled and caressed at","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"last into making her the wife of Sir William.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
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{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"It cannot be doubted that Sir Walter and Elizabeth were shocked and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"mortified by the loss of their companion, and the discovery of their","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"deception in her. They had their great cousins, to be sure, to resort","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"to for comfort; but they must long feel that to flatter and follow","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"half enjoyment.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
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{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Anne, satisfied at a very early period of Lady Russell’s meaning to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"love Captain Wentworth as she ought, had no other alloy to the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"happiness of her prospects than what arose from the consciousness of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"having no relations to bestow on him which a man of sense could value.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"There she felt her own inferiority very keenly. The disproportion in","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"their fortune was nothing; it did not give her a moment’s regret; but","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"to have no family to receive and estimate him properly, nothing of","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"respectability, of harmony, of good will to offer in return for all the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"worth and all the prompt welcome which met her in his brothers and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"sisters, was a source of as lively pain as her mind could well be","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"sensible of under circumstances of otherwise strong felicity. She had","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"but two friends in the world to add to his list, Lady Russell and Mrs","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Smith. To those, however, he was very well disposed to attach himself.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Lady Russell, in spite of all her former transgressions, he could now","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"value from his heart. While he was not obliged to say that he believed","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"her to have been right in originally dividing them, he was ready to say","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"almost everything else in her favour, and as for Mrs Smith, she had","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"claims of various kinds to recommend her quickly and permanently.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
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{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Her recent good offices by Anne had been enough in themselves, and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"their marriage, instead of depriving her of one friend, secured her","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"two. She was their earliest visitor in their settled life; and Captain","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Wentworth, by putting her in the way of recovering her husband’s","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"property in the West Indies, by writing for her, acting for her, and","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"seeing her through all the petty difficulties of the case with the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"activity and exertion of a fearless man and a determined friend, fully","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"requited the services which she had rendered, or ever meant to render,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"to his wife.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Mrs Smith’s enjoyments were not spoiled by this improvement of income,","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"with some improvement of health, and the acquisition of such friends to","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"be often with, for her cheerfulness and mental alacrity did not fail","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"her; and while these prime supplies of good remained, she might have","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"bid defiance even to greater accessions of worldly prosperity. She","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"might have been absolutely rich and perfectly healthy, and yet be","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"happy. Her spring of felicity was in the glow of her spirits, as her","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"friend Anne’s was in the warmth of her heart. Anne was tenderness","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"itself, and she had the full worth of it in Captain Wentworth’s","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"affection. His profession was all that could ever make her friends wish","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"that tenderness less, the dread of a future war all that could dim her","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"sunshine. She gloried in being a sailor’s wife, but she must pay the","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"tax of quick alarm for belonging to that profession which is, if","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"possible, more distinguished in its domestic virtues than in its","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"national importance.","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}
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{"gutenberg_id":105,"text":"Finis","title":"Persuasion","author":"Austen, Jane"}