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00:02:58to give way. She was only Anne. For one daughter, his eldest, Sir Walter would really have given up
00:03:07anything, which he had not been very much tempted to do. Elizabeth being very handsome and very like
00:03:15himself, her influence had always been great and they had gone on together most happily.
00:03:21But Elizabeth did not quite equal her father in personal contentment. She had had a disappointment.
00:03:31Sir Walter's heir presumptive, the very William Walter Elliot Esquire. He was at that time a very
00:03:39young man, just engaged in the study of the law, and Elizabeth found him extremely agreeable.
00:03:46He was invited to Kellynch Hall. He was talked of and expected all the rest of the year,
00:03:52but he never came. The following spring, he was seen again in town, found equally agreeable,
00:03:59again encouraged, invited and expected. And again, he did not come. And the next tidings were that he
00:04:09was married. But now another occupation and solicitude of mind was beginning to be added
00:04:16to the family's problems. While Lady Elliot lived, there had been method, moderation and economy,
00:04:24which had just kept Sir Walter within his income. But with her had died all such right-mindedness,
00:04:31and from that period he had been constantly exceeding it. He was not only growing dreadfully in debt,
00:04:38but was hearing of it so often that it became vain to attempt concealing it longer. Indeed, Sir Walter
00:04:45would need to retrench or quit Kellynch Hall. What? Every comfort of life knocked off. Journeys, London,
00:04:55servants, horses, table, contractions and restrictions everywhere. No, I would sooner quit Kellynch Hall at
00:05:03once than remain in it on such disgraceful terms. And after a very few days more of doubt and indecision,
00:05:13the great question of whither he should go was settled. Sir Walter and his family would move to Bath
00:05:21and Kellynch Hall would be let. The very first application for the letting of Kellynch Hall
00:05:28was from an Admiral Croft. And who is Admiral Croft? was Sir Walter's cold, suspicious inquiry.
00:05:38Admiral Croft was a real Admiral of the White, a hale, hearty, well-looking man, a little weather-beaten
00:05:45to be sure, but not much, and quite the gentleman in all his notions and behaviour.
00:05:51As for his wife, I found she was not quite unconnected in this country. That is to say,
00:05:59she is sister to a gentleman who did live amongst us once, said Mr Shepherd, the family's lawyer.
00:06:06You mean Mr Wentworth, I suppose, said Anne. Wentworth was the very name.
00:06:13You remember him, I'm sure. Wentworth, replies Sir Walter. Oh, I'm Mr Wentworth. You misled me by the term
00:06:23gentleman. I thought you were speaking of some man of property. Mr Wentworth was nobody, I remember.
00:06:31He was in fact Captain Frederick Wentworth, who, being made commander in consequence of the action
00:06:38of San Domingo and not immediately employed, had come into Somersetshire in the summer of 1806 and,
00:06:46having no parent living, found a home for half a year at Kellynch. He was, at that time, a remarkably
00:06:55fine young man, with a great deal of intelligence, spirit and brilliancy, and Anne, an extremely pretty
00:07:03girl, with gentleness, modesty, taste and feeling. They were gradually acquainted, and when acquainted,
00:07:14fell rapidly and deeply in love. A short period of exquisite felicity followed, and but a short one.
00:07:26Troubles soon arose. Sir Walter, on being applied to, without actually withholding his consent
00:07:33or saying it should never be, gave all the negative of great astonishment, great coldness, great silence,
00:07:42and a professed resolution of doing nothing for his daughter. He thought it a very degrading alliance,
00:07:49and Lady Russell, though with more tempered and pardonable pride, received it as a most unfortunate one.
00:07:56Captain Wentworth had no fortune. But he was confident that he should soon be rich,
00:08:04full of life and ardour. He knew that he should soon have a ship and soon be on a station that would
00:08:11lead to everything he wanted. Such confidence, powerful in its own warmth and bewitching in the wit
00:08:19which often expressed it, must have been enough for Anne. But Lady Russell saw it very differently.
00:08:27His sanguine temper and fearlessness of mind operated very differently on her. Such opposition,
00:08:36as these feelings produced, was more than Anne could combat. Young and gentle as she was,
00:08:43it might have been possible to withstand her father's ill will. But Lady Russell, whom she'd always loved
00:08:49and relied on, could not, with such steadiness of opinion and such tenderness of manner, be continually
00:08:56advising her in vain. She was persuaded to believe the engagement a wrong thing. Indiscreet,
00:09:05improper, hardly capable of success and not deserving it. A few months had seen the beginning and the end of
00:09:16their acquaintance. But her attachment and regrets had, for a long time, clouded every enjoyment of youth
00:09:24and an early loss of bloom and spirits had been their lasting effect. More than seven years were gone
00:09:32since this little history of sorrowful interest had reached its close. Lady Russell and Anne knew
00:09:38not each other's opinion, either its constancy or its change on the leading point of Anne's conduct,
00:09:44for the subject was never alluded to. But Anne, at seven and twenty, thought very differently from what
00:09:51she had been made to think at nineteen. She did not blame Lady Russell, she did not blame herself for
00:09:58having been guided by her, but she felt that were any young person in similar circumstances to apply to
00:10:05her for counsel, they would never receive any of such certain immediate wretchedness. She was persuaded
00:10:14that, under every disadvantage of disapprobation at home and every anxiety attending his profession,
00:10:20all their probable fears, delays and disappointments,
00:10:24she should yet have been a happier woman in maintaining the engagement than she had been
00:10:31in the sacrifice of it. With all these circumstances, recollections and feelings, she could not hear that
00:10:39Captain Wentworth's sister was likely to live at Kellynch without a revival of former pain. And many a stroll
00:10:48and many a sigh were necessary to dispel the agitation of the idea.
00:10:55In the event of Admiral Croft's really taking Kellynch Hall,
00:11:00she hoped that the acquaintance need not involve any particular awkwardness.
00:11:17Uppercross was a moderate-sized village. Here, Anne had often been staying and here she would stay
00:11:25once again with her sister Mary. She knew the ways of Uppercross as well as those of Kellynch.
00:11:32There lived Mary's in-laws, the Musgroves, and Mr and Mrs Musgrove were a very good sort of people,
00:11:38friendly and hospitable, not much educated and not at all elegant. There was a numerous family,
00:11:46but the only two grown up, excepting Charles Musgrove, Mary's husband, were Henrietta and Louisa,
00:11:52young ladies of 19 and 20 who were now, like thousands of other young ladies, living to be fashionable,
00:12:00happy and merry. The neighbourhood was not large, but the Musgroves were visited by everybody and had
00:12:08more dinner parties and more callers, more visitors by invitation and by chance than any other family.
00:12:14Henrietta and Louisa were wild for dancing and the evenings ended occasionally in an unpremeditated little ball.
00:12:25So passed the first three weeks and Anne's spirits were greatly improved by change of place and subject.
00:12:33Admiral Croft and his wife took possession of Kellynch Hall with true naval alertness and were to be visited.
00:12:44A very few days more and Captain Wentworth was known to be at Kellynch.
00:12:49Mr Musgrove had called on him and come back warm in his praise and he was engaged with the Crofts
00:12:56to dine at Uppercross by the end of another week.
00:12:59A week must pass. Only a week and then, Anne supposed, they must meet.
00:13:09And soon she began to wish that she could feel secure even for a week.
00:13:14To hear the Musgroves talking so much of Captain Wentworth, puzzling over past years and at last
00:13:20ascertaining that it might turn out to be the very same Captain Wentworth whom they recollected meeting
00:13:26once or twice a very fine young man was a new sort of trial to Anne's nerves.
00:13:33She found, however, that it was one to which she must inure herself.
00:13:40Anne and Mary were actually setting forth for the Musgroves' house to dine with the Crofts and Captain Wentworth
00:13:46when they were stopped by Mary's eldest boy being at that moment brought home in consequence of a bad fall.
00:13:54The child's situation put the visit entirely aside but she could not hear of her escape with indifference,
00:14:01even in the midst of the serious anxiety which they afterwards felt on his account.
00:14:06The child's collarbone was found to be dislocated. It was an afternoon of distress.
00:14:15Anne volunteered to stay. She knew herself to be of the first utility to the child,
00:14:21and what was it to her if Captain Wentworth were only half a mile distant, making himself agreeable to others?
00:14:27She would have liked to know how he felt as to a meeting. Perhaps indifferent, if indifference could exist under such circumstances.
00:14:39He must be either indifferent or unwilling. Had he wished ever to see her again, he need not have waited till this time.
00:14:49Mary and Charles came back delighted with their new acquaintance and their visit in general.
00:14:54There had been music, singing, dancing, talking, all that was most agreeable, charming manners in Captain Wentworth.
00:15:03No shyness or reserve. They seemed all to know each other perfectly, and he was coming the very next morning to shoot with Charles.
00:15:12He was coming to breakfast, though he seemed afraid of being in Mary's way on account of the child.
00:15:19Anne understood it. He wished to avoid seeing her.
00:15:23He had inquired after her, she found, slightly, as might suit a former slight acquaintance,
00:15:31seeming to acknowledge such as she had acknowledged,
00:15:35actuated perhaps by the same view with escaping introduction when they were to meet.
00:15:42The morning hours of the cottage were always later than those of the other house,
00:15:47and on the morrow the difference was so great that Mary and Anne were not more than beginning breakfast
00:15:53when Charles returned from Upper Cross,
00:15:55came in to say that they were just setting off and that he was come for his dogs.
00:16:01Captain Wentworth was following Charles soon after to wait on Mary for a few minutes if not inconvenient,
00:16:07and though Charles had answered for the child's being in no such state as could make it inconvenient,
00:16:13Captain Wentworth would not be satisfied without his running on to give notice.
00:16:20Mary, very much gratified by this attention, was delighted to receive him,
00:16:25while a thousand feelings rushed on Anne, of which this was the most consoling,
00:16:33that it would soon be over.
00:16:37And it was soon over.
00:16:39In two minutes, after Charles's preparation, the others appeared.
00:16:45They were in the drawing room.
00:16:48Her eye half met Captain Wentworth's.
00:16:51A bow? The curtsy passed.
00:16:54She heard his voice. He talked to Mary, said all that was right.
00:16:58The room seemed full, full of persons and voices.
00:17:03But a few minutes ended it.
00:17:05Charles showed himself at the window. All was ready.
00:17:10Their visitor had bowed and was gone shooting with Charles.
00:17:13Louisa and Henrietta were gone too,
00:17:15suddenly resolving to walk to the end of the village with the sportsman.
00:17:20The room was cleared, and Anne might finish her breakfast as she could.
00:17:26It is over. It is over, she repeated to herself again and again, in nervous gratitude.
00:17:33The worst is over.
00:17:38Mary talked, but she could not attend.
00:17:42She had seen him.
00:17:44They had met.
00:17:46They had been once more in the same room.
00:17:51Soon, however, she began to reason with herself and try to be feeling less.
00:17:57Eight years.
00:17:58Almost eight years had passed since all had been given up.
00:18:02How absurd to be resuming the agitation which such an interval had banished into distance and indistinctness.
00:18:10What might not eight years do?
00:18:13Alas, with all her reasoning she found that, to retentive feelings, eight years may be little more than nothing.
00:18:25Now, how were his sentiments to be read?
00:18:28Was this like trying to avoid her?
00:18:30And the next moment she was hating herself for the folly which asked the question.
00:18:36On one other question, which perhaps her utmost wisdom might not have prevented,
00:18:42she was soon spared all suspense.
00:18:45For after Mary had returned, she had this spontaneous information.
00:18:50Captain Wentworth is not very gallant by you, Anne, though he was so attentive to me.
00:18:56Henrietta asked him what he thought of you when they went away, and he said you were so altered,
00:19:01he should not have known you again.
00:19:04Mary had no feelings to make her respect her sisters in a common way,
00:19:09but she was perfectly unsuspicious of being inflicting any particular wound.
00:19:15Altered beyond his knowledge.
00:19:17Anne fully submitted in silent, deep mortification.
00:19:25Doubtless it was so.
00:19:27And she could take no such revenge, for he was not altered, or not for the worse.
00:19:33She had already acknowledged it to herself and could not think differently.
00:19:37Let him think of her as he would.
00:19:40No, the years which had destroyed her youth and bloom had only given him a more glowing,
00:19:47manly, open look, in no respect lessening his personal advantages.
00:19:54She had seen the same, Captain Wentworth.
00:19:57So altered that he should not have known her again.
00:20:05These were words which could not but dwell with her.
00:20:10Captain Wentworth had used such words, or something like them, but without an idea that
00:20:16they would be carried round to her, he had thought her wretchedly altered, and in the first moment of appeal had spoken as he felt.
00:20:23He had not forgiven Anne Elliot, she had used him ill, deserted and disappointed him, and worse, she had shown a feebleness of character in doing so, which his own decided confident temper could not endure.
00:20:40He had been the effect of over-persuasion.
00:20:50He had been most warmly attached to her, and had never seen a woman since whom he thought her equal,
00:20:57but, except from some natural sensation of curiosity, he had no desire of meeting her again.
00:21:04Her power with him was gone forever.
00:21:08It was now his object to marry.
00:21:11He was rich, and being turned on shore, fully intended to settle as soon as he could be properly tempted, actually looking round, ready to fall in love with all the speed which a clear head and a quick taste could allow.
00:21:27He had a heart for either of the Miss Musgroves, if they could catch it, a heart, in short, for any pleasing young woman who came in his way, excepting Anne Elliot.
00:21:41From this time, Captain Wentworth and Anne Elliot were repeatedly in the same circle.
00:21:59They had no conversation together, no intercourse, but what the communist civility required.
00:22:06Once so much to each other, now nothing.
00:22:11It was a perpetual estrangement.
00:22:15Which of the two Musgroves sisters was preferred by Captain Wentworth was as yet quite doubtful, as far as Anne's observation reached.
00:22:24Henrietta was perhaps the prettiest.
00:22:26Louisa had the higher spirits, and she knew not now whether the more gentle or the more lively character were most likely to attract him.
00:22:34After a short struggle, however, it became clear that Henrietta would return to her former suitor, a Mr. Hater.
00:22:44Everything now marked out Louisa for Captain Wentworth.
00:22:49Nothing could be plainer.
00:22:50Meanwhile, a letter from Captain Wentworth's friend, Captain Harville, brought intelligence of Captain Harville's being settled with his family at Lyme for the winter.
00:23:02Captain Wentworth's description of the fine country about Lyme was so feelingly attended to by the party in Upper Cross that an earnest desire to see Lyme themselves and a project for going thither was the consequence.
00:23:17To Lyme, they were to go.
00:23:19Charles, Mary, Anne, Henrietta, Louisa, and Captain Wentworth.
00:23:25After securing accommodations and ordering a dinner at one of the inns, the next thing to be done was unquestionably to walk directly down to the sea.
00:23:35The party from Upper Cross soon found themselves on the seashore, and lingering only, as all must linger and gaze on a first return to the sea, proceeded towards the cop, equally their object in itself and on Captain Wentworth's account, for in a small house near the foot of an old pier of unknown date were the Harvilles settled.
00:23:59Captain Wentworth turned in to call on his friend, the others walked on, and he was to join them on the cob.
00:24:09Captain Harville, though not equaling Captain Wentworth in manners, was a perfect gentleman, unaffected, warm, and obliging.
00:24:18Mrs Harville, a degree less polished than her husband, seemed, however, to have the same good feelings, and nothing could be more pleasant than their desire of considering the whole party as friends of their own.
00:24:34Their friend, Captain Benwick, the youngest of the three captains, was, compared with either of them, a little man, though he had a pleasing face and a melancholy air.
00:24:44There was so much attachment to Captain Wentworth in all this, and such a bewitching charm in a degree of hospitality so uncommon, that Anne felt her spirits not likely to be benefited by an increasing acquaintance among his brother officers.
00:25:00These would have been all my friends, was her thought, and she had to struggle against a great tendency to lowness.
00:25:09They all went indoors with their new friends, and found rooms so small as none but those who invite from the heart could think capable of accommodating so many.
00:25:21Anne thought she left great happiness behind her when they quitted the house, and Louisa burst forth into raptures of admiration and delight on the character of the navy.
00:25:33Their friendliness, their brotherliness, their openness, their uprightness, protesting that she was convinced of sailors having more worth and warmth than any other set of men in England.
00:25:43Anne and Henrietta, finding themselves the earliest of the party the next morning, agreed to stroll down to the sea before breakfast.
00:25:54They went to the sands to watch the flowing of the tide, which a fine south-easterly breeze was bringing in with all the grandeur which so flat ashore admitted.
00:26:05Presently, Louisa and Captain Wentworth joined them.
00:26:09When they came to the steps leading upwards from the beach, a gentleman, at the same moment preparing to come down, politely drew back and stopped to give them way.
00:26:23They ascended and passed him, and as they passed, Anne's face caught his eye, and he looked at her with a degree of earnest admiration which she could not be insensible of.
00:26:34She was looking remarkably well, her very regular, very pretty features, having the bloom and freshness of youth restored by the fine wind which had been blowing on her complexion,
00:26:47and by the animation of eye which it had also produced.
00:26:53It was evident that the gentleman admired her exceedingly.
00:26:57Captain Wentworth looked round at her instantly, in a way which showed his noticing of it.
00:27:05He gave her a momentary glance, a glance of brightness, which seemed to say,
00:27:10that man is struck with you, and even I, at this moment, see something like Anne Elliot again.
00:27:16After loitering about a little longer, they returned to the inn, and Anne, in passing afterwards quickly from her own chamber to their dining room,
00:27:26had nearly run against the very same gentleman as he came out of an adjoining apartment.
00:27:32She had before conjectured him to be a stranger like themselves,
00:27:37and determined that a well-looking groom who was strolling about near the inn as they came back should be his servant.
00:27:43It was now proved that he belonged to the same inn as themselves,
00:27:49and this second meeting, short as it was, also proved again by the gentleman's looks that he thought hers very lovely,
00:27:57and by the readiness and propriety of his apologies that he was a man of exceedingly good manners.
00:28:04He seemed about thirty, and though not handsome, had an agreeable person.
00:28:09Anne felt that she should like to know who he was.
00:28:13The following day, they had nearly done breakfast, when the sound of a carriage drew half the party to the window.
00:28:22It was a gentleman's carriage, a curricle, but only coming round from the stable yard to the front door.
00:28:28Somebody must be going away.
00:28:31It was driven by a servant in mourning.
00:28:34The curricle made Charles Musgrove jump up, that he might compare it with his own.
00:28:39The servant in mourning roused Anne's curiosity, and the whole six were collected to look,
00:28:46by the time the owner of the curricle was to be seen issuing from the door,
00:28:50amidst the bows and civilities of the household, and taking his seat to drive off.
00:28:55Ah, cried Captain Wentworth instantly, and with half a glance at Anne, it is the very man we passed.
00:29:03Henrietta and Louisa agreed, and having all kindly watched him as far up the hill as they could,
00:29:09they returned to the breakfast table.
00:29:11The waiter came into the room soon afterwards.
00:29:15Pray, said Captain Wentworth immediately, can you tell us the name of the gentleman who has just gone away?
00:29:21Yes, sir.
00:29:22A Mr Elliot, a gentleman of large fortune, come in last night from Sidmouth.
00:29:28Elliot!
00:29:28Many had looked on each other, and many had repeated the name, before all this had been got through,
00:29:36even by the smart rapidity of a waiter.
00:29:39Bless me, cried Mary, it must be our cousin, it must be our Mr William, Elliot, it must, indeed.
00:29:46Charles, Anne, must not it.
00:29:48How very extraordinary, in the same inn with us.
00:29:52Anne, must not it be our Mr Elliot, my father's next heir?
00:29:57Anne, must not it.
00:30:27As he went down to the lower, in the lower, and were all contented to pass quietly and carefully
00:30:30down the steep flight, excepting Louisa.
00:30:34She must be jumped down them, by Captain Wentworth.
00:30:38In all their walks, Captain Wentworth had had to jump Louisa from the styles.
00:30:43styles. The sensation was delightful to her. The hardness of the pavement for her feet
00:30:48made him less willing upon the present occasion. He did it, however. She was safely down and
00:30:55instantly, to show her enjoyment, ran up the steps to be jumped down again. He advised
00:31:00her against it, thought the jar too great, but no. He reasoned and talked in vain. She
00:31:06smiled and said, I am determined I will. He put out his hands. She was too precipitous.
00:31:13By half a second, she fell on the pavement on the lower cob and was taken up, lifeless.
00:31:19There was no wound, no blood, no visible bruise, but her eyes were closed. She breathed not.
00:31:27Her face was like death.
00:31:29She is dead! She is dead! screamed Mary, catching hold of her husband and contributing with
00:31:38his own horror to make him immovable. And in another moment, Henrietta, sinking under the
00:31:43conviction, lost her senses too and would have fallen on the steps, but for Captain Benwick
00:31:49and Anne, who caught and supported her between them. Is there no one to help me? were the
00:31:55first words which burst from Captain Wentworth in a tone of despair, and as if all his own
00:32:01strength were gone. Go to him. Go to him, cried Anne. For heaven's sake, go to him. I
00:32:06can support her myself. Leave me and go to him. Rub her hands, rub her temples. Here are
00:32:12salts. Take them. Take them.
00:32:14Louisa was raised up and supported more firmly between them, and everything was done that Anne
00:32:19had prompted, but in vain. While Captain Wentworth, staggering against the wall for his support,
00:32:25exclaimed in the bitterest agony, Oh, God! A father and mother! A surgeon! said Anne.
00:32:32He caught the word. It seemed to rouse him at once, and saying only, True, true, a surgeon
00:32:38this instant, was darting away when Anne eagerly suggested, Had not she better be carried to
00:32:44the inn. Yes, I am sure. Carry her gently to the inn. Yes, yes, to the inn, repeated Captain
00:32:50Wentworth, comparatively collected and eager to be doing something. I will carry her myself.
00:32:56The surgeon was with them almost before it had seemed possible. They were sick with horror while
00:33:03he examined, but he was not hopeless. The head had received a severe contusion, but he had seen
00:33:10greater injuries recovered from. He was by no means hopeless. He spoke cheerfully.
00:33:17It now became necessary for the party to consider what was best to be done as to their general
00:33:23situation. That Louisa must remain where she was, however distressing to her friends to be
00:33:29involving the Harvilles in such trouble, did not admit a doubt. Captain Wentworth, exerting himself,
00:33:37said, We must be decided and without the loss of another minute. Every minute is valuable.
00:33:44Someone must resolve on being off for Uppercross instantly. Musgrove, either you or I must go.
00:33:50Charles agreed, but declared his resolution of not going away. He would be as little encumbrance
00:33:57as possible to Captain Harville and Mrs Harville, but as to leaving his sister in such a state,
00:34:02he neither ought nor would. The plan had reached this point when Anne, coming quietly down from
00:34:11Louisa's room, could not but hear what followed, for the parlour door was open.
00:34:17Then it is settled, Musgrove, cried Captain Wentworth, that you stay and that I take your sister
00:34:23Henrietta home. But as to the rest, as to the others, if one stays to assist Mrs Harville,
00:34:28I think if Anne will stay, no one's so proper, no one's so capable as Anne.
00:34:36Anne paused a moment to recover from the emotion of hearing herself so spoken of.
00:34:43The other two warmly agreed with what he said, and then she appeared.
00:34:48You will stay, I'm sure. You will stay and nurse her, cried he, turning to her and speaking
00:34:57with a glow and yet a gentleness, which seemed almost restoring the past.
00:35:05When she could command Mary's attention, Anne quietly tried to convince her that their father
00:35:10and Mr Elliot had not, for many years, been on such terms as to make the power of attempting
00:35:16an introduction at all desirable. At the same time, however, it was a secret gratification
00:35:24to herself to have seen her cousin and to know that the future owner of Kellynch was undoubtedly
00:35:31a gentleman.
00:35:47Elizabeth's last letter had communicated a piece of news of some interest.
00:35:52Mr Elliot was in Bath.
00:35:55Lady Russell was in a state of very agreeable curiosity and perplexity about Mr Elliot.
00:36:00Anne was not animated to an equal pitch by the circumstance, but she felt that she would
00:36:07rather see Mr Elliot again than not, which was more than she could say for many other
00:36:11persons in Bath.
00:36:13She was put down in Camden Place, her father's new lodgings in Bath.
00:36:20A degree of unexpected cordiality in the welcome she received did Anne good.
00:36:25Her making a fourth when they sat down to dinner was noticed as an advantage.
00:36:30Anne had a great deal to hear of Mr Elliot.
00:36:35He was not only pardoned, they were delighted with him.
00:36:40They had not a fault to find in him.
00:36:44He had explained away all the appearance of neglect on his own side.
00:36:48It had originated in misapprehension entirely.
00:36:53Anne listened, but without quite understanding it.
00:36:57Allowances, large allowances, she knew must be made for the ideas of those who spoke.
00:37:04Anne was considering when a knock at the door suspended everything.
00:37:10A knock at the door?
00:37:11And so late.
00:37:13It was ten o'clock.
00:37:15Could it be Mr Elliot?
00:37:16With all the state which a butler and footboy could give, Mr Elliot was ushered into the room.
00:37:27It was the same.
00:37:29The very same man, with no difference but of dress.
00:37:34Anne drew a little back while the others received his compliments.
00:37:38Sir Walter talked of his youngest daughter and Anne, smiling and blushing very becomingly,
00:37:46showed to Mr Elliot the pretty features which he had by no means forgotten
00:37:50and instantly saw with amusement at his little start of surprise
00:37:55that he had not been at all aware of who she was.
00:37:58He looked completely astonished, but not more astonished than pleased.
00:38:06His eyes brightened, and with the most perfect alacrity he welcomed the relationship,
00:38:13alluded to the past and entreated to be received as an acquaintance already.
00:38:18He was quite as good-looking as he had appeared at Lyme.
00:38:23His countenance improved by speaking,
00:38:26and his manners were so exactly what they ought to be,
00:38:29so polished, so easy, so particularly agreeable,
00:38:33that she could compare them in excellence to only one person's manners.
00:38:39He stayed an hour with them.
00:38:43The elegant little clock on the mantelpiece had struck eleven with its silver sounds,
00:38:48before Mr Elliot or any of them seemed to feel that he had been there long.
00:38:55Anne could not have supposed it possible
00:38:57that her first evening in Camden Place could have passed so well.
00:39:05It was now some years since Anne had begun to learn
00:39:09that she and her excellent friend could sometimes think differently,
00:39:14and it did not surprise her, therefore,
00:39:16that Lady Russell should see nothing suspicious or inconsistent,
00:39:20nothing to require more motives than appeared
00:39:23in Mr Elliot's great desire of a reconciliation.
00:39:28Anne presumed, however, still to smile about it,
00:39:32and at last to mention...
00:39:35Elizabeth.
00:39:36Lady Russell listened and looked and made only this cautious reply.
00:39:45Elizabeth.
00:39:47Very well.
00:39:49Time will explain.
00:39:53Anne could determine nothing at present.
00:39:57Mr Elliot, too, it must be remembered,
00:39:59had not been a widower seven months.
00:40:02However it might end,
00:40:04he was without any question
00:40:05their pleasantest acquaintance in Bath.
00:40:08She saw nobody equal to him.
00:40:11They went through the particulars
00:40:12of their first meeting a great many times.
00:40:16He gave her to understand
00:40:17that he had looked at her with some earnestness.
00:40:21She knew it well,
00:40:23and she remembered another person's look also.
00:40:28Lady Russell was now perfectly decided
00:40:32in her opinion of Mr Elliot.
00:40:34She was as much convinced of his meaning
00:40:37to gain Anne in time
00:40:38as of his deserving her,
00:40:40and was beginning to calculate
00:40:42the number of weeks
00:40:43which would free him
00:40:44from all the remaining restraints of widowhood
00:40:47and leave him at liberty
00:40:48to exert his most open powers of pleasing.
00:40:51I am no matchmaker
00:40:54as you well know,
00:40:56said Lady Russell,
00:40:57being much too well aware
00:40:59of the uncertainty
00:41:00of all human events and calculations.
00:41:03I only mean
00:41:05that if Mr Elliot
00:41:06should sometime hence
00:41:08pay his addresses to you,
00:41:10and if you should be disposed to accept him,
00:41:13I think there would be
00:41:15every possibility
00:41:16of your being happy together.
00:41:19A most suitable connection
00:41:21everyone must consider it,
00:41:23but I think it might be
00:41:25a very happy one.
00:41:28Mr Elliot is an exceedingly agreeable man,
00:41:32and in many respects
00:41:33I think highly of him,
00:41:35said Anne,
00:41:36but we should not suit.
00:41:40Lady Russell let this pass
00:41:42and only said in rejoinder,
00:41:44I own that to be able to regard you
00:41:48as the future mistress of Kellynch,
00:41:51the future Lady Elliot,
00:41:52and to look forward
00:41:53and see you occupying
00:41:55your dear mother's place,
00:41:57succeeding to all her rights
00:41:59and all her popularity,
00:42:01as well as to all her virtues,
00:42:04would be the highest possible gratification to me.
00:42:07You are your mother's self
00:42:10in countenance and disposition,
00:42:12and if I might be allowed
00:42:14to fancy you such as she was
00:42:16in situation and name
00:42:17and home,
00:42:19presiding and blessing
00:42:20in the same spot,
00:42:22and only superior to her
00:42:24in being more highly valued,
00:42:27my dearest Anne,
00:42:30it would give me more delight
00:42:32than is often felt
00:42:34at my time of life.
00:42:38Anne was obliged to turn away,
00:42:41to rise,
00:42:42to walk to a distant table
00:42:44and, leaning there
00:42:46in pretended employment,
00:42:49try to subdue the feelings
00:42:50this picture excited.
00:42:54For a few moments,
00:42:55her imagination and her heart
00:42:57were bewitched.
00:43:00The idea of becoming
00:43:02what her mother had been
00:43:03of having the precious name
00:43:05of Lady Elliot
00:43:07first revived in herself,
00:43:10of being restored to Kellynch,
00:43:12calling it her home again,
00:43:14her home forever,
00:43:15was a charm which she could not
00:43:18immediately resist.
00:43:22It was the beginning of February
00:43:24and Anne,
00:43:26having been a month in Bath,
00:43:28was growing very eager
00:43:29for news from Upper Cross and Lime.
00:43:32She only knew that Henrietta
00:43:34was at home again
00:43:35and that Louisa
00:43:37was still in Lime
00:43:38and she was thinking
00:43:40of them all very intently
00:43:41one evening
00:43:42when a thicker letter
00:43:43than usual
00:43:44from Mary
00:43:45was delivered to her.
00:43:47In Anne's own room,
00:43:50she tried to comprehend it.
00:43:52The conclusion of the whole
00:43:54was that Louisa
00:43:56and Captain Benick
00:43:58were engaged.
00:44:00If the woman
00:44:01who had been sensible
00:44:02of Captain Wentworth's merits
00:44:04could be allowed
00:44:05to prefer another man,
00:44:07certainly there was nothing
00:44:08to be regretted.
00:44:11No,
00:44:12it was not regret
00:44:13which made Anne's heart beat
00:44:15in spite of herself
00:44:17and brought the colour
00:44:18into her cheeks
00:44:19when she thought
00:44:20of Captain Wentworth
00:44:21unshackled and free.
00:44:24She had some feelings
00:44:25which she was ashamed
00:44:27to investigate.
00:44:28They were too much like joy.
00:44:32Senseless joy.
00:44:36That evening,
00:44:38at the concert,
00:44:39the party was divided
00:44:40and disposed of
00:44:41on two contiguous benches.
00:44:44Anne was among those
00:44:46on the foremost
00:44:46and Mr Elliot
00:44:48had manoeuvred so well
00:44:50as to have a seat
00:44:51by her.
00:44:53Towards the close of it,
00:44:55in the interval
00:44:55succeeding an Italian song,
00:44:57she explained the words
00:44:59of the song
00:44:59to Mr Elliot,
00:45:01though she said demurely,
00:45:03I'm a very poor
00:45:04Italian scholar.
00:45:06Yes.
00:45:08Yes,
00:45:09I see you are.
00:45:11I see you know nothing
00:45:13of the matter.
00:45:14You have only knowledge
00:45:15enough of the language
00:45:16to translate at sight
00:45:18these inverted,
00:45:20transposed,
00:45:21curtailed Italian lines
00:45:22into clear,
00:45:24comprehensible,
00:45:25elegant English.
00:45:27For shame.
00:45:29For shame.
00:45:30This is too much flattery.
00:45:32I forget
00:45:32what we are to have next.
00:45:35Turning to the bill.
00:45:38The name of Anne Elliot,
00:45:41said he,
00:45:42has long had an interesting
00:45:44sound to me.
00:45:47Very long
00:45:48has it possessed a charm
00:45:49over my fancy,
00:45:51and if I dared,
00:45:52I would breathe my wishes
00:45:54that the name
00:45:55might never change.
00:45:59Such she believed
00:46:01were his words,
00:46:01but scarcely had she received
00:46:03their sound
00:46:04than her attention
00:46:05was caught by other sounds
00:46:06immediately behind her,
00:46:07which rendered
00:46:08everything else trivial.
00:46:11Anne's eyes
00:46:12had caught
00:46:12the right direction
00:46:13and distinguished
00:46:15Captain Wentworth
00:46:16standing among
00:46:17a cluster of men
00:46:18at a little distance.
00:46:21As her eyes
00:46:22fell on him,
00:46:23his seemed
00:46:24to be withdrawn
00:46:25from her.
00:46:27When able
00:46:28to turn and look
00:46:29as she had done
00:46:30before,
00:46:31she found herself
00:46:32accosted
00:46:33by Captain Wentworth
00:46:34in a reserved
00:46:35yet hurried
00:46:36sort of farewell.
00:46:38He must wish her
00:46:38goodnight.
00:46:39He was going.
00:46:41He should get home
00:46:42as fast as he could.
00:46:44Is not this song
00:46:46worth staying for?
00:46:47said Anne,
00:46:48suddenly struck
00:46:49by an idea
00:46:49which made her
00:46:50yet more anxious
00:46:51to be encouraging.
00:46:53No,
00:46:53he replied impressively.
00:46:55There is nothing
00:46:56worth my staying for.
00:46:57And he was gone.
00:46:59Directly.
00:47:01Jealousy
00:47:01of Mr. Elliot.
00:47:04It was the only
00:47:06intelligible motive.
00:47:09Captain Wentworth
00:47:10jealous
00:47:10of her affection.
00:47:13For a moment,
00:47:15the gratification
00:47:15was exquisite.
00:47:17But alas,
00:47:19there were
00:47:20very different thoughts
00:47:21to succeed.
00:47:22How was such jealousy
00:47:24to be quieted?
00:47:25How was the truth
00:47:27to reach him?
00:47:29How,
00:47:29in all the peculiar
00:47:31disadvantages
00:47:32of their respective
00:47:33situations,
00:47:34would he ever learn
00:47:36of her real sentiments?
00:47:53Anne
00:47:53was also renewing
00:47:55an acquaintance
00:47:56of a very different
00:47:57description in Bath.
00:47:58Mrs. Smith
00:48:00had shown her kindness
00:48:02in one of those
00:48:03periods of her life
00:48:04when it had been
00:48:05most valuable.
00:48:07Anne had gone
00:48:08unhappy to school,
00:48:10grieving for the loss
00:48:11of a mother
00:48:11whom she had dearly loved,
00:48:13feeling her separation
00:48:14from home,
00:48:16and suffering
00:48:17as a girl of 14
00:48:19of strong sensibility
00:48:20and not high spirits,
00:48:22must suffer
00:48:23at such a time.
00:48:26Mrs. Smith,
00:48:26three years older
00:48:28than herself,
00:48:29had been useful
00:48:30and good to her
00:48:31in a way which
00:48:32had considerably
00:48:32lessened her misery
00:48:34and could never
00:48:35be remembered
00:48:36with indifference.
00:48:38Mrs. Smith
00:48:39was said to have
00:48:40married a man
00:48:40of fortune,
00:48:42and this was all
00:48:42that Anne had known
00:48:43of her,
00:48:44till now that
00:48:45their governess's account
00:48:46brought her situation
00:48:48forward
00:48:48in a more decided
00:48:50but very different
00:48:51form.
00:48:53She was a widow
00:48:54and poor.
00:48:57Her husband
00:48:58had been extravagant
00:48:59and at his death
00:49:00about two years before
00:49:02had left his affairs
00:49:03dreadfully involved.
00:49:06She had come to Bath
00:49:07and was now in lodgings
00:49:09near the hot baths,
00:49:11living in a very humble way,
00:49:13unable even to afford herself
00:49:15the comfort of a servant
00:49:16and, of course,
00:49:18almost excluded
00:49:19from society.
00:49:22Anne recollected
00:49:23with pleasure
00:49:23the next morning
00:49:24of her promise
00:49:25of going to Mrs. Smith,
00:49:27meaning that it should
00:49:28engage her from home
00:49:29at the time
00:49:29when Mr. Elliot
00:49:30would be most likely
00:49:31to call,
00:49:32for to avoid Mr. Elliot
00:49:34was almost
00:49:35a first object.
00:49:37An account
00:49:38of the concert
00:49:39was immediately claimed
00:49:41and Anne's recollection
00:49:42of the concert
00:49:43were quite happy enough
00:49:44to animate her features
00:49:46and make her rejoice
00:49:47to talk of it.
00:49:49After a short silence...
00:49:53Pray,
00:49:55said Mrs. Smith,
00:49:57is Mr. Elliot
00:49:58aware of your acquaintance
00:50:00with me?
00:50:01Does he know
00:50:02that I am in Bath?
00:50:04Mr. Elliot,
00:50:06repeated Anne,
00:50:07looking up surprised,
00:50:08are you acquainted
00:50:09with Mr. Elliot?
00:50:11I have been a good deal
00:50:13acquainted with him,
00:50:15replied Mrs. Smith,
00:50:17gravely.
00:50:19Anne had forgotten,
00:50:21in the interest
00:50:22of her own family concerns,
00:50:23how much had been
00:50:25originally implied
00:50:26against him,
00:50:27but her attention
00:50:28was now called
00:50:29to the explanation
00:50:30of those first hints,
00:50:32and she listened
00:50:33to a recital
00:50:34which proved him
00:50:35very deficient,
00:50:36both in justice
00:50:37and compassion.
00:50:39She learned
00:50:40that Mr. Elliot
00:50:41had led Mrs. Smith's
00:50:43husband into expenses
00:50:44much beyond
00:50:45his fortune.
00:50:47It was not
00:50:48till his death
00:50:48that the wretched
00:50:49state of his affairs
00:50:51was fully known.
00:50:53Mr. Smith
00:50:54had appointed him
00:50:55the executor
00:50:56of his will,
00:50:57but Mr. Elliot
00:50:58would not act,
00:50:59and the difficulties
00:51:00and distress
00:51:01which this refusal
00:51:03had heaped on her,
00:51:04in addition to
00:51:05the inevitable sufferings
00:51:06of her situation,
00:51:07had been such
00:51:08as could not be related
00:51:10without anguish
00:51:11of spirit
00:51:11or listened to
00:51:13without corresponding
00:51:14indignation.
00:51:16It was a dreadful picture
00:51:19of ingratitude
00:51:21and inhumanity,
00:51:22and Anne felt
00:51:23at some moments
00:51:24that no flagrant
00:51:26open crime
00:51:27could have been worse.
00:51:29Anne could just
00:51:30acknowledge within herself
00:51:32such a possibility
00:51:34of having been induced
00:51:35to marry him
00:51:36as made her shudder
00:51:37at the idea
00:51:38of the misery
00:51:39which must have followed.
00:51:41It was just possible
00:51:43that she might have
00:51:44been persuaded
00:51:45by Lady Russell.
00:51:48One day only
00:51:50had passed
00:51:51since Anne's conversation
00:51:52with Mrs. Smith.
00:51:54The Musgroves
00:51:55had recently arrived
00:51:56at their bath lodgings,
00:51:58and Anne had promised
00:51:59to pass the whole day
00:52:00with them
00:52:00from breakfast
00:52:01to dinner.
00:52:03But when she reached
00:52:04the Musgroves lodgings,
00:52:06she found herself
00:52:06neither arriving
00:52:07quite in time
00:52:08nor the first to arrive.
00:52:12The party before her
00:52:13were only Captain Harville
00:52:14and Captain Wentworth.
00:52:16She immediately heard
00:52:17that Mary and Henrietta,
00:52:19too impatient to wait,
00:52:20had gone out
00:52:21the moment the rain
00:52:22had cleared.
00:52:23Captain Wentworth
00:52:24was writing a letter
00:52:26on behalf
00:52:27of Captain Harville.
00:52:30Anne's eyes
00:52:30instinctively glanced
00:52:32towards the distant table.
00:52:34Captain Wentworth's pen
00:52:36ceased to move.
00:52:38His head was raised,
00:52:39pausing,
00:52:40listening,
00:52:41and he turned round
00:52:42the next instant
00:52:43to give a look,
00:52:45one quick,
00:52:46conscious look at her.
00:52:51Captain Harville
00:52:52now left his seat
00:52:53and moved towards Anne.
00:52:56Look here,
00:52:58said he,
00:52:59unfolding a parcel
00:53:00in his hand
00:53:01and displaying
00:53:02a small,
00:53:03miniature painting.
00:53:04Do you know
00:53:06who that is?
00:53:08Certainly,
00:53:09Captain Benwick.
00:53:11Yes.
00:53:12And you may guess
00:53:13who it is for,
00:53:15but it was not
00:53:16done for Louisa.
00:53:18It was done
00:53:19for his first wife,
00:53:20Fanny.
00:53:22And with a quivering lip,
00:53:24he wound up the hole
00:53:25by adding,
00:53:27Poor Fanny.
00:53:28She would not have
00:53:30forgotten him
00:53:31so soon.
00:53:33No,
00:53:34replied Anne
00:53:35in a low,
00:53:35feeling voice.
00:53:37It would not be
00:53:38the nature of any woman
00:53:39who truly loved.
00:53:42Captain Harville
00:53:42smiled as much
00:53:43as to say,
00:53:45Do you claim that
00:53:46for your sex?
00:53:46She answered the question,
00:53:49smiling also.
00:53:51Yes,
00:53:52we certainly do not
00:53:53forget you
00:53:54as soon as you
00:53:55forget us.
00:53:56It is perhaps
00:53:57our fate
00:53:58rather than our merit.
00:53:59We cannot help
00:54:00ourselves.
00:54:02All the privilege
00:54:03I claim for my own
00:54:04sex
00:54:05is that of
00:54:06loving longest
00:54:07when existence
00:54:09or when hope
00:54:10is gone.
00:54:11She could not
00:54:14immediately
00:54:15have uttered
00:54:16another sentence.
00:54:17Her heart
00:54:18was too full,
00:54:19her breath
00:54:20too much
00:54:21oppressed.
00:54:23Captain Wentworth,
00:54:25having sealed
00:54:25his letter
00:54:26with great rapidity,
00:54:27had a hurried,
00:54:29agitated air
00:54:30which showed
00:54:30impatience
00:54:31to be gone.
00:54:33Anne knew not
00:54:33how to understand it.
00:54:36She had had
00:54:36the kindest
00:54:37good morning,
00:54:38God bless you,
00:54:39from Captain Harville,
00:54:40but from him
00:54:41not a word,
00:54:42not a look.
00:54:43He had passed
00:54:44out of the room
00:54:45without a look.
00:54:48She only had time,
00:54:50however,
00:54:50to move closer
00:54:51to the table
00:54:52where he had been writing
00:54:53when footsteps
00:54:54were heard returning.
00:54:56The door opened.
00:54:57It was himself.
00:54:59Instantly crossing
00:55:00the room
00:55:01to the writing table,
00:55:02he drew out a letter
00:55:03from under the scattered paper,
00:55:05placed it before Anne
00:55:06with eyes
00:55:07of glowing entreaty
00:55:08fixed on her
00:55:09for a time
00:55:09and hastily
00:55:10collecting his gloves
00:55:12was again
00:55:12out of the room,
00:55:14the work
00:55:14of an instant.
00:55:17The revolution
00:55:18which one instant
00:55:20had made in Anne
00:55:22was almost
00:55:23beyond expression.
00:55:25The letter,
00:55:27with a direction
00:55:28hardly legible
00:55:29to Miss A.E.,
00:55:30was evidently
00:55:31the one
00:55:32which he had been
00:55:33folding so hastily.
00:55:34while supposedly
00:55:36writing Harville's letter,
00:55:38he had been also
00:55:38addressing her.
00:55:42Sinking into the chair
00:55:43which he had occupied,
00:55:45her eyes devoured
00:55:46the following words.
00:55:48I can listen
00:55:50no longer
00:55:50in silence.
00:55:52I must speak to you
00:55:54by such means
00:55:55as are within my reach.
00:55:57You pierce my soul.
00:55:59I am half agony,
00:56:01half hope.
00:56:03Tell me not
00:56:05that I am too late,
00:56:06that such precious feelings
00:56:08are gone forever.
00:56:10I offer myself
00:56:12to you again
00:56:13with a heart
00:56:14even more your own
00:56:15than when you
00:56:17almost broke it
00:56:18eight years
00:56:20and a half ago.
00:56:22Dare not say
00:56:24that man forgets
00:56:25sooner than woman,
00:56:26that his love
00:56:27has an earlier death.
00:56:29I have loved
00:56:30none but you.
00:56:32You do believe
00:56:33that there is
00:56:34true attachment
00:56:35and constancy
00:56:36among men.
00:56:37Believe it
00:56:38to be most fervent,
00:56:40most undeviating
00:56:41in C.W.
00:56:47Such a letter
00:56:49was not
00:56:50to be soon
00:56:51recovered from.
00:56:53Half and hours
00:56:55solitude
00:56:55and reflection
00:56:56might have
00:56:57tranquilised her
00:56:58but the ten minutes
00:56:59only which now
00:57:00passed before
00:57:01she was interrupted
00:57:02with all the
00:57:03restraints of her
00:57:04situation
00:57:05could do nothing
00:57:07towards tranquility.
00:57:09Every moment
00:57:10rather brought
00:57:11fresh agitation.
00:57:13It was
00:57:14overpowering
00:57:16happiness
00:57:17and before
00:57:20she was beyond
00:57:20the first stage
00:57:21of full sensation,
00:57:22Charles,
00:57:23Charles, Mary
00:57:24and Henrietta
00:57:25all came in.
00:57:26This was dreadful.
00:57:29Would they only
00:57:29have gone away
00:57:30and left her
00:57:31in the quiet
00:57:31possession of that
00:57:32room,
00:57:33it would have
00:57:33been her cure
00:57:34but to have them
00:57:35all standing
00:57:36or waiting
00:57:37around her
00:57:37was distracting
00:57:38and in desperation
00:57:40she said
00:57:40she would go home.
00:57:42Charles,
00:57:43in his real
00:57:44concern
00:57:45and good nature,
00:57:46would go home
00:57:47with her.
00:57:48There was no
00:57:48preventing him.
00:57:49They were on
00:57:52Union Street
00:57:53when a quicker
00:57:54step behind
00:57:55as something
00:57:56of familiar sound
00:57:57gave her
00:57:58two moments
00:57:58preparation
00:57:59for the sight
00:58:00of Captain
00:58:01Wentworth.
00:58:02He joined them
00:58:03but, as if
00:58:05irresolute
00:58:05whether to join
00:58:06or to pass on,
00:58:07said nothing,
00:58:08only looked.
00:58:10He walked
00:58:11by her side.
00:58:13Presently
00:58:14struck by
00:58:15a sudden thought,
00:58:16Charles said,
00:58:17Captain
00:58:19Wentworth,
00:58:20which way
00:58:20are you going?
00:58:22I hardly
00:58:23know,
00:58:24replied Captain
00:58:25Wentworth,
00:58:26surprised.
00:58:27Are you going
00:58:28near Camden
00:58:28Place?
00:58:29Because if you
00:58:30are, I shall
00:58:31have no scruple
00:58:31in asking you
00:58:32to take my
00:58:33place and give
00:58:34Anne your arm
00:58:35to her father's
00:58:36door.
00:58:38There could
00:58:39not be
00:58:40an objection.
00:58:42There could
00:58:43be only the
00:58:43most proper
00:58:44alacrity,
00:58:45a most obliging
00:58:46compliance for
00:58:47public view
00:58:48and smiles
00:58:49reined in
00:58:50and spirits
00:58:52dancing in
00:58:53private rapture.
00:58:55In half a minute,
00:58:57Charles was at
00:58:58the bottom of
00:58:58Union Street again
00:58:59and the other
00:59:00two proceeding
00:59:01together.
00:59:03And soon,
00:59:04words enough
00:59:05had passed
00:59:05between them
00:59:06to decide
00:59:07their direction
00:59:08and prepare it
00:59:09for all the
00:59:10immortality
00:59:11which the
00:59:11happiest
00:59:12recollections
00:59:12of their own
00:59:13future lives
00:59:14could bestow.
00:59:16They exchanged
00:59:18again those
00:59:19feelings and
00:59:20those promises
00:59:21which had once
00:59:22before seemed
00:59:23to secure
00:59:24everything but
00:59:25which had been
00:59:26followed by so
00:59:27many, many
00:59:28years of
00:59:30division and
00:59:31estrangement.
00:59:33They returned
00:59:34again into the
00:59:35past, more
00:59:37exquisitely happy
00:59:38perhaps in their
00:59:39reunion than
00:59:41when it had first
00:59:41been projected
00:59:42more tender
00:59:44more tried
00:59:45more fixed
00:59:46in a knowledge
00:59:47of each other's
00:59:48character, truth
00:59:49and attachment
00:59:50more equal to
00:59:51act
00:59:52more justified
00:59:54in acting.
00:59:56At last
00:59:58Anne was at
00:59:59home again
01:00:00and happier
01:00:01than anyone
01:00:02in that house
01:00:03could have
01:00:03conceived.
01:00:05Who can be in
01:00:07doubt of what
01:00:07followed?
01:00:09When any two
01:00:10young people take
01:00:11it into their
01:00:11heads to marry
01:00:12they are pretty
01:00:14sure by
01:00:14perseverance to
01:00:16carry their
01:00:16point, be they
01:00:18ever so poor
01:00:19or ever so
01:00:20imprudent or
01:00:22ever so little
01:00:22likely to be
01:00:23necessary to
01:00:24each other's
01:00:25ultimate comfort.
01:00:27Sir Walter
01:00:28made no
01:00:29objection.
01:00:31Captain Wentworth
01:00:32with five and
01:00:33twenty thousand
01:00:34pounds and as
01:00:35high in his
01:00:36profession as
01:00:37merit and
01:00:37activity could
01:00:38place him
01:00:39was no longer
01:00:40nobody.
01:00:44The only one
01:00:45among them
01:00:46whose opposition
01:00:47of feeling could
01:00:48excite any
01:00:48serious anxiety
01:00:50was Lady
01:00:51Russell.
01:00:53Anne knew that
01:00:54Lady Russell must
01:00:55be suffering some
01:00:56pain in
01:00:57understanding and
01:00:58relinquishing Mr.
01:00:59Elliot and be
01:01:01making some
01:01:02struggles to
01:01:02become truly
01:01:03acquainted with
01:01:04and do justice
01:01:06to Captain
01:01:07Wentworth.
01:01:08This, however,
01:01:10was what Lady
01:01:11Russell had now
01:01:12to do.
01:01:14She must learn
01:01:15to feel that she
01:01:16had been mistaken
01:01:17with regard to
01:01:18both, that she'd
01:01:19been unfairly
01:01:20influenced by
01:01:21appearances in
01:01:23each.
01:01:24There was nothing
01:01:25less for Lady
01:01:26Russell to do than
01:01:27to admit that
01:01:28she'd been pretty
01:01:29completely wrong
01:01:30and to take up
01:01:32a new set of
01:01:33opinions and
01:01:34of hopes.
01:01:36For Anne
01:01:37was tenderness
01:01:39itself, and
01:01:41she had the
01:01:42full worth of
01:01:43it in Captain
01:01:44Wentworth's
01:01:45affection.
01:01:45piano plays softly
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