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the limited remnant of the earliest patents;
the blessing of beauty as inferior only to the blessing of a baronetcy;
remaining single for his dear daughters' sake.
His two other children were of very inferior value. Mary had acquired a little artificial importance, by becoming Mrs Charles Musgrove;
Anne,
was nobody
ever reading her name in any other page of his favourite work.
All equality of alliance must rest with Elizabeth, for Mary had merely connected herself with an old country family of respectability and large fortune, and had therefore given all the honour and received none: Elizabeth would, one day or other, marry suitably.
himself and Elizabeth as blooming as ever, amidst the wreck of the good looks of everybody else;
how old all the rest of his family and acquaintance were growing. Anne haggard, Mary coarse, every face in the neighbourhood worsting,
the modest drawing-back of youth;
he ought to have been consulted, especially after taking the young man so publicly by the hand;
It had not been possible for him to spend less; he had done nothing but what Sir Walter Elliot was imperiously called on to do;
No; he would never disgrace his name so far. The Kellynch estate should be transmitted whole and entire, as he had received it.
could not be put up with, were not to be borne.
spurned the idea of its being offered in any manner; forbad the slightest hint being dropped of his having such an intention; and it was only on the supposition of his being spontaneously solicited by some most unexceptionable applicant, on his own terms, and as a great favour, that he would let it at all.
a more unobjectionable tenant, in all essentials, than Admiral Croft bid fair to be, could hardly offer.
"I have let my house to Admiral Croft," would sound extremely well; very much better than to any mere Mr -- a Mr (save, perhaps, some half dozen in the nation,) always needs a note of explanation. An admiral speaks his own consequence, and, at the same time, can never make a baronet look small. In all their dealings and intercourse, Sir Walter Elliot must ever have the precedence.
a very degrading alliance;
the Admiral to be the best-looking sailor he had ever met with,
if his own man might have had the arranging of his hair, he should not be ashamed of being seen with him any where;
He had never had an idea of throwing himself off; he had feared that he was thrown off, but knew not why, and delicacy had kept him silent.
  • Novel: Persuasion
  • Character: Narrator as Sir Walter Elliott and Elizabeth Elliott as Mr. Elliot
  • Link to text in chapter 15
  • Text ID: 01579
He, who had ever boasted of being an Elliot, and whose feelings, as to connection, were only too strict to suit the unfeudal tone of the present day. He was astonished, indeed, but his character and general conduct must refute it. He could refer Sir Walter to all who knew him;
  • Novel: Persuasion
  • Character: Narrator as Sir Walter Elliott and Elizabeth Elliott as Mr. Elliot
  • Link to text in chapter 15
  • Text ID: 01582
(and not an ill-looking man,
A very fine woman with a large fortune, in love with him!
his very gentlemanlike appearance, his air of elegance and fashion, his good shaped face, his sensible eye; but, at the same time,
but Sir Walter had
she was said to be an excessively pretty woman, beautiful.
his apologies for calling at so unusual an hour,
be received as an acquaintance already.
He had spent his whole solitary evening in the room adjoining theirs; had heard voices, mirth continually; thought they must be a most delightful set of people, longed to be with them, but certainly without the smallest suspicion of his possessing the shadow of a right to introduce himself. If he had but asked who the party were! The name of Musgrove would have told him enough.
But he must not be addressing his reflections to Anne alone:
he was soon diffused again among the others, and it was only at intervals that he could return to Lyme.
Having alluded to
he must hear the whole.
he had looked at her with some earnestness.
their being nothing in themselves,
as a family connexion, as good company, as those who would collect good company around them, they had their value.
in having been wished for, regretted, and at the same time honoured for staying away in such a cause.
her a most extraordinary young woman; in her temper, manners, mind, a model of female excellence.
whether the Crofts travelled with four horses, and whether they were likely to be situated in such a part of Bath as it might suit Miss Elliot and himself to visit in;
Lady Dalrymple would be most happy to take them home, and would call for them in a few minutes.
his cousin Anne's boots were rather the thickest.
was grieved to have kept her waiting, and anxious to get her away without further loss of time and before the rain increased;
He begged her pardon, but she must be applied to, to explain Italian again. Miss Carteret was very anxious to have a general idea of what was next to be sung.
if baronetcies were saleable, anybody should have his for fifty pounds, arms and motto, name and livery included;
he was really going out of Bath the next morning, going early, and
he would be gone the greater part of two days.
his superiority of appearance might be not unfairly balanced against her superiority of rank;