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she should not have a day's health all the autumn,
she might be able to leave it by dinner-time.
it a great shame that such a present was not made,
Mrs Musgrove was very apt not to give her the precedence that was her due, when they dined at the Great House with other families;
did not see any reason why she was to be considered so much at home as to lose her place.
That she was coming to apologize, and that they should have to spend the evening by themselves,
her poor son gone for ever,
it would be quite a misfortune to have the existing connection between the families renewed -- very sad for herself and her children.
Louisa had got a much better somewhere,
Louisa had found a better seat somewhere else, and she would go on till she overtook her.
her husband would have quite walking enough by the time he reached home,
Anne, who was nothing to Louisa, while she was her sister, and had the best right to stay in Henrietta's stead! Why was not she to be as useful as Anne? And to go home without Charles, too, without her husband! No, it was too unkind.
when they dined with the Harvilles there had been only a maid-servant to wait, and at first Mrs Harville had always given Mrs Musgrove precedence; but then, she had received so very handsome an apology from her on finding out whose daughter she was, and there had been so much going on every day, there had been so many walks between their lodgings and the Harvilles, and she had got books from the library, and changed them so often, that the balance had certainly been much in favour of Lyme. She had been taken to Charmouth too, and she had bathed, and she had gone to church, and there were a great many more people to look at in the church at Lyme than at Uppercross;
their meeting with, or rather missing, Mr Elliot so extraordinarily.
after all she had gone through, nothing was so likely to do her good as a little quiet cheerfulness at home.
Louisa was now recovering apace. Her mother could even think of her being able to join their party at home, before her brothers and sisters went to school again. The Harvilles had promised to come with her and stay at Uppercross, whenever she returned. Captain Wentworth was gone, for the present, to see his brother in Shropshire.
"now Miss Anne was come, she could not suppose herself at all wanted;"
is so afraid of her being fatigued by the journey,
to convey anything to you;
she knew nothing of the matter.
her husband feels a good deal on his poor sister's account; but, however, Louisa is a great favourite with both.
Mrs Charles Musgrove, and her fine little boys,
But the rain was also a mere trifle
her boots were so thick! much thicker than Miss Anne's;
it is to be put into the marriage articles when you and Mr Elliot marry, that your father is not to marry Mrs Clay.
still more positively that it was Mr Elliot,
to come and look for herself,
her perfect readiness for the play, if Henrietta and all the others liked it,
however determined to go to Camden Place herself, she should not think herself very well used, if they went to the play without her.
the strictest injunctions had been left with Mrs Musgrove to keep her there till they returned.
there had been no fall in the case;
Anne had not at any time lately slipped down, and got a blow on her head;
she was perfectly convinced of having had no fall;
finding her better at night.
It was creditable to have a sister married,
with having been greatly instrumental to the connexion, by keeping Anne with her in the autumn; and as her own sister must be better than her husband's sisters, it was very agreeable that Captain Wentworth should be a richer man than either Captain Benwick or Charles Hayter.
Anne had no Uppercross Hall before her, no landed estate, no headship of a family; and if they could but keep Captain Wentworth from being made a baronet, she would not change situations with Anne.