Austen Said:

She was in the carriage, and

he had placed her there, that his will and his hands had done it,

she owed it to his perception of her fatigue, and his resolution to give her rest.

This little circumstance seemed the completion of all that had gone before.

She understood him. He could not forgive her, but he could not be unfeeling. Though condemning her for the past, and considering it with high and unjust resentment, though perfectly careless of her, and though becoming attached to another, still he could not see her suffer, without the desire of giving her relief. It was a remainder of former sentiment; it was an impulse of pure, though unacknowledged friendship; it was a proof of his own warm and amiable heart,

her keener powers might not consider either of them as quite worthy of her brother;

their style of driving, which she imagined no bad representation of the general guidance of their affairs,

It would place her in the same village with Captain Wentworth, within half a mile of him; they would have to frequent the same church, and there must be intercourse between the two families. This was against her; but on the other hand, he spent so much of his time at Uppercross, that in removing thence she might be considered rather as leaving him behind, than as going towards him; and, upon the whole,

she must, on this interesting question, be the gainer, almost as certainly as in her change of domestic society, in leaving poor Mary for Lady Russell.

it might be possible for her to avoid ever seeing Captain Wentworth at the Hall: those rooms had witnessed former meetings which would be brought too painfully before her;

They did not like each other, and no renewal of acquaintance now could do any good; and were Lady Russell to see them together, she might think that he had too much self-possession, and she too little.

she had been stationed quite long enough. Her usefulness to little Charles would always give some sweetness to the memory of her two months' visit there, but he was gaining strength apace, and she had nothing else to stay for.

"And yet,"

"he has not, perhaps, a more sorrowing heart than I have. I cannot believe his prospects so blighted for ever. He is younger than I am; younger in feeling, if not in fact; younger as a man. He will rally again, and be happy with another."

"These would have been all my friends,"

she left great happiness behind her when they quitted the house;

she thought it was the misfortune of poetry to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely; and

the strong feelings which alone could estimate it truly were the very feelings which ought to taste it but sparingly.

at the idea of her coming to Lyme to preach patience and resignation to a young man whom she had never seen before;

like many other great moralists and preachers, she had been eloquent on a point in which her own conduct would ill bear examination.

saw how very desirable it was that he should have some active, respectable young man, as a resident curate,

at the advantage of such resident curate's being married.

the course of events and the new interests of Henrietta's views should have placed her friend at all in favour with any of the Musgrove family;

such another woman were at Uppercross,

she should like to know who he was.

their father and Mr Elliot had not, for many years, been on such terms as to make the power of attempting an introduction at all desirable.

She would not, upon any account, mention her having met with him the second time; luckily Mary did not much attend to their having passed close by him in their earlier walk, but she would have felt quite ill-used by Anne's having actually run against him in the passage, and received his very polite excuses, while she had never been near him at all;

no, that cousinly little interview must remain a perfect secret.

"No,"

"that I can easily believe to be impossible; but in time, perhaps -- we know what time does in every case of affliction, and you must remember, Captain Harville, that your friend may yet be called a young mourner -- only last summer, I understand."

"And not known to him, perhaps, so soon."

"Go to him, go to him,"

"for heaven's sake go to him. I can support her myself. Leave me, and go to him. Rub her hands, rub her temples; here are salts; take them, take them."

A surgeon!"

"Captain Benwick, would not it be better for Captain Benwick? He knows where a surgeon is to be found."

"Had not she better be carried to the inn? Yes, I am sure: carry her gently to the inn."

most willing, ready, happy to remain.

"It was what she had been thinking of, and wishing to be allowed to do. A bed on the floor in Louisa's room would be sufficient for her, if Mrs Harville would but think so."

it might, perhaps, be the occasion of continuing their acquaintance

she was valued only as she could be useful to Louisa.

he would not long be so unjust as to suppose she would shrink unnecessarily from the office of a friend.

whether it ever occurred to him now, to question the justness of his own previous opinion as to the universal felicity and advantage of firmness of character; and whether it might not strike him that, like all other qualities of the mind, it should have its proportions and limits.

it could scarcely escape him to feel that a persuadable temper might sometimes be as much in favour of happiness as a very resolute character.

She did:

A few days had made a change indeed!

If Louisa recovered, it would all be well again. More than former happiness would be restored. There could not be a doubt,

there was none, of what would follow her recovery. A few months hence, and the room now so deserted, occupied but by her silent, pensive self, might be filled again with all that was happy and gay, all that was glowing and bright in prosperous love, all that was most unlike Anne Elliot!

Scenes had passed in Uppercross which made it precious. It stood the record of many sensations of pain, once severe, but now softened; and of some instances of relenting feeling, some breathings of friendship and reconciliation, which could never be looked for again, and which could never cease to be dear.

connecting them with the silent admiration of her cousin, and

that she was to be blessed with a second spring of youth and beauty.