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and she declined on her own account with great alacrity --
They were not much interested in anything relative to Anne; but still there were questions enough asked, to make it understood what this old schoolfellow was; and Elizabeth was disdainful, and Sir Walter severe.
said he,
asked Elizabeth.
replied Anne;
observed Sir Walter.
Mrs Clay, who had been present while all this passed, now thought it advisable to leave the room, and
Anne could have said much, and did long to say a little
but her sense of personal respect to her father prevented her. She made no reply. She
Anne kept her appointment; the others kept theirs, and of course
she heard
the next morning
that
Anne had the whole history of all that such an evening could supply from Lady Russell. To her, its greatest interest must be, in having been very much talked of between her friend and Mr Elliot;
He thought
He could meet even Lady Russell in a discussion of her merits; and Anne could not be given to understand so much by her friend, could not know herself to be so highly rated by a sensible man, without many of those agreeable sensations which her friend meant to create.
Lady Russell was now perfectly decided in her opinion of Mr Elliot.
and
was beginning to calculate
She would not speak to Anne with half the certainty she felt on the subject, she would venture on little more than hints of what might be hereafter,
Anne heard her, and made no violent exclamations; she only smiled, blushed, and gently shook her head.
said Lady Russell,
said Anne;
Lady Russell let this pass, and only said in rejoinder,
Anne was obliged to turn away, to rise, to walk to a distant table, and, leaning there in pretended employment, try to subdue the feelings this picture excited. For a few moments her imagination and her heart were bewitched.
The idea of
was a charm which she could not immediately resist.
Lady Russell
said not another word, willing to leave the matter to its own operation; and
believing that,
-- she believed, in short, what Anne did not believe. The same image of Mr Elliot speaking for himself brought Anne to composure again. The charm of Kellynch and of "Lady Elliot" all faded away.
And it was not only that her feelings were still adverse to any man save one; her judgement, on a serious consideration of the possibilities of such a case was against Mr Elliot.
Though they had now been acquainted a month, she could not be satisfied that she really knew his character.
She saw that
that
that
This, to Anne, was a decided imperfection. Her early impressions were incurable. She prized the frank, the open-hearted, the eager character beyond all others. Warmth and enthusiasm did captivate her still.
She felt that
Lady Russell saw either less or more than her young friend, for she saw nothing to excite distrust.
She could not imagine
nor did she ever enjoy
a sweeter feeling than
It was the beginning of February; and Anne, having been a month in Bath, was growing very eager for news from Uppercross and Lyme. She wanted to hear much more than Mary had communicated. It was three weeks since she had heard at all.
She only knew that
that
and she was thinking of them all very intently one evening, when a thicker letter than usual from Mary was delivered to her; and, to quicken the pleasure and surprise, with Admiral and Mrs Croft's compliments.
A circumstance to interest her. They were people whom her heart turned to very naturally.
cried Sir Walter.
Anne could listen no longer; she could not even have told how the poor Admiral's complexion escaped; her letter engrossed her. It had been begun several days back.
So ended the first part, which had been afterwards put into an envelope, containing nearly as much more.

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