Austen Said:

Charles might not be learned and bookish enough to please Lady Russell, and that therefore, she persuaded Anne to refuse him."

Mary had shewn herself disobliging to him,

a seat to any lady who might be particularly tired; it would save her a full mile, and they were going through Uppercross.

coming to Lyme for a month, did him more good than all the medicine he took;

being by the sea, always makes him feel young again.

her husband would have quite walking enough by the time he reached home,

Captain Benwick had been seen flying by their house, with a countenance which showed something to be wrong; and they had set off immediately, informed and directed as they passed, towards the spot.

She must be taken to their house; all must go to their house; and await the surgeon's arrival there.

Captain Benwick must give up his room to them, and get another bed elsewhere; and the whole was settled. They were only concerned that the house could accommodate no more;

they could hardly bear to think of not finding room for two or three besides, supposing they might wish to stay; though, with regard to any attendance on Miss Musgrove, there need not be the least uneasiness in leaving her to Mrs Harville's care entirely. Mrs Harville was a very experienced nurse, and her nursery-maid, who had lived with her long, and gone about with her everywhere, was just such another. Between these two, she could want no possible attendance by day or night.

He would be as little incumbrance as possible to Captain and Mrs Harville; but as to leaving his sister in such a state, he neither ought, nor would.

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.

Louisa was much the same. No symptoms worse than before had appeared.

A speedy cure must not be hoped, but everything was going on as well as the nature of the case admitted.

themselves to be going away for a few weeks, to visit their connexions in the north of the county, and probably might not be at home again before Lady Russell would be removing to Bath.

They had left Louisa beginning to sit up; but her head, though clear, was exceedingly weak, and her nerves susceptible to the highest extreme of tenderness; and though she might be pronounced to be altogether doing very well, it was still impossible to say when she might be able to bear the removal home; and her father and mother, who must return in time to receive their younger children for the Christmas holidays, had hardly a hope of being allowed to bring her with them.

They had been all in lodgings together. Mrs Musgrove had got Mrs Harville's children away as much as she could, every possible supply from Uppercross had been furnished, to lighten the inconvenience to the Harvilles, while the Harvilles had been wanting them to come to dinner every day; and in short, it seemed to have been only a struggle on each side as to which should be most disinterested and hospitable.

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.

His spirits had been greatly recovering lately as might be expected. As Louisa improved, he had improved, and he was now quite a different creature from what he had been the first week. He had not seen Louisa; and

that he did not press for it at all; and, on the contrary, seemed to have a

He had talked of

but,

Captain Benwick seemed much more disposed to ride over to Kellynch.

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.

Colonel Wallis had known Mr Elliot long, had been well acquainted also with his wife, had perfectly understood the whole story. She was certainly not a woman of family, but well educated, accomplished, rich, and excessively in love with his friend. There had been the charm. She had sought him. Without that attraction, not all her money would have tempted Elliot,

her having been a very fine woman.

"now Miss Anne was come, she could not suppose herself at all wanted;"

is so afraid of her being fatigued by the journey,

the Crofts are going to Bath almost immediately; they think the Admiral gouty.

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.

wonders what Captain Wentworth will say;

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.

They were come to Bath for a few days with Mrs Musgrove, and were at the White Hart.

Captain Harville's wanting to come to Bath on business. He had begun to talk of it a week ago; and by way of doing something, as shooting was over, Charles had proposed coming with him, and Mrs Harville had seemed to like the idea of it very much, as an advantage to her husband; but Mary could not bear to be left, and had made herself so unhappy about it, that for a day or two everything seemed to be in suspense, or at an end. But then, it had been taken up by his father and mother. His mother had some old friends in Bath whom she wanted to see; it was thought a good opportunity for Henrietta to come and buy wedding-clothes for herself and her sister; and, in short, it ended in being his mother's party, that everything might be comfortable and easy to Captain Harville; and he and Mary were included in it by way of general convenience. They had arrived late the night before. Mrs Harville, her children, and Captain Benwick, remained with Mr Musgrove and Louisa at Uppercross.

very recently, (since Mary's last letter to herself), Charles Hayter had been applied to by a friend to hold a living for a youth who could not possibly claim it under many years;

on the strength of his present income, with almost a certainty of something more permanent long before the term in question, the two families had consented to the young people's wishes,

their marriage was likely to take place in a few months, quite as soon as Louisa's.

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.

he would go to the play to-morrow if nobody else would.

Mary and Henrietta, too impatient to wait, had gone out the moment it had cleared, but would be back again soon,