Austen Said:

He declares himself, that

and,

that

Now, I cannot help thinking it a pity that he does not live entirely by the sea. I do think he had better leave Uppercross entirely, and fix at Lyme. Do not you, Anne? Do not you agree with me, that it is the best thing he could do, both for himself and Mrs Shirley? She has cousins here, you know, and many acquaintance, which would make it cheerful for her, and I am sure she would be glad to get to a place where she could have medical attendance at hand, in case of his having another seizure. Indeed I think it quite melancholy to have such excellent people as Dr and Mrs Shirley, who have been doing good all their lives, wearing out their last days in a place like Uppercross, where, excepting our family, they seem shut out from all the world. I wish his friends would propose it to him. I really think they ought. And, as to procuring a dispensation, there could be no difficulty at his time of life, and with his character. My only doubt is, whether anything could persuade him to leave his parish. He is so very strict and scrupulous in his notions; over-scrupulous I must say. Do not you think, Anne, it is being over-scrupulous? Do not you think it is quite a mistaken point of conscience, when a clergyman sacrifices his health for the sake of duties, which may be just as well performed by another person? And at Lyme too, only seventeen miles off, he would be near enough to hear, if people thought there was anything to complain of."

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.

"I wish,"

"I wish Lady Russell lived at Uppercross, and were intimate with Dr Shirley. I have always heard of Lady Russell as a woman of the greatest influence with everybody! I always look upon her as able to persuade a person to anything! I am afraid of her, as I have told you before, quite afraid of her, because she is so very clever; but I respect her amazingly, and wish we had such a neighbour at Uppercross."

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."

"I am determined I will:"

"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.

would have been ashamed to have it known how much more she was thinking of Lyme and Louisa Musgrove, and all her acquaintance there; how much more interesting to her was the home and the friendship of the Harvilles and Captain Benwick, than her own father's house in Camden Place, or her own sister's intimacy with Mrs Clay.

"I think you are very likely to suffer the most of the two; your feelings are less reconciled to the change than mine. By remaining in the neighbourhood, I am become inured to it."

so very fortunate in his tenants, felt the parish to be so sure of a good example, and the poor of the best attention and relief,

they were gone who deserved not to stay, and that Kellynch Hall had passed into better hands than its owners'.

"These rooms ought to belong only to us. Oh, how fallen in their destination! How unworthily occupied! An ancient family to be so driven away! Strangers filling their place!"

This was handsome,

"Another time, Sir, I thank you, not now."

Everything was safe enough,

Charles and Mary had remained at Lyme much longer after Mr and Mrs Musgrove's going than

they could have been at all wanted,

"There we differ, Mary,"

"I think Lady Russell would like him. I think she would be so much pleased with his mind, that she would very soon see no deficiency in his manner."

she might see him or hear of him.