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.

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

she was convinced of sailors having more worth and warmth than any other set of men in England;

they only knew how to live, and they only deserved to be respected and loved.

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.

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

most willing, ready, happy to remain.

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.

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:

help nurse dear Miss Louisa.

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.

who had been frequenting Uppercross.

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.

the man who at twenty-three had seemed to understand somewhat of the value of an Anne Elliot, should, eight years afterwards, be charmed by a Louisa Musgrove.

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'.

This was handsome,

it had been the consequence of much thoughtlessness and much imprudence; that its effects were most alarming, and that it was frightful to think, how long Miss Musgrove's recovery might yet be doubtful, and how liable she would still remain to suffer from the concussion hereafter!