Austen Said:

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.

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.

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.

his master was a very rich gentleman, and would be a baronight some day."

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,

Lord Byron's "dark blue seas"

the jar too great;

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.

The head had received a severe contusion, but he had seen greater injuries recovered from: he was by no means hopeless;

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.

The usefulness of her staying! She who had not been able to remain in Louisa's room, or to look at her, without sufferings which made her worse than helpless!

most willing, ready, happy to remain.

it would be much better for him to take a chaise from the inn, and leave Mr Musgrove's carriage and horses to be sent home the next morning early, when there would be the farther advantage of sending an account of Louisa's night.

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:

his intention of returning in the same carriage to Lyme;

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.

help nurse dear Miss Louisa.

The intervals of sense and consciousness were believed to be stronger.

they would go; go to-morrow, fix themselves at the inn, or get into lodgings, as it suited, and there remain till dear Louisa could be moved. They must be taking off some trouble from the good people she was with; they might at least relieve Mrs Harville from the care of her own children;

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.