an opportunity and another twenty years absence perhaps begun park s plans were affected by this journey this absence of s he too had a sacrifice to make to park as well as he had intended about this time to be going to london but he could not leave his father and mother just when everybody else of most importance to their comfort was leaving them and with an effort felt but not boasted of he delayed for a week or two longer a journey which he was looking forward to with the hope of its fixing his happiness forever he told of it she knew so much already that she must know everything it made the substance of one other confidential discourse about miss and was the more affected from feeling it to be the last time in which miss s name would ever be mentioned between them with any remains of liberty once afterwards she was alluded to by him lady had been telling her niece in the evening to write to her soon and often and promising to be a good correspondent herself and at a moment then added in a whisper and i shall write to you when i have anything worth writing about anything to say that i think you will like to hear and that you will not hear so soon from any other quarter had she doubted his meaning while she listened the glow in his face when she looked up at him would have been decisive for this letter she must try to arm herself that a letter from should be a subject of terror she began to feel that she had not yet park gone through all the changes of opinion and sentiment which the progress of time and of circumstances occasion in this world of changes the of the human mind had not yet been exhausted by her poor though going as she did willingly and eagerly the last evening at park must still be wretchedness her heart was completely sad at parting she had tears for every room in the house much more for every beloved she clung to her aunt because she would miss her she kissed the hand of her uncle with struggling sobs because she had displeased him and as for she could neither speak nor look nor think when the last moment came with him and it was not till it was over that she knew he was giving her the affectionate farewell of a brother all this passed over night for the journey was to begin very early in the morning and when the small diminished party met at breakfast william and were talked of as already advanced one stage chapter xiv the novelty of travelling and the happiness of being with william soon produced their natural effect on s spirits when park was fairly left behind and by the time their first stage was ended and they were to quit sir thomas s carriage she was able to take leave of the old coachman and send back proper messages with cheerful looks of pleasant talk between the brother and sister there was no end everything supplied an amusement to the high glee of william s mind and he was full of and joke in the intervals of their higher toned subjects all of which ended if they did not begin in praise of the conjectures how she would be employed schemes for an action with some superior force which � supposing the first lieutenant out of the way and william was not very merciful to the first lieutenant � was to give himself the next step as soon as possible or speculations upon prize money which was to be generously distributed at home with only the of enough to make the little cottage comfortable in which he and were to pass all their middle and latter life together s immediate concerns as far as they involved mr made no part of their con park william knew what had passed and from his heart lamented that his sister s feelings should be so cold towards a man whom he must consider as the first of human characters hut he was of an age to he all for love and therefore unable to blame and knowing her wish on the subject he would not distress her by the slightest allusion she had reason to suppose herself not yet forgotten by mr she had heard repeatedly from his sister within the three weeks which had passed since their leaving and in each letter there had been a few lines from himself warm and determined like his speeches it was a correspondence which found quite as unpleasant as she had feared miss s style of writing lively and affectionate was itself an evil independent of what she was thus forced into reading from the brother s pen for would never rest till she had read the chief of the letter to him and then she had to listen to his admiration of her language and the warmth of her there had in fact been so much of message of allusion of recollection so much of in every letter that could not but suppose it meant for him to hear and to find herself forced into a purpose of that kind compelled into a correspondence which was bringing her the addresses of the man she did not love and obliging her to administer to the adverse passion of the man she did was cruelly here too her present removal promised advantage when no longer under the same roof with she park trusted that miss would have no motive for writing strong enough to overcome the trouble and that at their correspondence would into nothing with such thoughts as these among ten hundred others proceeded in her journey safely and cheerfully and as as could be hoped in the dirty month of february they entered oxford but she could 