was going on led me to act by them in a way that i must always be ashamed of and i was very foolishly tempted to say and do many things which may well lay me open to unpleasant conjectures but i have no other reason to regret that i was not in the secret earlier cried he looking eagerly at her are you indeed � but checking no no i understand you � forgive me � i am pleased that you can say even so much he is no object of regret indeed i and it will not be very long i hope before that becomes the acknowledgment of more than your reason fortunate that your affections were not farther entangled � i could never i confess from your manners assure myself as to the degree of what you felt � i could only be certain that there was a preference � and a preference which i never believed him to deserve he is a disgrace to the name of man and is he to be rewarded with that sweet young woman � jane jane you will be a miserable creature mr said trying to be but really confused � i am in a very extraordinary situation i cannot let you continue in your error and yet perhaps since my manners gave such an impression i have as much reason to be ashamed of that i never have been at all attached to the person we are speaking of as it might be natural for a woman to feel in exactly the reverse but i never have he in perfect silence she wished him to speak but he would not she supposed she must say more before she were entitled to his but it was a hard case to be obliged still to lower herself in his opinion she went on however � i have very little to say for my own conduct i was tempted by his attentions and allowed myself to appear pleased an old story probably � a case � and no more than has happened to hundreds of my sex before and yet it may not be the more in one who sets up as i do for understanding many circumstances assisted the temptation he was the son of mr � he was continually here � i always found him very pleasant � and in short for with a sigh let me swell out the causes ever so they all centre in this at last � my vanity was flattered and i allowed his attentions however for some time indeed i have had no idea of their meaning any thing i thought them a habit a trick nothing that called for seriousness on my side he has imposed on me but he has not injured me i have never been attached to him and now i can tolerably comprehend his behaviour he never wished to attach me it was merely a blind to conceal his real situation with another it was his object to blind all about him and no one i am sure could be more effectually blinded than except that i was not blinded � that it was my good fortune � that in short i was somehow or other safe from him she had hoped for an answer here � for a few words to say that her conduct was at least intelligible but he was silent and as far as she could judge deep in thought at last and tolerably in his usual tone he said � i have never had a high opinion of frank i can suppose however that i may have under him my acquaintance with him has been but trifling and even if i have not under him hitherto he may yet turn out well with such a woman he has a i have no motive for wishing him and for her sake whose happiness will be involved in his good character and conduct i shall certainly wish him well i have no doubt of their being happy together said i them to be very and very sincerely attached he is a most fortunate man returned mr with energy so early in life � at three and twenty � a period when if a man chooses a wife he generally chooses ill at three and twenty to have drawn such a prize what years of felicity that man in all human calculation has before him assured of the love of such a woman � the disinterested love for jane s character for her every thing in his favour � equality of situation � i mean as far as regards society and all the habits and manners that are important equality in every point but one � and that one since the purity of her heart is not to be doubted such as must increase his for it will be his to bestow the only advantages she wants a man would always wish to give a woman a better home than the one he takes her from and he who can do it where there is no doubt of her regard must i think be the happiest of mortals frank is indeed the favourite of fortune every thing turns out for his good he meets with a yo ng woman at a watering place gains her affection cannot even weary her by treatment � and had he and all his family sought round the world for a perfect wife for him they could not have found her superior his aunt is in the way his aunt dies he has only to speak his friends eager to promote his happiness he has used every � body and they are all delighted to forgive he is a fortunate man indeed you speak as if you envied him and i do envy him � in one respect he is the object of my envy could say no more they seemed to 