the evening there was another parting henry came mid j� at some time with them and her spirits not previously in the strongest state her heart was softened for a while towards him � he really seemed to feel quite unlike his usual self he scarcely said anything he was evidently oppressed and must grieve for him though hoping she might never see him again till he were the husband of some other woman when it came to the moment of parting he would take her hand he would not be denied it he said nothing however or nothing that she heard and when he had left the room she was better pleased that such a token of friendship had passed on the morrow the were chapter mb gone sir thomas s next object was that he should be missed and he entertained great hope that his niece would find a blank in the loss of those attentions which at the time she had felt or fancied an evil she had tasted of in its most flattering form and he did hope that the loss of it the sinking again into nothing would awaken very wholesome regrets in her mind he watched her with this idea but he could hardly tell with what success he hardly knew whether there were any difference in her spirits or not she was always so gentle and retiring that her emotions were beyond his he did not understand her he felt that he did not and therefore applied to to tell him how she stood affected on the present occasion and whether she were more or less happy than she had been did not discern any symptom of regret and thought his father a little unreasonable in supposing the first three or four days could produce any what surprised was that s sister the friend and companion who had been so much to her should not be more visibly regretted he wondered that spoke so of her and liad so little to say of her concern at this separation alas it was this sister this and companion who was now the chief of s comfort if she could have believed mary s future fate as with as she was determined the brother s should be if she could have hoped her return thither to be as distant as she was much inclined to think his she would have been light of heart indeed but the more she recollected and observed the more deeply was she convinced that everything was now in a fairer train for miss s marrying than it had ever been before on his side the inclination was stronger on hers less his objections the scruples of his integrity seemed all done away � nobody could tell how and the doubts and of her ambition were equally got over � and equally without apparent reason it could only be to increasing attachment his good and her bad feelings yielded to love and such love must unite them he was to go to town as soon as some business relative to was completed � perhaps within a fortnight � he talked of going he loved to talk of it and when once with her again could not doubt the rest her acceptance must be as certain as his offer and yet there were bad feelings still remaining which made the prospect of it most sorrowful to her she believed of self in their very last conversation miss in spite of some amiable sensations and much per park kindness had still been miss still shown a mind led astray and bewildered and without any suspicion of being so darkened yet itself light she might love but she did not deserve by any other sentiment believed there was scarcely a second feeling in common between them and she may be forgiven by older for looking on the chance of miss s future improvement as nearly desperate for thinking that if s influence in this season of love had already done so little in clearing her judgment and her notions his worth would be finally wasted on her even in years of matrimony experience might have hoped more for any young people so and would not have denied to miss s nature that of the general nature of women which would lead her to adopt the opinions of the man she loved and respected as her own but as such were s she suffered very much from them and could never speak of miss without pain sir thomas meanwhile went on with his own hopes and his own observations still feeling a right by all his knowledge of human nature to expect to see the effect of the loss of power and consequence on bis niece s spirits and the past attentions of the lover producing a craving for their return and he was soon afterwards able to account for his not yet completely and seeing all this by the prospect of another visitor whose approach he could allow to be quite enough to support the spirits lie was watching william had a ten days leave of absence to be given to and was coming the happiest of because the latest made to show his happiness and describe his uniform he came and he would have been delighted to show his uniform there too had not cruel custom its appearance except on duty so the uniform remained at and that before had any chance of seeing it all its own freshness and all the freshness of its s feelings must be worn away it would be sunk into a of disgrace for what can be more or more worthless than the uniform of a lieutenant who has been a lieutenant a year or two and sees others made before him so reasoned till his father made him the of a scheme which placed s chance of seeing the second lieutenant of h m s in all 