have seen him and be seeing him perhaps daily his direct holidays might with justice be instantly given to the sister who had been his best correspondent through a period of seven years and the uncle who had done most for his support and advancement and accordingly the reply to her reply fixing a very early day for his arrival came as soon as possible and scarcely ten days had passed since had been in the agitation of her first dinner visit when she found herself in an agitation of a higher nature � watching in the hall in the on the stairs for the first sound of the carriage which was to bring her a brother it came happily while she was thus waiting and there being neither ceremony nor to delay the moment of meeting she was with him park as lie entered the house and the first minutes of exquisite feeling had no interruption and no witnesses unless the servants chiefly intent upon opening the proper doors could be called such this was exactly what sir thomas and had been separately at as each proved to the other by the sympathetic alacrity with which they both advised mrs s continuing where she was instead of rushing out into the hall as soon as the noises of the arrival reached them william and soon showed themselves and sir thomas had the pleasure of receiving in his certainly a very different person from the one he had equipped seven years ago but a young man of an open pleasant countenance and frank but feeling and respectful manners and such as confirmed him his friend it was long before could recover from the happiness of such an hour as was formed by the last thirty minutes of expectation and the first of it was some time even before her happiness could be said to make her happy before the disappointment inseparable from the alteration of person had vanished and she could see in him the same william as before and talk to him as her heart had been yearning to do through many a past year that time however did gradually come forwarded by an affection on his side as warm as her own and much less by refinement or self distrust she was the first object of his love but it was a love which his stronger spirits and bolder temper made it as park natural for him to express as to feel on the morrow they were walking together with true enjoyment and every succeeding morrow renewed a a which sir thomas could not hut with complacency even before had pointed it out to him excepting the moments of peculiar delight which any marked or for instance of s consideration of her in the last few months had excited had known so much felicity in her life as in this equal fearless intercourse with the brother and friend who was opening all his heart to her telling her all his hopes and fears plans and respecting that long thought of dearly earned and justly valued blessing of promotion � who could give her direct and minute information of the father and mother brothers and sisters of whom she very seldom heard � who was interested in all the comforts and all the little hardships of her home at ready to think of every member of that home as she directed or only by a less scrupulous opinion and more noisy abuse of their aunt � and with whom perhaps the dearest indulgence of the whole all the evil and good of their earliest years could be gone over again and every former united pain and pleasure with the recollection an advantage this a of love in which even the tie is beneath the children of the same family the same blood with the same first associations and habits have some means of enjoyment in their power which no subsequent connections can supply and it must be by a long and unnatural by a divorce which no subsequent connection can justify if such precious remains of the earliest are ever entirely too often alas it is so love sometimes almost everything is at others worse than nothing but with william and price it was still a sentiment in all its prime and freshness wounded by no opposition of interest cooled by no separate attachment and feeling the influence of time and absence only in its increase an affection so amiable was advancing each in the opinion of all who had hearts to value anything good henry was as much struck with it as any he honored the warm hearted blunt fondness of the young sailor which led him to say with his hand stretched towards s head do you know i begin to like that queer fashion already though when i first heard of such things being done in england i could not believe it and when mrs brown and the other women at the s at appeared in the same trim i thought they were mad but can reconcile me to anything � and saw with lively admiration the glow of s cheek the brightness of her eye the deep interest the absorbed attention while her brother was describing any of the imminent or terrific scenes which such a period at sea must supply it was a picture which henry had moral taste enough to value s attractions increased � increased for the sensibility vol i � park which her complexion and her countenance was an attraction in itself he was no longer in doubt of the of her heart she had feelings genuine feeling it would be something to be loved by such a girl to excite the first of her young mind she interested him more than he had foreseen a fortnight was not enough his stay became indefinite william was often called on by his uncle to be the his were amusing in themselves to 