glance to see a t courtesy from elizabeth herself this though late and r and was yet better nothing and her spirits improved after talking however of the weather and bath and the their conversation began to flag and so little was said at last that she was expecting him to go every moment but he did not he seemed in no hurry to leave her and presently with renewed spirit with a little smile a little glow he said � i have hardly seen you our day at i am afraid you must have suffered from the shock and the more from its not overpowering you at the time she assured him that she had not it was a frightful hour said he a frightful day and he passed his hand across his eyes as if e remembrance were still too painful but in a moment half smiling again added the day has produced some effects however � has had some consequences which must be considered as the very reverse of frightful when you had the presence of mind to suggest that would be the person to fetch a surgeon you could have little idea of his being eventually one of those most concerned in her recovery certainly i could have none but it appears � i should hope it would be a very happy match there are on both good principles good temper persuasion yes said he looking not exactly forward but there i think ends the resemblance with all my soul i wish them happy and rejoice over every circumstance in favour of it they have no difficulties to contend with at home no opposition no caprice no the are like themselves most and kindly only anxious with true parental hearts to promote their daughter s comfort all this is much very much in favour of their happiness more than perhaps he stopped a sudden recollection seemed to occur and to give him some taste of that emotion which was anne s cheeks and fixing her eyes on the ground after clearing his throat however he proceeded � i confess that i do think there is a too great a and in a point no less essential than mind i regard as a very amiable sweet tempered girl and not deficient in understanding but is something more he is a clever man a reading man and i confess that i do consider his himself to her with some surprise had it been the effect of gratitude had he learnt to love her because he believed her to be preferring him it would have been another thing but i have no reason to suppose it so it seems on the contrary to have been a perfectly spontaneous feeling on his side and this surprises me a man like him in his situation with a heart pierced wounded almost broken was a very superior creature and his attachment to her was indeed attachment a man does not recover from such a devotion of the heart to such a woman he ought not � he does not either from the consciousness however that his friend had recovered or from some other consciousness he went no farther and anne who in spite of the agitated voice in which the latter part had been uttered and in spite of all the various noises of the room the almost ceaseless of the door and ceaseless of persons walking through had distinguished every word was struck gratified confused and beginning to breathe very quick and feel a hundred things in a moment it was for her to enter on such a subject and yet after a pauses persuasion feeling tlie necessity of speaking and having not the smallest wish for a total change she only so far as to say � you were a good while at i think f about a fortnight i could not leave it till s doing well was quite ascertained i had been too deeply concerned in the mischief to be soon at peace it had been my doing � solely mine she would not have been obstinate if i had not been weak the country round is very fine i walked and rode a great deal and the more i saw the more i found to admire i should very much like to see again said anne indeed i should not have supposed that you could have found any thing in to inspire such a feeling the horror and distress you were ed in � the stretch of mind the wear of spirits i i should have thought your last impressions of must have been strong disgust the last few hours were certainly very painful replied anne but when pain is over the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure one does not love a place the less for having suffered in it unless it has been all nothing but suffering � which was by no means the case at we were only in anxiety and distress during the last two hours and previously there had been a great deal of enjoyment so much novelty and beauty i have travelled so little that every fresh place would be interesting to me � but there is real beauty at and in short with a faint blush at some recollections altogether my impressions of the place are very agreeable as she ceased the entrance door opened again and the very party appeared for whom they were waiting lady lady was the rejoicing sound nd with all the eagerness with anxious elegance sir walter and his two ladies stepped forward to meet her lady and miss escorted by mr and colonel who had happened to arrive nearly at the same instant advanced into the room the others joined them and it was a group in which anne found herself also necessarily included she was divided from captain their interesting almost too interesting conversation ok must be broken up for a time 