and she was not at all surprised at the end of it to have their walking party joined by both the miss at mary s particular invitation ua chapter vi had not wanted this visit to to learn that a removal from one set of people to another though at a distance of only three miles will often a total change of conversation opinion and idea she had never been staying there before without being by it or without wishing that other could have her advantage in seeing how unknown or there were the which at hall were treated as of such general and interest yet with all this experience she believed she must now submit to feel that another lesson in the art of knowing our own beyond our own circle was become necessary for her for certainly coming as she did with a heart full of the subject which had been completely occupying both houses in for many weeks she had expected rather more curiosity and sympathy than she found in the separate but very similar remarks of mr and mrs so miss anne sir walter and your sister are gone what part of bath do you think they will settle in and this without much waiting for an answer or in the young ladies addition of i hope we shall be in bath in the winter but remember papa if we do go we must be in a good situation none of your queen squares for us or in the anxious from mary upon my word i shall be pretty well off when you are all gone away to be happy at bath she could only resolve to avoid such self delusion in future and think with heightened gratitude of the extraordinary blessing of having one such truly friend as lady the mr had their own game to guard and to destroy their own horses dogs and newspapers to engage them and the females were occupied in all the other common subjects of housekeeping neighbours dress dancing d music she acknowledged it to be very fitting that persuasion little social should dictate its own matters of discourse and hoped ere long to become a not member of the one she was now into with the prospect of spending at least two months at it was highly incumbent on her to clothe her imagination her memory and all her ideas in as much of is possible she had no dread of these two months mary was not so repulsive and as elizabeth nor so inaccessible to ill influence of hers neither was there anything among the ther parts of the cottage to comfort she was always on friendly terms with her brother in law in the children who loved her nearly as well and respected her a great deal more than their mother she had an object of interest amusement and wholesome exertion charles was civil and agreeable in sense and temper he was undoubtedly superior to his wife but not of powers or conversation or grace to make the past as they were connected together at all a dangerous contemplation though at the same time anne could believe with lady that a more equal match might have greatly improved him and that a woman of real understanding might have given more consequence to his character and more usefulness and elegance to his habits and pursuits as it was he did nothing with much zeal but sport and his time was otherwise away without benefit from books or anything else he had very good spirits which never seemed much affected by his s occasional bore with her sometimes to anne s admiration and upon the whole though there was very often a little in which she had sometimes more share than she wished being appealed to by both parties they might pass for a happy couple they were always perfectly agreed in the want of more money and a strong inclination for a handsome present from his father but here as on most topics he had the superiority for while mary thought it a great shame that such a present was not made he always for persuasion his father s having many other uses for his money and a right to spend it as he liked as to the management of their children his theory was much better than his wife s and his practice not so bad i could manage them very well if it were not for mary s interference was what anne heard him say and had a good deal of faith in but when listening in turn to mary s reproach of charles spoils the children so that i cannot get them into any order she never had the smallest temptation to say very true one of the least agreeable circumstances of her residence there was her being treated with too much confidence by all parties and being too much in the secret of the complaints of each house known to have some influence with her sister she was continually requested or at least receiving hints to exert it beyond what was practicable i wish you could persuade mary not to be always herself ill was charles s language and in an unhappy mood thus spoke mary i do believe if charles were to see me dying he would not think there was anything the matter me i am sure anne if you would you might persuade him that really am very ill � a great deal worse than i ever own mary s declaration was i hate sending the children to the great house though their is always wanting to see them for she and them to such a degree and gives them so much and sweet things that they are sure to come back sick and cross for the rest of the day and mrs took the first opportunity of being alone with anne to say oh miss anne i cannot help 