same opinions and feelings as her own and she judged of their motives by the immediate effect of their actions on herself thus a occurred while the sisters were together in their own room after which sunk the heart of mrs still lower in her because through her own weakness it chanced to prove a source of fresh pain to herself though mrs was governed in it by an impulse of the utmost good will a letter in her outstretched hand and countenance gaily smiling from the persuasion of bringing comfort the entered their room saying � now my dear i bring you something that i am sure will do yon good heard enough in one moment her imagination placed before her a letter from of tenderness and of all that had passed satisfactory convincing and instantly followed by rushing eagerly into the room to enforce at her feet by the of his eyes the assurances of his letter sha of one moment was destroyed by the next sense and sensibility hand writing of ha mother never till then unwelcome was before her and in the of the disappointment which followed such an ecstasy of more than hop she felt as if till that instant she had never suffered the cruelty of mrs no language within her in her moments of happiest eloquence could have expressed and now she could reproach her only by the tears which streamed from her eyes with passionate violence � a reproach however so entirely lost on its object that after many expressions of pity she withdrew still referring her to the letter for comfort but the letter when she was calm enough to read it brought little comfort filled every page her mother still confident of their engagement and as warmly as ever his constancy had only been roused by application to entreat from greater towards them both and this with such tenderness towards her such affection for and such a conviction of their future happiness in each other that she wept with agony through the whole of it all her impatience to be at home again now returned her mother was dearer to her than ever dearer through the very excess of her mistaken confidence in and she was wildly urgent to be gone unable herself to determine whether it were better for to be in london or at offered no counsel of her own except of patience till their mother s wishes could be known and at length she obtained her sister s consent to wait for that knowledge mrs left them earlier than usual for she could not be easy till the and were able to grieve as much as herself and positively refusing s offered attendance went out alone for the rest of the morning with a very heavy heart aware of the pain she was going to communicate and perceiving by s letter how ill she had succeeded in laying any foundation for it then sat down to write her mother an account of what had passed and entreat her directions for the future while who came into the drawing room on mrs s going away remained fixed at tlie table where watching the advancement of her pen over and sensibility her for die hardship of such a task and still more over its effect on her mother in this they had continued about a quarter of an hour when whose nerves could not then bear any sudden noise was stained by a rap at the door who can this cried so early too thought wc had been safe moved to the window it is colonel i said she with vexation we are never safe from he will not come in as mrs is from home i will not trust to retreating to her own room a man who has nothing to do with his own time has no conscience in his intrusion on that of others the event proved her right though it was founded on injustice and error for colonel did come in and who was convinced that solicitude for brought him thither and who saw solicitude in his disturbed and melancholy look and in his anxious though brief after her could not forgive her sister for him so lightly i met mrs in bond street said he after die first salutation and she encouraged me to come on and i was the more easily encouraged because i thought it probable that i might find you alone which i was very desirous of doing my object � my wish � my sole wish in desiring it � i hope i believe it is � is to be a means of giving comfort � no i must not say comfort � not present comfort � but conviction lasting conviction to your sister s mind my regard for her for for your mother � will you allow me to prove i by relating some circumstances which nothing but a sincere regard � nothing but an earnest desire of being useful � i think i am justified though where so many have been spent in convincing myself that i am right is there not some reason to fear i may be he stopped i understand you you have something to tell me of mr that will open his character farther your telling it will be the greatest act of friendship that can be shown my gratitude will be sense and y immediately t any tending to that end and must be gained by it in pray pray let me hear it you shall and to be when i quitted last october � but this will ve you no idea � i must go either back you miss i hardly know where to begin a short account of myself i believe will be and it be a short one on such a subject heavily i can have little temptation to be he a moment for recollection and with another went on 