this amiable for your brother s comfort may you not be a little mistaken are you not carried a little too far would he either on his own account or miss s for supposing that her affection or at least her good behaviour is only to be secured by her seeing nothing of captain is he safe only in solitude or is her heart constant to him only when by any one else he cannot think this and you may be sure that he would not have you think it i win not say do not be uneasy because i know that you are at this moment but be as little uneasy as you can you hare no doubt of the mutual attachment of your brother and your friend depend upon it therefore that real jealousy can exist between them depend upon it that no between them can be of any duration their hearts are open to each other as neither heart can be to you know exactly what is required and what can be borne and you may be certain that one will never the other beyond what is known to be pleasant perceiving her still to look doubtful and grave he added though does not leave bath with us he will probably remain but a very short time perhaps only a few days behind us his leave of absence will soon and he must return to his regiment and what will then be their the mess room will drink for a fortnight and she will laugh with your brother over poor s passion for a month would contend no longer against comfort she had resisted its approaches during the whole length of a but it now carried her captive henry must know best she blamed herself for the extent of her fears and resolved never to think so seriously on the subject again her resolution was supported by s behaviour in parting interview the spent the last evening of s stay in street and nothing i ia abbey the lovers to excite her uneasiness or make her quit them in apprehension james was in excellent spirits and most placid her tenderness for her friend seemed rather the first feeling of her heart but that at such a moment was and once she gave her lover a contradiction and once she drew back her hand but remembered henry s instructions and placed it all to judicious affection the embraces tears and promises of the parting fair ones may be fancied chapter xx mr and mrs were sorry to lose their young friend whose good humour and cheerfulness had made her a valuable companion and in the promotion of whose enjoyment their own had been gently increased her happiness in going with miss however prevented their wishing it otherwise and as they were to remain only one more week in bath themselves her them now would not long be felt mr attended her to street where she was to breakfast and saw her seated with the kindest welcome among her new friends but so great was her agitation in finding herself as one of the family and so was she of not doing exactly what was right and of not being able to preserve their good opinion that in the embarrassment of the first minutes she could almost have wished to return with him to street miss s manners and henry s smile soon did away some of her unpleasant feelings but still she was far from being at ease nor could the incessant attentions of the general himself entirely re assure her nay perverse as it seemed she doubted whether she might not have felt less had she been less attended to his anxiety for her comfort his continual that she would eat and his fears of her seeing nothing to her taste though never in her life before had she beheld half such variety on a breakfast table made it impossible for her to forget for a abbey hat she was a she felt unworthy of � and knew not how to reply to it her not improved by the general s impatience for the se of his eldest son nor by the displeasure he exit his when captain at came he was quite pained by the severity of his father s hich seemed to the offence and i her concern increased when she found herself the cause of the lecture and that his was from being to her this was er in a very uncomfortable situation and she felt for captain without being able to lis good will to his father in silence and attempted not any hich confirmed her in fearing that the nd on s account might by keeping him have been the real cause of his rising late it time of her being decidedly in his company and to be now able to form her opinion of him heard his voice while his father remained in and even afterwards so much were his spirits she could distinguish nothing but these words in r to how glad i shall be when you are of going was not pleasant the clock struck the trunks were carrying down and the general to be out of street by that hour his great sad of being brought for him to put on directly was t in the in which he was to accompany his e middle seat of the chaise was not drawn out were three people to go in it and his daughter s crowded it with that miss b have room to sit and so much was he influenced when he handed her in that she had in saving her own new writing desk from wn out into the street at last however the door d upon the three females and they set ofi at the no sober pace in which the handsome highly fed four horses of a gentleman usually perform a journey of thirty miles 