care of his wife and the second blessing was the arrival of the till he came and examined the child their apprehensions were the worse for being vague they suspected great injury but knew not where but now the collar bone was soon replaced and though mr felt and felt and rubbed and looked grave and spoke low words to ihe � and the aunt still they were all to hope the best and to be able to part and eat their dinner in tolerable ease of mind and then it was just before they parted that the two young were able so far to from their nephew s state as to give the information of captain s visit staying five minutes behind their father and mother to endeavour to express how perfectly delighted they were with him how much how infinitely more agreeable they thought him than any individual among their male acquaintance who had been at all a favourite before how glad they had been to hear papa invite him to stay dinner how sorry when he said it was quite out of his power and how glad again when he had promised to reply to papa and mamma s farther pressing invitations to come and dine with them on the morrow � actually on the morrow and he had promised it in so pleasant a manner as if he felt all the of their attention just as he ought in short he had looked and said everything with such exquisite grace that they could assure them all their heads were both turned by him and off they ran quite as full of glee as of love and apparently more full of captain than of little persuasion the same story and the same were repeated when the two girls came with their father through the gloom of the evening to make inquiries and mr no longer under the first uneasiness about his heir could add his confirmation and praise and hope there would be now no occasion for putting captain off and only be sorry to think that the cottage party probably would not like to leave the little boy to give mm the meeting oh no as to leaving the little boy l father and mother were in much too strong and recent alarm to bear the thought and anne in the joy of the escape could not help adding her warm to theirs charles indeed afterwards showed more of inclination the child was going on so well and he wished so much to be introduced to captain that perhaps he might join them in the evening he would not dine from home but he might walk in for half an hour but in this he was eagerly opposed by his wife with oh no indeed charles i cannot bear to have you go away only think if anything should happen the child had a good night and was going on well the next day it must be a work of time to ascertain that no injury had been done to the but mr robinson found nothing to increase alarm and charles began con to feel no necessity for longer confinement the child was to be kept in bed and mused as quietly as possible but what was there for a father to do this was quite a female case and it would be highly absurd in him who could be of no use at home to shut himself up his father very much wished him to meet captain and there being no sufficient reason against it he ought to go and it ended in his making a bold public declaration when he came in from shooting of his meaning to dress directly and dine at the other house nothing can be going on better than the child said he so i told my father just now that i would come and he thought me quite right your sister being with you my persuasion love i have no scruple at all you would not like to leave him yourself but you see i can be of no use anne will send for me if anything is the matter husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain mary knew from charles s manner of speaking that he was quite determined on going and that it would be of no use to him she said nothing therefore till he was out of the room but as soon as there was only anne to hear so you and i are to be left to shift by ourselves with this poor sick child and not a creature coming near us all the evening i knew how it would be this is always my luck if there is anything disagreeable going on men are always sure to get out of it and charles is as bad as any of them very i must say it is very of him to be running away from his poor little boy talks of his being going on so well how does he know that he is going on well or that there may not be a sudden change half an hour hence i did not think charles would have been so so here he is to go away and enjoy himself and because i am the poor mother i am not to be allowed to stir and yet i am sure i am more unfit than anybody else to be about the child my being the mother is the very reason why my feelings should not be tried i am not at all equal to it you saw how hysterical i was yesterday but that was only the effect of the suddenness of your alarm � of the shock you will not be hysterical again i dare say we shall have nothing to distress us i perfectly understand mr robinson s directions and have no fears and indeed mary i cannot wonder at 