had not her for the purity of intentions she could answer and she was to hope secondly that her uncle s displeasure was and would farther as he considered the matter with more and felt as a good man must feel how wretched and how how hopeless and how wicked it was to marry without affection when the meeting with which she was threatened for the morrow was past she could not but flatter herself that the subject would be finally concluded and mr once gone from that every thing would soon be as if no such subject had existed she would not could not believe that mr s for her could distress him long his mind was not of that sort london would soon bring its cure in london he would soon to wonder at his and be for the right reason in her which had saved him from its evil consequences while s mind was engaged in these sort of hopes her uncle was soon after tea called out of the room aa occurrence too common to strike her and she thought nothing of it till the butler re appeared ten minutes afterwards and advancing decidedly towards herself said sir thomas wishes to speak with you ma am in his own room then it occurred to her what might be going on a rushed over her mind which drove the colour park from her cheeks but instantly rising she was preparing to obey when mrs called oat stay stay what are yon where are you going t don t be in such a depend upon it it is not you that are wanted depend upon it it is me looking at the butler but you are veiy eager to put yourself forward what should sir thomas want you fort it is me you mean i am coming this moment you mean me i am sore sir thomas wants me not miss price but was stout no ma am it is miss price i am certain of its being miss price and there was a half smile with the words which meant i do not think you would answer the purpose at all mrs much discontented was obliged to compose herself to work again and walking off in consciousness found herself as she anticipated in another minute alone with mr chapter the conference was neither so short nor so as the lady had designed the was not so easily he had all the disposition to that sir thomas could wish he had which strongly inclined him in the first place to think she did love him though she might not know it herself and which secondly when constrained at last to admit that she did know her own present feelings convinced him that he should be able in time to make those feelings what he wished he was in love very much in love and it was a love which on an active sanguine spirit of more warmth than delicacy made her affection appear of greater consequence because it was withheld and determined him to have the glory as well as the felicity of forcing her to love him he would not despair he would not he had every well reason for solid attachment he knew her to have all the worth that could justify the warmest hopes of lasting happiness with her her conduct at this v time by speaking the and delicacy oi r character which he most was of a sort to all his wishes and � s resolutions he knew not that he had a pre engaged to attack of that he had no suspicion he her rather as one who had thought on the subject er who had been guarded by id as lovely as of person whose ted her from understanding his ill by the suddenness g unexpected and the novelty of a had never taken into that when he was under t he believed it love a must with secure a t distance and he had so much m tne of obliging her to love him in a very short time that her not loving him now was scarcely regretted a difficulty to be overcome was no evil to henry he rather derived spirits firom jl he had been apt to gain hearts too easily his situation was new and to however who had known too much opposition all her life to find any charm in it all this was she found that he did mean to but how he could after such language from her as she felt herself obliged to use was not to be understood she told him that she did not love him could not love him was sure she never should love him that such a change was quite impossible that the subject was most painful to her that she must entreat him never to mention it again to allow her to leave him at once and let it be considered a s concluded for ever and when farther pressed had added that in her opinion their dispositions were so totally as to make mutual affection and that were for each other by nature education and all this she had said and with the earnestness of sincerity yet this was not enough for he immediately denied there being any thing in their characters or any thing in k park and positively that he would still love and still hope knew her own meaning but was no judge of her own manner her manner was gentle and she was not aware how much it concealed the of her purpose her gratitude and softness made eveiy expression of indifference seem almost an effort of self denial seem at least to be giving nearly as much pain to herself as to him mr was no longer the mr who as the treacherous admirer of maria had been her whom she had hated to see or to speak to in whom 