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1Other opportunities of making her observations could not fail to occur. Anne had soon been in company with all the four
2together often enough to have an opinion, though too wise to acknowledge as much at home, where she knew it would have
3satisfied neither husband nor wife; for while she considered Louisa to be rather the favourite, she could not but think,
4as far as she might dare to judge from memory and experience, that Captain Wentworth was not in love with either. They
5were more in love with him; yet there it was not love. It was a little fever of admiration; but it might, probably must,
6end in love with some. Charles Hayter seemed aware of being slighted, and yet Henrietta had sometimes the air of being
7divided between them. Anne longed for the power of representing to them all what they were about, and of pointing out
8some of the evils they were exposing themselves to. She did not attribute guile to any. It was the highest satisfaction
9to her to believe Captain Wentworth not in the least aware of the pain he was occasioning. There was no triumph, no
10pitiful triumph in his manner. He had, probably, never heard, and never thought of any claims of Charles Hayter. He was
11only wrong in accepting the attentions (for accepting must be the word) of two young women at once. After a short
12struggle, however, Charles Hayter seemed to quit the field. Three days had passed without his coming once to Uppercross;
13a most decided change. He had even refused one regular invitation to dinner; and having been found on the occasion by Mr
14Musgrove with some large books before him, Mr and Mrs Musgrove were sure all could not be right, and talked, with grave
15faces, of his studying himself to death. It was Mary's hope and belief that he had received a positive dismissal from
16Henrietta, and her husband lived under the constant dependence of seeing him to-morrow. Anne could only feel that
17Charles Hayter was wise. One morning, about this time Charles Musgrove and Captain Wentworth being gone a-shooting
18together, as the sisters in the Cottage were sitting quietly at work, they were visited at the window by the sisters
19from the Mansion-house. It was a very fine November day, and the Miss Musgroves came through the little grounds, and
20stopped for no other purpose than to say, that they were going to take a long walk, and, therefore, concluded Mary could
21not like to go with them; and when Mary immediately replied, with some jealousy at not being supposed a good walker,
22"Oh, yes, I should like to join you very much, I am very fond of a long walk;" Anne felt persuaded, by the looks of the
23two girls, that it was precisely what they did not wish, and admired again the sort of necessity which the family habits
24seemed to produce, of everything being to be communicated, and everything being to be done together, however undesired
25and inconvenient. She tried to dissuade Mary from going, but in vain; and that being the case, thought it best to accept
26the Miss Musgroves' much more cordial invitation to herself to go likewise, as she might be useful in turning back with
27her sister, and lessening the interference in any plan of their own. "I cannot imagine why they should suppose I should
28not like a long walk," said Mary, as she went up stairs. "Everybody is always supposing that I am not a good walker; and
29yet they would not have been pleased, if we had refused to join them. When people come in this manner on purpose to ask
30us, how can one say no?" Just as they were setting off, the gentlemen returned. They had taken out a young dog, who had
31spoilt their sport, and sent them back early. Their time and strength, and spirits, were, therefore, exactly ready for
32this walk, and they entered into it with pleasure. Could Anne have foreseen such a junction, she would have staid at
33home; but, from some feelings of interest and curiosity, she fancied now that it was too late to retract, and the whole
34six set forward together in the direction chosen by the Miss Musgroves, who evidently considered the walk as under their
35guidance. Anne's object was, not to be in the way of anybody; and where the narrow paths across the fields made many
36separations necessary, to keep with her brother and sister. Her pleasure in the walk must arise from the exercise and
37the day, from the view of the last smiles of the year upon the tawny leaves, and withered hedges, and from repeating to
38herself some few of the thousand poetical descriptions extant of autumn, that season of peculiar and inexhaustible
39influence on the mind of taste and tenderness, that season which had drawn from every poet, worthy of being read, some
40attempt at description, or some lines of feeling. She occupied her mind as much as possible in such like musings and
41quotations; but it was not possible, that when within reach of Captain Wentworth's conversation with either of the Miss
42Musgroves, she should not try to hear it; yet she caught little very remarkable. It was mere lively chat, such as any
43young persons, on an intimate footing, might fall into. He was more engaged with Louisa than with Henrietta. Louisa
44certainly put more forward for his notice than her sister. This distinction appeared to increase, and there was one
45speech of Louisa's which struck her. After one of the many praises of the day, which were continually bursting forth,
46Captain Wentworth added:-- "What glorious weather for the Admiral and my sister! They meant to take a long drive this
47morning; perhaps we may hail them from some of these hills. They talked of coming into this side of the country. I
48wonder whereabouts they will upset to-day. Oh! it does happen very often, I assure you; but my sister makes nothing of
49it; she would as lieve be tossed out as not." "Ah! You make the most of it, I know," cried Louisa, "but if it were
50really so, I should do just the same in her place. If I loved a man, as she loves the Admiral, I would always be with
51him, nothing should ever separate us, and I would rather be overturned by him, than driven safely by anybody else." It
52was spoken with enthusiasm. "Had you?" cried he, catching the same tone; "I honour you!" And there was silence between
53them for a little while. Anne could not immediately fall into a quotation again. The sweet scenes of autumn were for a
54while put by, unless some tender sonnet, fraught with the apt analogy of the declining year, with declining happiness,
55and the images of youth and hope, and spring, all gone together, blessed her memory. She roused herself to say, as they
56struck by order into another path, "Is not this one of the ways to Winthrop?" But nobody heard, or, at least, nobody
57answered her. Winthrop, however, or its environs--for young men are, sometimes to be met with, strolling about near
58home--was their destination; and after another half mile of gradual ascent through large enclosures, where the ploughs
59at work, and the fresh made path spoke the farmer counteracting the sweets of poetical despondence, and meaning to have
60spring again, they gained the summit of the most considerable hill, which parted Uppercross and Winthrop, and soon
61commanded a full view of the latter, at the foot of the hill on the other side. Winthrop, without beauty and without
62dignity, was stretched before them; an indifferent house, standing low, and hemmed in by the barns and buildings of a
63farm-yard. Mary exclaimed, "Bless me! here is Winthrop. I declare I had no idea! Well now, I think we had better turn
64back; I am excessively tired." Henrietta, conscious and ashamed, and seeing no cousin Charles walking along any path, or
65leaning against any gate, was ready to do as Mary wished; but "No!" said Charles Musgrove, and "No, no!" cried Louisa
66more eagerly, and taking her sister aside, seemed to be arguing the matter warmly. Charles, in the meanwhile, was very
67decidedly declaring his resolution of calling on his aunt, now that he was so near; and very evidently, though more
68fearfully, trying to induce his wife to go too. But this was one of the points on which the lady shewed her strength;
69and when he recommended the advantage of resting herself a quarter of an hour at Winthrop, as she felt so tired, she
70resolutely answered, "Oh! no, indeed! walking up that hill again would do her more harm than any sitting down could do
71her good;" and, in short, her look and manner declared, that go she would not.
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