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1The folks of the Great House were to spend the evening of this day at the Cottage; and it being now too late in the year
2for such visits to be made on foot, the coach was beginning to be listened for, when the youngest Miss Musgrove walked
3in. That she was coming to apologize, and that they should have to spend the evening by themselves, was the first black
4idea; and Mary was quite ready to be affronted, when Louisa made all right by saying, that she only came on foot, to
5leave more room for the harp, which was bringing in the carriage. "And I will tell you our reason," she added, "and all
6about it. I am come on to give you notice, that papa and mamma are out of spirits this evening, especially mamma; she is
7thinking so much of poor Richard! And we agreed it would be best to have the harp, for it seems to amuse her more than
8the piano-forte. I will tell you why she is out of spirits. When the Crofts called this morning, (they called here
9afterwards, did not they?), they happened to say, that her brother, Captain Wentworth, is just returned to England, or
10paid off, or something, and is coming to see them almost directly; and most unluckily it came into mamma's head, when
11they were gone, that Wentworth, or something very like it, was the name of poor Richard's captain at one time; I do not
12know when or where, but a great while before he died, poor fellow! And upon looking over his letters and things, she
13found it was so, and is perfectly sure that this must be the very man, and her head is quite full of it, and of poor
14Richard! So we must be as merry as we can, that she may not be dwelling upon such gloomy things." The real circumstances
15of this pathetic piece of family history were, that the Musgroves had had the ill fortune of a very troublesome,
16hopeless son; and the good fortune to lose him before he reached his twentieth year; that he had been sent to sea
17because he was stupid and unmanageable on shore; that he had been very little cared for at any time by his family,
18though quite as much as he deserved; seldom heard of, and scarcely at all regretted, when the intelligence of his death
19abroad had worked its way to Uppercross, two years before. He had, in fact, though his sisters were now doing all they
20could for him, by calling him "poor Richard," been nothing better than a thick-headed, unfeeling, unprofitable Dick
21Musgrove, who had never done anything to entitle himself to more than the abbreviation of his name, living or dead. He
22had been several years at sea, and had, in the course of those removals to which all midshipmen are liable, and
23especially such midshipmen as every captain wishes to get rid of, been six months on board Captain Frederick Wentworth's
24frigate, the Laconia; and from the Laconia he had, under the influence of his captain, written the only two letters
25which his father and mother had ever received from him during the whole of his absence; that is to say, the only two
26disinterested letters; all the rest had been mere applications for money. In each letter he had spoken well of his
27captain; but yet, so little were they in the habit of attending to such matters, so unobservant and incurious were they
28as to the names of men or ships, that it had made scarcely any impression at the time; and that Mrs Musgrove should have
29been suddenly struck, this very day, with a recollection of the name of Wentworth, as connected with her son, seemed one
30of those extraordinary bursts of mind which do sometimes occur. She had gone to her letters, and found it all as she
31supposed; and the re-perusal of these letters, after so long an interval, her poor son gone for ever, and all the
32strength of his faults forgotten, had affected her spirits exceedingly, and thrown her into greater grief for him than
33she had known on first hearing of his death. Mr Musgrove was, in a lesser degree, affected likewise; and when they
34reached the cottage, they were evidently in want, first, of being listened to anew on this subject, and afterwards, of
35all the relief which cheerful companions could give them. To hear them talking so much of Captain Wentworth, repeating
36his name so often, puzzling over past years, and at last ascertaining that it might, that it probably would, turn out to
37be the very same Captain Wentworth whom they recollected meeting, once or twice, after their coming back from Clifton--a
38very fine young man--but they could not say whether it was seven or eight years ago, was a new sort of trial to Anne's
39nerves. She found, however, that it was one to which she must inure herself. Since he actually was expected in the
40country, she must teach herself to be insensible on such points. And not only did it appear that he was expected, and
41speedily, but the Musgroves, in their warm gratitude for the kindness he had shewn poor Dick, and very high respect for
42his character, stamped as it was by poor Dick's having been six months under his care, and mentioning him in strong,
43though not perfectly well-spelt praise, as "a fine dashing felow, only two perticular about the schoolmaster," were bent
44on introducing themselves, and seeking his acquaintance, as soon as they could hear of his arrival. The resolution of
45doing so helped to form the comfort of their evening.
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