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1From this time Captain Wentworth and Anne Elliot were repeatedly in the same circle. They were soon dining in company
2together at Mr Musgrove's, for the little boy's state could no longer supply his aunt with a pretence for absenting
3herself; and this was but the beginning of other dinings and other meetings. Whether former feelings were to be renewed
4must be brought to the proof; former times must undoubtedly be brought to the recollection of each; they could not but
5be reverted to; the year of their engagement could not but be named by him, in the little narratives or descriptions
6which conversation called forth. His profession qualified him, his disposition lead him, to talk; and "That was in the
7year six;" "That happened before I went to sea in the year six," occurred in the course of the first evening they spent
8together: and though his voice did not falter, and though she had no reason to suppose his eye wandering towards her
9while he spoke, Anne felt the utter impossibility, from her knowledge of his mind, that he could be unvisited by
10remembrance any more than herself. There must be the same immediate association of thought, though she was very far from
11conceiving it to be of equal pain. They had no conversation together, no intercourse but what the commonest civility
12required. Once so much to each other! Now nothing! There had been a time, when of all the large party now filling the
13drawing-room at Uppercross, they would have found it most difficult to cease to speak to one another. With the
14exception, perhaps, of Admiral and Mrs Croft, who seemed particularly attached and happy, (Anne could allow no other
15exceptions even among the married couples), there could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no
16feelings so in unison, no countenances so beloved. Now they were as strangers; nay, worse than strangers, for they could
17never become acquainted. It was a perpetual estrangement. When he talked, she heard the same voice, and discerned the
18same mind. There was a very general ignorance of all naval matters throughout the party; and he was very much
19questioned, and especially by the two Miss Musgroves, who seemed hardly to have any eyes but for him, as to the manner
20of living on board, daily regulations, food, hours, &c., and their surprise at his accounts, at learning the degree of
21accommodation and arrangement which was practicable, drew from him some pleasant ridicule, which reminded Anne of the
22early days when she too had been ignorant, and she too had been accused of supposing sailors to be living on board
23without anything to eat, or any cook to dress it if there were, or any servant to wait, or any knife and fork to use.
24From thus listening and thinking, she was roused by a whisper of Mrs Musgrove's who, overcome by fond regrets, could not
25help saying-- "Ah! Miss Anne, if it had pleased Heaven to spare my poor son, I dare say he would have been just such
26another by this time." Anne suppressed a smile, and listened kindly, while Mrs Musgrove relieved her heart a little
27more; and for a few minutes, therefore, could not keep pace with the conversation of the others. When she could let her
28attention take its natural course again, she found the Miss Musgroves just fetching the Navy List (their own navy list,
29the first that had ever been at Uppercross), and sitting down together to pore over it, with the professed view of
30finding out the ships that Captain Wentworth had commanded. "Your first was the Asp, I remember; we will look for the
31Asp." "You will not find her there. Quite worn out and broken up. I was the last man who commanded her. Hardly fit for
32service then. Reported fit for home service for a year or two, and so I was sent off to the West Indies." The girls
33looked all amazement. "The Admiralty," he continued, "entertain themselves now and then, with sending a few hundred men
34to sea, in a ship not fit to be employed. But they have a great many to provide for; and among the thousands that may
35just as well go to the bottom as not, it is impossible for them to distinguish the very set who may be least missed."
36"Phoo! phoo!" cried the Admiral, "what stuff these young fellows talk! Never was a better sloop than the Asp in her day.
37For an old built sloop, you would not see her equal. Lucky fellow to get her! He knows there must have been twenty
38better men than himself applying for her at the same time. Lucky fellow to get anything so soon, with no more interest
39than his." "I felt my luck, Admiral, I assure you;" replied Captain Wentworth, seriously. "I was as well satisfied with
40my appointment as you can desire. It was a great object with me at that time to be at sea; a very great object, I wanted
41to be doing something." "To be sure you did. What should a young fellow like you do ashore for half a year together? If
42a man had not a wife, he soon wants to be afloat again." "But, Captain Wentworth," cried Louisa, "how vexed you must
43have been when you came to the Asp, to see what an old thing they had given you." "I knew pretty well what she was
44before that day;" said he, smiling. "I had no more discoveries to make than you would have as to the fashion and
45strength of any old pelisse, which you had seen lent about among half your acquaintance ever since you could remember,
46and which at last, on some very wet day, is lent to yourself. Ah! she was a dear old Asp to me. She did all that I
47wanted. I knew she would. I knew that we should either go to the bottom together, or that she would be the making of me;
48and I never had two days of foul weather all the time I was at sea in her; and after taking privateers enough to be very
49entertaining, I had the good luck in my passage home the next autumn, to fall in with the very French frigate I wanted.
50I brought her into Plymouth; and here another instance of luck. We had not been six hours in the Sound, when a gale came
51on, which lasted four days and nights, and which would have done for poor old Asp in half the time; our touch with the
52Great Nation not having much improved our condition. Four-and-twenty hours later, and I should only have been a gallant
53Captain Wentworth, in a small paragraph at one corner of the newspapers; and being lost in only a sloop, nobody would
54have thought about me." Anne's shudderings were to herself alone; but the Miss Musgroves could be as open as they were
55sincere, in their exclamations of pity and horror. "And so then, I suppose," said Mrs Musgrove, in a low voice, as if
56thinking aloud, "so then he went away to the Laconia, and there he met with our poor boy. Charles, my dear," (beckoning
57him to her), "do ask Captain Wentworth where it was he first met with your poor brother. I always forgot." "It was at
58Gibraltar, mother, I know. Dick had been left ill at Gibraltar, with a recommendation from his former captain to Captain
59Wentworth." "Oh! but, Charles, tell Captain Wentworth, he need not be afraid of mentioning poor Dick before me, for it
60would be rather a pleasure to hear him talked of by such a good friend." Charles, being somewhat more mindful of the
61probabilities of the case, only nodded in reply, and walked away. The girls were now hunting for the Laconia; and
62Captain Wentworth could not deny himself the pleasure of taking the precious volume into his own hands to save them the
63trouble, and once more read aloud the little statement of her name and rate, and present non-commissioned class,
64observing over it that she too had been one of the best friends man ever had. "Ah! those were pleasant days when I had
65the Laconia! How fast I made money in her. A friend of mine and I had such a lovely cruise together off the Western
66Islands. Poor Harville, sister! You know how much he wanted money: worse than myself. He had a wife. Excellent fellow. I
67shall never forget his happiness. He felt it all, so much for her sake. I wished for him again the next summer, when I
68had still the same luck in the Mediterranean." "And I am sure, Sir," said Mrs Musgrove, "it was a lucky day for us, when
69you were put captain into that ship. We shall never forget what you did."
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