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1Her feelings made her speak low; and Captain Wentworth, hearing only in part, and probably not having Dick Musgrove at
2all near his thoughts, looked rather in suspense, and as if waiting for more. "My brother," whispered one of the girls;
3"mamma is thinking of poor Richard." "Poor dear fellow!" continued Mrs Musgrove; "he was grown so steady, and such an
4excellent correspondent, while he was under your care! Ah! it would have been a happy thing, if he had never left you. I
5assure you, Captain Wentworth, we are very sorry he ever left you." There was a momentary expression in Captain
6Wentworth's face at this speech, a certain glance of his bright eye, and curl of his handsome mouth, which convinced
7Anne, that instead of sharing in Mrs Musgrove's kind wishes, as to her son, he had probably been at some pains to get
8rid of him; but it was too transient an indulgence of self-amusement to be detected by any who understood him less than
9herself; in another moment he was perfectly collected and serious, and almost instantly afterwards coming up to the
10sofa, on which she and Mrs Musgrove were sitting, took a place by the latter, and entered into conversation with her, in
11a low voice, about her son, doing it with so much sympathy and natural grace, as shewed the kindest consideration for
12all that was real and unabsurd in the parent's feelings. They were actually on the same sofa, for Mrs Musgrove had most
13readily made room for him; they were divided only by Mrs Musgrove. It was no insignificant barrier, indeed. Mrs Musgrove
14was of a comfortable, substantial size, infinitely more fitted by nature to express good cheer and good humour, than
15tenderness and sentiment; and while the agitations of Anne's slender form, and pensive face, may be considered as very
16completely screened, Captain Wentworth should be allowed some credit for the self-command with which he attended to her
17large fat sighings over the destiny of a son, whom alive nobody had cared for. Personal size and mental sorrow have
18certainly no necessary proportions. A large bulky figure has as good a right to be in deep affliction, as the most
19graceful set of limbs in the world. But, fair or not fair, there are unbecoming conjunctions, which reason will
20patronize in vain--which taste cannot tolerate--which ridicule will seize. The Admiral, after taking two or three
21refreshing turns about the room with his hands behind him, being called to order by his wife, now came up to Captain
22Wentworth, and without any observation of what he might be interrupting, thinking only of his own thoughts, began with--
23"If you had been a week later at Lisbon, last spring, Frederick, you would have been asked to give a passage to Lady
24Mary Grierson and her daughters." "Should I? I am glad I was not a week later then." The Admiral abused him for his want
25of gallantry. He defended himself; though professing that he would never willingly admit any ladies on board a ship of
26his, excepting for a ball, or a visit, which a few hours might comprehend. "But, if I know myself," said he, "this is
27from no want of gallantry towards them. It is rather from feeling how impossible it is, with all one's efforts, and all
28one's sacrifices, to make the accommodations on board such as women ought to have. There can be no want of gallantry,
29Admiral, in rating the claims of women to every personal comfort high, and this is what I do. I hate to hear of women on
30board, or to see them on board; and no ship under my command shall ever convey a family of ladies anywhere, if I can
31help it." This brought his sister upon him. "Oh! Frederick! But I cannot believe it of you.--All idle refinement!--Women
32may be as comfortable on board, as in the best house in England. I believe I have lived as much on board as most women,
33and I know nothing superior to the accommodations of a man-of-war. I declare I have not a comfort or an indulgence about
34me, even at Kellynch Hall," (with a kind bow to Anne), "beyond what I always had in most of the ships I have lived in;
35and they have been five altogether." "Nothing to the purpose," replied her brother. "You were living with your husband,
36and were the only woman on board." "But you, yourself, brought Mrs Harville, her sister, her cousin, and three children,
37round from Portsmouth to Plymouth. Where was this superfine, extraordinary sort of gallantry of yours then?" "All merged
38in my friendship, Sophia. I would assist any brother officer's wife that I could, and I would bring anything of
39Harville's from the world's end, if he wanted it. But do not imagine that I did not feel it an evil in itself." "Depend
40upon it, they were all perfectly comfortable." "I might not like them the better for that perhaps. Such a number of
41women and children have no right to be comfortable on board." "My dear Frederick, you are talking quite idly. Pray, what
42would become of us poor sailors' wives, who often want to be conveyed to one port or another, after our husbands, if
43everybody had your feelings?" "My feelings, you see, did not prevent my taking Mrs Harville and all her family to
44Plymouth." "But I hate to hear you talking so like a fine gentleman, and as if women were all fine ladies, instead of
45rational creatures. We none of us expect to be in smooth water all our days." "Ah! my dear," said the Admiral, "when he
46has got a wife, he will sing a different tune. When he is married, if we have the good luck to live to another war, we
47shall see him do as you and I, and a great many others, have done. We shall have him very thankful to anybody that will
48bring him his wife." "Ay, that we shall." "Now I have done," cried Captain Wentworth. "When once married people begin to
49attack me with,--'Oh! you will think very differently, when you are married.' I can only say, 'No, I shall not;' and
50then they say again, 'Yes, you will,' and there is an end of it." He got up and moved away. "What a great traveller you
51must have been, ma'am!" said Mrs Musgrove to Mrs Croft. "Pretty well, ma'am, in the fifteen years of my marriage; though
52many women have done more. I have crossed the Atlantic four times, and have been once to the East Indies, and back
53again, and only once; besides being in different places about home: Cork, and Lisbon, and Gibraltar. But I never went
54beyond the Streights, and never was in the West Indies. We do not call Bermuda or Bahama, you know, the West Indies."
55Mrs Musgrove had not a word to say in dissent; she could not accuse herself of having ever called them anything in the
56whole course of her life. "And I do assure you, ma'am," pursued Mrs Croft, "that nothing can exceed the accommodations
57of a man-of-war; I speak, you know, of the higher rates. When you come to a frigate, of course, you are more confined;
58though any reasonable woman may be perfectly happy in one of them; and I can safely say, that the happiest part of my
59life has been spent on board a ship. While we were together, you know, there was nothing to be feared. Thank God! I have
60always been blessed with excellent health, and no climate disagrees with me. A little disordered always the first
61twenty-four hours of going to sea, but never knew what sickness was afterwards. The only time I ever really suffered in
62body or mind, the only time that I ever fancied myself unwell, or had any ideas of danger, was the winter that I passed
63by myself at Deal, when the Admiral (Captain Croft then) was in the North Seas. I lived in perpetual fright at that
64time, and had all manner of imaginary complaints from not knowing what to do with myself, or when I should hear from him
65next; but as long as we could be together, nothing ever ailed me, and I never met with the smallest inconvenience."
66"Aye, to be sure. Yes, indeed, oh yes! I am quite of your opinion, Mrs Croft," was Mrs Musgrove's hearty answer. "There
67is nothing so bad as a separation. I am quite of your opinion. I know what it is, for Mr Musgrove always attends the
68assizes, and I am so glad when they are over, and he is safe back again."
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