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1The time now approached for Lady Russell's return: the day was even fixed; and Anne, being engaged to join her as soon
2as she was resettled, was looking forward to an early removal to Kellynch, and beginning to think how her own comfort
3was likely to be affected by it. It would place her in the same village with Captain Wentworth, within half a mile of
4him; they would have to frequent the same church, and there must be intercourse between the two families. This was
5against her; but on the other hand, he spent so much of his time at Uppercross, that in removing thence she might be
6considered rather as leaving him behind, than as going towards him; and, upon the whole, she believed she must, on this
7interesting question, be the gainer, almost as certainly as in her change of domestic society, in leaving poor Mary for
8Lady Russell. She wished it might be possible for her to avoid ever seeing Captain Wentworth at the Hall: those rooms
9had witnessed former meetings which would be brought too painfully before her; but she was yet more anxious for the
10possibility of Lady Russell and Captain Wentworth never meeting anywhere. They did not like each other, and no renewal
11of acquaintance now could do any good; and were Lady Russell to see them together, she might think that he had too much
12self-possession, and she too little. These points formed her chief solicitude in anticipating her removal from
13Uppercross, where she felt she had been stationed quite long enough. Her usefulness to little Charles would always give
14some sweetness to the memory of her two months' visit there, but he was gaining strength apace, and she had nothing else
15to stay for. The conclusion of her visit, however, was diversified in a way which she had not at all imagined. Captain
16Wentworth, after being unseen and unheard of at Uppercross for two whole days, appeared again among them to justify
17himself by a relation of what had kept him away. A letter from his friend, Captain Harville, having found him out at
18last, had brought intelligence of Captain Harville's being settled with his family at Lyme for the winter; of their
19being therefore, quite unknowingly, within twenty miles of each other. Captain Harville had never been in good health
20since a severe wound which he received two years before, and Captain Wentworth's anxiety to see him had determined him
21to go immediately to Lyme. He had been there for four-and-twenty hours. His acquittal was complete, his friendship
22warmly honoured, a lively interest excited for his friend, and his description of the fine country about Lyme so
23feelingly attended to by the party, that an earnest desire to see Lyme themselves, and a project for going thither was
24the consequence. The young people were all wild to see Lyme. Captain Wentworth talked of going there again himself, it
25was only seventeen miles from Uppercross; though November, the weather was by no means bad; and, in short, Louisa, who
26was the most eager of the eager, having formed the resolution to go, and besides the pleasure of doing as she liked,
27being now armed with the idea of merit in maintaining her own way, bore down all the wishes of her father and mother for
28putting it off till summer; and to Lyme they were to go--Charles, Mary, Anne, Henrietta, Louisa, and Captain Wentworth.
29The first heedless scheme had been to go in the morning and return at night; but to this Mr Musgrove, for the sake of
30his horses, would not consent; and when it came to be rationally considered, a day in the middle of November would not
31leave much time for seeing a new place, after deducting seven hours, as the nature of the country required, for going
32and returning. They were, consequently, to stay the night there, and not to be expected back till the next day's dinner.
33This was felt to be a considerable amendment; and though they all met at the Great House at rather an early breakfast
34hour, and set off very punctually, it was so much past noon before the two carriages, Mr Musgrove's coach containing the
35four ladies, and Charles's curricle, in which he drove Captain Wentworth, were descending the long hill into Lyme, and
36entering upon the still steeper street of the town itself, that it was very evident they would not have more than time
37for looking about them, before the light and warmth of the day were gone. After securing accommodations, and ordering a
38dinner at one of the inns, the next thing to be done was unquestionably to walk directly down to the sea. They were come
39too late in the year for any amusement or variety which Lyme, as a public place, might offer. The rooms were shut up,
40the lodgers almost all gone, scarcely any family but of the residents left; and, as there is nothing to admire in the
41buildings themselves, the remarkable situation of the town, the principal street almost hurrying into the water, the
42walk to the Cobb, skirting round the pleasant little bay, which, in the season, is animated with bathing machines and
43company; the Cobb itself, its old wonders and new improvements, with the very beautiful line of cliffs stretching out to
44the east of the town, are what the stranger's eye will seek; and a very strange stranger it must be, who does not see
45charms in the immediate environs of Lyme, to make him wish to know it better. The scenes in its neighbourhood,
46Charmouth, with its high grounds and extensive sweeps of country, and still more, its sweet, retired bay, backed by dark
47cliffs, where fragments of low rock among the sands, make it the happiest spot for watching the flow of the tide, for
48sitting in unwearied contemplation; the woody varieties of the cheerful village of Up Lyme; and, above all, Pinny, with
49its green chasms between romantic rocks, where the scattered forest trees and orchards of luxuriant growth, declare that
50many a generation must have passed away since the first partial falling of the cliff prepared the ground for such a
51state, where a scene so wonderful and so lovely is exhibited, as may more than equal any of the resembling scenes of the
52far-famed Isle of Wight: these places must be visited, and visited again, to make the worth of Lyme understood. The
53party from Uppercross passing down by the now deserted and melancholy looking rooms, and still descending, soon found
54themselves on the sea-shore; and lingering only, as all must linger and gaze on a first return to the sea, who ever
55deserved to look on it at all, proceeded towards the Cobb, equally their object in itself and on Captain Wentworth's
56account: for in a small house, near the foot of an old pier of unknown date, were the Harvilles settled. Captain
57Wentworth turned in to call on his friend; the others walked on, and he was to join them on the Cobb. They were by no
58means tired of wondering and admiring; and not even Louisa seemed to feel that they had parted with Captain Wentworth
59long, when they saw him coming after them, with three companions, all well known already, by description, to be Captain
60and Mrs Harville, and a Captain Benwick, who was staying with them.
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