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1"There! you see!" cried Mary in an ecstasy, "just as I said! Heir to Sir Walter Elliot! I was sure that would come out,
2if it was so. Depend upon it, that is a circumstance which his servants take care to publish, wherever he goes. But,
3Anne, only conceive how extraordinary! I wish I had looked at him more. I wish we had been aware in time, who it was,
4that he might have been introduced to us. What a pity that we should not have been introduced to each other! Do you
5think he had the Elliot countenance? I hardly looked at him, I was looking at the horses; but I think he had something
6of the Elliot countenance, I wonder the arms did not strike me! Oh! the great-coat was hanging over the panel, and hid
7the arms, so it did; otherwise, I am sure, I should have observed them, and the livery too; if the servant had not been
8in mourning, one should have known him by the livery." "Putting all these very extraordinary circumstances together,"
9said Captain Wentworth, "we must consider it to be the arrangement of Providence, that you should not be introduced to
10your cousin." When she could command Mary's attention, Anne quietly tried to convince her that their father and Mr
11Elliot had not, for many years, been on such terms as to make the power of attempting an introduction at all desirable.
12At the same time, however, it was a secret gratification to herself to have seen her cousin, and to know that the future
13owner of Kellynch was undoubtedly a gentleman, and had an air of good sense. She would not, upon any account, mention
14her having met with him the second time; luckily Mary did not much attend to their having passed close by him in their
15earlier walk, but she would have felt quite ill-used by Anne's having actually run against him in the passage, and
16received his very polite excuses, while she had never been near him at all; no, that cousinly little interview must
17remain a perfect secret. "Of course," said Mary, "you will mention our seeing Mr Elliot, the next time you write to
18Bath. I think my father certainly ought to hear of it; do mention all about him." Anne avoided a direct reply, but it
19was just the circumstance which she considered as not merely unnecessary to be communicated, but as what ought to be
20suppressed. The offence which had been given her father, many years back, she knew; Elizabeth's particular share in it
21she suspected; and that Mr Elliot's idea always produced irritation in both was beyond a doubt. Mary never wrote to Bath
22herself; all the toil of keeping up a slow and unsatisfactory correspondence with Elizabeth fell on Anne. Breakfast had
23not been long over, when they were joined by Captain and Mrs Harville and Captain Benwick; with whom they had appointed
24to take their last walk about Lyme. They ought to be setting off for Uppercross by one, and in the meanwhile were to be
25all together, and out of doors as long as they could. Anne found Captain Benwick getting near her, as soon as they were
26all fairly in the street. Their conversation the preceding evening did not disincline him to seek her again; and they
27walked together some time, talking as before of Mr Scott and Lord Byron, and still as unable as before, and as unable as
28any other two readers, to think exactly alike of the merits of either, till something occasioned an almost general
29change amongst their party, and instead of Captain Benwick, she had Captain Harville by her side. "Miss Elliot," said
30he, speaking rather low, "you have done a good deed in making that poor fellow talk so much. I wish he could have such
31company oftener. It is bad for him, I know, to be shut up as he is; but what can we do? We cannot part." "No," said
32Anne, "that I can easily believe to be impossible; but in time, perhaps--we know what time does in every case of
33affliction, and you must remember, Captain Harville, that your friend may yet be called a young mourner--only last
34summer, I understand." "Ay, true enough," (with a deep sigh) "only June." "And not known to him, perhaps, so soon." "Not
35till the first week of August, when he came home from the Cape, just made into the Grappler. I was at Plymouth dreading
36to hear of him; he sent in letters, but the Grappler was under orders for Portsmouth. There the news must follow him,
37but who was to tell it? not I. I would as soon have been run up to the yard-arm. Nobody could do it, but that good
38fellow" (pointing to Captain Wentworth). "The Laconia had come into Plymouth the week before; no danger of her being
39sent to sea again. He stood his chance for the rest; wrote up for leave of absence, but without waiting the return,
40travelled night and day till he got to Portsmouth, rowed off to the Grappler that instant, and never left the poor
41fellow for a week. That's what he did, and nobody else could have saved poor James. You may think, Miss Elliot, whether
42he is dear to us!" Anne did think on the question with perfect decision, and said as much in reply as her own feeling
43could accomplish, or as his seemed able to bear, for he was too much affected to renew the subject, and when he spoke
44again, it was of something totally different. Mrs Harville's giving it as her opinion that her husband would have quite
45walking enough by the time he reached home, determined the direction of all the party in what was to be their last walk;
46they would accompany them to their door, and then return and set off themselves. By all their calculations there was
47just time for this; but as they drew near the Cobb, there was such a general wish to walk along it once more, all were
48so inclined, and Louisa soon grew so determined, that the difference of a quarter of an hour, it was found, would be no
49difference at all; so with all the kind leave-taking, and all the kind interchange of invitations and promises which may
50be imagined, they parted from Captain and Mrs Harville at their own door, and still accompanied by Captain Benwick, who
51seemed to cling to them to the last, proceeded to make the proper adieus to the Cobb. Anne found Captain Benwick again
52drawing near her. Lord Byron's "dark blue seas" could not fail of being brought forward by their present view, and she
53gladly gave him all her attention as long as attention was possible. It was soon drawn, perforce another way. There was
54too much wind to make the high part of the new Cobb pleasant for the ladies, and they agreed to get down the steps to
55the lower, and all were contented to pass quietly and carefully down the steep flight, excepting Louisa; she must be
56jumped down them by Captain Wentworth. In all their walks, he had had to jump her from the stiles; the sensation was
57delightful to her. The hardness of the pavement for her feet, made him less willing upon the present occasion; he did
58it, however. She was safely down, and instantly, to show her enjoyment, ran up the steps to be jumped down again. He
59advised her against it, thought the jar too great; but no, he reasoned and talked in vain, she smiled and said, "I am
60determined I will:" he put out his hands; she was too precipitate by half a second, she fell on the pavement on the
61Lower Cobb, and was taken up lifeless! There was no wound, no blood, no visible bruise; but her eyes were closed, she
62breathed not, her face was like death. The horror of the moment to all who stood around! Captain Wentworth, who had
63caught her up, knelt with her in his arms, looking on her with a face as pallid as her own, in an agony of silence. "She
64is dead! she is dead!" screamed Mary, catching hold of her husband, and contributing with his own horror to make him
65immoveable; and in another moment, Henrietta, sinking under the conviction, lost her senses too, and would have fallen
66on the steps, but for Captain Benwick and Anne, who caught and supported her between them. "Is there no one to help me?"
67were the first words which burst from Captain Wentworth, in a tone of despair, and as if all his own strength were gone.
68"Go to him, go to him," cried Anne, "for heaven's sake go to him. I can support her myself. Leave me, and go to him. Rub
69her hands, rub her temples; here are salts; take them, take them."
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