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1Anne mentioned the glimpses she had had of him at Lyme, but without being much attended to. "Oh! yes, perhaps, it had
2been Mr Elliot. They did not know. It might be him, perhaps." They could not listen to her description of him. They were
3describing him themselves; Sir Walter especially. He did justice to his very gentlemanlike appearance, his air of
4elegance and fashion, his good shaped face, his sensible eye; but, at the same time, "must lament his being very much
5under-hung, a defect which time seemed to have increased; nor could he pretend to say that ten years had not altered
6almost every feature for the worse. Mr Elliot appeared to think that he (Sir Walter) was looking exactly as he had done
7when they last parted;" but Sir Walter had "not been able to return the compliment entirely, which had embarrassed him.
8He did not mean to complain, however. Mr Elliot was better to look at than most men, and he had no objection to being
9seen with him anywhere." Mr Elliot, and his friends in Marlborough Buildings, were talked of the whole evening. "Colonel
10Wallis had been so impatient to be introduced to them! and Mr Elliot so anxious that he should!" and there was a Mrs
11Wallis, at present known only to them by description, as she was in daily expectation of her confinement; but Mr Elliot
12spoke of her as "a most charming woman, quite worthy of being known in Camden Place," and as soon as she recovered they
13were to be acquainted. Sir Walter thought much of Mrs Wallis; she was said to be an excessively pretty woman, beautiful.
14"He longed to see her. He hoped she might make some amends for the many very plain faces he was continually passing in
15the streets. The worst of Bath was the number of its plain women. He did not mean to say that there were no pretty
16women, but the number of the plain was out of all proportion. He had frequently observed, as he walked, that one
17handsome face would be followed by thirty, or five-and-thirty frights; and once, as he had stood in a shop on Bond
18Street, he had counted eighty-seven women go by, one after another, without there being a tolerable face among them. It
19had been a frosty morning, to be sure, a sharp frost, which hardly one woman in a thousand could stand the test of. But
20still, there certainly were a dreadful multitude of ugly women in Bath; and as for the men! they were infinitely worse.
21Such scarecrows as the streets were full of! It was evident how little the women were used to the sight of anything
22tolerable, by the effect which a man of decent appearance produced. He had never walked anywhere arm-in-arm with Colonel
23Wallis (who was a fine military figure, though sandy-haired) without observing that every woman's eye was upon him;
24every woman's eye was sure to be upon Colonel Wallis." Modest Sir Walter! He was not allowed to escape, however. His
25daughter and Mrs Clay united in hinting that Colonel Wallis's companion might have as good a figure as Colonel Wallis,
26and certainly was not sandy-haired. "How is Mary looking?" said Sir Walter, in the height of his good humour. "The last
27time I saw her she had a red nose, but I hope that may not happen every day." "Oh! no, that must have been quite
28accidental. In general she has been in very good health and very good looks since Michaelmas." "If I thought it would
29not tempt her to go out in sharp winds, and grow coarse, I would send her a new hat and pelisse." Anne was considering
30whether she should venture to suggest that a gown, or a cap, would not be liable to any such misuse, when a knock at the
31door suspended everything. "A knock at the door! and so late! It was ten o'clock. Could it be Mr Elliot? They knew he
32was to dine in Lansdown Crescent. It was possible that he might stop in his way home to ask them how they did. They
33could think of no one else. Mrs Clay decidedly thought it Mr Elliot's knock." Mrs Clay was right. With all the state
34which a butler and foot-boy could give, Mr Elliot was ushered into the room. It was the same, the very same man, with no
35difference but of dress. Anne drew a little back, while the others received his compliments, and her sister his
36apologies for calling at so unusual an hour, but "he could not be so near without wishing to know that neither she nor
37her friend had taken cold the day before," &c. &c.; which was all as politely done, and as politely taken, as possible,
38but her part must follow then. Sir Walter talked of his youngest daughter; "Mr Elliot must give him leave to present him
39to his youngest daughter" (there was no occasion for remembering Mary); and Anne, smiling and blushing, very becomingly
40shewed to Mr Elliot the pretty features which he had by no means forgotten, and instantly saw, with amusement at his
41little start of surprise, that he had not been at all aware of who she was. He looked completely astonished, but not
42more astonished than pleased; his eyes brightened! and with the most perfect alacrity he welcomed the relationship,
43alluded to the past, and entreated to be received as an acquaintance already. He was quite as good-looking as he had
44appeared at Lyme, his countenance improved by speaking, and his manners were so exactly what they ought to be, so
45polished, so easy, so particularly agreeable, that she could compare them in excellence to only one person's manners.
46They were not the same, but they were, perhaps, equally good. He sat down with them, and improved their conversation
47very much. There could be no doubt of his being a sensible man. Ten minutes were enough to certify that. His tone, his
48expressions, his choice of subject, his knowing where to stop; it was all the operation of a sensible, discerning mind.
49As soon as he could, he began to talk to her of Lyme, wanting to compare opinions respecting the place, but especially
50wanting to speak of the circumstance of their happening to be guests in the same inn at the same time; to give his own
51route, understand something of hers, and regret that he should have lost such an opportunity of paying his respects to
52her. She gave him a short account of her party and business at Lyme. His regret increased as he listened. He had spent
53his whole solitary evening in the room adjoining theirs; had heard voices, mirth continually; thought they must be a
54most delightful set of people, longed to be with them, but certainly without the smallest suspicion of his possessing
55the shadow of a right to introduce himself. If he had but asked who the party were! The name of Musgrove would have told
56him enough. "Well, it would serve to cure him of an absurd practice of never asking a question at an inn, which he had
57adopted, when quite a young man, on the principle of its being very ungenteel to be curious." "The notions of a young
58man of one or two and twenty," said he, "as to what is necessary in manners to make him quite the thing, are more
59absurd, I believe, than those of any other set of beings in the world. The folly of the means they often employ is only
60to be equalled by the folly of what they have in view." But he must not be addressing his reflections to Anne alone: he
61knew it; he was soon diffused again among the others, and it was only at intervals that he could return to Lyme. His
62enquiries, however, produced at length an account of the scene she had been engaged in there, soon after his leaving the
63place. Having alluded to "an accident," he must hear the whole. When he questioned, Sir Walter and Elizabeth began to
64question also, but the difference in their manner of doing it could not be unfelt. She could only compare Mr Elliot to
65Lady Russell, in the wish of really comprehending what had passed, and in the degree of concern for what she must have
66suffered in witnessing it. He staid an hour with them. The elegant little clock on the mantel-piece had struck "eleven
67with its silver sounds," and the watchman was beginning to be heard at a distance telling the same tale, before Mr
68Elliot or any of them seemed to feel that he had been there long. Anne could not have supposed it possible that her
69first evening in Camden Place could have passed so well!
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