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1"Yes, I have, presently. But here comes a friend, Captain Brigden; I shall only say, 'How d'ye do?' as we pass, however.
2I shall not stop. 'How d'ye do?' Brigden stares to see anybody with me but my wife. She, poor soul, is tied by the leg.
3She has a blister on one of her heels, as large as a three-shilling piece. If you look across the street, you will see
4Admiral Brand coming down and his brother. Shabby fellows, both of them! I am glad they are not on this side of the way.
5Sophy cannot bear them. They played me a pitiful trick once: got away with some of my best men. I will tell you the
6whole story another time. There comes old Sir Archibald Drew and his grandson. Look, he sees us; he kisses his hand to
7you; he takes you for my wife. Ah! the peace has come too soon for that younker. Poor old Sir Archibald! How do you like
8Bath, Miss Elliot? It suits us very well. We are always meeting with some old friend or other; the streets full of them
9every morning; sure to have plenty of chat; and then we get away from them all, and shut ourselves in our lodgings, and
10draw in our chairs, and are as snug as if we were at Kellynch, ay, or as we used to be even at North Yarmouth and Deal.
11We do not like our lodgings here the worse, I can tell you, for putting us in mind of those we first had at North
12Yarmouth. The wind blows through one of the cupboards just in the same way." When they were got a little farther, Anne
13ventured to press again for what he had to communicate. She hoped when clear of Milsom Street to have her curiosity
14gratified; but she was still obliged to wait, for the Admiral had made up his mind not to begin till they had gained the
15greater space and quiet of Belmont; and as she was not really Mrs Croft, she must let him have his own way. As soon as
16they were fairly ascending Belmont, he began-- "Well, now you shall hear something that will surprise you. But first of
17all, you must tell me the name of the young lady I am going to talk about. That young lady, you know, that we have all
18been so concerned for. The Miss Musgrove, that all this has been happening to. Her Christian name: I always forget her
19Christian name." Anne had been ashamed to appear to comprehend so soon as she really did; but now she could safely
20suggest the name of "Louisa." "Ay, ay, Miss Louisa Musgrove, that is the name. I wish young ladies had not such a number
21of fine Christian names. I should never be out if they were all Sophys, or something of that sort. Well, this Miss
22Louisa, we all thought, you know, was to marry Frederick. He was courting her week after week. The only wonder was, what
23they could be waiting for, till the business at Lyme came; then, indeed, it was clear enough that they must wait till
24her brain was set to right. But even then there was something odd in their way of going on. Instead of staying at Lyme,
25he went off to Plymouth, and then he went off to see Edward. When we came back from Minehead he was gone down to
26Edward's, and there he has been ever since. We have seen nothing of him since November. Even Sophy could not understand
27it. But now, the matter has taken the strangest turn of all; for this young lady, the same Miss Musgrove, instead of
28being to marry Frederick, is to marry James Benwick. You know James Benwick." "A little. I am a little acquainted with
29Captain Benwick." "Well, she is to marry him. Nay, most likely they are married already, for I do not know what they
30should wait for." "I thought Captain Benwick a very pleasing young man," said Anne, "and I understand that he bears an
31excellent character." "Oh! yes, yes, there is not a word to be said against James Benwick. He is only a commander, it is
32true, made last summer, and these are bad times for getting on, but he has not another fault that I know of. An
33excellent, good-hearted fellow, I assure you; a very active, zealous officer too, which is more than you would think
34for, perhaps, for that soft sort of manner does not do him justice." "Indeed you are mistaken there, sir; I should never
35augur want of spirit from Captain Benwick's manners. I thought them particularly pleasing, and I will answer for it,
36they would generally please." "Well, well, ladies are the best judges; but James Benwick is rather too piano for me; and
37though very likely it is all our partiality, Sophy and I cannot help thinking Frederick's manners better than his. There
38is something about Frederick more to our taste." Anne was caught. She had only meant to oppose the too common idea of
39spirit and gentleness being incompatible with each other, not at all to represent Captain Benwick's manners as the very
40best that could possibly be; and, after a little hesitation, she was beginning to say, "I was not entering into any
41comparison of the two friends," but the Admiral interrupted her with-- "And the thing is certainly true. It is not a
42mere bit of gossip. We have it from Frederick himself. His sister had a letter from him yesterday, in which he tells us
43of it, and he had just had it in a letter from Harville, written upon the spot, from Uppercross. I fancy they are all at
44Uppercross." This was an opportunity which Anne could not resist; she said, therefore, "I hope, Admiral, I hope there is
45nothing in the style of Captain Wentworth's letter to make you and Mrs Croft particularly uneasy. It did seem, last
46autumn, as if there were an attachment between him and Louisa Musgrove; but I hope it may be understood to have worn out
47on each side equally, and without violence. I hope his letter does not breathe the spirit of an ill-used man." "Not at
48all, not at all; there is not an oath or a murmur from beginning to end." Anne looked down to hide her smile. "No, no;
49Frederick is not a man to whine and complain; he has too much spirit for that. If the girl likes another man better, it
50is very fit she should have him." "Certainly. But what I mean is, that I hope there is nothing in Captain Wentworth's
51manner of writing to make you suppose he thinks himself ill-used by his friend, which might appear, you know, without
52its being absolutely said. I should be very sorry that such a friendship as has subsisted between him and Captain
53Benwick should be destroyed, or even wounded, by a circumstance of this sort." "Yes, yes, I understand you. But there is
54nothing at all of that nature in the letter. He does not give the least fling at Benwick; does not so much as say, 'I
55wonder at it, I have a reason of my own for wondering at it.' No, you would not guess, from his way of writing, that he
56had ever thought of this Miss (what's her name?) for himself. He very handsomely hopes they will be happy together; and
57there is nothing very unforgiving in that, I think." Anne did not receive the perfect conviction which the Admiral meant
58to convey, but it would have been useless to press the enquiry farther. She therefore satisfied herself with
59common-place remarks or quiet attention, and the Admiral had it all his own way. "Poor Frederick!" said he at last. "Now
60he must begin all over again with somebody else. I think we must get him to Bath. Sophy must write, and beg him to come
61to Bath. Here are pretty girls enough, I am sure. It would be of no use to go to Uppercross again, for that other Miss
62Musgrove, I find, is bespoke by her cousin, the young parson. Do not you think, Miss Elliot, we had better try to get
63him to Bath?"
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