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"
Wentworth
?
Oh
!
ay
--
Mr
Wentworth
,
the
curate
of
Monkford
.
You
misled
me
by
the
term
gentleman
.
I
thought
you
were
speaking
of
some
man
of
property
:
Mr
Wentworth
was
nobody
,
I
remember
;
quite
unconnected
;
nothing
to
do
with
the
Strafford
family
.
One
wonders
how
the
names
of
many
of
our
nobility
become
so
common
.
"
As
Mr
Shepherd
perceived
that
this
connexion
of
the
Crofts
did
them
no
service
with
Sir
Walter
,
he
mentioned
it
no
more
;
returning
,
with
all
his
zeal
,
to
dwell
on
the
circumstances
more
indisputably
in
their
favour
;
their
age
,
and
number
,
and
fortune
;
the
high
idea
they
had
formed
of
Kellynch
Hall
,
and
extreme
solicitude
for
the
advantage
of
renting
it
;
making
it
appear
as
if
they
ranked
nothing
beyond
the
happiness
of
being
the
tenants
of
Sir
Walter
Elliot
:
an
extraordinary
taste
,
certainly
,
could
they
have
been
supposed
in
the
secret
of
Sir
Walter
's
estimate
of
the
dues
of
a
tenant
.
It
succeeded
,
however
;
and
though
Sir
Walter
must
ever
look
with
an
evil
eye
on
anyone
intending
to
inhabit
that
house
,
and
think
them
infinitely
too
well
off
in
being
permitted
to
rent
it
on
the
highest
terms
,
he
was
talked
into
allowing
Mr
Shepherd
to
proceed
in
the
treaty
,
and
authorising
him
to
wait
on
Admiral
Croft
,
who
still
remained
at
Taunton
,
and
fix
a
day
for
the
house
being
seen
Sir
Walter
was
not
very
wise
;
but
still
he
had
experience
enough
of
the
world
to
feel
,
that
a
more
unobjectionable
tenant
,
in
all
essentials
,
than
Admiral
Croft
bid
fair
to
be
,
could
hardly
offer
.
So
far
went
his
understanding
;
and
his
vanity
supplied
a
little
additional
soothing
,
in
the
Admiral
's
situation
in
life
,
which
was
just
high
enough
,
and
not
too
high
.
"
I
have
let
my
house
to
Admiral
Croft
,
"
would
sound
extremely
well
;
very
much
better
than
to
any
mere
Mr
--
a
Mr
(
save
,
perhaps
,
some
half
dozen
in
the
nation
,
)
always
needs
a
note
of
explanation
.
An
admiral
speaks
his
own
consequence
,
and
,
at
the
same
time
,
can
never
make
a
baronet
look
small
.
In
all
their
dealings
and
intercourse
,
Sir
Walter
Elliot
must
ever
have
the
precedence
.
Nothing
could
be
done
without
a
reference
to
Elizabeth
:
but
her
inclination
was
growing
so
strong
for
a
removal
,
that
she
was
happy
to
have
it
fixed
and
expedited
by
a
tenant
at
hand
;
and
not
a
word
to
suspend
decision
was
uttered
by
her
.
Mr
Shepherd
was
completely
empowered
to
act
;
and
no
sooner
had
such
an
end
been
reached
,
than
Anne
,
who
had
been
a
most
attentive
listener
to
the
whole
,
left
the
room
,
to
seek
the
comfort
of
cool
air
for
her
flushed
cheeks
;
and
as
she
walked
along
a
favourite
grove
,
said
,
with
a
gentle
sigh
,
"
A
few
months
more
,
and
he
,
perhaps
,
may
be
walking
here
.
"
He
was
not
Mr
Wentworth
,
the
former
curate
of
Monkford
,
however
suspicious
appearances
may
be
,
but
a
Captain
Frederick
Wentworth
,
his
brother
,
who
being
made
commander
in
consequence
of
the
action
off
St
Domingo
,
and
not
immediately
employed
,
had
come
into
Somersetshire
,
in
the
summer
of
1806
;
and
having
no
parent
living
,
found
a
home
for
half
a
year
at
Monkford
.
He
was
,
at
that
time
,
a
remarkably
fine
young
man
,
with
a
great
deal
of
intelligence
,
spirit
,
and
brilliancy
;
and
Anne
an
extremely
pretty
girl
,
with
gentleness
,
modesty
,
taste
,
and
feeling
.
Half
the
sum
of
attraction
,
on
either
side
,
might
have
been
enough
,
for
he
had
nothing
to
do
,
and
she
had
hardly
anybody
to
love
;
but
the
encounter
of
such
lavish
recommendations
could
not
fail
.
They
were
gradually
acquainted
,
and
when
acquainted
,
rapidly
and
deeply
in
love
.
It
would
be
difficult
to
say
which
had
seen
highest
perfection
in
the
other
,
or
which
had
been
the
happiest
:
she
,
in
receiving
his
declarations
and
proposals
,
or
he
in
having
them
accepted
.
A
short
period
of
exquisite
felicity
followed
,
and
but
a
short
one
.
Troubles
soon
arose
.
Sir
Walter
,
on
being
applied
to
,
without
actually
withholding
his
consent
,
or
saying
it
should
never
be
,
gave
it
all
the
negative
of
great
astonishment
,
great
coldness
,
great
silence
,
and
a
professed
resolution
of
doing
nothing
for
his
daughter
.
He
thought
it
a
very
degrading
alliance
;
and
Lady
Russell
,
though
with
more
tempered
and
pardonable
pride
,
received
it
as
a
most
unfortunate
one
.
Anne
Elliot
,
with
all
her
claims
of
birth
,
beauty
,
and
mind
,
to
throw
herself
away
at
nineteen
;
involve
herself
at
nineteen
in
an
engagement
with
a
young
man
,
who
had
nothing
but
himself
to
recommend
him
,
and
no
hopes
of
attaining
affluence
,
but
in
the
chances
of
a
most
uncertain
profession
,
and
no
connexions
to
secure
even
his
farther
rise
in
the
profession
,
would
be
,
indeed
,
a
throwing
away
,
which
she
grieved
to
think
of
!
Anne
Elliot
,
so
young
;
known
to
so
few
,
to
be
snatched
off
by
a
stranger
without
alliance
or
fortune
;
or
rather
sunk
by
him
into
a
state
of
most
wearing
,
anxious
,
youth-killing
dependence
!
It
must
not
be
,
if
by
any
fair
interference
of
friendship
,
any
representations
from
one
who
had
almost
a
mother
's
love
,
and
mother
's
rights
,
it
would
be
prevented
.
Captain
Wentworth
had
no
fortune
.
He
had
been
lucky
in
his
profession
;
but
spending
freely
,
what
had
come
freely
,
had
realized
nothing
.
But
he
was
confident
that
he
should
soon
be
rich
:
full
of
life
and
ardour
,
he
knew
that
he
should
soon
have
a
ship
,
and
soon
be
on
a
station
that
would
lead
to
everything
he
wanted
.
He
had
always
been
lucky
;
he
knew
he
should
be
so
still
.
Such
confidence
,
powerful
in
its
own
warmth
,
and
bewitching
in
the
wit
which
often
expressed
it
,
must
have
been
enough
for
Anne
;
but
Lady
Russell
saw
it
very
differently
.
His
sanguine
temper
,
and
fearlessness
of
mind
,
operated
very
differently
on
her
.
She
saw
in
it
but
an
aggravation
of
the
evil
.
It
only
added
a
dangerous
character
to
himself
.
He
was
brilliant
,
he
was
headstrong
.
