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The
manoeuvres
of
selfishness
and
duplicity
must
ever
be
revolting
,
but
I
have
heard
nothing
which
really
surprises
me
.
I
know
those
who
would
be
shocked
by
such
a
representation
of
Mr
Elliot
,
who
would
have
difficulty
in
believing
it
;
but
I
have
never
been
satisfied
.
I
have
always
wanted
some
other
motive
for
his
conduct
than
appeared
.
I
should
like
to
know
his
present
opinion
,
as
to
the
probability
of
the
event
he
has
been
in
dread
of
;
whether
he
considers
the
danger
to
be
lessening
or
not
.
"
"
Lessening
,
I
understand
,
"
replied
Mrs
Smith
.
"
He
thinks
Mrs
Clay
afraid
of
him
,
aware
that
he
sees
through
her
,
and
not
daring
to
proceed
as
she
might
do
in
his
absence
.
But
since
he
must
be
absent
some
time
or
other
,
I
do
not
perceive
how
he
can
ever
be
secure
while
she
holds
her
present
influence
.
Mrs
Wallis
has
an
amusing
idea
,
as
nurse
tells
me
,
that
it
is
to
be
put
into
the
marriage
articles
when
you
and
Mr
Elliot
marry
,
that
your
father
is
not
to
marry
Mrs
Clay
.
A
scheme
,
worthy
of
Mrs
Wallis
's
understanding
,
by
all
accounts
;
but
my
sensible
nurse
Rooke
sees
the
absurdity
of
it
.
'
Why
,
to
be
sure
,
ma'am
,
'
said
she
,
'
it
would
not
prevent
his
marrying
anybody
else
.
'
And
,
indeed
,
to
own
the
truth
,
I
do
not
think
nurse
,
in
her
heart
,
is
a
very
strenuous
opposer
of
Sir
Walter
's
making
a
second
match
.
She
must
be
allowed
to
be
a
favourer
of
matrimony
,
you
know
;
and
(
since
self
will
intrude
)
who
can
say
that
she
may
not
have
some
flying
visions
of
attending
the
next
Lady
Elliot
,
through
Mrs
Wallis
's
recommendation
?
"
"
I
am
very
glad
to
know
all
this
,
"
said
Anne
,
after
a
little
thoughtfulness
.
"
It
will
be
more
painful
to
me
in
some
respects
to
be
in
company
with
him
,
but
I
shall
know
better
what
to
do
.
My
line
of
conduct
will
be
more
direct
.
Mr
Elliot
is
evidently
a
disingenuous
,
artificial
,
worldly
man
,
who
has
never
had
any
better
principle
to
guide
him
than
selfishness
.
"
But
Mr
Elliot
was
not
done
with
.
Mrs
Smith
had
been
carried
away
from
her
first
direction
,
and
Anne
had
forgotten
,
in
the
interest
of
her
own
family
concerns
,
how
much
had
been
originally
implied
against
him
;
but
her
attention
was
now
called
to
the
explanation
of
those
first
hints
,
and
she
listened
to
a
recital
which
,
if
it
did
not
perfectly
justify
the
unqualified
bitterness
of
Mrs
Smith
,
proved
him
to
have
been
very
unfeeling
in
his
conduct
towards
her
;
very
deficient
both
in
justice
and
compassion
.
She
learned
that
(
the
intimacy
between
them
continuing
unimpaired
by
Mr
Elliot
's
marriage
)
they
had
been
as
before
always
together
,
and
Mr
Elliot
had
led
his
friend
into
expenses
much
beyond
his
fortune
.
Mrs
Smith
did
not
want
to
take
blame
to
herself
,
and
was
most
tender
of
throwing
any
on
her
husband
;
but
Anne
could
collect
that
their
income
had
never
been
equal
to
their
style
of
living
,
and
that
from
the
first
there
had
been
a
great
deal
of
general
and
joint
extravagance
.
From
his
wife
's
account
of
him
she
could
discern
Mr
Smith
to
have
been
a
man
of
warm
feelings
,
easy
temper
,
careless
habits
,
and
not
strong
understanding
,
much
more
amiable
than
his
friend
,
and
very
unlike
him
,
led
by
him
,
and
probably
despised
by
him
.
Mr
Elliot
,
raised
by
his
marriage
to
great
affluence
,
and
disposed
to
every
gratification
of
pleasure
and
vanity
which
could
be
commanded
without
involving
himself
,
(
for
with
all
his
self-indulgence
he
had
become
a
prudent
man
)
,
and
beginning
to
be
rich
,
just
as
his
friend
ought
to
have
found
himself
to
be
poor
,
seemed
to
have
had
no
concern
at
all
for
that
friend
's
probable
finances
,
but
,
on
the
contrary
,
had
been
prompting
and
encouraging
expenses
which
could
end
only
in
ruin
;
and
the
Smiths
accordingly
had
been
ruined
.
The
husband
had
died
just
in
time
to
be
spared
the
full
knowledge
of
it
.
They
had
previously
known
embarrassments
enough
to
try
the
friendship
of
their
friends
,
and
to
prove
that
Mr
Elliot
's
had
better
not
be
tried
;
but
it
was
not
till
his
death
that
the
wretched
state
of
his
affairs
was
fully
known
.
With
a
confidence
in
Mr
Elliot
's
regard
,
more
creditable
to
his
feelings
than
his
judgement
,
Mr
Smith
had
appointed
him
the
executor
of
his
will
;
but
Mr
Elliot
would
not
act
,
and
the
difficulties
and
distress
which
this
refusal
had
heaped
on
her
,
in
addition
to
the
inevitable
sufferings
of
her
situation
,
had
been
such
as
could
not
be
related
without
anguish
of
spirit
,
or
listened
to
without
corresponding
indignation
.
Anne
was
shewn
some
letters
of
his
on
the
occasion
,
answers
to
urgent
applications
from
Mrs
Smith
,
which
all
breathed
the
same
stern
resolution
of
not
engaging
in
a
fruitless
trouble
,
and
,
under
a
cold
civility
,
the
same
hard-hearted
indifference
to
any
of
the
evils
it
might
bring
on
her
.
It
was
a
dreadful
picture
of
ingratitude
and
inhumanity
;
and
Anne
felt
,
at
some
moments
,
that
no
flagrant
open
crime
could
have
been
worse
.
She
had
a
great
deal
to
listen
to
;
all
the
particulars
of
past
sad
scenes
,
all
the
minutiae
of
distress
upon
distress
,
which
in
former
conversations
had
been
merely
hinted
at
,
were
dwelt
on
now
with
a
natural
indulgence
.
Anne
could
perfectly
comprehend
the
exquisite
relief
,
and
was
only
the
more
inclined
to
wonder
at
the
composure
of
her
friend
's
usual
state
of
mind
.
There
was
one
circumstance
in
the
history
of
her
grievances
of
particular
irritation
.
She
had
good
reason
to
believe
that
some
property
of
her
husband
in
the
West
Indies
,
which
had
been
for
many
years
under
a
sort
of
sequestration
for
the
payment
of
its
own
incumbrances
,
might
be
recoverable
by
proper
measures
;
and
this
property
,
though
not
large
,
would
be
enough
to
make
her
comparatively
rich
.
But
there
was
nobody
to
stir
in
it
.
Mr
Elliot
would
do
nothing
,
and
she
could
do
nothing
herself
,
equally
disabled
from
personal
exertion
by
her
state
of
bodily
weakness
,
and
from
employing
others
by
her
want
of
money
.
She
had
no
natural
connexions
to
assist
her
even
with
their
counsel
,
and
she
could
not
afford
to
purchase
the
assistance
of
the
law
.
