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That
Lady
Russell
,
of
steady
age
and
character
,
and
extremely
well
provided
for
,
should
have
no
thought
of
a
second
marriage
,
needs
no
apology
to
the
public
,
which
is
rather
apt
to
be
unreasonably
discontented
when
a
woman
does
marry
again
,
than
when
she
does
not
;
but
Sir
Walter
's
continuing
in
singleness
requires
explanation
.
Be
it
known
then
,
that
Sir
Walter
,
like
a
good
father
,
(
having
met
with
one
or
two
private
disappointments
in
very
unreasonable
applications
)
,
prided
himself
on
remaining
single
for
his
dear
daughters
'
sake
.
For
one
daughter
,
his
eldest
,
he
would
really
have
given
up
any
thing
,
which
he
had
not
been
very
much
tempted
to
do
.
Elizabeth
had
succeeded
,
at
sixteen
,
to
all
that
was
possible
,
of
her
mother
's
rights
and
consequence
;
and
being
very
handsome
,
and
very
like
himself
,
her
influence
had
always
been
great
,
and
they
had
gone
on
together
most
happily
.
His
two
other
children
were
of
very
inferior
value
.
Mary
had
acquired
a
little
artificial
importance
,
by
becoming
Mrs
Charles
Musgrove
;
but
Anne
,
with
an
elegance
of
mind
and
sweetness
of
character
,
which
must
have
placed
her
high
with
any
people
of
real
understanding
,
was
nobody
with
either
father
or
sister
;
her
word
had
no
weight
,
her
convenience
was
always
to
give
way
--
she
was
only
Anne
.
To
Lady
Russell
,
indeed
,
she
was
a
most
dear
and
highly
valued
god-daughter
,
favourite
,
and
friend
.
Lady
Russell
loved
them
all
;
but
it
was
only
in
Anne
that
she
could
fancy
the
mother
to
revive
again
.
A
few
years
before
,
Anne
Elliot
had
been
a
very
pretty
girl
,
but
her
bloom
had
vanished
early
;
and
as
even
in
its
height
,
her
father
had
found
little
to
admire
in
her
,
(
so
totally
different
were
her
delicate
features
and
mild
dark
eyes
from
his
own
)
,
there
could
be
nothing
in
them
,
now
that
she
was
faded
and
thin
,
to
excite
his
esteem
.
He
had
never
indulged
much
hope
,
he
had
now
none
,
of
ever
reading
her
name
in
any
other
page
of
his
favourite
work
.
All
equality
of
alliance
must
rest
with
Elizabeth
,
for
Mary
had
merely
connected
herself
with
an
old
country
family
of
respectability
and
large
fortune
,
and
had
therefore
given
all
the
honour
and
received
none
:
Elizabeth
would
,
one
day
or
other
,
marry
suitably
.
It
sometimes
happens
that
a
woman
is
handsomer
at
twenty-nine
than
she
was
ten
years
before
;
and
,
generally
speaking
,
if
there
has
been
neither
ill
health
nor
anxiety
,
it
is
a
time
of
life
at
which
scarcely
any
charm
is
lost
.
It
was
so
with
Elizabeth
,
still
the
same
handsome
Miss
Elliot
that
she
had
begun
to
be
thirteen
years
ago
,
and
Sir
Walter
might
be
excused
,
therefore
,
in
forgetting
her
age
,
or
,
at
least
,
be
deemed
only
half
a
fool
,
for
thinking
himself
and
Elizabeth
as
blooming
as
ever
,
amidst
the
wreck
of
the
good
looks
of
everybody
else
;
for
he
could
plainly
see
how
old
all
the
rest
of
his
family
and
acquaintance
were
growing
.
Anne
haggard
,
Mary
coarse
,
every
face
in
the
neighbourhood
worsting
,
and
the
rapid
increase
of
the
crow
's
foot
about
Lady
Russell
's
temples
had
long
been
a
distress
to
him
.
Elizabeth
did
not
quite
equal
her
father
in
personal
contentment
.
Thirteen
years
had
seen
her
mistress
of
Kellynch
Hall
,
presiding
and
directing
with
a
self-possession
and
decision
which
could
never
have
given
the
idea
of
her
being
younger
than
she
was
.
For
thirteen
years
had
she
been
doing
the
honours
,
and
laying
down
the
domestic
law
at
home
,
and
leading
the
way
to
the
chaise
and
four
,
and
walking
immediately
after
Lady
Russell
out
of
all
the
drawing-rooms
and
dining-rooms
in
the
country
.
Thirteen
winters
'
revolving
frosts
had
seen
her
opening
every
ball
of
credit
which
a
scanty
neighbourhood
afforded
,
and
thirteen
springs
shewn
their
blossoms
,
as
she
travelled
up
to
London
with
her
father
,
for
a
few
weeks
'
annual
enjoyment
of
the
great
world
.
She
had
the
remembrance
of
all
this
,
she
had
the
consciousness
of
being
nine-and-twenty
to
give
her
some
regrets
and
some
apprehensions
;
she
was
fully
satisfied
of
being
still
quite
as
handsome
as
ever
,
but
she
felt
her
approach
to
the
years
of
danger
,
and
would
have
rejoiced
to
be
certain
of
being
properly
solicited
by
baronet-blood
within
the
next
twelvemonth
or
two
.
Then
might
she
again
take
up
the
book
of
books
with
as
much
enjoyment
as
in
her
early
youth
,
but
now
she
liked
it
not
.
Always
to
be
presented
with
the
date
of
her
own
birth
and
see
no
marriage
follow
but
that
of
a
youngest
sister
,
made
the
book
an
evil
;
and
more
than
once
,
when
her
father
had
left
it
open
on
the
table
near
her
,
had
she
closed
it
,
with
averted
eyes
,
and
pushed
it
away
.
She
had
had
a
disappointment
,
moreover
,
which
that
book
,
and
especially
the
history
of
her
own
family
,
must
ever
present
the
remembrance
of
.
The
heir
presumptive
,
the
very
William
Walter
Elliot
,
Esq.
,
whose
rights
had
been
so
generously
supported
by
her
father
,
had
disappointed
her
.
She
had
,
while
a
very
young
girl
,
as
soon
as
she
had
known
him
to
be
,
in
the
event
of
her
having
no
brother
,
the
future
baronet
,
meant
to
marry
him
,
and
her
father
had
always
meant
that
she
should
.
He
had
not
been
known
to
them
as
a
boy
;
but
soon
after
Lady
Elliot
's
death
,
Sir
Walter
had
sought
the
acquaintance
,
and
though
his
overtures
had
not
been
met
with
any
warmth
,
he
had
persevered
in
seeking
it
,
making
allowance
for
the
modest
drawing-back
of
youth
;
and
,
in
one
of
their
spring
excursions
to
London
,
when
Elizabeth
was
in
her
first
bloom
,
Mr
Elliot
had
been
forced
into
the
introduction
.
He
was
at
that
time
a
very
young
man
,
just
engaged
in
the
study
of
the
law
;
and
Elizabeth
found
him
extremely
agreeable
,
and
every
plan
in
his
favour
was
confirmed
.
He
was
invited
to
Kellynch
Hall
;
he
was
talked
of
and
expected
all
the
rest
of
the
year
;
but
he
never
came
.
The
following
spring
he
was
seen
again
in
town
,
found
equally
agreeable
,
again
encouraged
,
invited
,
and
expected
,
and
again
he
did
not
come
;
and
the
next
tidings
were
that
he
was
married
.
Instead
of
pushing
his
fortune
in
the
line
marked
out
for
the
heir
of
the
house
of
Elliot
,
he
had
purchased
independence
by
uniting
himself
to
a
rich
woman
of
inferior
birth
.
Sir
Walter
has
resented
it
.
As
the
head
of
the
house
,
he
felt
that
he
ought
to
have
been
consulted
,
especially
after
taking
the
young
man
so
publicly
by
the
hand
;
"
For
they
must
have
been
seen
together
,
"
he
observed
,
"
once
at
Tattersall
's
,
and
twice
in
the
lobby
of
the
House
of
Commons
.
"
His
disapprobation
was
expressed
,
but
apparently
very
little
regarded
.
Mr
Elliot
had
attempted
no
apology
,
and
shewn
himself
as
unsolicitous
of
being
longer
noticed
by
the
family
,
as
Sir
Walter
considered
him
unworthy
of
it
:
all
acquaintance
between
them
had
ceased
.
