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She
was
a
widow
and
poor
.
Her
husband
had
been
extravagant
;
and
at
his
death
,
about
two
years
before
,
had
left
his
affairs
dreadfully
involved
.
She
had
had
difficulties
of
every
sort
to
contend
with
,
and
in
addition
to
these
distresses
had
been
afflicted
with
a
severe
rheumatic
fever
,
which
,
finally
settling
in
her
legs
,
had
made
her
for
the
present
a
cripple
.
She
had
come
to
Bath
on
that
account
,
and
was
now
in
lodgings
near
the
hot
baths
,
living
in
a
very
humble
way
,
unable
even
to
afford
herself
the
comfort
of
a
servant
,
and
of
course
almost
excluded
from
society
.
Their
mutual
friend
answered
for
the
satisfaction
which
a
visit
from
Miss
Elliot
would
give
Mrs
Smith
,
and
Anne
therefore
lost
no
time
in
going
.
She
mentioned
nothing
of
what
she
had
heard
,
or
what
she
intended
,
at
home
.
It
would
excite
no
proper
interest
there
.
She
only
consulted
Lady
Russell
,
who
entered
thoroughly
into
her
sentiments
,
and
was
most
happy
to
convey
her
as
near
to
Mrs
Smith
's
lodgings
in
Westgate
Buildings
,
as
Anne
chose
to
be
taken
.
The
visit
was
paid
,
their
acquaintance
re-established
,
their
interest
in
each
other
more
than
re-kindled
.
The
first
ten
minutes
had
its
awkwardness
and
its
emotion
.
Twelve
years
were
gone
since
they
had
parted
,
and
each
presented
a
somewhat
different
person
from
what
the
other
had
imagined
.
Twelve
years
had
changed
Anne
from
the
blooming
,
silent
,
unformed
girl
of
fifteen
,
to
the
elegant
little
woman
of
seven-and-twenty
,
with
every
beauty
except
bloom
,
and
with
manners
as
consciously
right
as
they
were
invariably
gentle
;
and
twelve
years
had
transformed
the
fine-looking
,
well-grown
Miss
Hamilton
,
in
all
the
glow
of
health
and
confidence
of
superiority
,
into
a
poor
,
infirm
,
helpless
widow
,
receiving
the
visit
of
her
former
protegee
as
a
favour
;
but
all
that
was
uncomfortable
in
the
meeting
had
soon
passed
away
,
and
left
only
the
interesting
charm
of
remembering
former
partialities
and
talking
over
old
times
.
Anne
found
in
Mrs
Smith
the
good
sense
and
agreeable
manners
which
she
had
almost
ventured
to
depend
on
,
and
a
disposition
to
converse
and
be
cheerful
beyond
her
expectation
.
Neither
the
dissipations
of
the
past
--
and
she
had
lived
very
much
in
the
world
--
nor
the
restrictions
of
the
present
,
neither
sickness
nor
sorrow
seemed
to
have
closed
her
heart
or
ruined
her
spirits
.
In
the
course
of
a
second
visit
she
talked
with
great
openness
,
and
Anne
's
astonishment
increased
.
She
could
scarcely
imagine
a
more
cheerless
situation
in
itself
than
Mrs
Smith
's
.
She
had
been
very
fond
of
her
husband
:
she
had
buried
him
.
She
had
been
used
to
affluence
:
it
was
gone
.
She
had
no
child
to
connect
her
with
life
and
happiness
again
,
no
relations
to
assist
in
the
arrangement
of
perplexed
affairs
,
no
health
to
make
all
the
rest
supportable
.
Her
accommodations
were
limited
to
a
noisy
parlour
,
and
a
dark
bedroom
behind
,
with
no
possibility
of
moving
from
one
to
the
other
without
assistance
,
which
there
was
only
one
servant
in
the
house
to
afford
,
and
she
never
quitted
the
house
but
to
be
conveyed
into
the
warm
bath
.
Yet
,
in
spite
of
all
this
,
Anne
had
reason
to
believe
that
she
had
moments
only
of
languor
and
depression
,
to
hours
of
occupation
and
enjoyment
.
How
could
it
be
?
She
watched
,
observed
,
reflected
,
and
finally
determined
that
this
was
not
a
case
of
fortitude
or
of
resignation
only
.
A
submissive
spirit
might
be
patient
,
a
strong
understanding
would
supply
resolution
,
but
here
was
something
more
;
here
was
that
elasticity
of
mind
,
that
disposition
to
be
comforted
,
that
power
of
turning
readily
from
evil
to
good
,
and
of
finding
employment
which
carried
her
out
of
herself
,
which
was
from
nature
alone
.
It
was
the
choicest
gift
of
Heaven
;
and
Anne
viewed
her
friend
as
one
of
those
instances
in
which
,
by
a
merciful
appointment
,
it
seems
designed
to
counterbalance
almost
every
other
want
.
There
had
been
a
time
,
Mrs
Smith
told
her
,
when
her
spirits
had
nearly
failed
.
She
could
not
call
herself
an
invalid
now
,
compared
with
her
state
on
first
reaching
Bath
.
Then
she
had
,
indeed
,
been
a
pitiable
object
;
for
she
had
caught
cold
on
the
journey
,
and
had
hardly
taken
possession
of
her
lodgings
before
she
was
again
confined
to
her
bed
and
suffering
under
severe
and
constant
pain
;
and
all
this
among
strangers
,
with
the
absolute
necessity
of
having
a
regular
nurse
,
and
finances
at
that
moment
particularly
unfit
to
meet
any
extraordinary
expense
.
She
had
weathered
it
,
however
,
and
could
truly
say
that
it
had
done
her
good
.
It
had
increased
her
comforts
by
making
her
feel
herself
to
be
in
good
hands
.
She
had
seen
too
much
of
the
world
,
to
expect
sudden
or
disinterested
attachment
anywhere
,
but
her
illness
had
proved
to
her
that
her
landlady
had
a
character
to
preserve
,
and
would
not
use
her
ill
;
and
she
had
been
particularly
fortunate
in
her
nurse
,
as
a
sister
of
her
landlady
,
a
nurse
by
profession
,
and
who
had
always
a
home
in
that
house
when
unemployed
,
chanced
to
be
at
liberty
just
in
time
to
attend
her
.
"
And
she
,
"
said
Mrs
Smith
,
"
besides
nursing
me
most
admirably
,
has
really
proved
an
invaluable
acquaintance
.
As
soon
as
I
could
use
my
hands
she
taught
me
to
knit
,
which
has
been
a
great
amusement
;
and
she
put
me
in
the
way
of
making
these
little
thread-cases
,
pin-cushions
and
card-racks
,
which
you
always
find
me
so
busy
about
,
and
which
supply
me
with
the
means
of
doing
a
little
good
to
one
or
two
very
poor
families
in
this
neighbourhood
.
She
had
a
large
acquaintance
,
of
course
professionally
,
among
those
who
can
afford
to
buy
,
and
she
disposes
of
my
merchandise
.
She
always
takes
the
right
time
for
applying
.
