After sending the Musgroves to Lyme to visit with Louisa, Anne visits Lady Russell. How different Anne has become in the months since they last met. Lady Russell opened her inlaid walnut teapoy. The dusty herbal fragrance of tea leaves wafted up, riding on the dust motes in the afternoon sun. How long had it …
When they came to the steps, leading upwards from the beach, a gentleman, at the same moment preparing to come down, politely drew back, and stopped to give them way. They ascended and passed him; and as they passed, Anne’s face caught his eye, and he looked at her with a degree of earnest admiration, …
“As they drew near the Cobb, there was such a general wish to walk along it once more, all were so inclined, and Louisa soon grew so determined, that the difference of a quarter of an hour, it was found, would be no difference at all…” They were to depart for Uppercross at …
The young people from Uppercross travel to Lyme to visit two of Captain Wentworth’s fellow officers. After a pleasant day, Captains Harville and Benwick send the guests off to their inn and sit down for a talk about their friends, new and old. Captain Harville tamped the tobacco down in his pipe, then lit a …
The young people were all wild to see Lyme. Captain Wentworth talked of going there again himself; it was only seventeen miles from Uppercross: though November, the weather was by no means bad; and, in short, Louisa, who was the most eager of the eager, having formed the resolution to go, and besides the pleasure of doing as she liked, being …
“…the Admiral and Mrs. Croft were generally out of doors together, interesting themselves in their new possessions, their grass, and their sheep, and dawdling about in a way not endurable to a third person, or driving out in a gig, lately added to their establishment.” Persuasion, Chapter 9 Sophia Croft gazed about her at the bright blue …
After her discussion of Captain Wentworth’s looks and charm with her sister Louisa, Henrietta realizes that she must decide to whom she should give her love, the captain, or her cousin Charles, who she is more than half promised to. Several days after her half-joking talk with her sister Louisa about Captain Wentworth, Henrietta Musgrove …
Louisa and Henrietta have spent the evening with Captain Wentworth at a family dinner… Louisa slowly brushed her hair out, the sugar-water her maid had applied to keep her unruly curls under control providing a battle, as it did every evening. When she finally finished deconstructing her ringlets and braided her hair for bed, Henrietta, …
Captain Wentworth had not been above four or five times in the Miss Musgroves’ company, and Charles Hayter had but just reappeared, when Anne had to listen to the opinions of her brother and sister, as to which was the one liked best. Charles gave it for Louisa, Mary for Henrietta, but quite agreeing that …
Captain Wentworth visits with his sister, Mrs. Croft, and seeks her advice. Finch, the butler at Kellynch, cannot resist listening in. Finch, the elderly butler, was not at all unhappy with the new master and mistress of Kellynch. In fact, he was quite pleased. Sir Walter had offered him the choice of going to Bath with the …
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