Two Chapters of Persuasion: Diplomatic DisplayLondonBritish Library, MS Egerton 3038
all the changes of each at theConcert, to be miserable by this morning's
circumstantial report, tobe now, more happy than Languagecould expreſs, or any heart but hisown
be capable of.X1 – There was timeforwas all this to pass, —be said —& withsuch Interruptions only as en::hanced the charm of the communicationconversation — — and Bath cd .could scarcely contain anyother twomore Beings at once somore rationally & so rapturously happy as
during thateveng .evening occupied the Sopha of ofMrs . Croft's Drawing room in Gay St .Street
Capt .CaptainW. –Wentworth had taken care tomeet the Adml -Admiral as he returned intothe house, to satisfy, & to en::deavour to
silence him as toon thesubject of his
enquiry Mr . E — &Kellynch;
– and the innate delicacyof the Admiral's good naturehumour kept him from saying anotherword on the subject to
Anne. — He was quite concerned lest he might have
been giving her pain by touching a tender part.Who could say? — She might be liking her Cousin, better thanhe liked
her. — And indeed,
Footnotes
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