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Persuasion

Jane Austen

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Persuasion
Volume I
Chapter I. The Elliots and their money problems     5
Chapter II. Elliots to leave Kellynch Hall   14
Chapter III. Kellynch let to Admiral Croft   21
Chapter IV. Anne Elliot’s former attachment to Captain
Wentworth, brother-in-law to Admiral Croft   31
Chapter V. Elliots to Bath; Anne remains behind   38
Chapter VI. Anne at Uppercross Cottage; Crofts at
Kellynch Hall   49
Chapter VII. Captain Wentworth arrives at Kellynch,
meets Anne   62
Chapter VIII. Anne and Wentworth dine with the
Musgraves at Uppercross House   73
Chapter IX. Charles Hayter returns to Uppercross   84
Chapter X. A walk to the Hayters at Winthrop   94
Chapter XI. A trip to Lyme 107
Chapter XII. Louisa Musgrave’s accident at Lyme 118
Volume II
Chapter I. Anne visits Kellynch Hall 136
Chapter II. Anne and Lady Russell to Bath 145
Chapter III. Anne’s cousin Mr Elliot comes to call 154
Chapter IV. Mr Elliot’s intentions discussed 164
Chapter V. Anne visits her schoolfriend, Mrs Smith 172

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Chapter VI. Anne learns that Louisa is to marry

Captain Benwick 184

Chapter VII. Captain Wentworth arrives in Bath 198

Chapter VIII. Anne speaks to Wentworth at a concert 206

Chapter IX. Mrs Smith reveals Mr Elliot’s character to Anne 218

Chapter X. The Musgraves arrive in Bath 241

Chapter XI. Wentworth writes to Anne, they are reunited 260

Chapter XII. Anne marries Wentworth; he helps Mrs Smith 282

Appendix. The Original Ending of Persuasion 288

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PERSUASION

VOLUME I

CHAPTER I

ir Walter Elliot, of Kellynch Hall, in Somersetshire, was a

man who, for his own amusement, never took up any book

but the Baronetage; there he found occupation for an idle

hour, and consolation in a distressed one; there his faculties were

roused into admiration and respect, by contemplating the limited

remnant of the earliest patents; there any unwelcome sensations,

arising from domestic affairs changed naturally into pity and

contempt as he turned over the almost endless creations of the last

century; and there, if every other leaf were powerless, he could

read his own history with an interest which never failed. This was

the page at which the favourite volume always opened:

“ELLIOT OF KELLYNCH HALL.

“Walter Elliot, born March 1, 1760, married, July 15, 1784,

Elizabeth, daughter of James Stevenson, Esq. of South Park, in

the county of Gloucester, by which lady (who died 1800) he has

issue Elizabeth, born June 1, 1785; Anne, born August 9, 1787; a

still-born son, November 5, 1789; Mary, born November 20, 1791.”

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Precisely such had the paragraph originally stood from the

printer’s hands; but Sir Walter had improved it by adding, for the

information of himself and his family, these words, after the date

of Mary’s birth—“Married, December 16, 1810, Charles, son and

heir of Charles Musgrove, Esq. of Uppercross, in the county of

Somerset,” and by inserting most accurately the day of the month

on which he had lost his wife.

Then followed the history and rise of the ancient and

respectable family, in the usual terms; how it had been first settled

in Cheshire; how mentioned in Dugdale, serving the office of high

sheriff, representing a borough in three successive parliaments,

exertions of loyalty, and dignity of baronet, in the first year of

Charles II, with all the Marys and Elizabeths they had married;

forming altogether two handsome duodecimo pages, and

concluding with the arms and motto:—“Principal seat, Kellynch

Hall, in the county of Somerset,” and Sir Walter’s handwriting

again in this finale:—

“Heir presumptive, William Walter Elliot, Esq., great grandson

of the second Sir Walter.”

Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot’s

character; vanity of person and of situation. He had been

remarkably handsome in his youth; and, at fifty-four, was still a

very fine man. Few women could think more of their personal

appearance than he did, nor could the valet of any new made lord

be more delighted with the place he held in society. He considered

the blessing of beauty as inferior only to the blessing of a

baronetcy; and the Sir Walter Elliot, who united these gifts, was

the constant object of his warmest respect and devotion.

His good looks and his rank had one fair claim on his

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attachment; since to them he must have owed a wife of very

superior character to any thing deserved by his own. Lady Elliot

had been an excellent woman, sensible and amiable; whose

judgment and conduct, if they might be pardoned the youthful

infatuation which made her Lady Elliot, had never required

indulgence afterwards.—She had humoured, or softened, or

concealed his failings, and promoted his real respectability for

seventeen years; and though not the very happiest being in the

world herself, had found enough in her duties, her friends, and her

children, to attach her to life, and make it no matter of indifference

to her when she was called on to quit them.—Three girls, the two

eldest sixteen and fourteen, was an awful legacy for a mother to

bequeath, an awful charge rather, to confide to the authority and

guidance of a conceited, silly father. She had, however, one very

intimate friend, a sensible, deserving woman, who had been

brought, by strong attachment to herself, to settle close by her, in

the village of Kellynch; and on her kindness and advice, Lady

Elliot mainly relied for the best help and maintenance of the good

principles and instruction which she had been anxiously giving

her daughters.

This friend, and Sir Walter, did not marry, whatever might have

been anticipated on that head by their acquaintance.—Thirteen

years had passed away since Lady Elliot’s death, and they were

still near neighbours and intimate friends, and one remained a

widower, the other a widow.

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

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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

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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

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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

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