Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Persuasion Jane Austin
Persuasion Jane Austin
of
VICTORIA UNIVERSITY
Toronto
THE NOVELS OF
JANE AUSTEN
WINCHESTER
EDITION
VOLUME
THE NOVELS OF
JANE AUSTEN
PERSUASION
1905
PR
4034-
P4
1905
629
PERSUASION
death of the
Author
PERSUASION
CHAPTER I
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
7
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
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, in-
vited, 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.
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
11
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
CHAPTER II
13
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
15
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
19
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
10 B* 21
PERSUASION
CHAPTER III
PERSUASION
23
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
25
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
27
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
29
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
35
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
39
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
41
PERSUASION
really taking Kellynch Hall, she rejoiced anew
over the conviction which had always been most
grateful to her, of the past being known to those
three only among her connexions, by whom no
syllable, she believed, would ever be whispered,
and in the trust that among his, the brother
only with whom he had been residing had
received any information of their short-lived
engagement. That brother had been long
removed from the country, and being a sensible
man, and, moreover, a single man at the time,
she had a fond dependence on no human
creature's having heard of it from him.
42
PERSUASION
CHAPTER V
ON the morning appointed for Admiral and
Mrs. Croft's seeing Kellynch Hall, Anne found
it most natural to take her almost daily walk
to Lady Russell's, and keep out of the way till
all was over ; when she found it most natural
to be sorry that she had missed the opportunity
of seeing them.
43
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
45
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
47
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
51
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
10 D* 53
PERSUASION
55
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
57
PERSUASION
CHAPTER VI
PERSUASION
59
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
61
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
63
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
67
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
10 E* 69
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
71
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
73
PERSUASION
CHAPTER VII
74
PERSUASION
75
PERSUASION
77
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
79
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
' Yes ; you see his papa can, and why should
not I ? Jemima is so careful ; and she could
send us word every hour how he was. I really
think Charles might as well have told his father
we would all come. I am not more alarmed
about little Charles now than he is. I was
dreadfully alarmed yesterday, but the case is
very different to-day.'
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
tion was at least very agreeable, he had no
farther scruples as to her being left to dine
alone, though he still wanted her to join them
in the evening, when the child might be at rest
for the night, and kindly urged her to let him
come and fetch her, but she was quite unper-<^
suadable; and this being the case, she had ere
long the pleasure of seeing them set off together
in high spirits. They were gone, she hoped, to
be happy, however oddly constructed such hap-
piness might seem ; as for herself, she was left
with as many sensations of comfort, as were,
perhaps, ever likely to be hers. She knew
herself to be of the first utility to the child ;
and what was it to her if Frederick Wentworth
were only half a mile distant, making himself
agreeable to others ?
83
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
10 F* 85
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
87
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
and a few smiles, and a few compliments to the
Navy, and I am a lost man. Should not this
be enough for a sailor, who has had no society
among women to make him nice ? '
CHAPTER VIII
89
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
91
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
93
PERSUASION
95
PERSUASION
96
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
99
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
10 G* 101
PERSUASION
103
PERSUASION
104
PERSUASION
CHAPTER IX
105
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
109
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
111
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
10 H 113
PERSUASION
One morning, very soon after the dinner at
the Musgroves, at which Anne had not been
present, Captain Wentworth walked into the
drawing-room at the Cottage, where were only
herself and the little invalid Charles, who was
lying on the sofa.
114
PERSUASION
115
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
10 H* 117
PERSUASION
CHAPTER X
PERSUASION
119
PERSUASION
120
PERSUASION
121
PERSUASION
122
PERSUASION
123
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
* Happy for her, to have such a mind as yours
at hand ! After the hints you gave just now,
which did but confirm my own observations,
the last time I was in company with him, I
need not affect to have no comprehension of
what is going on. I see that more than a mere
dutiful morning visit to your aunt was in
question; and woe betide him, and her too,
when it comes to things of consequence, when
they are placed in circumstances requiring forti-
tude and strength of mind, if she have not
resolution enough to resist idle interference in
such a trifle as this. Your sister is an amiable
creature ; but yours is the character of decision
and firmness, I see. If you value her conduct
or happiness, infuse as much of your own spirit
into her as you can. But this, no doubt, you
have been always doing. It is the worst evil of
too yielding and indecisive a character, that no
influence over it can be depended on. You are
never sure of a good impression being durable ;
everybody may sway it. Let those who would
be happy be firm. Here is a nut,' said he,
catching one down from an upper bough, 'to
exemplify : a beautiful glossy nut, which, blessed
with original strength, has outlived all the
storms of autumn. Not a puncture, not a weak
spot anywhere. This nut,' he continued, with
playful solemnity, * while so many of its brethren
127
PERSUASION
* Oh ! yes ; certainly/
128
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
131
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
CHAPTER XI
135
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
137
PERSUASION
they were to go Charles, Mary, Anne, Henri-
etta, Louisa, and Captain Wentworth.
138
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
141
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
143
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
147
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
CHAPTER XII
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
151
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
154
PERSUASION
155
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
157
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
159
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
163
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
166
PERSUASION
167
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
169
PERSUASION
but so it must be, and they set off for the town,
Charles taking care of his sister, and Captain
Benwick attending to her. She gave a moment's
recollection, as they hurried along, to the little
circumstances which the same spots had wit-
nessed earlier in the morning. There she had
listened to Henrietta's schemes for Dr. Shirley's
leaving Uppercross ; farther on, she had first
seen Mr. Elliot ; a moment seemed all that
could now be given to any one but Louisa, or
those who were wrapped up in her welfare.
Captain Benwick was most considerately
attentive to her; and, united as they all seemed
by the distress of the day, she felt an increasing
degree of goodwill towards him, and a pleasure
even in thinking that it might, perhaps, be the
occasion of continuing their acquaintance.
PERSUASION
171
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
CHAPTER XIII
173
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
175
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
179
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
183
PERSUASION
CHAPTER XIV
185
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
187
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
189
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
' You will not like him ; I will answer for it.'
191
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
195
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
CHAPTER XV
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
199
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
201
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
203
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
205
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
207
PERSUASION
tinually; thought they must be a most delightful
set of people, longed to be with them, but
certainly without the smallest suspicion of his
possessing the shadow of a right to introduce
himself. If he had but asked who the party
were ! The name of Musgrove would have told
him enough. ' Well, it would serve to cure him
of an absurd practice of never asking a question
at an inn, which he had adopted, when quite
a young man, on the principle of its being very
ungenteel to be curious.'
PERSUASION
CHAPTER XVI
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
211
PERSUASION
212
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
215
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
219
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
221
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
223
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
227
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
extraordinary taste 1 Everything that revolts
other people low company, paltry rooms, foul
air, disgusting associations are inviting to you.
But surely you may put off this old lady till
to-morrow: she is not so near her end, I pre-
sume, but that she may hope to see another
day. What is her age ? Forty ? '
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
231
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
233
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
235
PERSUASION
CHAPTER XVIII
PERSUASION
February 1st
237
PERSUASION
239
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
10 Q 241
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
247
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
249
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
251
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
253
PERSUASION
CHAPTER XIX
PERSUASION
255
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
259
PERSUASION
' Oh ! so do I.'
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
262
PERSUASION
263
PERSUASION
264
PERSUASION
CHAPTER XX
265
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
267
PERSUASION
269
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
271
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
10 s 273
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
275
PERSUASION
dared, I would breathe my wishes that the name
might never change.'
276
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
279
PERSUASION
CHAPTER XXI
ANNE recollected with pleasure the next morn-
ing her promise of going to Mrs. Smith, mean-
280
PERSUASION
281
PERSUASION
friend seemed this morning particularly obliged
to her for coming, seemed hardly to have ex-
pected her, though it had been an appointment.
PERSUASION
283
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
285
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
287
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
'Do tell me how it first came into your head/
PERSUASION
I did.' '
* Intimately.'
290
PERSUASION
291
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
295
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
297
PERSUASION
298
PERSUASION
299
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
303
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
307
PERSUASION
to his feelings than his judgment, Mr. Smith
had appointed him the executor of his will ; but
Mr. Elliot would not act, and the difficulties
and distresses which this refusal had heaped on
her, in addition to the inevitable sufferings of
her situation, had been such as could not be
related without anguish of spirit, or listened to
without corresponding indignation.
308
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
CHAPTER XXII
311
PERSUASION
313
PERSUASION
the rest of her astonishment in a convenient
silence.
PERSUASION
315
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
317
PERSUASION
319
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
10 x 321
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
323
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
327
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
329
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
Charles and Mary still talked on in the same
style : he, half serious and half jesting, main-
taining the scheme for the play, and she, in-
variably serious, most warmly opposing it, and
not omitting to make it known that, however
determined to go to Camden Place herself, she
should not think herself very well used if they
went to the play without her. Mrs. Musgrove
interposed.
331
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
333
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
335
PERSUASION
CHAPTER XXIII
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
339
PERSUASION
340
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
342
PERSUASION
the whole by adding, ' Poor Fanny ! she would
not have forgotten him so soon.'
343
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
345
PERSUASION
346
PERSUASION
347
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
that voice when they would be lost on others.
Too good, too excellent creature ! You do us
justice, indeed. You do believe that there is
true attachment and constancy among men.
Believe it to be most fervent, most undeviating,
in F. W.'
351
PERSUASION
352
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
355
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
Captain Harville ; and under the irresistible
governance of which he had seized a sheet of
paper, and poured out his feelings.
10 z* 357
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
' I was six weeks with Edward/ said he, ' and
saw him happy. I could have no other pleasure.
I deserved none. He inquired after you very
particularly ; asked even if you were personally
altered, little suspecting that to my eye you
could never alter.'
359
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
361
PERSUASION
362
PERSUASION
363
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
365
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
PERSUASION
371
PERSUASION
PERSUASION