Before they were beyond her hearing, however, Louisa spoke again.
"Mary is good-natured enough in many respects," said she; "but she does sometimes provoke me excessively, by her nonsense and pride--the Elliot pride.

She has a great deal too much of the Elliot pride.

We do so wish that Charles had married Anne instead.

I suppose you know he wanted to marry Anne ?" After a moment's pause, Captain Wentworth said-- "Do you mean that she refused him ?" "Oh! yes; certainly." "When did that happen ?" "I do not exactly know, for Henrietta and I were at school at the time; but I believe about a year before he married Mary.

I wish she had accepted him.