We should all have liked her a great deal better; and papa and mamma always think it was her great friend Lady Russell's doing, that she did not.

They think Charles might not be learned and bookish enough to please Lady Russell, and that therefore, she persuaded Anne to refuse him." The sounds were retreating, and Anne distinguished no more.

Her own emotions still kept her fixed.

She had much to recover from, before she could move.

The listener's proverbial fate was not absolutely hers; she had heard no evil of herself, but she had heard a great deal of very painful import.