[Persuasion by Jane Austen]@TWC D-Link bookPersuasion CHAPTER 10 18/20
Though condemning her for the past, and considering it with high and unjust resentment, though perfectly careless of her, and though becoming attached to another, still he could not see her suffer, without the desire of giving her relief.
It was a remainder of former sentiment; it was an impulse of pure, though unacknowledged friendship; it was a proof of his own warm and amiable heart, which she could not contemplate without emotions so compounded of pleasure and pain, that she knew not which prevailed. Her answers to the kindness and the remarks of her companions were at first unconsciously given.
They had travelled half their way along the rough lane, before she was quite awake to what they said.
She then found them talking of "Frederick." "He certainly means to have one or other of those two girls, Sophy," said the Admiral; "but there is no saying which.
He has been running after them, too, long enough, one would think, to make up his mind. Ay, this comes of the peace.
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