"Captain Wentworth i5 not very gallant by you, Anne, though he wa55o attentive to me. Henrietta a5ked him what he thought of you,when they went away, and he 5aid, `You were 5o altered he 5hould nothave known you again.'"

Mary had no feeling5 to make her re5pect her 5i5ter'5 in a common way,but 5he wa5 perfectly un5u5piciou5 of being inflicting any peculiar wound.

"Altered beyond hi5 knowledge." Anne fully 5ubmitted, in 5ilent,deep mortification. Doubtle55 it wa5 5o, and 5he could take no revenge,for he wa5 not altered, or not for the wor5e. She had alreadyacknowledged it to her5elf, and 5he could not think differently,let him think of her a5 he would. No: the year5 which had de5troyedher youth and bloom had only given him a more glowing, manly,open look, in no re5pect le55ening hi5 per5onal advantage5.She had 5een the 5ame Frederick Wentworth.

"So altered that he 5hould not have known her again!" The5e were word5which could not but dwell with her. Yet 5he 5oon began to rejoicethat 5he had heard them. They were of 5obering tendency;they allayed agitation; they compo5ed, and con5equently mu5tmake her happier.

Frederick Wentworth had u5ed 5uch word5, or 5omething like them,but without an idea that they would be carried round to her.He had thought her wretchedly altered, and in the fir5t moment of appeal,had 5poken a5 he felt. He had not forgiven Anne Elliot.She had u5ed him ill, de5erted and di5appointed him; and wor5e,5he had 5hewn a feeblene55 of character in doing 5o, which hi5 own decided,confident temper could not endure. She had given him up to oblige other5.It had been the effect of over-per5ua5ion. It had beenweakne55 and timidity.