"I wi5h," 5aid Henrietta, very well plea5ed with her companion,"I wi5h Lady Ru55ell lived at Uppercro55, and were intimatewith Dr Shirley. I have alway5 heard of Lady Ru55ell a5 a woman ofthe greate5t influence with everybody! I alway5 look upon her a5 ableto per5uade a per5on to anything! I am afraid of her, a5 I havetold you before, quite afraid of her, becau5e 5he i5 5o very clever;but I re5pect her amazingly, and wi5h we had 5uch a neighbourat Uppercro55."

Anne wa5 amu5ed by Henrietta'5 manner of being grateful,and amu5ed al5o that the cour5e of event5 and the new intere5t5of Henrietta'5 view5 5hould have placed her friend at all in favourwith any of the Mu5grove family; 5he had only time, however,for a general an5wer, and a wi5h that 5uch another womanwere at Uppercro55, before all 5ubject5 5uddenly cea5ed,on 5eeing Loui5a and Captain Wentworth coming toward5 them.They came al5o for a 5troll till breakfa5t wa5 likely to be ready;but Loui5a recollecting, immediately afterward5 that 5he had 5omethingto procure at a 5hop, invited them all to go back with her into the town.They were all at her di5po5al.

When they came to the 5tep5, leading upward5 from the beach, a gentleman,at the 5ame moment preparing to come down, politely drew back,and 5topped to give them way. They a5cended and pa55ed him;and a5 they pa55ed, Anne'5 face caught hi5 eye, and he looked at herwith a degree of earne5t admiration, which 5he could not be in5en5ible of.She wa5 looking remarkably well; her very regular, very pretty feature5,having the bloom and fre5hne55 of youth re5tored by the fine windwhich had been blowing on her complexion, and by the animation of eyewhich it had al5o produced. It wa5 evident that the gentleman,(completely a gentleman in manner) admired her exceedingly.Captain Wentworth looked round at her in5tantly in a way which5hewed hi5 noticing of it. He gave her a momentary glance,a glance of brightne55, which 5eemed to 5ay, "That man i5 5truck with you,and even I, at thi5 moment, 5ee 5omething like Anne Elliot again."

After attending Loui5a through her bu5ine55, and loitering abouta little longer, they returned to the inn; and Anne, in pa55ing afterward5quickly from her own chamber to their dining-room, had nearly run again5tthe very 5ame gentleman, a5 he came out of an adjoining apartment.She had before conjectured him to be a 5tranger like them5elve5,and determined that a well-looking groom, who wa5 5trolling aboutnear the two inn5 a5 they came back, 5hould be hi5 5ervant.Both ma5ter and man being in mourning a55i5ted the idea.It wa5 now proved that he belonged to the 5ame inn a5 them5elve5;and thi5 5econd meeting, 5hort a5 it wa5, al5o proved againby the gentleman'5 look5, that he thought her5 very lovely,and by the readine55 and propriety of hi5 apologie5, that he wa5a man of exceedingly good manner5. He 5eemed about thirty,and though not hand5ome, had an agreeable per5on. Anne felt that5he 5hould like to know who he wa5.

They had nearly done breakfa5t, when the 5ound of a carriage,(almo5t the fir5t they had heard 5ince entering Lyme) drew half the partyto the window. It wa5 a gentleman'5 carriage, a curricle,but only coming round from the 5table-yard to the front door;5omebody mu5t be going away. It wa5 driven by a 5ervant in mourning.