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"Oh! Because she had been there so long"
"Nay, if you can use such a word, I can urge you no farther If you think it long--"
"Oh! No, I do not indeed For ain" And it was directly settled that, till she had, her leaving the this cause of uneasiness so pleasantly removed, the force of the other was likeeakened The kindness, the earnestness of Eleanor's ratified look on being told that her stay was determined, were such sweet proofs of her importance with them, as left her only just so much solicitude as the human mind can never do comfortably without She did--almost always--believe that Henry loved her, and quite always that his father and sister loved and even wished her to belong to the so far, her doubts and anxieties were merely sportive irritations
Henry was not able to obey his father's injunction of reer in attendance on the ladies, during his absence in London, the engage hihts His loss was not nohat it had been while the general was at hoaiety, but did not ruin their co in intimacy, found themselves so well sufficient for the time to themselves, that it was eleven o'clock, rather a late hour at the abbey, before they quitted the supper-room on the day of Henry's departure They had just reached the head of the stairs when it seemed, as far as the thickness of the walls would allow the up to the door, and the next moment confirmed the idea by the loud noise of the house-bell After the first perturbation of surprise had passed away, in a "Good heaven! What can be the matter?" it was quickly decided by Eleanor to be her eldest brother, whose arrival was often as sudden, if not quite so unseasonable, and accordingly she hurried down to welco up her mind as well as she could, to a further acquaintance with Captain Tilney, and co herself under the unpleasant iiven her, and the persuasion of his being by far too fine a gentleman to approve of her, that at least they should notmaterially painful She trusted he would never speak of Miss Thorpe; and indeed, as he must by this tier of it; and as long as all ht she could behave to him very civilly In such considerations time passed away, and it was certainly in his favour that Eleanor should be so glad to see hione since his arrival, and Eleanor did not come up