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Charles, Henrietta, and Captain Wentworth were the three in

consultation, and for a little while it was only an interchange of

perplexity and terror "Uppercross, the necessity of so

to Uppercross; the news to be conveyed; how it could be broken to Mr

and Mrs Musgrove; the lateness of the ht to have been off; the i in

tolerable ti more to the

purpose than such exclamations; but, after a while, Captain Wentworth,

exerting himself, said-"We must be decided, and without the loss of another minute Every

off for Uppercross

instantly Musgrove, either you or I reed, but declared his resolution of not going away He

would be as little incumbrance as possible to Captain and Mrs Harville;

but as to leaving his sister in such a state, he neither ought, nor

would So far it was decided; and Henrietta at first declared the

same She, however, was soon persuaded to think differently The

usefulness of her staying! She who had not been able to res which e that she could do

no good, yet was still unwilling to be away, till, touched by the

thought of her father and ave it up; she consented, she