PERSUASION

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Jane Austen

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Webster's French
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Jane Austen

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Contents
PREFACE FROM THE EDITOR .......................................................................................... 1
CHAPTER 1 ...................................................................................................................... 2
CHAPTER 2 .................................................................................................................... 10
CHAPTER 3 .................................................................................................................... 16
CHAPTER 4 .................................................................................................................... 24
CHAPTER 5 .................................................................................................................... 29
CHAPTER 6 .................................................................................................................... 38
CHAPTER 7 .................................................................................................................... 48
CHAPTER 8 .................................................................................................................... 57
CHAPTER 9 .................................................................................................................... 67
CHAPTER 10................................................................................................................... 75
CHAPTER 11................................................................................................................... 85
CHAPTER 12................................................................................................................... 93
CHAPTER 13................................................................................................................. 108
CHAPTER 14................................................................................................................. 116
CHAPTER 15................................................................................................................. 123
CHAPTER 16................................................................................................................. 131
CHAPTER 17................................................................................................................. 138
CHAPTER 18................................................................................................................. 147
CHAPTER 19................................................................................................................. 158
CHAPTER 20................................................................................................................. 165
CHAPTER 21................................................................................................................. 175
CHAPTER 22................................................................................................................. 194
CHAPTER 23................................................................................................................. 210
CHAPTER 24................................................................................................................. 227
GLOSSARY ................................................................................................................... 232
 Jane Austen 1

PREFACE FROM THE EDITOR

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2 Persuasion

CHAPTER 1

Sir%Walter Elliot, of Kellynch Hall, in Somersetshire, was a man who, for his
own amusement, never took up any book but the Baronetage; there he found
occupation for an idle hour, and consolation in a distressed one; there his
faculties were roused into admiration and respect, by contemplating the limited
remnant of the earliest patents; there any unwelcome sensations, arising from
domestic affairs changed naturally into pity and contempt as he turned over the
almost endless creations of the last century; and there, if every other leaf were
powerless, he could read his own history with an interest which never failed.
This was the page at which the favourite volume always opened:

"ELLIOT OF KELLYNCH HALL.

"Walter Elliot, born March 1, 1760, married, July 15, 1784, Elizabeth,
daughter of James Stevenson, Esq. of South Park, in the county of
Gloucester, by which lady (who died 1800) he has issue Elizabeth, born
June 1, 1785; Anne, born August 9, 1787; a still-born son, November 5,
1789; Mary, born November 20, 1791."

admiration: admiration.
affairs: affaires.
amusement: distraction, amusement,
détente, récréation, divertissement.
arising: naissant.
born: né.
changed: changé.
consolation: consolation.
contemplating: contemplant.
contempt: mépris.
creations: créations.
daughter: fille, la fille.
French
distressed: affligé.
earliest: le plus tôt.
endless: interminable, infini, sans fin.
favourite: favori, préféré.
idle: inactif, fainéant, ralenti, au repos,
inoccupé, paresseux, fainéanter.
leaf: feuille, feuillet.
limited: limité, borné.
naturally: naturellement, bien sûr, de
façon naturelle, de manière naturelle.
occupation: occupation, métier,
profession, emploi.
patents: brevets.
pity: pitié, plaindre, compassion,
compatir, apitoiement, avoir pitié,
mal, s'apitoyer.
powerless: impuissant.
remnant: reste.
respect: respect, respecter.
roused: stimulé, irrité, irritai,
irritâmes, irritas, irritâtes, irritèrent,
stimula, stimulai, stimulâmes, irrita.
unwelcome: importun.
volume: volume, tome.
 Jane Austen 3

Precisely such had the paragraph originally stood from the printer's hands;
but Sir Walter had improved it by adding, for the information of himself and his
family, these words, after the date of Mary's birth-- "Married, December 16, 1810,
Charles, son and heir of Charles Musgrove, Esq. of Uppercross, in the county of
Somerset," and by inserting most accurately the day of the month on which he
had lost his wife.%
Then followed the history and rise of the ancient and respectable family, in
the usual terms; how it had been first settled in Cheshire; how mentioned in
Dugdale, serving the office of high sheriff, representing a borough in three
successive parliaments, exertions of loyalty, and dignity of baronet, in the first
year of Charles II, with all the Marys and Elizabeths they had married; forming
altogether two handsome duodecimo pages, and concluding with the arms and
motto:--"Principal seat, Kellynch Hall, in the county of Somerset," and Sir
Walter's handwriting again in this finale:--
"Heir presumptive, William Walter Elliot, Esq., great grandson of the second
Sir Walter."
Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity
of person and of situation. He had been remarkably handsome in his youth; and,
at fifty-four, was still a very fine man. Few women could think more of their
personal appearance than he did, nor could the valet of any new made lord be
more delighted with the place he held in society. He considered the blessing of
beauty as inferior only to the blessing of a baronetcy; and the Sir Walter Elliot,
who united these gifts, was the constant object of his warmest respect and
devotion.
His good looks and his rank had one fair claim on his attachment; since to
them he must have owed a wife of very superior character to any thing deserved
by his own. Lady Elliot had been an excellent woman, sensible and amiable;
whose judgement and conduct, if they might be pardoned the youthful
infatuation which made her Lady Elliot, had never required indulgence
afterwards.--She had humoured, or softened, or concealed his failings, and
promoted his real respectability for seventeen years; and though not the very

amiable: aimable.
attachment: attachement, saisie,
accessoire, annexe, attache.
baronet: baronnet.
blessing: bénédiction, bénissant.
concealed: caché, cachâmes, cachai,
cacha, cachèrent, cachas, cachâtes,
dissimulé, dissimulas, dissimula,
dissimulèrent.
concluding: concluant.
deserved: mérité, méritâmes,
méritèrent, méritai, mérita, méritas,
French
méritâtes.
devotion: dévotion, dévouement.
dignity: dignité.
handwriting: écriture.
heir: héritier, légataire.
indulgence: indulgence.
infatuation: engouement.
inferior: inférieur.
inserting: pose.
loyalty: loyauté, fidélité, loyalisme.
owed: dû, dut, dûmes, dûtes, durent,
dus.
pardoned: pardonné.
presumptive: présomptif.
respectability: respectabilité.
respectable: respectable.
sheriff: shérif.
softened: amolli, adoucis, amollîtes,
amollit, amollis, amollîmes, adoucit,
adoucîmes, adoucîtes, adouci,
adoucirent.
valet: valet, valet de chambre.
vanity: vanité, futilité.
youthful: jeune, juvénile.
4 Persuasion

happiest being in the world herself, had found enough in her duties, her friends,
and her children, to attach her to life, and make it no matter of indifference to
her when she was called on to quit them. --Three girls, the two eldest sixteen and
fourteen, was an awful legacy for a mother to bequeath, an awful charge rather,
to confide to the authority and guidance of a conceited, silly father. She had,
however, one very intimate friend, a sensible, deserving woman, who had been
brought, by strong attachment to herself, to settle close by her, in the village of
Kellynch; and on her kindness and advice, Lady Elliot mainly relied for the best
help and maintenance of the good principles and instruction which she had been
anxiously giving her daughters.%
This friend, and Sir Walter, did not marry, whatever might have been
anticipated on that head by their acquaintance. Thirteen years had passed away
since Lady Elliot's death, and they were still near neighbours and intimate
friends, and one remained a widower, the other a widow.
That Lady Russell, of steady age and character, and extremely well provided
for, should have no thought of a second marriage, needs no apology to the
public, which is rather apt to be unreasonably discontented when a woman does
marry again, than when she does not; but Sir Walter's continuing in singleness
requires explanation. Be it known then, that Sir Walter, like a good father,
(having met with one or two private disappointments in very unreasonable
applications), prided himself on remaining single for his dear daughters' sake.
For one daughter, his eldest, he would really have given up any thing, which he
had not been very much tempted to do. Elizabeth had succeeded, at sixteen, to
all that was possible, of her mother's rights and consequence; and being very
handsome, and very like himself, her influence had always been great, and they
had gone on together most happily. His two other children were of very inferior
value. Mary had acquired a little artificial importance, by becoming Mrs Charles
Musgrove; but Anne, with an elegance of mind and sweetness of character,
which must have placed her high with any people of real understanding, was
nobody with either father or sister; her word had no weight, her convenience
was always to give way-- she was only Anne.

acquaintance: connaissance, relation,
personne de connaissance, abord.
anxiously: de manière inquiète, de
façon inquiète.
apology: apologie, excuses, excuse.
apt: doué.
attach: attacher, attache, attachent,
attachez, attachons, attaches,
appliquer, fixer, apposer, appose,
apposez.
bequeath: léguer, léguons, lègues,
lègue, léguez, lèguent.
French
conceited: vaniteux, vain, frivole,
suffisant.
confide: confier, confions, confient,
confiez, confie, confies.
convenience: convenance.
deserving: méritant, méritoire.
discontented: mécontent.
eldest: aîné.
elegance: élégance.
happiest: le plus heureux.
indifference: indifférence.
kindness: amabilité, bonté, gentillesse,
aménité.
quit: quitter, quittas, quittes, quittâtes,
quittâmes, quittai, quitta, quittèrent,
quittons, quittez, quitté.
sweetness: douceur.
tempted: tentas, tentâtes, tentâmes,
tenta, tentai, tenté, tentèrent.
unreasonable: déraisonnable.
unreasonably: de manière
déraisonnable, de façon
déraisonnable.
widower: veuf.
 Jane Austen 5

To Lady Russell, indeed, she was a most dear and highly valued god-
daughter, favourite, and friend. Lady Russell loved them all; but it was only in
Anne that she could fancy the mother to revive again.%
A few years before, Anne Elliot had been a very pretty girl, but her bloom
had vanished early; and as even in its height, her father had found little to
admire in her, (so totally different were her delicate features and mild dark eyes
from his own), there could be nothing in them, now that she was faded and thin,
to excite his esteem. He had never indulged much hope, he had now none, of
ever reading her name in any other page of his favourite work. All equality of
alliance must rest with Elizabeth, for Mary had merely connected herself with an
old country family of respectability and large fortune, and had therefore given all
the honour and received none: Elizabeth would, one day or other, marry
suitably.
It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she
was ten years before; and, generally speaking, if there has been neither ill health
nor anxiety, it is a time of life at which scarcely any charm is lost. It was so with
Elizabeth, still the same handsome Miss Elliot that she had begun to be thirteen
years ago, and Sir Walter might be excused, therefore, in forgetting her age, or,
at least, be deemed only half a fool, for thinking himself and Elizabeth as
blooming as ever, amidst the wreck of the good looks of everybody else; for he
could plainly see how old all the rest of his family and acquaintance were
growing. Anne haggard, Mary coarse, every face in the neighbourhood
worsting, and the rapid increase of the crow's foot about Lady Russell's temples
had long been a distress to him.
Elizabeth did not quite equal her father in personal contentment. Thirteen
years had seen her mistress of Kellynch Hall, presiding and directing with a self-
possession and decision which could never have given the idea of her being
younger than she was. For thirteen years had she been doing the honours, and
laying down the domestic law at home, and leading the way to the chaise and
four, and walking immediately after Lady Russell out of all the drawing-rooms
and dining-rooms in the country. Thirteen winters' revolving frosts had seen her

admire: admirer, admire, admires,
admirons, admirent, admirez.
amidst: parmi, au milieu de.
bloom: fleur, efflorescence, bloom,
pruine, bleuissement, floraison.
blooming: dégrossissage,
éblouissement, ébauchage,
bleuissement, hyperluminosité du
spot, efflorescence, flou d'image,
fleurir, floraison, en fleur, fleurissant.
chaise: calèche, cabriolet.
coarse: grossier, vulgaire, rude,
French
rustique, brut. indulged: gâtas, gâta, gâtai, gâtâtes,
contentment: contentement. gâté, gâtèrent, gâtâmes.
directing: direct, diriger, dirigeant, plainly: de manière plaine.
direction. presiding: présidant.
esteem: estime, estimer, considérer, revive: ranimer, ranime, ranimes,
apprécier. raniment, ranimez, ranimons,
excite: exciter, excites, excite, excitez, réanimer, raviver.
excitons, excitent, irriter, agacer, revolving: tournant.
hérisser, hérissons, hérisse. suitably: de façon convenable, de
excused: excusé. manière convenable.
forgetting: oubliant. wreck: épave, naufrage, détruire,
haggard: hâve. accident.
6 Persuasion

opening every ball of credit which a scanty neighbourhood afforded, and

thirteen springs shewn their blossoms, as she travelled up to London with her
father, for a few weeks' annual enjoyment of the great world. She had the
remembrance of all this, she had the consciousness of being nine-and-twenty to
give her some regrets and some apprehensions; she was fully satisfied of being
still quite as handsome as ever, but she felt her approach to the years of danger,
and would have rejoiced to be certain of being properly solicited by baronet-
blood within the next twelvemonth or two. Then might she again take up the
book of books with as much enjoyment as in her early youth, but now she liked it
not. Always to be presented with the date of her own birth and see no marriage
follow but that of a youngest sister, made the book an evil; and more than once,
when her father had left it open on the table near her, had she closed it, with
averted eyes, and pushed it away.%
She had had a disappointment, moreover, which that book, and especially
the history of her own family, must ever present the remembrance of. The heir
presumptive, the very William Walter Elliot, Esq., whose rights had been so
generously supported by her father, had disappointed her.
She had, while a very young girl, as soon as she had known him to be, in the
event of her having no brother, the future baronet, meant to marry him, and her
father had always meant that she should. He had not been known to them as a
boy; but soon after Lady Elliot's death, Sir Walter had sought the acquaintance,
and though his overtures had not been met with any warmth, he had persevered
in seeking it, making allowance for the modest drawing-back of youth; and, in
one of their spring excursions to London, when Elizabeth was in her first bloom,
Mr Elliot had been forced into the introduction.
He was at that time a very young man, just engaged in the study of the law;
and Elizabeth found him extremely agreeable, and every plan in his favour was
confirmed. He was invited to Kellynch Hall; he was talked of and expected all
the rest of the year; but he never came. The following spring he was seen again in
town, found equally agreeable, again encouraged, invited, and expected, and
again he did not come; and the next tidings were that he was married. Instead of

afforded: produisîmes, produit,
produisirent, produisis, produisîtes,
produisit.
agreeable: agréable, aimable.
apprehensions: appréhensions.
averted: détourné, détourna,
détournai, détournâmes, détournas,
détournâtes, détournèrent.
blossoms: fleurit.
disappointment: déception,
désolation, peine, désappointement.
engaged: engagé, engageai, engagea,
French
engageâmes, engagèrent, engageas,
engageâtes, occupé.
enjoyment: jouissance, usufruit.
evil: mal, mauvais.
excursions: promenades.
generously: de manière généreuse, de
façon généreuse.
handsome: beau.
neighbourhood: voisinage, quartier.
overtures: ouvertures.
persevered: persévéras, persévérâtes,
persévéré, persévérâmes,
persévérèrent, persévéra, persévérai.
regrets: regrette.
rejoiced: réjouis, réjouit, réjouîtes,
réjouirent, réjouîmes, réjoui.
remembrance: souvenir, mémoire.
scanty: insuffisant.
solicited: sollicita, sollicitèrent,
sollicitâtes, sollicitas, sollicitâmes,
sollicitai, sollicité.
springs: sources, tortillons.
tidings: nouvelles.
youngest: le plus jeune.
 Jane Austen 7

pushing his fortune in the line marked out for the heir of the house of Elliot, he
had purchased independence by uniting himself to a rich woman of inferior
birth.%
Sir Walter has resented it. As the head of the house, he felt that he ought to
have been consulted, especially after taking the young man so publicly by the
hand; "For they must have been seen together," he observed, "once at Tattersall's,
and twice in the lobby of the House of Commons." His disapprobation was
expressed, but apparently very little regarded. Mr Elliot had attempted no
apology, and shewn himself as unsolicitous of being longer noticed by the
family, as Sir Walter considered him unworthy of it: all acquaintance between
them had ceased.
This very awkward history of Mr Elliot was still, after an interval of several
years, felt with anger by Elizabeth, who had liked the man for himself, and still
more for being her father's heir, and whose strong family pride could see only in
him a proper match for Sir Walter Elliot's eldest daughter. There was not a
baronet from A to Z whom her feelings could have so willingly acknowledged
as an equal. Yet so miserably had he conducted himself, that though she was at
this present time (the summer of 1814) wearing black ribbons for his wife, she
could not admit him to be worth thinking of again. The disgrace of his first
marriage might, perhaps, as there was no reason to suppose it perpetuated by
offspring, have been got over, had he not done worse; but he had, as by the
accustomary intervention of kind friends, they had been informed, spoken most
disrespectfully of them all, most slightingly and contemptuously of the very
blood he belonged to, and the honours which were hereafter to be his own. This
could not be pardoned.
Such were Elizabeth Elliot's sentiments and sensations; such the cares to
alloy, the agitations to vary, the sameness and the elegance, the prosperity and
the nothingness of her scene of life; such the feelings to give interest to a long,
uneventful residence in one country circle, to fill the vacancies which there were
no habits of utility abroad, no talents or accomplishments for home, to occupy.

accomplishments: accomplissements.
alloy: alliage, allier.
contemptuously: de manière
méprisante, de façon méprisante.
disapprobation: désapprobation.
disgrace: disgrâce, honte, déshonorer,
déshonneur, disgracier.
disrespectfully: de manière
irrespectueuse, de façon
irrespectueuse.
hereafter: désormais, dorénavant,
après l'entrée en vigueur de la
French
présente loi, après.
miserably: de manière misérable, de
façon misérable.
nothingness: néant.
offspring: descendant, descendance,
progéniture, successeur.
perpetuated: perpétuas, perpétuâtes,
perpétuai, perpétué, perpétuâmes,
perpétuèrent, perpétua.
prosperity: prospérité.
resented: ressenties, ressentirent,
ressenti.
ribbons: rubans, tabac en lanières.
sameness: identité, similitude,
monotonie.
slightingly: de façon de dédaine.
uneventful: sans incidents.
uniting: unissant, appariant.
unworthy: indigne.
utility: utilité, utilitaire, service public.
vacancies: places vacantes.
willingly: volontiers, de manière
volontaire, volontairement, de façon
volontaire.
8 Persuasion

But%now, another occupation and solicitude of mind was beginning to be

added to these. Her father was growing distressed for money. She knew, that
when he now took up the Baronetage, it was to drive the heavy bills of his
tradespeople, and the unwelcome hints of Mr Shepherd, his agent, from his
thoughts. The Kellynch property was good, but not equal to Sir Walter's
apprehension of the state required in its possessor. While Lady Elliot lived,
there had been method, moderation, and economy, which had just kept him
within his income; but with her had died all such right-mindedness, and from
that period he had been constantly exceeding it. It had not been possible for him
to spend less; he had done nothing but what Sir Walter Elliot was imperiously
called on to do; but blameless as he was, he was not only growing dreadfully in
debt, but was hearing of it so often, that it became vain to attempt concealing it
longer, even partially, from his daughter. He had given her some hints of it the
last spring in town; he had gone so far even as to say, "Can we retrench? Does it
occur to you that there is any one article in which we can retrench?" and
Elizabeth, to do her justice, had, in the first ardour of female alarm, set seriously
to think what could be done, and had finally proposed these two branches of
economy, to cut off some unnecessary charities, and to refrain from new
furnishing the drawing-room; to which expedients she afterwards added the
happy thought of their taking no present down to Anne, as had been the usual
yearly custom. But these measures, however good in themselves, were
insufficient for the real extent of the evil, the whole of which Sir Walter found
himself obliged to confess to her soon afterwards. Elizabeth had nothing to
propose of deeper efficacy. She felt herself ill-used and unfortunate, as did her
father; and they were neither of them able to devise any means of lessening their
expenses without compromising their dignity, or relinquishing their comforts in
a way not to be borne.
There was only a small part of his estate that Sir Walter could dispose of; but
had every acre been alienable, it would have made no difference. He had
condescended to mortgage as far as he had the power, but he would never
condescend to sell. No; he would never disgrace his name so far. The Kellynch
estate should be transmitted whole and entire, as he had received it.
French
acre: acre. condescendu, condescendis, imperiously: de manière impérieuse,
alienable: aliénable. condescendirent, condescendîmes, de façon impérieuse.
apprehension: arrestation, condescendîtes. lessening: diminuant, amoindrissant.
appréhension, inquiétude. devise: legs, concevoir. moderation: modération.
ardour: ardeur. dreadfully: de manière terrible, de possessor: propriétaire, possesseur,
blameless: irréprochable. façon terrible. détenteur.
compromising: compromettant. efficacy: efficacité. refrain: refrain.
concealing: cachant, dissimulant. exceeding: dépassant, excédant, relinquishing: abandonnant.
condescend: condescendre, maîtrisant, outrepassant. retrench: restreindre.
condescendons, condescendez, furnishing: fournissant, meublant, solicitude: sollicitude.
condescends, condescendent. ameublement. vain: vain, vaniteux, abortif, frivole.
condescended: condescendit, hints: allusions. yearly: annuellement, annuel.
 Jane Austen 9

Their two confidential friends, Mr Shepherd, who lived in the neighbouring

market town, and Lady Russell, were called to advise them; and both father and
daughter seemed to expect that something should be struck out by one or the
other to remove their embarrassments and reduce their expenditure, without
involving the loss of any indulgence of taste or pride.%

advise: conseiller, recommander.
confidential: confidentiel.
daughter: fille, la fille.
expect: attendre, attendons, attends,
attendez, attendent, espérer.
expenditure: dépense, dépenses.
friends: amis.
indulgence: indulgence.
involving: impliquant.
lived: vécut, vécurent, vécûmes,
vécus, vécu, habita, habitai,
habitâmes, habitas, habitâtes,
French
habitèrent. ôte.
loss: perte, préjudice, déperdition, struck: frappé.
affaiblissement, sinistre, déchet, taste: goût, goûter, saveur, déguster.
atténuation. town: ville, cité, localité.
neighbouring: adjacent, avoisinant.
reduce: réduire, réduisent, réduisons,
réduisez, réduis, abaisser, affaiblir,
amenuiser, abaissez, minorer,
rabaisser.
remove: ôter, supprimer, ôtes,
supprimons, supprimez, supprimes,
suppriment, supprime, ôtez, ôtent,
10 Persuasion

CHAPTER 2

Mr%Shepherd, a civil, cautious lawyer, who, whatever might be his hold or

his views on Sir Walter, would rather have the disagreeable prompted by
anybody else, excused himself from offering the slightest hint, and only begged
leave to recommend an implicit reference to the excellent judgement of Lady
Russell, from whose known good sense he fully expected to have just such
resolute measures advised as he meant to see finally adopted.
Lady Russell was most anxiously zealous on the subject, and gave it much
serious consideration. She was a woman rather of sound than of quick abilities,
whose difficulties in coming to any decision in this instance were great, from the
opposition of two leading principles. She was of strict integrity herself, with a
delicate sense of honour; but she was as desirous of saving Sir Walter's feelings,
as solicitous for the credit of the family, as aristocratic in her ideas of what was
due to them, as anybody of sense and honesty could well be. She was a
benevolent, charitable, good woman, and capable of strong attachments, most
correct in her conduct, strict in her notions of decorum, and with manners that
were held a standard of good-breeding. She had a cultivated mind, and was,
generally speaking, rational and consistent; but she had prejudices on the side of
ancestry; she had a value for rank and consequence, which blinded her a little to
the faults of those who possessed them. Herself the widow of only a knight, she
gave the dignity of a baronet all its due; and Sir Walter, independent of his
French
abilities: capacités. éblouirent, aveuglas. integrity: intégrité.
ancestry: ascendance. cautious: prudent, circonspect. knight: chevalier, cavalier.
aristocratic: aristocratique. charitable: indulgent, sensible. manners: moeurs.
attachments: équipements, outils cultivated: cultivé, cultivai, notions: mercerie.
adaptables. cultivâmes, cultivèrent, cultiva, possessed: possédas, possédâtes,
begged: mendièrent, mendia, mendiai, cultivas, cultivâtes. possédâmes, possédai, posséda,
mendiâmes, mendias, mendiâtes, decorum: décorum. possédèrent, possédé.
Mendié. delicate: délicat, tendre, fragile. prompted: incité.
benevolent: bienveillant. desirous: désireux. resolute: résolu.
blinded: aveuglai, aveuglâmes, disagreeable: désagréable. solicitous: préoccupé, soucieux.
aveugla, ébloui, éblouis, éblouîtes, honesty: honnêteté. widow: veuve.
éblouîmes, aveuglèrent, aveuglâtes, implicit: implicite. zealous: zélé, fervent.
 Jane Austen 11

claims as an old acquaintance, an attentive neighbour, an obliging landlord, the

husband of her very dear friend, the father of Anne and her sisters, was, as being
Sir Walter, in her apprehension, entitled to a great deal of compassion and
consideration under his present difficulties.%
They must retrench; that did not admit of a doubt. But she was very anxious
to have it done with the least possible pain to him and Elizabeth. She drew up
plans of economy, she made exact calculations, and she did what nobody else
thought of doing: she consulted Anne, who never seemed considered by the
others as having any interest in the question. She consulted, and in a degree was
influenced by her in marking out the scheme of retrenchment which was at last
submitted to Sir Walter. Every emendation of Anne's had been on the side of
honesty against importance. She wanted more vigorous measures, a more
complete reformation, a quicker release from debt, a much higher tone of
indifference for everything but justice and equity.
"If we can persuade your father to all this," said Lady Russell, looking over
her paper, "much may be done. If he will adopt these regulations, in seven years
he will be clear; and I hope we may be able to convince him and Elizabeth, that
Kellynch Hall has a respectability in itself which cannot be affected by these
reductions; and that the true dignity of Sir Walter Elliot will be very far from
lessened in the eyes of sensible people, by acting like a man of principle. What
will he be doing, in fact, but what very many of our first families have done, or
ought to do? There will be nothing singular in his case; and it is singularity
which often makes the worst part of our suffering, as it always does of our
conduct. I have great hope of prevailing. We must be serious and decided; for
after all, the person who has contracted debts must pay them; and though a great
deal is due to the feelings of the gentleman, and the head of a house, like your
father, there is still more due to the character of an honest man."
This was the principle on which Anne wanted her father to be proceeding,
his friends to be urging him. She considered it as an act of indispensable duty
to clear away the claims of creditors with all the expedition which the most
comprehensive retrenchments could secure, and saw no dignity in anything

attentive: attentif.
calculations: calculs.
compassion: compassion, pitié,
apitoiement.
consulted: consultai, consultâmes,
consultèrent, consulté, consulta,
consultas, consultâtes.
contracted: contracté.
convince: convaincre, convaincs,
convainquent, convainquez,
convainquons.
creditors: créanciers.
French
emendation: correction.
expedition: expédition.
indispensable: indispensable.
lessened: diminué, diminua,
diminuâtes, diminuas, diminuâmes,
diminuai, diminuèrent, amoindri,
amoindrîtes, amoindrit, amoindris.
marking: marquage, marque, balisage,
notation, marquer.
obliging: complaisant, obligeant,
serviable, gentil.
prevailing: prévalant, dominant.
proceeding: procédant, avançant.
quicker: plus vite.
reductions: réductions.
reformation: réforme.
retrenchment: réduction, abaissement,
retranchement.
singular: singulier.
singularity: singularité.
submitted: soumîtes, soumirent,
soumit, soumîmes, soumis.
urging: exhortant.
vigorous: vigoureux.
12 Persuasion

short of it. She wanted it to be prescribed, and felt as a duty. She rated Lady
Russell's influence highly; and as to the severe degree of self-denial which her
own conscience prompted, she believed there might be little more difficulty in
persuading them to a complete, than to half a reformation. Her knowledge of
her father and Elizabeth inclined her to think that the sacrifice of one pair of
horses would be hardly less painful than of both, and so on, through the whole
list of Lady Russell's too gentle reductions.%
How Anne's more rigid requisitions might have been taken is of little
consequence. Lady Russell's had no success at all: could not be put up with,
were not to be borne. "What! every comfort of life knocked off! Journeys,
London, servants, horses, table-- contractions and restrictions every where! To
live no longer with the decencies even of a private gentleman! No, he would
sooner quit Kellynch Hall at once, than remain in it on such disgraceful terms."
"Quit Kellynch Hall." The hint was immediately taken up by Mr Shepherd,
whose interest was involved in the reality of Sir Walter's retrenching, and who
was perfectly persuaded that nothing would be done without a change of abode.
"Since the idea had been started in the very quarter which ought to dictate, he
had no scruple," he said, "in confessing his judgement to be entirely on that side.
It did not appear to him that Sir Walter could materially alter his style of living
in a house which had such a character of hospitality and ancient dignity to
support. In any other place Sir Walter might judge for himself; and would be
looked up to, as regulating the modes of life in whatever way he might choose to
model his household."
Sir Walter would quit Kellynch Hall; and after a very few days more of doubt
and indecision, the great question of whither he should go was settled, and the
first outline of this important change made out.
There had been three alternatives, London, Bath, or another house in the
country. All Anne's wishes had been for the latter. A small house in their own
neighbourhood, where they might still have Lady Russell's society, still be near
Mary, and still have the pleasure of sometimes seeing the lawns and groves of
Kellynch, was the object of her ambition. But the usual fate of Anne attended

abode: demeure, domicile, logis,
logement, localité, gîte, habitation.
alter: altérer, altère, altères, altérons,
altérez, altèrent, changer,
transformer, modifier.
ambition: ambition, souhait,
aspiration.
confessing: confessant, avouant.
conscience: conscience.
dictate: dicter, dictons, dictez, dictent,
dictes, dicte.
disgraceful: honteux.
French
hint: insinuer, faire allusion, conseil,
allusion.
hospitality: hospitalité.
inclined: incliné, enclin.
indecision: indécision.
materially: matériellement.
outline: contour, silhouette, esquisse,
profil, ébauche, tracé, résumer,
schéma.
painful: douloureux, pénible.
persuaded: persuadas, persuadâtes,
persuadai, persuadâmes, persuada,
persuadèrent, persuadé.
persuading: persuadant.
prescribed: prescrivîtes, prescrivîmes,
prescrivirent, prescrivis, prescrivit,
prescrit.
rated: nominal.
regulating: réglant, réglementant.
retrenching: restreignant.
rigid: rigide, raide.
sacrifice: sacrifier, sacrifice, consacrer,
offrir, faire offrande, immoler.
whither: où.
 Jane Austen 13

her, in having something very opposite from her inclination fixed on. She
disliked Bath, and did not think it agreed with her; and Bath was to be her
home.%
Sir Walter had at first thought more of London; but Mr Shepherd felt that he
could not be trusted in London, and had been skilful enough to dissuade him
from it, and make Bath preferred. It was a much safer place for a gentleman in
his predicament: he might there be important at comparatively little expense.
Two material advantages of Bath over London had of course been given all their
weight: its more convenient distance from Kellynch, only fifty miles, and Lady
Russell's spending some part of every winter there; and to the very great
satisfaction of Lady Russell, whose first views on the projected change had been
for Bath, Sir Walter and Elizabeth were induced to believe that they should lose
neither consequence nor enjoyment by settling there.
Lady Russell felt obliged to oppose her dear Anne's known wishes. It would
be too much to expect Sir Walter to descend into a small house in his own
neighbourhood. Anne herself would have found the mortifications of it more
than she foresaw, and to Sir Walter's feelings they must have been dreadful.
And with regard to Anne's dislike of Bath, she considered it as a prejudice and
mistake arising, first, from the circumstance of her having been three years at
school there, after her mother's death; and secondly, from her happening to be
not in perfectly good spirits the only winter which she had afterwards spent
there with herself.
Lady Russell was fond of Bath, in short, and disposed to think it must suit
them all; and as to her young friend's health, by passing all the warm months
with her at Kellynch Lodge, every danger would be avoided; and it was in fact, a
change which must do both health and spirits good. Anne had been too little
from home, too little seen. Her spirits were not high. A larger society would
improve them. She wanted her to be more known.
The undesirableness of any other house in the same neighbourhood for Sir
Walter was certainly much strengthened by one part, and a very material part of
the scheme, which had been happily engrafted on the beginning. He was not

circumstance: circonstance.
descend: descendre, descendons,
descendent, descendez, descends,
baisser, s'abaisser.
dislike: détester, antipathie, déteste,
détestent, détestes, détestez,
détestons, dédaigner.
disliked: détesté, détestâmes,
détestèrent, détestas, détestai,
détesta, détestâtes.
disposed: disposé, disposâmes,
disposèrent, disposai, disposa,
French
disposâtes, disposas.
dissuade: dissuader.
fond: tendre.
foresaw: prévîtes, prévîmes, prévis,
prévit, prévirent.
inclination: inclinaison, inclination.
induced: induit, induisîmes,
induisîtes, induisit, induisis,
induisirent.
oppose: opposer, oppose, opposes,
opposent, opposons, opposez, se
mettre en travers, rouspéter,
rouspètent, rouspétons, rouspète.
predicament: prédicament.
prejudice: préjugé, préjudice.
projected: projeté.
settling: réglant, affaissement,
tassement, règlement.
skilful: habile.
spirits: spiritueux.
strengthened: fortifias, fortifiâtes,
fortifiai, fortifièrent, fortifiâmes,
fortifia, fortifié, renforcèrent,
renforçâtes, renforças, renforçâmes.
14 Persuasion

only to quit his home, but to see it in the hands of others; a trial of fortitude,
which stronger heads than Sir Walter's have found too much. Kellynch Hall was
to be let. This, however, was a profound secret, not to be breathed beyond their
own circle.%
Sir Walter could not have borne the degradation of being known to design
letting his house. Mr Shepherd had once mentioned the word "advertise," but
never dared approach it again. Sir Walter spurned the idea of its being offered in
any manner; forbad the slightest hint being dropped of his having such an
intention; and it was only on the supposition of his being spontaneously
solicited by some most unexceptionable applicant, on his own terms, and as a
great favour, that he would let it at all.
How quick come the reasons for approving what we like! Lady Russell had
another excellent one at hand, for being extremely glad that Sir Walter and his
family were to remove from the country. Elizabeth had been lately forming an
intimacy, which she wished to see interrupted. It was with the daughter of Mr
Shepherd, who had returned, after an unprosperous marriage, to her father's
house, with the additional burden of two children. She was a clever young
woman, who understood the art of pleasing--the art of pleasing, at least, at
Kellynch Hall; and who had made herself so acceptable to Miss Elliot, as to have
been already staying there more than once, in spite of all that Lady Russell, who
thought it a friendship quite out of place, could hint of caution and reserve.
Lady Russell, indeed, had scarcely any influence with Elizabeth, and seemed
to love her, rather because she would love her, than because Elizabeth deserved
it. She had never received from her more than outward attention, nothing
beyond the observances of complaisance; had never succeeded in any point
which she wanted to carry, against previous inclination. She had been
repeatedly very earnest in trying to get Anne included in the visit to London,
sensibly open to all the injustice and all the discredit of the selfish
arrangements which shut her out, and on many lesser occasions had
endeavoured to give Elizabeth the advantage of her own better judgement and
experience; but always in vain: Elizabeth would go her own way; and never had

applicant: demandeur, requérant,
candidat, postulant, proposant,
solliciteur.
approving: approuvant, approbateur.
breathed: respiras, respirâtes,
respirèrent, respira, respiré,
respirâmes, respirai.
caution: prudence, avertir, alerter,
avertissement, attention, précaution.
complaisance: complaisance.
dared: osé, osa, osai, osèrent, osâtes,
osâmes, osas, aventurèrent,
French
aventurâtes, aventura, aventuras.
degradation: dégradation.
discredit: discrédit, discréditer.
earnest: sérieux.
fortitude: courage.
injustice: injustice.
interrupted: interrompit, interrompu,
interrompue.
intimacy: intimité.
lately: dernièrement, de manière
tarde, de façon tardive, récemment.
outward: vers l'extérieur, sortie.
pleasing: plaisant.
profound: profond.
repeatedly: plusieurs fois, à plusieurs
reprises, de manière répétée, de façon
répétée.
selfish: égoïste.
sensibly: raisonnablement, de manière
raisonnable, de façon raisonnable.
spite: rancune, dépit.
spontaneously: de manière spontanée,
de façon spontanée, spontanément.
supposition: hypothèse, supposition.
 Jane Austen 15

she pursued it in more decided opposition to Lady Russell than in this selection
of Mrs Clay; turning from the society of so deserving a sister, to bestow her
affection and confidence on one who ought to have been nothing to her but the
object of distant civility.%
From situation, Mrs Clay was, in Lady Russell's estimate, a very unequal,
and in her character she believed a very dangerous companion; and a removal
that would leave Mrs Clay behind, and bring a choice of more suitable intimates
within Miss Elliot's reach, was therefore an object of first-rate importance.

affection: affection, amour.
believed: cru, crûtes, crut, crurent,
crûmes, crus.
bestow: accorder, accorde, accordes,
accordez, accordons, octroyer,
accordent.
companion: compagnon, camarade,
compagne, accompagnateur.
confidence: confiance, foi, confidence.
dangerous: dangereux, périlleux,
redoutable.
distant: lointain, loin, distant, éloigné.
French
estimate: évaluer, estimation, estimer,
estime, estimez, estimons, estiment,
estimes, évalue, évaluent, évalues.
importance: importance.
object: objet, chose.
opposition: opposition, résistance.
ought: devoir, doit, dois, devez,
devons, doivent.
pursued: poursuivîmes, poursuivîtes,
poursuivirent, poursuivit,
poursuivis, poursuivi.
reach: atteindre, parvenir, portée,
aboutir, remporter, étendue, toucher,
bief.
removal: enlèvement, déménagement,
dépose, piégeage, renvoi, révocation.
selection: sélection, choix.
sister: soeur.
suitable: convenable, approprié,
propice, raisonnable.
turning: tournant, changeant,
retournant, déviant, virage, tournage,
rotation, retournage.
unequal: inégal.
16 Persuasion

CHAPTER 3

"I%must take leave to observe, Sir Walter," said Mr Shepherd one morning at
Kellynch Hall, as he laid down the newspaper, "that the present juncture is much
in our favour. This peace will be turning all our rich naval officers ashore. They
will be all wanting a home. Could not be a better time, Sir Walter, for having a
choice of tenants, very responsible tenants. Many a noble fortune has been made
during the war. If a rich admiral were to come in our way, Sir Walter--"
"He would be a very lucky man, Shepherd," replied Sir Walter; "that's all I
have to remark. A prize indeed would Kellynch Hall be to him; rather the
greatest prize of all, let him have taken ever so many before; hey, Shepherd?"
Mr Shepherd laughed, as he knew he must, at this wit, and then added--
"I presume to observe, Sir Walter, that, in the way of business, gentlemen of
the navy are well to deal with. I have had a little knowledge of their methods of
doing business; and I am free to confess that they have very liberal notions, and
are as likely to make desirable tenants as any set of people one should meet
with. Therefore, Sir Walter, what I would take leave to suggest is, that if in
consequence of any rumours getting abroad of your intention; which must be
contemplated as a possible thing, because we know how difficult it is to keep the
actions and designs of one part of the world from the notice and curiosity of the
other; consequence has its tax; I, John Shepherd, might conceal any family-

admiral: amiral.
ashore: à terre.
conceal: cacher, cachons, cachez,
cachent, caches, cache, dissimuler,
dissimulons, dissimulez, dissimule,
dissimulent.
confess: confesser, avouer, confessent,
confessons, confessez, confesses,
confesse, avouent, avouons, avoues,
avoue.
consequence: conséquence,
aboutissement, répercussion, suite.
French
contemplated: contemplèrent, naval: naval.
contemplâmes, contemplai, noble: noble, élevé.
contemplé, contempla, contemplas, presume: présumer, présume,
contemplâtes. présumes, présumez, présumons,
curiosity: curiosité. présument, supposer.
desirable: désirable, souhaitable. prize: prix, récompense.
favour: faveur, grâce, service, remark: remarque, observation,
complaisance, favoriser. commentaire, remarquer.
fortune: fortune, sort, destinée, destin. rumour: réputation, renommée,
gentlemen: messieurs. rumeur.
hey: hé. wanting: voulant.
juncture: jointure. wit: esprit.
 Jane Austen 17

matters that I chose, for nobody would think it worth their while to observe me;
but Sir Walter Elliot has eyes upon him which it may be very difficult to elude;
and therefore, thus much I venture upon, that it will not greatly surprise me if,
with all our caution, some rumour of the truth should get abroad; in the
supposition of which, as I was going to observe, since applications will
unquestionably follow, I should think any from our wealthy naval commanders
particularly worth attending to; and beg leave to add, that two hours will bring
me over at any time, to save you the trouble of replying."%
Sir Walter only nodded. But soon afterwards, rising and pacing the room, he
observed sarcastically--
"There are few among the gentlemen of the navy, I imagine, who would not
be surprised to find themselves in a house of this description."
"They would look around them, no doubt, and bless their good fortune," said
Mrs Clay, for Mrs Clay was present: her father had driven her over, nothing
being of so much use to Mrs Clay's health as a drive to Kellynch: "but I quite
agree with my father in thinking a sailor might be a very desirable tenant. I have
known a good deal of the profession; and besides their liberality, they are so
neat and careful in all their ways! These valuable pictures of yours, Sir Walter, if
you chose to leave them, would be perfectly safe. Everything in and about the
house would be taken such excellent care of! The gardens and shrubberies would
be kept in almost as high order as they are now. You need not be afraid, Miss
Elliot, of your own sweet flower gardens being neglected."
"As to all that," rejoined Sir Walter coolly, "supposing I were induced to let
my house, I have by no means made up my mind as to the privileges to be
annexed to it. I am not particularly disposed to favour a tenant. The park would
be open to him of course, and few navy officers, or men of any other description,
can have had such a range; but what restrictions I might impose on the use of the
pleasure-grounds, is another thing. I am not fond of the idea of my shrubberies
being always approachable; and I should recommend Miss Elliot to be on her
guard with respect to her flower garden. I am very little disposed to grant a

annexed: annexé.
approachable: abordable, accessible,
approchable.
attending: assistant, soignant.
beg: mendier, mendions, mendiez,
mendies, mendie, mendient,
demander, prier, quémander,
implorer, supplier.
bless: bénir, bénis, bénissent, bénissez,
bénissons.
commanders: commandants.
coolly: de façon refroidissante.
French
elude: éluder, éludent, éludez,
éludons, élude, éludes.
flower: fleur, fleurir.
liberality: libéralité, générosité.
navy: marine, marine nationale,
marine de guerre, marine militaire.
neat: net, propre.
observe: observer, observes, observe,
observez, observons, observent,
respecter, respectons, respectez,
respectes, respectent.
pacing: gradation.
privileges: privilèges.
recommend: recommander,
recommandes, recommandent,
recommandez, recommande,
recommandons, conseiller.
rejoined: rejoignîmes, rejoignîtes,
rejoignit, rejoint, rejoignis,
rejoignirent.
sailor: marin, matelot, navigateur.
unquestionably: de manière
incontestable, de façon incontestable.
wealthy: riche.
18 Persuasion

tenant%of Kellynch Hall any extraordinary favour, I assure you, be he sailor or

soldier."
After a short pause, Mr Shepherd presumed to say--
"In all these cases, there are established usages which make everything plain
and easy between landlord and tenant. Your interest, Sir Walter, is in pretty safe
hands. Depend upon me for taking care that no tenant has more than his just
rights. I venture to hint, that Sir Walter Elliot cannot be half so jealous for his
own, as John Shepherd will be for him."
Here Anne spoke--
"The navy, I think, who have done so much for us, have at least an equal
claim with any other set of men, for all the comforts and all the privileges which
any home can give. Sailors work hard enough for their comforts, we must all
allow."
"Very true, very true. What Miss Anne says, is very true," was Mr Shepherd's
rejoinder, and "Oh! certainly," was his daughter's; but Sir Walter's remark was,
soon afterwards--
"The profession has its utility, but I should be sorry to see any friend of mine
belonging to it."
"Indeed!" was the reply, and with a look of surprise.
"Yes; it is in two points offensive to me; I have two strong grounds of
objection to it. First, as being the means of bringing persons of obscure birth
into undue distinction, and raising men to honours which their fathers and
grandfathers never dreamt of; and secondly, as it cuts up a man's youth and
vigour most horribly; a sailor grows old sooner than any other man. I have
observed it all my life. A man is in greater danger in the navy of being insulted
by the rise of one whose father, his father might have disdained to speak to, and
of becoming prematurely an object of disgust himself, than in any other line.
One day last spring, in town, I was in company with two men, striking instances
of what I am talking of; Lord St Ives, whose father we all know to have been a
country curate, without bread to eat; I was to give place to Lord St Ives, and a

French
assure: assurer, assure, assures, façon affreuse.
assurons, assurez, assurent, certifier, instances: exemples.
garantir, garantis, garantissent, insulted: insulté.
garantissez. jealous: jaloux.
belonging: appartenant. landlord: propriétaire, aubergiste,
curate: vicaire. logeur.
disgust: dégoût. objection: objection, opposition,
dreamt: rêvé. réclamation.
fathers: pères. obscure: obscur, obscurcir.
grows: grandit, croît. offensive: offensant, offensif,
honours: honneurs. offensive, choquant.
horribly: de manière affreuse, de pause: pause, repos, trêve.
plain: plaine, clair, uni, ordinaire, net,
limpide, évident.
prematurely: de manière prématurée,
de façon prématurée.
presumed: présumas, présumâtes,
présumèrent, présuma, présumâmes,
présumai, présumé.
rejoinder: réplique.
striking: frappant.
undue: indu.
vigour: vigueur, force, activité,
énergie.
 Jane Austen 19

certain Admiral Baldwin, the most deplorable-looking personage you can

imagine; his face the colour of mahogany, rough and rugged to the last degree;
all lines and wrinkles, nine grey hairs of a side, and nothing but a dab of
powder at top. `In the name of heaven, who is that old fellow?' said I to a friend
of mine who was standing near, (Sir Basil Morley). `Old fellow!' cried Sir Basil,
`it is Admiral Baldwin. What do you take his age to be?' `Sixty,' said I, `or
perhaps sixty-two.' `Forty,' replied Sir Basil, `forty, and no more.' Picture to
yourselves my amazement; I shall not easily forget Admiral Baldwin. I never
saw quite so wretched an example of what a sea-faring life can do; but to a
degree, I know it is the same with them all: they are all knocked about, and
exposed to every climate, and every weather, till they are not fit to be seen. It is a
pity they are not knocked on the head at once, before they reach Admiral
Baldwin's age."%
"Nay, Sir Walter," cried Mrs Clay, "this is being severe indeed. Have a little
mercy on the poor men. We are not all born to be handsome. The sea is no
beautifier, certainly; sailors do grow old betimes; I have observed it; they soon
lose the look of youth. But then, is not it the same with many other professions,
perhaps most other? Soldiers, in active service, are not at all better off: and even
in the quieter professions, there is a toil and a labour of the mind, if not of the
body, which seldom leaves a man's looks to the natural effect of time. The
lawyer plods, quite care-worn; the physician is up at all hours, and travelling in
all weather; and even the clergyman--" she stopt a moment to consider what
might do for the clergyman;--"and even the clergyman, you know is obliged to
go into infected rooms, and expose his health and looks to all the injury of a
poisonous atmosphere. In fact, as I have long been convinced, though every
profession is necessary and honourable in its turn, it is only the lot of those who
are not obliged to follow any, who can live in a regular way, in the country,
choosing their own hours, following their own pursuits, and living on their own
property, without the torment of trying for more; it is only their lot, I say, to hold
the blessings of health and a good appearance to the utmost: I know no other set
of men but what lose something of their personableness when they cease to be
quite young."
French
amazement: étonnement, honourable: honorable. plods: chemine.
abasourdissement, stupéfaction. infected: infectas, infectâtes, poisonous: toxique, venimeux,
blessings: bénédictions. infectèrent, infecta, infecté, infectai, vénéneux.
cease: cesser, cessent. infectâmes, septique. powder: poudre, pulvériser, poudrer.
clergyman: prêtre, curé, ecclésiastique, mahogany: acajou. rugged: accidenté, raboteux, robuste.
abbé, pasteur. mercy: pitié, compassion, miséricorde. seldom: rarement.
dab: clicher, tirer à la poupée, touche, obliged: obligeâtes, obligeas, obligea, toil: travailler dur, labeur.
limande, faire une touche, tampon à obligeâmes, obligèrent, obligeai, torment: torture, tourmenter, supplice.
encrer, tamponner. obligé. utmost: extrême.
expose: exposer, expose, exposes, personage: personnage. wretched: misérable, pauvre,
exposez, exposent, exposons. physician: médecin, docteur, docteur infortuné, pitoyable, malheureux.
hairs: cheveux. médecin. wrinkles: rides.
20 Persuasion

It%seemed as if Mr Shepherd, in this anxiety to bespeak Sir Walter's good will

towards a naval officer as tenant, had been gifted with foresight; for the very
first application for the house was from an Admiral Croft, with whom he shortly
afterwards fell into company in attending the quarter sessions at Taunton; and
indeed, he had received a hint of the Admiral from a London correspondent. By
the report which he hastened over to Kellynch to make, Admiral Croft was a
native of Somersetshire, who having acquired a very handsome fortune, was
wishing to settle in his own country, and had come down to Taunton in order to
look at some advertised places in that immediate neighbourhood, which,
however, had not suited him; that accidentally hearing--(it was just as he had
foretold, Mr Shepherd observed, Sir Walter's concerns could not be kept a
secret,)-- accidentally hearing of the possibility of Kellynch Hall being to let, and
understanding his (Mr Shepherd's) connection with the owner, he had
introduced himself to him in order to make particular inquiries, and had, in the
course of a pretty long conference, expressed as strong an inclination for the
place as a man who knew it only by description could feel; and given Mr
Shepherd, in his explicit account of himself, every proof of his being a most
responsible, eligible tenant.
"And who is Admiral Croft?" was Sir Walter's cold suspicious inquiry.
Mr Shepherd answered for his being of a gentleman's family, and mentioned
a place; and Anne, after the little pause which followed, added--
"He is a rear admiral of the white. He was in the Trafalgar action, and has
been in the East Indies since; he was stationed there, I believe, several years."
"Then I take it for granted," observed Sir Walter, "that his face is about as
orange as the cuffs and capes of my livery."
Mr Shepherd hastened to assure him, that Admiral Croft was a very hale,
hearty, well-looking man, a little weather-beaten, to be sure, but not much, and
quite the gentleman in all his notions and behaviour; not likely to make the
smallest difficulty about terms, only wanted a comfortable home, and to get into
it as soon as possible; knew he must pay for his convenience; knew what rent a
ready-furnished house of that consequence might fetch; should not have been
French
accidentally: accidentellement, de fetch: apporter, amener, amène, hastened: hâta, hâtèrent, hâtâtes,
manière accidentelle, de façon amènent, amènes, amenez, amenons, hâtas, hâtâmes, hâtai, hâté.
accidentelle, par hasard. apporte, apportes, apportez, hearty: cordial, chaleureux.
advertised: annoncé, annonçai, apportent. inquiries: enquêtes.
annonças, annonçâtes, annoncèrent, foresight: prévoyance, préscience, native: autochtone, naturel, natif,
annonça, annonçâmes. guidon. aborigène, inné, indigène, natal.
bespeak: annoncer, retenez, foretold: prédîmes, prédit, prédis, orange: orange, orangé.
retiennent, annonçons, retiens, prédirent, prédîtes, auguré, auguras, rear: élever, arrière.
annonces, annoncent, annonce, augurâmes, augurai, augura, smallest: le plus petit.
retenons, annoncez, retenir. augurâtes. suspicious: méfiant, soupçonneux,
correspondent: correspondant. gifted: doué, surdoué. suspect, sinistre.
eligible: éligible, admissible. hale: vigoureux. wishing: désirant.
 Jane Austen 21

surprised if Sir Walter had asked more; had inquired about the manor; would be
glad of the deputation, certainly, but made no great point of it; said he
sometimes took out a gun, but never killed; quite the gentleman.%
Mr Shepherd was eloquent on the subject; pointing out all the circumstances
of the Admiral's family, which made him peculiarly desirable as a tenant. He
was a married man, and without children; the very state to be wished for. A
house was never taken good care of, Mr Shepherd observed, without a lady: he
did not know, whether furniture might not be in danger of suffering as much
where there was no lady, as where there were many children. A lady, without a
family, was the very best preserver of furniture in the world. He had seen Mrs
Croft, too; she was at Taunton with the admiral, and had been present almost all
the time they were talking the matter over.
"And a very well-spoken, genteel, shrewd lady, she seemed to be," continued
he; "asked more questions about the house, and terms, and taxes, than the
Admiral himself, and seemed more conversant with business; and moreover, Sir
Walter, I found she was not quite unconnected in this country, any more than
her husband; that is to say, she is sister to a gentleman who did live amongst us
once; she told me so herself: sister to the gentleman who lived a few years back
at Monkford. Bless me! what was his name? At this moment I cannot recollect
his name, though I have heard it so lately. Penelope, my dear, can you help me
to the name of the gentleman who lived at Monkford: Mrs Croft's brother?"
But Mrs Clay was talking so eagerly with Miss Elliot, that she did not hear
the appeal.
"I have no conception whom you can mean, Shepherd; I remember no
gentleman resident at Monkford since the time of old Governor Trent."
"Bless me! how very odd! I shall forget my own name soon, I suppose. A
name that I am so very well acquainted with; knew the gentleman so well by
sight; seen him a hundred times; came to consult me once, I remember, about a
trespass of one of his neighbours; farmer's man breaking into his orchard; wall
torn down; apples stolen; caught in the fact; and afterwards, contrary to my
judgement, submitted to an amicable compromise. Very odd indeed!"
French
acquainted: renseignai, informèrent, contradictoire. façon étrange.
renseignâtes, renseigné, deputation: députation. penelope: Pénélope.
renseignâmes, renseignèrent, eagerly: de manière avide, de façon recollect: se rappeler, se souvenir,
renseigna, informâtes, informas, avide. retenir, retenez, retiens, retiennent,
informâmes, informai. eloquent: éloquent. retenons.
amicable: amical. genteel: distingué. resident: résident, habitant, interne,
apples: pommes. inquired: nous enquîmes, m'enquis, pensionnaire, résidant.
conception: conception. vous enquîtes, t'enquis, s'enquit, shrewd: sagace, avisé, perspicace.
consult: consulter, consultez, s'enquis, s'enquirent. torn: déchiré.
consultons, consultant, consulte, manor: manoir. trespass: atteinte, offense, entrée sans
consultes, consultent. orchard: verger, fruitier. permission, empiéter.
contrary: contraire, opposé, peculiarly: de manière étrange, de unconnected: sans rapport.
22 Persuasion

After waiting another moment--

"You mean Mr Wentworth, I suppose?" said Anne.%
Mr Shepherd was all gratitude.
"Wentworth was the very name! Mr Wentworth was the very man. He had
the curacy of Monkford, you know, Sir Walter, some time back, for two or three
years. Came there about the year ---5, I take it. You remember him, I am sure."
"Wentworth? Oh! ay,--Mr Wentworth, the curate of Monkford. You misled
me by the term gentleman. I thought you were speaking of some man of
property: Mr Wentworth was nobody, I remember; quite unconnected; nothing
to do with the Strafford family. One wonders how the names of many of our
nobility become so common."
As Mr Shepherd perceived that this connexion of the Crofts did them no
service with Sir Walter, he mentioned it no more; returning, with all his zeal, to
dwell on the circumstances more indisputably in their favour; their age, and
number, and fortune; the high idea they had formed of Kellynch Hall, and
extreme solicitude for the advantage of renting it; making it appear as if they
ranked nothing beyond the happiness of being the tenants of Sir Walter Elliot: an
extraordinary taste, certainly, could they have been supposed in the secret of Sir
Walter's estimate of the dues of a tenant.
It succeeded, however; and though Sir Walter must ever look with an evil eye
on anyone intending to inhabit that house, and think them infinitely too well
off in being permitted to rent it on the highest terms, he was talked into allowing
Mr Shepherd to proceed in the treaty, and authorising him to wait on Admiral
Croft, who still remained at Taunton, and fix a day for the house being seen.
Sir Walter was not very wise; but still he had experience enough of the world
to feel, that a more unobjectionable tenant, in all essentials, than Admiral Croft
bid fair to be, could hardly offer. So far went his understanding; and his vanity
supplied a little additional soothing, in the Admiral's situation in life, which was
just high enough, and not too high. "I have let my house to Admiral Croft,"
would sound extremely well; very much better than to any mere Mr--; a Mr

dues: cotisation, redevance.
dwell: demeurer, demeure,
demeurent, demeures, demeurez,
demeurons, habiter, loger, loges,
logez, logent.
essentials: essentiel.
fix: fixer, fixes, fixe, fixent, fixez,
fixons, attacher, réparer, déterminer,
répare, réparent.
gratitude: gratitude, reconnaissance,
remerciement.
happiness: bonheur, félicité.
French
indisputably: de manière indiscutable,
de façon indiscutable.
infinitely: infiniment, de manière
infinie, de façon infinie.
inhabit: habiter, habites, habite,
habitons, habitez, habitent.
intending: visant, projetant.
misled: égaras, égarâtes, égaré, égarai,
égara, égarèrent, égarâmes.
nobility: noblesse.
perceived: aperçu, aperçus, aperçûtes,
aperçûmes, aperçurent, aperçut,
perçut, perçus, perçurent, perçûtes,
perçûmes.
permitted: permis.
proceed: procéder, procèdes, procède,
procèdent, procédez, procédons,
avancer, avancent, avances, avancez,
avançons.
renting: location, louage.
soothing: lénitif, calmant, apaisant,
abattant, rassurant.
wise: sensé, raisonnable.
zeal: zèle, ferveur.
 Jane Austen 23

(save, perhaps, some half dozen in the nation,) always needs a note of
explanation. An admiral speaks his own consequence, and, at the same time,
can never make a baronet look small. In all their dealings and intercourse, Sir
Walter Elliot must ever have the precedence.%
Nothing could be done without a reference to Elizabeth: but her inclination
was growing so strong for a removal, that she was happy to have it fixed and
expedited by a tenant at hand; and not a word to suspend decision was uttered
by her.
Mr Shepherd was completely empowered to act; and no sooner had such an
end been reached, than Anne, who had been a most attentive listener to the
whole, left the room, to seek the comfort of cool air for her flushed cheeks; and
as she walked along a favourite grove, said, with a gentle sigh, "A few months
more, and he, perhaps, may be walking here."

cheeks: joues.
comfort: confort, consoler,
consolation, réconfort, réconforter.
cool: frais, refroidir, froid.
dealings: transactions, relations.
dozen: douzaine.
empowered: autorisé, habilitai,
habilitèrent, habilité, habilitâtes,
habilitas, habilitâmes, habilita,
autorisèrent, autorisâtes, autorisas.
expedited: expédié.
explanation: explication.
French
fixed: fixe, fixâtes, fixas, fixé, fixâmes,
fixèrent, fixa, fixai, réparas, répara,
réparâmes.
gentle: doux, gentil, suave, sucré.
grove: bosquet.
growing: croissant, grandissant.
intercourse: rapports sexuels,
relations, rapport sexuel.
listener: auditeur, écouteur.
reference: référence, renvoi,
référencer.
seek: chercher, cherches, cherche,
cherchent, cherchez, cherchons,
railler, raille, raillons, raillez, raillent.
sigh: soupir.
speaks: parle.
suspend: suspendre, suspendons,
suspendez, suspendent, suspends.
tenant: locataire.
walked: marchâtes, marchas,
marchèrent, marcha, marchai,
marchâmes, marché.
walking: marchant, marche,
promenade.
24 Persuasion

CHAPTER 4

He%was not Mr Wentworth, the former curate of Monkford, however

suspicious appearances may be, but a Captain Frederick Wentworth, his brother,
who being made commander in consequence of the action off St Domingo, and
not immediately employed, had come into Somersetshire, in the summer of 1806;
and having no parent living, found a home for half a year at Monkford. He was,
at that time, a remarkably fine young man, with a great deal of intelligence,
spirit, and brilliancy; and Anne an extremely pretty girl, with gentleness,
modesty, taste, and feeling. Half the sum of attraction, on either side, might
have been enough, for he had nothing to do, and she had hardly anybody to
love; but the encounter of such lavish recommendations could not fail. They
were gradually acquainted, and when acquainted, rapidly and deeply in love. It
would be difficult to say which had seen highest perfection in the other, or
which had been the happiest: she, in receiving his declarations and proposals, or
he in having them accepted.
A short period of exquisite felicity followed, and but a short one. Troubles
soon arose. Sir Walter, on being applied to, without actually withholding his
consent, or saying it should never be, gave it all the negative of great
astonishment, great coldness, great silence, and a professed resolution of doing
nothing for his daughter. He thought it a very degrading alliance; and Lady

alliance: alliance.
arose: naquis, naquit, naquîmes,
naquirent, naquîtes.
astonishment: étonnement, surprise.
attraction: attraction, appât.
brilliancy: éclat.
coldness: froideur, froid.
commander: commandant, capitaine
de frégate.
declarations: conditions particulières.
degrading: dégradant, avilissant.
employed: employé.
French
encounter: rencontre, rencontrer,
rencontrons, rencontrent, rencontrez,
rencontres, abord.
exquisite: exquis.
felicity: félicité.
gentleness: douceur, bonté.
lavish: prodigue, prodiguer, généreux.
modesty: modestie, pudeur.
negative: négatif, père, réfuter.
parent: parent.
perfection: perfection.
professed: confessèrent, confessé,
confessâtes, confessas, confessâmes,
confessa, confessai, professâtes,
professas, professa, professai.
receiving: recevant, accueillant,
réception.
recommendations: recommandations.
remarkably: de manière remarquable,
de façon remarquable,
remarquablement.
sum: somme, montant, addition.
troubles: gêne, troubles.
withholding: retenant.
 Jane Austen 25

Russell, though with more tempered and pardonable pride, received it as a most
unfortunate one.%
Anne Elliot, with all her claims of birth, beauty, and mind, to throw herself
away at nineteen; involve herself at nineteen in an engagement with a young
man, who had nothing but himself to recommend him, and no hopes of attaining
affluence, but in the chances of a most uncertain profession, and no connexions
to secure even his farther rise in the profession, would be, indeed, a throwing
away, which she grieved to think of! Anne Elliot, so young; known to so few, to
be snatched off by a stranger without alliance or fortune; or rather sunk by him
into a state of most wearing, anxious, youth-killing dependence! It must not be,
if by any fair interference of friendship, any representations from one who had
almost a mother's love, and mother's rights, it would be prevented.
Captain Wentworth had no fortune. He had been lucky in his profession; but
spending freely, what had come freely, had realized nothing. But he was
confident that he should soon be rich: full of life and ardour, he knew that he
should soon have a ship, and soon be on a station that would lead to everything
he wanted. He had always been lucky; he knew he should be so still. Such
confidence, powerful in its own warmth, and bewitching in the wit which often
expressed it, must have been enough for Anne; but Lady Russell saw it very
differently. His sanguine temper, and fearlessness of mind, operated very
differently on her. She saw in it but an aggravation of the evil. It only added a
dangerous character to himself. He was brilliant, he was headstrong. Lady
Russell had little taste for wit, and of anything approaching to imprudence a
horror. She deprecated the connexion in every light.
Such opposition, as these feelings produced, was more than Anne could
combat. Young and gentle as she was, it might yet have been possible to
withstand her father's ill-will, though unsoftened by one kind word or look on
the part of her sister; but Lady Russell, whom she had always loved and relied
on, could not, with such steadiness of opinion, and such tenderness of manner,
be continually advising her in vain. She was persuaded to believe the
engagement a wrong thing: indiscreet, improper, hardly capable of success, and

advising: avisant, conseillant,
recommandant.
affluence: richesse, abondance,
aisance.
aggravation: aggravation.
attaining: atteignant, parvenant.
bewitching: ensorcelant.
deprecated: désapprouvé,
désapprouvai, désapprouvèrent,
désapprouvâtes, désapprouvas,
désapprouva, désapprouvâmes.
farther: plus loin.
French
fearlessness: intrépidité.
grieved: affligeas, affligeâtes, affligé,
affligea, affligèrent, affligeâmes,
affligeai, chagrinas, chagrinâtes,
chagriné, chagrina.
headstrong: têtu.
improper: inexact, incorrect.
imprudence: imprudence.
indiscreet: indiscret.
pardonable: pardonnable, excusable.
relied: compta, comptai, comptâmes,
comptas, comptâtes, comptèrent, fia,
fiés, fiée, compté, fiées.
sanguine: sanguin.
snatched: saisi.
steadiness: régularité, fermeté,
stabilité.
sunk: sombré, enfoncés, enfoncées,
enfoncée, enfoncé.
tempered: ayant subi un revenu,
tempéré, revenu.
tenderness: tendresse, tendreté.
withstand: résister, résiste, résistent,
résistes, résistez, résistons, affronter.
26 Persuasion

not deserving it. But it was not a merely selfish caution, under which she acted,
in putting an end to it. Had she not imagined herself consulting his good, even
more than her own, she could hardly have given him up. The belief of being
prudent, and self-denying, principally for his advantage, was her chief
consolation, under the misery of a parting, a final parting; and every consolation
was required, for she had to encounter all the additional pain of opinions, on his
side, totally unconvinced and unbending, and of his feeling himself ill used by
so forced a relinquishment. He had left the country in consequence.%
A few months had seen the beginning and the end of their acquaintance; but
not with a few months ended Anne's share of suffering from it. Her attachment
and regrets had, for a long time, clouded every enjoyment of youth, and an early
loss of bloom and spirits had been their lasting effect.
More than seven years were gone since this little history of sorrowful interest
had reached its close; and time had softened down much, perhaps nearly all of
peculiar attachment to him, but she had been too dependent on time alone; no
aid had been given in change of place (except in one visit to Bath soon after the
rupture), or in any novelty or enlargement of society. No one had ever come
within the Kellynch circle, who could bear a comparison with Frederick
Wentworth, as he stood in her memory. No second attachment, the only
thoroughly natural, happy, and sufficient cure, at her time of life, had been
possible to the nice tone of her mind, the fastidiousness of her taste, in the small
limits of the society around them. She had been solicited, when about two-and-
twenty, to change her name, by the young man, who not long afterwards found a
more willing mind in her younger sister; and Lady Russell had lamented her
refusal; for Charles Musgrove was the eldest son of a man, whose landed
property and general importance were second in that country, only to Sir
Walter's, and of good character and appearance; and however Lady Russell
might have asked yet for something more, while Anne was nineteen, she would
have rejoiced to see her at twenty-two so respectably removed from the
partialities and injustice of her father's house, and settled so permanently near
herself. But in this case, Anne had left nothing for advice to do; and though Lady

acted: agi.
consulting: consultant.
cure: guérir, guérison, traitement,
cure, assainir, soigner, remédier,
cuisson, durcissement d'un adhésif,
vulcanisation, traiter.
ended: terminé.
enlargement: agrandissement,
accroissement.
ill: malade, malsain, mal.
imagined: imaginas, imaginâtes,
imaginé, imaginai, imaginâmes,
French
imagina, imaginèrent.
lamented: lamenté.
landed: débarqué, atterri.
lasting: permanent, continuel,
perpétuel, durable.
misery: misère, tristesse.
novelty: nouveauté.
opinions: avis.
parting: séparation, raie.
peculiar: étrange, singulier, drôle,
particulier.
permanently: de manière permanente,
de façon permanente.
principally: principalement, surtout,
de façon commettante.
prudent: prudent, raisonnable.
refusal: refus.
relinquishment: abandon.
respectably: de manière respectable,
de façon respectable.
sorrowful: affligé, triste.
thoroughly: de manière minutieuse,
de façon minutieuse.
unbending: inflexible.
 Jane Austen 27

Russell, as satisfied as ever with her own discretion, never wished the past
undone, she began now to have the anxiety which borders on hopelessness for
Anne's being tempted, by some man of talents and independence, to enter a state
for which she held her to be peculiarly fitted by her warm affections and
domestic habits.%
They knew not each other's opinion, either its constancy or its change, on the
one leading point of Anne's conduct, for the subject was never alluded to; but
Anne, at seven-and-twenty, thought very differently from what she had been
made to think at nineteen. She did not blame Lady Russell, she did not blame
herself for having been guided by her; but she felt that were any young person,
in similar circumstances, to apply to her for counsel, they would never receive
any of such certain immediate wretchedness, such uncertain future good. She
was persuaded that under every disadvantage of disapprobation at home, and
every anxiety attending his profession, all their probable fears, delays, and
disappointments, she should yet have been a happier woman in maintaining the
engagement, than she had been in the sacrifice of it; and this, she fully believed,
had the usual share, had even more than the usual share of all such solicitudes
and suspense been theirs, without reference to the actual results of their case,
which, as it happened, would have bestowed earlier prosperity than could be
reasonably calculated on. All his sanguine expectations, all his confidence had
been justified. His genius and ardour had seemed to foresee and to command
his prosperous path. He had, very soon after their engagement ceased, got
employ: and all that he had told her would follow, had taken place. He had
distinguished himself, and early gained the other step in rank, and must now, by
successive captures, have made a handsome fortune. She had only navy lists and
newspapers for her authority, but she could not doubt his being rich; and, in
favour of his constancy, she had no reason to believe him married.
How eloquent could Anne Elliot have been! how eloquent, at least, were her
wishes on the side of early warm attachment, and a cheerful confidence in
futurity, against that over-anxious caution which seems to insult exertion and
distrust Providence! She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she

alluded: insinua, insinuèrent, insinué,
insinuâtes, insinuas, insinuâmes,
insinuai.
bestowed: accordé, accorda, accordai,
accordâmes, accordas, accordâtes,
accordèrent.
borders: borde, bordures.
captures: capture.
ceased: cessé.
cheerful: gai, joyeux.
constancy: constance.
counsel: conseil, conseiller, avis,
French
avocat, défenseur. hopelessness: désespoir.
delays: retards, sursied. insult: insulte, insulter, offenser,
disadvantage: inconvénient, injure, affront, injurier.
désavantage. probable: probable, vraisemblable.
distrust: se méfier, méfiance, défiance. prosperous: prospère.
engagement: engagement, fiançailles, prudence: prudence, précaution.
enclenchement, accordailles. successive: consécutif.
exertion: effort. suspense: suspens.
foresee: prévoir, prévoyez, prévoient, theirs: leur.
prévoyons, prévois. undone: défait, annulé, défaites,
genius: génie. défaite, défaits.
guided: guidé. wretchedness: misère.
28 Persuasion

learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural

beginning.%
With all these circumstances, recollections and feelings, she could not hear
that Captain Wentworth's sister was likely to live at Kellynch without a revival
of former pain; and many a stroll, and many a sigh, were necessary to dispel the
agitation of the idea. She often told herself it was folly, before she could harden
her nerves sufficiently to feel the continual discussion of the Crofts and their
business no evil. She was assisted, however, by that perfect indifference and
apparent unconsciousness, among the only three of her own friends in the secret
of the past, which seemed almost to deny any recollection of it. She could do
justice to the superiority of Lady Russell's motives in this, over those of her
father and Elizabeth; she could honour all the better feelings of her calmness; but
the general air of oblivion among them was highly important from whatever it
sprung; and in the event of Admiral Croft's really taking Kellynch Hall, she
rejoiced anew over the conviction which had always been most grateful to her, of
the past being known to those three only among her connexions, by whom no
syllable, she believed, would ever be whispered, and in the trust that among his,
the brother only with whom he had been residing, had received any information
of their short-lived engagement. That brother had been long removed from the
country and being a sensible man, and, moreover, a single man at the time, she
had a fond dependence on no human creature's having heard of it from him.
The sister, Mrs Croft, had then been out of England, accompanying her
husband on a foreign station, and her own sister, Mary, had been at school while
it all occurred; and never admitted by the pride of some, and the delicacy of
others, to the smallest knowledge of it afterwards.
With these supports, she hoped that the acquaintance between herself and
the Crofts, which, with Lady Russell, still resident in Kellynch, and Mary fixed
only three miles off, must be anticipated, need not involve any particular
awkwardness.

French
accompanying: accompagnant. delicacy: friandise, délicatesse, finesse. residing: résidant.
agitation: agitation, bagarre, barouf, dispel: dissiper. revival: renaissance, reprise,
baroufle, brassage. folly: folie, sottise. renouveau.
anew: de nouveau, encore. harden: durcir, durcis, durcissent, romance: romance.
assisted: assisté, assistâtes, assistas, durcissez, durcissons, tremper, sequel: suite.
assistèrent, assistâmes, assista, trempons, trempez, trempes, stroll: promenade, se promener, faire
assistai, aidèrent, aidâmes, aidas, trempent, trempe. un tour, flâner.
aidai. motives: motifs. superiority: supériorité.
awkwardness: maladresse, gaucherie. nerves: nerfs. syllable: syllabe.
calmness: calme, repos. oblivion: oubli. unconsciousness: inconscience,
continual: continuel, constant, recollection: souvenir, mémoire. évanouissement.
invariable, permanent. recollections: souvenirs. unnatural: anormal.
 Jane Austen 29

CHAPTER 5

On the morning appointed for Admiral and Mrs Croft's seeing Kellynch Hall,
Anne found it most natural to take her almost daily walk to Lady Russell's, and
keep out of the way till all was over; when she found it most natural to be sorry
that she had missed the opportunity of seeing them.%
This meeting of the two parties proved highly satisfactory, and decided the
whole business at once. Each lady was previously well disposed for an
agreement, and saw nothing, therefore, but good manners in the other; and with
regard to the gentlemen, there was such an hearty good humour, such an open,
trusting liberality on the Admiral's side, as could not but influence Sir Walter,
who had besides been flattered into his very best and most polished behaviour
by Mr Shepherd's assurances of his being known, by report, to the Admiral, as a
model of good breeding.
The house and grounds, and furniture, were approved, the Crofts were
approved, terms, time, every thing, and every body, was right; and Mr
Shepherd's clerks were set to work, without there having been a single
preliminary difference to modify of all that "This indenture sheweth."
Sir Walter, without hesitation, declared the Admiral to be the best-looking
sailor he had ever met with, and went so far as to say, that if his own man might
have had the arranging of his hair, he should not be ashamed of being seen with

approved: approuvé, approuvâtes,
approuvas, approuva, approuvai,
approuvâmes, approuvèrent,
homologué.
arranging: arrangeant, disposant,
rangeant, ordonnant, agençant,
accommodant.
ashamed: honteux.
besides: en outre, hormis, d'ailleurs,
sauf, en prime, et puis, de plus, outre.
breeding: élevage, reproduction,
surgénération.
French
declared: déclaré, déclara, déclarai,
déclarèrent, déclarâmes, déclaras,
déclarâtes.
flattered: flattèrent, flattâtes, flattai,
flattâmes, flatta, flattas, flatté, adulas,
adulâtes, adula, adulai.
furniture: meubles, mobilier,
ameublement, les meubles, garniture.
hesitation: hésitation.
humour: humour, humeur.
indenture: indenture.
missed: manqué.
modify: modifier, modifies, modifie,
modifions, modifiez, modifient,
modification.
polished: poli.
preliminary: préliminaire.
regard: considérer, considérez,
considérons, considères, considèrent,
considère, estime, regarder,
contempler, égard, regard.
satisfactory: satisfaisant.
till: caisse, à, jusqu'à ce que.
trusting: confiant.
30 Persuasion

him any where; and the Admiral, with sympathetic cordiality, observed to his
wife as they drove back through the park, "I thought we should soon come to a
deal, my dear, in spite of what they told us at Taunton. The Baronet will never
set the Thames on fire, but there seems to be no harm in him." reciprocal
compliments, which would have been esteemed about equal.%
The Crofts were to have possession at Michaelmas; and as Sir Walter
proposed removing to Bath in the course of the preceding month, there was no
time to be lost in making every dependent arrangement.
Lady Russell, convinced that Anne would not be allowed to be of any use, or
any importance, in the choice of the house which they were going to secure, was
very unwilling to have her hurried away so soon, and wanted to make it
possible for her to stay behind till she might convey her to Bath herself after
Christmas; but having engagements of her own which must take her from
Kellynch for several weeks, she was unable to give the full invitation she
wished, and Anne though dreading the possible heats of September in all the
white glare of Bath, and grieving to forego all the influence so sweet and so sad
of the autumnal months in the country, did not think that, everything
considered, she wished to remain. It would be most right, and most wise, and,
therefore must involve least suffering to go with the others.
Something occurred, however, to give her a different duty. Mary, often a little
unwell, and always thinking a great deal of her own complaints, and always in
the habit of claiming Anne when anything was the matter, was indisposed; and
foreseeing that she should not have a day's health all the autumn, entreated, or
rather required her, for it was hardly entreaty, to come to Uppercross Cottage,
and bear her company as long as she should want her, instead of going to Bath.
"I cannot possibly do without Anne," was Mary's reasoning; and Elizabeth's
reply was, "Then I am sure Anne had better stay, for nobody will want her in
Bath."
To be claimed as a good, though in an improper style, is at least better than
being rejected as no good at all; and Anne, glad to be thought of some use, glad

autumnal: automnal.
claiming: réclamation, revendication.
complaints: plaintes.
convey: transmettre.
convinced: convaincu, convainquit,
convainquis, convainquirent,
convainquîmes, convainquîtes.
cordiality: cordialité.
dreading: option marchandises
diverses.
entreated: supplié, supplièrent,
suppliâtes, supplias, suppliâmes,
French
suppliai, supplia, imploré,
implorâtes, imploras, implorâmes.
entreaty: imploration, supplication.
esteemed: estimé.
forego: précédons, précède, précèdent,
précèdes, précédez, précéder.
foreseeing: prévoyant.
glare: éblouissement, éclat, reflet.
grieving: affligeant, chagrinant,
attristant.
habit: habitude, coutume, usage, port.
hurried: hâtif, pressé, dépêché.
indisposed: indisposé, souffrant.
invitation: invitation.
preceding: précédant, précédent,
avançant.
reasoning: raisonnement.
reciprocal: réciproque, inverse.
removing: supprimant, ôtant,
enlevant.
sympathetic: sympathique, sympa,
compatissant.
unwell: indisposé, souffrant, malade.
unwilling: peu disposé.
 Jane Austen 31

to have anything marked out as a duty, and certainly not sorry to have the scene
of it in the country, and her own dear country, readily agreed to stay.%
This invitation of Mary's removed all Lady Russell's difficulties, and it was
consequently soon settled that Anne should not go to Bath till Lady Russell took
her, and that all the intervening time should be divided between Uppercross
Cottage and Kellynch Lodge.
So far all was perfectly right; but Lady Russell was almost startled by the
wrong of one part of the Kellynch Hall plan, when it burst on her, which was,
Mrs Clay's being engaged to go to Bath with Sir Walter and Elizabeth, as a most
important and valuable assistant to the latter in all the business before her. Lady
Russell was extremely sorry that such a measure should have been resorted to at
all, wondered, grieved, and feared; and the affront it contained to Anne, in Mrs
Clay's being of so much use, while Anne could be of none, was a very sore
aggravation.
Anne herself was become hardened to such affronts; but she felt the
imprudence of the arrangement quite as keenly as Lady Russell. With a great
deal of quiet observation, and a knowledge, which she often wished less, of her
father's character, she was sensible that results the most serious to his family
from the intimacy were more than possible. She did not imagine that her father
had at present an idea of the kind. Mrs Clay had freckles, and a projecting
tooth, and a clumsy wrist, which he was continually making severe remarks
upon, in her absence; but she was young, and certainly altogether well-looking,
and possessed, in an acute mind and assiduous pleasing manners, infinitely
more dangerous attractions than any merely personal might have been. Anne
was so impressed by the degree of their danger, that she could not excuse herself
from trying to make it perceptible to her sister. She had little hope of success;
but Elizabeth, who in the event of such a reverse would be so much more to be
pitied than herself, should never, she thought, have reason to reproach her for
giving no warning.

affront: affront, insulte, insulter,
offenser.
assiduous: assidu.
clumsy: maladroit, gauche, empoté,
malhabile.
continually: continuellement, de
manière continuelle, de façon
continuelle.
feared: craint.
freckles: éphélide.
hardened: durci, durcîtes, durcit,
durcis, durcirent, durcîmes,
French
trempâmes, trempai, trempas,
trempâtes, trempèrent.
impressed: impressionné.
intervening: intervenant.
keenly: de manière vive, de façon
vive.
perceptible: perceptible.
projecting: projetant, en saillie,
saillant.
remarks: remarque.
reproach: reproche, reprocher,
réprimander, gronder, sermonner,
reprendre.
resorted: recouru.
reverse: inverse, inverser, verso,
marche arrière, retourner, renverser,
dos, revers.
sore: ulcère, douloureux, plaie.
startled: effarouché, effarouchâmes,
surprîtes, effarouchas, effarouchâtes,
effarouchèrent, surprîmes, surprit,
alarmèrent, surprirent, alarmé.
tooth: dent.
wrist: poignet.
32 Persuasion

She spoke, and seemed only to offend. Elizabeth could not conceive how
such an absurd suspicion should occur to her, and indignantly answered for
each party's perfectly knowing their situation.%
"Mrs Clay," said she, warmly, "never forgets who she is; and as I am rather
better acquainted with her sentiments than you can be, I can assure you, that
upon the subject of marriage they are particularly nice, and that she reprobates
all inequality of condition and rank more strongly than most people. And as to
my father, I really should not have thought that he, who has kept himself single
so long for our sakes, need be suspected now. If Mrs Clay were a very beautiful
woman, I grant you, it might be wrong to have her so much with me; not that
anything in the world, I am sure, would induce my father to make a degrading
match, but he might be rendered unhappy. But poor Mrs Clay who, with all her
merits, can never have been reckoned tolerably pretty, I really think poor Mrs
Clay may be staying here in perfect safety. One would imagine you had never
heard my father speak of her personal misfortunes, though I know you must fifty
times. That tooth of her's and those freckles. Freckles do not disgust me so very
much as they do him. I have known a face not materially disfigured by a few,
but he abominates them. You must have heard him notice Mrs Clay's freckles."
"There is hardly any personal defect," replied Anne, "which an agreeable
manner might not gradually reconcile one to."
"I think very differently," answered Elizabeth, shortly; "an agreeable manner
may set off handsome features, but can never alter plain ones. However, at any
rate, as I have a great deal more at stake on this point than anybody else can
have, I think it rather unnecessary in you to be advising me."
Anne had done; glad that it was over, and not absolutely hopeless of doing
good. Elizabeth, though resenting the suspicion, might yet be made observant
by it.
The last office of the four carriage-horses was to draw Sir Walter, Miss Elliot,
and Mrs Clay to Bath. The party drove off in very good spirits; Sir Walter
prepared with condescending bows for all the afflicted tenantry and cottagers
who might have had a hint to show themselves, and Anne walked up at the same
French
abominates: abomine. forgets: oublie. insulte, insultons, insultez, insultes.
afflicted: affligé, affligeas, affligea, hopeless: désespéré, impossible, sans reconcile: réconcilier, réconcilies,
affligeai, affligeâmes, affligèrent, espoir. réconcilie, réconcilient, réconciliez,
affligeâtes, désolâtes, désolas, indignantly: de manière indignée, de réconcilions.
désolâmes, désolai. façon indignée. rendered: plâtras, rendit, rendîmes,
bows: épaulure, boucles, courbures. induce: induire, induisez, induisent, rendirent, rendîtes, plâtrèrent, plâtré,
conceive: concevoir, concevez, induis, induisons, conclure, plâtrâtes, crépi, rendis, plâtrâmes.
conçoivent, conçois, concevons. persuader, provoquer. resenting: ressentant.
condescending: condescendant. inequality: inégalité. tolerably: de manière tolérable, de
disfigured: défiguré, défigurèrent, observant: observateur. façon tolérable.
défigurâmes, défigura, défigurai, offend: offenser, offenses, offensent, warmly: chaudement, de façon
défiguras, défigurâtes. offense, offensez, offensons, insulter, chaude, de manière chaude.
 Jane Austen 33

time, in a sort of desolate tranquillity, to the Lodge, where she was to spend the
first week.%
Her friend was not in better spirits than herself. Lady Russell felt this break-
up of the family exceedingly. Their respectability was as dear to her as her own,
and a daily intercourse had become precious by habit. It was painful to look
upon their deserted grounds, and still worse to anticipate the new hands they
were to fall into; and to escape the solitariness and the melancholy of so altered a
village, and be out of the way when Admiral and Mrs Croft first arrived, she had
determined to make her own absence from home begin when she must give up
Anne. Accordingly their removal was made together, and Anne was set down at
Uppercross Cottage, in the first stage of Lady Russell's journey.
Uppercross was a moderate-sized village, which a few years back had been
completely in the old English style, containing only two houses superior in
appearance to those of the yeomen and labourers; the mansion of the squire,
with its high walls, great gates, and old trees, substantial and unmodernized, and
the compact, tight parsonage, enclosed in its own neat garden, with a vine and a
pear-tree trained round its casements; but upon the marriage of the young
'squire, it had received the improvement of a farm-house elevated into a cottage,
for his residence, and Uppercross Cottage, with its veranda, French windows,
and other prettiness, was quite as likely to catch the traveller's eye as the more
consistent and considerable aspect and premises of the Great House, about a
quarter of a mile farther on.
Here Anne had often been staying. She knew the ways of Uppercross as well
as those of Kellynch. The two families were so continually meeting, so much in
the habit of running in and out of each other's house at all hours, that it was
rather a surprise to her to find Mary alone; but being alone, her being unwell and
out of spirits was almost a matter of course. Though better endowed than the
elder sister, Mary had not Anne's understanding nor temper. While well, and
happy, and properly attended to, she had great good humour and excellent
spirits; but any indisposition sunk her completely. She had no resources for
solitude; and inheriting a considerable share of the Elliot self-importance, was

altered: altéré, altéras, altérâtes,
altérèrent, altéra, altérai, altérâmes.
anticipate: anticiper, anticipent,
anticipons, anticipez, anticipe,
anticipes, prévoir.
compact: compact, compacter.
deserted: déserté.
desolate: désolé, sombre, morne.
elder: sureau, aîné, ancien.
elevated: élevé, élevâmes, élevèrent,
élevas, élevai, éleva, élevâtes.
enclosed: clos, inclus, enclos,
French
enserrèrent, enserrai, enserra,
enserrâmes, enserré, enserras,
enserrâtes.
endowed: doté, dotai, dotâmes,
dotèrent, dota, dotas, dotâtes.
exceedingly: extrêmement, de manière
excédante, de façon excédante.
indisposition: indisposition.
inheriting: héritant.
mansion: immeuble, château,
mansion.
melancholy: mélancolie,
mélancolique, abattement, sombre.
parsonage: presbytère.
precious: précieux, rare.
prettiness: beauté, joliesse.
solitude: solitude.
squire: chaperonner, châtelain.
temper: humeur, tremper, durcir,
tempérament, trempe, tempérer,
gâcher.
tranquillity: tranquillité.
veranda: véranda.
vine: vigne, vignoble.
34 Persuasion

very prone to add to every other distress that of fancying herself neglected and
ill-used. In person, she was inferior to both sisters, and had, even in her bloom,
only reached the dignity of being "a fine girl." She was now lying on the faded
sofa of the pretty little drawing-room, the once elegant furniture of which had
been gradually growing shabby, under the influence of four summers and two
children; and, on Anne's appearing, greeted her with--
"So, you are come at last! I began to think I should never see you. I am so ill I
can hardly speak. I have not seen a creature the whole morning!"%
"I am sorry to find you unwell," replied Anne. "You sent me such a good
account of yourself on Thursday!"
"Yes, I made the best of it; I always do: but I was very far from well at the
time; and I do not think I ever was so ill in my life as I have been all this
morning: very unfit to be left alone, I am sure. Suppose I were to be seized of a
sudden in some dreadful way, and not able to ring the bell! So, Lady Russell
would not get out. I do not think she has been in this house three times this
summer."
Anne said what was proper, and enquired after her husband. "Oh! Charles is
out shooting. I have not seen him since seven o'clock. He would go, though I
told him how ill I was. He said he should not stay out long; but he has never
come back, and now it is almost one. I assure you, I have not seen a soul this
whole long morning."
"You have had your little boys with you?"
"Yes, as long as I could bear their noise; but they are so unmanageable that
they do me more harm than good. Little Charles does not mind a word I say,
and Walter is growing quite as bad."
"Well, you will soon be better now," replied Anne, cheerfully. "You know I
always cure you when I come. How are your neighbours at the Great House?"
"I can give you no account of them. I have not seen one of them to-day,
except Mr Musgrove, who just stopped and spoke through the window, but
without getting off his horse; and though I told him how ill I was, not one of

appearing: apparaissant.
bell: cloche, clochette, sonnette,
sonnerie.
cheerfully: de manière gaie, de façon
gaie.
creature: créature.
distress: détresse, attrister.
dreadful: terrible, affreux,
épouvantable.
elegant: élégant.
faded: pâlirent, pâlîmes, pâli, pâlis,
pâlit, pâlîtes, fané, décoloré, décolora,
French
déteignîtes, déteignîmes. agrippas, agrippâmes, agrippai.
greeted: saluas, saluâtes, salua, shabby: mesquin, usé, miteux.
saluèrent, saluai, saluâmes, salué, shooting: tirant, tir, tournage,
accueillîtes, accueilli, accueillis, fusillade, chasse, prise de vue, prise
accueillîmes. de vues.
harm: nuire, préjudice, mal, tort, sisters: soeurs.
endommager. sofa: canapé, sofa.
neglected: négligé. soul: âme.
neighbours: voisins. sudden: subit, soudain.
prone: enclin. summers: étés.
seized: saisit, saisîtes, saisis, saisîmes, unfit: inapte.
saisirent, saisi, agrippa, agrippèrent, unmanageable: intraitable, indocile.
 Jane Austen 35

them have been near me. It did not happen to suit the Miss Musgroves, I
suppose, and they never put themselves out of their way."%
"You will see them yet, perhaps, before the morning is gone. It is early."
"I never want them, I assure you. They talk and laugh a great deal too much
for me. Oh! Anne, I am so very unwell! It was quite unkind of you not to come
on Thursday."
"My dear Mary, recollect what a comfortable account you sent me of
yourself! You wrote in the cheerfullest manner, and said you were perfectly well,
and in no hurry for me; and that being the case, you must be aware that my wish
would be to remain with Lady Russell to the last: and besides what I felt on her
account, I have really been so busy, have had so much to do, that I could not very
conveniently have left Kellynch sooner."
"Dear me! what can you possibly have to do?"
"A great many things, I assure you. More than I can recollect in a moment;
but I can tell you some. I have been making a duplicate of the catalogue of my
father's books and pictures. I have been several times in the garden with
Mackenzie, trying to understand, and make him understand, which of
Elizabeth's plants are for Lady Russell. I have had all my own little concerns to
arrange, books and music to divide, and all my trunks to repack, from not
having understood in time what was intended as to the waggons: and one thing
I have had to do, Mary, of a more trying nature: going to almost every house in
the parish, as a sort of take-leave. I was told that they wished it. But all these
things took up a great deal of time."
"Oh! well!" and after a moment's pause, "but you have never asked me one
word about our dinner at the Pooles yesterday."
"Did you go then? I have made no enquiries, because I concluded you must
have been obliged to give up the party."
"Oh yes! I went. I was very well yesterday; nothing at all the matter with me
till this morning. It would have been strange if I had not gone."
"I am very glad you were well enough, and I hope you had a pleasant party."
French
arrange: arranger, arranges, arrange, divide: diviser, divisent, divisez, pleasant: agréable, plaisant, charmant,
arrangeons, arrangent, arrangez, divisons, divises, divise, partager, sympathique.
disposer, disposons, disposez, partagent, partagez, partageons, repack: catégorie de réparation,
disposes, dispose. partage. remplacement, repaquer.
catalogue: catalogue, cataloguer. duplicate: double, copie, dupliquer, trunks: services aériens
comfortable: confortable. duplicata, copier, contretype, en intercontinentaux.
concerns: concerne. double, reproduire. understood: comprîmes, compris,
concluded: conclu, conclûmes, glad: joyeux, content, heureux. comprîtes, comprit, comprirent,
conclut, conclus, conclurent, hurry: se dépêcher, hâte, presser, être comprise.
conclûtes. urgent, se presser, se hâter, dépêcher. unkind: maussade.
conveniently: de manière commode, laugh: rire, rigoler. wished: désira, souhaité, désirées,
de façon commode. parish: paroisse. désirâmes, désirée, désirés.
36 Persuasion

"Nothing remarkable. One always knows beforehand what the dinner will
be, and who will be there; and it is so very uncomfortable not having a carriage
of one's own. Mr and Mrs Musgrove took me, and we were so crowded! They
are both so very large, and take up so much room; and Mr Musgrove always sits
forward. So, there was I, crowded into the back seat with Henrietta and Louise;
and I think it very likely that my illness to-day may be owing to it."
A little further perseverance in patience and forced cheerfulness on Anne's
side produced nearly a cure on Mary's. She could soon sit upright on the sofa,
and began to hope she might be able to leave it by dinner-time. Then, forgetting
to think of it, she was at the other end of the room, beautifying a nosegay; then,
she ate her cold meat; and then she was well enough to propose a little walk.%
"Where shall we go?" said she, when they were ready. "I suppose you will
not like to call at the Great House before they have been to see you?"
"I have not the smallest objection on that account," replied Anne. "I should
never think of standing on such ceremony with people I know so well as Mrs
and the Miss Musgroves."
"Oh! but they ought to call upon you as soon as possible. They ought to feel
what is due to you as my sister. However, we may as well go and sit with them
a little while, and when we have that over, we can enjoy our walk."
Anne had always thought such a style of intercourse highly imprudent; but
she had ceased to endeavour to check it, from believing that, though there were
on each side continual subjects of offence, neither family could now do without
it. To the Great House accordingly they went, to sit the full half hour in the old-
fashioned square parlour, with a small carpet and shining floor, to which the
present daughters of the house were gradually giving the proper air of confusion
by a grand piano-forte and a harp, flower-stands and little tables placed in every
direction. Oh! could the originals of the portraits against the wainscot, could the
gentlemen in brown velvet and the ladies in blue satin have seen what was
going on, have been conscious of such an overthrow of all order and neatness!
The portraits themselves seemed to be staring in astonishment.

ate: mangea, mangeâtes, mangeas,
mangeai, mangèrent, mangeâmes.
beautifying: embellissant.
beforehand: d'avance, au préalable.
believing: croyant.
carpet: tapis, moquette.
carriage: wagon, chariot, voiture,
affût.
ceremony: cérémonie.
cheerfulness: gaieté, bonne humeur.
crowded: bondé, encombré.
daughters: filles.
French
endeavour: peiner, se démener. perseverance: persévérance.
harp: harpe. propose: proposer, proposes, propose,
imprudent: imprudent. proposons, proposez, proposent.
neatness: netteté. satin: satin.
nosegay: petit bouquet odorant. shining: luisant, brillant.
overthrow: renverser, renverse, sits: couve, s'assied, assied.
renversent, renverses, renversez, uncomfortable: inconfortable.
renversons, abattre, abattage, faire upright: montant, droit, intègre,
tomber. honnête, debout, vertical, montant
owing: devant, dû. droit.
parlour: salon. velvet: velours.
patience: patience. wainscot: lambris, panneau.
 Jane Austen 37

The%Musgroves, like their houses, were in a state of alteration, perhaps of

improvement. The father and mother were in the old English style, and the
young people in the new. Mr and Mrs Musgrove were a very good sort of
people; friendly and hospitable, not much educated, and not at all elegant.
Their children had more modern minds and manners. There was a numerous
family; but the only two grown up, excepting Charles, were Henrietta and
Louisa, young ladies of nineteen and twenty, who had brought from school at
Exeter all the usual stock of accomplishments, and were now like thousands of
other young ladies, living to be fashionable, happy, and merry. Their dress had
every advantage, their faces were rather pretty, their spirits extremely good,
their manner unembarrassed and pleasant; they were of consequence at home,
and favourites abroad. Anne always contemplated them as some of the happiest
creatures of her acquaintance; but still, saved as we all are, by some comfortable
feeling of superiority from wishing for the possibility of exchange, she would not
have given up her own more elegant and cultivated mind for all their
enjoyments; and envied them nothing but that seemingly perfect good
understanding and agreement together, that good-humoured mutual affection,
of which she had known so little herself with either of her sisters.
They were received with great cordiality. Nothing seemed amiss on the side
of the Great House family, which was generally, as Anne very well knew, the
least to blame. The half hour was chatted away pleasantly enough; and she was
not at all surprised at the end of it, to have their walking party joined by both the
Miss Musgroves, at Mary's particular invitation.

abroad: à l'étranger, dehors.
alteration: modification,
transformation, altération,
changement, retouche.
amiss: de travers.
blame: blâme, reprocher, gronder,
blâmer, sermonner, réprimander,
reprendre.
educated: éduquâmes, éduquai,
éduquèrent, éduqua, éduqué,
éduquas, éduquâtes, cultivé.
envied: envié, envia, enviai, envièrent,
French
enviâmes, envias, enviâtes.
excepting: sauf.
faces: faces.
fashionable: à la mode, dernier cri,
moderne, dans le vent, actuel.
friendly: amical, aimable, gentil,
affable, amène, amicalement.
grown: crû, grandi.
hospitable: hospitalier.
improvement: amélioration,
perfectionnement.
ladies: dames.
merry: joyeux, gai.
mutual: réciproque, mutuel.
numerous: nombreux.
pleasantly: agréablement, de manière
agréable, de façon agréable.
saved: épargnâtes, épargnas,
épargnâmes, épargnèrent, épargné,
épargnai, épargna, sauvâtes, sauvas,
sauvâmes, sauvèrent.
seemingly: apparemment, de manière
paraissante, de façon paraissante.
surprised: surpris.
38 Persuasion

CHAPTER %6

Anne had not wanted this visit to Uppercross, to learn that a removal from
one set of people to another, though at a distance of only three miles, will often
include a total change of conversation, opinion, and idea. She had never been
staying there before, without being struck by it, or without wishing that other
Elliots could have her advantage in seeing how unknown, or unconsidered
there, were the affairs which at Kellynch Hall were treated as of such general
publicity and pervading interest; yet, with all this experience, she believed she
must now submit to feel that another lesson, in the art of knowing our own
nothingness beyond our own circle, was become necessary for her; for certainly,
coming as she did, with a heart full of the subject which had been completely
occupying both houses in Kellynch for many weeks, she had expected rather
more curiosity and sympathy than she found in the separate but very similar
remark of Mr and Mrs Musgrove: "So, Miss Anne, Sir Walter and your sister are
gone; and what part of Bath do you think they will settle in?" and this, without
much waiting for an answer; or in the young ladies' addition of, "I hope we shall
be in Bath in the winter; but remember, papa, if we do go, we must be in a good
situation: none of your Queen Squares for us!" or in the anxious supplement
from Mary, of-- "Upon my word, I shall be pretty well off, when you are all gone
away to be happy at Bath!"

addition: addition, ajout, adjonction,
appendice, rajout, extension.
advantage: avantage, intérêt.
anxious: inquiet, agité, anxieux,
soucieux, impatient.
circle: cercle, rond, ronde, encercler.
conversation: conversation.
distance: distance, éloignement.
houses: maisons.
knowing: connaissant.
learn: apprendre, apprenons,
apprenez, apprends, apprennent.
French
lesson: leçon.
none: aucun, personne, nul.
occupying: occupant.
opinion: avis, opinion, vœu.
papa: papa.
pervading: imprégnant.
pretty: joli, mignon, aimable, bath,
assez.
publicity: publicité, propagande.
seeing: voyant, sciant.
settle: régler, réglons, réglez, règles,
règlent, règle, s'abattre, s'abaisser,
coloniser.
staying: restant.
submit: soumettre, soumettons,
soumets, soumettez, soumettent,
abdiquer, se soumettre.
supplement: supplément,
complément, compléter.
sympathy: sympathie, compassion.
treated: traité.
unknown: inconnu, ignoré, inconnue.
waiting: attendant, attente.
winter: hiver, hiverner.
 Jane Austen 39

She could only resolve to avoid such self-delusion in future, and think with
heightened gratitude of the extraordinary blessing of having one such truly
sympathising friend as Lady Russell.%
The Mr Musgroves had their own game to guard, and to destroy, their own
horses, dogs, and newspapers to engage them, and the females were fully
occupied in all the other common subjects of housekeeping, neighbours, dress,
dancing, and music. She acknowledged it to be very fitting, that every little
social commonwealth should dictate its own matters of discourse; and hoped, ere
long, to become a not unworthy member of the one she was now transplanted
into. With the prospect of spending at least two months at Uppercross, it was
highly incumbent on her to clothe her imagination, her memory, and all her
ideas in as much of Uppercross as possible.
She had no dread of these two months. Mary was not so repulsive and
unsisterly as Elizabeth, nor so inaccessible to all influence of hers; neither was
there anything among the other component parts of the cottage inimical to
comfort. She was always on friendly terms with her brother-in-law; and in the
children, who loved her nearly as well, and respected her a great deal more than
their mother, she had an object of interest, amusement, and wholesome exertion.
Charles Musgrove was civil and agreeable; in sense and temper he was
undoubtedly superior to his wife, but not of powers, or conversation, or grace, to
make the past, as they were connected together, at all a dangerous
contemplation; though, at the same time, Anne could believe, with Lady Russell,
that a more equal match might have greatly improved him; and that a woman of
real understanding might have given more consequence to his character, and
more usefulness, rationality, and elegance to his habits and pursuits. As it was,
he did nothing with much zeal, but sport; and his time was otherwise trifled
away, without benefit from books or anything else. He had very good spirits,
which never seemed much affected by his wife's occasional lowness, bore with
her unreasonableness sometimes to Anne's admiration, and upon the whole,
though there was very often a little disagreement (in which she had sometimes
more share than she wished, being appealed to by both parties), they might pass

clothe: vêtir, vêtent, vêts, vêtons,
vêtez, habiller, revêtir, habillez,
revêts, revêtons, revêtez.
contemplation: contemplation.
dancing: dansant.
disagreement: désaccord, différend,
mésentente.
dread: crainte, redouter.
engage: engager, engagez, engagent,
engageons, engages, engage,
engrener.
ere: avant, avant que.
French
fitting: convenable, ajustage,
conforme, essayage, raccord,
montage, adaptation, liquidation,
posage, ferrure, raccord de
tuyauterie.
habits: mode de vie, habitudes.
heightened: aggravâtes, aggravèrent,
aggravé, aggravas, aggravâmes,
aggrava, aggravai, rehaussas,
rehaussâtes, rehaussé, rehaussèrent.
housekeeping: gestion interne,
télémaintenance, ménage.
inaccessible: inaccessible.
incumbent: titulaire.
inimical: hostile.
rationality: rationalité.
repulsive: répulsif, affreux,
épouvantable, horrible, répugnant,
repoussant.
respected: respecté.
transplanted: transplanté.
unreasonableness: déraison.
usefulness: utilité.
wholesome: sain, salubre.
40 Persuasion

for a happy couple. They were always perfectly agreed in the want of more
money, and a strong inclination for a handsome present from his father; but here,
as on most topics, he had the superiority, for while Mary thought it a great
shame that such a present was not made, he always contended for his father's
having many other uses for his money, and a right to spend it as he liked.%
As to the management of their children, his theory was much better than his
wife's, and his practice not so bad. "I could manage them very well, if it were not
for Mary's interference," was what Anne often heard him say, and had a good
deal of faith in; but when listening in turn to Mary's reproach of "Charles spoils
the children so that I cannot get them into any order," she never had the smallest
temptation to say, "Very true."
One of the least agreeable circumstances of her residence there was her being
treated with too much confidence by all parties, and being too much in the secret
of the complaints of each house. Known to have some influence with her sister,
she was continually requested, or at least receiving hints to exert it, beyond what
was practicable. "I wish you could persuade Mary not to be always fancying
herself ill," was Charles's language; and, in an unhappy mood, thus spoke Mary:
"I do believe if Charles were to see me dying, he would not think there was
anything the matter with me. I am sure, Anne, if you would, you might
persuade him that I really am very ill--a great deal worse than I ever own."
Mary's declaration was, "I hate sending the children to the Great House,
though their grandmamma is always wanting to see them, for she humours and
indulges them to such a degree, and gives them so much trash and sweet things,
that they are sure to come back sick and cross for the rest of the day." And Mrs
Musgrove took the first opportunity of being alone with Anne, to say, "Oh! Miss
Anne, I cannot help wishing Mrs Charles had a little of your method with those
children. They are quite different creatures with you! But to be sure, in general
they are so spoilt! It is a pity you cannot put your sister in the way of managing
them. They are as fine healthy children as ever were seen, poor little dears!
without partiality; but Mrs Charles knows no more how they should be treated--
! Bless me! how troublesome they are sometimes. I assure you, Miss Anne, it

contended: contesté, contestés,
contestées, contestée, contestèrent,
Combattu, disputâmes, combattit,
disputèrent, disputé, disputâtes.
declaration: déclaration.
dying: mourant, décédant.
exert: pratiquer, pratiquent, pratiques,
pratiquez, pratique, pratiquons,
efforcer, exercer.
hate: haïr, haine, détester.
healthy: sain, en bonne santé, salubre.
indulges: gâte.
French
managing: administrant, gérant,
dirigeant.
mood: humeur, ambiance.
partiality: partialité.
persuade: persuader, persuades,
persuade, persuadons, persuadent,
persuadez, convaincre, inspirer.
practicable: praticable.
requested: demandé.
residence: résidence, domicile,
demeure, habitation, logis, logement,
gîte.
secret: secret, arcane.
sending: envoyant, adressant, envoi.
shame: honte, pouah, vergogne.
sick: malade, malsain.
spoils: abîme.
spoilt: gâté.
sweet: doux, sucré, bonbon, suave,
friandise, gentil, dessert.
temptation: tentation.
trash: camelote.
troublesome: pénible, gênant.
unhappy: malheureux, mécontent.
 Jane Austen 41

prevents my wishing to see them at our house so often as I otherwise should. I

believe Mrs Charles is not quite pleased with my not inviting them oftener; but
you know it is very bad to have children with one that one is obligated to be
checking every moment; "don't do this," and "don't do that;" or that one can only
keep in tolerable order by more cake than is good for them."%
She had this communication, moreover, from Mary. "Mrs Musgrove thinks
all her servants so steady, that it would be high treason to call it in question; but I
am sure, without exaggeration, that her upper house-maid and laundry-maid,
instead of being in their business, are gadding about the village, all day long. I
meet them wherever I go; and I declare, I never go twice into my nursery
without seeing something of them. If Jemima were not the trustiest, steadiest
creature in the world, it would be enough to spoil her; for she tells me, they are
always tempting her to take a walk with them." And on Mrs Musgrove's side, it
was, "I make a rule of never interfering in any of my daughter-in-law's concerns,
for I know it would not do; but I shall tell you, Miss Anne, because you may be
able to set things to rights, that I have no very good opinion of Mrs Charles's
nursery-maid: I hear strange stories of her; she is always upon the gad; and from
my own knowledge, I can declare, she is such a fine-dressing lady, that she is
enough to ruin any servants she comes near. Mrs Charles quite swears by her, I
know; but I just give you this hint, that you may be upon the watch; because, if
you see anything amiss, you need not be afraid of mentioning it."
Again, it was Mary's complaint, that Mrs Musgrove was very apt not to give
her the precedence that was her due, when they dined at the Great House with
other families; and she did not see any reason why she was to be considered so
much at home as to lose her place. And one day when Anne was walking with
only the Musgroves, one of them after talking of rank, people of rank, and
jealousy of rank, said, "I have no scruple of observing to you, how nonsensical
some persons are about their place, because all the world knows how easy and
indifferent you are about it; but I wish anybody could give Mary a hint that it
would be a great deal better if she were not so very tenacious, especially if she
would not be always putting herself forward to take place of mamma. Nobody

French
checking: vérification, contrôle, mentioning: mentionnant. ravager.
récolement, pointage. nonsensical: absurde. scruple: scrupule.
complaint: réclamation, accusation. nursery: pépinière, nourricerie, spoil: abîmer, gâter, gâcher, détériorer,
declare: déclarer, déclarent, déclarons, pouponnière, nursery, crèche, déblais.
déclarez, déclare, déclares. garderie. steadiest: le plus régulier.
dined: dîné. obligated: obligé. swears: jure.
exaggeration: exagération. observing: observant, respectant, tempting: tentant.
indifferent: indifférent, impartial. remplissant. tenacious: tenace.
interfering: interférant. precedence: priorité, préséance. tolerable: tolérable, supportable,
inviting: invitant. prevents: empêche, prévient. passable.
jealousy: jalousie, envie. rank: rang, grade, rangée, file, tour. treason: trahison.
mamma: sein, mamma, maman. ruin: ruine, ruiner, abîmer, abaisser, trustiest: le plus sûr.
42 Persuasion

doubts her right to have precedence of mamma, but it would be more becoming
in her not to be always insisting on it. It is not that mamma cares about it the
least in the world, but I know it is taken notice of by many persons."
How was Anne to set all these matters to rights? She could do little more
than listen patiently, soften every grievance, and excuse each to the other; give
them all hints of the forbearance necessary between such near neighbours, and
make those hints broadest which were meant for her sister's benefit.%
In all other respects, her visit began and proceeded very well. Her own
spirits improved by change of place and subject, by being removed three miles
from Kellynch; Mary's ailments lessened by having a constant companion, and
their daily intercourse with the other family, since there was neither superior
affection, confidence, nor employment in the cottage, to be interrupted by it, was
rather an advantage. It was certainly carried nearly as far as possible, for they
met every morning, and hardly ever spent an evening asunder; but she believed
they should not have done so well without the sight of Mr and Mrs Musgrove's
respectable forms in the usual places, or without the talking, laughing, and
singing of their daughters.
She played a great deal better than either of the Miss Musgroves, but having
no voice, no knowledge of the harp, and no fond parents, to sit by and fancy
themselves delighted, her performance was little thought of, only out of civility,
or to refresh the others, as she was well aware. She knew that when she played
she was giving pleasure only to herself; but this was no new sensation.
Excepting one short period of her life, she had never, since the age of fourteen,
never since the loss of her dear mother, known the happiness of being listened
to, or encouraged by any just appreciation or real taste. In music she had been
always used to feel alone in the world; and Mr and Mrs Musgrove's fond
partiality for their own daughters' performance, and total indifference to any
other person's, gave her much more pleasure for their sakes, than mortification
for her own.
The party at the Great House was sometimes increased by other company.
The neighbourhood was not large, but the Musgroves were visited by

alone: seul, seulement.
appreciation: appréciation, estimation.
civility: civilité.
cottage: cabanon, petite maison.
delighted: enchanté, ravi.
fancy: imaginer, fantaisie, songer,
rêver éveillé, aimer.
forbearance: patience, tolérance.
fourteen: quatorze.
grievance: grief, réclamation.
insisting: insistant.
laughing: riant.
French
listened: écoutas, écoutâtes,
écoutèrent, écouté, écoutâmes,
écoutai, écouta.
mortification: mortification.
patiently: de manière patiente,
patiemment, de façon patiente.
proceeded: procédas, procédâtes,
procédâmes, procédèrent, procédai,
procéda, procédé, avançâtes, avancé,
avançâmes, avançai.
refresh: rafraîchir, rafraîchissons,
rafraîchissez, rafraîchis,
rafraîchissent, actualiser, actualisez,
actualises, actualise, actualisons,
actualisent.
respects: respecte.
sensation: sensation, sentiment.
singing: chantant, chant, amorçage.
soften: adoucir, amollir, adoucis,
attendrir, amollis, amollissent,
amollissons, amollissez, adoucissons,
adoucissent, adoucissez.
superior: supérieur, suprême,
dominant, surplombant.
 Jane Austen 43

everybody, and had more dinner-parties, and more callers, more visitors by
invitation and by chance, than any other family. There were more completely
popular.%
The girls were wild for dancing; and the evenings ended, occasionally, in an
unpremeditated little ball. There was a family of cousins within a walk of
Uppercross, in less affluent circumstances, who depended on the Musgroves for
all their pleasures: they would come at any time, and help play at anything, or
dance anywhere; and Anne, very much preferring the office of musician to a
more active post, played country dances to them by the hour together; a kindness
which always recommended her musical powers to the notice of Mr and Mrs
Musgrove more than anything else, and often drew this compliment;-- "Well
done, Miss Anne! very well done indeed! Lord bless me! how those little fingers
of yours fly about!"
So passed the first three weeks. Michaelmas came; and now Anne's heart
must be in Kellynch again. A beloved home made over to others; all the
precious rooms and furniture, groves, and prospects, beginning to own other
eyes and other limbs! She could not think of much else on the 29th of
September; and she had this sympathetic touch in the evening from Mary, who,
on having occasion to note down the day of the month, exclaimed, "Dear me, is
not this the day the Crofts were to come to Kellynch? I am glad I did not think of
it before. How low it makes me!"
The Crofts took possession with true naval alertness, and were to be visited.
Mary deplored the necessity for herself. "Nobody knew how much she should
suffer. She should put it off as long as she could;" but was not easy till she had
talked Charles into driving her over on an early day, and was in a very
animated, comfortable state of imaginary agitation, when she came back. Anne
had very sincerely rejoiced in there being no means of her going. She wished,
however to see the Crofts, and was glad to be within when the visit was
returned. They came: the master of the house was not at home, but the two
sisters were together; and as it chanced that Mrs Croft fell to the share of Anne,
while the Admiral sat by Mary, and made himself very agreeable by his good-

affluent: affluent, riche.
alertness: vigilance.
animated: animé, animée.
anywhere: quelque part, n'importe où.
beloved: aimé, cher.
callers: visiteurs.
dance: danse, danser, bal.
depended: dépendis, dépendit,
dépendu, dépendirent, dépendîmes,
dépendîtes.
deplored: déplorèrent, déploré,
déplorai, déplora, déplorâmes,
French
déplorâtes, déploras.
exclaimed: exclamas, exclamâtes,
exclamé, exclama, exclamai,
exclamâmes, exclamèrent.
fly: mouche, voler, volez, voles,
volent, vole, volons, volant.
imaginary: imaginaire.
limbs: membres.
musical: musical.
musician: musicien.
necessity: nécessité, besoin.
possession: possession.
preferring: préférant.
recommended: recommandâtes,
recommandas, recommandâmes,
recommandai, recommanda,
recommandèrent, recommandé.
sincerely: sincèrement, de manière
sincère, de façon sincère.
suffer: souffrir, souffre, souffrons,
souffrent, souffres, souffrez, endurer,
subir, subissez, subissent, subis.
talked: parlas, parlâtes, parlai, parla,
parlèrent, parlâmes, parlé.
44 Persuasion

humoured notice of her little boys, she was well able to watch for a likeness, and
if it failed her in the features, to catch it in the voice, or in the turn of sentiment
and expression.%
Mrs Croft, though neither tall nor fat, had a squareness, uprightness, and
vigour of form, which gave importance to her person. She had bright dark eyes,
good teeth, and altogether an agreeable face; though her reddened and weather-
beaten complexion, the consequence of her having been almost as much at sea as
her husband, made her seem to have lived some years longer in the world than
her real eight-and-thirty. Her manners were open, easy, and decided, like one
who had no distrust of herself, and no doubts of what to do; without any
approach to coarseness, however, or any want of good humour. Anne gave her
credit, indeed, for feelings of great consideration towards herself, in all that
related to Kellynch, and it pleased her: especially, as she had satisfied herself in
the very first half minute, in the instant even of introduction, that there was not
the smallest symptom of any knowledge or suspicion on Mrs Croft's side, to give
a bias of any sort. She was quite easy on that head, and consequently full of
strength and courage, till for a moment electrified by Mrs Croft's suddenly
saying,--
"It was you, and not your sister, I find, that my brother had the pleasure of
being acquainted with, when he was in this country."
Anne hoped she had outlived the age of blushing; but the age of emotion she
certainly had not.
"Perhaps you may not have heard that he is married?" added Mrs Croft.
She could now answer as she ought; and was happy to feel, when Mrs Croft's
next words explained it to be Mr Wentworth of whom she spoke, that she had
said nothing which might not do for either brother. She immediately felt how
reasonable it was, that Mrs Croft should be thinking and speaking of Edward,
and not of Frederick; and with shame at her own forgetfulness applied herself to
the knowledge of their former neighbour's present state with proper interest.

altogether: tout, tout à fait,
entièrement.
bias: biais, parti pris, préjugé,
distorsion, polarisation, erreur
systématique, partialité.
blushing: rougissant, rougeur.
coarseness: grossièreté.
complexion: teint, complexion.
consequently: ensuite, donc, de
manière conséquente, de façon
conséquente, par conséquent.
courage: courage, abattage.
French
electrified: électrisé, électrisa, satisfit, satisfis, satisfirent, content,
électrisèrent, électrisâmes, électrisai, contenta, contentèrent, contenté,
électrisâtes, électrisas. contentâtes.
emotion: émotion. sentiment: sentiment.
fat: gras, gros, graisse, épais. speaking: parlant, parler.
forgetfulness: oubli. squareness: équerrage, forme carrée,
instant: instant, moment. perpendicularité.
likeness: ressemblance. suspicion: soupçon, méfiance,
pleased: content, satisfait, plu. suspicion.
reddened: rougit, rougîtes, rougis, symptom: symptôme.
rougirent, rougîmes, rougi. tall: haut, grand.
satisfied: satisfait, satisfîmes, satisfîtes, uprightness: intégrité.
 Jane Austen 45

The rest was all tranquillity; till, just as they were moving, she heard the
Admiral say to Mary--
"We are expecting a brother of Mrs Croft's here soon; I dare say you know
him by name."
He was cut short by the eager attacks of the little boys, clinging to him like
an old friend, and declaring he should not go; and being too much engrossed by
proposals of carrying them away in his coat pockets, &c., to have another
moment for finishing or recollecting what he had begun, Anne was left to
persuade herself, as well as she could, that the same brother must still be in
question. She could not, however, reach such a degree of certainty, as not to be
anxious to hear whether anything had been said on the subject at the other
house, where the Crofts had previously been calling.%
The folks of the Great House were to spend the evening of this day at the
Cottage; and it being now too late in the year for such visits to be made on foot,
the coach was beginning to be listened for, when the youngest Miss Musgrove
walked in. That she was coming to apologize, and that they should have to
spend the evening by themselves, was the first black idea; and Mary was quite
ready to be affronted, when Louisa made all right by saying, that she only came
on foot, to leave more room for the harp, which was bringing in the carriage.
"And I will tell you our reason," she added, "and all about it. I am come on to
give you notice, that papa and mamma are out of spirits this evening, especially
mamma; she is thinking so much of poor Richard! And we agreed it would be
best to have the harp, for it seems to amuse her more than the piano-forte. I will
tell you why she is out of spirits. When the Crofts called this morning, (they
called here afterwards, did not they?), they happened to say, that her brother,
Captain Wentworth, is just returned to England, or paid off, or something, and is
coming to see them almost directly; and most unluckily it came into mamma's
head, when they were gone, that Wentworth, or something very like it, was the
name of poor Richard's captain at one time; I do not know when or where, but a
great while before he died, poor fellow! And upon looking over his letters and
things, she found it was so, and is perfectly sure that this must be the very man,

affronted: insulté.
amuse: amuser, amusent, amusons,
amusez, amuse, amuses.
apologize: s'excuser.
attacks: attaque.
begun: commencé, débuté,
commencées.
bringing: apportant, amenant.
certainty: certitude, assurance.
clinging: collant, se cramponnant,
adhérant.
coach: entraîneur, entraîner, wagon,
French
coach, autocar, voiture, répétiteur.
coat: manteau, enduire, pardessus,
couche, capote, paletot, pelage,
enrober, napper.
dare: oser, aventurer, ose, osons, osez,
oses, osent, aventurez, aventures,
aventurent, aventure.
declaring: déclarant.
eager: avide, désireux.
engrossed: grossoyèrent, grossoyai,
grossoyâmes, grossoyas, grossoyâtes,
grossoyé, grossoya.
expecting: attendant.
fellow: individu, homme, camarade,
ensemble, mâle.
finishing: terminant, finissant,
achevant, finition, finissage,
achèvement.
folks: gens.
pockets: empoche, cases, poches.
recollecting: retenant.
unluckily: de manière malchanceuse,
de façon malchanceuse.
visits: visite.
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and her head is quite full of it, and of poor Richard! So we must be as merry as
we can, that she may not be dwelling upon such gloomy things."
The real circumstances of this pathetic piece of family history were, that the
Musgroves had had the ill fortune of a very troublesome, hopeless son; and the
good fortune to lose him before he reached his twentieth year; that he had been
sent to sea because he was stupid and unmanageable on shore; that he had been
very little cared for at any time by his family, though quite as much as he
deserved; seldom heard of, and scarcely at all regretted, when the intelligence of
his death abroad had worked its way to Uppercross, two years before.%
He had, in fact, though his sisters were now doing all they could for him, by
calling him "poor Richard," been nothing better than a thick-headed, unfeeling,
unprofitable Dick Musgrove, who had never done anything to entitle himself to
more than the abbreviation of his name, living or dead.
He had been several years at sea, and had, in the course of those removals to
which all midshipmen are liable, and especially such midshipmen as every
captain wishes to get rid of, been six months on board Captain Frederick
Wentworth's frigate, the Laconia; and from the Laconia he had, under the
influence of his captain, written the only two letters which his father and mother
had ever received from him during the whole of his absence; that is to say, the
only two disinterested letters; all the rest had been mere applications for money.
In each letter he had spoken well of his captain; but yet, so little were they in
the habit of attending to such matters, so unobservant and incurious were they
as to the names of men or ships, that it had made scarcely any impression at the
time; and that Mrs Musgrove should have been suddenly struck, this very day,
with a recollection of the name of Wentworth, as connected with her son, seemed
one of those extraordinary bursts of mind which do sometimes occur.
She had gone to her letters, and found it all as she supposed; and the re-
perusal of these letters, after so long an interval, her poor son gone for ever, and
all the strength of his faults forgotten, had affected her spirits exceedingly, and
thrown her into greater grief for him than she had know on first hearing of his
death. Mr Musgrove was, in a lesser degree, affected likewise; and when they
French
abbreviation: abréviation, titre, intitulons, intitulez. pareillement, également.
abrègement. extraordinary: extraordinaire, pathetic: pathétique.
connected: connecté, connectèrent, prodigieux, formidable, singulier. regretted: regretté.
connectai, connectâmes, connectas, frigate: frégate. scarcely: à peine, de manière rare, de
connectâtes, connecta, cohérent, gloomy: sombre, morne. façon rare.
branché, abouché, abouchèrent. grief: peine, chagrin, désolation, ships: expédie.
disinterested: désintéressé. abattement, douleur. shore: rive, bord, côte, rivage, accore,
dwelling: habitation, demeurant, incurious: incurieux. côte rivage, étançon, étayer, étai.
demeure, domicile, logement, logis, interval: intervalle. twentieth: vingtième.
logeant, gîte. lesser: moindre. unfeeling: insensible.
entitle: autoriser, titrer, intituler, liable: responsable. unprofitable: non rentable.
intitule, titrons, titrez, titres, titrent, likewise: de même, aussi, wishes: vœux.
 Jane Austen 47

reached the cottage, they were evidently in want, first, of being listened to anew
on this subject, and afterwards, of all the relief which cheerful companions could
give them.%
To hear them talking so much of Captain Wentworth, repeating his name so
often, puzzling over past years, and at last ascertaining that it might, that it
probably would, turn out to be the very same Captain Wentworth whom they
recollected meeting, once or twice, after their coming back from Clifton--a very
fine young man--but they could not say whether it was seven or eight years ago,
was a new sort of trial to Anne's nerves. She found, however, that it was one to
which she must inure herself. Since he actually was expected in the country, she
must teach herself to be insensible on such points. And not only did it appear
that he was expected, and speedily, but the Musgroves, in their warm gratitude
for the kindness he had shewn poor Dick, and very high respect for his character,
stamped as it was by poor Dick's having been six months under his care, and
mentioning him in strong, though not perfectly well-spelt praise, as "a fine
dashing felow, only two perticular about the schoolmaster," were bent on
introducing themselves, and seeking his acquaintance, as soon as they could
hear of his arrival.
The resolution of doing so helped to form the comfort of their evening.

afterwards: après, ensuite, puis, par la
suite, plus tard.
arrival: arrivée, arrivage, venue,
fourniture, ravitaillement.
ascertaining: constatant.
bent: courbé, courbe, courbai,
disposition, cambrai, penché.
evidently: évidemment, de manière
évidente, de façon évidente.
helped: aidé.
insensible: insensible.
introducing: présentant, introduisant.
French
inure: entrer en vigueur,
s'appliqueront.
perfectly: parfaitement, de façon
parfaite, de manière parfaite.
praise: louange, glorifier, éloge, louer,
louanger.
puzzling: curieux, mystérieux.
recollected: retenu, retînmes,
retinrent, retins, retint, retîntes.
repeating: répétant, redisant.
resolution: résolution, motion,
définition, pouvoir de résolution.
seeking: cherchant, raillant.
speedily: de manière rapide, de façon
rapide, rapidement.
stamped: affranchi, timbré.
talking: parlant, bavardage.
teach: enseigner, enseignes,
enseignent, enseignons, enseignez,
enseigne, instruire, apprendre,
instruisent, instruisez, instruis.
trial: jugement, essai, épreuve,
désolation, procès.
twice: deux fois, bis.
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CHAPTER 7

A%very few days more, and Captain Wentworth was known to be at

Kellynch, and Mr Musgrove had called on him, and come back warm in his
praise, and he was engaged with the Crofts to dine at Uppercross, by the end of
another week. It had been a great disappointment to Mr Musgrove to find that
no earlier day could be fixed, so impatient was he to shew his gratitude, by
seeing Captain Wentworth under his own roof, and welcoming him to all that
was strongest and best in his cellars. But a week must pass; only a week, in
Anne's reckoning, and then, she supposed, they must meet; and soon she began
to wish that she could feel secure even for a week.
Captain Wentworth made a very early return to Mr Musgrove's civility, and
she was all but calling there in the same half hour. She and Mary were actually
setting forward for the Great House, where, as she afterwards learnt, they must
inevitably have found him, when they were stopped by the eldest boy's being at
that moment brought home in consequence of a bad fall. The child's situation
put the visit entirely aside; but she could not hear of her escape with
indifference, even in the midst of the serious anxiety which they afterwards felt
on his account.
His collar-bone was found to be dislocated, and such injury received in the
back, as roused the most alarming ideas. It was an afternoon of distress, and

afternoon: relevée.
alarming: alarmant.
anxiety: anxiété, inquiétude, angoisse.
aside: de côté, aparté, excepté.
calling: appelant, appel.
cellars: caves.
civility: civilité.
dine: dîner, dînent.
dislocated: disloqué, disloqua,
disloquai, disloquâmes, disloquâtes,
disloquèrent, disloquas.
gratitude: gratitude, reconnaissance,
French
remerciement.
hour: heure.
ideas: idées.
impatient: impatient.
indifference: indifférence.
inevitably: inévitablement, de manière
inévitable, de façon inévitable.
learnt: appris.
midst: milieu, millieux.
received: reçûtes, reçus, reçurent,
reçut, reçûmes, reçu, accueilli,
accueillîmes, accueillirent, accueillis,
accueillit.
reckoning: calculant.
roof: toit, voûte.
roused: stimulé, irrité, irritai,
irritâmes, irritas, irritâtes, irritèrent,
stimula, stimulai, stimulâmes, irrita.
serious: sérieux, grave, important,
considérable, majeur.
visit: visite, visiter, visites, visitent,
visitez, visitons, aller voir.
welcoming: accueillant.
 Jane Austen 49

Anne had every thing to do at once; the apothecary to send for, the father to have
pursued and informed, the mother to support and keep from hysterics, the
servants to control, the youngest child to banish, and the poor suffering one to
attend and soothe; besides sending, as soon as she recollected it, proper notice to
the other house, which brought her an accession rather of frightened, enquiring
companions, than of very useful assistants.%
Her brother's return was the first comfort; he could take best care of his wife;
and the second blessing was the arrival of the apothecary. Till he came and had
examined the child, their apprehensions were the worse for being vague; they
suspected great injury, but knew not where; but now the collar-bone was soon
replaced, and though Mr Robinson felt and felt, and rubbed, and looked grave,
and spoke low words both to the father and the aunt, still they were all to hope
the best, and to be able to part and eat their dinner in tolerable ease of mind; and
then it was, just before they parted, that the two young aunts were able so far to
digress from their nephew's state, as to give the information of Captain
Wentworth's visit; staying five minutes behind their father and mother, to
endeavour to express how perfectly delighted they were with him, how much
handsomer, how infinitely more agreeable they thought him than any individual
among their male acquaintance, who had been at all a favourite before. How
glad they had been to hear papa invite him to stay dinner, how sorry when he
said it was quite out of his power, and how glad again when he had promised in
reply to papa and mamma's farther pressing invitations to come and dine with
them on the morrow--actually on the morrow; and he had promised it in so
pleasant a manner, as if he felt all the motive of their attention just as he ought.
And in short, he had looked and said everything with such exquisite grace, that
they could assure them all, their heads were both turned by him; and off they
ran, quite as full of glee as of love, and apparently more full of Captain
Wentworth than of little Charles.
The same story and the same raptures were repeated, when the two girls
came with their father, through the gloom of the evening, to make enquiries; and
Mr Musgrove, no longer under the first uneasiness about his heir, could add his

accession: adhésion, accession,
acquisition, inscription, présentation.
apothecary: apothicaire.
aunt: tante.
banish: bannir.
digress: s'écarter.
ease: aise, soulager, aisance, facilité.
frightened: effrayé, effrayâtes,
effrayas, effrayâmes, effrayèrent,
effrayai, effraya, redouté, redouta,
redoutai, redoutâmes.
glee: joie.
French
gloom: mélancolie, obscurité.
grace: grâce, charme.
grave: tombe, grave, sérieux.
heads: têtes.
informed: informas, informâtes,
informai, informâmes, informa,
informèrent, informé, renseignas,
renseignâtes, renseignâmes,
renseignèrent.
invite: inviter, invite, invites, invitez,
invitent, invitons.
morrow: lendemain.
motive: motif, lieu, occasion, mobile,
motivation.
pressing: pressage, pressurage,
pressant, pression.
rubbed: frotté.
servants: domestiques, serviteurs.
soothe: abattre, calmer, rassurer,
apaiser, calmez, rassurons, rassurez,
rassures, rassurent, calmons, abats.
suspected: soupçonné.
uneasiness: inquiétude, malaise.
vague: vague, imprécis, flou.
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confirmation and praise, and hope there would be now no occasion for putting
Captain Wentworth off, and only be sorry to think that the cottage party,
probably, would not like to leave the little boy, to give him the meeting. "Oh no;
as to leaving the little boy," both father and mother were in much too strong and
recent alarm to bear the thought; and Anne, in the joy of the escape, could not
help adding her warm protestations to theirs.%
Charles Musgrove, indeed, afterwards, shewed more of inclination; "the child
was going on so well, and he wished so much to be introduced to Captain
Wentworth, that, perhaps, he might join them in the evening; he would not dine
from home, but he might walk in for half an hour." But in this he was eagerly
opposed by his wife, with "Oh! no, indeed, Charles, I cannot bear to have you go
away. Only think if anything should happen?"
The child had a good night, and was going on well the next day. It must be a
work of time to ascertain that no injury had been done to the spine; but Mr
Robinson found nothing to increase alarm, and Charles Musgrove began,
consequently, to feel no necessity for longer confinement. The child was to be
kept in bed and amused as quietly as possible; but what was there for a father to
do? This was quite a female case, and it would be highly absurd in him, who
could be of no use at home, to shut himself up. His father very much wished
him to meet Captain Wentworth, and there being no sufficient reason against it,
he ought to go; and it ended in his making a bold, public declaration, when he
came in from shooting, of his meaning to dress directly, and dine at the other
house.
"Nothing can be going on better than the child," said he; "so I told my father,
just now, that I would come, and he thought me quite right. Your sister being
with you, my love, I have no scruple at all. You would not like to leave him
yourself, but you see I can be of no use. Anne will send for me if anything is the
matter."
Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain.
Mary knew, from Charles's manner of speaking, that he was quite determined on

absurd: absurde, aberrant.
adding: ajoutant, additionnant,
adjoignant.
alarm: alarme, alarmer, alerte, alerter,
timbre, sirène, consterner, effroi,
abasourdir, abattement,
abasourdissement.
amused: amusé, amusai, amusa,
amusâmes, amusèrent, amusas,
amusâtes.
ascertain: constater, constate,
constatent, constates, constatez,
French
constatons, vérifier.
bold: gras, audacieux, épais, gros,
hardi, intrépide.
confinement: réclusion, détention,
internement, emprisonnement.
confirmation: confirmation.
dress: robe, habiller, vêtir, panser,
s'habiller, revêtir, dresser, apprêter,
habit, habillement, garnir.
escape: échapper, s'échapper, évasion,
échappement, fuite, fuir, enfuis,
enfuir.
husbands: maris.
joy: joie, allégresse.
opposed: opposé, opposas, opposâtes,
opposa, opposâmes, opposai,
opposèrent, rouspétâtes, rouspété,
rouspétas, rouspétâmes.
quietly: paisiblement, tranquillement,
de manière calme, de façon calme,
calmement.
shut: fermer, arrêter, fermé.
spine: épine, colonne vertébrale, épine
dorsale, dos, échine.
 Jane Austen 51

going, and that it would be of no use to teaze him. She said nothing, therefore,
till he was out of the room, but as soon as there was only Anne to hear--
"So you and I are to be left to shift by ourselves, with this poor sick child;
and not a creature coming near us all the evening! I knew how it would be. This
is always my luck. If there is anything disagreeable going on men are always
sure to get out of it, and Charles is as bad as any of them. Very unfeeling! I must
say it is very unfeeling of him to be running away from his poor little boy. Talks
of his being going on so well! How does he know that he is going on well, or
that there may not be a sudden change half an hour hence? I did not think
Charles would have been so unfeeling. So here he is to go away and enjoy
himself, and because I am the poor mother, I am not to be allowed to stir; and
yet, I am sure, I am more unfit than anybody else to be about the child. My
being the mother is the very reason why my feelings should not be tried. I am
not at all equal to it. You saw how hysterical I was yesterday."%
"But that was only the effect of the suddenness of your alarm-- of the shock.
You will not be hysterical again. I dare say we shall have nothing to distress us.
I perfectly understand Mr Robinson's directions, and have no fears; and indeed,
Mary, I cannot wonder at your husband. Nursing does not belong to a man; it is
not his province. A sick child is always the mother's property: her own feelings
generally make it so."
"I hope I am as fond of my child as any mother, but I do not know that I am
of any more use in the sick-room than Charles, for I cannot be always scolding
and teazing the poor child when it is ill; and you saw, this morning, that if I told
him to keep quiet, he was sure to begin kicking about. I have not nerves for the
sort of thing."
"But, could you be comfortable yourself, to be spending the whole evening
away from the poor boy?"
"Yes; you see his papa can, and why should not I? Jemima is so careful; and
she could send us word every hour how he was. I really think Charles might as
well have told his father we would all come. I am not more alarmed about little

alarmed: alarmé.
anybody: quelqu'un, un, quiconque.
belong: appartenir, faire partie de,
appartenons, appartenez, appartiens,
appartiennent.
careful: prudent, soigneux, attentif.
directions: instruction.
equal: égal, égaler.
fears: craintes.
feelings: sentiments.
hence: par conséquent, donc, d'où,
c'est pourquoi.
French
hysterical: hystérique.
kicking: coups de pied au ballon,
bottant, puits actif.
luck: chance, fortune, sort, destinée.
nursing: allaitement, soins infirmiers,
sciences infirmières.
ourselves: nous.
province: province, domaine, région.
quiet: calme, tranquille, paisible, quiet,
abattre, silencieux, rassurer, repos.
scolding: réprimande, grondeur.
shift: décalage, équipe, déplacer,
changement, poste, décaler, changer.
shock: choc, choquer, secouer, heurter,
secousse, moyette.
spending: dépensant, passant.
stir: remuer, émouvoir, affecter, battre,
vigueur, faire tournoyer, agitation,
agiter, bouger.
suddenness: soudaineté.
talks: parle.
wonder: s'étonner, miracle, merveille,
se demander.
yourself: vous.
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Charles now than he is. I was dreadfully alarmed yesterday, but the case is very
different to-day."%
"Well, if you do not think it too late to give notice for yourself, suppose you
were to go, as well as your husband. Leave little Charles to my care. Mr and
Mrs Musgrove cannot think it wrong while I remain with him."
"Are you serious?" cried Mary, her eyes brightening. "Dear me! that's a very
good thought, very good, indeed. To be sure, I may just as well go as not, for I
am of no use at home--am I? and it only harasses me. You, who have not a
mother's feelings, are a great deal the properest person. You can make little
Charles do anything; he always minds you at a word. It will be a great deal
better than leaving him only with Jemima. Oh! I shall certainly go; I am sure I
ought if I can, quite as much as Charles, for they want me excessively to be
acquainted with Captain Wentworth, and I know you do not mind being left
alone. An excellent thought of yours, indeed, Anne. I will go and tell Charles,
and get ready directly. You can send for us, you know, at a moment's notice, if
anything is the matter; but I dare say there will be nothing to alarm you. I should
not go, you may be sure, if I did not feel quite at ease about my dear child."
The next moment she was tapping at her husband's dressing-room door, and
as Anne followed her up stairs, she was in time for the whole conversation,
which began with Mary's saying, in a tone of great exultation--
"I mean to go with you, Charles, for I am of no more use at home than you
are. If I were to shut myself up for ever with the child, I should not be able to
persuade him to do anything he did not like. Anne will stay; Anne undertakes to
stay at home and take care of him. It is Anne's own proposal, and so I shall go
with you, which will be a great deal better, for I have not dined at the other
house since Tuesday."
"This is very kind of Anne," was her husband's answer, "and I should be very
glad to have you go; but it seems rather hard that she should be left at home by
herself, to nurse our sick child."

brightening: surbrillance.
cried: pleuré.
dear: cher, coûteux.
directly: directement, debout, sans
détour, de façon directe, de manière
directe.
excellent: excellent.
excessively: de manière excessive, de
façon excessive, excessivement.
harasses: harcelle.
husband: mari, époux.
leaving: partant, départ, partir.
French
notice: avis, remarquer, apercevoir,
discerner, préavis, remarque,
écriteau, observation, notification,
percevoir, placard.
nurse: infirmière, infirmier, soigner,
nourrice, allaiter, veiller sur.
proposal: proposition, offre.
ready: prêt, disponible.
remain: rester, restes, restez, restons,
restent, reste, rester en arrière.
send: envoyer, envoies, envoie,
envoyons, envoient, envoyez,
adresser, adresse, adressent, adresses,
adressez.
stairs: escalier, escaliers.
suppose: supposer, suppose,
supposes, supposons, supposent,
supposez.
tapping: taraudage, tapotement,
coulée, écoute téléphonique, prise,
soutirage.
tone: ton, tonalité, tonicité, timbre.
undertakes: entreprend.
yours: vôtre.
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Anne%was now at hand to take up her own cause, and the sincerity of her
manner being soon sufficient to convince him, where conviction was at least
very agreeable, he had no farther scruples as to her being left to dine alone,
though he still wanted her to join them in the evening, when the child might be
at rest for the night, and kindly urged her to let him come and fetch her, but she
was quite unpersuadable; and this being the case, she had ere long the pleasure
of seeing them set off together in high spirits. They were gone, she hoped, to be
happy, however oddly constructed such happiness might seem; as for herself,
she was left with as many sensations of comfort, as were, perhaps, ever likely to
be hers. She knew herself to be of the first utility to the child; and what was it to
her if Frederick Wentworth were only half a mile distant, making himself
agreeable to others?
She would have liked to know how he felt as to a meeting. Perhaps
indifferent, if indifference could exist under such circumstances. He must be
either indifferent or unwilling. Had he wished ever to see her again, he need not
have waited till this time; he would have done what she could not but believe
that in his place she should have done long ago, when events had been early
giving him the independence which alone had been wanting.
Her brother and sister came back delighted with their new acquaintance, and
their visit in general. There had been music, singing, talking, laughing, all that
was most agreeable; charming manners in Captain Wentworth, no shyness or
reserve; they seemed all to know each other perfectly, and he was coming the
very next morning to shoot with Charles. He was to come to breakfast, but not
at the Cottage, though that had been proposed at first; but then he had been
pressed to come to the Great House instead, and he seemed afraid of being in
Mrs Charles Musgrove's way, on account of the child, and therefore, somehow,
they hardly knew how, it ended in Charles's being to meet him to breakfast at his
father's.
Anne understood it. He wished to avoid seeing her. He had inquired after
her, she found, slightly, as might suit a former slight acquaintance, seeming to

breakfast: petit déjeuner, déjeuner, le
petit déjeuner.
charming: charmant, ravissant, gentil,
mignon.
constructed: bâti, bâtîmes, construit,
bâtirent, construisit, construisis,
construisirent, bâtis, bâtit, bâtîtes,
construisîmes.
conviction: conviction, condamnation.
hers: sien.
independence: indépendance,
autonomie.
French
kindly: complaisamment, de manière
gentille, de façon gentille.
liked: aimé.
mile: mille.
oddly: de façon bizarre, de manière
bizarre, bizarrement.
pleasure: plaisir, jouissance.
pressed: appuyé, pressâmes, pressa,
pressées, pressés, pressai, pressée,
pressé, estampé à la presse.
reserve: réserver, réserve, retenir,
commander, demander.
scruples: scrupule.
seeming: semblant, paraissant.
shoot: tirer, tires, tire, tirent, tirez,
tirons, pousse, glissière.
shyness: timidité.
sincerity: sincérité, bonne foi.
slight: léger, affront, insignifiant.
somehow: d'une façon ou d'une autre,
de façon ou d'autre.
urged: exhorté.
waited: attendu, attendîtes, attendit,
attendis, attendîmes, attendirent.
54 Persuasion

acknowledge such as she had acknowledged, actuated, perhaps, by the same

view of escaping introduction when they were to meet.%
The morning hours of the Cottage were always later than those of the other
house, and on the morrow the difference was so great that Mary and Anne were
not more than beginning breakfast when Charles came in to say that they were
just setting off, that he was come for his dogs, that his sisters were following with
Captain Wentworth; his sisters meaning to visit Mary and the child, and Captain
Wentworth proposing also to wait on her for a few minutes if not inconvenient;
and though Charles had answered for the child's being in no such state as could
make it inconvenient, Captain Wentworth would not be satisfied without his
running on to give notice.
Mary, very much gratified by this attention, was delighted to receive him,
while a thousand feelings rushed on Anne, of which this was the most
consoling, that it would soon be over. And it was soon over. In two minutes
after Charles's preparation, the others appeared; they were in the drawing-room.
Her eye half met Captain Wentworth's, a bow, a curtsey passed; she heard his
voice; he talked to Mary, said all that was right, said something to the Miss
Musgroves, enough to mark an easy footing; the room seemed full, full of
persons and voices, but a few minutes ended it. Charles shewed himself at the
window, all was ready, their visitor had bowed and was gone, the Miss
Musgroves were gone too, suddenly resolving to walk to the end of the village
with the sportsmen: the room was cleared, and Anne might finish her breakfast
as she could.
"It is over! it is over!" she repeated to herself again and again, in nervous
gratitude. "The worst is over!"
Mary talked, but she could not attend. She had seen him. They had met.
They had been once more in the same room.
Soon, however, she began to reason with herself, and try to be feeling less.
Eight years, almost eight years had passed, since all had been given up. How
absurd to be resuming the agitation which such an interval had banished into
distance and indistinctness! What might not eight years do? Events of every
French
acknowledge: reconnaître, répondit. satisfis, satisfirent, gratifièrent,
reconnaissez, reconnais, banished: banni, exilas, exilâmes, gratifias, gratifiâmes, gratifiai,
reconnaissent, reconnaissons, croire, bannirent, exilé, bannîmes, bannit, gratifia, satisfîmes.
avouer, confesser, confirmer. bannîtes, exilai, bannis, exilâtes. inconvenient: difficile, dur, pénible,
acknowledged: reconnûtes, reconnus, bow: arc, proue, archet, avant, inopportun, incommode, gênant.
reconnurent, reconnûmes, reconnut, s'incliner, saluer. nervous: nerveux.
reconnu. bowed: incliné. preparation: préparation, préparatif.
actuated: actionné, déclenchèrent, consoling: consolant. proposing: proposant.
déclenché, déclenchâtes, déclenchas, curtsey: faire une révérence. resolving: résolvant.
déclenchâmes, déclencha, déclenchai. escaping: enfuyant, échappant. resuming: reprenant, recommençant.
answered: répondue, répondis, footing: pied, semelle. rushed: précipité.
répondu, répondus, répondues, gratified: gratifiâtes, satisfîtes, satisfit, visitor: visiteur.
 Jane Austen 55

description, changes, alienations, removals--all, all must be comprised in it, and

oblivion of the past-- how natural, how certain too! It included nearly a third
part of her own life.%
Alas! with all her reasoning, she found, that to retentive feelings eight years
may be little more than nothing.
Now, how were his sentiments to be read? Was this like wishing to avoid
her? And the next moment she was hating herself for the folly which asked the
question.
On one other question which perhaps her utmost wisdom might not have
prevented, she was soon spared all suspense; for, after the Miss Musgroves had
returned and finished their visit at the Cottage she had this spontaneous
information from Mary: --
"Captain Wentworth is not very gallant by you, Anne, though he was so
attentive to me. Henrietta asked him what he thought of you, when they went
away, and he said, `You were so altered he should not have known you again.'"
Mary had no feelings to make her respect her sister's in a common way, but
she was perfectly unsuspicious of being inflicting any peculiar wound.
"Altered beyond his knowledge." Anne fully submitted, in silent, deep
mortification. Doubtless it was so, and she could take no revenge, for he was not
altered, or not for the worse. She had already acknowledged it to herself, and
she could not think differently, let him think of her as he would. No: the years
which had destroyed her youth and bloom had only given him a more glowing,
manly, open look, in no respect lessening his personal advantages. She had seen
the same Frederick Wentworth.
"So altered that he should not have known her again!" These were words
which could not but dwell with her. Yet she soon began to rejoice that she had
heard them. They were of sobering tendency; they allayed agitation; they
composed, and consequently must make her happier.
Frederick Wentworth had used such words, or something like them, but
without an idea that they would be carried round to her. He had thought her

allayed: apaisa, apaisâmes, apaisâtes,
apaisèrent, apaisai, apaisas, apaisé.
composed: composé, composa,
composèrent, composâmes,
composai, composâtes, composas,
tranquille, calme.
comprised: contint, contînmes,
contîntes, continrent, contenu,
contins, renfermé, renfermèrent,
renfermâtes, renfermas,
renfermâmes.
destroyed: détruit, détruisirent,
French
détruisis, détruisit, détruisîmes,
détruisîtes, ravageas, ravageâtes,
ravageâmes, ravageai, ravagea.
differently: différemment, autrement,
de façon différente, de manière
différente.
gallant: vaillant, brave, galant,
courageux.
glowing: incandescence.
hating: häissant.
inflicting: infligeant.
manly: viril.
prevented: empêchas, empêchâtes,
empêchâmes, empêché, empêchèrent,
empêchai, empêcha, prévenu,
prévînmes, prévinrent, prévins.
rejoice: réjouir, réjouissons, réjouissez,
réjouissent, réjouis, être joyeux.
retentive: fidèle.
revenge: revanche, vengeance, venger.
sobering: dégrisement.
spontaneous: spontané.
wisdom: sagesse, intelligence.
wound: blessure, blesser, plaie.
56 Persuasion

wretchedly altered, and in the first moment of appeal, had spoken as he felt. He
had not forgiven Anne Elliot. She had used him ill, deserted and disappointed
him; and worse, she had shewn a feebleness of character in doing so, which his
own decided, confident temper could not endure. She had given him up to
oblige others. It had been the effect of over-persuasion. It had been weakness
and timidity.%
He had been most warmly attached to her, and had never seen a woman
since whom he thought her equal; but, except from some natural sensation of
curiosity, he had no desire of meeting her again. Her power with him was gone
for ever.
It was now his object to marry. He was rich, and being turned on shore, fully
intended to settle as soon as he could be properly tempted; actually looking
round, ready to fall in love with all the speed which a clear head and a quick
taste could allow. He had a heart for either of the Miss Musgroves, if they could
catch it; a heart, in short, for any pleasing young woman who came in his way,
excepting Anne Elliot. This was his only secret exception, when he said to his
sister, in answer to her suppositions:--
"Yes, here I am, Sophia, quite ready to make a foolish match. Anybody
between fifteen and thirty may have me for asking. A little beauty, and a few
smiles, and a few compliments to the navy, and I am a lost man. Should not this
be enough for a sailor, who has had no society among women to make him
nice?"
He said it, she knew, to be contradicted. His bright proud eye spoke the
conviction that he was nice; and Anne Elliot was not out of his thoughts, when
he more seriously described the woman he should wish to meet with. "A strong
mind, with sweetness of manner," made the first and the last of the description.
"That is the woman I want," said he. "Something a little inferior I shall of
course put up with, but it must not be much. If I am a fool, I shall be a fool
indeed, for I have thought on the subject more than most men."

attached: attaché, attachai, attachèrent,
attachâmes, attacha, attachâtes,
attachas, apposa, apposèrent, apposé,
apposâtes.
beauty: beauté.
confident: confiant, assuré.
contradicted: contredirent, contredis,
contredit, contredîtes, contredîmes.
disappointed: déçu, trompai,
trompâmes, trompas, trompâtes,
trompèrent, déçûmes, trompa,
trompé, déçurent, déçûtes.
French
endure: endurer, supporter, endurez,
endurent, supportent, supportons,
endurons, supportez, supportes,
endure, endures.
exception: exception.
feebleness: faiblesse.
fool: imbécile, sot, mystifier, idiot,
duper, fou.
foolish: sot, idiot, stupide,
abracadabrant, insensé.
forgiven: pardonné, excusé,
pardonnées.
marry: marier, te maries, vous mariez,
nous marions, me marie, mariez-
vous, se marient, épouser, se marier,
épouses, épouse.
oblige: obliger, oblige, obliges,
obligez, obligent, obligeons.
proud: fier, altier, orgueilleux.
spoken: parlé.
weakness: faiblesse, débilité,
impuissance, mollesse.
wretchedly: de manière misérable, de
façon misérable.
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CHAPTER 8

From this time Captain Wentworth and Anne Elliot were repeatedly in the
same circle. They were soon dining in company together at Mr Musgrove's, for
the little boy's state could no longer supply his aunt with a pretence for
absenting herself; and this was but the beginning of other dinings and other
meetings.%
Whether former feelings were to be renewed must be brought to the proof;
former times must undoubtedly be brought to the recollection of each; they
could not but be reverted to; the year of their engagement could not but be
named by him, in the little narratives or descriptions which conversation called
forth. His profession qualified him, his disposition lead him, to talk; and "That
was in the year six;" "That happened before I went to sea in the year six,"
occurred in the course of the first evening they spent together: and though his
voice did not falter, and though she had no reason to suppose his eye wandering
towards her while he spoke, Anne felt the utter impossibility, from her
knowledge of his mind, that he could be unvisited by remembrance any more
than herself. There must be the same immediate association of thought, though
she was very far from conceiving it to be of equal pain.
They had no conversation together, no intercourse but what the commonest
civility required. Once so much to each other! Now nothing! There had been a

conceiving: concevant.
dining: dînant.
disposition: disposition, don,
dispositif, aptitude, talent.
falter: hésiter.
forth: en avant.
immediate: immédiat.
impossibility: impossibilité.
named: nommé.
occurred: arrivas, arrivâtes, arrivâmes,
arrivai, arriva, arrivèrent, arrivé,
survenu, survînmes, survinrent,
French
survins.
pretence: prétexte, simulacre.
profession: profession.
proof: preuve, épreuve, témoignage,
démonstration.
qualified: qualifias, qualifiâtes,
qualifièrent, qualifia, qualifiai,
qualifiâmes, qualifié, diplômé.
renewed: renouvelas, renouvelâtes,
renouvelai, renouvelâmes,
renouvelèrent, renouvela, renouvelé,
reconduisîmes, reconduisirent,
reconduisis, reconduisit.
reverted: revinrent, revîntes, revins,
revînmes, revint, revenu.
spoke: parlas, parlèrent, parlâmes,
parlai, parla, parlâtes, rayon.
undoubtedly: sans doute,
indubitablement, de manière
indubitable, de façon indubitable.
utter: répandre, émettre, proférer,
prononcer.
wandering: errant, vaguant,
vagabond, errance, nomade.
58 Persuasion

time, when of all the large party now filling the drawing-room at Uppercross,
they would have found it most difficult to cease to speak to one another. With
the exception, perhaps, of Admiral and Mrs Croft, who seemed particularly
attached and happy, (Anne could allow no other exceptions even among the
married couples), there could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so
similar, no feelings so in unison, no countenances so beloved. Now they were as
strangers; nay, worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted. It
was a perpetual estrangement.%
When he talked, she heard the same voice, and discerned the same mind.
There was a very general ignorance of all naval matters throughout the party;
and he was very much questioned, and especially by the two Miss Musgroves,
who seemed hardly to have any eyes but for him, as to the manner of living on
board, daily regulations, food, hours, &c., and their surprise at his accounts, at
learning the degree of accommodation and arrangement which was practicable,
drew from him some pleasant ridicule, which reminded Anne of the early days
when she too had been ignorant, and she too had been accused of supposing
sailors to be living on board without anything to eat, or any cook to dress it if
there were, or any servant to wait, or any knife and fork to use.
From thus listening and thinking, she was roused by a whisper of Mrs
Musgrove's who, overcome by fond regrets, could not help saying--
"Ah! Miss Anne, if it had pleased Heaven to spare my poor son, I dare say he
would have been just such another by this time."
Anne suppressed a smile, and listened kindly, while Mrs Musgrove relieved
her heart a little more; and for a few minutes, therefore, could not keep pace with
the conversation of the others.
When she could let her attention take its natural course again, she found the
Miss Musgroves just fetching the Navy List (their own navy list, the first that
had ever been at Uppercross), and sitting down together to pore over it, with the
professed view of finding out the ships that Captain Wentworth had
commanded.

discerned: décerné, décernâmes,
décerna, décernée, décernèrent,
décernées, décernés, décernai,
discerné, discerna, discernèrent.
exceptions: exceptions.
fetching: amenant, apportant.
filling: remplissage, plombage,
chargement, remplissant, trame,
masticage.
fork: fourchette, fourche,
embranchement, fourche d'attelage.
hearts: coeurs.
French
ignorance: ignorance.
ignorant: ignorant.
knife: couteau, le couteau, poignarder.
nay: non.
perpetual: perpétuel.
pore: pore.
questioned: questionna, questionnai,
questionnés, questionnée,
questionné.
relieved: soulagea, soulagèrent,
soulageâtes, soulageas, soulageâmes,
soulageai, soulagé.
ridicule: ridicule, ridiculiser.
servant: serviteur, domestique,
servante.
strangers: étrangers.
supposing: supposant.
suppressed: étouffé, étouffa,
étouffèrent, étouffâtes, étouffas,
étouffai, étouffâmes, réprima,
réprimai, réprimâmes, réprimas.
unison: unisson.
whisper: chuchoter, chuchotement,
murmurer.
 Jane Austen 59

"Your first was the Asp, I remember; we will look for the Asp."
"You will not find her there. Quite worn out and broken up. I was the last
man who commanded her. Hardly fit for service then. Reported fit for home
service for a year or two, and so I was sent off to the West Indies."
The girls looked all amazement.%
"The Admiralty," he continued, "entertain themselves now and then, with
sending a few hundred men to sea, in a ship not fit to be employed. But they
have a great many to provide for; and among the thousands that may just as well
go to the bottom as not, it is impossible for them to distinguish the very set who
may be least missed."
"Phoo! phoo!" cried the Admiral, "what stuff these young fellows talk! Never
was a better sloop than the Asp in her day. For an old built sloop, you would
not see her equal. Lucky fellow to get her! He knows there must have been
twenty better men than himself applying for her at the same time. Lucky fellow
to get anything so soon, with no more interest than his."
"I felt my luck, Admiral, I assure you;" replied Captain Wentworth, seriously.
"I was as well satisfied with my appointment as you can desire. It was a great
object with me at that time to be at sea; a very great object, I wanted to be doing
something."
"To be sure you did. What should a young fellow like you do ashore for half
a year together? If a man had not a wife, he soon wants to be afloat again."
"But, Captain Wentworth," cried Louisa, "how vexed you must have been
when you came to the Asp, to see what an old thing they had given you."
"I knew pretty well what she was before that day;" said he, smiling. "I had no
more discoveries to make than you would have as to the fashion and strength of
any old pelisse, which you had seen lent about among half your acquaintance
ever since you could remember, and which at last, on some very wet day, is lent
to yourself. Ah! she was a dear old Asp to me. She did all that I wanted. I knew
she would. I knew that we should either go to the bottom together, or that she
would be the making of me; and I never had two days of foul weather all the

afloat: à flot.
applying: appliquant, pratiquant.
appointment: nomination, rencontre.
bottom: fond, derrière, cul, croupe,
bas, dessous, inférieur.
broken: cassé, brisé, rompu.
desire: désir, désirer, souhait,
souhaiter, envie.
distinguish: distinguer, distinguent,
distinguez, distinguons, distingues,
distingue, dégager, identifier,
dégage, dégagent, dégageons.
French
fashion: mode, façon.
foul: fétide, faute, engagé, salir.
least: moindre, le moins.
lent: prêtâtes, prêtas, prêtâmes,
prêtèrent, prêtai, prêté, prêta,
emprunté, empruntâtes, empruntas,
empruntâmes.
pelisse: pelisse.
seriously: sérieusement, de façon
sérieuse, de manière sérieuse,
gravement.
ship: navire, bateau, expédier,
expédie, expédions, expédiez,
expédies, expédient, vaisseau.
sloop: sloop.
smiling: souriant.
thousands: milliers.
vexed: chagrina, chagrinai,
chagrinâmes, chagrinas, chagrinâtes,
chagriné, chagrinèrent, vexé, vexâtes,
vexas, vexèrent.
weather: temps.
wet: mouillé, humide, mouiller.
worn: usé.
60 Persuasion

time I was at sea in her; and after taking privateers enough to be very
entertaining, I had the good luck in my passage home the next autumn, to fall in
with the very French frigate I wanted. I brought her into Plymouth; and here
another instance of luck. We had not been six hours in the Sound, when a gale
came on, which lasted four days and nights, and which would have done for
poor old Asp in half the time; our touch with the Great Nation not having much
improved our condition. Four-and-twenty hours later, and I should only have
been a gallant Captain Wentworth, in a small paragraph at one corner of the
newspapers; and being lost in only a sloop, nobody would have thought about
me." Anne's shudderings were to herself alone; but the Miss Musgroves could be
as open as they were sincere, in their exclamations of pity and horror.%
"And so then, I suppose," said Mrs Musgrove, in a low voice, as if thinking
aloud, "so then he went away to the Laconia, and there he met with our poor
boy. Charles, my dear," (beckoning him to her), "do ask Captain Wentworth
where it was he first met with your poor brother. I always forgot."
"It was at Gibraltar, mother, I know. Dick had been left ill at Gibraltar, with a
recommendation from his former captain to Captain Wentworth."
"Oh! but, Charles, tell Captain Wentworth, he need not be afraid of
mentioning poor Dick before me, for it would be rather a pleasure to hear him
talked of by such a good friend."
Charles, being somewhat more mindful of the probabilities of the case, only
nodded in reply, and walked away.
The girls were now hunting for the Laconia; and Captain Wentworth could
not deny himself the pleasure of taking the precious volume into his own hands
to save them the trouble, and once more read aloud the little statement of her
name and rate, and present non-commissioned class, observing over it that she
too had been one of the best friends man ever had.
"Ah! those were pleasant days when I had the Laconia! How fast I made
money in her. A friend of mine and I had such a lovely cruise together off the
Western Islands. Poor Harville, sister! You know how much he wanted money:

afraid: timide, peureux, effrayé.
aloud: à haute voix.
autumn: automnal, arrière, saison.
captain: capitaine, commandant,
capitaine de vaisseau.
cruise: croisière, croiser.
deny: nier, niez, nions, nient, nie, nies,
démentir, renier.
entertaining: amusant, divertissant,
drôle, distrayant, se régalant.
fast: rapide, vite, jeûner, rapidement,
ferme, jeûne, prompt, carême.
French
gale: coup de vent, tempête.
hunting: chassant, chasse, lacet,
pompage, chasser.
improved: amélioras, améliorâtes,
amélioré, améliorâmes, améliorèrent,
améliora, améliorai, amendèrent,
amendai, amendas, amendâmes.
instance: exemple, instance.
lasted: duré.
mindful: attentif.
newspapers: journaux.
nobody: personne, nul.
paragraph: alinéa, paragraphe.
passage: passage, couloir, corridor,
traversée, canal.
recommendation: recommandation,
liste, liste de candidats, liste de
présentation, proposition,
préconisation.
reply: réponse, répondre, répliquer,
réplique.
sincere: sincère.
somewhat: une certaine quantité, un
peu, quelque peu.
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worse than myself. He had a wife. Excellent fellow. I shall never forget his
happiness. He felt it all, so much for her sake. I wished for him again the next
summer, when I had still the same luck in the Mediterranean."
"And I am sure, Sir." said Mrs Musgrove, "it was a lucky day for us, when
you were put captain into that ship. We shall never forget what you did."
Her feelings made her speak low; and Captain Wentworth, hearing only in
part, and probably not having Dick Musgrove at all near his thoughts, looked
rather in suspense, and as if waiting for more.%
"My brother," whispered one of the girls; "mamma is thinking of poor
Richard."
"Poor dear fellow!" continued Mrs Musgrove; "he was grown so steady, and
such an excellent correspondent, while he was under your care! Ah! it would
have been a happy thing, if he had never left you. I assure you, Captain
Wentworth, we are very sorry he ever left you."
There was a momentary expression in Captain Wentworth's face at this
speech, a certain glance of his bright eye, and curl of his handsome mouth,
which convinced Anne, that instead of sharing in Mrs Musgrove's kind wishes,
as to her son, he had probably been at some pains to get rid of him; but it was
too transient an indulgence of self-amusement to be detected by any who
understood him less than herself; in another moment he was perfectly collected
and serious, and almost instantly afterwards coming up to the sofa, on which
she and Mrs Musgrove were sitting, took a place by the latter, and entered into
conversation with her, in a low voice, about her son, doing it with so much
sympathy and natural grace, as shewed the kindest consideration for all that was
real and unabsurd in the parent's feelings.
They were actually on the same sofa, for Mrs Musgrove had most readily
made room for him; they were divided only by Mrs Musgrove. It was no
insignificant barrier, indeed. Mrs Musgrove was of a comfortable, substantial
size, infinitely more fitted by nature to express good cheer and good humour,
than tenderness and sentiment; and while the agitations of Anne's slender form,

barrier: barrière, bar, barrage, obstacle.
cheer: acclamation, acclamer,
applaudir.
collected: recueillirent, recueilli,
recueillit, recueillîtes, recueillîmes,
recueillis, rassembla, rassemblèrent,
rassemblas, rassemblâmes,
rassemblai.
curl: boucle, friser, coiffer, rotationnel,
battre, faire tournoyer, boucler,
fourche, gode, roulage.
detected: détectèrent, détecta, détecté,
French
détectai, détectâmes, détectâtes,
détectas.
fitted: ajusté.
glance: coup d'œil.
insignificant: insignifiant, mineur.
instantly: directement, aussitôt,
d'abord, tout d'abord, à l'instant, de
manière instante, de façon instante.
momentary: momentané.
pains: douleurs.
readily: aisément, de façon prête, de
manière prête, facilement.
rid: débarrasser, débarrassâmes,
débarrassez, débarrasses,
débarrassèrent, débarrassent,
débarrassé, débarrasse, débarrassas,
débarrassons, débarrassai.
sharing: partage, participation,
partageant.
slender: mince, svelte, maigre.
steady: régulier, stable.
transient: clic, éphémère, isolé,
personne de passage, routard.
whispered: chuchoté.
62 Persuasion

and pensive face, may be considered as very completely screened, Captain

Wentworth should be allowed some credit for the self-command with which he
attended to her large fat sighings over the destiny of a son, whom alive nobody
had cared for.%
Personal size and mental sorrow have certainly no necessary proportions. A
large bulky figure has as good a right to be in deep affliction, as the most
graceful set of limbs in the world. But, fair or not fair, there are unbecoming
conjunctions, which reason will patronize in vain-- which taste cannot tolerate--
which ridicule will seize.
The Admiral, after taking two or three refreshing turns about the room with
his hands behind him, being called to order by his wife, now came up to Captain
Wentworth, and without any observation of what he might be interrupting,
thinking only of his own thoughts, began with--
"If you had been a week later at Lisbon, last spring, Frederick, you would
have been asked to give a passage to Lady Mary Grierson and her daughters."
"Should I? I am glad I was not a week later then."
The Admiral abused him for his want of gallantry. He defended himself;
though professing that he would never willingly admit any ladies on board a
ship of his, excepting for a ball, or a visit, which a few hours might comprehend.
"But, if I know myself," said he, "this is from no want of gallantry towards
them. It is rather from feeling how impossible it is, with all one's efforts, and all
one's sacrifices, to make the accommodations on board such as women ought to
have. There can be no want of gallantry, Admiral, in rating the claims of women
to every personal comfort high, and this is what I do. I hate to hear of women on
board, or to see them on board; and no ship under my command shall ever
convey a family of ladies anywhere, if I can help it."
This brought his sister upon him.
"Oh! Frederick! But I cannot believe it of you. --All idle refinement! --Women
may be as comfortable on board, as in the best house in England. I believe I have
lived as much on board as most women, and I know nothing superior to the

abused: abusé, abusai, abusés,
abusées, abusâmes, abusa, abusée.
accommodations: emménagements.
affliction: affliction, chagrin,
désolation.
bulky: ample, étendu, large.
comprehend: comprendre,
comprennent, comprends,
comprenez, comprenons.
conjunctions: conjonctions.
destiny: destinée, destin, sort,
destination, fortune.
French
gallantry: vaillance.
graceful: gracieux, élégant, mignon.
interrupting: interrompant.
patronize: patronner, patronnes,
patronnez, patronnons, patronnent,
patronne, protéger.
pensive: pensif, songeur.
professing: confessant, professant.
rating: évaluation, notation,
classement, caractéristiques
assignées, régime nominal,
estimation, tarification, cote,
puissance nominale.
refinement: raffinement, délicatesse,
affinement, affinage.
refreshing: rafraîchissant, actualisant.
sacrifices: sacrifie.
screened: trié.
seize: saisir, saisissez, saisissent, saisis,
saisissons, agripper, attraper,
agrippes, agrippez, agrippent,
agrippe.
sorrow: abattement, chagrin.
unbecoming: inconvenant.
 Jane Austen 63

accommodations of a man-of-war. I declare I have not a comfort or an

indulgence about me, even at Kellynch Hall," (with a kind bow to Anne),
"beyond what I always had in most of the ships I have lived in; and they have
been five altogether."%
"Nothing to the purpose," replied her brother. "You were living with your
husband, and were the only woman on board."
"But you, yourself, brought Mrs Harville, her sister, her cousin, and three
children, round from Portsmouth to Plymouth. Where was this superfine,
extraordinary sort of gallantry of yours then?"
"All merged in my friendship, Sophia. I would assist any brother officer's
wife that I could, and I would bring anything of Harville's from the world's end,
if he wanted it. But do not imagine that I did not feel it an evil in itself."
"Depend upon it, they were all perfectly comfortable."
"I might not like them the better for that perhaps. Such a number of women
and children have no right to be comfortable on board."
"My dear Frederick, you are talking quite idly. Pray, what would become of
us poor sailors' wives, who often want to be conveyed to one port or another,
after our husbands, if everybody had your feelings?"
"My feelings, you see, did not prevent my taking Mrs Harville and all her
family to Plymouth."
"But I hate to hear you talking so like a fine gentleman, and as if women were
all fine ladies, instead of rational creatures. We none of us expect to be in
smooth water all our days."
"Ah! my dear," said the Admiral, "when he had got a wife, he will sing a
different tune. When he is married, if we have the good luck to live to another
war, we shall see him do as you and I, and a great many others, have done. We
shall have him very thankful to anybody that will bring him his wife."
"Ay, that we shall."

ah: ah.
assist: assister, assiste, assistant,
assistes, assistez, assistons, aider,
aide, aidez, aidons, aident.
conveyed: transmis, véhiculé,
véhiculai, véhiculèrent, véhiculâtes,
véhiculâmes, véhicula, transmîtes,
transmit, transmirent, acheminèrent.
cousin: cousin, cousine.
depend: dépendre, dépendent,
dépendons, dépends, dépendez.
everybody: tout le monde, chacun.
French
friendship: amitié, camaraderie.
gentleman: monsieur, gentilhomme.
idly: de manière inactive, de façon
inactive.
imagine: imaginer, imagine, imagines,
imaginent, imaginez, imaginons.
instead: plutôt.
merged: fusionnai, fusionnâmes,
fusionnas, fusionnâtes, fusionnèrent,
fusionna, fusionné.
port: port, bâbord, accès, porte,
lumière, orifice, porto.
prevent: empêcher, empêche,
empêches, empêchez, empêchent,
empêchons, prévenir, préviens,
prévenez, prévenons, préviennent.
rational: rationnel, raisonnable.
sing: chanter, chante, chantes,
chantent, chantez, chantons.
smooth: lisse, uni, plat, lisser, douce,
égaliser, polir.
superfine: surfin.
thankful: reconnaissant.
tune: accorder, mélodie, air, adapter.
64 Persuasion

"Now I have done," cried Captain Wentworth. "When once married people
begin to attack me with,--`Oh! you will think very differently, when you are
married.' I can only say, `No, I shall not;' and then they say again, `Yes, you will,'
and there is an end of it."
He got up and moved away.%
"What a great traveller you must have been, ma'am!" said Mrs Musgrove to
Mrs Croft.
"Pretty well, ma'am in the fifteen years of my marriage; though many
women have done more. I have crossed the Atlantic four times, and have been
once to the East Indies, and back again, and only once; besides being in different
places about home: Cork, and Lisbon, and Gibraltar. But I never went beyond
the Streights, and never was in the West Indies. We do not call Bermuda or
Bahama, you know, the West Indies."
Mrs Musgrove had not a word to say in dissent; she could not accuse herself
of having ever called them anything in the whole course of her life.
"And I do assure you, ma'am," pursued Mrs Croft, "that nothing can exceed
the accommodations of a man-of-war; I speak, you know, of the higher rates.
When you come to a frigate, of course, you are more confined; though any
reasonable woman may be perfectly happy in one of them; and I can safely say,
that the happiest part of my life has been spent on board a ship. While we were
together, you know, there was nothing to be feared. Thank God! I have always
been blessed with excellent health, and no climate disagrees with me. A little
disordered always the first twenty-four hours of going to sea, but never knew
what sickness was afterwards. The only time I ever really suffered in body or
mind, the only time that I ever fancied myself unwell, or had any ideas of
danger, was the winter that I passed by myself at Deal, when the Admiral
(Captain Croft then) was in the North Seas. I lived in perpetual fright at that
time, and had all manner of imaginary complaints from not knowing what to do
with myself, or when I should hear from him next; but as long as we could be
together, nothing ever ailed me, and I never met with the smallest
inconvenience."
French
accuse: accuser, accuse, accuses, dissent: dissentiment. mariâmes, se maria, se marié, mariée,
accusent, accusez, accusons, exceed: dépasser, dépasses, dépasse, mariés, épousas.
dénoncer, incriminer, livrer. dépassez, dépassent, dépassons, passed: passé.
begin: commencer, commencez, excéder, dominer, excède, excèdes, reasonable: raisonnable, modéré,
commences, commence, outrepasser. prudent, abordable.
commencent, commençons, débuter, fancied: imaginaire. safely: de manière sûre, de façon sûre.
débute, débutent, débutes, débutez. fifteen: quinze. sickness: maladie.
blessed: béni, bénis, bénîtes, bénirent, fright: peur, effroi, anxiété, frayeur, suffered: souffrîmes, souffrîtes,
bénit, bénîmes, bienheureux. terreur. souffrit, souffris, souffert, souffrirent,
confined: confiné. manner: manière, façon. subîtes, subi, subîmes, subirent,
crossed: croisé. married: marié, se marièrent, vous subis.
danger: danger, péril. mariâtes, te marias, me mariai, nous traveller: voyageur, curseur.
 Jane Austen 65

"Aye, to be sure. Yes, indeed, oh yes! I am quite of your opinion, Mrs Croft,"
was Mrs Musgrove's hearty answer. "There is nothing so bad as a separation. I
am quite of your opinion. I know what it is, for Mr Musgrove always attends the
assizes, and I am so glad when they are over, and he is safe back again."
The evening ended with dancing. On its being proposed, Anne offered her
services, as usual; and though her eyes would sometimes fill with tears as she sat
at the instrument, she was extremely glad to be employed, and desired nothing
in return but to be unobserved.%
It was a merry, joyous party, and no one seemed in higher spirits than
Captain Wentworth. She felt that he had every thing to elevate him which
general attention and deference, and especially the attention of all the young
women, could do. The Miss Hayters, the females of the family of cousins already
mentioned, were apparently admitted to the honour of being in love with him;
and as for Henrietta and Louisa, they both seemed so entirely occupied by him,
that nothing but the continued appearance of the most perfect good-will between
themselves could have made it credible that they were not decided rivals. If he
were a little spoilt by such universal, such eager admiration, who could wonder?
These were some of the thoughts which occupied Anne, while her fingers
were mechanically at work, proceeding for half an hour together, equally
without error, and without consciousness. Once she felt that he was looking at
herself, observing her altered features, perhaps, trying to trace in them the ruins
of the face which had once charmed him; and once she knew that he must have
spoken of her; she was hardly aware of it, till she heard the answer; but then she
was sure of his having asked his partner whether Miss Elliot never danced? The
answer was, "Oh, no; never; she has quite given up dancing. She had rather play.
She is never tired of playing." Once, too, he spoke to her. She had left the
instrument on the dancing being over, and he had sat down to try to make out an
air which he wished to give the Miss Musgroves an idea of. Unintentionally she
returned to that part of the room; he saw her, and, instantly rising, said, with
studied politeness--

French
admitted: admis, admit, admirent, élevons, élèves, élevez.
admîmes, admîtes. error: erreur, faute, méprise.
assizes: assises. fill: remplir, remplissage, compléter,
attends: assiste, soigne. charger, obturer, plomber, bourrer,
charmed: charmé. emplir, remblai.
consciousness: conscience, honour: honneur, honorer.
connaissance. instrument: instrument.
credible: croyable. joyous: joyeux.
danced: dansé. mechanically: de manière mécanique,
deference: déférence. de façon mécanique, mécaniquement.
desired: désiré. occupied: occupas, occupâtes,
elevate: élever, élève, hausser, élèvent, occupâmes, occupa, occupai,
occupèrent, occupé.
rising: élévation, levée, lever.
rivals: rivaux.
ruins: ruine, ruines.
separation: séparation, abandon,
décollement, espacement, scission.
studied: étudié.
tired: fatigué, las.
trace: trace, tracer, décalquer, calquer,
empreinte, impression, trait, piste,
retracer.
universal: universel.
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"I beg your pardon, madam, this is your seat;" and though she immediately
drew back with a decided negative, he was not to be induced to sit down
again.%
Anne did not wish for more of such looks and speeches. His cold politeness,
his ceremonious grace, were worse than anything.

beg: mendier, mendions, mendiez,
mendies, mendie, mendient,
demander, prier, quémander,
implorer, supplier.
ceremonious: solennel.
cold: froid, rhume.
decided: décidé, décidai, décidâmes,
décidèrent, décida, décidas,
décidâtes.
grace: grâce, charme.
immediately: immédiatement, tout de
suite, directement, aussitôt, sitôt,
French
d'abord, tout d'abord, de manière s'asseyent, vous asseyez, m'assieds.
immédiate, de façon immédiate. wish: souhait, désir, désirer, souhaiter,
induced: induit, induisîmes, vouloir, volonté, gré.
induisîtes, induisit, induisis, worse: pire, plus mauvais.
induisirent.
looks: regarde.
negative: négatif, père, réfuter.
pardon: pardon, pardonner, excuser,
grâce.
politeness: politesse.
sit: couver, être assis, asseoir, couve,
couvent, couves, couvez, couvons,
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CHAPTER 9

Captain%Wentworth was come to Kellynch as to a home, to stay as long as he

liked, being as thoroughly the object of the Admiral's fraternal kindness as of his
wife's. He had intended, on first arriving, to proceed very soon into Shropshire,
and visit the brother settled in that country, but the attractions of Uppercross
induced him to put this off. There was so much of friendliness, and of flattery,
and of everything most bewitching in his reception there; the old were so
hospitable, the young so agreeable, that he could not but resolve to remain
where he was, and take all the charms and perfections of Edward's wife upon
credit a little longer.
It was soon Uppercross with him almost every day. The Musgroves could
hardly be more ready to invite than he to come, particularly in the morning,
when he had no companion at home, for the Admiral and Mrs Croft were
generally out of doors together, interesting themselves in their new possessions,
their grass, and their sheep, and dawdling about in a way not endurable to a
third person, or driving out in a gig, lately added to their establishment.
Hitherto there had been but one opinion of Captain Wentworth among the
Musgroves and their dependencies. It was unvarying, warm admiration
everywhere; but this intimate footing was not more than established, when a

arriving: arrivant.
bewitching: ensorcelant.
credit: crédit, créditer.
dawdling: lambinant.
doors: portes.
driving: conduite, conduisant,
poussant, pourchassant, pilotant,
actionnant.
endurable: endurable, supportable.
establishment: établissement,
implantation.
everything: tout.
French
everywhere: partout.
flattery: flatterie, adulation.
fraternal: fraternel.
friendliness: convivialité,
bienveillance.
gig: engagement d'un soir.
grass: herbe, gazon.
hitherto: jusqu'ici.
hospitable: hospitalier.
intended: visèrent, visâtes, visas,
visâmes, visai, visa, visé, destiné,
projetas, projetâtes, projetâmes.
intimate: intime.
possessions: biens.
reception: réception, accueil.
resolve: résoudre, décider, résolution.
settled: réglâmes, régla, réglas,
réglèrent, réglai, réglâtes, réglé.
sheep: mouton.
soon: bientôt, tout à l'heure.
unvarying: invariable.
warm: chaud, chauffer, cordial,
chaleureux.
wife: femme, épouse.
68 Persuasion

certain Charles Hayter returned among them, to be a good deal disturbed by it,
and to think Captain Wentworth very much in the way.%
Charles Hayter was the eldest of all the cousins, and a very amiable, pleasing
young man, between whom and Henrietta there had been a considerable
appearance of attachment previous to Captain Wentworth's introduction. He
was in orders; and having a curacy in the neighbourhood, where residence was
not required, lived at his father's house, only two miles from Uppercross. A
short absence from home had left his fair one unguarded by his attentions at this
critical period, and when he came back he had the pain of finding very altered
manners, and of seeing Captain Wentworth.
Mrs Musgrove and Mrs Hayter were sisters. They had each had money, but
their marriages had made a material difference in their degree of consequence.
Mr Hayter had some property of his own, but it was insignificant compared with
Mr Musgrove's; and while the Musgroves were in the first class of society in the
country, the young Hayters would, from their parents' inferior, retired, and
unpolished way of living, and their own defective education, have been hardly
in any class at all, but for their connexion with Uppercross, this eldest son of
course excepted, who had chosen to be a scholar and a gentleman, and who was
very superior in cultivation and manners to all the rest.
The two families had always been on excellent terms, there being no pride on
one side, and no envy on the other, and only such a consciousness of superiority
in the Miss Musgroves, as made them pleased to improve their cousins.
Charles's attentions to Henrietta had been observed by her father and mother
without any disapprobation. "It would not be a great match for her; but if
Henrietta liked him,"-- and Henrietta did seem to like him.
Henrietta fully thought so herself, before Captain Wentworth came; but from
that time Cousin Charles had been very much forgotten.
Which of the two sisters was preferred by Captain Wentworth was as yet
quite doubtful, as far as Anne's observation reached. Henrietta was perhaps the
prettiest, Louisa had the higher spirits; and she knew not now, whether the more
gentle or the more lively character were most likely to attract him.
French
attract: attirer, allécher, attires, attire, envient, envies, jalousie. preferred: préféra, préférai,
attirent, attirez, attirons, allèches, forgotten: oublié. préférâmes, préféras, préférâtes,
allèche, alléchez, allèchent. lively: animé, vif, spirituel, fin, préférèrent, préféré.
chosen: choisi, élu, opté. mental, de manière vivre, de façon prettiest: le plus joli.
cultivation: culture. vivre, plein d'entrain. pride: fierté, orgueil.
defective: défectueux, défectif. observation: observation, remarque, retired: retiré, retraité, retirâtes,
disturbed: dérangé, dérangèrent, réflexion. retiras, retirâmes, retira, retirèrent,
dérangea, dérangeai, dérangeâmes, observed: observas, observâtes, retirai.
dérangeâtes, dérangeas, gêna, gênai, observai, observa, observèrent, scholar: savant, érudit, écolier.
gênâmes, gênas. observâmes, observé, respecta, unguarded: irréfléchi.
doubtful: incertain, douteux. respectas, respectai, respectâmes. unpolished: non poli, non astiqué,
envy: envie, envier, enviez, envions, orders: commandes. non ciré.
 Jane Austen 69

Mr and Mrs Musgrove, either from seeing little, or from an entire confidence
in the discretion of both their daughters, and of all the young men who came
near them, seemed to leave everything to take its chance. There was not the
smallest appearance of solicitude or remark about them in the Mansion-house;
but it was different at the Cottage: the young couple there were more disposed
to speculate and wonder; and Captain Wentworth had not been above four or
five times in the Miss Musgroves' company, and Charles Hayter had but just
reappeared, when Anne had to listen to the opinions of her brother and sister, as
to which was the one liked best. Charles gave it for Louisa, Mary for Henrietta,
but quite agreeing that to have him marry either could be extremely delightful.%
Charles "had never seen a pleasanter man in his life; and from what he had
once heard Captain Wentworth himself say, was very sure that he had not made
less than twenty thousand pounds by the war. Here was a fortune at once;
besides which, there would be the chance of what might be done in any future
war; and he was sure Captain Wentworth was as likely a man to distinguish
himself as any officer in the navy. Oh! it would be a capital match for either of
his sisters."
"Upon my word it would," replied Mary. "Dear me! If he should rise to any
very great honours! If he should ever be made a baronet! `Lady Wentworth'
sounds very well. That would be a noble thing, indeed, for Henrietta! She
would take place of me then, and Henrietta would not dislike that. Sir Frederick
and Lady Wentworth! It would be but a new creation, however, and I never
think much of your new creations."
It suited Mary best to think Henrietta the one preferred on the very account
of Charles Hayter, whose pretensions she wished to see put an end to. She
looked down very decidedly upon the Hayters, and thought it would be quite a
misfortune to have the existing connection between the families renewed--very
sad for herself and her children.
"You know," said she, "I cannot think him at all a fit match for Henrietta; and
considering the alliances which the Musgroves have made, she has no right to
throw herself away. I do not think any young woman has a right to make a

agreeing: consentant.
alliances: alliances.
appearance: aspect, apparence,
comparution, allure, apparition,
spectacle, air.
connection: connexion, raccord,
liaison, raccordement, ligue, chaîne
de connexion, branchement, rapport,
communication, jonction, réunion.
considering: considérant.
creation: création.
decidedly: de manière décidé, de
French
façon décidée.
discretion: discrétion, prudence,
précaution.
entire: entier, total.
fit: adapter, convenir, ajustement,
ajuster, apoplexie, crise, en bonne
santé.
listen: écouter, écoutes, écoute,
écoutons, écoutez, écoutent.
misfortune: malheur, infortune,
malchance.
officer: officier, fonctionnaire.
reappeared: reparus, reparut,
reparurent, reparûmes, réapparut,
réapparus, réapparurent,
réapparûmes, reparûtes, réapparûtes,
réapparu.
sad: triste, affligé, désolé, peiné,
maussade, sombre.
sounds: sonne, sons.
speculate: spéculer, spécules, spécule,
spéculez, spéculons, spéculent.
throw: jeter, jet, lancer, projeter,
course, lancement.
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choice that may be disagreeable and inconvenient to the principal part of her
family, and be giving bad connections to those who have not been used to them.
And, pray, who is Charles Hayter? Nothing but a country curate. A most
improper match for Miss Musgrove of Uppercross."
Her husband, however, would not agree with her here; for besides having a
regard for his cousin, Charles Hayter was an eldest son, and he saw things as an
eldest son himself.%
"Now you are taking nonsense, Mary," was therefore his answer. "It would
not be a great match for Henrietta, but Charles has a very fair chance, through
the Spicers, of getting something from the Bishop in the course of a year or two;
and you will please to remember, that he is the eldest son; whenever my uncle
dies, he steps into very pretty property. The estate at Winthrop is not less than
two hundred and fifty acres, besides the farm near Taunton, which is some of the
best land in the country. I grant you, that any of them but Charles would be a
very shocking match for Henrietta, and indeed it could not be; he is the only one
that could be possible; but he is a very good-natured, good sort of a fellow; and
whenever Winthrop comes into his hands, he will make a different sort of place
of it, and live in a very different sort of way; and with that property, he will
never be a contemptible man--good, freehold property. No, no; Henrietta might
do worse than marry Charles Hayter; and if she has him, and Louisa can get
Captain Wentworth, I shall be very well satisfied."
"Charles may say what he pleases," cried Mary to Anne, as soon as he was
out of the room, "but it would be shocking to have Henrietta marry Charles
Hayter; a very bad thing for her, and still worse for me; and therefore it is very
much to be wished that Captain Wentworth may soon put him quite out of her
head, and I have very little doubt that he has. She took hardly any notice of
Charles Hayter yesterday. I wish you had been there to see her behaviour. And
as to Captain Wentworth's liking Louisa as well as Henrietta, it is nonsense to
say so; for he certainly does like Henrietta a great deal the best. But Charles is so
positive! I wish you had been with us yesterday, for then you might have

agree: consentir, consentent,
consentez, consentons, consens, être
d'accord, s'accorder, donner son
accord, s'harmoniser, admettre,
accepter.
connections: liaisons, fiche de
branchement, connexions,
raccordements.
contemptible: méprisable.
dies: meurt, décède.
doubt: doute, douter.
estate: domaine, propriété, bien,
French
propriété foncière, fonds, succession,
biens.
fair: foire, juste, kermesse, blond,
marché, équitable, bazar, moral,
beau, exposition, loyal.
farm: ferme, domaine, affermer, bail,
bien, propriété, propriété foncière,
prendre à bail, fonds, cultiver.
freehold: pleine propriété.
grant: subvention, allocation, allouer,
concession, concéder.
liking: affection, penchant.
nonsense: absurdité, bêtise,
balivernes.
pray: prier, prie, pries, prions, priez,
prient.
principal: commettant, principal,
mandant, directeur, donneur d'ordre,
dominant, capital.
shocking: choquant.
steps: étapes, escalier.
uncle: oncle.
whenever: chaque fois que, toutes les
fois que.
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decided between us; and I am sure you would have thought as I did, unless you
had been determined to give it against me."
A dinner at Mr Musgrove's had been the occasion when all these things
should have been seen by Anne; but she had staid at home, under the mixed plea
of a headache of her own, and some return of indisposition in little Charles. She
had thought only of avoiding Captain Wentworth; but an escape from being
appealed to as umpire was now added to the advantages of a quiet evening.%
As to Captain Wentworth's views, she deemed it of more consequence that
he should know his own mind early enough not to be endangering the
happiness of either sister, or impeaching his own honour, than that he should
prefer Henrietta to Louisa, or Louisa to Henrietta. Either of them would, in all
probability, make him an affectionate, good-humoured wife. With regard to
Charles Hayter, she had delicacy which must be pained by any lightness of
conduct in a well-meaning young woman, and a heart to sympathize in any of
the sufferings it occasioned; but if Henrietta found herself mistaken in the nature
of her feelings, the alternation could not be understood too soon.
Charles Hayter had met with much to disquiet and mortify him in his
cousin's behaviour. She had too old a regard for him to be so wholly estranged
as might in two meetings extinguish every past hope, and leave him nothing to
do but to keep away from Uppercross: but there was such a change as became
very alarming, when such a man as Captain Wentworth was to be regarded as
the probable cause. He had been absent only two Sundays, and when they
parted, had left her interested, even to the height of his wishes, in his prospect of
soon quitting his present curacy, and obtaining that of Uppercross instead. It
had then seemed the object nearest her heart, that Dr Shirley, the rector, who for
more than forty years had been zealously discharging all the duties of his office,
but was now growing too infirm for many of them, should be quite fixed on
engaging a curate; should make his curacy quite as good as he could afford, and
should give Charles Hayter the promise of it. The advantage of his having to
come only to Uppercross, instead of going six miles another way; of his having,
in every respect, a better curacy; of his belonging to their dear Dr Shirley, and of

affectionate: affectueux, tendre,
dévoué, attaché, amoureux.
alternation: alternance.
deemed: crus, crut, crûtes, cru,
crûmes, crurent, réputé.
discharging: décharge, déchargement,
déchargeant.
disquiet: déranger, perturber,
inquiétude, brouiller, perturbe,
perturbons, perturbez, perturbent,
dérangez, déranges, dérangeons.
endangering: risquant,
French
compromettant.
engaging: engageant.
estranged: aliéné, aliénas, aliéna,
aliénai, aliénâmes, aliénâtes,
aliénèrent.
extinguish: éteindre, éteignent,
éteignez, éteignons, éteins.
headache: céphalée, mal de tête, mal à
la tête.
impeaching: récusant, accusant.
infirm: infirme.
lightness: clarté, légèreté, leucie,
luminosité.
mortify: humilier, mortifier.
pained: peiné.
quitting: quittant.
rector: recteur.
staid: sérieux, sobre.
sympathize: compatir, compatis,
compatissez, compatissons,
compatissent.
umpire: arbitre, surarbitre.
zealously: de manière zélé, de façon
zélée.
72 Persuasion

dear, good Dr Shirley's being relieved from the duty which he could no longer
get through without most injurious fatigue, had been a great deal, even to
Louisa, but had been almost everything to Henrietta. When he came back, alas!
the zeal of the business was gone by. Louisa could not listen at all to his account
of a conversation which he had just held with Dr Shirley: she was at a window,
looking out for Captain Wentworth; and even Henrietta had at best only a
divided attention to give, and seemed to have forgotten all the former doubt and
solicitude of the negotiation.%
"Well, I am very glad indeed: but I always thought you would have it; I
always thought you sure. It did not appear to me that--in short, you know, Dr
Shirley must have a curate, and you had secured his promise. Is he coming,
Louisa?"
One morning, very soon after the dinner at the Musgroves, at which Anne
had not been present, Captain Wentworth walked into the drawing-room at the
Cottage, where were only herself and the little invalid Charles, who was lying
on the sofa.
The surprise of finding himself almost alone with Anne Elliot, deprived his
manners of their usual composure: he started, and could only say, "I thought the
Miss Musgroves had been here: Mrs Musgrove told me I should find them here,"
before he walked to the window to recollect himself, and feel how he ought to
behave.
"They are up stairs with my sister: they will be down in a few moments, I
dare say," had been Anne's reply, in all the confusion that was natural; and if the
child had not called her to come and do something for him, she would have been
out of the room the next moment, and released Captain Wentworth as well as
herself.
He continued at the window; and after calmly and politely saying, "I hope
the little boy is better," was silent.
She was obliged to kneel down by the sofa, and remain there to satisfy her
patient; and thus they continued a few minutes, when, to her very great

alas: hélas, malheureusement.
behave: se conduire, se comporter.
calmly: de manière calme, de façon
calme.
composure: repos.
confusion: confusion, désordre,
confusion mentale, affolement.
deprived: privé, dépouillas, privâtes,
privas, privâmes, privai, priva,
dépouillèrent, dépouillâtes,
privèrent, dépouillâmes.
divided: divisé, divisai, divisa,
French
divisèrent, divisâmes, divisâtes,
divisas, partageâtes, partagèrent,
partagea, partagé.
fatigue: fatigue, fatigue d'une
substance luminescente.
injurious: nuisible, injurieux,
préjudiciable.
invalid: invalide, non valide, non
valable, périmé.
kneel: s'agenouiller.
lying: menteur, mensonge, gisant.
politely: poliment, de manière polie,
de façon polie.
promise: promettre, promets,
promettent, promettez, promettons,
assurer.
released: libéré, relâché.
satisfy: satisfaire, contenter, satisfaites,
satisfont, satisfaisons, satisfais,
contentent, contentons, contentes,
contente, contentez.
secured: fixâtes, fixèrent, fixas,
fixâmes, fixai, fixa, fixé.
silent: silencieux.
 Jane Austen 73

satisfaction, she heard some other person crossing the little vestibule. She
hoped, on turning her head, to see the master of the house; but it proved to be
one much less calculated for making matters easy--Charles Hayter, probably not
at all better pleased by the sight of Captain Wentworth than Captain Wentworth
had been by the sight of Anne.%
She only attempted to say, "How do you do? Will you not sit down? The
others will be here presently."
Captain Wentworth, however, came from his window, apparently not ill-
disposed for conversation; but Charles Hayter soon put an end to his attempts by
seating himself near the table, and taking up the newspaper; and Captain
Wentworth returned to his window.
Another minute brought another addition. The younger boy, a remarkable
stout, forward child, of two years old, having got the door opened for him by
some one without, made his determined appearance among them, and went
straight to the sofa to see what was going on, and put in his claim to anything
good that might be giving away.
There being nothing to eat, he could only have some play; and as his aunt
would not let him tease his sick brother, he began to fasten himself upon her, as
she knelt, in such a way that, busy as she was about Charles, she could not shake
him off. She spoke to him, ordered, entreated, and insisted in vain. Once she did
contrive to push him away, but the boy had the greater pleasure in getting upon
her back again directly.
"Walter," said she, "get down this moment. You are extremely troublesome. I
am very angry with you."
"Walter," cried Charles Hayter, "why do you not do as you are bid? Do not
you hear your aunt speak? Come to me, Walter, come to cousin Charles."
But not a bit did Walter stir.
In another moment, however, she found herself in the state of being released
from him; some one was taking him from her, though he had bent down her
head so much, that his little sturdy hands were unfastened from around her

attempted: essayèrent, essaya, essayai,
essayâmes, essayâtes, essayas, essayé.
bid: offre, soumission, demander,
offrir, prier, enchère, annonce,
tentative de prise, mise dans les
enchères.
calculated: calculas, calculâtes, calculé,
calculâmes, calculèrent, calcula,
calculai, comptai, comptâmes,
comptas, comptâtes.
contrive: inventer.
crossing: croisement, traversée,
French
croisée, intersection.
fasten: attacher, attachons, attaches,
attachez, attache, attachent, fixer,
verrouiller, verrouille, verrouillez,
verrouillons.
insisted: insistas, insistâtes, insista,
insistai, insistèrent, insisté,
insistâmes.
knelt: agenouillé.
push: pousser, poussée, poussez.
satisfaction: satisfaction,
contentement.
seating: places assises.
shake: secouer, secoue, secouons,
secouez, secoues, secouent, ébranler,
ébranlez, ébranles, ébranlent, ébranle.
stout: corpulent, fort, gros, stout.
sturdy: robuste, fort.
tease: taquiner, agacer.
unfastened: desserré, desserrai,
desserrâmes, desserras, desserrâtes,
desserrèrent, ouvrîmes, ouvris,
ouvrîtes, ouvert, desserra.
vestibule: vestibule.
74 Persuasion

neck, and he was resolutely borne away, before she knew that Captain
Wentworth had done it.%
Her sensations on the discovery made her perfectly speechless. She could not
even thank him. She could only hang over little Charles, with most disordered
feelings. His kindness in stepping forward to her relief, the manner, the silence
in which it had passed, the little particulars of the circumstance, with the
conviction soon forced on her by the noise he was studiously making with the
child, that he meant to avoid hearing her thanks, and rather sought to testify that
her conversation was the last of his wants, produced such a confusion of varying,
but very painful agitation, as she could not recover from, till enabled by the
entrance of Mary and the Miss Musgroves to make over her little patient to their
cares, and leave the room. She could not stay. It might have been an
opportunity of watching the loves and jealousies of the four-- they were now
altogether; but she could stay for none of it. It was evident that Charles Hayter
was not well inclined towards Captain Wentworth. She had a strong impression
of his having said, in a vext tone of voice, after Captain Wentworth's
interference, "You ought to have minded me, Walter; I told you not to teaze your
aunt;" and could comprehend his regretting that Captain Wentworth should do
what he ought to have done himself. But neither Charles Hayter's feelings, nor
anybody's feelings, could interest her, till she had a little better arranged her
own. She was ashamed of herself, quite ashamed of being so nervous, so
overcome by such a trifle; but so it was, and it required a long application of
solitude and reflection to recover her.

discovery: découverte.
enabled: permis, permîtes, permit,
permirent, permîmes.
entrance: admission.
evident: évident, manifeste.
hang: pendre, suspendre, retomber,
accrocher, faisander.
interference: interférence, brouillage,
ingérence, intervention, perturbation,
immixtion, serrage.
loves: amours, aime.
minded: disposé.
French
overcome: triompher de, vaincre.
particulars: détails, précisions.
recover: récupérer, récupère,
récupères, récupérez, récupérons,
récupèrent, recouvrer, recouvre,
recouvres, recouvrez, recouvrons.
reflection: réflexion, reflet.
regretting: regrettant.
resolutely: de manière résolue, de
façon résolue, résolument.
speechless: muet, sans voix.
stepping: étagement, avance d'un ou
de plusieurs pas, bois de marche,
gradins, exploitation en gradins
renversés, modification d'instruction,
recul d'un ou de plusieurs pas.
studiously: de manière studieuse, de
façon studieuse.
testify: attester, témoigner,
témoignons, atteste, attestes,
témoigne, témoignent, témoignes,
attestez, attestons, attestent.
trifle: bagatelle, babiole.
varying: variant.
 Jane Austen 75

CHAPTER %10

Other opportunities of making her observations could not fail to occur. Anne
had soon been in company with all the four together often enough to have an
opinion, though too wise to acknowledge as much at home, where she knew it
would have satisfied neither husband nor wife; for while she considered Louisa
to be rather the favourite, she could not but think, as far as she might dare to
judge from memory and experience, that Captain Wentworth was not in love
with either. They were more in love with him; yet there it was not love. It was a
little fever of admiration; but it might, probably must, end in love with some.
Charles Hayter seemed aware of being slighted, and yet Henrietta had
sometimes the air of being divided between them. Anne longed for the power of
representing to them all what they were about, and of pointing out some of the
evils they were exposing themselves to. She did not attribute guile to any. It
was the highest satisfaction to her to believe Captain Wentworth not in the least
aware of the pain he was occasioning. There was no triumph, no pitiful
triumph in his manner. He had, probably, never heard, and never thought of
any claims of Charles Hayter. He was only wrong in accepting the attentions
(for accepting must be the word) of two young women at once.
After a short struggle, however, Charles Hayter seemed to quit the field.
Three days had passed without his coming once to Uppercross; a most decided
change. He had even refused one regular invitation to dinner; and having been
French
accepting: acceptant, agréant. guile: astuce. pitiful: pitoyable, pauvre, misérable,
attribute: attribut, attribuer. highest: le plus haut. malheureux, lamentable.
aware: conscient, averti. judge: juge, juger. pointing: pointage.
claims: arroge. memory: mémoire, souvenir. refused: refusé.
considered: considéré, considérèrent, neither: ni, personne, non plus, nul. regular: régulier.
considérâmes, considéra, considérai, nor: ni. representing: représentant.
considéras, considérâtes, envisagé. occur: arriver, arrivent, arrivons, struggle: lutter, combat, combattre,
dinner: dîner, déjeuner, souper. arrives, arrive, arrivez, avoir lieu, lutte, se démener, se débattre,
exposing: exposant. intervenir, survenir, survenez, bataille, batailler, luter.
fail: échouer, avorter, faillir, manquer, survenons. triumph: triomphe, triompher.
rater. opportunities: occasions. wrong: tort, faux, abusif, incorrect,
fever: fièvre, la fièvre. pain: douleur, mal, peine, peiner. erroné, injustice, mal.
76 Persuasion

found on the occasion by Mr Musgrove with some large books before him, Mr
and Mrs Musgrove were sure all could not be right, and talked, with grave faces,
of his studying himself to death. It was Mary's hope and belief that he had
received a positive dismissal from Henrietta, and her husband lived under the
constant dependence of seeing him to-morrow. Anne could only feel that
Charles Hayter was wise.%
One morning, about this time Charles Musgrove and Captain Wentworth
being gone a-shooting together, as the sisters in the Cottage were sitting quietly
at work, they were visited at the window by the sisters from the Mansion-house.
It was a very fine November day, and the Miss Musgroves came through the
little grounds, and stopped for no other purpose than to say, that they were
going to take a long walk, and therefore concluded Mary could not like to go
with them; and when Mary immediately replied, with some jealousy at not being
supposed a good walker, "Oh, yes, I should like to join you very much, I am very
fond of a long walk;" Anne felt persuaded, by the looks of the two girls, that it
was precisely what they did not wish, and admired again the sort of necessity
which the family habits seemed to produce, of everything being to be
communicated, and everything being to be done together, however undesired
and inconvenient. She tried to dissuade Mary from going, but in vain; and that
being the case, thought it best to accept the Miss Musgroves' much more cordial
invitation to herself to go likewise, as she might be useful in turning back with
her sister, and lessening the interference in any plan of their own.
"I cannot imagine why they should suppose I should not like a long walk,"
said Mary, as she went up stairs. "Everybody is always supposing that I am not
a good walker; and yet they would not have been pleased, if we had refused to
join them. When people come in this manner on purpose to ask us, how can one
say no?"
Just as they were setting off, the gentlemen returned. They had taken out a
young dog, who had spoilt their sport, and sent them back early. Their time and
strength, and spirits, were, therefore, exactly ready for this walk, and they
entered into it with pleasure. Could Anne have foreseen such a junction, she

admired: admirâtes, admiras, admira,
admirèrent, admiré, admirâmes,
admirai.
belief: conviction, croyance, foi.
communicated: communiqué,
communiqua, communiquâmes,
communiquai, communiquèrent,
communiquas, communiquâtes.
constant: constant, continuel,
constante, invariable, perpétuel,
permanent.
cordial: cordial.
French
dependence: dépendance.
dismissal: renvoi, licenciement, congé,
congédiement, destitution.
entered: entrèrent, entrâmes, entré,
entrai, entra, entras, entrâtes,
introduisîtes, introduit, introduisit,
introduisis.
foreseen: prévu, prévue, prévues,
prévus.
junction: jonction, carrefour,
embranchement, croisement,
bifurcation, accouplement,
raccordement.
occasion: occasion, lieu, fois.
precisely: précisément, de manière
précise, de façon précise.
setting: réglage, cadre, calage,
sertissage.
sport: sport, sports.
studying: étude.
visited: visitas, visitâtes, visita, visité,
visitèrent, visitai, visitâmes.
walker: marcheur, promeneur,
déambulateur.
 Jane Austen 77

would have staid at home; but, from some feelings of interest and curiosity, she
fancied now that it was too late to retract, and the whole six set forward together
in the direction chosen by the Miss Musgroves, who evidently considered the
walk as under their guidance.%
Anne's object was, not to be in the way of anybody; and where the narrow
paths across the fields made many separations necessary, to keep with her
brother and sister. Her pleasure in the walk must arise from the exercise and the
day, from the view of the last smiles of the year upon the tawny leaves, and
withered hedges, and from repeating to herself some few of the thousand
poetical descriptions extant of autumn, that season of peculiar and inexhaustible
influence on the mind of taste and tenderness, that season which had drawn
from every poet, worthy of being read, some attempt at description, or some
lines of feeling. She occupied her mind as much as possible in such like musings
and quotations; but it was not possible, that when within reach of Captain
Wentworth's conversation with either of the Miss Musgroves, she should not try
to hear it; yet she caught little very remarkable. It was mere lively chat, such as
any young persons, on an intimate footing, might fall into. He was more
engaged with Louisa than with Henrietta. Louisa certainly put more forward for
his notice than her sister. This distinction appeared to increase, and there was
one speech of Louisa's which struck her. After one of the many praises of the
day, which were continually bursting forth, Captain Wentworth added: --
"What glorious weather for the Admiral and my sister! They meant to take a
long drive this morning; perhaps we may hail them from some of these hills.
They talked of coming into this side of the country. I wonder whereabouts they
will upset to-day. Oh! it does happen very often, I assure you; but my sister
makes nothing of it; she would as lieve be tossed out as not."
"Ah! You make the most of it, I know," cried Louisa, "but if it were really so, I
should do just the same in her place. If I loved a man, as she loves the Admiral, I
would always be with him, nothing should ever separate us, and I would rather
be overturned by him, than driven safely by anybody else."
It was spoken with enthusiasm.

arise: naître, naissons, naissez, nais,
naissent, se soulever, surgir, se lever.
bursting: éclatement.
chat: bavarder, bavardage, causerie,
conversation, babiller, babil,
babillage, causer.
driven: conduit, poussé, pourchassé,
piloté, actionné.
enthusiasm: enthousiasme.
glorious: glorieux, fameux.
hail: grêle, héler, grêler.
hedges: haies.
French
hills: collines.
inexhaustible: inépuisable,
intarissable.
loved: aimé.
mere: pur, seul, simple.
overturned: chavira, chavirée,
chavirâmes, chavirai, chavirées,
renversé.
poet: poète.
poetical: poétique.
quotations: citations.
remarkable: remarquable, saillant,
insigne.
retract: rétracter, te rétractes, se
rétractent, rétractez-vous, nous
rétractons, me rétracte, vous
rétractez.
separations: séparations.
tawny: fauve.
upset: renverser, stupéfait, vexé,
bouleverser, bouleversé.
whereabouts: où.
withered: flétri, fané.
worthy: digne.
78 Persuasion

"Had you?" cried he, catching the same tone; "I honour you!" And there was
silence between them for a little while.%
Anne could not immediately fall into a quotation again. The sweet scenes of
autumn were for a while put by, unless some tender sonnet, fraught with the apt
analogy of the declining year, with declining happiness, and the images of
youth and hope, and spring, all gone together, blessed her memory. She roused
herself to say, as they struck by order into another path, "Is not this one of the
ways to Winthrop?" But nobody heard, or, at least, nobody answered her.
Winthrop, however, or its environs--for young men are, sometimes to be met
with, strolling about near home--was their destination; and after another half
mile of gradual ascent through large enclosures, where the ploughs at work,
and the fresh made path spoke the farmer counteracting the sweets of poetical
despondence, and meaning to have spring again, they gained the summit of the
most considerable hill, which parted Uppercross and Winthrop, and soon
commanded a full view of the latter, at the foot of the hill on the other side.
Winthrop, without beauty and without dignity, was stretched before them an
indifferent house, standing low, and hemmed in by the barns and buildings of a
farm-yard.
Mary exclaimed, "Bless me! here is Winthrop. I declare I had no idea! Well
now, I think we had better turn back; I am excessively tired."
Henrietta, conscious and ashamed, and seeing no cousin Charles walking
along any path, or leaning against any gate, was ready to do as Mary wished;
but "No!" said Charles Musgrove, and "No, no!" cried Louisa more eagerly, and
taking her sister aside, seemed to be arguing the matter warmly.
Charles, in the meanwhile, was very decidedly declaring his resolution of
calling on his aunt, now that he was so near; and very evidently, though more
fearfully, trying to induce his wife to go too. But this was one of the points on
which the lady shewed her strength; and when he recommended the advantage
of resting herself a quarter of an hour at Winthrop, as she felt so tired, she
resolutely answered, "Oh! no, indeed! walking up that hill again would do her

analogy: analogie.
arguing: argumentation, argumentant,
arraisonnant, arguant.
ascent: ascension, montée, ascendance,
phase propulsée, remontée.
catching: attrapant, prenant,
capturant, accroche, frappant.
conscious: conscient.
counteracting: se neutralisant.
declining: déclinant, dépérissant.
destination: destination.
enclosures: enclos.
French
farmer: agriculteur, fermier, paysan,
cultivateur, laboureur, exploitant
agricole, agriculture, agrarien.
fearfully: de manière effrayante, de
façon effrayante.
fraught: chargé, plein.
gained: gagné.
gradual: graduel, progressif.
leaning: penchant.
ploughs: charrues.
quotation: citation, cote, cotation,
devis.
scenes: scènes.
silence: silence, repos.
sonnet: sonnet.
stretched: tendu.
strolling: ambulant, marche de santé.
summit: sommet, cime, faîte, comble,
pointe, bout, haut, summon.
sweets: sucreries.
tender: offre, tendre, adjudication,
doux, tender, annexe, offrir,
présenter, proposition, gentil, suave.
youth: jeunesse, ado, jeunes.
 Jane Austen 79

more harm than any sitting down could do her good;" and, in short, her look and
manner declared, that go she would not.%
After a little succession of these sort of debates and consultations, it was
settled between Charles and his two sisters, that he and Henrietta should just run
down for a few minutes, to see their aunt and cousins, while the rest of the party
waited for them at the top of the hill. Louisa seemed the principal arranger of
the plan; and, as she went a little way with them, down the hill, still talking to
Henrietta, Mary took the opportunity of looking scornfully around her, and
saying to Captain Wentworth--
"It is very unpleasant, having such connexions! But, I assure you, I have
never been in the house above twice in my life."
She received no other answer, than an artificial, assenting smile, followed by
a contemptuous glance, as he turned away, which Anne perfectly knew the
meaning of.
The brow of the hill, where they remained, was a cheerful spot: Louisa
returned; and Mary, finding a comfortable seat for herself on the step of a stile,
was very well satisfied so long as the others all stood about her; but when Louisa
drew Captain Wentworth away, to try for a gleaning of nuts in an adjoining
hedge-row, and they were gone by degrees quite out of sight and sound, Mary
was happy no longer; she quarrelled with her own seat, was sure Louisa had got
a much better somewhere, and nothing could prevent her from going to look for
a better also. She turned through the same gate, but could not see them. Anne
found a nice seat for her, on a dry sunny bank, under the hedge-row, in which
she had no doubt of their still being, in some spot or other. Mary sat down for a
moment, but it would not do; she was sure Louisa had found a better seat
somewhere else, and she would go on till she overtook her.
Anne, really tired herself, was glad to sit down; and she very soon heard
Captain Wentworth and Louisa in the hedge-row, behind her, as if making their
way back along the rough, wild sort of channel, down the centre. They were
speaking as they drew near. Louisa's voice was the first distinguished. She
seemed to be in the middle of some eager speech. What Anne first heard was--
French
adjoining: adjacent, attenant, contigu, distinguèrent, distingua, distinguas, doubla, doublai, doublâmes.
aboutissant. distinguâtes, dégageâtes, dégagea, rough: brut, grossier, cru, rugueux,
arranger: arrangeur. dégagèrent, dégagé. rude, maussade, rustique, râpeux,
artificial: artificiel, affecté, faux, gate: porte, vanne, grille, barrière, rêche.
factice. portillon, portail, gâchette, doigt, scornfully: de manière dédaigneuse,
assenting: assentant. berceau, entrée. de façon dédaigneuse.
brow: sourcil, front. gleaning: glanage, glanant. stile: échalier, montant.
contemptuous: dédaigneux, hill: colline, coteau, butter, terrer. succession: succession.
méprisant. nuts: fou, aberrant, agité, noix. sunny: ensoleillé.
degrees: degrés. overtook: dépassâtes, dépassai, unpleasant: désagréable, déplaisant,
distinguished: distingué, dépassèrent, dépassâmes, dépassa, maussade.
distinguâmes, distinguai, dépassas, doublèrent, doublâtes, wild: sauvage.
80 Persuasion

"And so, I made her go. I could not bear that she should be frightened from
the visit by such nonsense. What! would I be turned back from doing a thing
that I had determined to do, and that I knew to be right, by the airs and
interference of such a person, or of any person I may say? No, I have no idea of
being so easily persuaded. When I have made up my mind, I have made it; and
Henrietta seemed entirely to have made up hers to call at Winthrop to-day; and
yet, she was as near giving it up, out of nonsensical complaisance!"%
"She would have turned back then, but for you?"
"She would indeed. I am almost ashamed to say it."
"Happy for her, to have such a mind as yours at hand! After the hints you
gave just now, which did but confirm my own observations, the last time I was
in company with him, I need not affect to have no comprehension of what is
going on. I see that more than a mere dutiful morning visit to your aunt was in
question; and woe betide him, and her too, when it comes to things of
consequence, when they are placed in circumstances requiring fortitude and
strength of mind, if she have not resolution enough to resist idle interference in
such a trifle as this. Your sister is an amiable creature; but yours is the character
of decision and firmness, I see. If you value her conduct or happiness, infuse as
much of your own spirit into her as you can. But this, no doubt, you have been
always doing. It is the worst evil of too yielding and indecisive a character, that
no influence over it can be depended on. You are never sure of a good
impression being durable; everybody may sway it. Let those who would be
happy be firm. Here is a nut," said he, catching one down from an upper bough.
"to exemplify: a beautiful glossy nut, which, blessed with original strength, has
outlived all the storms of autumn. Not a puncture, not a weak spot anywhere.
This nut," he continued, with playful solemnity, "while so many of his brethren
have fallen and been trodden under foot, is still in possession of all the
happiness that a hazel nut can be supposed capable of." Then returning to his
former earnest tone-- "My first wish for all whom I am interested in, is that they
should be firm. If Louisa Musgrove would be beautiful and happy in her
November of life, she will cherish all her present powers of mind."

bough: branche, rameau.
brethren: frères.
cherish: chérir, chéris, chérissons,
chérissent, chérissez.
comprehension: compréhension.
confirm: confirmer, confirment,
confirmons, confirmez, confirme,
confirmes, ratifier.
durable: durable, résistant.
dutiful: consciencieux, dévoué.
exemplify: exemplifier.
fallen: tombé, déchu, abattu, chu.
French
firmness: fermeté.
glossy: lustré.
hazel: noisetier, coudrier, noisette.
indecisive: indécis, irrésolu.
infuse: infuser, infusons, infuse,
infusent, infuses, infusez, injecter.
nut: écrou, noix, fruit à coque,
coinceur.
playful: espiègle.
puncture: ponction, crevaison, crever,
perforation, piqûre.
requiring: exigeant, requérant,
réclamant.
resist: résister, résiste, résistes,
résistent, résistez, résistons, épargne,
épargnes, enduit protecteur.
returning: renvoyant, retournant.
solemnity: solennité.
sway: vaciller, balancement,
oscillation, osciller, se balancer.
trodden: très fréquentée.
weak: faible, débile, lâche, mou.
woe: hélas, aïe, malheur.
yielding: cédant.
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He had done, and was unanswered. It would have surprised Anne if Louisa
could have readily answered such a speech: words of such interest, spoken with
such serious warmth! She could imagine what Louisa was feeling. For herself,
she feared to move, lest she should be seen. While she remained, a bush of low
rambling holly protected her, and they were moving on. Before they were
beyond her hearing, however, Louisa spoke again.%
"Mary is good-natured enough in many respects," said she; "but she does
sometimes provoke me excessively, by her nonsense and pride--the Elliot pride.
She has a great deal too much of the Elliot pride. We do so wish that Charles had
married Anne instead. I suppose you know he wanted to marry Anne?"
After a moment's pause, Captain Wentworth said--
"Do you mean that she refused him?"
"Oh! yes; certainly."
"When did that happen?"
"I do not exactly know, for Henrietta and I were at school at the time; but I
believe about a year before he married Mary. I wish she had accepted him. We
should all have liked her a great deal better; and papa and mamma always think
it was her great friend Lady Russell's doing, that she did not. They think Charles
might not be learned and bookish enough to please Lady Russell, and that
therefore, she persuaded Anne to refuse him."
The sounds were retreating, and Anne distinguished no more. Her own
emotions still kept her fixed. She had much to recover from, before she could
move. The listener's proverbial fate was not absolutely hers; she had heard no
evil of herself, but she had heard a great deal of very painful import. She saw
how her own character was considered by Captain Wentworth, and there had
been just that degree of feeling and curiosity about her in his manner which must
give her extreme agitation.
As soon as she could, she went after Mary, and having found, and walked
back with her to their former station, by the stile, felt some comfort in their whole

absolutely: absolument, vraiment, en
fait, en vérité, en réalité, sans faute,
sûrement, de manière absolue, de
façon absolue.
bookish: livresque.
bush: buisson, arbuste, arbrisseau,
bague, coussinet, douille, brousse,
taillis.
emotions: émotions.
extreme: extrême.
fate: sort, destinée, fatalité, destin,
destination, fortune.
French
hearing: entendant, audition,
audience, ouïe, audition publique,
oyant.
holly: houx.
import: importation, importer.
learned: apprîtes, appris, apprîmes,
apprirent, apprit, cultivé, savant,
érudit.
lest: de peur que.
protected: protégé, protégeâtes,
protégeas, protégea, protégèrent,
protégeai, protégeâmes, abrité,
préservâtes, préserva, préservai.
provoke: provoquer, provoque,
provoques, provoquons, provoquez,
provoquent, irriter, agacer.
rambling: décousu, randonnée.
refuse: refuser, détritus, déchets,
repousser, rejeter, ordures.
retreating: dépilage en rabattant.
speech: discours, parole, langage,
allocution, élocution.
unanswered: sans réponse.
warmth: chaleur.
82 Persuasion

party being immediately afterwards collected, and once more in motion together.
Her spirits wanted the solitude and silence which only numbers could give.%
Charles and Henrietta returned, bringing, as may be conjectured, Charles
Hayter with them. The minutiae of the business Anne could not attempt to
understand; even Captain Wentworth did not seem admitted to perfect
confidence here; but that there had been a withdrawing on the gentleman's side,
and a relenting on the lady's, and that they were now very glad to be together
again, did not admit a doubt. Henrietta looked a little ashamed, but very well
pleased;-- Charles Hayter exceedingly happy: and they were devoted to each
other almost from the first instant of their all setting forward for Uppercross.
Everything now marked out Louisa for Captain Wentworth; nothing could be
plainer; and where many divisions were necessary, or even where they were not,
they walked side by side nearly as much as the other two. In a long strip of
meadow land, where there was ample space for all, they were thus divided,
forming three distinct parties; and to that party of the three which boasted least
animation, and least complaisance, Anne necessarily belonged. She joined
Charles and Mary, and was tired enough to be very glad of Charles's other arm;
but Charles, though in very good humour with her, was out of temper with his
wife. Mary had shewn herself disobliging to him, and was now to reap the
consequence, which consequence was his dropping her arm almost every
moment to cut off the heads of some nettles in the hedge with his switch; and
when Mary began to complain of it, and lament her being ill-used, according to
custom, in being on the hedge side, while Anne was never incommoded on the
other, he dropped the arms of both to hunt after a weasel which he had a
momentary glance of, and they could hardly get him along at all.
This long meadow bordered a lane, which their footpath, at the end of it was
to cross, and when the party had all reached the gate of exit, the carriage
advancing in the same direction, which had been some time heard, was just
coming up, and proved to be Admiral Croft's gig. He and his wife had taken
their intended drive, and were returning home. Upon hearing how long a walk
the young people had engaged in, they kindly offered a seat to any lady who

according: selon.
advancing: avançant.
ample: ample, large, étendu.
animation: animation.
belonged: appartenu, appartins,
appartint, appartîntes, appartinrent,
appartînmes.
boasted: vanté.
bordered: bordé.
complain: se plaindre, porter plainte,
plaindre.
custom: coutume, habitude, usage.
French
devoted: dévoué, consacré, consacra,
consacrai, consacrâmes, consacras,
consacrâtes, consacrèrent, affectueux,
attaché.
disobliging: désobligeant.
dropping: largage.
exit: sortie, issue, sortir, descendre,
donner, aboutir, instruction de sortie.
footpath: trottoir, sentier.
forming: formation, formage,
profilage, formant.
hedge: haie, couverture, haie vive.
hunt: chasser, chassent, chassons,
chassez, chasses, chasse, poursuivre.
lament: lamentation, lamenter, se
lamenter, complainte.
meadow: pré, prairie, pâturage,
pâture.
nettles: pique, irrite.
reap: moissonner, moissonne,
moissonnent, moissonnes,
moissonnez, moissonnons.
weasel: belette.
withdrawing: retirant.
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might be particularly tired; it would save her a full mile, and they were going
through Uppercross. The invitation was general, and generally declined. The
Miss Musgroves were not at all tired, and Mary was either offended, by not
being asked before any of the others, or what Louisa called the Elliot pride could
not endure to make a third in a one horse chaise.%
The walking party had crossed the lane, and were surmounting an opposite
stile, and the Admiral was putting his horse in motion again, when Captain
Wentworth cleared the hedge in a moment to say something to his sister. The
something might be guessed by its effects.
"Miss Elliot, I am sure you are tired," cried Mrs Croft. "Do let us have the
pleasure of taking you home. Here is excellent room for three, I assure you. If
we were all like you, I believe we might sit four. You must, indeed, you must."
Anne was still in the lane; and though instinctively beginning to decline, she
was not allowed to proceed. The Admiral's kind urgency came in support of his
wife's; they would not be refused; they compressed themselves into the smallest
possible space to leave her a corner, and Captain Wentworth, without saying a
word, turned to her, and quietly obliged her to be assisted into the carriage.
Yes; he had done it. She was in the carriage, and felt that he had placed her
there, that his will and his hands had done it, that she owed it to his perception
of her fatigue, and his resolution to give her rest. She was very much affected by
the view of his disposition towards her, which all these things made apparent.
This little circumstance seemed the completion of all that had gone before. She
understood him. He could not forgive her, but he could not be unfeeling.
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.

careless: négligent, distrait, étourdi,
insouciant.
completion: achèvement.
compounded: aggravé.
compressed: compressé, comprimé.
condemning: condamnant.
contemplate: contempler,
contemplent, contemplez,
contemplons, contemples, contemple.
declined: déclinâmes, déclinés,
déclina, dépéri, décliné, déclinée.
forgive: pardonner, pardonnes,
French
pardonne, pardonnez, pardonnons,
pardonnent, excuser, excusez,
excusent, excuse, excusons.
guessed: deviné.
impulse: impulsion, incitation,
pulsion.
instinctively: instinctivement, de
manière instinctive, de façon
instinctive.
offended: offensai, offensèrent,
offensâtes, offensa, offensas,
offensâmes, offensé, insulté,
insultâtes, insultas, insultâmes.
perception: perception.
prevailed: prévalûtes, prévalûmes,
prévalus, prévalut, prévalurent,
prévalu.
remainder: reste, débris, reliquat.
resentment: ressentiment, rancune,
dépit.
surmounting: surmontant.
unjust: injuste.
urgency: urgence, instances, instance,
vive sollicitation, impulsion.
84 Persuasion

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.
If it were war now, he would have settled it long ago. We sailors, Miss Elliot,
cannot afford to make long courtships in time of war. How many days was it,
my dear, between the first time of my seeing you and our sitting down together
in our lodgings at North Yarmouth?"
"We had better not talk about it, my dear," replied Mrs Croft, pleasantly; "for
if Miss Elliot were to hear how soon we came to an understanding, she would
never be persuaded that we could be happy together. I had known you by
character, however, long before."
"Well, and I had heard of you as a very pretty girl, and what were we to wait
for besides? I do not like having such things so long in hand. I wish Frederick
would spread a little more canvass, and bring us home one of these young ladies
to Kellynch. Then there would always be company for them. And very nice
young ladies they both are; I hardly know one from the other."
"Very good humoured, unaffected girls, indeed," said Mrs Croft, in a tone of
calmer praise, such as made Anne suspect that her keener powers might not
consider either of them as quite worthy of her brother; "and a very respectable
family. One could not be connected with better people. My dear Admiral, that
post! we shall certainly take that post."
But by coolly giving the reins a better direction herself they happily passed
the danger; and by once afterwards judiciously putting out her hand they
neither fell into a rut, nor ran foul of a dung-cart; and Anne, with some
amusement at their style of driving, which she imagined no bad representation
of the general guidance of their affairs, found herself safely deposited by them at
the Cottage.
French
afford: produire, produisons, happily: heureusement, de manière propagation, se propager, tartiner, se
produisent, produis, produisez, heureuse, de façon heureuse. répandre.
permettre. judiciously: de manière judicieuse, de suspect: soupçonner, suspecter,
answers: répond. façon judicieuse. suspect, se méfier.
awake: éveillé, réveillé. lane: voie, ruelle, couloir. travelled: voyagé.
canvass: discuter, cabaler, grosse toile, powers: pouvoirs. unaffected: naturel, simple.
faire de la sollicitation, sollicitation putting: mettant. unconsciously: de manière
porte à porte, cabalez, cabalons, reins: rênes. inconsciente, de façon inconsciente,
cabalent. representation: représentation, figure. inconsciemment.
deposited: déposé. rut: ornière, rut. understanding: comprenant,
direction: direction, sens, orientation. spread: enduire, étaler, étendre, compréhension, abord, relation,
guidance: guidage. dispersion, écart, diffusion, entendement, entente.
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CHAPTER 11

The time now approached for Lady Russell's return: the day was even fixed;
and Anne, being engaged to join her as soon as she was resettled, was looking
forward to an early removal to Kellynch, and beginning to think how her own
comfort was likely to be affected by it.%
It would place her in the same village with Captain Wentworth, within half a
mile of him; they would have to frequent the same church, and there must be
intercourse between the two families. This was against her; but on the other
hand, he spent so much of his time at Uppercross, that in removing thence she
might be considered rather as leaving him behind, than as going towards him;
and, upon the whole, she believed she must, on this interesting question, be the
gainer, almost as certainly as in her change of domestic society, in leaving poor
Mary for Lady Russell.
She wished it might be possible for her to avoid ever seeing Captain
Wentworth at the Hall: those rooms had witnessed former meetings which
would be brought too painfully before her; but she was yet more anxious for the
possibility of Lady Russell and Captain Wentworth never meeting anywhere.
They did not like each other, and no renewal of acquaintance now could do any
good; and were Lady Russell to see them together, she might think that he had
too much self-possession, and she too little.

affected: affecté, affectâtes, affectas,
affecta, affectâmes, affectèrent,
affectai, maniéré, artificiel, ému,
influai.
approached: approché.
avoid: éviter, évites, évite, évitent,
évitons, évitez, parer, esquiver,
s'abstenir de, esquives, esquivons.
beginning: début, commençant,
commencement, débutant,
inauguration.
domestic: domestique, intérieur,
French
aborigène, relatif à la maison,
national.
families: familles.
frequent: fréquent, fréquenter.
gainer: gagnant.
interesting: intéressant, curieux,
singulier.
join: joindre, joignons, joignent,
joignez, joins, unir, relier, reliez,
relions, relies, relient.
painfully: de manière pénible, de
façon pénible, péniblement.
possibility: possibilité.
renewal: renouvellement,
reconduction, renouveau.
spent: dépensé, dépensas, dépensâtes,
dépensâmes, dépensa, dépensai,
dépensèrent, passa, passai, passâmes,
passas.
thence: de là.
village: village, localité.
witnessed: témoignai, témoignées,
témoignèrent, témoignâmes,
témoigné.
86 Persuasion

These points formed her chief solicitude in anticipating her removal from
Uppercross, where she felt she had been stationed quite long enough. Her
usefulness to little Charles would always give some sweetness to the memory of
her two months' visit there, but he was gaining strength apace, and she had
nothing else to stay for.%
The conclusion of her visit, however, was diversified in a way which she had
not at all imagined. Captain Wentworth, after being unseen and unheard of at
Uppercross for two whole days, appeared again among them to justify himself
by a relation of what had kept him away.
A letter from his friend, Captain Harville, having found him out at last, had
brought intelligence of Captain Harville's being settled with his family at Lyme
for the winter; of their being therefore, quite unknowingly, within twenty miles
of each other. Captain Harville had never been in good health since a severe
wound which he received two years before, and Captain Wentworth's anxiety to
see him had determined him to go immediately to Lyme. He had been there for
four-and-twenty hours. His acquittal was complete, his friendship warmly
honoured, a lively interest excited for his friend, and his description of the fine
country about Lyme so feelingly attended to by the party, that an earnest desire
to see Lyme themselves, and a project for going thither was the consequence.
The young people were all wild to see Lyme. Captain Wentworth talked of
going there again himself, it was only seventeen miles from Uppercross; though
November, the weather was by no means bad; and, in short, Louisa, who was the
most eager of the eager, having formed the resolution to go, and besides the
pleasure of doing as she liked, being now armed with the idea of merit in
maintaining her own way, bore down all the wishes of her father and mother for
putting it off till summer; and to Lyme they were to go--Charles, Mary, Anne,
Henrietta, Louisa, and Captain Wentworth.
The first heedless scheme had been to go in the morning and return at night;
but to this Mr Musgrove, for the sake of his horses, would not consent; and when
it came to be rationally considered, a day in the middle of November would not
leave much time for seeing a new place, after deducting seven hours, as the

acquittal: acquittement, décision
absolutoire, accomplissement,
absolution, jugement d'acquittement,
règlement.
anticipating: anticipant.
attended: assisté, soignas, soignâtes,
assista, assistai, assistâmes, assistas,
assistâtes, assistèrent, soigna, soignai.
bore: ennuyer, percer, forer, alésage,
lasser, rencontrer, toucher, vrille,
calibre, fatiguer.
deducting: prélevant.
French
diversified: diversifié, diversifièrent,
diversifia, diversifiâmes, diversifiai,
diversifias, diversifiâtes.
excited: excitas, excitâtes, excité,
excitai, excitèrent, excita, excitâmes,
hérissèrent, hérissé, hérissâtes,
hérissas.
heedless: insouciant.
intelligence: intelligence,
renseignement.
justify: justifier, justifies, justifie,
justifiez, justifions, justifient.
maintaining: maintenant, conservant,
entretenant.
merit: mérite, mériter, gloire.
rationally: rationnellement, de
manière rationnelle, de façon
rationnelle.
relation: relation, abord, rapport.
thither: là.
unheard: non entendu.
unknowingly: de manière
inconsciente, de façon inconsciente.
unseen: inaperçu.
 Jane Austen 87

nature of the country required, for going and returning. They were,
consequently, to stay the night there, and not to be expected back till the next
day's dinner. This was felt to be a considerable amendment; and though they all
met at the Great House at rather an early breakfast hour, and set off very
punctually, it was so much past noon before the two carriages, Mr Musgrove's
coach containing the four ladies, and Charles's curricle, in which he drove
Captain Wentworth, were descending the long hill into Lyme, and entering
upon the still steeper street of the town itself, that it was very evident they would
not have more than time for looking about them, before the light and warmth of
the day were gone.%
After securing accommodations, and ordering a dinner at one of the inns, the
next thing to be done was unquestionably to walk directly down to the sea. They
were come too late in the year for any amusement or variety which Lyme, as a
public place, might offer. The rooms were shut up, the lodgers almost all gone,
scarcely any family but of the residents left; and, as there is nothing to admire in
the buildings themselves, the remarkable situation of the town, the principal
street almost hurrying into the water, the walk to the Cobb, skirting round the
pleasant little bay, which, in the season, is animated with bathing machines and
company; the Cobb itself, its old wonders and new improvements, with the very
beautiful line of cliffs stretching out to the east of the town, are what the
stranger's eye will seek; and a very strange stranger it must be, who does not see
charms in the immediate environs of Lyme, to make him wish to know it better.
The scenes in its neighbourhood, Charmouth, with its high grounds and
extensive sweeps of country, and still more, its sweet, retired bay, backed by
dark cliffs, where fragments of low rock among the sands, make it the happiest
spot for watching the flow of the tide, for sitting in unwearied contemplation; the
woody varieties of the cheerful village of Up Lyme; and, above all, Pinny, with
its green chasms between romantic rocks, where the scattered forest trees and
orchards of luxuriant growth, declare that many a generation must have passed
away since the first partial falling of the cliff prepared the ground for such a
state, where a scene so wonderful and so lovely is exhibited, as may more than

amendment: amendement,
modification, avenant, rectification.
backed: doublage, chemisé, soutenu.
bathing: baignant, baignade.
cliff: falaise.
cliffs: falaises.
descending: descendant.
entering: entrant, introduisant.
environs: abords.
fragments: débris.
hurrying: dépêchant.
improvements: améliorations.
French
luxuriant: exubérant, luxuriant.
noon: midi.
orchards: vergers.
ordering: classement, commander,
commande, assouplissement, ordre,
passation d'ordre, ordination, mise
en séquence, rangement.
partial: partiel.
punctually: ponctuellement, de
manière ponctuelle, de façon
ponctuelle.
romantic: romantique.
sands: sables.
scattered: dispersé, dispersâmes,
dispersèrent, dispersas, dispersai,
dispersa, dispersâtes, répandu,
répandîtes, répandit, répandis.
securing: fixant, arrimage, fixation.
skirting: plinthe.
stranger: étranger, inconnu.
stretching: étirement, étirage.
sweeps: balaye.
tide: marée.
woody: ligneux, boisé.
88 Persuasion

equal any of the resembling scenes of the far-famed Isle of Wight: these places
must be visited, and visited again, to make the worth of Lyme understood.%
The party from Uppercross passing down by the now deserted and
melancholy looking rooms, and still descending, soon found themselves on the
sea-shore; and lingering only, as all must linger and gaze on a first return to the
sea, who ever deserved to look on it at all, proceeded towards the Cobb, equally
their object in itself and on Captain Wentworth's account: for in a small house,
near the foot of an old pier of unknown date, were the Harvilles settled. Captain
Wentworth turned in to call on his friend; the others walked on, and he was to
join them on the Cobb.
They were by no means tired of wondering and admiring; and not even
Louisa seemed to feel that they had parted with Captain Wentworth long, when
they saw him coming after them, with three companions, all well known already,
by description, to be Captain and Mrs Harville, and a Captain Benwick, who
was staying with them.
Captain Benwick had some time ago been first lieutenant of the Laconia; and
the account which Captain Wentworth had given of him, on his return from
Lyme before, his warm praise of him as an excellent young man and an officer,
whom he had always valued highly, which must have stamped him well in the
esteem of every listener, had been followed by a little history of his private life,
which rendered him perfectly interesting in the eyes of all the ladies. He had
been engaged to Captain Harville's sister, and was now mourning her loss. They
had been a year or two waiting for fortune and promotion. Fortune came, his
prize-money as lieutenant being great; promotion, too, came at last; but Fanny
Harville did not live to know it. She had died the preceding summer while he
was at sea. Captain Wentworth believed it impossible for man to be more
attached to woman than poor Benwick had been to Fanny Harville, or to be more
deeply afflicted under the dreadful change. He considered his disposition as of
the sort which must suffer heavily, uniting very strong feelings with quiet,
serious, and retiring manners, and a decided taste for reading, and sedentary
pursuits. To finish the interest of the story, the friendship between him and the

admiring: admirant, admiratif.
deeply: profondément, de façon
profonde, de manière profonde.
description: description, signalement.
equally: de même, également,
pareillement, de manière égale, de
façon égale.
finish: terminer, termines, termine,
terminons, terminez, terminent, finir,
finissent, finis, finissez, finissons.
followed: suivîtes, suivi, suivîmes,
suivit, suivis, suivirent.
French
foot: pied, patte, bordure, le pied.
gaze: regard.
heavily: fortement, de façon lourde,
de manière lourde, lourdement.
highly: de façon haute, de manière
haute, fortement, hautement,
extrêmement.
impossible: impossible.
lieutenant: lieutenant.
linger: traîner, traînes, traînez,
traînent, traîne, traînons, s'attarder.
lingering: traînant, prolongé.
mourning: deuil, regrettant.
passing: passant, dépassement,
écoulement, passage.
pier: jetée, débarcadère, trumeau, pile,
pilier, quai, appontement.
promotion: promotion, avancement,
année.
reading: lecture, lisant.
resembling: ressemblant, rejoignant.
retiring: retirant, sortant.
sedentary: sédentaire.
valued: estimé.
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Harvilles seemed, if possible, augmented by the event which closed all their
views of alliance, and Captain Benwick was now living with them entirely.
Captain Harville had taken his present house for half a year; his taste, and his
health, and his fortune, all directing him to a residence inexpensive, and by the
sea; and the grandeur of the country, and the retirement of Lyme in the winter,
appeared exactly adapted to Captain Benwick's state of mind. The sympathy
and good-will excited towards Captain Benwick was very great.%
"And yet," said Anne to herself, as they now moved forward to meet the
party, "he has not, perhaps, a more sorrowing heart than I have. I cannot believe
his prospects so blighted for ever. He is younger than I am; younger in feeling, if
not in fact; younger as a man. He will rally again, and be happy with another."
They all met, and were introduced. Captain Harville was a tall, dark man,
with a sensible, benevolent countenance; a little lame; and from strong features
and want of health, looking much older than Captain Wentworth. Captain
Benwick looked, and was, the youngest of the three, and, compared with either
of them, a little man. He had a pleasing face and a melancholy air, just as he
ought to have, and drew back from conversation.
Captain Harville, though not equalling Captain Wentworth in manners, was
a perfect gentleman, unaffected, warm, and obliging. Mrs Harville, a degree less
polished than her husband, seemed, however, to have the same good feelings;
and nothing could be more pleasant than their desire of considering the whole
party as friends of their own, because the friends of Captain Wentworth, or more
kindly hospitable than their entreaties for their all promising to dine with them.
The dinner, already ordered at the inn, was at last, though unwillingly, accepted
as a excuse; but they seemed almost hurt that Captain Wentworth should have
brought any such party to Lyme, without considering it as a thing of course that
they should dine with them.
There was so much attachment to Captain Wentworth in all this, and such a
bewitching charm in a degree of hospitality so uncommon, so unlike the usual
style of give-and-take invitations, and dinners of formality and display, that
Anne felt her spirits not likely to be benefited by an increasing acquaintance

adapted: adapté, adaptas, adaptâtes,
adaptai, adaptèrent, adapta,
adaptâmes.
appeared: apparu, apparûtes,
apparurent, apparut, apparus,
apparûmes.
augmented: augmenta, augmentai,
augmentâmes, augmentas,
augmentâtes, augmenté,
augmentèrent, accrus, accrûtes,
accru, accrûmes.
blighted: rouillé.
French
charm: charme, amulette, ravir,
charmer, breloque.
countenance: encourager.
dinners: dîners.
equalling: égalant.
excuse: excuser, dispenser, excuse,
pardonner, excusez.
formality: formalité.
grandeur: noblesse, grandeur.
hurt: blesser.
inexpensive: bon marché, abordable,
peu coûteux.
inn: auberge.
lame: boiteux.
ordered: commandé.
promising: promettant, prometteur.
rally: rallye, rallier.
retirement: retraite, pension, abandon,
repli.
sensible: raisonnable, prudent, sensé.
uncommon: rare.
unlike: à la différence de.
unwillingly: de manière peu disposée,
de façon peu disposée.
90 Persuasion

among his brother-officers. "These would have been all my friends," was her
thought; and she had to struggle against a great tendency to lowness.%
On quitting the Cobb, they all went in-doors with their new friends, and
found rooms so small as none but those who invite from the heart could think
capable of accommodating so many. Anne had a moment's astonishment on the
subject herself; but it was soon lost in the pleasanter feelings which sprang from
the sight of all the ingenious contrivances and nice arrangements of Captain
Harville, to turn the actual space to the best account, to supply the deficiencies
of lodging-house furniture, and defend the windows and doors against the
winter storms to be expected. The varieties in the fitting-up of the rooms, where
the common necessaries provided by the owner, in the common indifferent
plight, were contrasted with some few articles of a rare species of wood,
excellently worked up, and with something curious and valuable from all the
distant countries Captain Harville had visited, were more than amusing to Anne;
connected as it all was with his profession, the fruit of its labours, the effect of its
influence on his habits, the picture of repose and domestic happiness it
presented, made it to her a something more, or less, than gratification.
Captain Harville was no reader; but he had contrived excellent
accommodations, and fashioned very pretty shelves, for a tolerable collection of
well-bound volumes, the property of Captain Benwick. His lameness prevented
him from taking much exercise; but a mind of usefulness and ingenuity seemed
to furnish him with constant employment within. He drew, he varnished, he
carpentered, he glued; he made toys for the children; he fashioned new netting-
needles and pins with improvements; and if everything else was done, sat down
to his large fishing-net at one corner of the room.
Anne thought she left great happiness behind her when they quitted the
house; and Louisa, by whom she found herself walking, burst forth into raptures
of admiration and delight on the character of the navy; their friendliness, their
brotherliness, their openness, their uprightness; protesting that she was
convinced of sailors having more worth and warmth than any other set of men in

accommodating: accommodant,
adaptant.
amusing: amusant, drôle, plaisant.
burst: crever, éclater, salve, rafale,
explosion, choc d'ionisation,
éclatement, bouffée.
contrasted: contrasté.
contrived: inventé, inventas,
inventâmes, inventèrent, inventa,
inventai, inventâtes.
deficiencies: déficiences.
delight: délice, enchanter, ravir,
French
plaisir. lameness: boiterie.
excellently: de façon excellente, de necessaries: articles d'usage.
manière excellente, excellemment. openness: franchise.
fashioned: diminué. pins: bornes.
furnish: fournir, meubler, fournis, plight: situation critique.
fournissons, fournissent, fournissez, protesting: protestant.
meublent, meublez, meublons, quitted: quittés, quittées, quittâmes,
meuble, meubles. quittèrent, quittai.
glued: collé. repose: repos, se reposer, trêve.
gratification: satisfaction. shelves: étagères.
ingenious: ingénieux. toys: jouets.
ingenuity: ingéniosité. varnished: verni.
 Jane Austen 91

England; that they only knew how to live, and they only deserved to be
respected and loved.%
They went back to dress and dine; and so well had the scheme answered
already, that nothing was found amiss; though its being "so entirely out of
season," and the "no thoroughfare of Lyme," and the "no expectation of
company," had brought many apologies from the heads of the inn.
Anne found herself by this time growing so much more hardened to being in
Captain Wentworth's company than she had at first imagined could ever be, that
the sitting down to the same table with him now, and the interchange of the
common civilities attending on it (they never got beyond), was become a mere
nothing.
The nights were too dark for the ladies to meet again till the morrow, but
Captain Harville had promised them a visit in the evening; and he came,
bringing his friend also, which was more than had been expected, it having been
agreed that Captain Benwick had all the appearance of being oppressed by the
presence of so many strangers. He ventured among them again, however,
though his spirits certainly did not seem fit for the mirth of the party in general.
While Captains Wentworth and Harville led the talk on one side of the room,
and by recurring to former days, supplied anecdotes in abundance to occupy
and entertain the others, it fell to Anne's lot to be placed rather apart with
Captain Benwick; and a very good impulse of her nature obliged her to begin an
acquaintance with him. He was shy, and disposed to abstraction; but the
engaging mildness of her countenance, and gentleness of her manners, soon had
their effect; and Anne was well repaid the first trouble of exertion. He was
evidently a young man of considerable taste in reading, though principally in
poetry; and besides the persuasion of having given him at least an evening's
indulgence in the discussion of subjects, which his usual companions had
probably no concern in, she had the hope of being of real use to him in some
suggestions as to the duty and benefit of struggling against affliction, which had
naturally grown out of their conversation. For, though shy, he did not seem
reserved; it had rather the appearance of feelings glad to burst their usual

abstraction: abstraction, distraction,
inattention.
abundance: abondance, richesse,
abondance chiffrée.
apart: particulier, à part,
particulièrement, séparément.
entertain: distraire, divertir, régaler,
distraient, distrais, distrayez,
distrayons, abriter, divertis,
divertissons, divertissez.
expectation: espérance, expectative,
espérance mathématique.
French
interchange: échange, échanger,
échangeur.
mildness: douceur, clémence.
mirth: gaieté.
occupy: occuper, occupes, occupent,
occupez, occupons, occupe.
oppressed: opprimé, opprimâtes,
opprimas, serré, serrâtes, serras,
serrâmes, serrai, opprimèrent,
serrèrent, opprimai.
persuasion: persuasion, croyance.
poetry: poésie.
promised: promîtes, promîmes,
promit, promirent, promis.
recurring: récurrent.
repaid: remboursai, remboursèrent,
remboursâtes, remboursâmes,
remboursa, remboursas, remboursé.
reserved: réservé, réservée.
shy: timide, ombrageux.
struggling: luttant.
supplied: fourni.
thoroughfare: voie de communication.
ventured: osé.
92 Persuasion

restraints; and having talked of poetry, the richness of the present age, and gone
through a brief comparison of opinion as to the first-rate poets, trying to
ascertain whether Marmion or The Lady of the Lake were to be preferred, and
how ranked the Giaour and The Bride of Abydos; and moreover, how the Giaour
was to be pronounced, he showed himself so intimately acquainted with all the
tenderest songs of the one poet, and all the impassioned descriptions of hopeless
agony of the other; he repeated, with such tremulous feeling, the various lines
which imaged a broken heart, or a mind destroyed by wretchedness, and looked
so entirely as if he meant to be understood, that she ventured to hope he did not
always read only poetry, and to say, that she thought it was the misfortune of
poetry to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely; and that
the strong feelings which alone could estimate it truly were the very feelings
which ought to taste it but sparingly.%
His looks shewing him not pained, but pleased with this allusion to his
situation, she was emboldened to go on; and feeling in herself the right of
seniority of mind, she ventured to recommend a larger allowance of prose in his
daily study; and on being requested to particularize, mentioned such works of
our best moralists, such collections of the finest letters, such memoirs of
characters of worth and suffering, as occurred to her at the moment as calculated
to rouse and fortify the mind by the highest precepts, and the strongest
examples of moral and religious endurances.
Captain Benwick listened attentively, and seemed grateful for the interest
implied; and though with a shake of the head, and sighs which declared his little
faith in the efficacy of any books on grief like his, noted down the names of those
she recommended, and promised to procure and read them.
When the evening was over, Anne could not but be amused at the idea of her
coming to Lyme to preach patience and resignation to a young man whom she
had never seen before; nor could she help fearing, on more serious reflection,
that, like many other great moralists and preachers, she had been eloquent on a
point in which her own conduct would ill bear examination.

agony: agonie, angoisse, abois.
allusion: allusion.
attentively: attentivement, de manière
attentive, de façon attentive.
emboldened: enhardit, enhardis,
enhardîtes, enhardîmes, enhardi,
enhardirent.
fearing: craignant.
fortify: fortifier, fortifions, fortifiez,
fortifie, fortifient, fortifies.
impassioned: passionné.
intimately: de manière intime,
French
intimement, de façon intime.
memoirs: mémoires.
particularize: particularise,
particularisent, particularises,
particularisez, particularisons,
particulariser.
poets: poètes.
preach: prêcher, prêches, prêchons,
prêchez, prêchent, prêche.
preachers: prédicateurs.
procure: procurer, procure, procures,
procurons, procurez, procurent, se
procurer.
pronounced: prononças, prononçâtes,
prononçai, prononcèrent,
prononçâmes, prononça, prononcé.
prose: prose.
restraints: bride.
richness: richesse.
rouse: irriter, exciter, stimuler, agacer,
stimules, excitons, stimulez,
stimulent, stimule, irritons, irritez.
seniority: ancienneté.
tremulous: timide, tremblotant.
 Jane Austen 93

CHAPTER %12

Anne and Henrietta, finding themselves the earliest of the party the next
morning, agreed to stroll down to the sea before breakfast. They went to the
sands, to watch the flowing of the tide, which a fine south-easterly breeze was
bringing in with all the grandeur which so flat a shore admitted. They praised
the morning; gloried in the sea; sympathized in the delight of the fresh-feeling
breeze--and were silent; till Henrietta suddenly began again with--
"Oh! yes,--I am quite convinced that, with very few exceptions, the sea-air
always does good. There can be no doubt of its having been of the greatest
service to Dr Shirley, after his illness, last spring twelve-month. He declares
himself, that coming to Lyme for a month, did him more good than all the
medicine he took; and, that being by the sea, always makes him feel young
again. Now, I cannot help thinking it a pity that he does not live entirely by the
sea. I do think he had better leave Uppercross entirely, and fix at Lyme. Do not
you, Anne? Do not you agree with me, that it is the best thing he could do, both
for himself and Mrs Shirley? She has cousins here, you know, and many
acquaintance, which would make it cheerful for her, and I am sure she would be
glad to get to a place where she could have medical attendance at hand, in case
of his having another seizure. Indeed I think it quite melancholy to have such
excellent people as Dr and Mrs Shirley, who have been doing good all their lives,
wearing out their last days in a place like Uppercross, where, excepting our
French
agreed: consentit, consentîtes, flat: plat, appartement, aplati, bémol, capture, confiscation, attaque.
consentirent, consentîmes, consentis, uni, mat. spring: ressort, source, fontaine,
consenti, convenu, ça va, soit. flowing: coulant, écoulement, fluent. sauter, émaner, mouillère, sortir de.
attendance: assistance, service, illness: maladie, infirmité. sympathized: compatîmes, compatis,
présence. lives: vit, habite, loge. compatit, compatîtes, compatirent,
breeze: brise, souffle. medical: médical. compati.
declares: déclare. medicine: médicament, médecine, thinking: pensant, pensée.
entirely: entièrement, complètement, remède. watch: montre, regarder, horloge, être
totalement, tout, de manière entière, month: mois. spectateur de, veille, veiller, pendule,
de façon entière. praised: loué. surveiller, regarder un spectacle,
finding: fondant, trouvant, recherche sea: mer, marin. voir, observer.
d'une ligne appelante. seizure: saisie, prise, apoplexie, wearing: ajustement, usure.
94 Persuasion

family, %they seem shut out from all the world. I wish his friends would propose
it to him. I really think they ought. And, as to procuring a dispensation, there
could be no difficulty at his time of life, and with his character. My only doubt
is, whether anything could persuade him to leave his parish. He is so very strict
and scrupulous in his notions; over-scrupulous I must say. Do not you think,
Anne, it is being over-scrupulous? Do not you think it is quite a mistaken point
of conscience, when a clergyman sacrifices his health for the sake of duties,
which may be just as well performed by another person? And at Lyme too, only
seventeen miles off, he would be near enough to hear, if people thought there
was anything to complain of."
Anne smiled more than once to herself during this speech, and entered into
the subject, as ready to do good by entering into the feelings of a young lady as
of a young man, though here it was good of a lower standard, for what could be
offered but general acquiescence? She said all that was reasonable and proper
on the business; felt the claims of Dr Shirley to repose as she ought; saw how
very desirable it was that he should have some active, respectable young man, as
a resident curate, and was even courteous enough to hint at the advantage of
such resident curate's being married.
"I wish," said Henrietta, very well pleased with her companion, "I wish Lady
Russell lived at Uppercross, and were intimate with Dr Shirley. I have always
heard of Lady Russell as a woman of the greatest influence with everybody! I
always look upon her as able to persuade a person to anything! I am afraid of
her, as I have told you before, quite afraid of her, because she is so very clever;
but I respect her amazingly, and wish we had such a neighbour at Uppercross."
Anne was amused by Henrietta's manner of being grateful, and amused also
that the course of events and the new interests of Henrietta's views should have
placed her friend at all in favour with any of the Musgrove family; she had only
time, however, for a general answer, and a wish that such another woman were
at Uppercross, before all subjects suddenly ceased, on seeing Louisa and Captain
Wentworth coming towards them. They came also for a stroll till breakfast was
likely to be ready; but Louisa recollecting, immediately afterwards that she had

acquiescence: acquiescement,
consentement, abandon.
active: actif, agissant, active, laborieux.
amazingly: de manière stupéfiante, de
façon stupéfiante, étonnamment.
character: caractère, personnage,
signe, nature, témoignage,
tempérament.
clever: habile, adroit, astucieux, malin,
rusé, intelligent, artificieux.
courteous: courtois, poli.
difficulty: difficulté.
French
dispensation: dispense, dérogation, placed: placé.
dispensation. procuring: procurant.
duties: devoirs, responsabilités. proper: convenable, propre, exact,
events: événements. juste, adéquat, approprié.
grateful: reconnaissant. sake: saké.
mistaken: abusif, trompé. scrupulous: scrupuleux.
neighbour: voisin, semblable. smiled: souri.
offered: offert. standard: norme, standard, étendard,
performed: accompli, réalisa, écoperche, étalon, critère, drapeau,
réalisèrent, réalisé, réalisâtes, réalisas, pavillon, courant.
réalisâmes, réalisai, accomplîtes, strict: sévère, austère, strict, rigoureux.
accomplit, accomplis. views: vues.
 Jane Austen 95

something to procure at a shop, invited them all to go back with her into the
town. They were all at her disposal.%
When they came to the steps, leading upwards from the beach, a gentleman,
at the same moment preparing to come down, politely drew back, and stopped
to give them way. They ascended and passed him; and as they passed, Anne's
face caught his eye, and he looked at her with a degree of earnest admiration,
which she could not be insensible of. She was looking remarkably well; her very
regular, very pretty features, having the bloom and freshness of youth restored
by the fine wind which had been blowing on her complexion, and by the
animation of eye which it had also produced. It was evident that the gentleman,
(completely a gentleman in manner) admired her exceedingly. Captain
Wentworth looked round at her instantly in a way which shewed his noticing of
it. He gave her a momentary glance, a glance of brightness, which seemed to
say, "That man is struck with you, and even I, at this moment, see something like
Anne Elliot again."
After attending Louisa through her business, and loitering about a little
longer, they returned to the inn; and Anne, in passing afterwards quickly from
her own chamber to their dining-room, had nearly run against the very same
gentleman, as he came out of an adjoining apartment. She had before conjectured
him to be a stranger like themselves, and determined that a well-looking groom,
who was strolling about near the two inns as they came back, should be his
servant. Both master and man being in mourning assisted the idea. It was now
proved that he belonged to the same inn as themselves; and this second meeting,
short as it was, also proved again by the gentleman's looks, that he thought hers
very lovely, and by the readiness and propriety of his apologies, that he was a
man of exceedingly good manners. He seemed about thirty, and though not
handsome, had an agreeable person. Anne felt that she should like to know who
he was.
They had nearly done breakfast, when the sound of a carriage, (almost the
first they had heard since entering Lyme) drew half the party to the window. It
was a gentleman's carriage, a curricle, but only coming round from the stable-

apartment: appartement.
ascended: monta, montâmes, montai,
montas, montâtes, montèrent, monté.
beach: plage, échouer.
blowing: soufflage, soufflant.
brightness: luminosité, éclat, brillant,
luminance.
caught: attrapé, attrapèrent,
attrapâmes, attrapai, attrapa,
attrapas, attrapâtes, prîmes, prîtes,
prit, pris.
chamber: chambre, salle, pièce, local.
French
determined: déterminé, déterminai,
déterminâmes, déterminèrent,
détermina, déterminas, déterminâtes,
décidé.
freshness: fraîcheur.
groom: palefrenier, valet d'écurie,
panser, marié.
invited: invitâtes, invitas, invitâmes,
invita, invitèrent, invitai, invité.
loitering: flânant.
preparing: préparant, apprêtant.
propriety: bienséance.
proved: prouvas, prouvâtes,
prouvèrent, prouva, prouvai,
prouvâmes.
readiness: disponibilité,
empressement.
restored: restaurai, restaurèrent,
restaurâtes, restaurâmes, restaura,
restauras, restauré, rétablîtes, rétabli,
rétablîmes, rétablirent.
returned: retourné.
stable: écurie, stable, étable, ferme.
upwards: vers le haut.
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yard to the front door; somebody must be going away. It was driven by a
servant in mourning.%
The word curricle made Charles Musgrove jump up that he might compare it
with his own; the servant in mourning roused Anne's curiosity, and the whole
six were collected to look, by the time the owner of the curricle was to be seen
issuing from the door amidst the bows and civilities of the household, and
taking his seat, to drive off.
"Ah!" cried Captain Wentworth, instantly, and with half a glance at Anne, "it
is the very man we passed."
The Miss Musgroves agreed to it; and having all kindly watched him as far
up the hill as they could, they returned to the breakfast table. The waiter came
into the room soon afterwards.
"Pray," said Captain Wentworth, immediately, "can you tell us the name of
the gentleman who is just gone away?"
"Yes, Sir, a Mr Elliot, a gentleman of large fortune, came in last night from
Sidmouth. Dare say you heard the carriage, sir, while you were at dinner; and
going on now for Crewkherne, in his way to Bath and London."
"Elliot!" Many had looked on each other, and many had repeated the name,
before all this had been got through, even by the smart rapidity of a waiter.
"Bless me!" cried Mary; "it must be our cousin; it must be our Mr Elliot, it
must, indeed! Charles, Anne, must not it? In mourning, you see, just as our Mr
Elliot must be. How very extraordinary! In the very same inn with us! Anne,
must not it be our Mr Elliot? my father's next heir? Pray sir," turning to the
waiter, "did not you hear, did not his servant say whether he belonged to the
Kellynch family?"
"No, ma'am, he did not mention no particular family; but he said his master
was a very rich gentleman, and would be a baronight some day."
"There! you see!" cried Mary in an ecstasy, "just as I said! Heir to Sir Walter
Elliot! I was sure that would come out, if it was so. Depend upon it, that is a
circumstance which his servants take care to publish, wherever he goes. But,
French
compare: comparer, comparons, mention: mentionner, citer. seat: siège, banquette, assiette, place,
comparez, comparent, compare, owner: propriétaire, détenteur, selle.
compares, comparaison. possesseur, armateur, titulaire, sir: monsieur.
ecstasy: extase. maître de la chose. smart: rusé, intelligent, astucieux,
front: front, devant, avant, face. publish: publier, éditer, publie, malin, artificieux, dégourdi, habile,
goes: va. publies, publient, publiez, publions, roublard.
household: ménage. édites, éditent, édite, éditons. somebody: quelqu'un, un.
issuing: émission. rapidity: rapidité. sure: sûr, certain, assuré.
jump: saut, sauter, bond, obstacle. repeated: répétâtes, répétas, répétai, waiter: garçon, serveur, garçon de
master: maître, patron, apprendre à répétâmes, répéta, répétèrent, répété, café.
fond, capitaine, maestro, principal, redîmes, redirent, redîtes, redit. wherever: là où, partout où.
maîtriser. rich: riche. word: mot, parole, promesse.
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Anne, only conceive how extraordinary! I wish I had looked at him more. I wish
we had been aware in time, who it was, that he might have been introduced to
us. What a pity that we should not have been introduced to each other! Do you
think he had the Elliot countenance? I hardly looked at him, I was looking at the
horses; but I think he had something of the Elliot countenance, I wonder the
arms did not strike me! Oh! the great-coat was hanging over the panel, and hid
the arms, so it did; otherwise, I am sure, I should have observed them, and the
livery too; if the servant had not been in mourning, one should have known him
by the livery."
"Putting all these very extraordinary circumstances together," said Captain
Wentworth, "we must consider it to be the arrangement of Providence, that you
should not be introduced to your cousin."
When she could command Mary's attention, Anne quietly tried to convince
her that their father and Mr Elliot had not, for many years, been on such terms as
to make the power of attempting an introduction at all desirable.%
At the same time, however, it was a secret gratification to herself to have seen
her cousin, and to know that the future owner of Kellynch was undoubtedly a
gentleman, and had an air of good sense. She would not, upon any account,
mention her having met with him the second time; luckily Mary did not much
attend to their having passed close by him in their earlier walk, but she would
have felt quite ill-used by Anne's having actually run against him in the passage,
and received his very polite excuses, while she had never been near him at all;
no, that cousinly little interview must remain a perfect secret.
"Of course," said Mary, "you will mention our seeing Mr Elliot, the next time
you write to Bath. I think my father certainly ought to hear of it; do mention all
about him."
Anne avoided a direct reply, but it was just the circumstance which she
considered as not merely unnecessary to be communicated, but as what ought to
be suppressed. The offence which had been given her father, many years back,
she knew; Elizabeth's particular share in it she suspected; and that Mr Elliot's
idea always produced irritation in both was beyond a doubt. Mary never wrote
French
arrangement: disposition, commandement, commander, ordre, irritation: irritation.
arrangement, construction, ordonner, enjoindre, sommer, livery: livrée.
classement, agencement, instruction, ordre de commande. luckily: heureusement, de manière
aménagement. hanging: pendaison, suspension, chanceuse, de façon chanceuse.
attempting: essayant. suspendu, pendre, mise à la pente. offence: délit, infraction, offense,
attend: être présent, assister, soigner, hid: cachas, cachâtes, cachèrent, cacha, agacement.
visiter, soignons, assiste, assistes, cachai, cachâmes, masqua, otherwise: sinon, autrement.
assistez, assistons, soigne, soignent. masquèrent, masquâtes, masquas, panel: panneau, lambris, jury, panel,
avoided: évitâtes, évitas, évité, évitai, masquâmes. tableau.
évitâmes, évitèrent, évita, esquiva, horses: chevaux. perfect: parfait, achevé, accompli.
esquivâtes, esquivé, esquivas. interview: entrevue, interview, polite: poli, courtois.
command: commande, entretien, interrogation. unnecessary: inutile.
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to Bath herself; all the toil of keeping up a slow and unsatisfactory

correspondence with Elizabeth fell on Anne.%
Breakfast had not been long over, when they were joined by Captain and
Mrs Harville and Captain Benwick; with whom they had appointed to take their
last walk about Lyme. They ought to be setting off for Uppercross by one, and in
the mean while were to be all together, and out of doors as long as they could.
Anne found Captain Benwick getting near her, as soon as they were all fairly
in the street. Their conversation the preceding evening did not disincline him to
seek her again; and they walked together some time, talking as before of Mr Scott
and Lord Byron, and still as unable as before, and as unable as any other two
readers, to think exactly alike of the merits of either, till something occasioned
an almost general change amongst their party, and instead of Captain Benwick,
she had Captain Harville by her side.
"Miss Elliot," said he, speaking rather low, "you have done a good deed in
making that poor fellow talk so much. I wish he could have such company
oftener. It is bad for him, I know, to be shut up as he is; but what can we do? We
cannot part."
"No," said Anne, "that I can easily believe to be impossible; but in time,
perhaps--we know what time does in every case of affliction, and you must
remember, Captain Harville, that your friend may yet be called a young
mourner--only last summer, I understand."
"Ay, true enough," (with a deep sigh) "only June."
"And not known to him, perhaps, so soon."
"Not till the first week of August, when he came home from the Cape, just
made into the Grappler. I was at Plymouth dreading to hear of him; he sent in
letters, but the Grappler was under orders for Portsmouth. There the news must
follow him, but who was to tell it? not I. I would as soon have been run up to the
yard-arm. Nobody could do it, but that good fellow" (pointing to Captain
Wentworth.) "The Laconia had come into Plymouth the week before; no danger
of her being sent to sea again. He stood his chance for the rest; wrote up for

alike: semblable, pareil.
amongst: parmi.
appointed: nomma, nommèrent,
nommâtes, nommas, nommâmes,
nommai, nommé.
correspondence: correspondance.
deed: acte, action.
deep: profond.
easily: facilement, aisément, de
manière facile, de façon facile.
fairly: assez, relativement,
équitablement, de façon foire, de
French
manière foire.
follow: suivre, suivent, suivons, suis,
suivez, respecter, agir selon.
joined: joignîtes, joignîmes, joignirent,
joignis, joignit, joint, reliâtes, relias,
reliâmes, reliai, relièrent.
keeping: gardant, élevant,
remplissant.
letters: lettres.
merits: mérites, fond.
sent: envoyas, envoyâtes, envoyâmes,
envoyèrent, envoya, envoyai, envoyé,
adressas, adressâtes, adressé,
adressai.
slow: lent, lentement, lourd, ralentir.
summer: été, estival.
unable: incapable.
unsatisfactory: insatisfaisant.
walk: marcher, marches, marchons,
marchent, marchez, promenade,
marche, démarche, se promener.
whom: qui.
wrote: écrivîtes, écrivis, écrivit,
écrivirent, écrivîmes.
 Jane Austen 99

leave of absence, but without waiting the return, travelled night and day till he
got to Portsmouth, rowed off to the Grappler that instant, and never left the poor
fellow for a week. That's what he did, and nobody else could have saved poor
James. You may think, Miss Elliot, whether he is dear to us!"
Anne did think on the question with perfect decision, and said as much in
reply as her own feeling could accomplish, or as his seemed able to bear, for he
was too much affected to renew the subject, and when he spoke again, it was of
something totally different.%
Mrs Harville's giving it as her opinion that her husband would have quite
walking enough by the time he reached home, determined the direction of all the
party in what was to be their last walk; they would accompany them to their
door, and then return and set off themselves. By all their calculations there was
just time for this; but as they drew near the Cobb, there was such a general wish
to walk along it once more, all were so inclined, and Louisa soon grew so
determined, that the difference of a quarter of an hour, it was found, would be
no difference at all; so with all the kind leave-taking, and all the kind interchange
of invitations and promises which may be imagined, they parted from Captain
and Mrs Harville at their own door, and still accompanied by Captain Benwick,
who seemed to cling to them to the last, proceeded to make the proper adieus to
the Cobb.
Anne found Captain Benwick again drawing near her. Lord Byron's "dark
blue seas" could not fail of being brought forward by their present view, and she
gladly gave him all her attention as long as attention was possible. It was soon
drawn, perforce another way.
There was too much wind to make the high part of the new Cobb pleasant for
the ladies, and they agreed to get down the steps to the lower, and all were
contented to pass quietly and carefully down the steep flight, excepting Louisa;
she must be jumped down them by Captain Wentworth. In all their walks, he
had had to jump her from the stiles; the sensation was delightful to her. The
hardness of the pavement for her feet, made him less willing upon the present
occasion; he did it, however. She was safely down, and instantly, to show her

accompany: accompagner,
accompagnes, accompagne,
accompagnons, accompagnez,
accompagnent.
accomplish: accomplir, accomplissons,
accomplissez, accomplissent,
accomplis, réaliser, réalise, réalisons,
réalisez, réalisent, réalises.
cling: cramponner, adhérer, me
cramponne, cramponnez-vous, vous
cramponnez, te cramponnes, se
cramponnent, adhérons, adhère,
French
adhérez, adhères.
contented: content, satisfait.
delightful: délicieux, ravissant,
charmant, superbe.
drawing: dessin, dessinant, puisant,
étirage, tirage, appâtant, traçant.
gladly: volontiers, avec plaisir, de
manière joyeuse, de façon joyeuse.
hardness: crudité, compacité,
difficulté, dureté d'un feuil, degré du
vide.
jumped: sauté.
pavement: trottoir, pavé, chaussée.
perforce: forcément.
promises: promet.
renew: renouveler, renouvellent,
renouvelle, renouvelles, renouvelons,
renouvelez, reconduire, reconduisez,
reconduisent, reconduis,
reconduisons.
steep: raide, escarpé, à pic, abrupt,
tremper, trempent, trempons,
trempes, trempe, trempez.
walks: marche.
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enjoyment, ran up the steps to be jumped down again. He advised her against it,
thought the jar too great; but no, he reasoned and talked in vain, she smiled and
said, "I am determined I will:" he put out his hands; she was too precipitate by
half a second, she fell on the pavement on the Lower Cobb, and was taken up
lifeless! There was no wound, no blood, no visible bruise; but her eyes were
closed, she breathed not, her face was like death. The horror of the moment to
all who stood around!
Captain Wentworth, who had caught her up, knelt with her in his arms,
looking on her with a face as pallid as her own, in an agony of silence. "She is
dead! she is dead!" screamed Mary, catching hold of her husband, and
contributing with his own horror to make him immoveable; and in another
moment, Henrietta, sinking under the conviction, lost her senses too, and would
have fallen on the steps, but for Captain Benwick and Anne, who caught and
supported her between them.%
"Is there no one to help me?" were the first words which burst from Captain
Wentworth, in a tone of despair, and as if all his own strength were gone.
"Go to him, go to him," cried Anne, "for heaven's sake go to him. I can
support her myself. Leave me, and go to him. Rub her hands, rub her temples;
here are salts; take them, take them."
Captain Benwick obeyed, and Charles at the same moment, disengaging
himself from his wife, they were both with him; and Louisa was raised up and
supported more firmly between them, and everything was done that Anne had
prompted, but in vain; while Captain Wentworth, staggering against the wall for
his support, exclaimed in the bitterest agony--
"Oh God! her father and mother!"
"A surgeon!" said Anne.
He caught the word; it seemed to rouse him at once, and saying only-- "True,
true, a surgeon this instant," was darting away, when Anne eagerly suggested--
"Captain Benwick, would not it be better for Captain Benwick? He knows
where a surgeon is to be found."

advised: conseillé.
arms: bras, arme.
blood: sang.
bruise: contusion, meurtrissure,
écrasement, contusionner, coup,
ecchymose, accroc, amorce étoilée,
bleu, blessure, bosse.
closed: fermé, fermèrent, fermai,
ferma, fermâmes, fermas, fermâtes,
clos.
contributing: contribuant.
despair: désespoir, désespérer.
French
disengaging: dégageant.
firmly: fermement, de manière ferme,
de façon ferme.
horror: horreur, dégoût, aversion,
répulsion, abomination, atrocité.
jar: jarre, pot, bocal, coulisse.
knows: connaît, sait.
lifeless: sans vie, inanimé.
obeyed: obéis, obéit, obéîtes, obéirent,
obéi, obéîmes.
pallid: pâle, blême.
precipitate: précipiter, précipité.
raised: levé.
reasoned: raisonné.
rub: frotter, récurer, frottement.
salts: sels.
screamed: crié.
sinking: affaissement, naufrage.
staggering: chancelant, renversant.
strength: force, puissance, résistance
mécanique.
supported: soutenu, appuyé.
surgeon: chirurgien.
visible: visible, apparent, manifeste.
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Every one capable of thinking felt the advantage of the idea, and in a
moment (it was all done in rapid moments) Captain Benwick had resigned the
poor corpse-like figure entirely to the brother's care, and was off for the town
with the utmost rapidity.%
As to the wretched party left behind, it could scarcely be said which of the
three, who were completely rational, was suffering most: Captain Wentworth,
Anne, or Charles, who, really a very affectionate brother, hung over Louisa with
sobs of grief, and could only turn his eyes from one sister, to see the other in a
state as insensible, or to witness the hysterical agitations of his wife, calling on
him for help which he could not give.
Anne, attending with all the strength and zeal, and thought, which instinct
supplied, to Henrietta, still tried, at intervals, to suggest comfort to the others,
tried to quiet Mary, to animate Charles, to assuage the feelings of Captain
Wentworth. Both seemed to look to her for directions.
"Anne, Anne," cried Charles, "What is to be done next? What, in heaven's
name, is to be done next?"
Captain Wentworth's eyes were also turned towards her.
"Had not she better be carried to the inn? Yes, I am sure: carry her gently to
the inn."
"Yes, yes, to the inn," repeated Captain Wentworth, comparatively collected,
and eager to be doing something. "I will carry her myself. Musgrove, take care of
the others."
By this time the report of the accident had spread among the workmen and
boatmen about the Cobb, and many were collected near them, to be useful if
wanted, at any rate, to enjoy the sight of a dead young lady, nay, two dead
young ladies, for it proved twice as fine as the first report. To some of the best-
looking of these good people Henrietta was consigned, for, though partially
revived, she was quite helpless; and in this manner, Anne walking by her side,
and Charles attending to his wife, they set forward, treading back with feelings

accident: accident, sinistre.
animate: animer.
assuage: apaiser.
brother: frère, frangin, confrère, le
frère.
capable: capable, compétent.
comparatively: comparativement, de
manière comparative, de façon
comparative.
consigned: consigné, consignai,
consignâmes, consigna, consignèrent,
consignas, consignâtes.
French
gently: doucement, de manière douce,
de façon douce, gentiment.
helpless: abandonné, impuissant,
délaissé, faible.
hung: pendu.
instinct: instinct.
intervals: intervalles.
partially: en partie, de manière
partielle, de façon partielle,
partiellement.
rapid: rapide, prompt, rapides.
resigned: démissionnas,
démissionnâtes, démissionnai,
démissionna, démissionnèrent,
démissionnâmes, démissionné,
résignas, résignâtes, résignai, résigné.
revived: ranimâtes, ranimas,
ranimâmes, ranima, ranimèrent,
ranimai, ranimé.
suffering: souffrant, subissant,
souffrance.
treading: côchage, piétinage, marcher.
witness: témoin, être présent, assister,
témoigner.
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unutterable, the ground, which so lately, so very lately, and so light of heart,
they had passed along.%
They were not off the Cobb, before the Harvilles met them. Captain Benwick
had been seen flying by their house, with a countenance which showed
something to be wrong; and they had set off immediately, informed and directed
as they passed, towards the spot. Shocked as Captain Harville was, he brought
senses and nerves that could be instantly useful; and a look between him and his
wife decided what was to be done. She must be taken to their house; all must go
to their house; and await the surgeon's arrival there. They would not listen to
scruples: he was obeyed; they were all beneath his roof; and while Louisa,
under Mrs Harville's direction, was conveyed up stairs, and given possession of
her own bed, assistance, cordials, restoratives were supplied by her husband to
all who needed them.
Louisa had once opened her eyes, but soon closed them again, without
apparent consciousness. This had been a proof of life, however, of service to her
sister; and Henrietta, though perfectly incapable of being in the same room with
Louisa, was kept, by the agitation of hope and fear, from a return of her own
insensibility. Mary, too, was growing calmer.
The surgeon was with them almost before it had seemed possible. They were
sick with horror, while he examined; but he was not hopeless. The head had
received a severe contusion, but he had seen greater injuries recovered from: he
was by no means hopeless; he spoke cheerfully.
That he did not regard it as a desperate case, that he did not say a few hours
must end it, was at first felt, beyond the hope of most; and the ecstasy of such a
reprieve, the rejoicing, deep and silent, after a few fervent ejaculations of
gratitude to Heaven had been offered, may be conceived.
The tone, the look, with which "Thank God!" was uttered by Captain
Wentworth, Anne was sure could never be forgotten by her; nor the sight of him
afterwards, as he sat near a table, leaning over it with folded arms and face
concealed, as if overpowered by the various feelings of his soul, and trying by
prayer and reflection to calm them.
French
assistance: assistance, aide. examined: examinas, examinâtes, vainquîmes, vainquirent, vainquis,
await: attendre, attends, attendons, examiné, examinâmes, examina, maîtrisâmes, vainquîtes, maîtrisas,
attendent, attendez. examinèrent, examinai, fouillé, vainquit, domina, maîtrisèrent.
beneath: sous, dessous. fouilla, fouillai, fouillâmes. prayer: prière.
calm: calme, tranquille, calmer, fervent: fervent. recovered: récupéra, récupérèrent,
abattre, paisible, quiet, rassurer, flying: volant. récupérâtes, récupéras, récupérâmes,
repos, accalmie, tranquilliser. folded: plié, plissé, plissée. récupérai, récupéré, recouvras,
conceived: conçus, conçut, conçu, incapable: incapable, inapte, recouvrâtes, recouvra, recouvrèrent.
conçurent, conçûtes, conçûmes. incompétent. rejoicing: réjouissant.
contusion: contusion. injuries: blessures. reprieve: sursis.
desperate: désespéré. insensibility: insensibilité. shocked: choqué.
directed: dirigé. overpowered: maîtrisâtes, vaincu, unutterable: inexprimable.
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Louisa's limbs had escaped. There was no injury but to the head.%
It now became necessary for the party to consider what was best to be done,
as to their general situation. They were now able to speak to each other and
consult. That Louisa must remain where she was, however distressing to her
friends to be involving the Harvilles in such trouble, did not admit a doubt. Her
removal was impossible. The Harvilles silenced all scruples; and, as much as
they could, all gratitude. They had looked forward and arranged everything
before the others began to reflect. Captain Benwick must give up his room to
them, and get another bed elsewhere; and the whole was settled. They were only
concerned that the house could accommodate no more; and yet perhaps, by
"putting the children away in the maid's room, or swinging a cot somewhere,"
they could hardly bear to think of not finding room for two or three besides,
supposing they might wish to stay; though, with regard to any attendance on
Miss Musgrove, there need not be the least uneasiness in leaving her to Mrs
Harville's care entirely. Mrs Harville was a very experienced nurse, and her
nursery-maid, who had lived with her long, and gone about with her
everywhere, was just such another. Between these two, she could want no
possible attendance by day or night. And all this was said with a truth and
sincerity of feeling irresistible.
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 some one's going to Uppercross; the news to be
conveyed; how it could be broken to Mr and Mrs Musgrove; the lateness of the
morning; an hour already gone since they ought to have been off; the
impossibility of being in tolerable time." At first, they were capable of nothing
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 minute
is valuable. Some one must resolve on being off for Uppercross instantly.
Musgrove, either you or I must go."

accommodate: adapter, accommoder,
adapte, adaptent, adaptes, adaptez,
adaptons, accommodent,
accommodez, accommodons,
accommode.
admit: admettre, admettons, admettez,
admets, admettent, avouer,
reconnaître, confesser, laisser entrer,
permettre.
arranged: arrangé, arrangèrent,
arrangeâtes, arrangeas, arrangeai,
arrangeâmes, arrangea, disposé,
French
disposâmes, disposèrent, disposas.
bear: ours, endurer, produire, souffrir,
subir, mettre au monde, baissier,
porter, faire naître, supporter.
consultation: consultation.
cot: lit de camp.
distressing: affligeant, affliger,
vieillissement artificiel, pénible.
escaped: échappé.
exerting: pratiquant.
experienced: expérimenté.
injury: blessure, lésion, préjudice,
dégât.
lateness: retard.
perplexity: perplexité, embarras.
reflect: refléter, reflétons, reflète,
reflètes, reflétez, reflètent, réfléchir,
réfléchissons, réfléchis, réfléchissez,
réfléchissent.
swinging: balancement, pivotant,
oscillation.
terror: terreur, effroi.
valuable: cher, coûteux, de valeur,
précieux, objet de valeur.
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Charles agreed, 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 remain
in Louisa's room, or to look at her, without sufferings which made her worse
than helpless! She was forced to acknowledge that she could do no good, yet was
still unwilling to be away, till, touched by the thought of her father and mother,
she gave it up; she consented, she was anxious to be at home.%
The plan had reached this point, when Anne, coming quietly down from
Louisa's room, could not but hear what followed, for the parlour door was open.
"Then it is settled, Musgrove," cried Captain Wentworth, "that you stay, and
that I take care of your sister home. But as to the rest, as to the others, if one stays
to assist Mrs Harville, I think it need be only one. Mrs Charles Musgrove will, of
course, wish to get back to her children; but if Anne will stay, no one so proper,
so capable as Anne."
She paused a moment to recover from the emotion of hearing herself so
spoken of. The other two warmly agreed with what he said, and she then
appeared.
"You will stay, I am sure; you will stay and nurse her;" cried he, turning to
her and speaking with a glow, and yet a gentleness, which seemed almost
restoring the past. She coloured deeply, and he recollected himself and moved
away. She expressed herself most willing, ready, happy to remain. "It was what
she had been thinking of, and wishing to be allowed to do. A bed on the floor in
Louisa's room would be sufficient for her, if Mrs Harville would but think so."
One thing more, and all seemed arranged. Though it was rather desirable
that Mr and Mrs Musgrove should be previously alarmed by some share of
delay; yet the time required by the Uppercross horses to take them back, would
be a dreadful extension of suspense; and Captain Wentworth proposed, and
Charles Musgrove agreed, that it would be much better for him to take a chaise
from the inn, and leave Mr Musgrove's carriage and horses to be sent home the
French
allowed: permit, permîtes, permirent, prolongation, suffixe, manière précédente, préalablement.
permîmes, permis. agrandissement, allonge, proposed: proposas, proposâtes,
coloured: coloré. allongement, poste supplémentaire, proposèrent, proposa, proposâmes,
consented: consenti. poste. proposai, proposé.
delay: retard, délai, retarder, différer, forced: forcé. reached: parvinrent, parvenue,
ajourner, sursis, suspendre, renvoyer, glow: ardeur, incandescence, brûler, parvenu.
reculer. être en feu, lueur. restoring: restaurant, rétablissant,
expressed: exprimas, exprimâtes, happy: heureux, joyeux, content. restituant.
exprimé, exprimèrent, exprimâmes, moved: ému. stays: reste.
exprimai, exprima. previously: auparavant, sufficient: suffisant.
extension: extension, rallonge, précédemment, autrefois, devant, touched: touché.
prolongement, prorogation, avant, de façon précédente, de willing: volontaire, disposé, prêt.
 Jane Austen 105

next morning early, when there would be the farther advantage of sending an
account of Louisa's night.%
Captain Wentworth now hurried off to get everything ready on his part, and
to be soon followed by the two ladies. When the plan was made known to Mary,
however, there was an end of all peace in it. She was so wretched and so
vehement, complained so much of injustice in being expected to go away
instead of Anne; Anne, who was nothing to Louisa, while she was her sister, and
had the best right to stay in Henrietta's stead! Why was not she to be as useful
as Anne? And to go home without Charles, too, without her husband! No, it was
too unkind. And in short, she said more than her husband could long withstand,
and as none of the others could oppose when he gave way, there was no help for
it; the change of Mary for Anne was inevitable.
Anne had never submitted more reluctantly to the jealous and ill-judging
claims of Mary; but so it must be, and they set off for the town, Charles taking
care of his sister, and Captain Benwick attending to her. She gave a moment's
recollection, as they hurried along, to the little circumstances which the same
spots had witnessed earlier in the morning. There she had listened to Henrietta's
schemes for Dr Shirley's leaving Uppercross; farther on, she had first seen Mr
Elliot; a moment seemed all that could now be given to any one but Louisa, or
those who were wrapt up in her welfare.
Captain Benwick was most considerately attentive to her; and, united as they
all seemed by the distress of the day, she felt an increasing degree of good-will
towards him, and a pleasure even in thinking that it might, perhaps, be the
occasion of continuing their acquaintance.
Captain Wentworth was on the watch for them, and a chaise and four in
waiting, stationed for their convenience in the lowest part of the street; but his
evident surprise and vexation at the substitution of one sister for the other, the
change in his countenance, the astonishment, the expressions begun and
suppressed, with which Charles was listened to, made but a mortifying
reception of Anne; or must at least convince her that she was valued only as she
could be useful to Louisa.

along: le long de.
circumstances: situation.
complained: plaint.
considerately: de manière prévenante,
de façon prévenante.
continuing: continuant, durant.
degree: degré, grade, titre, intitulé,
diplôme, rang.
earlier: plus tôt.
expected: attendu, attendirent,
attendis, attendit, attendîtes,
attendîmes, prévu.
French
increasing: croissant, augmentant, short: court.
augmenter. spots: poivrage.
inevitable: inévitable, inéluctable. stay: séjour, rester, restons, restent,
lowest: le plus bas. restes, restez, reste, étai, hauban,
mortifying: humiliant, mortifiant. demeurer, séjourner.
peace: paix, tranquillité. stead: place.
plan: plan, projet, dessein, projeter, substitution: substitution,
planifier, intention, organiser, remplacement.
propos, esquisser. surprise: surprendre, surprise.
reluctantly: à regret, de manière peu useful: utile.
disposée, à contrecœur, de façon peu vehement: véhément.
disposée. welfare: aide sociale.
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She endeavoured to be composed, and to be just. Without emulating the

feelings of an Emma towards her Henry, she would have attended on Louisa
with a zeal above the common claims of regard, for his sake; and she hoped he
would not long be so unjust as to suppose she would shrink unnecessarily from
the office of a friend.%
In the mean while she was in the carriage. He had handed them both in, and
placed himself between them; and in this manner, under these circumstances,
full of astonishment and emotion to Anne, she quitted Lyme. How the long stage
would pass; how it was to affect their manners; what was to be their sort of
intercourse, she could not foresee. It was all quite natural, however. He was
devoted to Henrietta; always turning towards her; and when he spoke at all,
always with the view of supporting her hopes and raising her spirits. In
general, his voice and manner were studiously calm. To spare Henrietta from
agitation seemed the governing principle. Once only, when she had been
grieving over the last ill-judged, ill-fated walk to the Cobb, bitterly lamenting
that it ever had been thought of, he burst forth, as if wholly overcome--
"Don't talk of it, don't talk of it," he cried. "Oh God! that I had not given way
to her at the fatal moment! Had I done as I ought! But so eager and so resolute!
Dear, sweet Louisa!"
Anne wondered whether it ever occurred to him now, to question the
justness of his own previous opinion as to the universal felicity and advantage of
firmness of character; and whether it might not strike him that, like all other
qualities of the mind, it should have its proportions and limits. She thought it
could scarcely escape him to feel that a persuadable temper might sometimes be
as much in favour of happiness as a very resolute character.
They got on fast. Anne was astonished to recognise the same hills and the
same objects so soon. Their actual speed, heightened by some dread of the
conclusion, made the road appear but half as long as on the day before. It was
growing quite dusk, however, before they were in the neighbourhood of
Uppercross, and there had been total silence among them for some time,
Henrietta leaning back in the corner, with a shawl over her face, giving the hope

affect: affecter, affectes, affecte,
affectons, affectez, affectent,
émouvoir, toucher, influer, influons,
émeus.
astonished: étonné, étonnâmes,
étonnas, étonnâtes, étonnèrent,
étonna, étonnai.
bitterly: amèrement, de manière
amère, de façon amère.
conclusion: conclusion, résultat.
dusk: crépuscule.
emulating: émulant.
French
fatal: fatal, mortel. shawl: châle.
governing: gouvernant, régnant. shrink: rétrécir, se ratatiner, se
hoped: espérai, espérâmes, espéras, racornir.
espérâtes, espérèrent, espéra, espéré, spare: épargner, économiser, être
souhaitai, souhaitèrent, souhaité, indulgent, rechange, pièce de
souhaitâtes. rechange.
hopes: espère, souhaite. supporting: soutènement.
lamenting: lamentant. unnecessarily: de manière inutile, de
limits: limites. façon inutile.
objects: objets. wholly: complètement, entièrement,
raising: élevage. totalement, tout.
recognise: reconnaître. wondered: demandé.
 Jane Austen 107

of her having cried herself to sleep; when, as they were going up their last hill,
Anne found herself all at once addressed by Captain Wentworth. In a low,
cautious voice, he said: --
"I have been considering what we had best do. She must not appear at first.
She could not stand it. I have been thinking whether you had not better remain
in the carriage with her, while I go in and break it to Mr and Mrs Musgrove. Do
you think this is a good plan?"
She did: he was satisfied, and said no more. But the remembrance of the
appeal remained a pleasure to her, as a proof of friendship, and of deference for
her judgement, a great pleasure; and when it became a sort of parting proof, its
value did not lessen.%
When the distressing communication at Uppercross was over, and he had
seen the father and mother quite as composed as could be hoped, and the
daughter all the better for being with them, he announced his intention of
returning in the same carriage to Lyme; and when the horses were baited, he was
off.

addressed: adressé.
announced: annoncé, annonças,
annonçâtes, annoncèrent,
annonçâmes, annonça, annonçai.
appeal: appel, faire appel, recours,
pourvoi, appeler, attrait, charme.
appear: apparaître, apparaissez,
apparaissons, apparaissent, apparais,
sembler, paraître, avoir l'air de,
surgir, comparaître.
break: rompre, briser, pause, casser,
cassure, rupture, violer, interruption,
French
repos, trêve, fracture.
communication: communication,
renseignement.
composed: composé, composa,
composèrent, composâmes,
composai, composâtes, composas,
tranquille, calme.
deference: déférence.
distressing: affligeant, affliger,
vieillissement artificiel, pénible.
intention: intention, dessein, propos.
judgement: jugement, arrêt.
low: bas, dépression, abject, basse,
lâche.
parting: séparation, raie.
remained: restas, restâtes, resté,
restâmes, restèrent, resta, restai.
remembrance: souvenir, mémoire.
sleep: sommeil, dormir, dors,
dormons, dormez, dorment, pioncer.
stand: stand, être debout, échoppe,
kiosque, support, pied, peuplement,
position, socle, surgir, se dresser.
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CHAPTER 13

The%remainder of Anne's time at Uppercross, comprehending only two days,

was spent entirely at the Mansion House; and she had the satisfaction of
knowing herself extremely useful there, both as an immediate companion, and
as assisting in all those arrangements for the future, which, in Mr and Mrs
Musgrove's distressed state of spirits, would have been difficulties.
They had an early account from Lyme the next morning. Louisa was much
the same. No symptoms worse than before had appeared. Charles came a few
hours afterwards, to bring a later and more particular account. He was tolerably
cheerful. A speedy cure must not be hoped, but everything was going on as
well as the nature of the case admitted. In speaking of the Harvilles, he seemed
unable to satisfy his own sense of their kindness, especially of Mrs Harville's
exertions as a nurse. "She really left nothing for Mary to do. He and Mary had
been persuaded to go early to their inn last night. Mary had been hysterical
again this morning. When he came away, she was going to walk out with
Captain Benwick, which, he hoped, would do her good. He almost wished she
had been prevailed on to come home the day before; but the truth was, that Mrs
Harville left nothing for anybody to do."
Charles was to return to Lyme the same afternoon, and his father had at first
half a mind to go with him, but the ladies could not consent. It would be going

admitted: admis, admit, admirent,
admîmes, admîtes.
assisting: assistant, aidant.
cheerful: gai, joyeux.
companion: compagnon, camarade,
compagne, accompagnateur.
comprehending: comprenant.
cure: guérir, guérison, traitement,
cure, assainir, soigner, remédier,
cuisson, durcissement d'un adhésif,
vulcanisation, traiter.
distress: détresse, attrister.
French
distressed: affligé.
hysterical: hystérique.
inn: auberge.
kindness: amabilité, bonté, gentillesse,
aménité.
ladies: dames.
nurse: infirmière, infirmier, soigner,
nourrice, allaiter, veiller sur.
persuaded: persuadas, persuadâtes,
persuadai, persuadâmes, persuada,
persuadèrent, persuadé.
prevailed: prévalûtes, prévalûmes,
prévalus, prévalut, prévalurent,
prévalu.
satisfy: satisfaire, contenter, satisfaites,
satisfont, satisfaisons, satisfais,
contentent, contentons, contentes,
contente, contentez.
speedy: prompt, rapide, prochain.
spirits: spiritueux.
tolerably: de manière tolérable, de
façon tolérable.
wished: désira, souhaité, désirées,
désirâmes, désirée, désirés.
 Jane Austen 109

only to multiply trouble to the others, and increase his own distress; and a much
better scheme followed and was acted upon. A chaise was sent for from
Crewkherne, and Charles conveyed back a far more useful person in the old
nursery-maid of the family, one who having brought up all the children, and
seen the very last, the lingering and long-petted Master Harry, sent to school
after his brothers, was now living in her deserted nursery to mend stockings
and dress all the blains and bruises she could get near her, and who,
consequently, was only too happy in being allowed to go and help nurse dear
Miss Louisa. Vague wishes of getting Sarah thither, had occurred before to Mrs
Musgrove and Henrietta; but without Anne, it would hardly have been resolved
on, and found practicable so soon.%
They were indebted, the next day, to Charles Hayter, for all the minute
knowledge of Louisa, which it was so essential to obtain every twenty-four
hours. He made it his business to go to Lyme, and his account was still
encouraging. The intervals of sense and consciousness were believed to be
stronger. Every report agreed in Captain Wentworth's appearing fixed in Lyme.
Anne was to leave them on the morrow, an event which they all dreaded.
"What should they do without her? They were wretched comforters for one
another." And so much was said in this way, that Anne thought she could not do
better than impart among them the general inclination to which she was privy,
and persuaded them all to go to Lyme at once. She had little difficulty; it was
soon determined that they would go; go to-morrow, fix themselves at the inn, or
get into lodgings, as it suited, and there remain till dear Louisa could be moved.
They must be taking off some trouble from the good people she was with; they
might at least relieve Mrs Harville from the care of her own children; and in
short, they were so happy in the decision, that Anne was delighted with what
she had done, and felt that she could not spend her last morning at Uppercross
better than in assisting their preparations, and sending them off at an early hour,
though her being left to the solitary range of the house was the consequence.
She was the last, excepting the little boys at the cottage, she was the very last,
the only remaining one of all that had filled and animated both houses, of all

boys: garçons.
brothers: frères.
dreaded: redouté.
encouraging: encourageant, incitant,
réconfortant.
essential: essentiel, fondamental.
filled: rempli, fourré.
impart: communiquer, donner.
indebted: endetté, endettâtes,
endettas, endetta, endettâmes,
endettai, endettèrent, redevable.
living: vivant, habitant, logeant, en
French
vie, bénéfice.
mend: rapiécer, réparer,
raccommoder, repriser.
minute: minute.
multiply: multiplier, multiplie,
multiplies, multipliez, multiplient,
multiplions, de manière multiple, de
façon multiple.
obtain: obtenir, obtiennent, obtiens,
obtenons, obtenez, acquérir,
procurer.
preparations: préparatif, préparations.
privy: privé.
relieve: soulager, soulagez, soulages,
soulageons, soulagent, soulage,
relayer.
remaining: restant, qui reste, autre.
resolved: résolu.
solitary: solitaire, seul, pur.
spend: dépenser, dépenses, dépense,
dépensent, dépensez, dépensons,
passer, passent, passes, passez,
passons.
stockings: bas.
110 Persuasion

that%had given Uppercross its cheerful character. A few days had made a
change indeed!
If Louisa recovered, it would all be well again. More than former happiness
would be restored. There could not be a doubt, to her mind there was none, of
what would follow her recovery. A few months hence, and the room now so
deserted, occupied but by her silent, pensive self, might be filled again with all
that was happy and gay, all that was glowing and bright in prosperous love, all
that was most unlike Anne Elliot!
An hour's complete leisure for such reflections as these, on a dark November
day, a small thick rain almost blotting out the very few objects ever to be
discerned from the windows, was enough to make the sound of Lady Russell's
carriage exceedingly welcome; and yet, though desirous to be gone, she could
not quit the Mansion House, or look an adieu to the Cottage, with its black,
dripping and comfortless veranda, or even notice through the misty glasses the
last humble tenements of the village, without a saddened heart. Scenes had
passed in Uppercross which made it precious. It stood the record of many
sensations of pain, once severe, but now softened; and of some instances of
relenting feeling, some breathings of friendship and reconciliation, which could
never be looked for again, and which could never cease to be dear. She left it all
behind her, all but the recollection that such things had been.
Anne had never entered Kellynch since her quitting Lady Russell's house in
September. It had not been necessary, and the few occasions of its being possible
for her to go to the Hall she had contrived to evade and escape from. Her first
return was to resume her place in the modern and elegant apartments of the
Lodge, and to gladden the eyes of its mistress.
There was some anxiety mixed with Lady Russell's joy in meeting her. She
knew who had been frequenting Uppercross. But happily, either Anne was
improved in plumpness and looks, or Lady Russell fancied her so; and Anne, in
receiving her compliments on the occasion, had the amusement of connecting
them with the silent admiration of her cousin, and of hoping that she was to be
blessed with a second spring of youth and beauty.

adieu: adieu.
apartments: appartements.
blotting: transfert, technique de
transfert, tacher.
breathings: esprits.
connecting: connectant, branchant,
abouchant, raccordant, alliant,
nouant.
dripping: égouttement, égoutture.
evade: éviter, évite, évitent, évites,
évitez, évitons, éluder, éludent,
éludons, éludez, éludes.
French
gay: gai, joyeux, homosexuel, enjoué.
gladden: réjouir, réjouissent,
réjouissez, réjouissons, réjouis.
glasses: lunettes.
hoping: espérant, souhaitant.
humble: humble, modeste.
leisure: loisir.
mistress: maîtresse.
misty: brumeux.
mixed: mélangé, mixte, mêlé.
plumpness: turgescence, rondeur.
reconciliation: réconciliation.
reflections: réflexions.
resume: reprendre, reprennent,
reprenons, reprenez, reprends,
recommencer, recommence,
recommencent, recommences,
recommencez, recommençons.
saddened: rabattu, attristâtes,
rabattîmes, rabattirent, rabattis,
rabattîtes, attristas, attristâmes,
rabattit, attristai, attrista.
self: même, soi.
thick: épais, dense, gros.
 Jane Austen 111

When they came to converse, she was soon sensible of some mental change.
The subjects of which her heart had been full on leaving Kellynch, and which she
had felt slighted, and been compelled to smother among the Musgroves, were
now become but of secondary interest. She had lately lost sight even of her
father and sister and Bath. Their concerns had been sunk under those of
Uppercross; and when Lady Russell reverted to their former hopes and fears,
and spoke her satisfaction in the house in Camden Place, which had been taken,
and her regret that Mrs Clay should still be with them, Anne would have been
ashamed to have it known how much more she was thinking of Lyme and
Louisa Musgrove, and all her acquaintance there; how much more interesting to
her was the home and the friendship of the Harvilles and Captain Benwick, than
her own father's house in Camden Place, or her own sister's intimacy with Mrs
Clay. She was actually forced to exert herself to meet Lady Russell with
anything like the appearance of equal solicitude, on topics which had by nature
the first claim on her.%
There was a little awkwardness at first in their discourse on another subject.
They must speak of the accident at Lyme. Lady Russell had not been arrived five
minutes the day before, when a full account of the whole had burst on her; but
still it must be talked of, she must make enquiries, she must regret the
imprudence, lament the result, and Captain Wentworth's name must be
mentioned by both. Anne was conscious of not doing it so well as Lady Russell.
She could not speak the name, and look straight forward to Lady Russell's eye,
till she had adopted the expedient of telling her briefly what she thought of the
attachment between him and Louisa. When this was told, his name distressed
her no longer.
Lady Russell had only to listen composedly, and wish them happy, but
internally her heart revelled in angry pleasure, in pleased contempt, that the
man who at twenty-three had seemed to understand somewhat of the value of an
Anne Elliot, should, eight years afterwards, be charmed by a Louisa Musgrove.
The first three or four days passed most quietly, with no circumstance to
mark them excepting the receipt of a note or two from Lyme, which found their

adopted: adopté, adoptas, adoptâtes,
adoptâmes, adopta, adoptèrent,
adoptai, adoptif.
angry: fâché, en colère, irrité, furieux.
arrived: arrivé, arrivas, arrivâtes,
arrivai, arriva, arrivâmes, arrivèrent,
arrivées.
briefly: brièvement, de façon courte,
de manière courte.
compelled: obligé, obligèrent,
obligeâtes, obligeas, obligeâmes,
obligeai, obligea, astreintes.
French
composedly: de manière composée, de
façon composée.
converse: intervenir, converser.
discourse: discours.
expedient: expédient.
eye: oeil, oeillet, anneau, trou, chas.
forward: en avant, avancer, avant.
heart: coeur, le coeur.
internally: de manière interne, de
façon interne, intérieurement.
mental: mental, intellectuel.
mentioned: mentionné.
receipt: reçu, quittance, réception,
récépissé, acquit, accusé de réception,
ticket de caisse, recette.
regret: regret, regretter, ménager.
secondary: secondaire, accessoire,
auxiliaire.
sight: vue, spectacle, visée, air,
apparence, allure, aspect, apercevoir,
mire.
smother: étouffer.
telling: disant, racontant, enjoignant,
commandant.
112 Persuasion

way%to Anne, she could not tell how, and brought a rather improving account of
Louisa. At the end of that period, Lady Russell's politeness could repose no
longer, and the fainter self-threatenings of the past became in a decided tone, "I
must call on Mrs Croft; I really must call upon her soon. Anne, have you courage
to go with me, and pay a visit in that house? It will be some trial to us both."
Anne did not shrink from it; on the contrary, she truly felt as she said, in
observing--
"I think you are very likely to suffer the most of the two; your feelings are less
reconciled to the change than mine. By remaining in the neighbourhood, I am
become inured to it."
She could have said more on the subject; for she had in fact so high an
opinion of the Crofts, and considered her father so very fortunate in his tenants,
felt the parish to be so sure of a good example, and the poor of the best attention
and relief, that however sorry and ashamed for the necessity of the removal, she
could not but in conscience feel that they were gone who deserved not to stay,
and that Kellynch Hall had passed into better hands than its owners'. These
convictions must unquestionably have their own pain, and severe was its kind;
but they precluded that pain which Lady Russell would suffer in entering the
house again, and returning through the well-known apartments.
In such moments Anne had no power of saying to herself, "These rooms
ought to belong only to us. Oh, how fallen in their destination! How unworthily
occupied! An ancient family to be so driven away! Strangers filling their place!"
No, except when she thought of her mother, and remembered where she had
been used to sit and preside, she had no sigh of that description to heave.
Mrs Croft always met her with a kindness which gave her the pleasure of
fancying herself a favourite, and on the present occasion, receiving her in that
house, there was particular attention.
The sad accident at Lyme was soon the prevailing topic, and on comparing
their latest accounts of the invalid, it appeared that each lady dated her
intelligence from the same hour of yestermorn; that Captain Wentworth had

accounts: comptabilité, comptes.
ancient: antique, ancien.
comparing: comparant.
dated: daté.
except: sauf, excepter, hormis, excepté,
exempter, dispenser, exclure, en
outre, à moins que.
fortunate: heureux, chanceux.
heave: lever, pilonnement, soulever.
improving: améliorant, amendant,
réformant.
latest: dernier.
French
mine: mine, mienne.
precluded: empêché, exclûtes, exclut,
exclus, exclurent, empêchèrent,
empêchâtes, empêchas, empêchâmes,
empêchai, empêcha.
preside: présider, préside, présides,
présidez, présidons, président.
reconciled: réconcilias, réconciliâtes,
réconcilia, réconciliai, réconcilié,
réconcilièrent, réconciliâmes.
relief: soulagement, allégement, relief,
relève, secours.
remembered: retenu, retîntes, retint,
retins, retînmes, rappelâtes, rappelas,
rappelâmes, rappelai, retinrent,
rappela.
severe: sévère, austère, grave, difficile,
dur, rigoureux.
topic: sujet, thème, composition,
actualité, topique.
truly: vraiment, réellement, en vérité,
en fait, en réalité, véritablement.
unworthily: de manière indigne, de
façon indigne.
 Jane Austen 113

been in Kellynch yesterday (the first time since the accident), had brought Anne
the last note, which she had not been able to trace the exact steps of; had staid a
few hours and then returned again to Lyme, and without any present intention
of quitting it any more. He had enquired after her, she found, particularly; had
expressed his hope of Miss Elliot's not being the worse for her exertions, and had
spoken of those exertions as great. This was handsome, and gave her more
pleasure than almost anything else could have done.%
As to the sad catastrophe itself, it could be canvassed only in one style by a
couple of steady, sensible women, whose judgements had to work on
ascertained events; and it was perfectly decided that it had been the consequence
of much thoughtlessness and much imprudence; that its effects were most
alarming, and that it was frightful to think, how long Miss Musgrove's recovery
might yet be doubtful, and how liable she would still remain to suffer from the
concussion hereafter! The Admiral wound it up summarily by exclaiming--
"Ay, a very bad business indeed. A new sort of way this, for a young fellow
to be making love, by breaking his mistress's head, is not it, Miss Elliot? This is
breaking a head and giving a plaster, truly!"
Admiral Croft's manners were not quite of the tone to suit Lady Russell, but
they delighted Anne. His goodness of heart and simplicity of character were
irresistible.
"Now, this must be very bad for you," said he, suddenly rousing from a little
reverie, "to be coming and finding us here. I had not recollected it before, I
declare, but it must be very bad. But now, do not stand upon ceremony. Get up
and go over all the rooms in the house if you like it."
"Another time, Sir, I thank you, not now."
"Well, whenever it suits you. You can slip in from the shrubbery at any time;
and there you will find we keep our umbrellas hanging up by that door. A good
place is not it? But," (checking himself), "you will not think it a good place, for
yours were always kept in the butler's room. Ay, so it always is, I believe. One
man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best. And so

ascertained: constata, constatèrent,
constaté, constatâtes, constatas,
constatai, constatâmes.
breaking: rupture, broyage, fracture,
floculation, brisement.
canvassed: cabalés, cabala, cabalèrent,
cabalâmes, cabalai.
catastrophe: catastrophe, désastre.
concussion: commotion, secousse.
effects: effets.
exact: exact, juste.
frightful: affreux, épouvantable,
French
effroyable.
goodness: bonté.
judgements: jugements.
note: note, noter, billet, nota,
remarque, ticket, mention.
plaster: plâtre, plâtrer, sparadrap,
stuc, revêtir.
recovery: récupération, reprise,
rétablissement, guérison, salut,
recouvrement.
reverie: rêverie.
rousing: excitant, stimulant, irritant.
shrubbery: fruticée, massif d'arbustes.
simplicity: simplicité.
slip: glissement, glisser, barbotine,
fiche, lapsus, combinaison, cale,
bouture, patiner, glissade.
style: style, mode.
suit: costume, complet, convenir,
procès, couleur.
summarily: de manière résumée, de
façon résumée.
thoughtlessness: étourderie.
umbrellas: parapluies.
114 Persuasion

you must judge for yourself, whether it would be better for you to go about the
house or not."
Anne, finding she might decline it, did so, very gratefully.%
"We have made very few changes either," continued the Admiral, after
thinking a moment. "Very few. We told you about the laundry-door, at
Uppercross. That has been a very great improvement. The wonder was, how any
family upon earth could bear with the inconvenience of its opening as it did, so
long! You will tell Sir Walter what we have done, and that Mr Shepherd thinks
it the greatest improvement the house ever had. Indeed, I must do ourselves the
justice to say, that the few alterations we have made have been all very much for
the better. My wife should have the credit of them, however. I have done very
little besides sending away some of the large looking-glasses from my dressing-
room, which was your father's. A very good man, and very much the gentleman
I am sure: but I should think, Miss Elliot," (looking with serious reflection), "I
should think he must be rather a dressy man for his time of life. Such a number
of looking-glasses! oh Lord! there was no getting away from one's self. So I got
Sophy to lend me a hand, and we soon shifted their quarters; and now I am
quite snug, with my little shaving glass in one corner, and another great thing
that I never go near."
Anne, amused in spite of herself, was rather distressed for an answer, and the
Admiral, fearing he might not have been civil enough, took up the subject again,
to say--
"The next time you write to your good father, Miss Elliot, pray give him my
compliments and Mrs Croft's, and say that we are settled here quite to our liking,
and have no fault at all to find with the place. The breakfast-room chimney
smokes a little, I grant you, but it is only when the wind is due north and blows
hard, which may not happen three times a winter. And take it altogether, now
that we have been into most of the houses hereabouts and can judge, there is not
one that we like better than this. Pray say so, with my compliments. He will be
glad to hear it."

alterations: travaux de réparation,
transformations.
blows: coups, souffle.
chimney: cheminée.
civil: civil.
continued: continuèrent, continua,
continuâmes, continué, continuai,
continuas, continuâtes, durèrent,
dura, durai, durâmes.
corner: coin, accaparer, monopoliser,
corner, angle.
decline: déclin, décliner, diminuer,
French
dépérir, baisse, refuser, régression.
dressy: élégant, chic, habillé.
due: dû.
fault: défaut, panne, faute, faille,
erreur.
glass: verre, vitre.
hereabouts: par ici.
inconvenience: dérangement,
inconvénient, gêne.
justice: justice, équité.
lend: prêter, prête, prêtes, prêtez,
prêtent, prêtons, emprunter,
empruntes, empruntez, empruntons,
empruntent.
opening: ouverture, ouvrant, orifice,
début, déclenchement.
quarters: quartiers.
shaving: rasage, copeau, rasant.
smokes: fume.
snug: confortable, douillet, oreille de
châssis, ergot.
thinks: pense.
wind: vent, enrouler, emmailloter,
bobiner.
 Jane Austen 115

Lady Russell and Mrs Croft were very well pleased with each other: but the
acquaintance which this visit began was fated not to proceed far at present; for
when it was returned, the Crofts announced themselves to be going away for a
few weeks, to visit their connexions in the north of the county, and probably
might not be at home again before Lady Russell would be removing to Bath.%
So ended all danger to Anne of meeting Captain Wentworth at Kellynch
Hall, or of seeing him in company with her friend. Everything was safe enough,
and she smiled over the many anxious feelings she had wasted on the subject.

acquaintance: connaissance, relation,
personne de connaissance, abord.
announced: annoncé, annonças,
annonçâtes, annoncèrent,
annonçâmes, annonça, annonçai.
anxious: inquiet, agité, anxieux,
soucieux, impatient.
county: comté.
danger: danger, péril.
ended: terminé.
fated: destiné, fatal.
feelings: sentiments.
French
meeting: réunion, rencontrant, séance,
rencontre, croisement, assemblée,
réunion sportive.
pleased: content, satisfait, plu.
present: cadeau, présent, présenter,
actuel, offrir, don.
proceed: procéder, procèdes, procède,
procèdent, procédez, procédons,
avancer, avancent, avances, avancez,
avançons.
removing: supprimant, ôtant,
enlevant.
safe: sûr, en sûreté, à l'abri, sauf, sans
danger.
seeing: voyant, sciant.
subject: sujet, thème, composition,
objet.
wasted: gaspilla, gaspillèrent,
gaspillâtes, gaspillas, gaspillâmes,
gaspillai, gaspillé, prodiguèrent,
gâché, gâchâtes, gâchas.
weeks: semaines.
116 Persuasion

CHAPTER 14

Though%Charles and Mary had remained at Lyme much longer after Mr and
Mrs Musgrove's going than Anne conceived they could have been at all wanted,
they were yet the first of the family to be at home again; and as soon as possible
after their return to Uppercross they drove over to the Lodge. They had left
Louisa beginning to sit up; but her head, though clear, was exceedingly weak,
and her nerves susceptible to the highest extreme of tenderness; and though she
might be pronounced to be altogether doing very well, it was still impossible to
say when she might be able to bear the removal home; and her father and
mother, who must return in time to receive their younger children for the
Christmas holidays, had hardly a hope of being allowed to bring her with them.
They had been all in lodgings together. Mrs Musgrove had got Mrs
Harville's children away as much as she could, every possible supply from
Uppercross had been furnished, to lighten the inconvenience to the Harvilles,
while the Harvilles had been wanting them to come to dinner every day; and in
short, it seemed to have been only a struggle on each side as to which should be
most disinterested and hospitable.
Mary had had her evils; but upon the whole, as was evident by her staying
so long, she had found more to enjoy than to suffer. Charles Hayter had been at
Lyme oftener than suited her; and when they dined with the Harvilles there had

altogether: tout, tout à fait,
entièrement.
conceived: conçus, conçut, conçu,
conçurent, conçûtes, conçûmes.
dined: dîné.
disinterested: désintéressé.
evident: évident, manifeste.
exceedingly: extrêmement, de manière
excédante, de façon excédante.
extreme: extrême.
furnished: fournîtes, fournis, fournit,
fourni, fournîmes, fournirent,
French
meublas, meublèrent, meublâtes,
meublai, meubla.
holidays: vacances.
hospitable: hospitalier.
inconvenience: dérangement,
inconvénient, gêne.
lighten: alléger, allègent, allégons,
allèges, allégez, éclaircir, allège,
éclaircis, éclaircissent, éclaircissez,
éclaircissons.
nerves: nerfs.
pronounced: prononças, prononçâtes,
prononçai, prononcèrent,
prononçâmes, prononça, prononcé.
removal: enlèvement, déménagement,
dépose, piégeage, renvoi, révocation.
staying: restant.
struggle: lutter, combat, combattre,
lutte, se démener, se débattre,
bataille, batailler, luter.
susceptible: sensible, susceptible.
tenderness: tendresse, tendreté.
wanting: voulant.
weak: faible, débile, lâche, mou.
 Jane Austen 117

been only a maid-servant to wait, and at first Mrs Harville had always given Mrs
Musgrove precedence; but then, she had received so very handsome an apology
from her on finding out whose daughter she was, and there had been so much
going on every day, there had been so many walks between their lodgings and
the Harvilles, and she had got books from the library, and changed them so
often, that the balance had certainly been much in favour of Lyme. She had been
taken to Charmouth too, and she had bathed, and she had gone to church, and
there were a great many more people to look at in the church at Lyme than at
Uppercross; and all this, joined to the sense of being so very useful, had made
really an agreeable fortnight.%
Anne enquired after Captain Benwick, Mary's face was clouded directly.
Charles laughed.
"Oh! Captain Benwick is very well, I believe, but he is a very odd young man.
I do not know what he would be at. We asked him to come home with us for a
day or two: Charles undertook to give him some shooting, and he seemed quite
delighted, and, for my part, I thought it was all settled; when behold! on
Tuesday night, he made a very awkward sort of excuse; `he never shot' and he
had `been quite misunderstood,' and he had promised this and he had promised
that, and the end of it was, I found, that he did not mean to come. I suppose he
was afraid of finding it dull; but upon my word I should have thought we were
lively enough at the Cottage for such a heart-broken man as Captain Benwick."
Charles laughed again and said, "Now Mary, you know very well how it
really was. It was all your doing," (turning to Anne.) "He fancied that if he went
with us, he should find you close by: he fancied everybody to be living in
Uppercross; and when he discovered that Lady Russell lived three miles off, his
heart failed him, and he had not courage to come. That is the fact, upon my
honour, Mary knows it is."
But Mary did not give into it very graciously, whether from not considering
Captain Benwick entitled by birth and situation to be in love with an Elliot, or
from not wanting to believe Anne a greater attraction to Uppercross than herself,
must be left to be guessed. Anne's good-will, however, was not to be lessened by

awkward: maladroit, gênant,
embarrassant.
balance: solde, équilibre, balance,
bilan, équilibrer, balancer, reliquat.
bathed: baignâmes, baigna,
baignèrent, baigné, baignai, baignas,
baignâtes.
behold: voilà, voici, apercevoir, voir.
birth: naissance.
books: livres.
discovered: découvert, découvrîmes,
découvrirent, découvris, découvrit,
French
découvrîtes, dépouillai,
dépouillèrent, dépouillé,
dépouillâtes, dépouillâmes.
dull: terne, mat, obtus, abêtir, bébête,
sot, ennuyeux, monotone.
entitled: habilité.
failed: échoué, failli, manqué, faillies,
faillie, faillirent.
gone: allé, parti, allés.
graciously: de manière gracieuse, de
façon gracieuse.
herself: même, se.
laughed: ries, rit, rirent, rie, ris.
library: bibliothèque.
odd: bizarre, impair, étrange,
singulier, drôle.
shot: tirâtes, tiras, tirèrent, tirâmes,
tira, tirai, tiré, coup, tir, grenaille,
tirées.
situation: situation.
undertook: entrepris, entreprîtes,
entreprirent, entreprîmes, entreprit.
wait: attendre, attendez, attendons,
attends, attendent, attente.
118 Persuasion

what she heard. She boldly acknowledged herself flattered, and continued her
enquiries.%
"Oh! he talks of you," cried Charles, "in such terms--" Mary interrupted him.
"I declare, Charles, I never heard him mention Anne twice all the time I was
there. I declare, Anne, he never talks of you at all."
"No," admitted Charles, "I do not know that he ever does, in a general way;
but however, it is a very clear thing that he admires you exceedingly. His head is
full of some books that he is reading upon your recommendation, and he wants
to talk to you about them; he has found out something or other in one of them
which he thinks--oh! I cannot pretend to remember it, but it was something very
fine--I overheard him telling Henrietta all about it; and then `Miss Elliot' was
spoken of in the highest terms! Now Mary, I declare it was so, I heard it myself,
and you were in the other room. `Elegance, sweetness, beauty.' Oh! there was no
end of Miss Elliot's charms."
"And I am sure," cried Mary, warmly, "it was a very little to his credit, if he
did. Miss Harville only died last June. Such a heart is very little worth having; is
it, Lady Russell? I am sure you will agree with me."
"I must see Captain Benwick before I decide," said Lady Russell, smiling.
"And that you are very likely to do very soon, I can tell you, ma'am," said
Charles. "Though he had not nerves for coming away with us, and setting off
again afterwards to pay a formal visit here, he will make his way over to
Kellynch one day by himself, you may depend on it. I told him the distance and
the road, and I told him of the church's being so very well worth seeing; for as he
has a taste for those sort of things, I thought that would be a good excuse, and he
listened with all his understanding and soul; and I am sure from his manner that
you will have him calling here soon. So, I give you notice, Lady Russell."
"Any acquaintance of Anne's will always be welcome to me," was Lady
Russell's kind answer.
"Oh! as to being Anne's acquaintance," said Mary, "I think he is rather my
acquaintance, for I have been seeing him every day this last fortnight."

admires: admire.
answer: réponse, répondre, répondez,
réplique.
boldly: de manière grasse, de façon
grasse, hardiment.
coming: venant.
died: mort, moururent, mourûmes,
mourut, mourus, mourûtes, décédai,
décédâtes, décédé, décédas,
décédâmes.
formal: formel, officiel.
heard: entendîmes, entendîtes,
French
entendu, entendit, entendirent,
entendis, ouï, ouïs.
mary: Marie.
myself: me.
overheard: surprîtes, surprit,
surprîmes, surprirent, surpris.
pretend: feindre, feins, feignons,
feignent, feignez, prétexter,
prétendre, prétextons, prétexte,
prétextent, prétextes.
remember: se rappeler, se souvenir,
rappeler, retenir, rappelle, retiens,
retiennent, rappelles, retenez,
retenons, rappelons.
talk: parler, parles, parle, parlez,
parlent, parlons, causerie, discuter,
discours, entretien.
terms: conditions, condition, termes.
wants: veut.
welcome: bienvenue, accueil,
accueillir, bienvenu, accueilles,
accueille, accueillent, accueillez,
accueillons, recevoir solennellement.
worth: valeur, mérite.
 Jane Austen 119

"Well, %as your joint acquaintance, then, I shall be very happy to see Captain
Benwick."
"You will not find anything very agreeable in him, I assure you, ma'am. He is
one of the dullest young men that ever lived. He has walked with me,
sometimes, from one end of the sands to the other, without saying a word. He is
not at all a well-bred young man. I am sure you will not like him."
"There we differ, Mary," said Anne. "I think Lady Russell would like him. I
think she would be so much pleased with his mind, that she would very soon see
no deficiency in his manner."
"So do I, Anne," said Charles. "I am sure Lady Russell would like him. He is
just Lady Russell's sort. Give him a book, and he will read all day long."
"Yes, that he will!" exclaimed Mary, tauntingly. "He will sit poring over his
book, and not know when a person speaks to him, or when one drop's one's
scissors, or anything that happens. Do you think Lady Russell would like that?"
Lady Russell could not help laughing. "Upon my word," said she, "I should
not have supposed that my opinion of any one could have admitted of such
difference of conjecture, steady and matter of fact as I may call myself. I have
really a curiosity to see the person who can give occasion to such directly
opposite notions. I wish he may be induced to call here. And when he does,
Mary, you may depend upon hearing my opinion; but I am determined not to
judge him beforehand."
"You will not like him, I will answer for it."
Lady Russell began talking of something else. Mary spoke with animation of
their meeting with, or rather missing, Mr Elliot so extraordinarily.
"He is a man," said Lady Russell, "whom I have no wish to see. His declining
to be on cordial terms with the head of his family, has left a very strong
impression in his disfavour with me."
This decision checked Mary's eagerness, and stopped her short in the midst
of the Elliot countenance.

checked: à carreaux, quadrillé.
conjecture: conjecturer, prévoir, se
douter de, conjecture.
deficiency: déficience, carence,
insuffisance, manque, défaut.
differ: différer, diffèrent, différons,
différez, diffère, diffères, être
différent.
difference: différence, divergence,
différend.
eagerness: avidité.
extraordinarily: extraordinairement,
French
de manière extraordinaire, de façon
extraordinaire.
happens: arrive, advient.
impression: impression, effet,
empreinte, tirage.
joint: articulation, commun, joint,
jointure, raccord, diaclase,
interarmées, charnière, pétard, mors.
lady: dame, madame, demoiselle
noble.
missing: manquant, disparu.
opposite: opposé, en face de,
contraire, contre.
saying: disant, adage, proverbe.
scissors: ciseaux.
stopped: arrêté, arrêtas, arrêtâtes,
arrêtèrent, arrêta, arrêtai, arrêtâmes,
cessâtes, cessas, cessâmes, cessèrent.
supposed: supposâtes, supposas,
supposâmes, supposa, supposèrent,
supposai, supposé, supposés,
prétendu.
tauntingly: de manière sarcastique, de
façon sarcastique.
120 Persuasion

With regard to Captain Wentworth, though Anne hazarded no enquiries,

there was voluntary communication sufficient. His spirits had been greatly
recovering lately as might be expected. As Louisa improved, he had improved,
and he was now quite a different creature from what he had been the first week.
He had not seen Louisa; and was so extremely fearful of any ill consequence to
her from an interview, that he did not press for it at all; and, on the contrary,
seemed to have a plan of going away for a week or ten days, till her head was
stronger. He had talked of going down to Plymouth for a week, and wanted to
persuade Captain Benwick to go with him; but, as Charles maintained to the last,
Captain Benwick seemed much more disposed to ride over to Kellynch.%
There can be no doubt that Lady Russell and Anne were both occasionally
thinking of Captain Benwick, from this time. Lady Russell could not hear the
door-bell without feeling that it might be his herald; nor could Anne return from
any stroll of solitary indulgence in her father's grounds, or any visit of charity in
the village, without wondering whether she might see him or hear of him.
Captain Benwick came not, however. He was either less disposed for it than
Charles had imagined, or he was too shy; and after giving him a week's
indulgence, Lady Russell determined him to be unworthy of the interest which
he had been beginning to excite.
The Musgroves came back to receive their happy boys and girls from school,
bringing with them Mrs Harville's little children, to improve the noise of
Uppercross, and lessen that of Lyme. Henrietta remained with Louisa; but all
the rest of the family were again in their usual quarters.
Lady Russell and Anne paid their compliments to them once, when Anne
could not but feel that Uppercross was already quite alive again. Though neither
Henrietta, nor Louisa, nor Charles Hayter, nor Captain Wentworth were there,
the room presented as strong a contrast as could be wished to the last state she
had seen it in.
Immediately surrounding Mrs Musgrove were the little Harvilles, whom she
was sedulously guarding from the tyranny of the two children from the Cottage,
expressly arrived to amuse them. On one side was a table occupied by some

alive: vivant, en vie.
charity: charité, compassion,
bienfaisance, aumône.
expressly: expressément.
fearful: effrayant, craintif, affreux.
greatly: de façon grande, de manière
grande.
grounds: terrain.
guarding: garde.
herald: Héraut.
lessen: diminuer, diminuez,
diminuons, diminues, diminue,
French
diminuent, amoindrir, amoindrissez,
amoindris, amoindrissent,
amoindrissons.
maintained: maintins, maintîntes,
maintint, maintînmes, maintinrent,
maintenu, conservai, conservèrent,
conservé, conservâtes, conservâmes.
noise: bruit, bruit de fond, tapage,
souffle.
occasionally: occasionnellement, de
temps en temps, de manière
occasionnelle, de façon occasionnelle.
presented: présenté.
recovering: récupérant, recouvrant.
ride: chevaucher, tour, monter à
cheval, aller en véhicule, aller, se
déplacer, monter à bicyclette.
sedulously: de manière assidue, de
façon assidue.
surrounding: entourant, environnant.
tyranny: tyrannie.
usual: habituel, ordinaire, accoutumé,
usuel, général, courant.
voluntary: volontaire, bénévole.
 Jane Austen 121

chattering girls, cutting up silk and gold paper; and on the other were tressels
and trays, bending under the weight of brawn and cold pies, where riotous boys
were holding high revel; the whole completed by a roaring Christmas fire,
which seemed determined to be heard, in spite of all the noise of the others.
Charles and Mary also came in, of course, during their visit, and Mr Musgrove
made a point of paying his respects to Lady Russell, and sat down close to her
for ten minutes, talking with a very raised voice, but from the clamour of the
children on his knees, generally in vain. It was a fine family-piece.%
Anne, judging from her own temperament, would have deemed such a
domestic hurricane a bad restorative of the nerves, which Louisa's illness must
have so greatly shaken. But Mrs Musgrove, who got Anne near her on purpose
to thank her most cordially, again and again, for all her attentions to them,
concluded a short recapitulation of what she had suffered herself by observing,
with a happy glance round the room, that after all she had gone through, nothing
was so likely to do her good as a little quiet cheerfulness at home.
Louisa was now recovering apace. Her mother could even think of her being
able to join their party at home, before her brothers and sisters went to school
again. The Harvilles had promised to come with her and stay at Uppercross,
whenever she returned. Captain Wentworth was gone, for the present, to see his
brother in Shropshire.
"I hope I shall remember, in future," said Lady Russell, as soon as they were
reseated in the carriage, "not to call at Uppercross in the Christmas holidays."
Everybody has their taste in noises as well as in other matters; and sounds are
quite innoxious, or most distressing, by their sort rather than their quantity.
When Lady Russell not long afterwards, was entering Bath on a wet afternoon,
and driving through the long course of streets from the Old Bridge to Camden
Place, amidst the dash of other carriages, the heavy rumble of carts and drays,
the bawling of newspapermen, muffin-men and milkmen, and the ceaseless
clink of pattens, she made no complaint. No, these were noises which belonged
to the winter pleasures; her spirits rose under their influence; and like Mrs

bending: courbure, flexion, cintrage,
pliage.
brawn: fromage de tête, hure.
ceaseless: incessant.
chattering: cliquetis, claquement,
bavarder, broutage.
clamour: clameur.
clink: choquer, crique, tintement,
fissure à chaud, faire tinter, tapure,
tapure à chaud.
completed: complété.
cordially: cordialement, de manière
French
cordiale, de façon cordiale.
cutting: coupe, coupant, découpage,
bouture, découpe, acéré, mordant.
dash: tiret, trait.
gold: or.
holding: entretien, tenue, attente,
maintien.
hurricane: ouragan, nabot.
judging: jugeant, juger, jugement,
taxation.
knees: genoux.
paying: payant.
pies: tartes.
quantity: quantité, grandeur.
recapitulation: récapitulation.
restorative: fortifiant, restaurateur.
revel: se divertir, s'amuser.
riotous: tapageur, séditieux.
roaring: rugissant.
rumble: grondement, ronronnement.
shaken: secoué, ébranlé.
silk: soie, soyeux.
temperament: tempérament.
trays: plateaux.
122 Persuasion

Musgrove, she was feeling, though not saying, that after being long in the
country, nothing could be so good for her as a little quiet cheerfulness.%
Anne did not share these feelings. She persisted in a very determined,
though very silent disinclination for Bath; caught the first dim view of the
extensive buildings, smoking in rain, without any wish of seeing them better; felt
their progress through the streets to be, however disagreeable, yet too rapid; for
who would be glad to see her when she arrived? And looked back, with fond
regret, to the bustles of Uppercross and the seclusion of Kellynch.
Elizabeth's last letter had communicated a piece of news of some interest. Mr
Elliot was in Bath. He had called in Camden Place; had called a second time, a
third; had been pointedly attentive. If Elizabeth and her father did not deceive
themselves, had been taking much pains to seek the acquaintance, and proclaim
the value of the connection, as he had formerly taken pains to shew neglect.
This was very wonderful if it were true; and Lady Russell was in a state of very
agreeable curiosity and perplexity about Mr Elliot, already recanting the
sentiment she had so lately expressed to Mary, of his being "a man whom she
had no wish to see." She had a great wish to see him. If he really sought to
reconcile himself like a dutiful branch, he must be forgiven for having
dismembered himself from the paternal tree.
Anne was not animated to an equal pitch by the circumstance, but she felt
that she would rather see Mr Elliot again than not, which was more than she
could say for many other persons in Bath.
She was put down in Camden Place; and Lady Russell then drove to her own
lodgings, in Rivers Street.

deceive: tromper, trompe, trompent,
trompez, trompes, trompons, tricher,
décevoir, triches, trichent, trichez.
dim: faible, sombre, obscur, brouiller,
rendre confus, rendre trouble.
dismembered: démembré, dépeçai,
démembrâmes, dépecèrent, dépecé,
dépeçâtes, dépeças, dépeçâmes,
démembra, démembrèrent,
démembrâtes.
formerly: autrefois, auparavant,
devant, anciennement, jadis.
French
neglect: négliger, négligence,
dédaigner, coups partis avec
éléments erronés, négligent.
paternal: paternel.
persisted: persistas, persistâtes,
persista, persisté, persistèrent,
persistâmes, persistai.
persons: personnes.
pitch: tangage, hauteur tonale, pas,
tonie, poix, écartement, inclinaison,
espacement, ton, longueur, brai.
pointedly: de manière pointue, de
façon pointue.
proclaim: proclamer, proclames,
proclame, proclamons, proclamez,
proclament.
recanting: désavouant.
seclusion: solitude.
smoking: fumant, fumage, fumer,
tabagisme.
sought: cherchâtes, cherchas,
cherchâmes, cherchèrent, cherché,
cherchai, chercha, raillèrent, raillé,
raillâtes, railla.
 Jane Austen 123

CHAPTER 15

Sir Walter had taken a very good house in Camden Place, a lofty dignified
situation, such as becomes a man of consequence; and both he and Elizabeth
were settled there, much to their satisfaction.%
Anne entered it with a sinking heart, anticipating an imprisonment of many
months, and anxiously saying to herself, "Oh! when shall I leave you again?" A
degree of unexpected cordiality, however, in the welcome she received, did her
good. Her father and sister were glad to see her, for the sake of shewing her the
house and furniture, and met her with kindness. Her making a fourth, when
they sat down to dinner, was noticed as an advantage.
Mrs Clay was very pleasant, and very smiling, but her courtesies and smiles
were more a matter of course. Anne had always felt that she would pretend
what was proper on her arrival, but the complaisance of the others was
unlooked for. They were evidently in excellent spirits, and she was soon to listen
to the causes. They had no inclination to listen to her. After laying out for some
compliments of being deeply regretted in their old neighbourhood, which Anne
could not pay, they had only a few faint enquiries to make, before the talk must
be all their own. Uppercross excited no interest, Kellynch very little: it was all
Bath.

anticipating: anticipant.
becomes: devient.
causes: cause.
complaisance: complaisance.
cordiality: cordialité.
course: cours, plat, route, parcours,
direction, trivial, leçon, piste, met,
course, assise.
dignified: digne.
faint: faible, s'évanouir, défaillir.
few: peu, peu de.
fourth: quatrième, quart, quarte.
French
imprisonment: emprisonnement,
incarcération.
inclination: inclinaison, inclination.
laying: pose, posant, ponte, couchant,
pondant, levée.
leave: partir, partent, partons, pars,
partez, abandonner, laisser,
permission, quitter, congé, délaisser.
lofty: haut, élevé.
matter: matière, substance, affaire, cas,
chose, question.
met: rencontrai, rencontrâmes,
rencontras, rencontrâtes,
rencontrèrent, rencontra, rencontré.
mrs: madame.
noticed: remarqué.
regretted: regretté.
sat: couvé, couvèrent, couvâtes,
couvâmes, couvai, couva, couvas,
assis, s'assit, vous assîtes, nous
assîmes.
sinking: affaissement, naufrage.
unexpected: inattendu, imprévu,
inespéré.
124 Persuasion

They had the pleasure of assuring her that Bath more than answered their
expectations in every respect. Their house was undoubtedly the best in Camden
Place; their drawing-rooms had many decided advantages over all the others
which they had either seen or heard of, and the superiority was not less in the
style of the fitting-up, or the taste of the furniture. Their acquaintance was
exceedingly sought after. Everybody was wanting to visit them. They had
drawn back from many introductions, and still were perpetually having cards
left by people of whom they knew nothing.%
Here were funds of enjoyment. Could Anne wonder that her father and
sister were happy? She might not wonder, but she must sigh that her father
should feel no degradation in his change, should see nothing to regret in the
duties and dignity of the resident landholder, should find so much to be vain of
in the littlenesses of a town; and she must sigh, and smile, and wonder too, as
Elizabeth threw open the folding-doors and walked with exultation from one
drawing-room to the other, boasting of their space; at the possibility of that
woman, who had been mistress of Kellynch Hall, finding extent to be proud of
between two walls, perhaps thirty feet asunder.
But this was not all which they had to make them happy. They had Mr Elliot
too. Anne had a great deal to hear of Mr Elliot. He was not only pardoned, they
were delighted with him. He had been in Bath about a fortnight; (he had passed
through Bath in November, in his way to London, when the intelligence of Sir
Walter's being settled there had of course reached him, though only twenty-four
hours in the place, but he had not been able to avail himself of it;) but he had
now been a fortnight in Bath, and his first object on arriving, had been to leave
his card in Camden Place, following it up by such assiduous endeavours to meet,
and when they did meet, by such great openness of conduct, such readiness to
apologize for the past, such solicitude to be received as a relation again, that their
former good understanding was completely re-established.
They had not a fault to find in him. He had explained away all the
appearance of neglect on his own side. It had originated in misapprehension
entirely. He had never had an idea of throwing himself off; he had feared that

advantages: avantages.
assuring: assurant, garantissant.
avail: avantage, profiter.
boasting: vantardise, fanfaronnade,
taille de pierres, vantant.
card: carte, fiche, carde.
cards: cartes.
completely: complètement,
entièrement, de manière complète, de
façon complète.
conduct: conduire, conduite, guider,
diriger, mener, aboutir, procédé,
French
régler.
drawn: dessiné, puisé, tiré, appâté,
tracé.
expectations: anticipations.
explained: expliquâtes, expliquas,
expliqua, expliquâmes, expliquai,
expliqué, expliquèrent.
extent: étendue, ampleur, domaine.
exultation: exultation.
fortnight: quinzaine.
funds: fonds.
misapprehension: malentendu.
originated: provinrent, provins,
provint, provîntes, provînmes,
Provenu.
perpetually: perpétuellement, de
manière perpétuelle, de façon
perpétuelle.
smile: sourire.
space: espace, espacer.
thirty: trente.
threw: jetâmes, jeta, jetai, jetèrent.
throwing: lancement.
walls: murs.
 Jane Austen 125

he was thrown off, but knew not why, and delicacy had kept him silent. Upon
the hint of having spoken disrespectfully or carelessly of the family and the
family honours, he was quite indignant. He, who had ever boasted of being an
Elliot, and whose feelings, as to connection, were only too strict to suit the
unfeudal tone of the present day. He was astonished, indeed, but his character
and general conduct must refute it. He could refer Sir Walter to all who knew
him; and certainly, the pains he had been taking on this, the first opportunity of
reconciliation, to be restored to the footing of a relation and heir-presumptive,
was a strong proof of his opinions on the subject.%
The circumstances of his marriage, too, were found to admit of much
extenuation. This was an article not to be entered on by himself; but a very
intimate friend of his, a Colonel Wallis, a highly respectable man, perfectly the
gentleman, (and not an ill-looking man, Sir Walter added), who was living in
very good style in Marlborough Buildings, and had, at his own particular
request, been admitted to their acquaintance through Mr Elliot, had mentioned
one or two things relative to the marriage, which made a material difference in
the discredit of it.
Colonel Wallis had known Mr Elliot long, had been well acquainted also with
his wife, had perfectly understood the whole story. She was certainly not a
woman of family, but well educated, accomplished, rich, and excessively in love
with his friend. There had been the charm. She had sought him. Without that
attraction, not all her money would have tempted Elliot, and Sir Walter was,
moreover, assured of her having been a very fine woman. Here was a great deal
to soften the business. A very fine woman with a large fortune, in love with him!
Sir Walter seemed to admit it as complete apology; and though Elizabeth could
not see the circumstance in quite so favourable a light, she allowed it be a great
extenuation.
Mr Elliot had called repeatedly, had dined with them once, evidently
delighted by the distinction of being asked, for they gave no dinners in general;
delighted, in short, by every proof of cousinly notice, and placing his whole
happiness in being on intimate terms in Camden Place.

accomplished: accompli,
accomplîmes, accomplit, accomplîtes,
accomplis, accomplirent, réalisâmes,
réalisâtes, réalisèrent, réalisé, réalisai.
article: article, objet, chose.
assured: assuré, assuras, assurâtes,
assura, assurèrent, assurai,
assurâmes, garantit, garanti,
garantîmes, garantirent.
carelessly: de manière négligente, de
façon négligente, négligemment.
colonel: colonel.
French
distinction: distinction.
extenuation: circonstances
atténuantes, excuse atténuante.
favourable: favorable, propice.
indignant: indigné.
kept: gardâtes, gardas, gardé,
gardèrent, garda, gardâmes, gardai,
élevai, élevèrent, élevé, élevâtes.
marriage: mariage.
moreover: d'ailleurs, en outre, et puis,
en prime, de plus.
opportunity: occasion, opportunité.
placing: classement, plaçant,
chargement, placement, placer,
empilage, encastage, enfournement,
mise en place, mise dans un fichier.
refer: référer, déférer, réfères, réfèrent,
réfère, référez, référons.
refute: réfuter, réfute, réfutes, réfutent,
réfutez, réfutons, rejeter, démentir.
relative: parent, relatif, parente.
request: demande, demander, prier,
requête.
thrown: jeté.
126 Persuasion

Anne%listened, but without quite understanding it. Allowances, large

allowances, she knew, must be made for the ideas of those who spoke. She heard
it all under embellishment. All that sounded extravagant or irrational in the
progress of the reconciliation might have no origin but in the language of the
relators. Still, however, she had the sensation of there being something more
than immediately appeared, in Mr Elliot's wishing, after an interval of so many
years, to be well received by them. In a worldly view, he had nothing to gain by
being on terms with Sir Walter; nothing to risk by a state of variance. In all
probability he was already the richer of the two, and the Kellynch estate would
as surely be his hereafter as the title. A sensible man, and he had looked like a
very sensible man, why should it be an object to him? She could only offer one
solution; it was, perhaps, for Elizabeth's sake. There might really have been a
liking formerly, though convenience and accident had drawn him a different
way; and now that he could afford to please himself, he might mean to pay his
addresses to her. Elizabeth was certainly very handsome, with well-bred,
elegant manners, and her character might never have been penetrated by Mr
Elliot, knowing her but in public, and when very young himself. How her
temper and understanding might bear the investigation of his present keener
time of life was another concern and rather a fearful one. Most earnestly did she
wish that he might not be too nice, or too observant if Elizabeth were his object;
and that Elizabeth was disposed to believe herself so, and that her friend Mrs
Clay was encouraging the idea, seemed apparent by a glance or two between
them, while Mr Elliot's frequent visits were talked of.
Anne mentioned the glimpses she had had of him at Lyme, but without
being much attended to. "Oh! yes, perhaps, it had been Mr Elliot. They did not
know. It might be him, perhaps." They could not listen to her description of
him. They were describing him themselves; Sir Walter especially. He did justice
to his very gentlemanlike appearance, his air of elegance and fashion, his good
shaped face, his sensible eye; but, at the same time, "must lament his being very
much under-hung, a defect which time seemed to have increased; nor could he
pretend to say that ten years had not altered almost every feature for the worse.
Mr Elliot appeared to think that he (Sir Walter) was looking exactly as he had
French
addresses: adresses. gain: gain, gagner, bénéfice, profit, pénétrâmes, pénétrèrent, pénétra,
allowances: allocations. acquisition, avantage, remporter, pénétrai, pénétré.
apparent: évident, apparent. gain de transmission. probability: probabilité.
defect: défaut, anomalie, imperfection, glimpses: entrevoit. shaped: façonné, profilé.
tare, malfaçon. increased: augmenté. solution: solution, dissolution,
describing: décrivant. investigation: enquête, examen, réponse d'un problème.
earnestly: sérieusement, de manière recherche, investigation, sounded: sonna, sonnâmes, sonnés,
sérieuse, de façon sérieuse. reconnaissance, instruction. sonnèrent, sonnées, sonné.
embellishment: embellissement. irrational: irrationnel, irraisonné, surely: certes, sûrement, d'abord, si,
extravagant: extravagant. irraisonnable. de manière sûre, de façon sûre.
feature: trait, caractéristique, fonction, origin: origine, provenance, source. variance: variance, désaccord.
caractéristiques, grand film. penetrated: pénétras, pénétrâtes, worldly: mondain, terrestre.
 Jane Austen 127

done when they last parted;" but Sir Walter had "not been able to return the
compliment entirely, which had embarrassed him. He did not mean to
complain, however. Mr Elliot was better to look at than most men, and he had
no objection to being seen with him anywhere."%
Mr Elliot, and his friends in Marlborough Buildings, were talked of the whole
evening. "Colonel Wallis had been so impatient to be introduced to them! and
Mr Elliot so anxious that he should!" and there was a Mrs Wallis, at present
known only to them by description, as she was in daily expectation of her
confinement; but Mr Elliot spoke of her as "a most charming woman, quite
worthy of being known in Camden Place," and as soon as she recovered they
were to be acquainted. Sir Walter thought much of Mrs Wallis; she was said to be
an excessively pretty woman, beautiful. "He longed to see her. He hoped she
might make some amends for the many very plain faces he was continually
passing in the streets. The worst of Bath was the number of its plain women. He
did not mean to say that there were no pretty women, but the number of the
plain was out of all proportion. He had frequently observed, as he walked, that
one handsome face would be followed by thirty, or five-and-thirty frights; and
once, as he had stood in a shop on Bond Street, he had counted eighty-seven
women go by, one after another, without there being a tolerable face among
them. It had been a frosty morning, to be sure, a sharp frost, which hardly one
woman in a thousand could stand the test of. But still, there certainly were a
dreadful multitude of ugly women in Bath; and as for the men! they were
infinitely worse. Such scarecrows as the streets were full of! It was evident how
little the women were used to the sight of anything tolerable, by the effect which
a man of decent appearance produced. He had never walked anywhere arm-in-
arm with Colonel Wallis (who was a fine military figure, though sandy-haired)
without observing that every woman's eye was upon him; every woman's eye
was sure to be upon Colonel Wallis." Modest Sir Walter! He was not allowed to
escape, however. His daughter and Mrs Clay united in hinting that Colonel
Wallis's companion might have as good a figure as Colonel Wallis, and certainly
was not sandy-haired.

amends: amende.
compliment: compliment.
counted: compté.
daily: quotidien, quotidiennement,
journellement, journalier, tous les
jours, chaque jour.
decent: convenable, décent, honnête.
embarrassed: embarrassé,
embarrassai, embarrassa,
embarrassâmes, embarrassèrent,
embarrassas, embarrassâtes, gêné.
frequently: fréquemment, souvent,
French
beaucoup, de manière fréquente, de
façon fréquente.
frost: gelée, gel, givre, glaciation,
givrer.
frosty: glacial.
hinting: optimisation.
introduced: introduisîtes,
présentèrent, présentâtes, présentas,
présentâmes, présentai, présenta,
introduit, présenté, introduisit,
introduisis.
multitude: multitude, amas, foule, tas,
masse.
produced: produisîmes, produisîtes,
produisirent, produisis, produisit,
produit.
proportion: proportion,
proportionner.
scarecrows: épouvantails.
sharp: aigu, acéré, coupant, tranchant,
perçant, piquant, précisément, dièse,
âcre, à l'heure, justement.
ugly: laid, vilain, moche, mauvais.
worst: pire, le plus mauvais.
128 Persuasion

"How is Mary looking?" said Sir Walter, in the height of his good humour.
"The last time I saw her she had a red nose, but I hope that may not happen
every day."
"Oh! no, that must have been quite accidental. In general she has been in
very good health and very good looks since Michaelmas."
"If I thought it would not tempt her to go out in sharp winds, and grow
coarse, I would send her a new hat and pelisse."
Anne was considering whether she should venture to suggest that a gown, or
a cap, would not be liable to any such misuse, when a knock at the door
suspended everything. "A knock at the door! and so late! It was ten o'clock.
Could it be Mr Elliot? They knew he was to dine in Lansdown Crescent. It was
possible that he might stop in his way home to ask them how they did. They
could think of no one else. Mrs Clay decidedly thought it Mr Elliot's knock." Mrs
Clay was right. With all the state which a butler and foot-boy could give, Mr
Elliot was ushered into the room.%
It was the same, the very same man, with no difference but of dress. Anne
drew a little back, while the others received his compliments, and her sister his
apologies for calling at so unusual an hour, but "he could not be so near without
wishing to know that neither she nor her friend had taken cold the day before,"
&c. &c; which was all as politely done, and as politely taken, as possible, but her
part must follow then. Sir Walter talked of his youngest daughter; "Mr Elliot
must give him leave to present him to his youngest daughter" (there was no
occasion for remembering Mary); and Anne, smiling and blushing, very
becomingly shewed to Mr Elliot the pretty features which he had by no means
forgotten, and instantly saw, with amusement at his little start of surprise, that he
had not been at all aware of who she was. He looked completely astonished, but
not more astonished than pleased; his eyes brightened! and with the most
perfect alacrity he welcomed the relationship, alluded to the past, and entreated
to be received as an acquaintance already. He was quite as good-looking as he
had appeared at Lyme, his countenance improved by speaking, and his manners
were so exactly what they ought to be, so polished, so easy, so particularly

accidental: accidentel.
alacrity: avidité, empressement,
enthousiasme.
becomingly: de manière convenable,
de façon convenable.
brightened: avivâtes, éclairci,
éclaircîtes, éclaircit, éclaircis,
éclaircirent, éclaircîmes, avivé,
avivas, avivâmes, avivai.
butler: maître d'hôtel.
cap: casquette, bonnet, toque, chapeau,
capsule, calotte, coiffe, capuchon,
French
bouchon, culot, couvercle. suspended: suspendîmes, suspendîtes,
easy: facile. suspendit, suspendis, suspendirent,
features: caractéristiques. suspendu.
gown: robe, toge. tempt: tenter, tentes, tentent, tentons,
hat: chapeau. tentez, tente, séduire.
height: hauteur, altitude, taille. unusual: inhabituel, insolite.
knock: frapper, coup, heurter, cogner, venture: risquer, aventurer, oser,
cognement, frappe. entreprise, oser entreprendre,
misuse: abus, emploi abusif, mauvais aventure, hasarder.
emploi. welcomed: accueillîtes, accueillîmes,
nose: nez, bec. accueillis, accueillit, accueilli,
remembering: retenant, rappelant. accueillirent.
 Jane Austen 129

agreeable, that she could compare them in excellence to only one person's
manners. They were not the same, but they were, perhaps, equally good.%
He sat down with them, and improved their conversation very much. There
could be no doubt of his being a sensible man. Ten minutes were enough to
certify that. His tone, his expressions, his choice of subject, his knowing where
to stop; it was all the operation of a sensible, discerning mind. As soon as he
could, he began to talk to her of Lyme, wanting to compare opinions respecting
the place, but especially wanting to speak of the circumstance of their happening
to be guests in the same inn at the same time; to give his own route, understand
something of hers, and regret that he should have lost such an opportunity of
paying his respects to her. She gave him a short account of her party and
business at Lyme. His regret increased as he listened. He had spent his whole
solitary evening in the room adjoining theirs; had heard voices, mirth
continually; thought they must be a most delightful set of people, longed to be
with them, but certainly without the smallest suspicion of his possessing the
shadow of a right to introduce himself. If he had but asked who the party were!
The name of Musgrove would have told him enough. "Well, it would serve to
cure him of an absurd practice of never asking a question at an inn, which he
had adopted, when quite a young man, on the principal of its being very
ungenteel to be curious.
"The notions of a young man of one or two and twenty," said he, "as to what
is necessary in manners to make him quite the thing, are more absurd, I believe,
than those of any other set of beings in the world. The folly of the means they
often employ is only to be equalled by the folly of what they have in view."
But he must not be addressing his reflections to Anne alone: he knew it; he
was soon diffused again among the others, and it was only at intervals that he
could return to Lyme.
His enquiries, however, produced at length an account of the scene she had
been engaged in there, soon after his leaving the place. Having alluded to "an
accident," he must hear the whole. When he questioned, Sir Walter and
Elizabeth began to question also, but the difference in their manner of doing it

addressing: adressage, adresser,
adressant.
asking: demandant.
certify: certifier, certifions, certifie,
certifient, certifiez, certifies.
curious: curieux, intéressant, singulier.
diffused: diffus.
discerning: discerner, judicieux,
décernant, discernant.
employ: employer, embaucher, user
de, se servir de, appliquer, engager.
equalled: égalées, égalai, égalâmes,
French
égalé, égalés, égalèrent.
excellence: excellence.
guests: invités.
happening: arrivant, advenant,
événement, impromptu, survenance.
introduce: introduire, présenter,
présentons, présentez, présentes,
présentent, introduis, présente,
introduisez, introduisent,
introduisons.
length: longueur.
possessing: possédant.
respecting: respectant.
route: itinéraire, route, voie, parcours,
acheminer, voie d'acheminement,
chemin, tracé, acheminement.
scene: scène, lieu.
serve: servir, servons, servent, sers,
servez, desservir, service, être de
service, desservent, desservez,
desservons.
shadow: ombre, prendre en filature.
speak: parler, parles, parlons, parle,
parlez, parlent.
130 Persuasion

could not be unfelt. She could only compare Mr Elliot to Lady Russell, in the
wish of really comprehending what had passed, and in the degree of concern
for what she must have suffered in witnessing it.%
He staid an hour with them. The elegant little clock on the mantel- piece
had struck "eleven with its silver sounds," and the watchman was beginning to
be heard at a distance telling the same tale, before Mr Elliot or any of them
seemed to feel that he had been there long.
Anne could not have supposed it possible that her first evening in Camden
Place could have passed so well!

clock: horloge, pendule, générateur de
rythme.
compare: comparer, comparons,
comparez, comparent, compare,
compares, comparaison.
comprehending: comprenant.
concern: concerner, souci, regarder,
intéresser, soin, être en relation avec,
importance, intérêt, inquiétude,
préoccupation.
degree: degré, grade, titre, intitulé,
diplôme, rang.
French
distance: distance, éloignement.
elegant: élégant.
mantel: plateau de fermeture de puits.
passed: passé.
piece: pièce, morceau, fragment, pan,
part, contingent, partie.
silver: argent, argenté, argenter.
staid: sérieux, sobre.
struck: frappé.
suffered: souffrîmes, souffrîtes,
souffrit, souffris, souffert, souffrirent,
subîtes, subi, subîmes, subirent,
subis.
supposed: supposâtes, supposas,
supposâmes, supposa, supposèrent,
supposai, supposé, supposés,
prétendu.
tale: conte, récit, relation.
telling: disant, racontant, enjoignant,
commandant.
watchman: veilleur, gardien.
witnessing: témoignant.
 Jane Austen 131

CHAPTER 16

There%was one point which Anne, on returning to her family, would have
been more thankful to ascertain even than Mr Elliot's being in love with
Elizabeth, which was, her father's not being in love with Mrs Clay; and she was
very far from easy about it, when she had been at home a few hours. On going
down to breakfast the next morning, she found there had just been a decent
pretence on the lady's side of meaning to leave them. She could imagine Mrs
Clay to have said, that "now Miss Anne was come, she could not suppose herself
at all wanted;" for Elizabeth was replying in a sort of whisper, "That must not be
any reason, indeed. I assure you I feel it none. She is nothing to me, compared
with you;" and she was in full time to hear her father say, "My dear madam, this
must not be. As yet, you have seen nothing of Bath. You have been here only to
be useful. You must not run away from us now. You must stay to be acquainted
with Mrs Wallis, the beautiful Mrs Wallis. To your fine mind, I well know the
sight of beauty is a real gratification."
He spoke and looked so much in earnest, that Anne was not surprised to see
Mrs Clay stealing a glance at Elizabeth and herself. Her countenance, perhaps,
might express some watchfulness; but the praise of the fine mind did not appear
to excite a thought in her sister. The lady could not but yield to such joint
entreaties, and promise to stay.

acquainted: renseignai, informèrent,
renseignâtes, renseigné,
renseignâmes, renseignèrent,
renseigna, informâtes, informas,
informâmes, informai.
ascertain: constater, constate,
constatent, constates, constatez,
constatons, vérifier.
beautiful: beau.
compared: comparèrent, comparâmes,
comparé, comparai, compara,
comparas, comparâtes.
French
countenance: encourager.
earnest: sérieux.
excite: exciter, excites, excite, excitez,
excitons, excitent, irriter, agacer,
hérisser, hérissons, hérisse.
express: exprimer, exprimes, exprime,
exprimons, exprimez, expriment,
exprès, répandre, représenter,
express, expresse.
meaning: signification, sens, intention,
importance, dessein, propos.
pretence: prétexte, simulacre.
stealing: vol.
thankful: reconnaissant.
thin: mince, maigre, fin.
watchfulness: vigilance.
whisper: chuchoter, chuchotement,
murmurer.
yield: rendement, céder, cèdent, cèdes,
cédez, cédons, cède, abandonner,
produire, abdiquer, reculer.
132 Persuasion

In the course of the same morning, Anne and her father chancing to be alone
together, he began to compliment her on her improved looks; he thought her
"less thin in her person, in her cheeks; her skin, her complexion, greatly
improved; clearer, fresher. Had she been using any thing in particular?" "No,
nothing." "Merely Gowland," he supposed. "No, nothing at all." "Ha! he was
surprised at that;" and added, "certainly you cannot do better than to continue as
you are; you cannot be better than well; or I should recommend Gowland, the
constant use of Gowland, during the spring months. Mrs Clay has been using it
at my recommendation, and you see what it has done for her. You see how it has
carried away her freckles."
If Elizabeth could but have heard this! Such personal praise might have
struck her, especially as it did not appear to Anne that the freckles were at all
lessened. But everything must take its chance. The evil of a marriage would be
much diminished, if Elizabeth were also to marry. As for herself, she might
always command a home with Lady Russell.%
Lady Russell's composed mind and polite manners were put to some trial on
this point, in her intercourse in Camden Place. The sight of Mrs Clay in such
favour, and of Anne so overlooked, was a perpetual provocation to her there;
and vexed her as much when she was away, as a person in Bath who drinks the
water, gets all the new publications, and has a very large acquaintance, has time
to be vexed.
As Mr Elliot became known to her, she grew more charitable, or more
indifferent, towards the others. His manners were an immediate
recommendation; and on conversing with him she found the solid so fully
supporting the superficial, that she was at first, as she told Anne, almost ready
to exclaim, "Can this be Mr Elliot?" and could not seriously picture to herself a
more agreeable or estimable man. Everything united in him; good
understanding, correct opinions, knowledge of the world, and a warm heart. He
had strong feelings of family attachment and family honour, without pride or
weakness; he lived with the liberality of a man of fortune, without display; he
judged for himself in everything essential, without defying public opinion in

carried: portâtes, portas, porté, porta,
portèrent, portâmes, portai,
transportèrent, transportâmes,
transportas, transporté.
clearer: purgeur, nettoyeur.
conversing: conversant.
correct: corriger, rectifier, correct,
juste, exact, redresser.
defying: défiant, provoquant.
diminished: diminué, diminuai,
diminua, diminuèrent, diminuâmes,
diminuâtes, diminuas.
French
display: affichage, parader, afficher,
étalage, étaler, visualisation, pompe,
exposition, afficheur.
drinks: boit.
estimable: estimable.
exclaim: exclamer, exclames, exclame,
exclamez, exclamons, exclament,
s'exclamer.
fully: entièrement, complètement, de
façon pleine, de manière pleine,
pleinement.
gets: obtient.
grew: crûmes, crût, crûtes, grandîtes,
grandit, grandis, grandîmes, crûs,
grandirent, crûrent.
judged: jugé.
overlooked: négligé.
picture: image, figure, tableau, photo.
provocation: provocation.
skin: peau, dépouiller, pelage,
fourrure, poil d'animal, revêtement,
éplucher, écorcher.
solid: solide, massif.
superficial: superficiel.
 Jane Austen 133

any point of worldly decorum. He was steady, observant, moderate, candid;

never run away with by spirits or by selfishness, which fancied itself strong
feeling; and yet, with a sensibility to what was amiable and lovely, and a value
for all the felicities of domestic life, which characters of fancied enthusiasm and
violent agitation seldom really possess. She was sure that he had not been happy
in marriage. Colonel Wallis said it, and Lady Russell saw it; but it had been no
unhappiness to sour his mind, nor (she began pretty soon to suspect) to prevent
his thinking of a second choice. Her satisfaction in Mr Elliot outweighed all the
plague of Mrs Clay.%
It was now some years since Anne had begun to learn that she and her
excellent friend could sometimes think differently; and it did not surprise her,
therefore, that Lady Russell should see nothing suspicious or inconsistent,
nothing to require more motives than appeared, in Mr Elliot's great desire of a
reconciliation. In Lady Russell's view, it was perfectly natural that Mr Elliot, at a
mature time of life, should feel it a most desirable object, and what would very
generally recommend him among all sensible people, to be on good terms with
the head of his family; the simplest process in the world of time upon a head
naturally clear, and only erring in the heyday of youth. Anne presumed,
however, still to smile about it, and at last to mention "Elizabeth." Lady Russell
listened, and looked, and made only this cautious reply:--"Elizabeth! very well;
time will explain."
It was a reference to the future, which Anne, after a little observation, felt she
must submit to. She could determine nothing at present. In that house Elizabeth
must be first; and she was in the habit of such general observance as "Miss
Elliot," that any particularity of attention seemed almost impossible. Mr Elliot,
too, it must be remembered, had not been a widower seven months. A little
delay on his side might be very excusable. In fact, Anne could never see the
crape round his hat, without fearing that she was the inexcusable one, in
attributing to him such imaginations; for though his marriage had not been very
happy, still it had existed so many years that she could not comprehend a very
rapid recovery from the awful impression of its being dissolved.

attributing: attribuant.
candid: franc.
characters: caractères.
crape: crêpe.
dissolved: dissous.
erring: errant.
excusable: pardonnable.
existed: existâtes, existas, existai,
existâmes, existé, exista, existèrent.
heyday: apogée.
inconsistent: inconsistant,
inconséquent, incompatible, en
French
contradiction.
inexcusable: impardonnable.
mature: mûr, adulte, fait, mûrir, faites,
mûrissons, mûrissez, mûrissent, font,
faisons, fais.
moderate: modéré, raisonnable,
ralentir, abordable, modérer, retenir.
observance: observation.
outweighed: compensas, dépassé,
dépassâtes, dépassas, dépassâmes,
dépassai, dépassa, compensèrent,
compensâtes, dépassèrent,
compensâmes.
particularity: particularité.
plague: peste, fléau.
possess: posséder, possède, possèdes,
possédons, possèdent, possédez.
selfishness: égoïsme.
sensibility: sensibilité.
sour: aigre, acide, acerbe, s'aigrir,
maussade, s'acidifier.
unhappiness: tristesse, chagrin,
malheur.
violent: violent.
134 Persuasion

However it might end, he was without any question their pleasantest

acquaintance in Bath: she saw nobody equal to him; and it was a great
indulgence now and then to talk to him about Lyme, which he seemed to have as
lively a wish to see again, and to see more of, as herself. They went through the
particulars of their first meeting a great many times. He gave her to understand
that he had looked at her with some earnestness. She knew it well; and she
remembered another person's look also.%
They did not always think alike. His value for rank and connexion she
perceived was greater than hers. It was not merely complaisance, it must be a
liking to the cause, which made him enter warmly into her father and sister's
solicitudes on a subject which she thought unworthy to excite them. The Bath
paper one morning announced the arrival of the Dowager Viscountess
Dalrymple, and her daughter, the Honourable Miss Carteret; and all the comfort
of No.--, Camden Place, was swept away for many days; for the Dalrymples (in
Anne's opinion, most unfortunately) were cousins of the Elliots; and the agony
was how to introduce themselves properly.
Anne had never seen her father and sister before in contact with nobility, and
she must acknowledge herself disappointed. She had hoped better things from
their high ideas of their own situation in life, and was reduced to form a wish
which she had never foreseen; a wish that they had more pride; for "our cousins
Lady Dalrymple and Miss Carteret;" "our cousins, the Dalrymples," sounded in
her ears all day long.
Sir Walter had once been in company with the late viscount, but had never
seen any of the rest of the family; and the difficulties of the case arose from there
having been a suspension of all intercourse by letters of ceremony, ever since the
death of that said late viscount, when, in consequence of a dangerous illness of
Sir Walter's at the same time, there had been an unlucky omission at Kellynch.
No letter of condolence had been sent to Ireland. The neglect had been visited
on the head of the sinner; for when poor Lady Elliot died herself, no letter of
condolence was received at Kellynch, and, consequently, there was but too much
reason to apprehend that the Dalrymples considered the relationship as closed.

apprehend: appréhender, appréhende,
appréhendes, appréhendez,
appréhendent, appréhendons.
cause: cause, causer, faire, rendre,
déterminer, procurer, entraîner des
conséquences, situer, occasionner,
motif.
condolence: condoléances.
contact: contact, contacter, contactez,
s'aboucher avec.
earnestness: sérieux.
ears: oreilles.
French
enter: entrer, entre, entrons, entrez,
entrent, entres, introduire, entrer
dans, inscrire, introduis,
introduisons.
late: tard, tardif, en retard.
letter: lettre.
merely: de manière pure, de façon
pure, simplement.
omission: omission, bourdon.
properly: convenablement,
proprement, comme il faut,
correctement, de façon convenable,
de manière convenable.
reduced: réduisîtes, réduisit,
réduisîmes, réduisis, réduisirent,
réduit.
sinner: pécheur.
suspension: suspension.
swept: balayé.
unfortunately: malheureusement,
heureusement, de manière
malheureuse, de façon malheureuse.
unlucky: malchanceux, malheureux.
viscount: vicomte.
 Jane Austen 135

How%to have this anxious business set to rights, and be admitted as cousins
again, was the question: and it was a question which, in a more rational manner,
neither Lady Russell nor Mr Elliot thought unimportant. "Family connexions
were always worth preserving, good company always worth seeking; Lady
Dalrymple had taken a house, for three months, in Laura Place, and would be
living in style. She had been at Bath the year before, and Lady Russell had heard
her spoken of as a charming woman. It was very desirable that the connexion
should be renewed, if it could be done, without any compromise of propriety on
the side of the Elliots."
Sir Walter, however, would choose his own means, and at last wrote a very
fine letter of ample explanation, regret, and entreaty, to his right honourable
cousin. Neither Lady Russell nor Mr Elliot could admire the letter; but it did all
that was wanted, in bringing three lines of scrawl from the Dowager
Viscountess. "She was very much honoured, and should be happy in their
acquaintance." The toils of the business were over, the sweets began. They
visited in Laura Place, they had the cards of Dowager Viscountess Dalrymple,
and the Honourable Miss Carteret, to be arranged wherever they might be most
visible: and "Our cousins in Laura Place,"--"Our cousin, Lady Dalrymple and
Miss Carteret," were talked of to everybody.
Anne was ashamed. Had Lady Dalrymple and her daughter even been very
agreeable, she would still have been ashamed of the agitation they created, but
they were nothing. There was no superiority of manner, accomplishment, or
understanding. Lady Dalrymple had acquired the name of "a charming
woman," because she had a smile and a civil answer for everybody. Miss
Carteret, with still less to say, was so plain and so awkward, that she would
never have been tolerated in Camden Place but for her birth.
Lady Russell confessed she had expected something better; but yet "it was an
acquaintance worth having;" and when Anne ventured to speak her opinion of
them to Mr Elliot, he agreed to their being nothing in themselves, but still
maintained that, as a family connexion, as good company, as those who would
collect good company around them, they had their value. Anne smiled and said,

accomplishment: accomplissement,
réalisation, ouvrage.
acquired: acquis, acquîtes, acquit,
acquîmes, acquirent, acquise, appris.
choose: choisir, choisissent, choisis,
choisissons, choisissez, désigner,
adopter, opter, opte, optent, optes.
collect: recueillir, recueillez,
recueillent, recueillons, recueilles,
recueille, rassembler, collectionner,
rassemblez, rassemblons,
rassemblent.
French
compromise: compromis,
compromettre, transiger.
confessed: confessé, confessai,
confessâmes, confessa, confessèrent,
confessas, confessâtes, avoué,
avouâtes, avouèrent, avouâmes.
created: créé, créai, créâmes, créèrent,
créa, créâtes, créas.
entreaty: imploration, supplication.
fine: amende, fin, excellent, beau,
délicat, éminent, tendre, accompli, à
merveille, contravention.
lines: traits, lignes.
preserving: conservation, confisant,
conservant, protection.
propriety: bienséance.
rights: droits.
scrawl: griffonner, gribouillage.
tolerated: toléras, tolérâtes, tolérèrent,
tolérâmes, toléra, toléré, tolérai.
unimportant: mineur, insignifiant,
négligeable, sans importance.
value: valeur, apprécier, mérite,
évaluer.
136 Persuasion

"My idea of good company, Mr Elliot, is the company of clever, well-

informed people, who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good
company."%
"You are mistaken," said he gently, "that is not good company; that is the best.
Good company requires only birth, education, and manners, and with regard to
education is not very nice. Birth and good manners are essential; but a little
learning is by no means a dangerous thing in good company; on the contrary, it
will do very well. My cousin Anne shakes her head. She is not satisfied. She is
fastidious. My dear cousin" (sitting down by her), "you have a better right to be
fastidious than almost any other woman I know; but will it answer? Will it make
you happy? Will it not be wiser to accept the society of those good ladies in
Laura Place, and enjoy all the advantages of the connexion as far as possible?
You may depend upon it, that they will move in the first set in Bath this winter,
and as rank is rank, your being known to be related to them will have its use in
fixing your family (our family let me say) in that degree of consideration which
we must all wish for."
"Yes," sighed Anne, "we shall, indeed, be known to be related to them!" then
recollecting herself, and not wishing to be answered, she added, "I certainly do
think there has been by far too much trouble taken to procure the acquaintance.
I suppose" (smiling) "I have more pride than any of you; but I confess it does vex
me, that we should be so solicitous to have the relationship acknowledged,
which we may be very sure is a matter of perfect indifference to them."
"Pardon me, dear cousin, you are unjust in your own claims. In London,
perhaps, in your present quiet style of living, it might be as you say: but in Bath;
Sir Walter Elliot and his family will always be worth knowing: always
acceptable as acquaintance."
"Well," said Anne, "I certainly am proud, too proud to enjoy a welcome which
depends so entirely upon place."
"I love your indignation," said he; "it is very natural. But here you are in Bath,
and the object is to be established here with all the credit and dignity which
ought to belong to Sir Walter Elliot. You talk of being proud; I am called proud, I
French
accept: accepter, acceptez, acceptons, établîmes, établis. relationship: relation, parenté,
acceptent, accepte, acceptes, agréer, fastidious: difficile. rapport, relations.
admettre, agréent, agréez, agréons. fixing: fixant, fixation, réparant, requires: requiert, exige, réclame.
acceptable: acceptable, satisfaisant. fixage, détermination, dépannage, shakes: secoue, ébranle.
consideration: considération. remédiant, scellement. sitting: couvant, s'asseyant, séance,
depends: dépend. learning: apprenant, apprentissage, service, sédentaire.
enjoy: jouir, jouissez, jouis, jouissent, érudition, savoir. trouble: problème, gêner, déranger,
jouissons, jouir de, être joyeux, natural: naturel. dérangement, panne, difficulté,
savourer. related: racontèrent, racontâtes, trouble, ennui.
established: établi, constaté, constata, racontas, racontâmes, racontai, vex: chagriner, chagrine, chagrinent,
constatèrent, constatâmes, constatai, raconta, raconté, apparenté, contâtes, chagrines, chagrinez, chagrinons,
constatas, constatâtes, établirent, contèrent, conté. vexer, vexes, vexe, vexent, vexons.
 Jane Austen 137

know, and I shall not wish to believe myself otherwise; for our pride, if
investigated, would have the same object, I have no doubt, though the kind may
seem a little different. In one point, I am sure, my dear cousin," (he continued,
speaking lower, though there was no one else in the room) "in one point, I am
sure, we must feel alike. We must feel that every addition to your father's
society, among his equals or superiors, may be of use in diverting his thoughts
from those who are beneath him."
He looked, as he spoke, to the seat which Mrs Clay had been lately
occupying: a sufficient explanation of what he particularly meant; and though
Anne could not believe in their having the same sort of pride, she was pleased
with him for not liking Mrs Clay; and her conscience admitted that his wishing
to promote her father's getting great acquaintance was more than excusable in
the view of defeating her.%

acquaintance: connaissance, relation,
personne de connaissance, abord.
addition: addition, ajout, adjonction,
appendice, rajout, extension.
admitted: admis, admit, admirent,
admîmes, admîtes.
alike: semblable, pareil.
conscience: conscience.
defeating: vainquant.
diverting: distrayant, détournant.
equals: égale.
excusable: pardonnable.
French
investigated: examinèrent,
examinâtes, examinas, examinâmes,
examinai, examina, examiné,
enquêtèrent, enquêta, recherchai,
recherchâmes.
lately: dernièrement, de manière
tarde, de façon tardive, récemment.
liking: affection, penchant.
lower: baisser, baisses, abaisser,
baisse, baissez, baissons, baissent,
inférieur.
meant: signifié.
occupying: occupant.
pleased: content, satisfait, plu.
pride: fierté, orgueil.
promote: promouvoir, promeus,
promeuvent, promouvons,
promouvez.
seem: sembler, semblez, semblons,
semblent, semble, sembles, paraître,
paraissez, paraissons, paraissent,
parais.
speaking: parlant, parler.
wishing: désirant.
138 Persuasion

CHAPTER 17

While Sir Walter and Elizabeth were assiduously pushing their good fortune
in Laura Place, Anne was renewing an acquaintance of a very different
description.%
She had called on her former governess, and had heard from her of there
being an old school-fellow in Bath, who had the two strong claims on her
attention of past kindness and present suffering. Miss Hamilton, now Mrs
Smith, had shewn her kindness in one of those periods of her life when it had
been most valuable. Anne had gone unhappy to school, grieving for the loss of a
mother whom she had dearly loved, feeling her separation from home, and
suffering as a girl of fourteen, of strong sensibility and not high spirits, must
suffer at such a time; and Miss Hamilton, three years older than herself, but still
from the want of near relations and a settled home, remaining another year at
school, had been useful and good to her in a way which had considerably
lessened her misery, and could never be remembered with indifference.
Miss Hamilton had left school, had married not long afterwards, was said to
have married a man of fortune, and this was all that Anne had known of her, till
now that their governess's account brought her situation forward in a more
decided but very different form.

account: compte, considérer, client,
relation, rapport, croire,
communication, description, être
d'avis, addition, penser que.
assiduously: assidûment, de manière
assidue, de façon assidue.
attention: attention.
brought: apportas, apportâtes,
apportâmes, apportai, apporta,
apportèrent, apporté, amenai, amené,
amenâtes, amenas.
considerably: considérablement, de
French
façon considérable, de manière
considérable.
dearly: de manière chère, de façon
chère.
feeling: sentiment, palpant, sentant,
tâtant, ressentant.
former: ancien, précédent.
girl: fille, jeune fille, gosse, la fille.
governess: gouvernante.
grieving: affligeant, chagrinant,
attristant.
lessened: diminué, diminua,
diminuâtes, diminuas, diminuâmes,
diminuai, diminuèrent, amoindri,
amoindrîtes, amoindrit, amoindris.
near: près, proche, près de, auprès,
prochaine, à.
older: âgé.
periods: périodes.
pushing: poussant.
relations: proches.
renewing: renouvelant, reconduisant.
strong: fort, puissant, vigoureux,
solide, robuste.
 Jane Austen 139

She was a widow and poor. Her husband had been extravagant; and at his
death, about two years before, had left his affairs dreadfully involved. She had
had difficulties of every sort to contend with, and in addition to these distresses
had been afflicted with a severe rheumatic fever, which, finally settling in her
legs, had made her for the present a cripple. She had come to Bath on that
account, and was now in lodgings near the hot baths, living in a very humble
way, unable even to afford herself the comfort of a servant, and of course almost
excluded from society.%
Their mutual friend answered for the satisfaction which a visit from Miss
Elliot would give Mrs Smith, and Anne therefore lost no time in going. She
mentioned nothing of what she had heard, or what she intended, at home. It
would excite no proper interest there. She only consulted Lady Russell, who
entered thoroughly into her sentiments, and was most happy to convey her as
near to Mrs Smith's lodgings in Westgate Buildings, as Anne chose to be taken.
The visit was paid, their acquaintance re-established, their interest in each
other more than re-kindled. The first ten minutes had its awkwardness and its
emotion. Twelve years were gone since they had parted, and each presented a
somewhat different person from what the other had imagined. Twelve years had
changed Anne from the blooming, silent, unformed girl of fifteen, to the elegant
little woman of seven-and-twenty, with every beauty except bloom, and with
manners as consciously right as they were invariably gentle; and twelve years
had transformed the fine-looking, well-grown Miss Hamilton, in all the glow of
health and confidence of superiority, into a poor, infirm, helpless widow,
receiving the visit of her former protégée as a favour; but all that was
uncomfortable in the meeting had soon passed away, and left only the
interesting charm of remembering former partialities and talking over old times.
Anne found in Mrs Smith the good sense and agreeable manners which she
had almost ventured to depend on, and a disposition to converse and be cheerful
beyond her expectation. Neither the dissipations of the past--and she had lived
very much in the world--nor the restrictions of the present, neither sickness nor
sorrow seemed to have closed her heart or ruined her spirits.

baths: bains.
beyond: plus loin, après, outre,
ensuite.
chose: choisîmes, choisirent, choisîtes,
choisis, choisit, opta, optai, optâmes,
optas, optâtes, optèrent.
consciously: consciemment, de
manière consciente, de façon
consciente.
contend: combattre, contestent.
cripple: estropié, paralyser.
excluded: exclu, exclûtes, exclut,
French
exclus, exclurent, exclûmes,
exceptèrent, excepta, exceptai,
exceptâmes, exceptas.
finally: finalement, enfin, de manière
finale, de façon finale.
friend: ami, amie, copain, copine,
camarade.
hot: chaud.
invariably: de manière invariable, de
façon invariable, invariablement.
involved: impliqué.
legs: jambes.
lost: perdîtes, perdîmes, perdirent,
perdit, perdis, perdu, perdus, non vu.
paid: payâtes, payas, payèrent, paya,
payai, payâmes, payé.
restrictions: limitations.
rheumatic: rhumatismal, rhumatisant.
ruined: ruiné.
transformed: transformas,
transformâtes, transformèrent,
transforma, transformâmes,
transformai, transformé.
twelve: douze.
140 Persuasion

In%the course of a second visit she talked with great openness, and Anne's
astonishment increased. She could scarcely imagine a more cheerless situation
in itself than Mrs Smith's. She had been very fond of her husband: she had
buried him. She had been used to affluence: it was gone. She had no child to
connect her with life and happiness again, no relations to assist in the
arrangement of perplexed affairs, no health to make all the rest supportable. Her
accommodations were limited to a noisy parlour, and a dark bedroom behind,
with no possibility of moving from one to the other without assistance, which
there was only one servant in the house to afford, and she never quitted the
house but to be conveyed into the warm bath. Yet, in spite of all this, Anne had
reason to believe that she had moments only of languor and depression, to hours
of occupation and enjoyment. How could it be? She watched, observed,
reflected, and finally determined that this was not a case of fortitude or of
resignation only. A submissive spirit might be patient, a strong understanding
would supply resolution, but here was something more; here was that elasticity
of mind, that disposition to be comforted, that power of turning readily from evil
to good, and of finding employment which carried her out of herself, which was
from nature alone. It was the choicest gift of Heaven; and Anne viewed her
friend as one of those instances in which, by a merciful appointment, it seems
designed to counterbalance almost every other want.
There had been a time, Mrs Smith told her, when her spirits had nearly failed.
She could not call herself an invalid now, compared with her state on first
reaching Bath. Then she had, indeed, been a pitiable object; for she had caught
cold on the journey, and had hardly taken possession of her lodgings before she
was again confined to her bed and suffering under severe and constant pain; and
all this among strangers, with the absolute necessity of having a regular nurse,
and finances at that moment particularly unfit to meet any extraordinary
expense. She had weathered it, however, and could truly say that it had done
her good. It had increased her comforts by making her feel herself to be in good
hands. She had seen too much of the world, to expect sudden or disinterested
attachment anywhere, but her illness had proved to her that her landlady had a
character to preserve, and would not use her ill; and she had been particularly
French
buried: enterrâtes, enterras, enterré, depression: dépression, crise, embarrassâmes, embarrassas,
enterrâmes, enterra, enterrai, découragement. embarrassâtes, embarrassèrent,
enterrèrent, ensevelîtes, inhumèrent, elasticity: élasticité. perplexe, embarrassé.
inhumas, inhumâtes. expense: dépense, frais. pitiable: pitoyable.
cheerless: morne. finances: finances, finance. preserve: conserver, confire, préserver,
comforted: soulagé. gift: cadeau, don. maintenir, confiture, conserve, mettre
connect: connecter, connectez, landlady: propriétaire, aubergiste. en conserve, retenir, réserve.
connectent, connectons, connectes, languor: langueur. reaching: allures portantes, parvenant,
connecte, joindre, relier, aboucher, merciful: indulgent, Clément, sensible, mouvements de saisie.
attacher, allier. miséricordieux. resignation: démission, résignation.
counterbalance: contrebalancer, noisy: bruyant. submissive: soumis, docile.
contrepoids, équilibrer. perplexed: embarrassa, embarrassai, weathered: altéré.
 Jane Austen 141

fortunate%in her nurse, as a sister of her landlady, a nurse by profession, and

who had always a home in that house when unemployed, chanced to be at
liberty just in time to attend her. "And she," said Mrs Smith, "besides nursing me
most admirably, has really proved an invaluable acquaintance. As soon as I
could use my hands she taught me to knit, which has been a great amusement;
and she put me in the way of making these little thread-cases, pin-cushions and
card-racks, which you always find me so busy about, and which supply me with
the means of doing a little good to one or two very poor families in this
neighbourhood. She had a large acquaintance, of course professionally, among
those who can afford to buy, and she disposes of my merchandise. She always
takes the right time for applying. Everybody's heart is open, you know, when
they have recently escaped from severe pain, or are recovering the blessing of
health, and Nurse Rooke thoroughly understands when to speak. She is a
shrewd, intelligent, sensible woman. Hers is a line for seeing human nature;
and she has a fund of good sense and observation, which, as a companion, make
her infinitely superior to thousands of those who having only received `the best
education in the world,' know nothing worth attending to. Call it gossip, if you
will, but when Nurse Rooke has half an hour's leisure to bestow on me, she is
sure to have something to relate that is entertaining and profitable: something
that makes one know one's species better. One likes to hear what is going on, to
be au fait as to the newest modes of being trifling and silly. To me, who live so
much alone, her conversation, I assure you, is a treat."
Anne, far from wishing to cavil at the pleasure, replied, "I can easily believe
it. Women of that class have great opportunities, and if they are intelligent may
be well worth listening to. Such varieties of human nature as they are in the habit
of witnessing! And it is not merely in its follies, that they are well read; for they
see it occasionally under every circumstance that can be most interesting or
affecting. What instances must pass before them of ardent, disinterested, self-
denying attachment, of heroism, fortitude, patience, resignation: of all the
conflicts and all the sacrifices that ennoble us most. A sick chamber may often
furnish the worth of volumes."

admirably: admirablement, de
manière admirable, de façon
admirable.
affecting: affectant, émouvant,
attendrissant, influant.
ardent: ardant, ardent.
cavil: chicaner.
disposes: dispose.
ennoble: ennoblir, ennoblis,
ennoblissent, ennoblissez,
ennoblissons, anoblir, anoblis,
anoblissons, anoblissez, anoblissent.
French
follies: folies. de façon professionnelle, de manière
gossip: cancaner, jaser, commérage, professionnelle.
commérages, bavard. profitable: rentable, profitable,
heroism: héroïsme. lucratif.
intelligent: intelligent. relate: raconter, conter, racontent,
invaluable: inestimable, raconte, racontons, racontez,
inappréciable. racontes, conte, content, contez,
knit: tricoter. contons.
liberty: liberté. silly: idiot, stupide, bête.
merchandise: marchandise, trifling: mineur.
marchandises, denrée, produit. understands: comprend.
professionally: professionnellement, unemployed: chômeur.
142 Persuasion

"Yes," said Mrs Smith more doubtingly, "sometimes it may, though I fear its
lessons are not often in the elevated style you describe. Here and there, human
nature may be great in times of trial; but generally speaking, it is its weakness
and not its strength that appears in a sick chamber: it is selfishness and
impatience rather than generosity and fortitude, that one hears of. There is so
little real friendship in the world! and unfortunately" (speaking low and
tremulously) "there are so many who forget to think seriously till it is almost too
late."%
Anne saw the misery of such feelings. The husband had not been what he
ought, and the wife had been led among that part of mankind which made her
think worse of the world than she hoped it deserved. It was but a passing
emotion however with Mrs Smith; she shook it off, and soon added in a different
tone--
"I do not suppose the situation my friend Mrs Rooke is in at present, will
furnish much either to interest or edify me. She is only nursing Mrs Wallis of
Marlborough Buildings; a mere pretty, silly, expensive, fashionable woman, I
believe; and of course will have nothing to report but of lace and finery. I mean
to make my profit of Mrs Wallis, however. She has plenty of money, and I
intend she shall buy all the high-priced things I have in hand now."
Anne had called several times on her friend, before the existence of such a
person was known in Camden Place. At last, it became necessary to speak of her.
Sir Walter, Elizabeth and Mrs Clay, returned one morning from Laura Place,
with a sudden invitation from Lady Dalrymple for the same evening, and Anne
was already engaged, to spend that evening in Westgate Buildings. She was not
sorry for the excuse. They were only asked, she was sure, because Lady
Dalrymple being kept at home by a bad cold, was glad to make use of the
relationship which had been so pressed on her; and she declined on her own
account with great alacrity--"She was engaged to spend the evening with an old
schoolfellow." They were not much interested in anything relative to Anne; but
still there were questions enough asked, to make it understood what this old
schoolfellow was; and Elizabeth was disdainful, and Sir Walter severe.

appears: apparaît.
describe: décrire, décris, décrivez,
décrivent, décrivons, représenter,
dépeindre.
disdainful: dédaigneux.
doubtingly: de manière doutante, de
façon doutante.
edify: édifier, édifiez, édifions,
édifient, édifie, édifies.
existence: existence.
expensive: cher, coûteux, chère.
fear: peur, crainte, craindre, angoisse,
French
redouter, appréhension, avoir peur. lessons: leçons.
finery: parure, finerie, mazerie. mankind: humanité.
forget: oublier, oublies, oublie, plenty: abondance.
oublient, oublions, oubliez. profit: profit, bénéfice, gain, avantage,
generosity: générosité, largesse. profiter.
hears: entend, oit. shook: secoua, secouèrent, secouâtes,
impatience: impatience. secouas, secouâmes, secouai,
intend: viser, visent, visons, visez, ébranlâtes, ébranlas, ébranlâmes,
vise, vises, avoir pour but, projeter, ébranlai, ébranla.
projettent, projette, projetons. sorry: désolé.
interested: intéressé. tremulously: de manière tremblotante,
lace: dentelle, lacet, lacer. de façon tremblotante.
 Jane Austen 143

"Westgate Buildings!" said he, "and who is Miss Anne Elliot to be visiting in
Westgate Buildings? A Mrs Smith. A widow Mrs Smith; and who was her
husband? One of five thousand Mr Smiths whose names are to be met with
everywhere. And what is her attraction? That she is old and sickly. Upon my
word, Miss Anne Elliot, you have the most extraordinary taste! Everything that
revolts other people, low company, paltry rooms, foul air, disgusting
associations are inviting to you. But surely you may put off this old lady till to-
morrow: she is not so near her end, I presume, but that she may hope to see
another day. What is her age? Forty?"
"No, sir, she is not one-and-thirty; but I do not think I can put off my
engagement, because it is the only evening for some time which will at once suit
her and myself. She goes into the warm bath to-morrow, and for the rest of the
week, you know, we are engaged."
"But what does Lady Russell think of this acquaintance?" asked Elizabeth.%
"She sees nothing to blame in it," replied Anne; "on the contrary, she
approves it, and has generally taken me when I have called on Mrs Smith.
"Westgate Buildings must have been rather surprised by the appearance of a
carriage drawn up near its pavement," observed Sir Walter. "Sir Henry Russell's
widow, indeed, has no honours to distinguish her arms, but still it is a handsome
equipage, and no doubt is well known to convey a Miss Elliot. A widow Mrs
Smith lodging in Westgate Buildings! A poor widow barely able to live, between
thirty and forty; a mere Mrs Smith, an every-day Mrs Smith, of all people and all
names in the world, to be the chosen friend of Miss Anne Elliot, and to be
preferred by her to her own family connections among the nobility of England
and Ireland! Mrs Smith! Such a name!"
Mrs Clay, who had been present while all this passed, now thought it
advisable to leave the room, and Anne could have said much, and did long to
say a little in defence of her friend's not very dissimilar claims to theirs, but her
sense of personal respect to her father prevented her. She made no reply. She
left it to himself to recollect, that Mrs Smith was not the only widow in Bath
between thirty and forty, with little to live on, and no surname of dignity.
French
advisable: recommandé. generally: généralement, en général, maigre, méchant, malheureux, mal,
approves: approuve. ordinairement, de façon générale, de faible, médiocre.
associations: associations. manière générale. rest: repos, se reposer, reste, débris,
barely: à peine, de manière nue, de hope: espoir, espérer, espère, espèrent, reposer, appui, trêve, pause, support.
façon nue. espères, espérez, espérons, espérance, revolts: révoltes.
bath: bain, baignoire, cuvette. souhaiter, souhaitons, souhaitez. sees: voit, scie.
defence: défense, mémoire en défense. lodging: verse, logement, sickly: maladif, de manière malade,
disgusting: dégoûtant. hébergement. écoeurant, de façon malade, malsain.
dissimilar: dissemblable. names: noms. surname: nom de famille, nom.
equipage: équipage. paltry: misérable. thousand: mille, millier.
evening: soir, soirée. personal: personnel, propre. visiting: visitant.
forty: quarante. poor: pauvre, mauvais, misérable, whose: dont, duquel, de qui.
144 Persuasion

Anne%kept her appointment; the others kept theirs, and of course she heard
the next morning that they had had a delightful evening. She had been the only
one of the set absent, for Sir Walter and Elizabeth had not only been quite at her
ladyship's service themselves, but had actually been happy to be employed by
her in collecting others, and had been at the trouble of inviting both Lady Russell
and Mr Elliot; and Mr Elliot had made a point of leaving Colonel Wallis early,
and Lady Russell had fresh arranged all her evening engagements in order to
wait on her. Anne had the whole history of all that such an evening could
supply from Lady Russell. To her, its greatest interest must be, in having been
very much talked of between her friend and Mr Elliot; in having been wished for,
regretted, and at the same time honoured for staying away in such a cause. Her
kind, compassionate visits to this old schoolfellow, sick and reduced, seemed to
have quite delighted Mr Elliot. He thought her a most extraordinary young
woman; in her temper, manners, mind, a model of female excellence. He could
meet even Lady Russell in a discussion of her merits; and Anne could not be
given to understand so much by her friend, could not know herself to be so
highly rated by a sensible man, without many of those agreeable sensations
which her friend meant to create.
Lady Russell was now perfectly decided in her opinion of Mr Elliot. She was
as much convinced of his meaning to gain Anne in time as of his deserving her,
and was beginning to calculate the number of weeks which would free him from
all the remaining restraints of widowhood, and leave him at liberty to exert his
most open powers of pleasing. She would not speak to Anne with half the
certainty she felt on the subject, she would venture on little more than hints of
what might be hereafter, of a possible attachment on his side, of the
desirableness of the alliance, supposing such attachment to be real and returned.
Anne heard her, and made no violent exclamations; she only smiled, blushed,
and gently shook her head.
"I am no match-maker, as you well know," said Lady Russell, "being much
too well aware of the uncertainty of all human events and calculations. I only
mean that if Mr Elliot should some time hence pay his addresses to you, and if

absent: absent.
blushed: rougi.
calculate: calculer, calcules, calcule,
calculons, calculent, calculez,
compter, comptez, comptes, compte,
comptons.
collecting: recueillant, rassemblant,
collectionnant, ramassant, collectant.
compassionate: compatissant.
create: créer, créent, créons, créez,
crée, crées, composer, écrire.
deserving: méritant, méritoire.
French
discussion: discussion, entretien.
female: femelle, féminin, femme.
fresh: frais.
hereafter: désormais, dorénavant,
après l'entrée en vigueur de la
présente loi, après.
history: histoire, anamnèse,
antécédents, historique.
human: humain.
meet: rencontrer, rencontrez,
rencontrons, rencontres, rencontrent,
rencontre, réunir, se réunir.
model: modèle, modeler, maquette,
mannequin, schéma, exemple.
restraints: bride.
supply: fourniture, provision, fournir,
alimentation, approvisionnement,
ravitaillement, livrer, munir,
pourvoir, réserve, alimenter.
uncertainty: incertitude.
understand: comprendre, comprenez,
comprends, comprenons,
comprennent, entendre.
widowhood: veuvage.
 Jane Austen 145

you%should be disposed to accept him, I think there would be every possibility

of your being happy together. A most suitable connection everybody must
consider it, but I think it might be a very happy one."
"Mr Elliot is an exceedingly agreeable man, and in many respects I think
highly of him," said Anne; "but we should not suit."
Lady Russell let this pass, and only said in rejoinder, "I own that to be able to
regard you as the future mistress of Kellynch, the future Lady Elliot, to look
forward and see you occupying your dear mother's place, succeeding to all her
rights, and all her popularity, as well as to all her virtues, would be the highest
possible gratification to me. You are your mother's self in countenance and
disposition; and if I might be allowed to fancy you such as she was, in situation
and name, and home, presiding and blessing in the same spot, and only superior
to her in being more highly valued! My dearest Anne, it would give me more
delight than is often felt at my time of life!"
Anne was obliged to turn away, to rise, to walk to a distant table, and,
leaning there in pretended employment, try to subdue the feelings this picture
excited. For a few moments her imagination and her heart were bewitched. The
idea of becoming what her mother had been; of having the precious name of
"Lady Elliot" first revived in herself; of being restored to Kellynch, calling it her
home again, her home for ever, was a charm which she could not immediately
resist. Lady Russell said not another word, willing to leave the matter to its own
operation; and believing that, could Mr Elliot at that moment with propriety
have spoken for himself!--she believed, in short, what Anne did not believe. The
same image of Mr Elliot speaking for himself brought Anne to composure again.
The charm of Kellynch and of "Lady Elliot" all faded away. She never could
accept him. And it was not only that her feelings were still adverse to any man
save one; her judgement, on a serious consideration of the possibilities of such a
case was against Mr Elliot.
Though they had now been acquainted a month, she could not be satisfied
that she really knew his character. That he was a sensible man, an agreeable
man, that he talked well, professed good opinions, seemed to judge properly and

adverse: ennemi, contradictoire,
contraire, adverse, nuisible, opposé,
hostile.
becoming: devenant, convenable,
raisonnable.
bewitched: ensorcelâtes, ensorcelas,
ensorcela, ensorcelèrent, ensorcelé,
ensorcelâmes, ensorcelai.
image: image, figure.
imagination: imagination, fantaisie.
pass: passer, passe, col, dépasser,
doubler, donner, passage,
French
permission, abonnement, passez,
s'écouler.
popularity: popularité.
pretended: feignîtes, feignirent,
feignis, feignîmes, feignit, feint,
prétexta, prétextai, prétextâmes,
prétextas, prétextâtes.
rise: monter, lever, surgir, augmenter,
hausse, se lever, sursauter, montée, se
soulever, élévation, augmentation.
save: épargner, épargne, épargnes,
épargnent, épargnez, épargnons,
sauver, économiser, sauve, sauves,
sauvons.
spot: tache, endroit, place, point,
destination, lieu, salir, localité,
souiller, spot, message publicitaire.
subdue: soumettre, soumettent,
soumets, soumettons, soumettez,
subjuguer, subjugue, subjugues,
subjuguons, subjuguent, subjuguez.
succeeding: réussissant, succédant,
aboutant.
virtues: vertus.
146 Persuasion

as%a man of principle, this was all clear enough. He certainly knew what was
right, nor could she fix on any one article of moral duty evidently transgressed;
but yet she would have been afraid to answer for his conduct. She distrusted the
past, if not the present. The names which occasionally dropt of former
associates, the allusions to former practices and pursuits, suggested suspicions
not favourable of what he had been. She saw that there had been bad habits; that
Sunday travelling had been a common thing; that there had been a period of his
life (and probably not a short one) when he had been, at least, careless in all
serious matters; and, though he might now think very differently, who could
answer for the true sentiments of a clever, cautious man, grown old enough to
appreciate a fair character? How could it ever be ascertained that his mind was
truly cleansed?
Mr Elliot was rational, discreet, polished, but he was not open. There was
never any burst of feeling, any warmth of indignation or delight, at the evil or
good of others. This, to Anne, was a decided imperfection. Her early
impressions were incurable. She prized the frank, the open-hearted, the eager
character beyond all others. Warmth and enthusiasm did captivate her still. She
felt that she could so much more depend upon the sincerity of those who
sometimes looked or said a careless or a hasty thing, than of those whose
presence of mind never varied, whose tongue never slipped.
Mr Elliot was too generally agreeable. Various as were the tempers in her
father's house, he pleased them all. He endured too well, stood too well with
every body. He had spoken to her with some degree of openness of Mrs Clay;
had appeared completely to see what Mrs Clay was about, and to hold her in
contempt; and yet Mrs Clay found him as agreeable as any body.
Lady Russell saw either less or more than her young friend, for she saw
nothing to excite distrust. She could not imagine a man more exactly what he
ought to be than Mr Elliot; nor did she ever enjoy a sweeter feeling than the hope
of seeing him receive the hand of her beloved Anne in Kellynch church, in the
course of the following autumn.

appreciate: apprécier, apprécie,
apprécies, appréciez, apprécions,
apprécient, estimer, aimer, aime,
aiment, aimes.
associates: associe.
captivate: captiver, captive, captives,
captivons, captivent, captivez.
cleansed: purifia, purifiai, purifiâmes,
purifias, purifiâtes, purifié,
purifièrent.
discreet: discret.
endured: supporta, enduré,
French
supportèrent, endura, endurâmes,
endurèrent, supportâmes, supportai,
endurai, supporté, enduras.
frank: franc, affranchir, franche.
hasty: précipité, hâtif.
imperfection: imperfection,
défectuosité.
impressions: exposition à un message.
incurable: incurable, inguérissable.
indignation: indignation.
moral: moral, morale.
practices: pratique.
receive: recevoir, reçois, recevez,
recevons, reçoivent, accueillir,
admettre, accueille, accueillent,
accueilles, accueillez.
slipped: glissé.
tongue: langue, languette.
transgressed: pécha, péchai,
péchâmes, péchas, péchâtes, péché,
péchèrent.
travelling: voyageant, itinérant.
varied: varias, variâtes, variâmes,
variai, varièrent, varié, varia, divers.
 Jane Austen 147

CHAPTER 18

It%was the beginning of February; and Anne, having been a month in Bath,
was growing very eager for news from Uppercross and Lyme. She wanted to
hear much more than Mary had communicated. It was three weeks since she had
heard at all. She only knew that Henrietta was at home again; and that Louisa,
though considered to be recovering fast, was still in Lyme; and she was thinking
of them all very intently one evening, when a thicker letter than usual from
Mary was delivered to her; and, to quicken the pleasure and surprise, with
Admiral and Mrs Croft's compliments.
The Crofts must be in Bath! A circumstance to interest her. They were people
whom her heart turned to very naturally.
"What is this?" cried Sir Walter. "The Crofts have arrived in Bath? The Crofts
who rent Kellynch? What have they brought you?"
"A letter from Uppercross Cottage, Sir."
"Oh! those letters are convenient passports. They secure an introduction. I
should have visited Admiral Croft, however, at any rate. I know what is due to
my tenant."
Anne could listen no longer; she could not even have told how the poor
Admiral's complexion escaped; her letter engrossed her. It had been begun
several days back.
French
communicated: communiqué, hear: entendre, entendent, entends, hâtent, accélérons, accélérez,
communiqua, communiquâmes, entendez, entendons, ouïr, écouter, accélères, accélèrent, accélère, hâtes.
communiquai, communiquèrent, oient, ois, oyez, oyons. rent: loyer, louer, location.
communiquas, communiquâtes. intently: attentivement, de manière secure: fixer, fixe, fixent, fixes, fixez,
complexion: teint, complexion. intentionnelle, de façon fixons, sûr, attacher, en sûreté, à
convenient: commode, convenable, intentionnelle. l'abri, obtenir.
opportun. introduction: introduction, turned: tournâtes, tournas, tourna,
delivered: livré, livrâmes, livra, présentation. tournai, tournèrent, tournâmes,
livrèrent, livrai, livrâtes, livras. news: nouvelles, actualités, tourné, retournèrent, retourné,
engrossed: grossoyèrent, grossoyai, informations, nouvelle. retournâtes, retournas.
grossoyâmes, grossoyas, grossoyâtes, passports: passeports.
grossoyé, grossoya. quicken: accélérer, hâte, hâtons, hâtez,
148 Persuasion

"February 1st--.%
"My dear Anne,--
I make no apology for my silence, because I know how little people
think of letters in such a place as Bath. You must be a great deal too
happy to care for Uppercross, which, as you well know, affords little to
write about. We have had a very dull Christmas; Mr and Mrs Musgrove
have not had one dinner party all the holidays. I do not reckon the
Hayters as anybody. The holidays, however, are over at last: I believe no
children ever had such long ones. I am sure I had not. The house was
cleared yesterday, except of the little Harvilles; but you will be surprised
to hear they have never gone home. Mrs Harville must be an odd
mother to part with them so long. I do not understand it. They are not
at all nice children, in my opinion; but Mrs Musgrove seems to like them
quite as well, if not better, than her grandchildren. What dreadful
weather we have had! It may not be felt in Bath, with your nice
pavements; but in the country it is of some consequence. I have not had a
creature call on me since the second week in January, except Charles
Hayter, who had been calling much oftener than was welcome. Between
ourselves, I think it a great pity Henrietta did not remain at Lyme as long
as Louisa; it would have kept her a little out of his way. The carriage is
gone to-day, to bring Louisa and the Harvilles to-morrow. We are not
asked to dine with them, however, till the day after, Mrs Musgrove is so
afraid of her being fatigued by the journey, which is not very likely,
considering the care that will be taken of her; and it would be much
more convenient to me to dine there to-morrow. I am glad you find Mr
Elliot so agreeable, and wish I could be acquainted with him too; but I
have my usual luck: I am always out of the way when any thing
desirable is going on; always the last of my family to be noticed. What
an immense time Mrs Clay has been staying with Elizabeth! Does she
never mean to go away? But perhaps if she were to leave the room
vacant, we might not be invited. Let me know what you think of this. I

acquainted: renseignai, informèrent,
renseignâtes, renseigné,
renseignâmes, renseignèrent,
renseigna, informâtes, informas,
informâmes, informai.
affords: produit.
agreeable: agréable, aimable.
apology: apologie, excuses, excuse.
bring: apporter, apportons, apportes,
apporte, apportez, apportent,
amener, amenons, amènes, amène,
amenez.
French
call: appel, appeler, appelles, appelle,
appelons, appellent, appelez,
communication, nommer, visite,
escale.
creature: créature.
deal: distribuer, dispenser, affaire,
traiter, transaction, bois blanc.
dine: dîner, dînent.
dreadful: terrible, affreux,
épouvantable.
fatigued: fatigué.
immense: énorme, immense,
formidable.
journey: voyage, trajet, parcours,
périple.
nice: agréable, bon, aimable, gentil,
joli, succulent, savoureux.
ones: ceux.
reckon: calculer, calculent, calculons,
calcule, calculez, calcules, estimer.
vacant: vide, vague, vacant.
write: écrire, écris, écrivent, écrivez,
écrivons, composer, rédiger.
yesterday: hier.
 Jane Austen 149

do not expect my children to be asked, you know. I can leave them at

the Great House very well, for a month or six weeks. I have this moment
heard that the Crofts are going to Bath almost immediately; they think
the Admiral gouty. Charles heard it quite by chance; they have not had
the civility to give me any notice, or of offering to take anything. I do not
think they improve at all as neighbours. We see nothing of them, and
this is really an instance of gross inattention. Charles joins me in love,
and everything proper. Yours affectionately,
"Mary M---.%

"I am sorry to say that I am very far from well; and Jemima has just
told me that the butcher says there is a bad sore-throat very much about.
I dare say I shall catch it; and my sore-throats, you know, are always
worse than anybody's."

So ended the first part, which had been afterwards put into an envelope,
containing nearly as much more.

"I kept my letter open, that I might send you word how Louisa bore
her journey, and now I am extremely glad I did, having a great deal to
add. In the first place, I had a note from Mrs Croft yesterday, offering to
convey anything to you; a very kind, friendly note indeed, addressed to
me, just as it ought; I shall therefore be able to make my letter as long as I
like. The Admiral does not seem very ill, and I sincerely hope Bath will
do him all the good he wants. I shall be truly glad to have them back
again. Our neighbourhood cannot spare such a pleasant family. But
now for Louisa. I have something to communicate that will astonish you
not a little. She and the Harvilles came on Tuesday very safely, and in
the evening we went to ask her how she did, when we were rather
surprised not to find Captain Benwick of the party, for he had been
invited as well as the Harvilles; and what do you think was the reason?

add: ajouter, additionner, ajoutes,
ajoute, ajoutons, ajoutez, ajoutent,
additionnes, additionne,
additionnent, additionnons.
affectionately: affectueusement, de
manière affectueuse, de façon
affectueuse.
astonish: étonner, étonnes, étonne,
étonnent, étonnez, étonnons.
butcher: boucher, abattre, égorger,
massacrer.
catch: attraper, attrape, attrapes,
French
attrapons, attrapent, attrapez, prise,
prenez, prends, prenons, prennent.
chance: hasard, chance, accidentel,
occasion.
communicate: communiquer,
communiquent, communiquez,
communiquons, communiques,
communique.
containing: contenant, renfermant.
envelope: enveloppe, ampoule.
extremely: extrêmement, de manière
extrême, de façon extrême.
gouty: goutteux.
gross: brut.
improve: améliorer, améliores,
améliore, améliorent, améliorez,
améliorons, amender, amendez,
amendons, amendes, amendent.
inattention: inattention.
joins: joint, relie, accouple, associe,
noue.
nearly: presque, quasiment, à peu
près, de manière près, de façon près.
offering: offrande.
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Neither%more nor less than his being in love with Louisa, and not
choosing to venture to Uppercross till he had had an answer from Mr
Musgrove; for it was all settled between him and her before she came
away, and he had written to her father by Captain Harville. True, upon
my honour! Are not you astonished? I shall be surprised at least if you
ever received a hint of it, for I never did. Mrs Musgrove protests
solemnly that she knew nothing of the matter. We are all very well
pleased, however, for though it is not equal to her marrying Captain
Wentworth, it is infinitely better than Charles Hayter; and Mr Musgrove
has written his consent, and Captain Benwick is expected to-day. Mrs
Harville says her husband feels a good deal on his poor sister's account;
but, however, Louisa is a great favourite with both. Indeed, Mrs Harville
and I quite agree that we love her the better for having nursed her.
Charles wonders what Captain Wentworth will say; but if you
remember, I never thought him attached to Louisa; I never could see
anything of it. And this is the end, you see, of Captain Benwick's being
supposed to be an admirer of yours. How Charles could take such a
thing into his head was always incomprehensible to me. I hope he will
be more agreeable now. Certainly not a great match for Louisa
Musgrove, but a million times better than marrying among the Hayters."

Mary need not have feared her sister's being in any degree prepared for the
news. She had never in her life been more astonished. Captain Benwick and
Louisa Musgrove! It was almost too wonderful for belief, and it was with the
greatest effort that she could remain in the room, preserve an air of calmness,
and answer the common questions of the moment. Happily for her, they were
not many. Sir Walter wanted to know whether the Crofts travelled with four
horses, and whether they were likely to be situated in such a part of Bath as it
might suit Miss Elliot and himself to visit in; but had little curiosity beyond.
"How is Mary?" said Elizabeth; and without waiting for an answer, "And
pray what brings the Crofts to Bath?"

admirer: admirateur, admiratrice.
air: air, aérer, mélodie, air de musique,
aria, ventiler.
brings: apporte, amène.
calmness: calme, repos.
certainly: certainement, certes,
assurément, sûrement, d'abord, si, de
manière certaine, de façon certaine.
choosing: choisissant, optant.
common: commun, ordinaire,
vulgaire.
consent: consentement, consentir,
French
donner son accord, admettre, être
d'accord, agrément.
effort: effort, démarche, peine,
requête.
feels: palpe, sent, tâte, ressent.
incomprehensible: incompréhensible.
marrying: se mariant, épousant.
match: allumette, apparier, match,
s'entremettre, assortir, égal, partie,
rencontre.
prepared: préparâtes, prépara,
préparai, préparas, préparèrent,
préparâmes, préparé, apprêtas,
apprêtâtes, apprêté, apprêtâmes.
protests: proteste.
questions: questionne.
situated: situé, situas, situâtes, situai,
situèrent, situâmes, situa.
solemnly: solennellement, de manière
solennelle, de façon solennelle.
true: vrai, véritable, réel, qui a raison,
exact, juste.
wonderful: merveilleux, formidable.
written: écrit.
 Jane Austen 151

"They come on the Admiral's account. He is thought to be gouty."

"Gout and decrepitude!" said Sir Walter. "Poor old gentleman."
"Have they any acquaintance here?" asked Elizabeth.%
"I do not know; but I can hardly suppose that, at Admiral Croft's time of life,
and in his profession, he should not have many acquaintance in such a place as
this."
"I suspect," said Sir Walter coolly, "that Admiral Croft will be best known in
Bath as the renter of Kellynch Hall. Elizabeth, may we venture to present him
and his wife in Laura Place?"
"Oh, no! I think not. Situated as we are with Lady Dalrymple, cousins, we
ought to be very careful not to embarrass her with acquaintance she might not
approve. If we were not related, it would not signify; but as cousins, she would
feel scrupulous as to any proposal of ours. We had better leave the Crofts to find
their own level. There are several odd-looking men walking about here, who, I
am told, are sailors. The Crofts will associate with them."
This was Sir Walter and Elizabeth's share of interest in the letter; when Mrs
Clay had paid her tribute of more decent attention, in an enquiry after Mrs
Charles Musgrove, and her fine little boys, Anne was at liberty.
In her own room, she tried to comprehend it. Well might Charles wonder
how Captain Wentworth would feel! Perhaps he had quitted the field, had given
Louisa up, had ceased to love, had found he did not love her. She could not
endure the idea of treachery or levity, or anything akin to ill usage between him
and his friend. She could not endure that such a friendship as theirs should be
severed unfairly.
Captain Benwick and Louisa Musgrove! The high-spirited, joyous-talking
Louisa Musgrove, and the dejected, thinking, feeling, reading, Captain Benwick,
seemed each of them everything that would not suit the other. Their minds most
dissimilar! Where could have been the attraction? The answer soon presented
itself. It had been in situation. They had been thrown together several weeks;
they had been living in the same small family party: since Henrietta's coming

akin: apparenté.
approve: approuver, approuve,
approuves, approuvez, approuvent,
approuvons, donner son accord.
associate: associé, associer,
s'accoupler.
dejected: abattu.
embarrass: embarrasser,
embarrassent, embarrasse,
embarrassons, embarrassez,
embarrasses, gêner.
enquiry: enquête, demande de
French
renseignements. share: action, partager, part,
gout: goutte. participer, partie, prendre part,
hardly: à peine, péniblement, portion, contingent, diviser, débiter,
difficilement, lourdement, durement, parti aux bénéfices.
de manière dure, de façon dure. signify: signifier, signifies, signifiez,
levity: légèreté. signifient, signifions, signifie.
ours: nôtre. treachery: traîtrise.
renter: locataire. tribute: tribut, hommage.
severed: coupé, disjoint, rompu, tried: essayé.
rompîtes, rompit, rompis, rompîmes, unfairly: de manière injuste, de façon
disjoignîtes, disjoignit, disjoignirent, injuste, injustement.
disjoignîmes. usage: usage, coutume, utilisation.
152 Persuasion

away, they must have been depending almost entirely on each other, and Louisa,
just recovering from illness, had been in an interesting state, and Captain
Benwick was not inconsolable. That was a point which Anne had not been able
to avoid suspecting before; and instead of drawing the same conclusion as Mary,
from the present course of events, they served only to confirm the idea of his
having felt some dawning of tenderness toward herself. She did not mean,
however, to derive much more from it to gratify her vanity, than Mary might
have allowed. She was persuaded that any tolerably pleasing young woman
who had listened and seemed to feel for him would have received the same
compliment. He had an affectionate heart. He must love somebody.%
She saw no reason against their being happy. Louisa had fine naval fervour
to begin with, and they would soon grow more alike. He would gain
cheerfulness, and she would learn to be an enthusiast for Scott and Lord Byron;
nay, that was probably learnt already; of course they had fallen in love over
poetry. The idea of Louisa Musgrove turned into a person of literary taste, and
sentimental reflection was amusing, but she had no doubt of its being so. The
day at Lyme, the fall from the Cobb, might influence her health, her nerves, her
courage, her character to the end of her life, as thoroughly as it appeared to have
influenced her fate.
The conclusion of the whole was, that if the woman who had been sensible of
Captain Wentworth's merits could be allowed to prefer another man, there was
nothing in the engagement to excite lasting wonder; and if Captain Wentworth
lost no friend by it, certainly nothing to be regretted. No, it was not regret which
made Anne's heart beat in spite of herself, and brought the colour into her
cheeks when she thought of Captain Wentworth unshackled and free. She had
some feelings which she was ashamed to investigate. They were too much like
joy, senseless joy!
She longed to see the Crofts; but when the meeting took place, it was evident
that no rumour of the news had yet reached them. The visit of ceremony was

beat: battement, battre, frapper,
heurter, temps, rythme.
colour: couleur, teinte, colorier,
colorant.
dawning: poindre, naissant.
depending: dépendant.
derive: dériver, dérive, dérivez,
dérivent, dérivons, dérives, provenir.
enthusiast: passionné, enthousiaste.
fervour: ferveur, zèle.
gratify: satisfaire.
grow: croître, grandir, cultiver,
French
grandis, grandissent, grandissez,
grandissons, croissent, croîs, croissez,
croissons.
inconsolable: inconsolable.
influence: influence, influer,
influencer, empire, influent.
influenced: influencé.
investigate: examiner, examinons,
examinez, examines, examinent,
examine, explorer, enquêter,
rechercher, recherche, recherchons.
literary: littéraire.
prefer: préférer, préfères, préférez,
préfèrent, préférons, préfère, aimer
mieux.
senseless: insensé, déraisonnable,
stupide, sans connaissance.
sentimental: sentimental.
served: servit, servîtes, servis,
servîmes, servirent, servi, desservis,
desservit, desservîtes, desservîmes,
desservi.
suspecting: soupçonnant.
toward: vers, en, à, en relation avec.
 Jane Austen 153

paid and returned; and Louisa Musgrove was mentioned, and Captain Benwick,
too, without even half a smile.%
The Crofts had placed themselves in lodgings in Gay Street, perfectly to Sir
Walter's satisfaction. He was not at all ashamed of the acquaintance, and did, in
fact, think and talk a great deal more about the Admiral, than the Admiral ever
thought or talked about him.
The Crofts knew quite as many people in Bath as they wished for, and
considered their intercourse with the Elliots as a mere matter of form, and not in
the least likely to afford them any pleasure. They brought with them their
country habit of being almost always together. He was ordered to walk to keep
off the gout, and Mrs Croft seemed to go shares with him in everything, and to
walk for her life to do him good. Anne saw them wherever she went. Lady
Russell took her out in her carriage almost every morning, and she never failed
to think of them, and never failed to see them. Knowing their feelings as she did,
it was a most attractive picture of happiness to her. She always watched them as
long as she could, delighted to fancy she understood what they might be talking
of, as they walked along in happy independence, or equally delighted to see the
Admiral's hearty shake of the hand when he encountered an old friend, and
observe their eagerness of conversation when occasionally forming into a little
knot of the navy, Mrs Croft looking as intelligent and keen as any of the officers
around her.
Anne was too much engaged with Lady Russell to be often walking herself;
but it so happened that one morning, about a week or ten days after the Croft's
arrival, it suited her best to leave her friend, or her friend's carriage, in the lower
part of the town, and return alone to Camden Place, and in walking up Milsom
Street she had the good fortune to meet with the Admiral. He was standing by
himself at a printshop window, with his hands behind him, in earnest
contemplation of some print, and she not only might have passed him unseen,
but was obliged to touch as well as address him before she could catch his
notice. When he did perceive and acknowledge her, however, it was done with
all his usual frankness and good humour. "Ha! is it you? Thank you, thank you.

address: adresse, adresser, destination,
aborder, interpeller, discours,
allocution.
attractive: attrayant, attirant, alléchant,
attractif, affriolant, attachant,
séduisant.
encountered: rencontrai, rencontra,
rencontrèrent, rencontrâmes,
rencontrâtes, rencontras, rencontré.
frankness: franchise.
hands: mains.
happened: arrivâmes, arrivèrent,
French
arrivas, arrivai, arriva, arrivâtes,
arrivé, advint, advinrent, advenu.
keen: vif, aiguisé, actif, affilé, alerte,
vigilant.
knot: noeud, nouer, bécasseau
maubèche, larme, nodule, nœud
lâche.
officers: dirigeants, officiers.
perceive: apercevoir, apercevons,
apercevez, aperçoivent, aperçois,
percevoir, discerner, percevez,
perçoivent, percevons, perçois.
print: imprimer, impression, imprimé,
épreuve, gravure, estampe, copie,
caractères, empreinte, tirer.
printshop: marchand d'estampes.
shares: actions, titres, partage.
standing: debout, permanent.
thank: remercier, remercies, remercie,
remerciez, remercions, remercient.
touch: toucher, touche, contact,
touchez.
window: fenêtre, guichet, hublot,
créneau, la fenêtre.
154 Persuasion

This is treating me like a friend. Here I am, you see, staring at a picture. I can
never get by this shop without stopping. But what a thing here is, by way of a
boat! Do look at it. Did you ever see the like? What queer fellows your fine
painters must be, to think that anybody would venture their lives in such a
shapeless old cockleshell as that? And yet here are two gentlemen stuck up in it
mightily at their ease, and looking about them at the rocks and mountains, as if
they were not to be upset the next moment, which they certainly must be. I
wonder where that boat was built!" (laughing heartily); "I would not venture
over a horsepond in it. Well," (turning away), "now, where are you bound? Can
I go anywhere for you, or with you? Can I be of any use?"
"None, I thank you, unless you will give me the pleasure of your company
the little way our road lies together. I am going home."
"That I will, with all my heart, and farther, too. Yes, yes we will have a snug
walk together, and I have something to tell you as we go along. There, take my
arm; that's right; I do not feel comfortable if I have not a woman there. Lord!
what a boat it is!" taking a last look at the picture, as they began to be in motion.%
"Did you say that you had something to tell me, sir?"
"Yes, I have, presently. But here comes a friend, Captain Brigden; I shall only
say, `How d'ye do?' as we pass, however. I shall not stop. `How d'ye do?'
Brigden stares to see anybody with me but my wife. She, poor soul, is tied by the
leg. She has a blister on one of her heels, as large as a three-shilling piece. If
you look across the street, you will see Admiral Brand coming down and his
brother. Shabby fellows, both of them! I am glad they are not on this side of the
way. Sophy cannot bear them. They played me a pitiful trick once: got away
with some of my best men. I will tell you the whole story another time. There
comes old Sir Archibald Drew and his grandson. Look, he sees us; he kisses his
hand to you; he takes you for my wife. Ah! the peace has come too soon for that
younker. Poor old Sir Archibald! How do you like Bath, Miss Elliot? It suits us
very well. We are always meeting with some old friend or other; the streets full
of them every morning; sure to have plenty of chat; and then we get away from
them all, and shut ourselves in our lodgings, and draw in our chairs, and are

arm: bras, armer, accoudoir, branche,
accotoir, arme.
blister: ampoule, cloque,
boursouflure, bulle, cloquer, vésicule,
soufflure.
boat: bateau, barque, canot,
embarcation, navire.
bound: bond, lié, limite, relié.
chairs: chaises.
draw: dessiner, dessinent, dessinez,
dessinons, dessines, dessine, puiser,
tirer, puisent, puisons, puises.
French
heels: talons. queer: bizarre.
kisses: baise, baisers, bisous. rocks: étoc, montages.
leg: jambe, patte, cuisse, branche, pied, shapeless: informe.
gigot, montant. shop: boutique, magasin, atelier.
lies: git, ment. stopping: arrêtant, cessant, stoppant,
mightily: puissamment, de manière interrompant, arrêt, obturation,
puissante, de façon puissante. plombage.
mountains: massif. stuck: collé, être embourbé.
painters: peintres. treating: traitant.
played: jouâtes, jouas, jouèrent, jouai, trick: artifice, truc, mystifier, astuce,
jouâmes, joué, joua. tour, ruse.
presently: actuellement. unless: à moins que, à moins de, sauf.
 Jane Austen 155

snug as if we were at Kellynch, ay, or as we used to be even at North Yarmouth

and Deal. We do not like our lodgings here the worse, I can tell you, for putting
us in mind of those we first had at North Yarmouth. The wind blows through
one of the cupboards just in the same way."%
When they were got a little farther, Anne ventured to press again for what he
had to communicate. She hoped when clear of Milsom Street to have her
curiosity gratified; but she was still obliged to wait, for the Admiral had made
up his mind not to begin till they had gained the greater space and quiet of
Belmont; and as she was not really Mrs Croft, she must let him have his own
way. As soon as they were fairly ascending Belmont, he began--
"Well, now you shall hear something that will surprise you. But first of all,
you must tell me the name of the young lady I am going to talk about. That
young lady, you know, that we have all been so concerned for. The Miss
Musgrove, that all this has been happening to. Her Christian name: I always
forget her Christian name."
Anne had been ashamed to appear to comprehend so soon as she really did;
but now she could safely suggest the name of "Louisa."
"Ay, ay, Miss Louisa Musgrove, that is the name. I wish young ladies had
not such a number of fine Christian names. I should never be out if they were all
Sophys, or something of that sort. Well, this Miss Louisa, we all thought, you
know, was to marry Frederick. He was courting her week after week. The only
wonder was, what they could be waiting for, till the business at Lyme came;
then, indeed, it was clear enough that they must wait till her brain was set to
right. But even then there was something odd in their way of going on. Instead
of staying at Lyme, he went off to Plymouth, and then he went off to see Edward.
When we came back from Minehead he was gone down to Edward's, and there
he has been ever since. We have seen nothing of him since November. Even
Sophy could not understand it. But now, the matter has take the strangest turn
of all; for this young lady, the same Miss Musgrove, instead of being to marry
Frederick, is to marry James Benwick. You know James Benwick."
"A little. I am a little acquainted with Captain Benwick."
French
acquainted: renseignai, informèrent, concerned: concerné, intéressé. écrasant, pressoir, serrer plus fort,
renseignâtes, renseigné, courting: briguant. comprimer.
renseignâmes, renseignèrent, farther: plus loin. snug: confortable, douillet, oreille de
renseigna, informâtes, informas, gratified: gratifiâtes, satisfîtes, satisfit, châssis, ergot.
informâmes, informai. satisfis, satisfirent, gratifièrent, suggest: suggérer, suggère, suggères,
ascending: montant, ascendant. gratifias, gratifiâmes, gratifiai, suggérez, suggérons, suggèrent,
ashamed: honteux. gratifia, satisfîmes. proposer, désigner, inspirer,
blows: coups, souffle. indeed: vraiment, certes, en vérité, indiquer.
brain: cerveau, cervelle. réellement, si, d'abord, en réalité, en turn: tourner, tournes, tourne,
comprehend: comprendre, effet, en fait, effectivement, voire. tournons, tournent, tournez, tour,
comprennent, comprends, press: presse, presser, serrer, appuyer, changer, retourner, dévier, retournes.
comprenez, comprenons. tasser, être urgent, appuyer en ventured: osé.
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"Well, she is to marry him. Nay, most likely they are married already, for I
do not know what they should wait for."%
"I thought Captain Benwick a very pleasing young man," said Anne, "and I
understand that he bears an excellent character."
"Oh! yes, yes, there is not a word to be said against James Benwick. He is only
a commander, it is true, made last summer, and these are bad times for getting
on, but he has not another fault that I know of. An excellent, good-hearted
fellow, I assure you; a very active, zealous officer too, which is more than you
would think for, perhaps, for that soft sort of manner does not do him justice."
"Indeed you are mistaken there, sir; I should never augur want of spirit from
Captain Benwick's manners. I thought them particularly pleasing, and I will
answer for it, they would generally please."
"Well, well, ladies are the best judges; but James Benwick is rather too piano
for me; and though very likely it is all our partiality, Sophy and I cannot help
thinking Frederick's manners better than his. There is something about Frederick
more to our taste."
Anne was caught. She had only meant to oppose the too common idea of
spirit and gentleness being incompatible with each other, not at all to represent
Captain Benwick's manners as the very best that could possibly be; and, after a
little hesitation, she was beginning to say, "I was not entering into any
comparison of the two friends," but the Admiral interrupted her with--
"And the thing is certainly true. It is not a mere bit of gossip. We have it from
Frederick himself. His sister had a letter from him yesterday, in which he tells us
of it, and he had just had it in a letter from Harville, written upon the spot, from
Uppercross. I fancy they are all at Uppercross."
This was an opportunity which Anne could not resist; she said, therefore, "I
hope, Admiral, I hope there is nothing in the style of Captain Wentworth's letter
to make you and Mrs Croft particularly uneasy. It did seem, last autumn, as if
there were an attachment between him and Louisa Musgrove; but I hope it may

assure: assurer, assure, assures,
assurons, assurez, assurent, certifier,
garantir, garantis, garantissent,
garantissez.
attachment: attachement, saisie,
accessoire, annexe, attache.
augur: augure.
bears: ours.
comparison: comparaison.
gentleness: douceur, bonté.
gossip: cancaner, jaser, commérage,
commérages, bavard.
French
hesitation: hésitation.
incompatible: incompatible,
inconciliable.
judges: magistrature assise.
manners: moeurs.
oppose: opposer, oppose, opposes,
opposent, opposons, opposez, se
mettre en travers, rouspéter,
rouspètent, rouspétons, rouspète.
partiality: partialité.
piano: piano.
pleasing: plaisant.
possibly: de façon possible, de
manière possible.
represent: représenter, représentes,
représentez, représentent,
représentons, représente, figurer.
soft: doux, mou, tendre, moelleux,
gentil, suave, sucré.
spirit: esprit, vigueur.
tells: dit, raconte, enjoint, commande.
uneasy: agité, inquiet, gêné.
zealous: zélé, fervent.
 Jane Austen 157

be understood to have worn out on each side equally, and without violence. I
hope his letter does not breathe the spirit of an ill-used man."
"Not at all, not at all; there is not an oath or a murmur from beginning to
end."
Anne looked down to hide her smile.%
"No, no; Frederick is not a man to whine and complain; he has too much
spirit for that. If the girl likes another man better, it is very fit she should have
him."
"Certainly. But what I mean is, that I hope there is nothing in Captain
Wentworth's manner of writing to make you suppose he thinks himself ill-used
by his friend, which might appear, you know, without its being absolutely said.
I should be very sorry that such a friendship as has subsisted between him and
Captain Benwick should be destroyed, or even wounded, by a circumstance of
this sort."
"Yes, yes, I understand you. But there is nothing at all of that nature in the
letter. He does not give the least fling at Benwick; does not so much as say, `I
wonder at it, I have a reason of my own for wondering at it.' No, you would not
guess, from his way of writing, that he had ever thought of this Miss (what's her
name?) for himself. He very handsomely hopes they will be happy together; and
there is nothing very unforgiving in that, I think."
Anne did not receive the perfect conviction which the Admiral meant to
convey, but it would have been useless to press the enquiry farther. She
therefore satisfied herself with common-place remarks or quiet attention, and the
Admiral had it all his own way.
"Poor Frederick!" said he at last. "Now he must begin all over again with
somebody else. I think we must get him to Bath. Sophy must write, and beg him
to come to Bath. Here are pretty girls enough, I am sure. It would be of no use to
go to Uppercross again, for that other Miss Musgrove, I find, is bespoke by her
cousin, the young parson. Do not you think, Miss Elliot, we had better try to get
him to Bath?"

beg: mendier, mendions, mendiez,
mendies, mendie, mendient,
demander, prier, quémander,
implorer, supplier.
bespoke: fait sur mesure.
breathe: respirer, respire, respires,
respirent, respirons, respirez.
circumstance: circonstance.
complain: se plaindre, porter plainte,
plaindre.
convey: transmettre.
enquiry: enquête, demande de
French
renseignements.
farther: plus loin.
fling: brandir, agiter, jeter, lancer.
girls: filles.
guess: deviner, supposer, supposition.
handsomely: de manière belle, de
façon belle.
hide: peau, cacher, cachent, cachons,
caches, cache, cachez, fourrure,
s'abriter, dissimuler, pelage.
murmur: murmure, murmurer, bruit.
nature: nature, caractère.
oath: serment, juron.
parson: pasteur.
reason: raison, cause, motif, raisonner.
subsisted: subsistâtes, subsistas,
subsistai, subsistèrent, subsistâmes,
subsisté, subsista.
useless: inutile, vain, abortif.
violence: violence.
whine: plainte.
wounded: blessé, blessés.
writing: écrivant, écriture, écrit,
inscription.
158 Persuasion

CHAPTER 19

While Admiral Croft was taking this walk with Anne, and expressing his
wish of getting Captain Wentworth to Bath, Captain Wentworth was already on
his way thither. Before Mrs Croft had written, he was arrived, and the very next
time Anne walked out, she saw him.%
Mr Elliot was attending his two cousins and Mrs Clay. They were in Milsom
Street. It began to rain, not much, but enough to make shelter desirable for
women, and quite enough to make it very desirable for Miss Elliot to have the
advantage of being conveyed home in Lady Dalrymple's carriage, which was
seen waiting at a little distance; she, Anne, and Mrs Clay, therefore, turned into
Molland's, while Mr Elliot stepped to Lady Dalrymple, to request her assistance.
He soon joined them again, successful, of course; Lady Dalrymple would be
most happy to take them home, and would call for them in a few minutes.
Her ladyship's carriage was a barouche, and did not hold more than four
with any comfort. Miss Carteret was with her mother; consequently it was not
reasonable to expect accommodation for all the three Camden Place ladies.
There could be no doubt as to Miss Elliot. Whoever suffered inconvenience, she
must suffer none, but it occupied a little time to settle the point of civility
between the other two. The rain was a mere trifle, and Anne was most sincere
in preferring a walk with Mr Elliot. But the rain was also a mere trifle to Mrs

accommodation: accommodation,
logement, accommodement,
compromis, arrangement,
construction, domicile, disposition,
gîte, habitation, hébergement.
attending: assistant, soignant.
barouche: calèche.
carriage: wagon, chariot, voiture,
affût.
civility: civilité.
consequently: ensuite, donc, de
manière conséquente, de façon
French
conséquente, par conséquent.
conveyed: transmis, véhiculé,
véhiculai, véhiculèrent, véhiculâtes,
véhiculâmes, véhicula, transmîtes,
transmit, transmirent, acheminèrent.
desirable: désirable, souhaitable.
expressing: exprimant.
hold: tenir, prise, maintien, cale,
contenir, blocage, pause, tenue,
retenir.
inconvenience: dérangement,
inconvénient, gêne.
minutes: protocole.
preferring: préférant.
rain: pluie, pleuvoir, la pluie.
shelter: abri, abriter, refuge, s'abriter,
gîte, garantir, se mettre à l'abri, se
retrancher, héberger.
sincere: sincère.
stepped: échelonné.
successful: réussi, couronné de succès,
prospère.
thither: là.
trifle: bagatelle, babiole.
 Jane Austen 159

Clay; she would hardly allow it even to drop at all, and her boots were so thick!
much thicker than Miss Anne's; and, in short, her civility rendered her quite as
anxious to be left to walk with Mr Elliot as Anne could be, and it was discussed
between them with a generosity so polite and so determined, that the others
were obliged to settle it for them; Miss Elliot maintaining that Mrs Clay had a
little cold already, and Mr Elliot deciding on appeal, that his cousin Anne's boots
were rather the thickest.%
It was fixed accordingly, that Mrs Clay should be of the party in the carriage;
and they had just reached this point, when Anne, as she sat near the window,
descried, most decidedly and distinctly, Captain Wentworth walking down the
street.
Her start was perceptible only to herself; but she instantly felt that she was
the greatest simpleton in the world, the most unaccountable and absurd! For a
few minutes she saw nothing before her; it was all confusion. She was lost, and
when she had scolded back her senses, she found the others still waiting for the
carriage, and Mr Elliot (always obliging) just setting off for Union Street on a
commission of Mrs Clay's.
She now felt a great inclination to go to the outer door; she wanted to see if it
rained. Why was she to suspect herself of another motive? Captain Wentworth
must be out of sight. She left her seat, she would go; one half of her should not be
always so much wiser than the other half, or always suspecting the other of
being worse than it was. She would see if it rained. She was sent back, however,
in a moment by the entrance of Captain Wentworth himself, among a party of
gentlemen and ladies, evidently his acquaintance, and whom he must have
joined a little below Milsom Street. He was more obviously struck and confused
by the sight of her than she had ever observed before; he looked quite red. For
the first time, since their renewed acquaintance, she felt that she was betraying
the least sensibility of the two. She had the advantage of him in the preparation
of the last few moments. All the overpowering, blinding, bewildering, first
effects of strong surprise were over with her. Still, however, she had enough to
feel! It was agitation, pain, pleasure, a something between delight and misery.

accordingly: donc, en conséquence,
par conséquent, ensuite.
betraying: trahissant.
bewildering: ahurissant, effarant.
blinding: aveuglant, colmatage,
éblouissant.
boots: bottes.
commission: commission,
commissionner, groupe de travail,
mandat.
confused: confondu, confondis,
confondit, confondîmes, confondîtes,
French
confondirent, confus.
deciding: décidant.
descried: aperçus, aperçûtes, aperçut,
aperçûmes, aperçu, aperçurent.
discussed: discutâmes, discuté,
discutèrent, discuta, discutai,
discutas, discutâtes, débattit,
débattîtes, débattirent, débattîmes.
distinctly: distinctement, de manière
nette, de façon nette.
drop: goutte, tomber, chute, abattre,
faire tomber, abandonner, baisser,
baisse, laisser tomber, goutte d'eau,
s'amoindrir.
obviously: évidemment, de manière
évidente, de façon évidente.
outer: externe, extérieur.
overpowering: accablant, dominant,
vainquant, maîtrisant, irrésistible.
rained: plu.
scolded: grognâmes, grognée, grogné,
grondé, grogna, grognai.
simpleton: nigaud, niais.
unaccountable: inexplicable.
160 Persuasion

He spoke to her, and then turned away. The character of his manner was
embarrassment. She could not have called it either cold or friendly, or anything
so certainly as embarrassed.%
After a short interval, however, he came towards her, and spoke again.
Mutual enquiries on common subjects passed: neither of them, probably, much
the wiser for what they heard, and Anne continuing fully sensible of his being
less at ease than formerly. They had by dint of being so very much together, got
to speak to each other with a considerable portion of apparent indifference and
calmness; but he could not do it now. Time had changed him, or Louisa had
changed him. There was consciousness of some sort or other. He looked very
well, not as if he had been suffering in health or spirits, and he talked of
Uppercross, of the Musgroves, nay, even of Louisa, and had even a momentary
look of his own arch significance as he named her; but yet it was Captain
Wentworth not comfortable, not easy, not able to feign that he was.
It did not surprise, but it grieved Anne to observe that Elizabeth would not
know him. She saw that he saw Elizabeth, that Elizabeth saw him, that there was
complete internal recognition on each side; she was convinced that he was
ready to be acknowledged as an acquaintance, expecting it, and she had the pain
of seeing her sister turn away with unalterable coldness.
Lady Dalrymple's carriage, for which Miss Elliot was growing very
impatient, now drew up; the servant came in to announce it. It was beginning to
rain again, and altogether there was a delay, and a bustle, and a talking, which
must make all the little crowd in the shop understand that Lady Dalrymple was
calling to convey Miss Elliot. At last Miss Elliot and her friend, unattended but
by the servant, (for there was no cousin returned), were walking off; and Captain
Wentworth, watching them, turned again to Anne, and by manner, rather than
words, was offering his services to her.
"I am much obliged to you," was her answer, "but I am not going with them.
The carriage would not accommodate so many. I walk: I prefer walking."
"But it rains."

acquaintance: connaissance, relation,
personne de connaissance, abord.
announce: annoncer, annonce,
annonces, annonçons, annoncez,
annoncent, publier, introduire.
arch: arc, cintre, voûte, arche, arcade.
bustle: tournure.
calmness: calme, repos.
coldness: froideur, froid.
complete: complet, compléter, entier,
remplir, parfaire, finir.
considerable: considérable, important,
French
imposant, majeur.
crowd: foule, masse, amas, tas,
multitude, cohue.
dint: force.
embarrassment: embarras, gêne.
feign: feindre, simuler.
grieved: affligeas, affligeâtes, affligé,
affligea, affligèrent, affligeâmes,
affligeai, chagrinas, chagrinâtes,
chagriné, chagrina.
impatient: impatient.
indifference: indifférence.
internal: interne, intérieur.
momentary: momentané.
nay: non.
portion: partie, portion, part.
recognition: reconnaissance,
identification, récognition.
significance: signification,
importance, valeur significative.
unalterable: immuable.
unattended: automatique,
surveillance, sans surveillance.
watching: regarder.
 Jane Austen 161

"Oh! %very little, Nothing that I regard."

After a moment's pause he said: "Though I came only yesterday, I have
equipped myself properly for Bath already, you see," (pointing to a new
umbrella); "I wish you would make use of it, if you are determined to walk;
though I think it would be more prudent to let me get you a chair."
She was very much obliged to him, but declined it all, repeating her
conviction, that the rain would come to nothing at present, and adding, "I am
only waiting for Mr Elliot. He will be here in a moment, I am sure."
She had hardly spoken the words when Mr Elliot walked in. Captain
Wentworth recollected him perfectly. There was no difference between him and
the man who had stood on the steps at Lyme, admiring Anne as she passed,
except in the air and look and manner of the privileged relation and friend. He
came in with eagerness, appeared to see and think only of her, apologised for his
stay, was grieved to have kept her waiting, and anxious to get her away without
further loss of time and before the rain increased; and in another moment they
walked off together, her arm under his, a gentle and embarrassed glance, and a
"Good morning to you!" being all that she had time for, as she passed away.
As soon as they were out of sight, the ladies of Captain Wentworth's party
began talking of them.
"Mr Elliot does not dislike his cousin, I fancy?"
"Oh! no, that is clear enough. One can guess what will happen there. He is
always with them; half lives in the family, I believe. What a very good-looking
man!"
"Yes, and Miss Atkinson, who dined with him once at the Wallises, says he is
the most agreeable man she ever was in company with."
"She is pretty, I think; Anne Elliot; very pretty, when one comes to look at
her. It is not the fashion to say so, but I confess I admire her more than her
sister."
"Oh! so do I."

admire: admirer, admire, admires,
admirons, admirent, admirez.
admiring: admirant, admiratif.
agreeable: agréable, aimable.
confess: confesser, avouer, confessent,
confessons, confessez, confesses,
confesse, avouent, avouons, avoues,
avoue.
dined: dîné.
dislike: détester, antipathie, déteste,
détestent, détestes, détestez,
détestons, dédaigner.
French
eagerness: avidité.
embarrassed: embarrassé,
embarrassai, embarrassa,
embarrassâmes, embarrassèrent,
embarrassas, embarrassâtes, gêné.
equipped: équipé, équipâmes, équipa,
équipai, équipèrent, équipas,
équipâtes.
grieved: affligeas, affligeâtes, affligé,
affligea, affligèrent, affligeâmes,
affligeai, chagrinas, chagrinâtes,
chagriné, chagrina.
obliged: obligeâtes, obligeas, obligea,
obligeâmes, obligèrent, obligeai,
obligé.
privileged: privilégié.
prudent: prudent, raisonnable.
recollected: retenu, retînmes,
retinrent, retins, retint, retîntes.
repeating: répétant, redisant.
162 Persuasion

"And so do I. No comparison. But the men are all wild after Miss Elliot.
Anne is too delicate for them."
Anne would have been particularly obliged to her cousin, if he would have
walked by her side all the way to Camden Place, without saying a word. She had
never found it so difficult to listen to him, though nothing could exceed his
solicitude and care, and though his subjects were principally such as were wont
to be always interesting: praise, warm, just, and discriminating, of Lady Russell,
and insinuations highly rational against Mrs Clay. But just now she could think
only of Captain Wentworth. She could not understand his present feelings,
whether he were really suffering much from disappointment or not; and till that
point were settled, she could not be quite herself.%
She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! alas! she must confess
to herself that she was not wise yet.
Another circumstance very essential for her to know, was how long he meant
to be in Bath; he had not mentioned it, or she could not recollect it. He might be
only passing through. But it was more probable that he should be come to stay.
In that case, so liable as every body was to meet every body in Bath, Lady Russell
would in all likelihood see him somewhere. Would she recollect him? How
would it all be?
She had already been obliged to tell Lady Russell that Louisa Musgrove was
to marry Captain Benwick. It had cost her something to encounter Lady
Russell's surprise; and now, if she were by any chance to be thrown into
company with Captain Wentworth, her imperfect knowledge of the matter
might add another shade of prejudice against him.
The following morning Anne was out with her friend, and for the first hour,
in an incessant and fearful sort of watch for him in vain; but at last, in returning
down Pulteney Street, she distinguished him on the right hand pavement at such
a distance as to have him in view the greater part of the street. There were many
other men about him, many groups walking the same way, but there was no
mistaking him. She looked instinctively at Lady Russell; but not from any mad
idea of her recognising him so soon as she did herself. No, it was not to be
French
alas: hélas, malheureusement. outrepasser. de façon commettante.
circumstance: circonstance. fearful: effrayant, craintif, affreux. recollect: se rappeler, se souvenir,
confess: confesser, avouer, confessent, imperfect: imparfait. retenir, retenez, retiens, retiennent,
confessons, confessez, confesses, incessant: incessant. retenons.
confesse, avouent, avouons, avoues, instinctively: instinctivement, de shade: ombre, nuance, teinte,
avoue. manière instinctive, de façon ombrage, ombrager, nuancer,
cost: coût, coûter, dépense, prix de instinctive. ombrer.
revient. knowledge: connaissance, savoir. solicitude: sollicitude.
discriminating: discriminer. likelihood: vraisemblance, probabilité. somewhere: quelque part.
exceed: dépasser, dépasses, dépasse, mad: fou, agité, aberrant, enragé. vain: vain, vaniteux, abortif, frivole.
dépassez, dépassent, dépassons, mistaking: trompant. wont: coutume.
excéder, dominer, excède, excèdes, principally: principalement, surtout,
 Jane Austen 163

supposed%that Lady Russell would perceive him till they were nearly opposite.
She looked at her however, from time to time, anxiously; and when the moment
approached which must point him out, though not daring to look again (for her
own countenance she knew was unfit to be seen), she was yet perfectly conscious
of Lady Russell's eyes being turned exactly in the direction for him-- of her being,
in short, intently observing him. She could thoroughly comprehend the sort of
fascination he must possess over Lady Russell's mind, the difficulty it must be
for her to withdraw her eyes, the astonishment she must be feeling that eight or
nine years should have passed over him, and in foreign climes and in active
service too, without robbing him of one personal grace!
At last, Lady Russell drew back her head. "Now, how would she speak of
him?"
"You will wonder," said she, "what has been fixing my eye so long; but I was
looking after some window-curtains, which Lady Alicia and Mrs Frankland were
telling me of last night. They described the drawing-room window-curtains of
one of the houses on this side of the way, and this part of the street, as being the
handsomest and best hung of any in Bath, but could not recollect the exact
number, and I have been trying to find out which it could be; but I confess I can
see no curtains hereabouts that answer their description."
Anne sighed and blushed and smiled, in pity and disdain, either at her friend
or herself. The part which provoked her most, was that in all this waste of
foresight and caution, she should have lost the right moment for seeing whether
he saw them.
A day or two passed without producing anything. The theatre or the rooms,
where he was most likely to be, were not fashionable enough for the Elliots,
whose evening amusements were solely in the elegant stupidity of private
parties, in which they were getting more and more engaged; and Anne, wearied
of such a state of stagnation, sick of knowing nothing, and fancying herself
stronger because her strength was not tried, was quite impatient for the concert
evening. It was a concert for the benefit of a person patronised by Lady
Dalrymple. Of course they must attend. It was really expected to be a good one,

benefit: avantage, bénéfice, prestation,
allocation, intérêt, gain, profit,
indemnité.
concert: concert.
daring: audace, audacieux, hardi,
osant, aventurant.
described: décrit, décrivirent, décrivit,
décrivis, décrivîmes, décrivîtes.
disdain: dédain.
eight: huit.
exactly: exactement, justement,
précisément, à l'heure, proprement,
French
de manière exacte, de façon exacte.
fascination: fascination.
foreign: étranger, extérieur.
nine: neuf.
private: privé.
producing: produisant.
provoked: provoquâtes, provoquas,
provoquai, provoqua, provoqué,
provoquâmes, provoquèrent.
robbing: pillant, ravissant, dévalisant.
solely: seulement, de manière sole,
uniquement, de façon sole.
stagnation: stagnation.
street: rue.
stupidity: stupidité.
theatre: théâtre.
trying: essayant.
waste: gaspiller, déchets, gaspillons,
gaspille, gaspillent, gaspilles,
gaspillez, gaspillage, dissiper, déchet,
perte.
withdraw: retirer, retire, retirent,
retires, retirez, retirons, décéder,
prélever.
164 Persuasion

and Captain Wentworth was very fond of music. If she could only have a few
minutes conversation with him again, she fancied she should be satisfied; and as
to the power of addressing him, she felt all over courage if the opportunity
occurred. Elizabeth had turned from him, Lady Russell overlooked him; her
nerves were strengthened by these circumstances; she felt that she owed him
attention.%
She had once partly promised Mrs Smith to spend the evening with her; but
in a short hurried call she excused herself and put it off, with the more decided
promise of a longer visit on the morrow. Mrs Smith gave a most good-humoured
acquiescence.
"By all means," said she; "only tell me all about it, when you do come. Who is
your party?"
Anne named them all. Mrs Smith made no reply; but when she was leaving
her said, and with an expression half serious, half arch, "Well, I heartily wish
your concert may answer; and do not fail me to-morrow if you can come; for I
begin to have a foreboding that I may not have many more visits from you."
Anne was startled and confused; but after standing in a moment's suspense,
was obliged, and not sorry to be obliged, to hurry away.

acquiescence: acquiescement,
consentement, abandon.
addressing: adressage, adresser,
adressant.
arch: arc, cintre, voûte, arche, arcade.
courage: courage, abattage.
excused: excusé.
expression: expression, terme,
locution, mine, air.
fancied: imaginaire.
fond: tendre.
foreboding: pressentiment.
French
heartily: de manière cordiale, de façon
cordiale, chaleureusement.
hurried: hâtif, pressé, dépêché.
hurry: se dépêcher, hâte, presser, être
urgent, se presser, se hâter, dépêcher.
morrow: lendemain.
music: musique.
nerves: nerfs.
obliged: obligeâtes, obligeas, obligea,
obligeâmes, obligèrent, obligeai,
obligé.
overlooked: négligé.
owed: dû, dut, dûmes, dûtes, durent,
dus.
partly: en partie, partiellement.
startled: effarouché, effarouchâmes,
surprîtes, effarouchas, effarouchâtes,
effarouchèrent, surprîmes, surprit,
alarmèrent, surprirent, alarmé.
strengthened: fortifias, fortifiâtes,
fortifiai, fortifièrent, fortifiâmes,
fortifia, fortifié, renforcèrent,
renforçâtes, renforças, renforçâmes.
suspense: suspens.
 Jane Austen 165

CHAPTER 20

Sir%Walter, his two daughters, and Mrs Clay, were the earliest of all their
party at the rooms in the evening; and as Lady Dalrymple must be waited for,
they took their station by one of the fires in the Octagon Room. But hardly were
they so settled, when the door opened again, and Captain Wentworth walked in
alone. Anne was the nearest to him, and making yet a little advance, she
instantly spoke. He was preparing only to bow and pass on, but her gentle
"How do you do?" brought him out of the straight line to stand near her, and
make enquiries in return, in spite of the formidable father and sister in the back
ground. Their being in the back ground was a support to Anne; she knew
nothing of their looks, and felt equal to everything which she believed right to be
done.
While they were speaking, a whispering between her father and Elizabeth
caught her ear. She could not distinguish, but she must guess the subject; and
on Captain Wentworth's making a distant bow, she comprehended that her
father had judged so well as to give him that simple acknowledgement of
acquaintance, and she was just in time by a side glance to see a slight curtsey
from Elizabeth herself. This, though late, and reluctant, and ungracious, was yet
better than nothing, and her spirits improved.

acknowledgement: accusé de
réception, reconnaissance, confession,
acquit, aveu, reçu.
acquaintance: connaissance, relation,
personne de connaissance, abord.
advance: avance, avancer, s'approcher,
avancement, progresser, progrès,
promouvoir, acompte, accélérer,
inspirer, progression.
bow: arc, proue, archet, avant,
s'incliner, saluer.
comprehended: compris, comprîmes,
French
comprirent, comprit, comprîtes.
curtsey: faire une révérence.
daughters: filles.
distinguish: distinguer, distinguent,
distinguez, distinguons, distingues,
distingue, dégager, identifier,
dégage, dégagent, dégageons.
ear: oreille, épi.
earliest: le plus tôt.
formidable: formidable,
extraordinaire, prodigieux, singulier,
redoutable.
glance: coup d'œil.
instantly: directement, aussitôt,
d'abord, tout d'abord, à l'instant, de
manière instante, de façon instante.
judged: jugé.
nearest: plus proche.
preparing: préparant, apprêtant.
reluctant: peu disposé.
spirits: spiritueux.
spite: rancune, dépit.
ungracious: incivil.
whispering: chuchotement.
166 Persuasion

After talking, however, of the weather, and Bath, and the concert, their
conversation began to flag, and so little was said at last, that she was expecting
him to go every moment, but he did not; he seemed in no hurry to leave her; and
presently with renewed spirit, with a little smile, a little glow, he said--
"I have hardly seen you since our day at Lyme. I am afraid you must have
suffered from the shock, and the more from its not overpowering you at the
time."
She assured him that she had not.%
"It was a frightful hour," said he, "a frightful day!" and he passed his hand
across his eyes, as if the remembrance were still too painful, but in a moment,
half smiling again, added, "The day has produced some effects however; has had
some consequences which must be considered as the very reverse of frightful.
When you had the presence of mind to suggest that Benwick would be the
properest person to fetch a surgeon, you could have little idea of his being
eventually one of those most concerned in her recovery."
"Certainly I could have none. But it appears--I should hope it would be a
very happy match. There are on both sides good principles and good temper."
"Yes," said he, looking not exactly forward; "but there, I think, ends the
resemblance. With all my soul I wish them happy, and rejoice over every
circumstance in favour of it. They have no difficulties to contend with at home,
no opposition, no caprice, no delays. The Musgroves are behaving like
themselves, most honourably and kindly, only anxious with true parental hearts
to promote their daughter's comfort. All this is much, very much in favour of
their happiness; more than perhaps--"
He stopped. A sudden recollection seemed to occur, and to give him some
taste of that emotion which was reddening Anne's cheeks and fixing her eyes on
the ground. After clearing his throat, however, he proceeded thus--
"I confess that I do think there is a disparity, too great a disparity, and in a
point no less essential than mind. I regard Louisa Musgrove as a very amiable,
sweet-tempered girl, and not deficient in understanding, but Benwick is

added: ajoutèrent, ajoutâtes, ajoutas,
ajouta, ajoutâmes, ajouté, ajoutai,
additionnai, additionné,
additionnâmes, additionna.
amiable: aimable.
caprice: caprice.
clearing: clairière, dégagement,
défrichement, éclaircie.
consequences: effets.
deficient: déficient, insuffisant.
disparity: disparité.
ends: finit.
French
eventually: finalement, de manière
éventuelle, de façon éventuelle.
flag: drapeau, pavillon, indicateur,
étendard, fanion, dalle, banderole,
cavalier.
frightful: affreux, épouvantable,
effroyable.
ground: sol, terre, terrain, fond, masse,
échouer, motif.
honourably: de manière honorable, de
façon honorable.
overpowering: accablant, dominant,
vainquant, maîtrisant, irrésistible.
parental: parental.
presence: présence.
principles: principes.
recollection: souvenir, mémoire.
reddening: rougissant.
rejoice: réjouir, réjouissons, réjouissez,
réjouissent, réjouis, être joyeux.
remembrance: souvenir, mémoire.
resemblance: ressemblance.
sides: éclisses.
throat: gorge, la gorge, gosier.
 Jane Austen 167

something%more. He is a clever man, a reading man; and I confess, that I do

consider his attaching himself to her with some surprise. Had it been the effect
of gratitude, had he learnt to love her, because he believed her to be preferring
him, it would have been another thing. But I have no reason to suppose it so. It
seems, on the contrary, to have been a perfectly spontaneous, untaught feeling
on his side, and this surprises me. A man like him, in his situation! with a heart
pierced, wounded, almost broken! Fanny Harville was a very superior creature,
and his attachment to her was indeed attachment. A man does not recover from
such a devotion of the heart to such a woman. He ought not; he does not."
Either from the consciousness, however, that his friend had recovered, or
from other consciousness, he went no farther; and Anne who, in spite of the
agitated voice in which the latter part had been uttered, and in spite of all the
various noises of the room, the almost ceaseless slam of the door, and ceaseless
buzz of persons walking through, had distinguished every word, was struck,
gratified, confused, and beginning to breathe very quick, and feel an hundred
things in a moment. It was impossible for her to enter on such a subject; and yet,
after a pause, feeling the necessity of speaking, and having not the smallest wish
for a total change, she only deviated so far as to say--
"You were a good while at Lyme, I think?"
"About a fortnight. I could not leave it till Louisa's doing well was quite
ascertained. I had been too deeply concerned in the mischief to be soon at peace.
It had been my doing, solely mine. She would not have been obstinate if I had
not been weak. The country round Lyme is very fine. I walked and rode a great
deal; and the more I saw, the more I found to admire."
"I should very much like to see Lyme again," said Anne.
"Indeed! I should not have supposed that you could have found anything in
Lyme to inspire such a feeling. The horror and distress you were involved in,
the stretch of mind, the wear of spirits! I should have thought your last
impressions of Lyme must have been strong disgust."

agitated: agité, agitâtes, agitas,
agitâmes, agita, agitai, agitèrent,
troublé, troublai, troublèrent,
troublâtes.
attaching: attachant, apposant.
buzz: bourdonnement, bourdonner,
ronronner, crachement, vrombir,
vrombissement.
consider: considérer, considérons,
considèrent, considérez, considère,
considères, contempler, envisager,
regarder.
French
deviated: dévié, déviâmes, dévièrent,
déviai, dévia, dévias, déviâtes.
gratified: gratifiâtes, satisfîtes, satisfit,
satisfis, satisfirent, gratifièrent,
gratifias, gratifiâmes, gratifiai,
gratifia, satisfîmes.
hundred: cent, centaine.
inspire: inspirer, inspire, inspires,
inspirons, inspirez, inspirent, dicter,
enthousiasmer.
latter: dernier.
mischief: malice.
obstinate: obstiné, têtu, tenace, entêté.
pierced: perçâmes, perçai, perçâtes,
perça, percèrent, percé, perças.
quick: rapide, prompt, vite.
slam: chelem, claquer.
stretch: tendre, étirer, étendre,
allongement, s'étendre, s'étirer.
surprises: surprend.
total: total, additionner.
untaught: ignorant, spontané.
various: divers, différents, varié.
wear: usure, porter, avoir, user.
168 Persuasion

"The%last hours were certainly very painful," replied Anne; "but when pain is
over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure. One does not love a place
the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but
suffering, which was by no means the case at Lyme. We were only in anxiety
and distress during the last two hours, and previously there had been a great
deal of enjoyment. So much novelty and beauty! I have travelled so little, that
every fresh place would be interesting to me; but there is real beauty at Lyme;
and in short" (with a faint blush at some recollections), "altogether my
impressions of the place are very agreeable."
As she ceased, the entrance door opened again, and the very party appeared
for whom they were waiting. "Lady Dalrymple, Lady Dalrymple," was the
rejoicing sound; and with all the eagerness compatible with anxious elegance,
Sir Walter and his two ladies stepped forward to meet her. Lady Dalrymple and
Miss Carteret, escorted by Mr Elliot and Colonel Wallis, who had happened to
arrive nearly at the same instant, advanced into the room. The others joined
them, and it was a group in which Anne found herself also necessarily included.
She was divided from Captain Wentworth. Their interesting, almost too
interesting conversation must be broken up for a time, but slight was the
penance compared with the happiness which brought it on! She had learnt, in
the last ten minutes, more of his feelings towards Louisa, more of all his feelings
than she dared to think of; and she gave herself up to the demands of the party,
to the needful civilities of the moment, with exquisite, though agitated
sensations. She was in good humour with all. She had received ideas which
disposed her to be courteous and kind to all, and to pity every one, as being less
happy than herself.
The delightful emotions were a little subdued, when on stepping back from
the group, to be joined again by Captain Wentworth, she saw that he was gone.
She was just in time to see him turn into the Concert Room. He was gone; he had
disappeared, she felt a moment's regret. But "they should meet again. He would
look for her, he would find her out before the evening were over, and at present,

advanced: avancé, poussé, avance.
agitated: agité, agitâtes, agitas,
agitâmes, agita, agitai, agitèrent,
troublé, troublai, troublèrent,
troublâtes.
arrive: arriver, arrive, arrives,
arrivons, arrivez, arrivent.
blush: rougir, rougeur.
compatible: compatible,
correspondant.
demands: exige.
disappeared: disparu, disparus,
French
disparurent, disparut, disparûmes, ouvris, ouvrirent, ouvert.
disparûtes. penance: pénitence.
escorted: escorté. rejoicing: réjouissant.
included: inclus, inclut, inclûtes, subdued: soumîmes, soumîtes,
contîntes, contint, contins, continrent, soumit, soumirent, soumis,
contînmes, contenu, inclûmes, subjuguâtes, subjuguas,
inclurent. subjuguâmes, subjugué, subjuguai,
necessarily: de manière nécessaire, de subjugua.
façon nécessaire, forcément,
nécessairement.
needful: nécessaire.
opened: ouvrîtes, ouvrit, ouvrîmes,
 Jane Austen 169

perhaps, it was as well to be asunder. She was in need of a little interval for
recollection."
Upon Lady Russell's appearance soon afterwards, the whole party was
collected, and all that remained was to marshal themselves, and proceed into the
Concert Room; and be of all the consequence in their power, draw as many eyes,
excite as many whispers, and disturb as many people as they could.%
Very, very happy were both Elizabeth and Anne Elliot as they walked in.
Elizabeth arm in arm with Miss Carteret, and looking on the broad back of the
dowager Viscountess Dalrymple before her, had nothing to wish for which did
not seem within her reach; and Anne--but it would be an insult to the nature of
Anne's felicity, to draw any comparison between it and her sister's; the origin of
one all selfish vanity, of the other all generous attachment.
Anne saw nothing, thought nothing of the brilliancy of the room. Her
happiness was from within. Her eyes were bright and her cheeks glowed; but
she knew nothing about it. She was thinking only of the last half hour, and as
they passed to their seats, her mind took a hasty range over it. His choice of
subjects, his expressions, and still more his manner and look, had been such as
she could see in only one light. His opinion of Louisa Musgrove's inferiority, an
opinion which he had seemed solicitous to give, his wonder at Captain Benwick,
his feelings as to a first, strong attachment; sentences begun which he could not
finish, his half averted eyes and more than half expressive glance, all, all
declared that he had a heart returning to her at least; that anger, resentment,
avoidance, were no more; and that they were succeeded, not merely by
friendship and regard, but by the tenderness of the past. Yes, some share of the
tenderness of the past. She could not contemplate the change as implying less.
He must love her.
These were thoughts, with their attendant visions, which occupied and
flurried her too much to leave her any power of observation; and she passed
along the room without having a glimpse of him, without even trying to discern
him. When their places were determined on, and they were all properly
arranged, she looked round to see if he should happen to be in the same part of

anger: colère.
attendant: préposé, gardien, serviteur,
surveillant.
avoidance: évitement.
bright: clair, lumineux, luisant,
brillant, vif, magnifique, éclatant.
broad: large, ample.
choice: choix.
discern: discerner.
disturb: déranger, dérange, dérangez,
dérangeons, dérangent, déranges,
gêner, gênons, gênez, gênes, gênent.
French
dowager: douairière.
expressive: expressif.
generous: généreux.
glimpse: entrevoir.
happen: arriver, arrive, arrivons,
arrivez, arrivent, arrives, advenir,
avoir lieu, devenir, adviennent, se
passer.
implying: impliquant.
inferiority: infériorité.
light: léger, clair, lumière, allumer,
feu, faible, enflammer, lumineux,
lampe, rayonnement visible.
marshal: maréchal.
range: portée, gamme, étendue, plage,
distance, base de lancement,
parcours, domaine, distance
franchissable, éventail, amplitude.
seats: sièges.
sentences: phrases.
succeeded: réussîmes, réussîtes,
réussit, réussis, réussirent, réussi,
succédas, succédâtes, succédé,
succédai, succédâmes.
170 Persuasion

the room, but he was not; her eye could not reach him; and the concert being just
opening, she must consent for a time to be happy in a humbler way.%
The party was divided and disposed of on two contiguous benches: Anne
was among those on the foremost, and Mr Elliot had manoeuvred so well, with
the assistance of his friend Colonel Wallis, as to have a seat by her. Miss Elliot,
surrounded by her cousins, and the principal object of Colonel Wallis's gallantry,
was quite contented.
Anne's mind was in a most favourable state for the entertainment of the
evening; it was just occupation enough: she had feelings for the tender, spirits
for the gay, attention for the scientific, and patience for the wearisome; and had
never liked a concert better, at least during the first act. Towards the close of it,
in the interval succeeding an Italian song, she explained the words of the song to
Mr Elliot. They had a concert bill between them.
"This," said she, "is nearly the sense, or rather the meaning of the words, for
certainly the sense of an Italian love-song must not be talked of, but it is as nearly
the meaning as I can give; for I do not pretend to understand the language. I am
a very poor Italian scholar."
"Yes, yes, I see you are. I see you know nothing of the matter. You have only
knowledge enough of the language to translate at sight these inverted,
transposed, curtailed Italian lines, into clear, comprehensible, elegant English.
You need not say anything more of your ignorance. Here is complete proof."
"I will not oppose such kind politeness; but I should be sorry to be examined
by a real proficient."
"I have not had the pleasure of visiting in Camden Place so long," replied he,
"without knowing something of Miss Anne Elliot; and I do regard her as one
who is too modest for the world in general to be aware of half her
accomplishments, and too highly accomplished for modesty to be natural in any
other woman."
"For shame! for shame! this is too much flattery. I forget what we are to have
next," turning to the bill.

accomplishments: accomplissements.
benches: bancs.
bill: bec, addition, note, facture, billet,
projet de loi, traite, ticket, effet,
compte, lettre de change.
comprehensible: compréhensible.
contented: content, satisfait.
contiguous: contigu.
curtailed: abrégeâtes, abrégèrent,
abrégeas, abrégeâmes, abrégeai,
abrégea, abrégé.
entertainment: divertissement,
French
amusement, distraction.
flattery: flatterie, adulation.
foremost: premier.
gallantry: vaillance.
inverted: inversé, inverti.
modest: modeste.
modesty: modestie, pudeur.
politeness: politesse.
scientific: scientifique.
song: chanson, chant.
succeeding: réussissant, succédant,
aboutant.
surrounded: entourâtes, entouras,
entourai, entoura, entourèrent,
entourâmes, entouré.
translate: traduire, traduisez, traduis,
traduisent, traduisons.
transposed: transposas, transposâtes,
transposâmes, transposai, transposa,
transposèrent, transposé.
wearisome: fatigant.
 Jane Austen 171

"Perhaps," said Mr Elliot, speaking low, "I have had a longer acquaintance
with your character than you are aware of."
"Indeed! How so? You can have been acquainted with it only since I came to
Bath, excepting as you might hear me previously spoken of in my own family."
"I knew you by report long before you came to Bath. I had heard you
described by those who knew you intimately. I have been acquainted with you
by character many years. Your person, your disposition, accomplishments,
manner; they were all present to me."
Mr Elliot was not disappointed in the interest he hoped to raise. No one can
withstand the charm of such a mystery. To have been described long ago to a
recent acquaintance, by nameless people, is irresistible; and Anne was all
curiosity. She wondered, and questioned him eagerly; but in vain. He delighted
in being asked, but he would not tell.%
"No, no, some time or other, perhaps, but not now. He would mention no
names now; but such, he could assure her, had been the fact. He had many years
ago received such a description of Miss Anne Elliot as had inspired him with the
highest idea of her merit, and excited the warmest curiosity to know her."
Anne could think of no one so likely to have spoken with partiality of her
many years ago as the Mr Wentworth of Monkford, Captain Wentworth's
brother. He might have been in Mr Elliot's company, but she had not courage to
ask the question.
"The name of Anne Elliot," said he, "has long had an interesting sound to me.
Very long has it possessed a charm over my fancy; and, if I dared, I would
breathe my wishes that the name might never change."
Such, she believed, were his words; but scarcely had she received their
sound, than her attention was caught by other sounds immediately behind her,
which rendered every thing else trivial. Her father and Lady Dalrymple were
speaking.
"A well-looking man," said Sir Walter, "a very well-looking man."

accomplishments: accomplissements.
acquaintance: connaissance, relation,
personne de connaissance, abord.
acquainted: renseignai, informèrent,
renseignâtes, renseigné,
renseignâmes, renseignèrent,
renseigna, informâtes, informas,
informâmes, informai.
disposition: disposition, don,
dispositif, aptitude, talent.
excepting: sauf.
inspired: inspiras, inspirâtes, inspira,
French
inspirâmes, inspirèrent, inspirai,
inspiré.
intimately: de manière intime,
intimement, de façon intime.
mystery: mystère.
nameless: anonyme, inconnu.
partiality: partialité.
raise: lever, élever, soulever, entonner,
éduquer, augmenter, hausse, relever,
dresser, ériger, arborer.
recent: récent, frais.
rendered: plâtras, rendit, rendîmes,
rendirent, rendîtes, plâtrèrent, plâtré,
plâtrâtes, crépi, rendis, plâtrâmes.
sound: son, sonner, résonner, bruit,
sain, sonder, détroit, vibration
acoustique, oscillation acoustique,
solide, sonde.
trivial: insignifiant, banal.
vain: vain, vaniteux, abortif, frivole.
withstand: résister, résiste, résistent,
résistes, résistez, résistons, affronter.
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"A very fine young man indeed!" said Lady Dalrymple. "More air than one
often sees in Bath. Irish, I dare say."
"No, I just know his name. A bowing acquaintance. Wentworth; Captain
Wentworth of the navy. His sister married my tenant in Somersetshire, the
Croft, who rents Kellynch."
Before Sir Walter had reached this point, Anne's eyes had caught the right
direction, and distinguished Captain Wentworth standing among a cluster of
men at a little distance. As her eyes fell on him, his seemed to be withdrawn
from her. It had that appearance. It seemed as if she had been one moment too
late; and as long as she dared observe, he did not look again: but the
performance was recommencing, and she was forced to seem to restore her
attention to the orchestra and look straight forward.%
When she could give another glance, he had moved away. He could not have
come nearer to her if he would; she was so surrounded and shut in: but she
would rather have caught his eye.
Mr Elliot's speech, too, distressed her. She had no longer any inclination to
talk to him. She wished him not so near her.
The first act was over. Now she hoped for some beneficial change; and, after
a period of nothing-saying amongst the party, some of them did decide on going
in quest of tea. Anne was one of the few who did not choose to move. She
remained in her seat, and so did Lady Russell; but she had the pleasure of getting
rid of Mr Elliot; and she did not mean, whatever she might feel on Lady Russell's
account, to shrink from conversation with Captain Wentworth, if he gave her the
opportunity. She was persuaded by Lady Russell's countenance that she had
seen him.
He did not come however. Anne sometimes fancied she discerned him at a
distance, but he never came. The anxious interval wore away unproductively.
The others returned, the room filled again, benches were reclaimed and
repossessed, and another hour of pleasure or of penance was to be sat out,
another hour of music was to give delight or the gapes, as real or affected taste

beneficial: salutaire, avantageux.
bowing: cintrage, déformation en arc,
bombage.
cluster: grappe, groupe, barillet, amas.
decide: décider, décidons, décidez,
décident, décide, décides.
fell: tombas, tombâtes, tomba, tombai,
tombèrent, tombâmes, abattre, chus,
chûtes, abattîtes, abattit.
gapes: syngamose.
orchestra: orchestre.
performance: performance, exécution,
French
représentation, comportement,
accomplissement, qualités de
fonctionnement, prestation,
fonctionnement.
quest: recherche, quête.
reclaimed: régénérèrent, réclamèrent,
réclamai, réclamâmes, réclamas,
réclamâtes, régénéra, régénérai,
régénérâmes, réclama, régénérâtes.
recommencing: recommençant.
rents: accense.
restore: restaurer, restaures, restaurez,
restaurent, restaure, restaurons,
rétablir, rétablis, rétablissent,
rétablissez, rétablissons.
straight: droit, direct, directement,
tout droit, franc, ligne droite,
honnête, rectiligne.
tea: thé.
unproductively: de façon
improductive, de manière
improductive.
whatever: quoi que.
withdrawn: retiré.
 Jane Austen 173

for it prevailed. To Anne, it chiefly wore the prospect of an hour of agitation.

She could not quit that room in peace without seeing Captain Wentworth once
more, without the interchange of one friendly look.%
In re-settling themselves there were now many changes, the result of which
was favourable for her. Colonel Wallis declined sitting down again, and Mr
Elliot was invited by Elizabeth and Miss Carteret, in a manner not to be refused,
to sit between them; and by some other removals, and a little scheming of her
own, Anne was enabled to place herself much nearer the end of the bench than
she had been before, much more within reach of a passer-by. She could not do
so, without comparing herself with Miss Larolles, the inimitable Miss Larolles;
but still she did it, and not with much happier effect; though by what seemed
prosperity in the shape of an early abdication in her next neighbours, she found
herself at the very end of the bench before the concert closed.
Such was her situation, with a vacant space at hand, when Captain
Wentworth was again in sight. She saw him not far off. He saw her too; yet he
looked grave, and seemed irresolute, and only by very slow degrees came at last
near enough to speak to her. She felt that something must be the matter. The
change was indubitable. The difference between his present air and what it had
been in the Octagon Room was strikingly great. Why was it? She thought of her
father, of Lady Russell. Could there have been any unpleasant glances? He
began by speaking of the concert gravely, more like the Captain Wentworth of
Uppercross; owned himself disappointed, had expected singing; and in short,
must confess that he should not be sorry when it was over. Anne replied, and
spoke in defence of the performance so well, and yet in allowance for his feelings
so pleasantly, that his countenance improved, and he replied again with almost a
smile. They talked for a few minutes more; the improvement held; he even
looked down towards the bench, as if he saw a place on it well worth occupying;
when at that moment a touch on her shoulder obliged Anne to turn round. It
came from Mr Elliot. He begged her pardon, but she must be applied to, to
explain Italian again. Miss Carteret was very anxious to have a general idea of

abdication: abdication.
allowance: allocation, indemnité,
tolérance, bonification, prestation,
majoration.
applied: appliqué, appliqua,
appliquâtes, appliquas, appliquai,
appliquèrent, appliquâmes,
pratiquas, pratiquâtes, pratiqué,
pratiquâmes.
bench: banc, banquette, établi, gradin.
chiefly: principalement, surtout,
particulièrement, de façon chef, de
French
manière chef.
countenance: encourager.
gravely: gravement, de manière
tombe, de façon tombe.
indubitable: indubitable.
inimitable: inimitable.
interchange: échange, échanger,
échangeur.
irresolute: indécis.
owned: possédé.
prevailed: prévalûtes, prévalûmes,
prévalus, prévalut, prévalurent,
prévalu.
prospect: perspective, prospecter.
scheming: intrigant.
shape: forme, former, façonner,
modeler, profil.
shoulder: épaule, accotement,
épaulement.
strikingly: de manière frappante, de
façon frappante.
174 Persuasion

what was next to be sung. Anne could not refuse; but never had she sacrificed
to politeness with a more suffering spirit.%
A few minutes, though as few as possible, were inevitably consumed; and
when her own mistress again, when able to turn and look as she had done
before, she found herself accosted by Captain Wentworth, in a reserved yet
hurried sort of farewell. "He must wish her good night; he was going; he should
get home as fast as he could."
"Is not this song worth staying for?" said Anne, suddenly struck by an idea
which made her yet more anxious to be encouraging.
"No!" he replied impressively, "there is nothing worth my staying for;" and
he was gone directly.
Jealousy of Mr Elliot! It was the only intelligible motive. Captain
Wentworth jealous of her affection! Could she have believed it a week ago; three
hours ago! For a moment the gratification was exquisite. But, alas! there were
very different thoughts to succeed. How was such jealousy to be quieted? How
was the truth to reach him? How, in all the peculiar disadvantages of their
respective situations, would he ever learn of her real sentiments? It was misery
to think of Mr Elliot's attentions. Their evil was incalculable.

accosted: accostai, abordé, accosta,
accostèrent, accostâmes, accosté,
abordèrent, abordâtes, aborda,
abordai, abordâmes.
alas: hélas, malheureusement.
consumed: consomma, consommai,
consommé, consommèrent,
consommâmes, consommas,
consommâtes, consumèrent,
consuma, consumâmes, consumai.
disadvantages: désavantages.
exquisite: exquis.
French
farewell: adieu.
gratification: satisfaction.
impressively: de manière
impressionnante, de façon
impressionnante.
incalculable: incalculable.
intelligible: intelligible.
jealous: jaloux.
jealousy: jalousie, envie.
motive: motif, lieu, occasion, mobile,
motivation.
politeness: politesse.
reserved: réservé, réservée.
respective: respectif.
sacrificed: sacrifié.
succeed: réussir, réussis, réussissons,
réussissez, réussissent, arriver,
succéder, abouter, succèdes, succède,
succédons.
sung: chanté.
truth: vérité.
 Jane Austen 175

CHAPTER 21

Anne recollected with pleasure the next morning her promise of going to
Mrs Smith, meaning that it should engage her from home at the time when Mr
Elliot would be most likely to call; for to avoid Mr Elliot was almost a first
object.%
She felt a great deal of good-will towards him. In spite of the mischief of his
attentions, she owed him gratitude and regard, perhaps compassion. She could
not help thinking much of the extraordinary circumstances attending their
acquaintance, of the right which he seemed to have to interest her, by everything
in situation, by his own sentiments, by his early prepossession. It was altogether
very extraordinary; flattering, but painful. There was much to regret. How she
might have felt had there been no Captain Wentworth in the case, was not worth
enquiry; for there was a Captain Wentworth; and be the conclusion of the
present suspense good or bad, her affection would be his for ever. Their union,
she believed, could not divide her more from other men, than their final
separation.
Prettier musings of high-wrought love and eternal constancy, could never
have passed along the streets of Bath, than Anne was sporting with from
Camden Place to Westgate Buildings. It was almost enough to spread
purification and perfume all the way.

acquaintance: connaissance, relation,
personne de connaissance, abord.
affection: affection, amour.
attending: assistant, soignant.
compassion: compassion, pitié,
apitoiement.
constancy: constance.
divide: diviser, divisent, divisez,
divisons, divises, divise, partager,
partagent, partagez, partageons,
partage.
engage: engager, engagez, engagent,
French
engageons, engages, engage,
engrener.
enquiry: enquête, demande de
renseignements.
eternal: éternel, perpétuel.
final: finale, final.
flattering: flattant, adulant,
amadouant, flatteur.
gratitude: gratitude, reconnaissance,
remerciement.
mischief: malice.
owed: dû, dut, dûmes, dûtes, durent,
dus.
perfume: parfum, parfumer.
purification: purification, épuration.
recollected: retenu, retînmes,
retinrent, retins, retint, retîntes.
regret: regret, regretter, ménager.
separation: séparation, abandon,
décollement, espacement, scission.
spite: rancune, dépit.
sporting: sportif.
suspense: suspens.
176 Persuasion

She was sure of a pleasant reception; and her friend seemed this morning
particularly obliged to her for coming, seemed hardly to have expected her,
though it had been an appointment.%
An account of the concert was immediately claimed; and Anne's
recollections of the concert were quite happy enough to animate her features
and make her rejoice to talk of it. All that she could tell she told most gladly, but
the all was little for one who had been there, and unsatisfactory for such an
enquirer as Mrs Smith, who had already heard, through the short cut of a
laundress and a waiter, rather more of the general success and produce of the
evening than Anne could relate, and who now asked in vain for several
particulars of the company. Everybody of any consequence or notoriety in Bath
was well know by name to Mrs Smith.
"The little Durands were there, I conclude," said she, "with their mouths open
to catch the music, like unfledged sparrows ready to be fed. They never miss a
concert."
"Yes; I did not see them myself, but I heard Mr Elliot say they were in the
room."
"The Ibbotsons, were they there? and the two new beauties, with the tall Irish
officer, who is talked of for one of them."
"I do not know. I do not think they were."
"Old Lady Mary Maclean? I need not ask after her. She never misses, I
know; and you must have seen her. She must have been in your own circle; for
as you went with Lady Dalrymple, you were in the seats of grandeur, round the
orchestra, of course."
"No, that was what I dreaded. It would have been very unpleasant to me in
every respect. But happily Lady Dalrymple always chooses to be farther off; and
we were exceedingly well placed, that is, for hearing; I must not say for seeing,
because I appear to have seen very little."

animate: animer.
ask: demander, demande, demandent,
demandons, demandez, demandes,
poser une question, prier.
chooses: choisit, opte.
claimed: réclamé.
cut: couper, coupure, trancher, tailler,
hacher, coupé, coupe, découper,
balafre, tondre, réduction.
dreaded: redouté.
enquirer: investigateur.
exceedingly: extrêmement, de manière
French
excédante, de façon excédante.
farther: plus loin.
fed: alimentas, alimentâtes, alimenté,
alimentâmes, alimentai, alimentèrent,
alimenta, nourrit, nourris, nourrirent,
nourrîtes.
gladly: volontiers, avec plaisir, de
manière joyeuse, de façon joyeuse.
grandeur: noblesse, grandeur.
laundress: blanchisseuse.
misses: manque.
mouths: bouches.
notoriety: notoriété.
particulars: détails, précisions.
produce: produire, produisez,
produisons, produisent, produis,
réaliser, produit, fabriquer.
recollections: souvenirs.
rejoice: réjouir, réjouissons, réjouissez,
réjouissent, réjouis, être joyeux.
sparrows: moineaux.
success: succès, prospérité,
aboutissement, gain, réussite.
vain: vain, vaniteux, abortif, frivole.
 Jane Austen 177

"Oh! you saw enough for your own amusement. I can understand. There is a
sort of domestic enjoyment to be known even in a crowd, and this you had. You
were a large party in yourselves, and you wanted nothing beyond."
"But I ought to have looked about me more," said Anne, conscious while she
spoke that there had in fact been no want of looking about, that the object only
had been deficient.%
"No, no; you were better employed. You need not tell me that you had a
pleasant evening. I see it in your eye. I perfectly see how the hours passed: that
you had always something agreeable to listen to. In the intervals of the concert it
was conversation."
Anne half smiled and said, "Do you see that in my eye?"
"Yes, I do. Your countenance perfectly informs me that you were in
company last night with the person whom you think the most agreeable in the
world, the person who interests you at this present time more than all the rest of
the world put together."
A blush overspread Anne's cheeks. She could say nothing.
"And such being the case," continued Mrs Smith, after a short pause, "I hope
you believe that I do know how to value your kindness in coming to me this
morning. It is really very good of you to come and sit with me, when you must
have so many pleasanter demands upon your time."
Anne heard nothing of this. She was still in the astonishment and confusion
excited by her friend's penetration, unable to imagine how any report of Captain
Wentworth could have reached her. After another short silence--
"Pray," said Mrs Smith, "is Mr Elliot aware of your acquaintance with me?
Does he know that I am in Bath?"
"Mr Elliot!" repeated Anne, looking up surprised. A moment's reflection
shewed her the mistake she had been under. She caught it instantaneously; and
recovering her courage with the feeling of safety, soon added, more
composedly, "Are you acquainted with Mr Elliot?"

acquaintance: connaissance, relation,
personne de connaissance, abord.
acquainted: renseignai, informèrent,
renseignâtes, renseigné,
renseignâmes, renseignèrent,
renseigna, informâtes, informas,
informâmes, informai.
agreeable: agréable, aimable.
amusement: distraction, amusement,
détente, récréation, divertissement.
astonishment: étonnement, surprise.
blush: rougir, rougeur.
French
cheeks: joues.
composedly: de manière composée, de
façon composée.
countenance: encourager.
courage: courage, abattage.
enjoyment: jouissance, usufruit.
excited: excitas, excitâtes, excité,
excitai, excitèrent, excita, excitâmes,
hérissèrent, hérissé, hérissâtes,
hérissas.
hours: heures.
informs: informe, renseigne.
instantaneously: de manière
instantanée, de façon instantanée.
interests: intéresse, intérêts, champs
d'intérêt.
kindness: amabilité, bonté, gentillesse,
aménité.
mistake: erreur, faute, méprise, se
tromper.
pause: pause, repos, trêve.
penetration: pénétration.
recovering: récupérant, recouvrant.
safety: sécurité, sûreté.
178 Persuasion

"I have been a good deal acquainted with him," replied Mrs Smith, gravely,
"but it seems worn out now. It is a great while since we met."%
"I was not at all aware of this. You never mentioned it before. Had I known
it, I would have had the pleasure of talking to him about you."
"To confess the truth," said Mrs Smith, assuming her usual air of
cheerfulness, "that is exactly the pleasure I want you to have. I want you to talk
about me to Mr Elliot. I want your interest with him. He can be of essential
service to me; and if you would have the goodness, my dear Miss Elliot, to make
it an object to yourself, of course it is done."
"I should be extremely happy; I hope you cannot doubt my willingness to be
of even the slightest use to you," replied Anne; "but I suspect that you are
considering me as having a higher claim on Mr Elliot, a greater right to influence
him, than is really the case. I am sure you have, somehow or other, imbibed such
a notion. You must consider me only as Mr Elliot's relation. If in that light there
is anything which you suppose his cousin might fairly ask of him, I beg you
would not hesitate to employ me."
Mrs Smith gave her a penetrating glance, and then, smiling, said--
"I have been a little premature, I perceive; I beg your pardon. I ought to have
waited for official information, But now, my dear Miss Elliot, as an old friend,
do give me a hint as to when I may speak. Next week? To be sure by next week I
may be allowed to think it all settled, and build my own selfish schemes on Mr
Elliot's good fortune."
"No," replied Anne, "nor next week, nor next, nor next. I assure you that
nothing of the sort you are thinking of will be settled any week. I am not going
to marry Mr Elliot. I should like to know why you imagine I am?"
Mrs Smith looked at her again, looked earnestly, smiled, shook her head, and
exclaimed--
"Now, how I do wish I understood you! How I do wish I knew what you
were at! I have a great idea that you do not design to be cruel, when the right
moment occurs. Till it does come, you know, we women never mean to have

acquainted: renseignai, informèrent,
renseignâtes, renseigné,
renseignâmes, renseignèrent,
renseigna, informâtes, informas,
informâmes, informai.
assuming: assumant, supposant.
build: construire, bâtir, maçonner,
charpenter, construction, poser,
édifier, version.
cheerfulness: gaieté, bonne humeur.
claim: créance, réclamer,
revendication, demande, demander,
French
exiger, revendiquer, requérir.
cruel: cruel, atroce, méchant.
design: dessin, conception, projet,
dessiner, plan, concevoir, esquisse,
modèle, élaborer, design, dessein.
earnestly: sérieusement, de manière
sérieuse, de façon sérieuse.
gravely: gravement, de manière
tombe, de façon tombe.
hesitate: hésiter, hésite, hésites,
hésitent, hésitez, hésitons,
barguigner, barguigne, barguignent,
barguignes, barguignez.
higher: plus haut.
imbibed: absorba, absorbai,
absorbâmes, absorbas, absorbâtes,
absorbèrent, absorbé.
notion: notion, idée.
occurs: arrive, survient.
official: officiel, fonctionnaire.
penetrating: pénétrant.
premature: prématuré.
willingness: volonté, gré, bonne
volonté.
 Jane Austen 179

anybody. It is a thing of course among us, that every man is refused, till he
offers. But why should you be cruel? Let me plead for my--present friend I
cannot call him, but for my former friend. Where can you look for a more
suitable match? Where could you expect a more gentlemanlike, agreeable man?
Let me recommend Mr Elliot. I am sure you hear nothing but good of him from
Colonel Wallis; and who can know him better than Colonel Wallis?"%
"My dear Mrs Smith, Mr Elliot's wife has not been dead much above half a
year. He ought not to be supposed to be paying his addresses to any one."
"Oh! if these are your only objections," cried Mrs Smith, archly, "Mr Elliot is
safe, and I shall give myself no more trouble about him. Do not forget me when
you are married, that's all. Let him know me to be a friend of yours, and then he
will think little of the trouble required, which it is very natural for him now, with
so many affairs and engagements of his own, to avoid and get rid of as he can;
very natural, perhaps. Ninety-nine out of a hundred would do the same. Of
course, he cannot be aware of the importance to me. Well, my dear Miss Elliot, I
hope and trust you will be very happy. Mr Elliot has sense to understand the
value of such a woman. Your peace will not be shipwrecked as mine has been.
You are safe in all worldly matters, and safe in his character. He will not be led
astray; he will not be misled by others to his ruin."
"No," said Anne, "I can readily believe all that of my cousin. He seems to have
a calm decided temper, not at all open to dangerous impressions. I consider him
with great respect. I have no reason, from any thing that has fallen within my
observation, to do otherwise. But I have not known him long; and he is not a
man, I think, to be known intimately soon. Will not this manner of speaking of
him, Mrs Smith, convince you that he is nothing to me? Surely this must be calm
enough. And, upon my word, he is nothing to me. Should he ever propose to me
(which I have very little reason to imagine he has any thought of doing), I shall
not accept him. I assure you I shall not. I assure you, Mr Elliot had not the share
which you have been supposing, in whatever pleasure the concert of last night
might afford: not Mr Elliot; it is not Mr Elliot that--"

addresses: adresses.
agreeable: agréable, aimable.
assure: assurer, assure, assures,
assurons, assurez, assurent, certifier,
garantir, garantis, garantissent,
garantissez.
astray: égaré.
convince: convaincre, convaincs,
convainquent, convainquez,
convainquons.
cruel: cruel, atroce, méchant.
impressions: exposition à un message.
French
intimately: de manière intime,
intimement, de façon intime.
led: menâmes, conduisîtes, conduisit,
conduisis, conduit, conduisirent,
conduisîmes, menèrent, menas,
menâtes, mena.
misled: égaras, égarâtes, égaré, égarai,
égara, égarèrent, égarâmes.
offers: offrit.
plead: plaider, plaides, plaidez,
plaident, plaide, plaidons, implorer.
propose: proposer, proposes, propose,
proposons, proposez, proposent.
supposing: supposant.
temper: humeur, tremper, durcir,
tempérament, trempe, tempérer,
gâcher.
trust: confiance, fiducie, confier, trust,
foi, fidéicommis, se fier.
worldly: mondain, terrestre.
180 Persuasion

She stopped, regretting with a deep blush that she had implied so much; but
less would hardly have been sufficient. Mrs Smith would hardly have believed
so soon in Mr Elliot's failure, but from the perception of there being a somebody
else. As it was, she instantly submitted, and with all the semblance of seeing
nothing beyond; and Anne, eager to escape farther notice, was impatient to
know why Mrs Smith should have fancied she was to marry Mr Elliot; where she
could have received the idea, or from whom she could have heard it.%
"Do tell me how it first came into your head."
"It first came into my head," replied Mrs Smith, "upon finding how much you
were together, and feeling it to be the most probable thing in the world to be
wished for by everybody belonging to either of you; and you may depend upon
it that all your acquaintance have disposed of you in the same way. But I never
heard it spoken of till two days ago."
"And has it indeed been spoken of?"
"Did you observe the woman who opened the door to you when you called
yesterday?"
"No. Was not it Mrs Speed, as usual, or the maid? I observed no one in
particular."
"It was my friend Mrs Rooke; Nurse Rooke; who, by-the-bye, had a great
curiosity to see you, and was delighted to be in the way to let you in. She came
away from Marlborough Buildings only on Sunday; and she it was who told me
you were to marry Mr Elliot. She had had it from Mrs Wallis herself, which did
not seem bad authority. She sat an hour with me on Monday evening, and gave
me the whole history." "The whole history," repeated Anne, laughing. "She could
not make a very long history, I think, of one such little article of unfounded
news."
Mrs Smith said nothing.
"But," continued Anne, presently, "though there is no truth in my having this
claim on Mr Elliot, I should be extremely happy to be of use to you in any way

acquaintance: connaissance, relation,
personne de connaissance, abord.
authority: autorité, pouvoir, autorités,
instance.
bad: mauvais, méchant, mal.
belonging: appartenant.
blush: rougir, rougeur.
curiosity: curiosité.
disposed: disposé, disposâmes,
disposèrent, disposai, disposa,
disposâtes, disposas.
eager: avide, désireux.
French
failure: défaillance, échec, panne,
défaut, dérangement, banqueroute,
avortement, manque, avarie,
avortement spontané, insuccès.
fancied: imaginaire.
farther: plus loin.
impatient: impatient.
implied: impliquèrent, impliqua,
impliquai, impliquâmes, impliquas,
impliquâtes, impliqué, implicite.
instantly: directement, aussitôt,
d'abord, tout d'abord, à l'instant, de
manière instante, de façon instante.
maid: femme de chambre, servante,
domestique, bonne.
observe: observer, observes, observe,
observez, observons, observent,
respecter, respectons, respectez,
respectes, respectent.
presently: actuellement.
probable: probable, vraisemblable.
regretting: regrettant.
semblance: apparence, semblant.
unfounded: infondé, sans fondement.
 Jane Austen 181

that I could. Shall I mention to him your being in Bath? Shall I take any
message?"%
"No, I thank you: no, certainly not. In the warmth of the moment, and under
a mistaken impression, I might, perhaps, have endeavoured to interest you in
some circumstances; but not now. No, I thank you, I have nothing to trouble you
with."
"I think you spoke of having known Mr Elliot many years?"
"I did."
"Not before he was married, I suppose?"
"Yes; he was not married when I knew him first."
"And--were you much acquainted?"
"Intimately."
"Indeed! Then do tell me what he was at that time of life. I have a great
curiosity to know what Mr Elliot was as a very young man. Was he at all such as
he appears now?"
"I have not seen Mr Elliot these three years," was Mrs Smith's answer, given
so gravely that it was impossible to pursue the subject farther; and Anne felt that
she had gained nothing but an increase of curiosity. They were both silent: Mrs
Smith very thoughtful. At last--
"I beg your pardon, my dear Miss Elliot," she cried, in her natural tone of
cordiality, "I beg your pardon for the short answers I have been giving you, but I
have been uncertain what I ought to do. I have been doubting and considering
as to what I ought to tell you. There were many things to be taken into the
account. One hates to be officious, to be giving bad impressions, making
mischief. Even the smooth surface of family-union seems worth preserving,
though there may be nothing durable beneath. However, I have determined; I
think I am right; I think you ought to be made acquainted with Mr Elliot's real
character. Though I fully believe that, at present, you have not the smallest
intention of accepting him, there is no saying what may happen. You might,

accepting: acceptant, agréant.
acquainted: renseignai, informèrent,
renseignâtes, renseigné,
renseignâmes, renseignèrent,
renseigna, informâtes, informas,
informâmes, informai.
beg: mendier, mendions, mendiez,
mendies, mendie, mendient,
demander, prier, quémander,
implorer, supplier.
cordiality: cordialité.
curiosity: curiosité.
French
doubting: douter, doutant.
durable: durable, résistant.
farther: plus loin.
giving: donnant, offrant, aboulant.
gravely: gravement, de manière
tombe, de façon tombe.
hates: hait.
impressions: exposition à un message.
increase: augmenter, accroissement,
augmentation, accroître, agrandir,
grossir, redoubler, s'accroître,
croissance, amplifier, hausse.
mischief: malice.
mistaken: abusif, trompé.
preserving: conservation, confisant,
conservant, protection.
pursue: poursuivre, poursuivez,
poursuis, poursuivons, poursuivent,
pourchasser.
smallest: le plus petit.
surface: surface, superficie, comble,
haut, faîte, sommet, summon.
thoughtful: pensif, réfléchi.
uncertain: incertain, aléatoire, vague.
182 Persuasion

some time or other, be differently affected towards him. Hear the truth,
therefore, now, while you are unprejudiced. Mr Elliot is a man without heart or
conscience; a designing, wary, cold-blooded being, who thinks only of himself;
whom for his own interest or ease, would be guilty of any cruelty, or any
treachery, that could be perpetrated without risk of his general character. He has
no feeling for others. Those whom he has been the chief cause of leading into
ruin, he can neglect and desert without the smallest compunction. He is totally
beyond the reach of any sentiment of justice or compassion. Oh! he is black at
heart, hollow and black!"%
Anne's astonished air, and exclamation of wonder, made her pause, and in a
calmer manner, she added,
"My expressions startle you. You must allow for an injured, angry woman.
But I will try to command myself. I will not abuse him. I will only tell you what
I have found him. Facts shall speak. He was the intimate friend of my dear
husband, who trusted and loved him, and thought him as good as himself. The
intimacy had been formed before our marriage. I found them most intimate
friends; and I, too, became excessively pleased with Mr Elliot, and entertained
the highest opinion of him. At nineteen, you know, one does not think very
seriously; but Mr Elliot appeared to me quite as good as others, and much more
agreeable than most others, and we were almost always together. We were
principally in town, living in very good style. He was then the inferior in
circumstances; he was then the poor one; he had chambers in the Temple, and it
was as much as he could do to support the appearance of a gentleman. He had
always a home with us whenever he chose it; he was always welcome; he was
like a brother. My poor Charles, who had the finest, most generous spirit in the
world, would have divided his last farthing with him; and I know that his purse
was open to him; I know that he often assisted him."
"This must have been about that very period of Mr Elliot's life," said Anne,
"which has always excited my particular curiosity. It must have been about the
same time that he became known to my father and sister. I never knew him
myself; I only heard of him; but there was a something in his conduct then, with

abuse: abus, abuser, défaut,
tourmenter, insulter, injure,
maltraiter, affront, offenser.
chambers: chambres.
compunction: componction, remords.
cruelty: cruauté, sévices.
desert: désert, abandonner, délaisser,
quitter, déserter, livrer.
designing: conception, concevoir,
dessin, intrigant, mise en carte.
entertained: distrait, divertîmes,
divertirent, diverti, me régalai, vous
French
régalâtes, te régalas, se régalèrent, se
régalé, nous régalâmes, divertîtes.
exclamation: exclamation.
finest: le plus fin.
formed: formé.
guilty: coupable.
hollow: creux, cavité, caver.
injured: blessé, détérioré, détériora,
abîmai, détériorâtes, détérioras,
détériorèrent, détériorâmes,
détériorai, abîmâmes, abîmas.
perpetrated: perpétré, perpétrâtes,
perpétras, perpétra, perpétrai,
perpétrèrent, perpétrâmes.
purse: bourse, sacoche, sac à main.
startle: effaroucher, alarmer,
effarouchez, surprenons,
surprennent, surprenez,
effarouchons, effarouches, alarme,
effarouche, alarmons.
totally: de manière totale, de façon
totale, totalement.
unprejudiced: impartial.
wary: prudent.
 Jane Austen 183

regard to my father and sister, and afterwards in the circumstances of his

marriage, which I never could quite reconcile with present times. It seemed to
announce a different sort of man."%
"I know it all, I know it all," cried Mrs Smith. "He had been introduced to Sir
Walter and your sister before I was acquainted with him, but I heard him speak
of them for ever. I know he was invited and encouraged, and I know he did not
choose to go. I can satisfy you, perhaps, on points which you would little expect;
and as to his marriage, I knew all about it at the time. I was privy to all the fors
and againsts; I was the friend to whom he confided his hopes and plans; and
though I did not know his wife previously, her inferior situation in society,
indeed, rendered that impossible, yet I knew her all her life afterwards, or at least
till within the last two years of her life, and can answer any question you may
wish to put."
"Nay," said Anne, "I have no particular enquiry to make about her. I have
always understood they were not a happy couple. But I should like to know
why, at that time of his life, he should slight my father's acquaintance as he did.
My father was certainly disposed to take very kind and proper notice of him.
Why did Mr Elliot draw back?"
"Mr Elliot," replied Mrs Smith, "at that period of his life, had one object in
view: to make his fortune, and by a rather quicker process than the law. He was
determined to make it by marriage. He was determined, at least, not to mar it by
an imprudent marriage; and I know it was his belief (whether justly or not, of
course I cannot decide), that your father and sister, in their civilities and
invitations, were designing a match between the heir and the young lady, and it
was impossible that such a match should have answered his ideas of wealth and
independence. That was his motive for drawing back, I can assure you. He told
me the whole story. He had no concealments with me. It was curious, that
having just left you behind me in Bath, my first and principal acquaintance on
marrying should be your cousin; and that, through him, I should be continually
hearing of your father and sister. He described one Miss Elliot, and I thought
very affectionately of the other."

acquaintance: connaissance, relation,
personne de connaissance, abord.
acquainted: renseignai, informèrent,
renseignâtes, renseigné,
renseignâmes, renseignèrent,
renseigna, informâtes, informas,
informâmes, informai.
affectionately: affectueusement, de
manière affectueuse, de façon
affectueuse.
confided: confié, confia, confiâmes,
confiai, confièrent, confiâtes, confias.
French
couple: couple, accoupler, coupler,
époux, apparier, mari et femme,
atteler, embrayer.
designing: conception, concevoir,
dessin, intrigant, mise en carte.
disposed: disposé, disposâmes,
disposèrent, disposai, disposa,
disposâtes, disposas.
encouraged: incita, incitai, incitâmes,
incitas, incitâtes, incité, incitèrent,
encouragé, encouragèrent,
encouragea, encourageai.
imprudent: imprudent.
justly: justement, de manière juste, de
façon juste.
mar: gâter.
marrying: se mariant, épousant.
points: points, aiguillage, aiguille.
privy: privé.
reconcile: réconcilier, réconcilies,
réconcilie, réconcilient, réconciliez,
réconcilions.
wealth: richesse, fortune.
184 Persuasion

"Perhaps," cried Anne, struck by a sudden idea, "you sometimes spoke of me

to Mr Elliot?"
"To be sure I did; very often. I used to boast of my own Anne Elliot, and
vouch for your being a very different creature from--"
She checked herself just in time.%
"This accounts for something which Mr Elliot said last night," cried Anne.
"This explains it. I found he had been used to hear of me. I could not
comprehend how. What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is
concerned! How sure to be mistaken! But I beg your pardon; I have interrupted
you. Mr Elliot married then completely for money? The circumstances, probably,
which first opened your eyes to his character."
Mrs Smith hesitated a little here. "Oh! those things are too common. When
one lives in the world, a man or woman's marrying for money is too common to
strike one as it ought. I was very young, and associated only with the young,
and we were a thoughtless, gay set, without any strict rules of conduct. We
lived for enjoyment. I think differently now; time and sickness and sorrow have
given me other notions; but at that period I must own I saw nothing
reprehensible in what Mr Elliot was doing. `To do the best for himself,' passed
as a duty."
"But was not she a very low woman?"
"Yes; which I objected to, but he would not regard. Money, money, was all
that he wanted. Her father was a grazier, her grandfather had been a butcher,
but that was all nothing. She was a fine woman, had had a decent education,
was brought forward by some cousins, thrown by chance into Mr Elliot's
company, and fell in love with him; and not a difficulty or a scruple was there on
his side, with respect to her birth. All his caution was spent in being secured of
the real amount of her fortune, before he committed himself. Depend upon it,
whatever esteem Mr Elliot may have for his own situation in life now, as a
young man he had not the smallest value for it. His chance for the Kellynch
estate was something, but all the honour of the family he held as cheap as dirt. I

amount: montant, somme, quantité,
nombre, total.
associated: associé.
boast: fanfaronner, vanter, faire le
malin, se vanter.
cheap: bon marché, abordable.
committed: commis, commit,
commîtes, commirent, commîmes,
engagé.
comprehend: comprendre,
comprennent, comprends,
comprenez, comprenons.
French
dirt: saleté, boue, crasse.
esteem: estime, estimer, considérer,
apprécier.
explains: explique.
forms: formulaires.
grandfather: aïeul.
held: tenu.
hesitated: hésitâtes, hésitas, hésité,
hésita, hésitâmes, hésitai, hésitèrent,
barguignèrent, barguigna,
barguignai, barguignâmes.
marrying: se mariant, épousant.
reprehensible: répréhensible.
rules: règlement, règles.
scruple: scrupule.
sorrow: abattement, chagrin.
strike: grève, frapper, heurter,
toucher, forer, battre, saisir,
rencontrer, s'allumer, atteindre,
parvenir.
thoughtless: irréfléchi.
vouch: attester, attestons, vérifions,
vérifiez, vérifies, vérifie, attestez,
attestes, attestent, atteste, vérifient.
 Jane Austen 185

have often heard him declare, that if baronetcies were saleable, anybody should
have his for fifty pounds, arms and motto, name and livery included; but I will
not pretend to repeat half that I used to hear him say on that subject. It would
not be fair; and yet you ought to have proof, for what is all this but assertion,
and you shall have proof."%
"Indeed, my dear Mrs Smith, I want none," cried Anne. "You have asserted
nothing contradictory to what Mr Elliot appeared to be some years ago. This is
all in confirmation, rather, of what we used to hear and believe. I am more
curious to know why he should be so different now."
"But for my satisfaction, if you will have the goodness to ring for Mary; stay:
I am sure you will have the still greater goodness of going yourself into my
bedroom, and bringing me the small inlaid box which you will find on the
upper shelf of the closet."
Anne, seeing her friend to be earnestly bent on it, did as she was desired. The
box was brought and placed before her, and Mrs Smith, sighing over it as she
unlocked it, said--
"This is full of papers belonging to him, to my husband; a small portion only
of what I had to look over when I lost him. The letter I am looking for was one
written by Mr Elliot to him before our marriage, and happened to be saved; why,
one can hardly imagine. But he was careless and immethodical, like other men,
about those things; and when I came to examine his papers, I found it with
others still more trivial, from different people scattered here and there, while
many letters and memorandums of real importance had been destroyed. Here it
is; I would not burn it, because being even then very little satisfied with Mr
Elliot, I was determined to preserve every document of former intimacy. I have
now another motive for being glad that I can produce it."
This was the letter, directed to "Charles Smith, Esq. Tunbridge Wells," and
dated from London, as far back as July, 1803: --
"Dear Smith,--I have received yours. Your kindness almost overpowers me. I
wish nature had made such hearts as yours more common, but I have lived

asserted: affirmé, affirmâtes, affirmas,
affirmèrent, affirma, affirmâmes,
affirmai.
assertion: assertion, affirmation.
bedroom: chambre à coucher,
chambre.
burn: brûler, brûlure, s'allumer.
contradictory: contradictoire.
document: document, documenter,
acte, titre, pièce.
earnestly: sérieusement, de manière
sérieuse, de façon sérieuse.
French
examine: examiner, examines,
examine, examinent, examinons,
examinez, explorer, fouiller, fouille,
fouillent, fouilles.
fifty: cinquante.
inlaid: tramé, incrusté, marqueté.
livery: livrée.
motto: devise, épigraphe.
overpowers: domine, vainc, maîtrise.
papers: papiers.
repeat: répéter, répètes, répète,
répètent, répétons, répétez, reprise,
redire, redisent, redisons, redis.
ring: anneau, bague, tinter, sonner,
couronne, cercle, cerne, rondelle,
cycle, frette, son.
saleable: vendable.
shelf: étagère, tablette, rayon, planche,
rayon de rangement.
unlocked: ouvrit, ouvris, ouvrirent,
ouvrîmes, ouvrîtes, ouvert.
upper: supérieur, empeigne.
186 Persuasion

three-and-twenty years in the world, and have seen none like it. At present,
believe me, I have no need of your services, being in cash again. Give me joy: I
have got rid of Sir Walter and Miss. They are gone back to Kellynch, and almost
made me swear to visit them this summer; but my first visit to Kellynch will be
with a surveyor, to tell me how to bring it with best advantage to the hammer.
The baronet, nevertheless, is not unlikely to marry again; he is quite fool
enough. If he does, however, they will leave me in peace, which may be a decent
equivalent for the reversion. He is worse than last year.%
"I wish I had any name but Elliot. I am sick of it. The name of Walter I can
drop, thank God! and I desire you will never insult me with my second W. again,
meaning, for the rest of my life, to be only yours truly,--Wm. Elliot."
Such a letter could not be read without putting Anne in a glow; and Mrs
Smith, observing the high colour in her face, said--
"The language, I know, is highly disrespectful. Though I have forgot the
exact terms, I have a perfect impression of the general meaning. But it shows you
the man. Mark his professions to my poor husband. Can any thing be stronger?"
Anne could not immediately get over the shock and mortification of finding
such words applied to her father. She was obliged to recollect that her seeing the
letter was a violation of the laws of honour, that no one ought to be judged or to
be known by such testimonies, that no private correspondence could bear the eye
of others, before she could recover calmness enough to return the letter which
she had been meditating over, and say--
"Thank you. This is full proof undoubtedly; proof of every thing you were
saying. But why be acquainted with us now?"
"I can explain this too," cried Mrs Smith, smiling.
"Can you really?"
"Yes. I have shewn you Mr Elliot as he was a dozen years ago, and I will
shew him as he is now. I cannot produce written proof again, but I can give as
authentic oral testimony as you can desire, of what he is now wanting, and what
he is now doing. He is no hypocrite now. He truly wants to marry you. His

authentic: authentique.
cash: espèces, comptant, encaisse,
caisse, encaisser, au comptant,
trésorerie, toucher.
disrespectful: irrespectueux.
equivalent: équivalent.
explain: expliquer, explique,
expliques, expliquent, expliquons,
expliquez, développer.
forgot: oubliâtes, oublias, oubliai,
oublièrent, oubliâmes, oublia.
hammer: marteau, marteler,
French
percuteur.
hypocrite: hypocrite.
laws: lois.
meditating: méditant, songeant.
nevertheless: néanmoins, pourtant,
cependant, tout de même, toutefois,
quand même.
oral: oral.
return: retour, revenir, rentrée,
retourner, revenu, renvoyer, rendre,
rente, rentabilité, déclaration,
rendement.
reversion: réversion, retour, inversion.
shows: montre, manifeste, marque,
dénote.
surveyor: arpenteur, géomètre.
swear: jurer, jures, jure, jurez, jurons,
jurent, blasphémer, prêter serment.
testimony: témoignage, déposition.
unlikely: improbable,
invraisemblable, de manière à la
différence de, de façon à la différence
de.
violation: violation, infraction, viol.
 Jane Austen 187

present attentions to your family are very sincere: quite from the heart. I will
give you my authority: his friend Colonel Wallis."%
"Colonel Wallis! you are acquainted with him?"
"No. It does not come to me in quite so direct a line as that; it takes a bend or
two, but nothing of consequence. The stream is as good as at first; the little
rubbish it collects in the turnings is easily moved away. Mr Elliot talks
unreservedly to Colonel Wallis of his views on you, which said Colonel Wallis, I
imagine to be, in himself, a sensible, careful, discerning sort of character; but
Colonel Wallis has a very pretty silly wife, to whom he tells things which he had
better not, and he repeats it all to her. She in the overflowing spirits of her
recovery, repeats it all to her nurse; and the nurse knowing my acquaintance
with you, very naturally brings it all to me. On Monday evening, my good
friend Mrs Rooke let me thus much into the secrets of Marlborough Buildings.
When I talked of a whole history, therefore, you see I was not romancing so
much as you supposed."
"My dear Mrs Smith, your authority is deficient. This will not do. Mr Elliot's
having any views on me will not in the least account for the efforts he made
towards a reconciliation with my father. That was all prior to my coming to Bath.
I found them on the most friendly terms when I arrived."
"I know you did; I know it all perfectly, but--"
"Indeed, Mrs Smith, we must not expect to get real information in such a line.
Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be
misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another, can hardly have much
truth left."
"Only give me a hearing. You will soon be able to judge of the general credit
due, by listening to some particulars which you can yourself immediately
contradict or confirm. Nobody supposes that you were his first inducement. He
had seen you indeed, before he came to Bath, and admired you, but without
knowing it to be you. So says my historian, at least. Is this true? Did he see you

acquainted: renseignai, informèrent,
renseignâtes, renseigné,
renseignâmes, renseignèrent,
renseigna, informâtes, informas,
informâmes, informai.
bend: courber, fléchir, coude, courbe,
courbure, incliner, ployer, plier,
cintrer, virage, baisser.
collects: recueille, rassemble,
collectionne, ramasse, collecte.
contradict: contredire, contredisons,
contredisent, contredis, contredisez,
French
démentir.
deficient: déficient, insuffisant.
direct: direct, diriger, guider, droit,
régler.
discerning: discerner, judicieux,
décernant, discernant.
efforts: efforts.
historian: historien.
inducement: incitation, lieu, occasion.
listening: écoutant, écoute.
overflowing: débordant,
débordement.
prior: précédent, antérieur.
repeats: répète, redit.
rubbish: ordures, débris, déchets,
absurdité, abattis, décombres.
stream: courant, ruisseau, jet, fleuve,
flot, rivière.
supposes: suppose.
takes: prend.
turnings: copeaux de tournage,
copeaux de tour, tournures.
unreservedly: de manière non
réservée, de façon non réservée.
188 Persuasion

last summer or autumn, `somewhere down in the west,' to use her own words,
without knowing it to be you?"%
"He certainly did. So far it is very true. At Lyme. I happened to be at Lyme."
"Well," continued Mrs Smith, triumphantly, "grant my friend the credit due
to the establishment of the first point asserted. He saw you then at Lyme, and
liked you so well as to be exceedingly pleased to meet with you again in Camden
Place, as Miss Anne Elliot, and from that moment, I have no doubt, had a double
motive in his visits there. But there was another, and an earlier, which I will now
explain. If there is anything in my story which you know to be either false or
improbable, stop me. My account states, that your sister's friend, the lady now
staying with you, whom I have heard you mention, came to Bath with Miss Elliot
and Sir Walter as long ago as September (in short when they first came
themselves), and has been staying there ever since; that she is a clever,
insinuating, handsome woman, poor and plausible, and altogether such in
situation and manner, as to give a general idea, among Sir Walter's acquaintance,
of her meaning to be Lady Elliot, and as general a surprise that Miss Elliot should
be apparently, blind to the danger."
Here Mrs Smith paused a moment; but Anne had not a word to say, and she
continued--
"This was the light in which it appeared to those who knew the family, long
before you returned to it; and Colonel Wallis had his eye upon your father
enough to be sensible of it, though he did not then visit in Camden Place; but his
regard for Mr Elliot gave him an interest in watching all that was going on there,
and when Mr Elliot came to Bath for a day or two, as he happened to do a little
before Christmas, Colonel Wallis made him acquainted with the appearance of
things, and the reports beginning to prevail. Now you are to understand, that
time had worked a very material change in Mr Elliot's opinions as to the value
of a baronetcy. Upon all points of blood and connexion he is a completely
altered man. Having long had as much money as he could spend, nothing to
wish for on the side of avarice or indulgence, he has been gradually learning to
pin his happiness upon the consequence he is heir to. I thought it coming on

apparently: apparemment,
évidemment, de manière apparente,
de façon apparente.
avarice: avarice.
blind: aveugle, éblouir, aveugler,
store, éblouissons, aveuglez,
aveuglent, éblouissez, aveugles,
éblouissent, éblouis.
double: double, doubler, redoubler,
sosie.
false: faux, perfide, feint.
gradually: petit à petit, peu à peu,
French
graduellement, de proche en proche,
de manière graduelle, de façon
graduelle.
improbable: improbable.
insinuating: insinuant.
material: matériau, matériel, étoffe,
tissu, matière.
pin: épingle, broche, goupille, axe,
aiguille, épingler, pin, goujon.
plausible: vraisemblable.
prevail: prévaloir, prévaloyez,
prévaux, prévalent, prévalons,
prévalez, prévalois.
reports: rapporte.
stop: arrêter, arrêtez, arrête, arrêtes,
arrêtent, arrêtons, arrêt, cesser,
cessent, cessez, cessons.
story: histoire, étage, récit, conte,
relation, intrigue.
triumphantly: de manière
triomphante, triomphalement, de
façon triomphante.
worked: travaillai, travailla,
travaillâmes, travaillées, travaillé.
 Jane Austen 189

before%our acquaintance ceased, but it is now a confirmed feeling. He cannot

bear the idea of not being Sir William. You may guess, therefore, that the news
he heard from his friend could not be very agreeable, and you may guess what it
produced; the resolution of coming back to Bath as soon as possible, and of fixing
himself here for a time, with the view of renewing his former acquaintance, and
recovering such a footing in the family as might give him the means of
ascertaining the degree of his danger, and of circumventing the lady if he found
it material. This was agreed upon between the two friends as the only thing to
be done; and Colonel Wallis was to assist in every way that he could. He was to
be introduced, and Mrs Wallis was to be introduced, and everybody was to be
introduced. Mr Elliot came back accordingly; and on application was forgiven,
as you know, and re-admitted into the family; and there it was his constant
object, and his only object (till your arrival added another motive), to watch Sir
Walter and Mrs Clay. He omitted no opportunity of being with them, threw
himself in their way, called at all hours; but I need not be particular on this
subject. You can imagine what an artful man would do; and with this guide,
perhaps, may recollect what you have seen him do."
"Yes," said Anne, "you tell me nothing which does not accord with what I
have known, or could imagine. There is always something offensive in the
details of cunning. The manoeuvres of selfishness and duplicity must ever be
revolting, but I have heard nothing which really surprises me. I know those who
would be shocked by such a representation of Mr Elliot, who would have
difficulty in believing it; but I have never been satisfied. I have always wanted
some other motive for his conduct than appeared. I should like to know his
present opinion, as to the probability of the event he has been in dread of;
whether he considers the danger to be lessening or not."
"Lessening, I understand," replied Mrs Smith. "He thinks Mrs Clay afraid of
him, aware that he sees through her, and not daring to proceed as she might do
in his absence. But since he must be absent some time or other, I do not perceive
how he can ever be secure while she holds her present influence. Mrs Wallis has
an amusing idea, as nurse tells me, that it is to be put into the marriage articles

absence: absence, manque, défaut,
vice, insuffisance, privation.
accord: accord, entente, s'accorder,
concordance, convention, être
d'accord, accommodement,
permettre, pacte, s'harmoniser.
application: application, demande,
requête.
artful: astucieux.
ascertaining: constatant.
circumventing: circulant.
confirmed: confirmé, confirmâmes,
French
confirmai, confirma, confirmèrent,
confirmas, confirmâtes.
considers: considère.
cunning: rusé, malin, astucieux,
artificieux, ruse, sournois, rouerie.
details: détails.
duplicity: duplicité.
event: événement, occasion, fait,
manifestation.
footing: pied, semelle.
guide: guide, guider, diriger,
conduire, mener, aboutir, régler,
guidage.
holds: tient.
lessening: diminuant, amoindrissant.
manoeuvres: évolutions.
omitted: omîtes, omis, omit, omirent,
omîmes.
recollect: se rappeler, se souvenir,
retenir, retenez, retiens, retiennent,
retenons.
renewing: renouvelant, reconduisant.
revolting: révoltant.
selfishness: égoïsme.
190 Persuasion

when%you and Mr Elliot marry, that your father is not to marry Mrs Clay. A
scheme, worthy of Mrs Wallis's understanding, by all accounts; but my sensible
nurse Rooke sees the absurdity of it. `Why, to be sure, ma'am,' said she, `it
would not prevent his marrying anybody else.' And, indeed, to own the truth, I
do not think nurse, in her heart, is a very strenuous opposer of Sir Walter's
making a second match. She must be allowed to be a favourer of matrimony, you
know; and (since self will intrude) who can say that she may not have some
flying visions of attending the next Lady Elliot, through Mrs Wallis's
recommendation?"
"I am very glad to know all this," said Anne, after a little thoughtfulness. "It
will be more painful to me in some respects to be in company with him, but I
shall know better what to do. My line of conduct will be more direct. Mr Elliot is
evidently a disingenuous, artificial, worldly man, who has never had any better
principle to guide him than selfishness."
But Mr Elliot was not done with. Mrs Smith had been carried away from her
first direction, and Anne had forgotten, in the interest of her own family
concerns, how much had been originally implied against him; but her attention
was now called to the explanation of those first hints, and she listened to a
recital which, if it did not perfectly justify the unqualified bitterness of Mrs
Smith, proved him to have been very unfeeling in his conduct towards her; very
deficient both in justice and compassion.
She learned that (the intimacy between them continuing unimpaired by Mr
Elliot's marriage) they had been as before always together, and Mr Elliot had led
his friend into expenses much beyond his fortune. Mrs Smith did not want to
take blame to herself, and was most tender of throwing any on her husband; but
Anne could collect that their income had never been equal to their style of living,
and that from the first there had been a great deal of general and joint
extravagance. From his wife's account of him she could discern Mr Smith to have
been a man of warm feelings, easy temper, careless habits, and not strong
understanding, much more amiable than his friend, and very unlike him, led by
him, and probably despised by him. Mr Elliot, raised by his marriage to great

absurdity: absurdité.
amiable: aimable.
bitterness: amertume, âcreté.
careless: négligent, distrait, étourdi,
insouciant.
deficient: déficient, insuffisant.
despised: méprisé, méprisèrent,
méprisa, méprisai, méprisâmes,
méprisas, méprisâtes, dédaigna,
dédaigné, dédaignâmes,
dédaignèrent.
discern: discerner.
French
disingenuous: déloyal. principle: principe.
expenses: dépense, frais, dépenses, recital: récital, récit.
charges, sortie. scheme: schéma, projet, plan.
extravagance: extravagance. strenuous: énergique.
hints: allusions. thoughtfulness: préparatif,
income: revenu, produit, recettes, précaution.
recette, rente. unfeeling: insensible.
intimacy: intimité. unimpaired: inaltéré, intact, entier,
marrying: se mariant, épousant. suffisant, non diminué.
matrimony: mariage. unqualified: incompétent, non
originally: de manière originale, de qualifié.
façon originale. worldly: mondain, terrestre.
 Jane Austen 191

affluence, and disposed to every gratification of pleasure and vanity which

could be commanded without involving himself, (for with all his self-indulgence
he had become a prudent man), and beginning to be rich, just as his friend ought
to have found himself to be poor, seemed to have had no concern at all for that
friend's probable finances, but, on the contrary, had been prompting and
encouraging expenses which could end only in ruin; and the Smiths accordingly
had been ruined.%
The husband had died just in time to be spared the full knowledge of it. They
had previously known embarrassments enough to try the friendship of their
friends, and to prove that Mr Elliot's had better not be tried; but it was not till his
death that the wretched state of his affairs was fully known. With a confidence
in Mr Elliot's regard, more creditable to his feelings than his judgement, Mr
Smith had appointed him the executor of his will; but Mr Elliot would not act,
and the difficulties and distress which this refusal had heaped on her, in addition
to the inevitable sufferings of her situation, had been such as could not be related
without anguish of spirit, or listened to without corresponding indignation.
Anne was shewn some letters of his on the occasion, answers to urgent
applications from Mrs Smith, which all breathed the same stern resolution of not
engaging in a fruitless trouble, and, under a cold civility, the same hard-hearted
indifference to any of the evils it might bring on her. It was a dreadful picture of
ingratitude and inhumanity; and Anne felt, at some moments, that no flagrant
open crime could have been worse. She had a great deal to listen to; all the
particulars of past sad scenes, all the minutiae of distress upon distress, which in
former conversations had been merely hinted at, were dwelt on now with a
natural indulgence. Anne could perfectly comprehend the exquisite relief, and
was only the more inclined to wonder at the composure of her friend's usual
state of mind.
There was one circumstance in the history of her grievances of particular
irritation. She had good reason to believe that some property of her husband in
the West Indies, which had been for many years under a sort of sequestration for
the payment of its own incumbrances, might be recoverable by proper measures;

affluence: richesse, abondance,
aisance.
anguish: angoisse, angoisser.
applications: applications, application
des disciplines.
civility: civilité.
corresponding: correspondant.
creditable: honorable, estimable.
crime: crime, délit, infraction.
executor: exécuteur, exécuteur
testamentaire.
flagrant: flagrant.
French
fruitless: stérile, infructueux.
gratification: satisfaction.
heaped: entassé.
ingratitude: ingratitude.
inhumanity: inhumanité, cruauté.
payment: paiement, versement,
règlement, acquittement, paye,
remboursement.
prompting: assistance par programme
souffleur, inciter, incitation,
proposition, sollicitation de
l'opérateur.
prove: prouver, prouve, prouves,
prouvez, prouvons, prouvent,
démontrer.
recoverable: valorisable, récupérable,
extractible, recouvrable.
sequestration: séquestration,
séquestre, mise sous séquestre.
stern: poupe, arrière, sévère.
urgent: urgent, impérieux, pressant.
192 Persuasion

and this property, though not large, would be enough to make her
comparatively rich. But there was nobody to stir in it. Mr Elliot would do
nothing, and she could do nothing herself, equally disabled from personal
exertion by her state of bodily weakness, and from employing others by her
want of money. She had no natural connexions to assist her even with their
counsel, and she could not afford to purchase the assistance of the law. This was
a cruel aggravation of actually straitened means. To feel that she ought to be in
better circumstances, that a little trouble in the right place might do it, and to fear
that delay might be even weakening her claims, was hard to bear.%
It was on this point that she had hoped to engage Anne's good offices with
Mr Elliot. She had previously, in the anticipation of their marriage, been very
apprehensive of losing her friend by it; but on being assured that he could have
made no attempt of that nature, since he did not even know her to be in Bath, it
immediately occurred, that something might be done in her favour by the
influence of the woman he loved, and she had been hastily preparing to interest
Anne's feelings, as far as the observances due to Mr Elliot's character would
allow, when Anne's refutation of the supposed engagement changed the face of
everything; and while it took from her the new-formed hope of succeeding in the
object of her first anxiety, left her at least the comfort of telling the whole story
her own way.
After listening to this full description of Mr Elliot, Anne could not but express
some surprise at Mrs Smith's having spoken of him so favourably in the
beginning of their conversation. "She had seemed to recommend and praise
him!"
"My dear," was Mrs Smith's reply, "there was nothing else to be done. I
considered your marrying him as certain, though he might not yet have made
the offer, and I could no more speak the truth of him, than if he had been your
husband. My heart bled for you, as I talked of happiness; and yet he is sensible,
he is agreeable, and with such a woman as you, it was not absolutely hopeless.
He was very unkind to his first wife. They were wretched together. But she was

allow: permettre, permets,
permettons, permettez, permettent,
laisser, autoriser, accorder, admettre.
anticipation: anticipation.
apprehensive: appréhensif, craintif,
inquiet.
attempt: tentative, essai, essayer,
essayez, essaient, essaies, essaie,
essayons, effort, démarche, requête.
bled: saignâmes, saignai, saignèrent,
saignas, saignâtes, saigna, saigné,
purgeâmes, purgeas, purgea, purgé.
French
bodily: corporel, physique,
physiquement.
disabled: infirme, désemparé,
handicapé, désactivé, invalide,
désactivèrent, désactivâtes,
désactivas, désactivâmes, désactiva,
désactivai.
employing: employant.
favourably: de manière favorable, de
façon favorable.
hastily: à la hâte, hâtivement, de
manière précipitée, de façon
précipitée, précipitamment.
losing: perdant.
offices: bureaux.
property: propriété, biens, bien,
domaine, qualité, propriété foncière,
possession, fonds, accessoire,
patrimoine.
purchase: achat, acheter, emplette,
acquérir, acquisition.
refutation: réfutation.
weakening: affaiblissant,
affaiblissement.
 Jane Austen 193

too ignorant and giddy for respect, and he had never loved her. I was willing to
hope that you must fare better."
Anne could just acknowledge within herself such a possibility of having been
induced to marry him, as made her shudder at the idea of the misery which
must have followed. It was just possible that she might have been persuaded by
Lady Russell! And under such a supposition, which would have been most
miserable, when time had disclosed all, too late?
It was very desirable that Lady Russell should be no longer deceived; and
one of the concluding arrangements of this important conference, which carried
them through the greater part of the morning, was, that Anne had full liberty to
communicate to her friend everything relative to Mrs Smith, in which his
conduct was involved.%

acknowledge: reconnaître,
reconnaissez, reconnais,
reconnaissent, reconnaissons, croire,
avouer, confesser, confirmer.
communicate: communiquer,
communiquent, communiquez,
communiquons, communiques,
communique.
concluding: concluant.
deceived: trompé, trompa, trompai,
trompâmes, trompas, trompèrent,
trompâtes, déçu, triché, trichâtes,
French
trichai.
desirable: désirable, souhaitable.
disclosed: divulgué, divulguèrent,
divulgua, divulguai, divulguâmes,
divulguas, divulguâtes.
fare: aller, se porter, prix du billet.
giddy: étourdi.
ignorant: ignorant.
induced: induit, induisîmes,
induisîtes, induisit, induisis,
induisirent.
liberty: liberté.
miserable: misérable, malheureux,
pauvre, maussade, vide, pénible,
sombre, mauvais, méchant, mal.
misery: misère, tristesse.
persuaded: persuadas, persuadâtes,
persuadai, persuadâmes, persuada,
persuadèrent, persuadé.
shudder: frémissement, frisson,
frissonner.
supposition: hypothèse, supposition.
194 Persuasion

CHAPTER %22

Anne went home to think over all that she had heard. In one point, her
feelings were relieved by this knowledge of Mr Elliot. There was no longer
anything of tenderness due to him. He stood as opposed to Captain Wentworth,
in all his own unwelcome obtrusiveness; and the evil of his attentions last night,
the irremediable mischief he might have done, was considered with sensations
unqualified, unperplexed. Pity for him was all over. But this was the only point
of relief. In every other respect, in looking around her, or penetrating forward,
she saw more to distrust and to apprehend. She was concerned for the
disappointment and pain Lady Russell would be feeling; for the mortifications
which must be hanging over her father and sister, and had all the distress of
foreseeing many evils, without knowing how to avert any one of them. She was
most thankful for her own knowledge of him. She had never considered herself
as entitled to reward for not slighting an old friend like Mrs Smith, but here was
a reward indeed springing from it! Mrs Smith had been able to tell her what no
one else could have done. Could the knowledge have been extended through
her family? But this was a vain idea. She must talk to Lady Russell, tell her,
consult with her, and having done her best, wait the event with as much
composure as possible; and after all, her greatest want of composure would be in
that quarter of the mind which could not be opened to Lady Russell; in that flow
of anxieties and fears which must be all to herself.

apprehend: appréhender, appréhende,
appréhendes, appréhendez,
appréhendent, appréhendons.
avert: détourner, détournez,
détournons, détournes, détourne,
détournent.
composure: repos.
consult: consulter, consultez,
consultons, consultant, consulte,
consultes, consultent.
distrust: se méfier, méfiance, défiance.
extended: étendîtes, étendu, étendis,
French
étendirent, étendîmes, étendit.
foreseeing: prévoyant.
irremediable: irrémédiable.
mischief: malice.
penetrating: pénétrant.
relieved: soulagea, soulagèrent,
soulageâtes, soulageas, soulageâmes,
soulageai, soulagé.
reward: récompenser, récompense.
springing: compensation, détente
mécanique, agrandissement par
explosion du fond d'un trou de mine,
bondir, gauchissement, naissance,
sautage par mines pochées,
retombée.
tenderness: tendresse, tendreté.
thankful: reconnaissant.
unqualified: incompétent, non
qualifié.
unwelcome: importun.
vain: vain, vaniteux, abortif, frivole.
 Jane Austen 195

She found, on reaching home, that she had, as she intended, escaped seeing
Mr Elliot; that he had called and paid them a long morning visit; but hardly had
she congratulated herself, and felt safe, when she heard that he was coming
again in the evening.%
"I had not the smallest intention of asking him," said Elizabeth, with affected
carelessness, "but he gave so many hints; so Mrs Clay says, at least."
"Indeed, I do say it. I never saw anybody in my life spell harder for an
invitation. Poor man! I was really in pain for him; for your hard-hearted sister,
Miss Anne, seems bent on cruelty."
"Oh!" cried Elizabeth, "I have been rather too much used to the game to be
soon overcome by a gentleman's hints. However, when I found how excessively
he was regretting that he should miss my father this morning, I gave way
immediately, for I would never really omit an opportunity of bring him and Sir
Walter together. They appear to so much advantage in company with each
other. Each behaving so pleasantly. Mr Elliot looking up with so much respect."
"Quite delightful!" cried Mrs Clay, not daring, however, to turn her eyes
towards Anne. "Exactly like father and son! Dear Miss Elliot, may I not say
father and son?"
"Oh! I lay no embargo on any body's words. If you will have such ideas!
But, upon my word, I am scarcely sensible of his attentions being beyond those
of other men."
"My dear Miss Elliot!" exclaimed Mrs Clay, lifting her hands and eyes, and
sinking all the rest of her astonishment in a convenient silence.
"Well, my dear Penelope, you need not be so alarmed about him. I did invite
him, you know. I sent him away with smiles. When I found he was really going
to his friends at Thornberry Park for the whole day to-morrow, I had
compassion on him."
Anne admired the good acting of the friend, in being able to shew such
pleasure as she did, in the expectation and in the actual arrival of the very person
whose presence must really be interfering with her prime object. It was

acting: intérimaire, interprétation.
actual: réel, effectif, actuel.
admired: admirâtes, admiras, admira,
admirèrent, admiré, admirâmes,
admirai.
alarmed: alarmé.
astonishment: étonnement, surprise.
carelessness: négligence, imprudence,
insouciance.
compassion: compassion, pitié,
apitoiement.
congratulated: félicité, félicitèrent,
French
félicita, félicitai, félicitâmes, félicitas,
félicitâtes.
daring: audace, audacieux, hardi,
osant, aventurant.
embargo: embargo.
excessively: de manière excessive, de
façon excessive, excessivement.
exclaimed: exclamas, exclamâtes,
exclamé, exclama, exclamai,
exclamâmes, exclamèrent.
hints: allusions.
interfering: interférant.
lay: poser, posez, poses, posent,
posons, laïque, pose, coucher,
pondre, commettage, pondent.
lifting: levage.
omit: omettre, omettons, omettent,
omettez, omets.
pleasantly: agréablement, de manière
agréable, de façon agréable.
regretting: regrettant.
sinking: affaissement, naufrage.
spell: épeler, charme, sortilège.
196 Persuasion

impossible but that Mrs Clay must hate the sight of Mr Elliot; and yet she could
assume a most obliging, placid look, and appear quite satisfied with the
curtailed license of devoting herself only half as much to Sir Walter as she
would have done otherwise.%
To Anne herself it was most distressing to see Mr Elliot enter the room; and
quite painful to have him approach and speak to her. She had been used before
to feel that he could not be always quite sincere, but now she saw insincerity in
everything. His attentive deference to her father, contrasted with his former
language, was odious; and when she thought of his cruel conduct towards Mrs
Smith, she could hardly bear the sight of his present smiles and mildness, or the
sound of his artificial good sentiments.
She meant to avoid any such alteration of manners as might provoke a
remonstrance on his side. It was a great object to her to escape all enquiry or
eclat; but it was her intention to be as decidedly cool to him as might be
compatible with their relationship; and to retrace, as quietly as she could, the few
steps of unnecessary intimacy she had been gradually led along. She was
accordingly more guarded, and more cool, than she had been the night before.
He wanted to animate her curiosity again as to how and where he could have
heard her formerly praised; wanted very much to be gratified by more
solicitation; but the charm was broken: he found that the heat and animation of
a public room was necessary to kindle his modest cousin's vanity; he found, at
least, that it was not to be done now, by any of those attempts which he could
hazard among the too-commanding claims of the others. He little surmised that
it was a subject acting now exactly against his interest, bringing immediately to
her thoughts all those parts of his conduct which were least excusable.
She had some satisfaction in finding that he was really going out of Bath the
next morning, going early, and that he would be gone the greater part of two
days. He was invited again to Camden Place the very evening of his return; but
from Thursday to Saturday evening his absence was certain. It was bad enough
that a Mrs Clay should be always before her; but that a deeper hypocrite should
be added to their party, seemed the destruction of everything like peace and

approach: approche, aborder, abord,
approcher, s'avancer, démarche, voie
d'abord, méthode, s'approcher.
assume: assumer, assumons,
assument, assumez, assume,
assumes, prendre, présumer,
supposer.
attempts: essaie.
deeper: plusieurs traductions selon le
contexte.
destruction: destruction, ravage,
annihilation.
French
devoting: consacrant.
guarded: protégé, gardé.
hazard: risque, danger, hasard, aléa,
péril, risquer, aventurer, oser,
hasarder.
heat: chaleur, chauffer, ardeur,
chaleurs, charge de fusion, rut.
insincerity: hypocrisie, manque de
sincérité.
kindle: allumer, allumez, allumes,
allument, allume, allumons,
enflammer.
language: langue, langage.
license: licence, permis, autoriser.
mildness: douceur, clémence.
necessary: nécessaire.
odious: odieux.
parts: parties.
placid: placide.
remonstrance: remontrance.
retrace: retracer, reconstituer, retour
du spot.
solicitation: sollicitation.
surmised: conjecturé.
 Jane Austen 197

comfort. It was so humiliating to reflect on the constant deception practised on

her father and Elizabeth; to consider the various sources of mortification
preparing for them! Mrs Clay's selfishness was not so complicate nor so
revolting as his; and Anne would have compounded for the marriage at once,
with all its evils, to be clear of Mr Elliot's subtleties in endeavouring to prevent
it.%
On Friday morning she meant to go very early to Lady Russell, and
accomplish the necessary communication; and she would have gone directly
after breakfast, but that Mrs Clay was also going out on some obliging purpose
of saving her sister trouble, which determined her to wait till she might be safe
from such a companion. She saw Mrs Clay fairly off, therefore, before she began
to talk of spending the morning in Rivers Street.
"Very well," said Elizabeth, "I have nothing to send but my love. Oh! you may
as well take back that tiresome book she would lend me, and pretend I have read
it through. I really cannot be plaguing myself for ever with all the new poems
and states of the nation that come out. Lady Russell quite bores one with her
new publications. You need not tell her so, but I thought her dress hideous the
other night. I used to think she had some taste in dress, but I was ashamed of her
at the concert. Something so formal and arrange in her air! and she sits so
upright! My best love, of course."
"And mine," added Sir Walter. "Kindest regards. And you may say, that I
mean to call upon her soon. Make a civil message; but I shall only leave my
card. Morning visits are never fair by women at her time of life, who make
themselves up so little. If she would only wear rouge she would not be afraid of
being seen; but last time I called, I observed the blinds were let down
immediately."
While her father spoke, there was a knock at the door. Who could it be?
Anne, remembering the preconcerted visits, at all hours, of Mr Elliot, would have
expected him, but for his known engagement seven miles off. After the usual
period of suspense, the usual sounds of approach were heard, and "Mr and Mrs
Charles Musgrove" were ushered into the room.

accomplish: accomplir, accomplissons,
accomplissez, accomplissent,
accomplis, réaliser, réalise, réalisons,
réalisez, réalisent, réalises.
blinds: aveugle, éblouit.
complicate: compliquer, compliquez,
compliquent, compliquons,
complique, compliques.
compounded: aggravé.
deception: tromperie, déception,
supercherie.
hideous: hideux, horrible, abominable,
French
abject, odieux, repoussant, affreux. économisant, économie, épargne,
humiliating: humiliant. enregistrant, sauvegardant,
message: message, renseignement. sauvegarde.
mortification: mortification. selfishness: égoïsme.
nation: nation, peuple. seven: sept.
obliging: complaisant, obligeant, sources: ressources.
serviable, gentil. states: états.
purpose: but, dessein, objet, intention. suspense: suspens.
regards: considère. tiresome: ennuyeux, fatigant.
revolting: révoltant. upright: montant, droit, intègre,
rouge: rouge. honnête, debout, vertical, montant
saving: épargnant, sauvant, droit.
198 Persuasion

Surprise was the strongest emotion raised by their appearance; but Anne was
really glad to see them; and the others were not so sorry but that they could put
on a decent air of welcome; and as soon as it became clear that these, their
nearest relations, were not arrived with an views of accommodation in that
house, Sir Walter and Elizabeth were able to rise in cordiality, and do the
honours of it very well. They were come to Bath for a few days with Mrs
Musgrove, and were at the White Hart. So much was pretty soon understood;
but till Sir Walter and Elizabeth were walking Mary into the other drawing-
room, and regaling themselves with her admiration, Anne could not draw upon
Charles's brain for a regular history of their coming, or an explanation of some
smiling hints of particular business, which had been ostentatiously dropped by
Mary, as well as of some apparent confusion as to whom their party consisted
of.%
She then found that it consisted of Mrs Musgrove, Henrietta, and Captain
Harville, beside their two selves. He gave her a very plain, intelligible account
of the whole; a narration in which she saw a great deal of most characteristic
proceeding. The scheme had received its first impulse by Captain Harville's
wanting to come to Bath on business. He had begun to talk of it a week ago; and
by way of doing something, as shooting was over, Charles had proposed coming
with him, and Mrs Harville had seemed to like the idea of it very much, as an
advantage to her husband; but Mary could not bear to be left, and had made
herself so unhappy about it, that for a day or two everything seemed to be in
suspense, or at an end. But then, it had been taken up by his father and mother.
His mother had some old friends in Bath whom she wanted to see; it was
thought a good opportunity for Henrietta to come and buy wedding-clothes for
herself and her sister; and, in short, it ended in being his mother's party, that
everything might be comfortable and easy to Captain Harville; and he and Mary
were included in it by way of general convenience. They had arrived late the
night before. Mrs Harville, her children, and Captain Benwick, remained with
Mr Musgrove and Louisa at Uppercross.

admiration: admiration.
beside: près de, chez, tous près de,
parmi, à côté de, à, au bord de, sur.
buy: acheter, achat, acquérir.
characteristic: caractéristique,
caractère.
confusion: confusion, désordre,
confusion mentale, affolement.
consisted: consistai, consisté, consista,
consistâmes, consistèrent, consistas,
consistâtes.
convenience: convenance.
French
cordiality: cordialité.
decent: convenable, décent, honnête.
emotion: émotion.
ended: terminé.
hints: allusions.
honours: honneurs.
impulse: impulsion, incitation,
pulsion.
intelligible: intelligible.
narration: commentaire, narration.
nearest: plus proche.
ostentatiously: de manière
prétentieuse, de façon prétentieuse.
plain: plaine, clair, uni, ordinaire, net,
limpide, évident.
proceeding: procédant, avançant.
regaling: se régalant.
shooting: tirant, tir, tournage,
fusillade, chasse, prise de vue, prise
de vues.
smiling: souriant.
suspense: suspens.
unhappy: malheureux, mécontent.
wanting: voulant.
 Jane Austen 199

Anne's only surprise was, that affairs should be in forwardness enough for
Henrietta's wedding-clothes to be talked of. She had imagined such difficulties
of fortune to exist there as must prevent the marriage from being near at hand;
but she learned from Charles that, very recently, (since Mary's last letter to
herself), Charles Hayter had been applied to by a friend to hold a living for a
youth who could not possibly claim it under many years; and that on the
strength of his present income, with almost a certainty of something more
permanent long before the term in question, the two families had consented to
the young people's wishes, and that their marriage was likely to take place in a
few months, quite as soon as Louisa's. "And a very good living it was," Charles
added: "only five-and-twenty miles from Uppercross, and in a very fine country:
fine part of Dorsetshire. In the centre of some of the best preserves in the
kingdom, surrounded by three great proprietors, each more careful and jealous
than the other; and to two of the three at least, Charles Hayter might get a special
recommendation. Not that he will value it as he ought," he observed, "Charles is
too cool about sporting. That's the worst of him."%
"I am extremely glad, indeed," cried Anne, "particularly glad that this should
happen; and that of two sisters, who both deserve equally well, and who have
always been such good friends, the pleasant prospect of one should not be
dimming those of the other-- that they should be so equal in their prosperity and
comfort. I hope your father and mother are quite happy with regard to both."
"Oh! yes. My father would be well pleased if the gentlemen were richer, but
he has no other fault to find. Money, you know, coming down with money--two
daughters at once--it cannot be a very agreeable operation, and it streightens
him as to many things. However, I do not mean to say they have not a right to it.
It is very fit they should have daughters' shares; and I am sure he has always
been a very kind, liberal father to me. Mary does not above half like Henrietta's
match. She never did, you know. But she does not do him justice, nor think
enough about Winthrop. I cannot make her attend to the value of the property.
It is a very fair match, as times go; and I have liked Charles Hayter all my life,
and I shall not leave off now."

agreeable: agréable, aimable.
certainty: certitude, assurance.
consented: consenti.
deserve: mériter, mérite, méritent,
méritez, méritons, mérites.
dimming: gradation de l'intensité
lumineuse, impression, matage.
exist: exister, existes, existe, existons,
existent, existez.
forwardness: état avancé, précocité.
gentlemen: messieurs.
imagined: imaginas, imaginâtes,
French
imaginé, imaginai, imaginâmes,
imagina, imaginèrent.
jealous: jaloux.
kingdom: royaume.
liberal: libéral.
operation: opération, exploitation,
fonctionnement, manoeuvre.
permanent: permanent, constant,
continuel, invariable.
preserves: conserves, conserve.
proprietors: propriétaires.
prosperity: prospérité.
recently: récemment, dernièrement, de
manière récente, de façon récente.
recommendation: recommandation,
liste, liste de candidats, liste de
présentation, proposition,
préconisation.
sisters: soeurs.
sporting: sportif.
surrounded: entourâtes, entouras,
entourai, entoura, entourèrent,
entourâmes, entouré.
term: terme, durée, échéance.
200 Persuasion

"Such%excellent parents as Mr and Mrs Musgrove," exclaimed Anne, "should

be happy in their children's marriages. They do everything to confer happiness,
I am sure. What a blessing to young people to be in such hands! Your father and
mother seem so totally free from all those ambitious feelings which have led to
so much misconduct and misery, both in young and old. I hope you think
Louisa perfectly recovered now?"
He answered rather hesitatingly, "Yes, I believe I do; very much recovered;
but she is altered; there is no running or jumping about, no laughing or dancing;
it is quite different. If one happens only to shut the door a little hard, she starts
and wriggles like a young dab-chick in the water; and Benwick sits at her elbow,
reading verses, or whispering to her, all day long."
Anne could not help laughing. "That cannot be much to your taste, I know,"
said she; "but I do believe him to be an excellent young man."
"To be sure he is. Nobody doubts it; and I hope you do not think I am so
illiberal as to want every man to have the same objects and pleasures as myself.
I have a great value for Benwick; and when one can but get him to talk, he has
plenty to say. His reading has done him no harm, for he has fought as well as
read. He is a brave fellow. I got more acquainted with him last Monday than
ever I did before. We had a famous set-to at rat-hunting all the morning in my
father's great barns; and he played his part so well that I have liked him the
better ever since."
Here they were interrupted by the absolute necessity of Charles's following
the others to admire mirrors and china; but Anne had heard enough to
understand the present state of Uppercross, and rejoice in its happiness; and
though she sighed as she rejoiced, her sigh had none of the ill-will of envy in it.
She would certainly have risen to their blessings if she could, but she did not
want to lessen theirs.
The visit passed off altogether in high good humour. Mary was in excellent
spirits, enjoying the gaiety and the change, and so well satisfied with the journey
in her mother-in-law's carriage with four horses, and with her own complete
independence of Camden Place, that she was exactly in a temper to admire
French
absolute: absolu, complet, inéluctable, elbow: coude. misconduct: mauvaise conduite,
absolue, immense, illimité, pur. enjoying: jouissant. inconduite, incorrection, mauvaise
acquainted: renseignai, informèrent, famous: célèbre, fameux, illustre, administration.
renseignâtes, renseigné, glorieux, renommé, réputé. parents: parents, père et mère.
renseignâmes, renseignèrent, fought: combattu, combattit, rejoice: réjouir, réjouissons, réjouissez,
renseigna, informâtes, informas, combattis. réjouissent, réjouis, être joyeux.
informâmes, informai. gaiety: gaieté. rejoiced: réjouis, réjouit, réjouîtes,
ambitious: ambitieux. hard: dur, difficile, pénible. réjouirent, réjouîmes, réjoui.
blessings: bénédictions. hesitatingly: de manière hésitante, de running: courant, course, marche,
brave: courageux, vaillant, brave. façon hésitante. coulant, fonctionnement.
confer: conférer, confèrent, conférez, illiberal: intolérant. starts: démarre.
conférons, confère, confères. jumping: saut. wriggles: frétille, gigote, tortille.
 Jane Austen 201

everything as she ought, and enter most readily into all the superiorities of the
house, as they were detailed to her. She had no demands on her father or sister,
and her consequence was just enough increased by their handsome drawing-
rooms.%
Elizabeth was, for a short time, suffering a good deal. She felt that Mrs
Musgrove and all her party ought to be asked to dine with them; but she could
not bear to have the difference of style, the reduction of servants, which a dinner
must betray, witnessed by those who had been always so inferior to the Elliots
of Kellynch. It was a struggle between propriety and vanity; but vanity got the
better, and then Elizabeth was happy again. These were her internal
persuasions: "Old fashioned notions; country hospitality; we do not profess to
give dinners; few people in Bath do; Lady Alicia never does; did not even ask
her own sister's family, though they were here a month: and I dare say it would
be very inconvenient to Mrs Musgrove; put her quite out of her way. I am sure
she would rather not come; she cannot feel easy with us. I will ask them all for
an evening; that will be much better; that will be a novelty and a treat. They have
not seen two such drawing rooms before. They will be delighted to come to-
morrow evening. It shall be a regular party, small, but most elegant." And this
satisfied Elizabeth: and when the invitation was given to the two present, and
promised for the absent, Mary was as completely satisfied. She was particularly
asked to meet Mr Elliot, and be introduced to Lady Dalrymple and Miss Carteret,
who were fortunately already engaged to come; and she could not have received
a more gratifying attention. Miss Elliot was to have the honour of calling on Mrs
Musgrove in the course of the morning; and Anne walked off with Charles and
Mary, to go and see her and Henrietta directly.
Her plan of sitting with Lady Russell must give way for the present. They all
three called in Rivers Street for a couple of minutes; but Anne convinced herself
that a day's delay of the intended communication could be of no consequence,
and hastened forward to the White Hart, to see again the friends and
companions of the last autumn, with an eagerness of good-will which many
associations contributed to form.

betray: trahir, trahissent, trahissez,
trahis, trahissons.
contributed: contribuâmes, contribuai,
contribua, contribuèrent, contribué,
contribuas, contribuâtes.
dine: dîner, dînent.
dinners: dîners.
eagerness: avidité.
engaged: engagé, engageai, engagea,
engageâmes, engagèrent, engageas,
engageâtes, occupé.
fashioned: diminué.
French
fortunately: heureusement, de
manière heureuse, de façon heureuse.
gratifying: gratifiant, satisfaisant,
contentant, satisfaire.
hastened: hâta, hâtèrent, hâtâtes,
hâtas, hâtâmes, hâtai, hâté.
hospitality: hospitalité.
inconvenient: difficile, dur, pénible,
inopportun, incommode, gênant.
inferior: inférieur.
notions: mercerie.
novelty: nouveauté.
profess: confesser, avouer, confessez,
confessons, confesse, confesses,
confessent, professer, professons,
professe, professent.
propriety: bienséance.
treat: traiter, régaler, soigner, régal,
guérir.
vanity: vanité, futilité.
witnessed: témoignai, témoignées,
témoignèrent, témoignâmes,
témoigné.
202 Persuasion

They%found Mrs Musgrove and her daughter within, and by themselves, and
Anne had the kindest welcome from each. Henrietta was exactly in that state of
recently-improved views, of fresh-formed happiness, which made her full of
regard and interest for everybody she had ever liked before at all; and Mrs
Musgrove's real affection had been won by her usefulness when they were in
distress. It was a heartiness, and a warmth, and a sincerity which Anne
delighted in the more, from the sad want of such blessings at home. She was
entreated to give them as much of her time as possible, invited for every day and
all day long, or rather claimed as part of the family; and, in return, she naturally
fell into all her wonted ways of attention and assistance, and on Charles's leaving
them together, was listening to Mrs Musgrove's history of Louisa, and to
Henrietta's of herself, giving opinions on business, and recommendations to
shops; with intervals of every help which Mary required, from altering her
ribbon to settling her accounts; from finding her keys, and assorting her
trinkets, to trying to convince her that she was not ill-used by anybody; which
Mary, well amused as she generally was, in her station at a window overlooking
the entrance to the Pump Room, could not but have her moments of imagining.
A morning of thorough confusion was to be expected. A large party in an
hotel ensured a quick-changing, unsettled scene. One five minutes brought a
note, the next a parcel; and Anne had not been there half an hour, when their
dining-room, spacious as it was, seemed more than half filled: a party of steady
old friends were seated around Mrs Musgrove, and Charles came back with
Captains Harville and Wentworth. The appearance of the latter could not be
more than the surprise of the moment. It was impossible for her to have
forgotten to feel that this arrival of their common friends must be soon bringing
them together again. Their last meeting had been most important in opening his
feelings; she had derived from it a delightful conviction; but she feared from his
looks, that the same unfortunate persuasion, which had hastened him away
from the Concert Room, still governed. He did not seem to want to be near
enough for conversation.

altering: altérant.
assorting: assortissant, regroupement
de produits.
derived: dérivé, dériva, dérivâmes,
dérivai, dérivèrent, dérivas,
dérivâtes.
ensured: assuré, assurèrent, assura,
assurai, assurâmes, assuras,
assurâtes.
governed: gouvernâtes, gouvernas,
gouverné, gouvernèrent, gouvernai,
gouvernâmes, gouverna, régnâmes,
French
régna, régnèrent, régné.
heartiness: cordialité.
hotel: hôtel, hôtelier.
imagining: imaginant.
keys: clefs.
parcel: paquet, colis, lot, parcelle.
required: requîtes, exigèrent,
exigeâtes, exigeas, exigeâmes, exigea,
requit, exigeai, requîmes, requirent,
exigé.
ribbon: ruban.
seated: assis.
spacious: spacieux, ample, étendu,
large.
station: station, gare, poste.
thorough: minutieux.
trinkets: bibelots.
unfortunate: malheureux.
unsettled: perturbé.
won: gagnâmes, gagnèrent, gagnas,
gagnai, gagna, gagnâtes, Gagné,
remportèrent, remporta, remportai,
remportâmes.
wonted: habituel, accoutumé.
 Jane Austen 203

She tried to be calm, and leave things to take their course, and tried to dwell
much on this argument of rational dependence:-- "Surely, if there be constant
attachment on each side, our hearts must understand each other ere long. We are
not boy and girl, to be captiously irritable, misled by every moment's
inadvertence, and wantonly playing with our own happiness." And yet, a few
minutes afterwards, she felt as if their being in company with each other, under
their present circumstances, could only be exposing them to inadvertencies and
misconstructions of the most mischievous kind.%
"Anne," cried Mary, still at her window, "there is Mrs Clay, I am sure,
standing under the colonnade, and a gentleman with her. I saw them turn the
corner from Bath Street just now. They seemed deep in talk. Who is it? Come,
and tell me. Good heavens! I recollect. It is Mr Elliot himself."
"No," cried Anne, quickly, "it cannot be Mr Elliot, I assure you. He was to
leave Bath at nine this morning, and does not come back till to-morrow."
As she spoke, she felt that Captain Wentworth was looking at her, the
consciousness of which vexed and embarrassed her, and made her regret that she
had said so much, simple as it was.
Mary, resenting that she should be supposed not to know her own cousin,
began talking very warmly about the family features, and protesting still more
positively that it was Mr Elliot, calling again upon Anne to come and look for
herself, but Anne did not mean to stir, and tried to be cool and unconcerned.
Her distress returned, however, on perceiving smiles and intelligent glances pass
between two or three of the lady visitors, as if they believed themselves quite in
the secret. It was evident that the report concerning her had spread, and a short
pause succeeded, which seemed to ensure that it would now spread farther.
"Do come, Anne" cried Mary, "come and look yourself. You will be too late if
you do not make haste. They are parting; they are shaking hands. He is turning
away. Not know Mr Elliot, indeed! You seem to have forgot all about Lyme."
To pacify Mary, and perhaps screen her own embarrassment, Anne did
move quietly to the window. She was just in time to ascertain that it really was

argument: argument, débat, dispute,
discussion.
boy: garçon, gosse, serviteur,
domestique, gamin.
colonnade: colonnade.
concerning: concernant, au sujet de, à
propos de.
ensure: assurer, assure, assurent,
assures, assurez, assurons.
haste: hâte.
heavens: cieux.
inadvertence: inattention,
French
inadvertance.
irritable: irritable.
mischievous: méchant, perfide.
pacify: pacifier, pacifie, pacifient,
pacifies, pacifiez, pacifions.
perceiving: apercevant, percevant,
discernant.
playing: jouant.
positively: de façon positive, de
manière positive.
quickly: rapidement, vite, de manière
rapide, de façon rapide.
screen: écran, trame, crible, blindage,
paravent, grille, grillage, filtre.
shaking: secouant, ébranlant,
ébranlement, secousse.
simple: simple, pur.
unconcerned: imperturbable.
visitors: équipe invitée, visiteurs.
wantonly: de manière dévergondée,
de façon dévergondée.
204 Persuasion

Mr Elliot, which she had never believed, before he disappeared on one side, as
Mrs Clay walked quickly off on the other; and checking the surprise which she
could not but feel at such an appearance of friendly conference between two
persons of totally opposite interest, she calmly said, "Yes, it is Mr Elliot, certainly.
He has changed his hour of going, I suppose, that is all, or I may be mistaken, I
might not attend;" and walked back to her chair, recomposed, and with the
comfortable hope of having acquitted herself well.%
The visitors took their leave; and Charles, having civilly seen them off, and
then made a face at them, and abused them for coming, began with--
"Well, mother, I have done something for you that you will like. I have been
to the theatre, and secured a box for to-morrow night. A'n't I a good boy? I know
you love a play; and there is room for us all. It holds nine. I have engaged
Captain Wentworth. Anne will not be sorry to join us, I am sure. We all like a
play. Have not I done well, mother?"
Mrs Musgrove was good humouredly beginning to express her perfect
readiness for the play, if Henrietta and all the others liked it, when Mary eagerly
interrupted her by exclaiming--
"Good heavens, Charles! how can you think of such a thing? Take a box for
to-morrow night! Have you forgot that we are engaged to Camden Place to-
morrow night? and that we were most particularly asked to meet Lady
Dalrymple and her daughter, and Mr Elliot, and all the principal family
connexions, on purpose to be introduced to them? How can you be so forgetful?"
"Phoo! phoo!" replied Charles, "what's an evening party? Never worth
remembering. Your father might have asked us to dinner, I think, if he had
wanted to see us. You may do as you like, but I shall go to the play."
"Oh! Charles, I declare it will be too abominable if you do, when you
promised to go."
"No, I did not promise. I only smirked and bowed, and said the word
`happy.' There was no promise."

abominable: abominable, hideux,
abject, odieux, horrible.
abused: abusé, abusai, abusés,
abusées, abusâmes, abusa, abusée.
acquitted: acquittas, acquittâtes,
acquitté, acquittâmes, acquitta,
acquittèrent, acquittai.
bowed: incliné.
box: boîte, caisse, boxer, coffret, coffre,
case, boîtier, boite, bac, loge, buis.
calmly: de manière calme, de façon
calme.
French
chair: chaise, siège, chaire.
checking: vérification, contrôle,
récolement, pointage.
civilly: de façon civile, de manière
civile, civilement.
conference: conférence.
declare: déclarer, déclarent, déclarons,
déclarez, déclare, déclares.
eagerly: de manière avide, de façon
avide.
heavens: cieux.
humouredly: de manière ménagée, de
façon ménagée.
interrupted: interrompit, interrompu,
interrompue.
mistaken: abusif, trompé.
readiness: disponibilité,
empressement.
recomposed: recomposâtes,
recomposé, recomposèrent,
recomposâmes, recomposai,
recomposa, recomposas.
 Jane Austen 205

"But you must go, Charles. It would be unpardonable to fail. We were asked
on purpose to be introduced. There was always such a great connexion between
the Dalrymples and ourselves. Nothing ever happened on either side that was
not announced immediately. We are quite near relations, you know; and Mr
Elliot too, whom you ought so particularly to be acquainted with! Every
attention is due to Mr Elliot. Consider, my father's heir: the future
representative of the family."
"Don't talk to me about heirs and representatives," cried Charles. "I am not
one of those who neglect the reigning power to bow to the rising sun. If I would
not go for the sake of your father, I should think it scandalous to go for the sake
of his heir. What is Mr Elliot to me?" The careless expression was life to Anne,
who saw that Captain Wentworth was all attention, looking and listening with
his whole soul; and that the last words brought his enquiring eyes from Charles
to herself.%
Charles and Mary still talked on in the same style; he, half serious and half
jesting, maintaining the scheme for the play, and she, invariably serious, most
warmly opposing it, and not omitting to make it known that, however
determined to go to Camden Place herself, she should not think herself very well
used, if they went to the play without her. Mrs Musgrove interposed.
"We had better put it off. Charles, you had much better go back and change
the box for Tuesday. It would be a pity to be divided, and we should be losing
Miss Anne, too, if there is a party at her father's; and I am sure neither Henrietta
nor I should care at all for the play, if Miss Anne could not be with us."
Anne felt truly obliged to her for such kindness; and quite as much so for the
opportunity it gave her of decidedly saying--
"If it depended only on my inclination, ma'am, the party at home (excepting
on Mary's account) would not be the smallest impediment. I have no pleasure in
the sort of meeting, and should be too happy to change it for a play, and with
you. But, it had better not be attempted, perhaps." She had spoken it; but she
trembled when it was done, conscious that her words were listened to, and
daring not even to try to observe their effect.
French
acquainted: renseignai, informèrent, dépendu, dépendirent, dépendîmes, opposing: opposant, rouspétant.
renseignâtes, renseigné, dépendîtes. reigning: régnant.
renseignâmes, renseignèrent, future: avenir, futur. representative: représentant, député,
renseigna, informâtes, informas, impediment: empêchement, obstacle, représentatif, délégué.
informâmes, informai. entrave. scandalous: scandaleux.
careless: négligent, distrait, étourdi, inclination: inclinaison, inclination. sun: soleil, ensoleillé.
insouciant. interposed: interposa, interposai, trembled: tremblé.
daring: audace, audacieux, hardi, interposèrent, interposé, interposâtes, unpardonable: inexcusable.
osant, aventurant. interposas, intercalèrent, intercalâtes, warmly: chaudement, de façon
decidedly: de manière décidé, de intercalas, intercalâmes, intercalai. chaude, de manière chaude.
façon décidée. jesting: plaisantant, plaisanterie.
depended: dépendis, dépendit, omitting: omettant.
206 Persuasion

It was soon generally agreed that Tuesday should be the day; Charles only
reserving the advantage of still teasing his wife, by persisting that he would go
to the play to-morrow if nobody else would.%
Captain Wentworth left his seat, and walked to the fire-place; probably for
the sake of walking away from it soon afterwards, and taking a station, with less
bare-faced design, by Anne.
"You have not been long enough in Bath," said he, "to enjoy the evening
parties of the place."
"Oh! no. The usual character of them has nothing for me. I am no card-
player."
"You were not formerly, I know. You did not use to like cards; but time
makes many changes."
"I am not yet so much changed," cried Anne, and stopped, fearing she hardly
knew what misconstruction. After waiting a few moments he said, and as if it
were the result of immediate feeling, "It is a period, indeed! Eight years and a
half is a period."
Whether he would have proceeded farther was left to Anne's imagination to
ponder over in a calmer hour; for while still hearing the sounds he had uttered,
she was startled to other subjects by Henrietta, eager to make use of the present
leisure for getting out, and calling on her companions to lose no time, lest
somebody else should come in.
They were obliged to move. Anne talked of being perfectly ready, and tried
to look it; but she felt that could Henrietta have known the regret and reluctance
of her heart in quitting that chair, in preparing to quit the room, she would have
found, in all her own sensations for her cousin, in the very security of his
affection, wherewith to pity her.
Their preparations, however, were stopped short. Alarming sounds were
heard; other visitors approached, and the door was thrown open for Sir Walter
and Miss Elliot, whose entrance seemed to give a general chill. Anne felt an
instant oppression, and wherever she looked saw symptoms of the same. The

chill: froid, refroidir.
farther: plus loin.
fearing: craignant.
lest: de peur que.
lose: perdre, perds, perdez, perdent,
perdons.
makes: fait, rend.
misconstruction: fausse interprétation.
move: déplacer, émouvoir, remuer,
mouvoir, se déplacer, coup,
déménagement, déménager, affecter,
mouvement, déplacement.
French
oppression: abus d'autorité,
oppression.
persisting: persistant.
ponder: considérer, pesez, considérez,
réfléchissons, réfléchissez,
réfléchissent, réfléchis, pesons,
considère, pèsent, considérons.
proceeded: procédas, procédâtes,
procédâmes, procédèrent, procédai,
procéda, procédé, avançâtes, avancé,
avançâmes, avançai.
quitting: quittant.
reluctance: réluctance, répugnance.
reserving: réservant.
security: sécurité, garantie, sûreté,
gage, titre.
startled: effarouché, effarouchâmes,
surprîtes, effarouchas, effarouchâtes,
effarouchèrent, surprîmes, surprit,
alarmèrent, surprirent, alarmé.
symptoms: symptômes.
teasing: taquinerie.
 Jane Austen 207

comfort, %the freedom, the gaiety of the room was over, hushed into cold
composure, determined silence, or insipid talk, to meet the heartless elegance of
her father and sister. How mortifying to feel that it was so!
Her jealous eye was satisfied in one particular. Captain Wentworth was
acknowledged again by each, by Elizabeth more graciously than before. She
even addressed him once, and looked at him more than once. Elizabeth was, in
fact, revolving a great measure. The sequel explained it. After the waste of a
few minutes in saying the proper nothings, she began to give the invitation
which was to comprise all the remaining dues of the Musgroves. "To-morrow
evening, to meet a few friends: no formal party." It was all said very gracefully,
and the cards with which she had provided herself, the "Miss Elliot at home,"
were laid on the table, with a courteous, comprehensive smile to all, and one
smile and one card more decidedly for Captain Wentworth. The truth was, that
Elizabeth had been long enough in Bath to understand the importance of a man
of such an air and appearance as his. The past was nothing. The present was that
Captain Wentworth would move about well in her drawing-room. The card was
pointedly given, and Sir Walter and Elizabeth arose and disappeared.
The interruption had been short, though severe, and ease and animation
returned to most of those they left as the door shut them out, but not to Anne.
She could think only of the invitation she had with such astonishment witnessed,
and of the manner in which it had been received; a manner of doubtful meaning,
of surprise rather than gratification, of polite acknowledgement rather than
acceptance. She knew him; she saw disdain in his eye, and could not venture to
believe that he had determined to accept such an offering, as an atonement for
all the insolence of the past. Her spirits sank. He held the card in his hand after
they were gone, as if deeply considering it.
"Only think of Elizabeth's including everybody!" whispered Mary very
audibly. "I do not wonder Captain Wentworth is delighted! You see he cannot
put the card out of his hand."

acceptance: acceptation, réception,
accueil, abord, approbation, recette.
atonement: expiation.
audibly: de manière audible, de façon
audible.
comprehensive: compréhensif,
complet, vaste.
comprise: contenir, contenez, contiens,
contenons, contiennent, renfermer,
renferme, renferment, renfermes,
renfermez, renfermons.
disdain: dédain.
French
freedom: liberté.
gaiety: gaieté.
gracefully: de manière gracieuse, de
façon gracieuse.
graciously: de manière gracieuse, de
façon gracieuse.
gratification: satisfaction.
heartless: sans coeur.
hushed: tue, tut, turent, tus, tues.
insipid: insipide, fade.
insolence: insolence, effronterie.
interruption: interruption, rupture,
coupure.
laid: posèrent, posai, posa, posâmes,
posas, posâtes, posé, vergé, pondu,
pondit, pondis.
measure: mesure, mesurer, taille,
jauger.
mortifying: humiliant, mortifiant.
provided: pourvûtes, pourvurent,
pourvu, pourvus, pourvut,
pourvûmes, munit, muni, munîmes,
munirent, munis.
revolving: tournant.
208 Persuasion

Anne caught his eye, saw his cheeks glow, and his mouth form itself into a
momentary expression of contempt, and turned away, that she might neither see
nor hear more to vex her.%
The party separated. The gentlemen had their own pursuits, the ladies
proceeded on their own business, and they met no more while Anne belonged to
them. She was earnestly begged to return and dine, and give them all the rest of
the day, but her spirits had been so long exerted that at present she felt unequal
to more, and fit only for home, where she might be sure of being as silent as she
chose.
Promising to be with them the whole of the following morning, therefore, she
closed the fatigues of the present by a toilsome walk to Camden Place, there to
spend the evening chiefly in listening to the busy arrangements of Elizabeth and
Mrs Clay for the morrow's party, the frequent enumeration of the persons
invited, and the continually improving detail of all the embellishments which
were to make it the most completely elegant of its kind in Bath, while harassing
herself with the never-ending question, of whether Captain Wentworth would
come or not? They were reckoning him as certain, but with her it was a
gnawing solicitude never appeased for five minutes together. She generally
thought he would come, because she generally thought he ought; but it was a
case which she could not so shape into any positive act of duty or discretion, as
inevitably to defy the suggestions of very opposite feelings.
She only roused herself from the broodings of this restless agitation, to let
Mrs Clay know that she had been seen with Mr Elliot three hours after his being
supposed to be out of Bath, for having watched in vain for some intimation of
the interview from the lady herself, she determined to mention it, and it seemed
to her there was guilt in Mrs Clay's face as she listened. It was transient: cleared
away in an instant; but Anne could imagine she read there the consciousness of
having, by some complication of mutual trick, or some overbearing authority of
his, been obliged to attend (perhaps for half an hour) to his lectures and
restrictions on her designs on Sir Walter. She exclaimed, however, with a very
tolerable imitation of nature: --

appeased: apaisâtes, apaisas, apaisé,
apaisâmes, apaisèrent, apaisai,
apaisa.
busy: occupé, actif, affairé.
complication: complication.
defy: défier, provoquer, défions,
défient, défiez, défies, provoquons,
provoquez, provoques, provoquent,
provoque.
detail: détail, particularité.
duty: devoir, droit, service, obligation,
taxe.
French
enumeration: énumération,
dénombrement, recensement.
exerted: pratiquai, pratiquâmes,
pratiquas, pratiquâtes, pratiqua,
pratiquèrent, pratiqué.
fatigues: fatigue.
gnawing: rongeant.
guilt: culpabilité.
harassing: harcelant.
imitation: imitation.
intimation: avis.
overbearing: impérieux.
positive: positif.
reckoning: calculant.
restless: agité, remuant.
separated: séparé.
solicitude: sollicitude.
toilsome: pénible.
tolerable: tolérable, supportable,
passable.
vex: chagriner, chagrine, chagrinent,
chagrines, chagrinez, chagrinons,
vexer, vexes, vexe, vexent, vexons.
 Jane Austen 209

"Oh! dear! very true. Only think, Miss Elliot, to my great surprise I met with
Mr Elliot in Bath Street. I was never more astonished. He turned back and
walked with me to the Pump Yard. He had been prevented setting off for
Thornberry, but I really forget by what; for I was in a hurry, and could not much
attend, and I can only answer for his being determined not to be delayed in his
return. He wanted to know how early he might be admitted to-morrow. He was
full of `to-morrow,' and it is very evident that I have been full of it too, ever since
I entered the house, and learnt the extension of your plan and all that had
happened, or my seeing him could never have gone so entirely out of my
head."%

French
admitted: admis, admit, admirent, décidé. hurry: se dépêcher, hâte, presser, être
admîmes, admîtes. entered: entrèrent, entrâmes, entré, urgent, se presser, se hâter, dépêcher.
astonished: étonné, étonnâmes, entrai, entra, entras, entrâtes, learnt: appris.
étonnas, étonnâtes, étonnèrent, introduisîtes, introduit, introduisit, prevented: empêchas, empêchâtes,
étonna, étonnai. introduisis. empêchâmes, empêché, empêchèrent,
attend: être présent, assister, soigner, evident: évident, manifeste. empêchai, empêcha, prévenu,
visiter, soignons, assiste, assistes, extension: extension, rallonge, prévînmes, prévinrent, prévins.
assistez, assistons, soigne, soignent. prolongement, prorogation, seeing: voyant, sciant.
delayed: retardé, différé. prolongation, suffixe, setting: réglage, cadre, calage,
determined: déterminé, déterminai, agrandissement, allonge, sertissage.
déterminâmes, déterminèrent, allongement, poste supplémentaire, surprise: surprendre, surprise.
détermina, déterminas, déterminâtes, poste.
210 Persuasion

CHAPTER 23

One%day only had passed since Anne's conversation with Mrs Smith; but a
keener interest had succeeded, and she was now so little touched by Mr Elliot's
conduct, except by its effects in one quarter, that it became a matter of course the
next morning, still to defer her explanatory visit in Rivers Street. She had
promised to be with the Musgroves from breakfast to dinner. Her faith was
plighted, and Mr Elliot's character, like the Sultaness Scheherazade's head, must
live another day.
She could not keep her appointment punctually, however; the weather was
unfavourable, and she had grieved over the rain on her friends' account, and felt
it very much on her own, before she was able to attempt the walk. When she
reached the White Hart, and made her way to the proper apartment, she found
herself neither arriving quite in time, nor the first to arrive. The party before her
were, Mrs Musgrove, talking to Mrs Croft, and Captain Harville to Captain
Wentworth; and she immediately heard that Mary and Henrietta, too impatient
to wait, had gone out the moment it had cleared, but would be back again soon,
and that the strictest injunctions had been left with Mrs Musgrove to keep her
there till they returned. She had only to submit, sit down, be outwardly
composed, and feel herself plunged at once in all the agitations which she had
merely laid her account of tasting a little before the morning closed. There was
no delay, no waste of time. She was deep in the happiness of such misery, or the
French
apartment: appartement. grieved: affligeas, affligeâtes, affligé, extérieurement.
arriving: arrivant. affligea, affligèrent, affligeâmes, plunged: plongé.
composed: composé, composa, affligeai, chagrinas, chagrinâtes, punctually: ponctuellement, de
composèrent, composâmes, chagriné, chagrina. manière ponctuelle, de façon
composai, composâtes, composas, happiness: bonheur, félicité. ponctuelle.
tranquille, calme. impatient: impatient. submit: soumettre, soumettons,
defer: différer, différez, différons, injunctions: injonctions. soumets, soumettez, soumettent,
diffère, diffèrent, diffères. laid: posèrent, posai, posa, posâmes, abdiquer, se soumettre.
delay: retard, délai, retarder, différer, posas, posâtes, posé, vergé, pondu, tasting: dégustation.
ajourner, sursis, suspendre, renvoyer, pondit, pondis. touched: touché.
reculer. misery: misère, tristesse. unfavourable: défavorable.
explanatory: explicatif. outwardly: de manière extérieur,
 Jane Austen 211

misery of such happiness, instantly. Two minutes after her entering the room,
Captain Wentworth said--
"We will write the letter we were talking of, Harville, now, if you will give
me materials."
Materials were at hand, on a separate table; he went to it, and nearly turning
his back to them all, was engrossed by writing.%
Mrs Musgrove was giving Mrs Croft the history of her eldest daughter's
engagement, and just in that inconvenient tone of voice which was perfectly
audible while it pretended to be a whisper. Anne felt that she did not belong to
the conversation, and yet, as Captain Harville seemed thoughtful and not
disposed to talk, she could not avoid hearing many undesirable particulars;
such as, "how Mr Musgrove and my brother Hayter had met again and again to
talk it over; what my brother Hayter had said one day, and what Mr Musgrove
had proposed the next, and what had occurred to my sister Hayter, and what the
young people had wished, and what I said at first I never could consent to, but
was afterwards persuaded to think might do very well," and a great deal in the
same style of open-hearted communication: minutiae which, even with every
advantage of taste and delicacy, which good Mrs Musgrove could not give,
could be properly interesting only to the principals. Mrs Croft was attending
with great good-humour, and whenever she spoke at all, it was very sensibly.
Anne hoped the gentlemen might each be too much self-occupied to hear.
"And so, ma'am, all these thing considered," said Mrs Musgrove, in her
powerful whisper, "though we could have wished it different, yet, altogether, we
did not think it fair to stand out any longer, for Charles Hayter was quite wild
about it, and Henrietta was pretty near as bad; and so we thought they had better
marry at once, and make the best of it, as many others have done before them. At
any rate, said I, it will be better than a long engagement."
"That is precisely what I was going to observe," cried Mrs Croft. "I would
rather have young people settle on a small income at once, and have to struggle
with a few difficulties together, than be involved in a long engagement. I always
think that no mutual--"
French
attending: assistant, soignant. gentlemen: messieurs. rate: taux, évaluer, proportion, allure,
audible: audible. inconvenient: difficile, dur, pénible, vitesse, rang, estimer, taxer, cours,
delicacy: friandise, délicatesse, finesse. inopportun, incommode, gênant. débit, apprécier.
disposed: disposé, disposâmes, materials: matières, matériels, sensibly: raisonnablement, de manière
disposèrent, disposai, disposa, matériaux. raisonnable, de façon raisonnable.
disposâtes, disposas. misery: misère, tristesse. separate: séparer, particulier, séparé,
eldest: aîné. particulars: détails, précisions. diviser, disperser, dissiper, débiter,
engagement: engagement, fiançailles, powerful: puissant. trier, partager, indépendant.
enclenchement, accordailles. pretended: feignîtes, feignirent, thoughtful: pensif, réfléchi.
engrossed: grossoyèrent, grossoyai, feignis, feignîmes, feignit, feint, undesirable: indésirable.
grossoyâmes, grossoyas, grossoyâtes, prétexta, prétextai, prétextâmes, whisper: chuchoter, chuchotement,
grossoyé, grossoya. prétextas, prétextâtes. murmurer.
212 Persuasion

"Oh! dear Mrs Croft," cried Mrs Musgrove, unable to let her finish her speech,
"there is nothing I so abominate for young people as a long engagement. It is
what I always protested against for my children. It is all very well, I used to say,
for young people to be engaged, if there is a certainty of their being able to marry
in six months, or even in twelve; but a long engagement--"
"Yes, dear ma'am," said Mrs Croft, "or an uncertain engagement, an
engagement which may be long. To begin without knowing that at such a time
there will be the means of marrying, I hold to be very unsafe and unwise, and
what I think all parents should prevent as far as they can."
Anne found an unexpected interest here. She felt its application to herself,
felt it in a nervous thrill all over her; and at the same moment that her eyes
instinctively glanced towards the distant table, Captain Wentworth's pen ceased
to move, his head was raised, pausing, listening, and he turned round the next
instant to give a look, one quick, conscious look at her.%
The two ladies continued to talk, to re-urge the same admitted truths, and
enforce them with such examples of the ill effect of a contrary practice as had
fallen within their observation, but Anne heard nothing distinctly; it was only a
buzz of words in her ear, her mind was in confusion.
Captain Harville, who had in truth been hearing none of it, now left his seat,
and moved to a window, and Anne seeming to watch him, though it was from
thorough absence of mind, became gradually sensible that he was inviting her to
join him where he stood. He looked at her with a smile, and a little motion of the
head, which expressed, "Come to me, I have something to say;" and the
unaffected, easy kindness of manner which denoted the feelings of an older
acquaintance than he really was, strongly enforced the invitation. She roused
herself and went to him. The window at which he stood was at the other end of
the room from where the two ladies were sitting, and though nearer to Captain
Wentworth's table, not very near. As she joined him, Captain Harville's
countenance re-assumed the serious, thoughtful expression which seemed its
natural character.

abominate: abominer, abominons,
abominez, abomines, abomine,
abominent, abhorrer, avoir en
abomination, haïr.
contrary: contraire, opposé,
contradictoire.
countenance: encourager.
denoted: indiqué, indiqua,
indiquèrent, indiquâtes, indiquas,
indiquai, indiquâmes.
enforce: réaliser, imposer, mettre en
vigueur, imposent, réalisent, réalisez,
French
réalisons, réalises, imposons,
imposez, impose.
enforced: imposé, forcé, réalisâtes,
imposa, réalisé, réalisas, réalisâmes,
réalisai, imposèrent, imposâtes,
imposas.
examples: exemples.
marrying: se mariant, épousant.
motion: mouvement, motion,
résolution, marche, requête.
pen: plume, stylo, enclos.
practice: pratique, exercice, pratiquer,
appliquer, clientèle, usage, cabinet.
protested: protestées, protestés,
protesta, protesté, protestée.
roused: stimulé, irrité, irritai,
irritâmes, irritas, irritâtes, irritèrent,
stimula, stimulai, stimulâmes, irrita.
seeming: semblant, paraissant.
strongly: fortement, de manière forte,
de façon forte.
thrill: frémissement.
unsafe: dangereux.
unwise: imprudent.
 Jane Austen 213

"Look here," said he, unfolding a parcel in his hand, and displaying a small
miniature painting, "do you know who that is?"%
"Certainly: Captain Benwick."
"Yes, and you may guess who it is for. But," (in a deep tone,) "it was not done
for her. Miss Elliot, do you remember our walking together at Lyme, and
grieving for him? I little thought then-- but no matter. This was drawn at the
Cape. He met with a clever young German artist at the Cape, and in compliance
with a promise to my poor sister, sat to him, and was bringing it home for her;
and I have now the charge of getting it properly set for another! It was a
commission to me! But who else was there to employ? I hope I can allow for
him. I am not sorry, indeed, to make it over to another. He undertakes it;"
(looking towards Captain Wentworth,) "he is writing about it now." And with a
quivering lip he wound up the whole by adding, "Poor Fanny! she would not
have forgotten him so soon!"
"No," replied Anne, in a low, feeling voice. "That I can easily believe."
"It was not in her nature. She doted on him."
"It would not be the nature of any woman who truly loved."
Captain Harville smiled, as much as to say, "Do you claim that for your sex?"
and she answered the question, smiling also, "Yes. We certainly do not forget
you as soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our fate rather than our merit. We
cannot help ourselves. We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey
upon us. You are forced on exertion. You have always a profession, pursuits,
business of some sort or other, to take you back into the world immediately, and
continual occupation and change soon weaken impressions."
"Granting your assertion that the world does all this so soon for men (which,
however, I do not think I shall grant), it does not apply to Benwick. He has not
been forced upon any exertion. The peace turned him on shore at the very
moment, and he has been living with us, in our little family circle, ever since."
"True," said Anne, "very true; I did not recollect; but what shall we say now,
Captain Harville? If the change be not from outward circumstances, it must be

apply: appliquer, applique,
appliquent, appliques, appliquez,
appliquons, pratiquer, pratique,
pratiquent, pratiques, pratiquez.
artist: artiste.
charge: charger, accusation, charge,
plainte, imputation, chef
d'accusation, taxe, accuser,
chargement.
compliance: conformité, souplesse,
élasticité, acquiescement.
continual: continuel, constant,
French
invariable, permanent.
displaying: affichant.
exertion: effort.
granting: octroi, allouant.
grieving: affligeant, chagrinant,
attristant.
lip: lèvre, bord.
live: vivre, vivez, vivent, vivons, vis,
habiter, demeurer, habite, habitent,
habites, habitons.
miniature: miniature.
outward: vers l'extérieur, sortie.
painting: peinture, tableau.
parcel: paquet, colis, lot, parcelle.
prey: proie.
quivering: frisson, tremblant.
recollect: se rappeler, se souvenir,
retenir, retenez, retiens, retiennent,
retenons.
undertakes: entreprend.
unfolding: dépliant.
weaken: affaiblir, affaiblissent,
affaiblis, affaiblissez, affaiblissons,
abattre, atténuer, s'affaiblir.
214 Persuasion

from%within; it must be nature, man's nature, which has done the business for
Captain Benwick."
"No, no, it is not man's nature. I will not allow it to be more man's nature
than woman's to be inconstant and forget those they do love, or have loved. I
believe the reverse. I believe in a true analogy between our bodily frames and
our mental; and that as our bodies are the strongest, so are our feelings; capable
of bearing most rough usage, and riding out the heaviest weather."
"Your feelings may be the strongest," replied Anne, "but the same spirit of
analogy will authorise me to assert that ours are the most tender. Man is more
robust than woman, but he is not longer lived; which exactly explains my view
of the nature of their attachments. Nay, it would be too hard upon you, if it were
otherwise. You have difficulties, and privations, and dangers enough to struggle
with. You are always labouring and toiling, exposed to every risk and hardship.
Your home, country, friends, all quitted. Neither time, nor health, nor life, to be
called your own. It would be hard, indeed" (with a faltering voice), "if woman's
feelings were to be added to all this."
"We shall never agree upon this question," Captain Harville was beginning to
say, when a slight noise called their attention to Captain Wentworth's hitherto
perfectly quiet division of the room. It was nothing more than that his pen had
fallen down; but Anne was startled at finding him nearer than she had
supposed, and half inclined to suspect that the pen had only fallen because he
had been occupied by them, striving to catch sounds, which yet she did not think
he could have caught.
"Have you finished your letter?" said Captain Harville.
"Not quite, a few lines more. I shall have done in five minutes."
"There is no hurry on my side. I am only ready whenever you are. I am in
very good anchorage here," (smiling at Anne,) "well supplied, and want for
nothing. No hurry for a signal at all. Well, Miss Elliot," (lowering his voice,) "as
I was saying we shall never agree, I suppose, upon this point. No man and
woman, would, probably. But let me observe that all histories are against you--all

anchorage: ancrage, mouillage.
assert: affirmer, affirme, affirmes,
affirment, affirmez, affirmons.
attachments: équipements, outils
adaptables.
authorise: autoriser.
bearing: coussinet, relèvement, palier,
roulement, support.
bodies: corps.
division: division, partage, section.
exposed: exposé, exposâtes, exposas,
exposâmes, exposa, exposèrent,
French
exposai, irradié.
faltering: chancelant, hésitant.
finished: termina, terminâtes,
terminèrent, terminas, terminâmes,
terminai, terminé, finîmes, finîtes,
finit, finis.
frames: trames.
hardship: privation.
heaviest: le plus lourd.
inconstant: inconstant.
lowering: abaissement, baissant.
nay: non.
quitted: quittés, quittées, quittâmes,
quittèrent, quittai.
riding: équitation.
risk: risque, aléa, risquer, aventurer,
péril, oser, risquez.
robust: robuste, vigoureux.
signal: signal, signaler, signe.
startled: effarouché, effarouchâmes,
surprîtes, effarouchas, effarouchâtes,
effarouchèrent, surprîmes, surprit,
alarmèrent, surprirent, alarmé.
striving: combattant.
 Jane Austen 215

stories, prose and verse. If I had such a memory as Benwick, I could bring you
fifty quotations in a moment on my side the argument, and I do not think I ever
opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's
inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman's fickleness. But perhaps
you will say, these were all written by men."%
"Perhaps I shall. Yes, yes, if you please, no reference to examples in books.
Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has
been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will
not allow books to prove anything."
"But how shall we prove anything?"
"We never shall. We never can expect to prove any thing upon such a point.
It is a difference of opinion which does not admit of proof. We each begin,
probably, with a little bias towards our own sex; and upon that bias build every
circumstance in favour of it which has occurred within our own circle; many of
which circumstances (perhaps those very cases which strike us the most) may be
precisely such as cannot be brought forward without betraying a confidence, or
in some respect saying what should not be said."
"Ah!" cried Captain Harville, in a tone of strong feeling, "if I could but make
you comprehend what a man suffers when he takes a last look at his wife and
children, and watches the boat that he has sent them off in, as long as it is in
sight, and then turns away and says, `God knows whether we ever meet again!'
And then, if I could convey to you the glow of his soul when he does see them
again; when, coming back after a twelvemonth's absence, perhaps, and obliged
to put into another port, he calculates how soon it be possible to get them there,
pretending to deceive himself, and saying, `They cannot be here till such a day,'
but all the while hoping for them twelve hours sooner, and seeing them arrive at
last, as if Heaven had given them wings, by many hours sooner still! If I could
explain to you all this, and all that a man can bear and do, and glories to do, for
the sake of these treasures of his existence! I speak, you know, only of such men
as have hearts!" pressing his own with emotion.

betraying: trahissant.
bias: biais, parti pris, préjugé,
distorsion, polarisation, erreur
systématique, partialité.
calculates: calcule, compte.
circumstance: circonstance.
comprehend: comprendre,
comprennent, comprends,
comprenez, comprenons.
convey: transmettre.
deceive: tromper, trompe, trompent,
trompez, trompes, trompons, tricher,
French
décevoir, triches, trichent, trichez. pretending: feignant, prétextant,
emotion: émotion. prétendant.
fickleness: inconstance. prose: prose.
glow: ardeur, incandescence, brûler, proverbs: proverbes.
être en feu, lueur. quotations: citations.
inconstancy: inconstance. sex: sexe, bagatelle.
obliged: obligeâtes, obligeas, obligea, suffers: souffre, subit, souffrit.
obligeâmes, obligèrent, obligeai, theirs: leur.
obligé. turns: tourne, change, retourne, dévie.
please: plaire, s'il vous plaît, contenter, verse: vers, strophe.
s'il vous plait, faire plaisir, s'il te plaît, watches: montres, guette.
satisfaire. wings: coulisses, ailes.
216 Persuasion

"Oh!" cried Anne eagerly, "I hope I do justice to all that is felt by you, and by
those who resemble you. God forbid that I should undervalue the warm and
faithful feelings of any of my fellow-creatures! I should deserve utter contempt if
I dared to suppose that true attachment and constancy were known only by
woman. No, I believe you capable of everything great and good in your married
lives. I believe you equal to every important exertion, and to every domestic
forbearance, so long as--if I may be allowed the expression--so long as you have
an object. I mean while the woman you love lives, and lives for you. All the
privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one; you need not
covet it), is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone."
She could not immediately have uttered another sentence; her heart was too
full, her breath too much oppressed.%
"You are a good soul," cried Captain Harville, putting his hand on her arm,
quite affectionately. "There is no quarrelling with you. And when I think of
Benwick, my tongue is tied."
Their attention was called towards the others. Mrs Croft was taking leave.
"Here, Frederick, you and I part company, I believe," said she. "I am going
home, and you have an engagement with your friend. To-night we may have the
pleasure of all meeting again at your party," (turning to Anne.) "We had your
sister's card yesterday, and I understood Frederick had a card too, though I did
not see it; and you are disengaged, Frederick, are you not, as well as ourselves?"
Captain Wentworth was folding up a letter in great haste, and either could
not or would not answer fully.
"Yes," said he, "very true; here we separate, but Harville and I shall soon be
after you; that is, Harville, if you are ready, I am in half a minute. I know you
will not be sorry to be off. I shall be at your service in half a minute."
Mrs Croft left them, and Captain Wentworth, having sealed his letter with
great rapidity, was indeed ready, and had even a hurried, agitated air, which
shewed impatience to be gone. Anne knew not how to understand it. She had

affectionately: affectueusement, de
manière affectueuse, de façon
affectueuse.
agitated: agité, agitâtes, agitas,
agitâmes, agita, agitai, agitèrent,
troublé, troublai, troublèrent,
troublâtes.
breath: souffle, haleine, respiration, le
souffle.
constancy: constance.
covet: convoiter, convoite, convoitent,
convoites, convoitez, convoitons.
French
disengaged: dégagé, dégagea,
dégageai, dégageâmes, dégagèrent,
dégageas, dégageâtes.
enviable: enviable.
exertion: effort.
faithful: fidèle, loyal, honnête, droit.
folding: pliant, plissement, pliage.
forbearance: patience, tolérance.
forbid: interdire, interdis, interdisez,
interdisent, interdisons, défendre,
prohiber.
haste: hâte.
impatience: impatience.
loving: amoureux, aimant.
privilege: privilège, privilégier.
rapidity: rapidité.
resemble: ressembler, ressemble,
ressembles, ressemblez, ressemblons,
ressemblent, rejoindre, rejoignent,
rejoignez, rejoignons, rejoins.
sealed: scellé, étanche, hermétique,
fermé.
sentence: phrase, condamner, peine,
sentence, condamnation, verdict.
 Jane Austen 217

the%kindest "Good morning, God bless you!" from Captain Harville, but from
him not a word, nor a look! He had passed out of the room without a look!
She had only time, however, to move closer to the table where he had been
writing, when footsteps were heard returning; the door opened, it was himself.
He begged their pardon, but he had forgotten his gloves, and instantly crossing
the room to the writing table, he drew out a letter from under the scattered
paper, placed it before Anne with eyes of glowing entreaty fixed on her for a
time, and hastily collecting his gloves, was again out of the room, almost before
Mrs Musgrove was aware of his being in it: the work of an instant!
The revolution which one instant had made in Anne, was almost beyond
expression. The letter, with a direction hardly legible, to "Miss A. E.--," was
evidently the one which he had been folding so hastily. While supposed to be
writing only to Captain Benwick, he had been also addressing her! On the
contents of that letter depended all which this world could do for her. Anything
was possible, anything might be defied rather than suspense. Mrs Musgrove
had little arrangements of her own at her own table; to their protection she must
trust, and sinking into the chair which he had occupied, succeeding to the very
spot where he had leaned and written, her eyes devoured the following words:
"I can listen no longer in silence. I must speak to you by such means as are
within my reach. You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not
that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. I offer myself to
you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it,
eight years and a half ago. Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman,
that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you. Unjust I may have
been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant. You alone have
brought me to Bath. For you alone, I think and plan. Have you not seen this?
Can you fail to have understood my wishes? I had not waited even these ten
days, could I have read your feelings, as I think you must have penetrated mine.
I can hardly write. I am every instant hearing something which overpowers me.
You sink your voice, but I can distinguish the tones of that voice when they
would be lost on others. Too good, too excellent creature! You do us justice,

broke: fauché, cassai, cassés de
fabrication.
closer: clausoir, clé de voûte, dispositif
de fermeture, piqueur.
contents: contenu.
defied: défiai, défièrent, défiâmes,
défié, défia, défiâtes, défias,
provoquai, provoquâmes, provoquas,
provoquâtes.
devoured: dévoré, dévorâtes, dévoras,
dévora, dévorai, dévorèrent,
dévorâmes.
French
entreaty: imploration, supplication.
footsteps: pas.
forgets: oublie.
gloves: gants.
inconstant: inconstant.
leaned: adossé, adossées, adossâmes,
adossai, adossés.
legible: lisible.
offer: offre, offrir, proposition,
proposer, présenter, sacrifier,
consacrer, faire offrande.
overpowers: domine, vainc, maîtrise.
paper: papier, document, tapisser,
article, journal.
pierce: percer, percez, perçons, perce,
percent, perces, transpercer.
protection: protection, garde,
sauvegarde.
resentful: rancunier.
revolution: révolution, tour, rotation.
sink: évier, forer, couler, lavabo,
sombrer, toucher, puits, enfoncer,
rencontrer, collecteur.
suspense: suspens.
218 Persuasion

indeed. You do believe that there is true attachment and constancy among men.
Believe it to be most fervent, most undeviating, in F. W.%
"I must go, uncertain of my fate; but I shall return hither, or follow your
party, as soon as possible. A word, a look, will be enough to decide whether I
enter your father's house this evening or never."
Such a letter was not to be soon recovered from. Half and hour's solitude
and reflection might have tranquillized her; but the ten minutes only which now
passed before she was interrupted, with all the restraints of her situation, could
do nothing towards tranquillity. Every moment rather brought fresh agitation.
It was overpowering happiness. And before she was beyond the first stage of full
sensation, Charles, Mary, and Henrietta all came in.
The absolute necessity of seeming like herself produced then an immediate
struggle; but after a while she could do no more. She began not to understand a
word they said, and was obliged to plead indisposition and excuse herself.
They could then see that she looked very ill, were shocked and concerned, and
would not stir without her for the world. This was dreadful. Would they only
have gone away, and left her in the quiet possession of that room it would have
been her cure; but to have them all standing or waiting around her was
distracting, and in desperation, she said she would go home.
"By all means, my dear," cried Mrs Musgrove, "go home directly, and take
care of yourself, that you may be fit for the evening. I wish Sarah was here to
doctor you, but I am no doctor myself. Charles, ring and order a chair. She must
not walk."
But the chair would never do. Worse than all! To lose the possibility of
speaking two words to Captain Wentworth in the course of her quiet, solitary
progress up the town (and she felt almost certain of meeting him) could not be
borne. The chair was earnestly protested against, and Mrs Musgrove, who
thought only of one sort of illness, having assured herself with some anxiety, that
there had been no fall in the case; that Anne had not at any time lately slipped
down, and got a blow on her head; that she was perfectly convinced of having

agitation: agitation, bagarre, barouf,
baroufle, brassage.
attachment: attachement, saisie,
accessoire, annexe, attache.
blow: coup, souffler, bataille, souffler
sur, souffle.
constancy: constance.
desperation: désespoir.
distracting: distrayant.
doctor: docteur, médecin, docteur
médecin, toubib.
earnestly: sérieusement, de manière
French
sérieuse, de façon sérieuse.
fall: chute, tomber, tombes, tombe,
tombez, tombons, tombent, baisse,
choir, s'abaisser, s'amoindrir.
fervent: fervent.
hither: ici.
indisposition: indisposition.
lately: dernièrement, de manière
tarde, de façon tardive, récemment.
overpowering: accablant, dominant,
vainquant, maîtrisant, irrésistible.
plead: plaider, plaides, plaidez,
plaident, plaide, plaidons, implorer.
progress: progrès, progresser, avancer,
déroulement.
protested: protestées, protestés,
protesta, protesté, protestée.
restraints: bride.
seeming: semblant, paraissant.
solitary: solitaire, seul, pur.
solitude: solitude.
tranquillity: tranquillité.
 Jane Austen 219

had no fall; could part with her cheerfully, and depend on finding her better at
night.%
Anxious to omit no possible precaution, Anne struggled, and said--
"I am afraid, ma'am, that it is not perfectly understood. Pray be so good as to
mention to the other gentlemen that we hope to see your whole party this
evening. I am afraid there had been some mistake; and I wish you particularly to
assure Captain Harville and Captain Wentworth, that we hope to see them both."
"Oh! my dear, it is quite understood, I give you my word. Captain Harville
has no thought but of going."
"Do you think so? But I am afraid; and I should be so very sorry. Will you
promise me to mention it, when you see them again? You will see them both this
morning, I dare say. Do promise me."
"To be sure I will, if you wish it. Charles, if you see Captain Harville
anywhere, remember to give Miss Anne's message. But indeed, my dear, you
need not be uneasy. Captain Harville holds himself quite engaged, I'll answer
for it; and Captain Wentworth the same, I dare say."
Anne could do no more; but her heart prophesied some mischance to damp
the perfection of her felicity. It could not be very lasting, however. Even if he
did not come to Camden Place himself, it would be in her power to send an
intelligible sentence by Captain Harville. Another momentary vexation
occurred. Charles, in his real concern and good nature, would go home with her;
there was no preventing him. This was almost cruel. But she could not be long
ungrateful; he was sacrificing an engagement at a gunsmith's, to be of use to
her; and she set off with him, with no feeling but gratitude apparent.
They were on Union Street, when a quicker step behind, a something of
familiar sound, gave her two moments' preparation for the sight of Captain
Wentworth. He joined them; but, as if irresolute whether to join or to pass on,
said nothing, only looked. Anne could command herself enough to receive that
look, and not repulsively. The cheeks which had been pale now glowed, and the

assure: assurer, assure, assures,
assurons, assurez, assurent, certifier,
garantir, garantis, garantissent,
garantissez.
cheerfully: de manière gaie, de façon
gaie.
damp: humide, amortir, humidité,
mouiller.
familiar: familier.
felicity: félicité.
gratitude: gratitude, reconnaissance,
remerciement.
French
intelligible: intelligible.
irresolute: indécis.
lasting: permanent, continuel,
perpétuel, durable.
mischance: malchance.
momentary: momentané.
omit: omettre, omettons, omettent,
omettez, omets.
pale: pâle, blême.
perfection: perfection.
precaution: précaution.
preventing: empêchant, prévenant.
prophesied: prédit, prédis, prédirent,
prédîtes, prédîmes, auguras,
augurâtes, augurâmes, augurai,
augura, auguré.
repulsively: de manière affreuse, de
façon affreuse.
sacrificing: sacrifiant.
step: pas, marche, étape, gradin,
échelon, palier, faire les cent pas,
marchepied.
struggled: lutté.
ungrateful: ingrat.
220 Persuasion

movements which had hesitated were decided. He walked by her side.

Presently, struck by a sudden thought, Charles said--
"Captain Wentworth, which way are you going? Only to Gay Street, or
farther up the town?"
"I hardly know," replied Captain Wentworth, surprised.%
"Are you going as high as Belmont? Are you going near Camden Place?
Because, if you are, I shall have no scruple in asking you to take my place, and
give Anne your arm to her father's door. She is rather done for this morning, and
must not go so far without help, and I ought to be at that fellow's in the Market
Place. He promised me the sight of a capital gun he is just going to send off; said
he would keep it unpacked to the last possible moment, that I might see it; and if
I do not turn back now, I have no chance. By his description, a good deal like the
second size double-barrel of mine, which you shot with one day round
Winthrop."
There could not be an objection. There could be only the most proper
alacrity, a most obliging compliance for public view; and smiles reined in and
spirits dancing in private rapture. In half a minute Charles was at the bottom of
Union Street again, and the other two proceeding together: and soon words
enough had passed between them to decide their direction towards the
comparatively quiet and retired gravel walk, where the power of conversation
would make the present hour a blessing indeed, and prepare it for all the
immortality which the happiest recollections of their own future lives could
bestow. There they exchanged again those feelings and those promises which
had once before seemed to secure everything, but which had been followed by so
many, many years of division and estrangement. There they returned again into
the past, more exquisitely happy, perhaps, in their re-union, than when it had
been first projected; more tender, more tried, more fixed in a knowledge of each
other's character, truth, and attachment; more equal to act, more justified in
acting. And there, as they slowly paced the gradual ascent, heedless of every
group around them, seeing neither sauntering politicians, bustling
housekeepers, flirting girls, nor nursery-maids and children, they could indulge

alacrity: avidité, empressement,
enthousiasme.
bestow: accorder, accorde, accordes,
accordez, accordons, octroyer,
accordent.
capital: capital, capitale, fonds, capital
social, chapiteau, majuscule.
estrangement: séparation.
exchanged: échangées.
exquisitely: de manière exquise, de
façon exquise.
flirting: flirt.
French
gravel: gravier, silex, gravelle.
gun: fusil, pistolet, canon.
heedless: insouciant.
housekeepers: gouvernantes.
immortality: immortalité.
justified: justifié, justifiâtes, justifias,
justifièrent, justifiâmes, justifiai,
justifia.
movements: mouvements.
politicians: politiciens.
prepare: préparer, prépare, prépares,
préparent, préparons, préparez,
apprêter, apprête, apprêtes, apprêtez,
apprêtons.
rapture: ravissement.
sauntering: flânant.
scruple: scrupule.
slowly: lentement, doucement, de
manière lente, de façon lente.
unpacked: déballé, déballa, déballai,
déballâmes, déballas, déballâtes,
déballèrent.
 Jane Austen 221

in those retrospections and acknowledgements, and especially in those

explanations of what had directly preceded the present moment, which were so
poignant and so ceaseless in interest. All the little variations of the last week
were gone through; and of yesterday and today there could scarcely be an end.%
She had not mistaken him. Jealousy of Mr Elliot had been the retarding
weight, the doubt, the torment. That had begun to operate in the very hour of
first meeting her in Bath; that had returned, after a short suspension, to ruin the
concert; and that had influenced him in everything he had said and done, or
omitted to say and do, in the last four-and-twenty hours. It had been gradually
yielding to the better hopes which her looks, or words, or actions occasionally
encouraged; it had been vanquished at last by those sentiments and those tones
which had reached him while she talked with Captain Harville; and under the
irresistible governance of which he had seized a sheet of paper, and poured out
his feelings.
Of what he had then written, nothing was to be retracted or qualified. He
persisted in having loved none but her. She had never been supplanted. He
never even believed himself to see her equal. Thus much indeed he was obliged
to acknowledge: that he had been constant unconsciously, nay unintentionally;
that he had meant to forget her, and believed it to be done. He had imagined
himself indifferent, when he had only been angry; and he had been unjust to her
merits, because he had been a sufferer from them. Her character was now fixed
on his mind as perfection itself, maintaining the loveliest medium of fortitude
and gentleness; but he was obliged to acknowledge that only at Uppercross had
he learnt to do her justice, and only at Lyme had he begun to understand himself.
At Lyme, he had received lessons of more than one sort. The passing admiration
of Mr Elliot had at least roused him, and the scenes on the Cobb and at Captain
Harville's had fixed her superiority.
In his preceding attempts to attach himself to Louisa Musgrove (the attempts
of angry pride), he protested that he had for ever felt it to be impossible; that he
had not cared, could not care, for Louisa; though till that day, till the leisure for
reflection which followed it, he had not understood the perfect excellence of the

explanations: explications.
governance: gouvernance,
gouvernement.
loveliest: le plus charmant.
medium: moyen, médium, milieu,
support, média, moyenne.
operate: opérer, opère, opères,
opèrent, opérez, opérons,
fonctionner, fonctionne,
fonctionnons, fonctionnes,
fonctionnez.
poignant: intense.
French
poured: versé.
preceded: précédas, précédâtes,
précédâmes, précédai, précéda,
précédèrent, précédé, avancé,
avançâtes, avanças, avançâmes.
retracted: te rétractas, vous rétractâtes,
se rétractèrent, se rétracté, se rétracta,
nous rétractâmes, me rétractai,
rétracté.
sheet: feuille, drap, plaque, drap de lit,
écoute, feuillet, tôle.
sufferer: victime.
supplanted: supplanta, supplantai,
supplantâmes, supplantas,
supplantâtes, supplantèrent,
supplanté.
unintentionally: de manière
involontaire, de façon involontaire,
involontairement.
vanquished: vainquîtes, vaincu,
vainquîmes, vainquirent, vainquis,
vainquit.
variations: variations.
222 Persuasion

mind with which Louisa's could so ill bear a comparison, or the perfect
unrivalled hold it possessed over his own. There, he had learnt to distinguish
between the steadiness of principle and the obstinacy of self-will, between the
darings of heedlessness and the resolution of a collected mind. There he had
seen everything to exalt in his estimation the woman he had lost; and there
begun to deplore the pride, the folly, the madness of resentment, which had kept
him from trying to regain her when thrown in his way.%
From that period his penance had become severe. He had no sooner been
free from the horror and remorse attending the first few days of Louisa's
accident, no sooner begun to feel himself alive again, than he had begun to feel
himself, though alive, not at liberty.
"I found," said he, "that I was considered by Harville an engaged man! That
neither Harville nor his wife entertained a doubt of our mutual attachment. I
was startled and shocked. To a degree, I could contradict this instantly; but,
when I began to reflect that others might have felt the same--her own family,
nay, perhaps herself--I was no longer at my own disposal. I was hers in honour
if she wished it. I had been unguarded. I had not thought seriously on this
subject before. I had not considered that my excessive intimacy must have its
danger of ill consequence in many ways; and that I had no right to be trying
whether I could attach myself to either of the girls, at the risk of raising even an
unpleasant report, were there no other ill effects. I had been grossly wrong, and
must abide the consequences."
He found too late, in short, that he had entangled himself; and that precisely
as he became fully satisfied of his not caring for Louisa at all, he must regard
himself as bound to her, if her sentiments for him were what the Harvilles
supposed. It determined him to leave Lyme, and await her complete recovery
elsewhere. He would gladly weaken, by any fair means, whatever feelings or
speculations concerning him might exist; and he went, therefore, to his brother's,
meaning after a while to return to Kellynch, and act as circumstances might
require.

abide: demeurer, endurer, attendre,
demeurent, endurent, demeures,
demeurez, endure, demeure,
endures, endurez.
caring: prise en charge globale, soin.
deplore: déplorer, déplorez,
déplorons, déplorent, déplore,
déplores.
disposal: disposition, vente.
elsewhere: ailleurs, autre part.
entangled: empêtré, empêtra,
empêtrèrent, empêtrâtes, empêtras,
French
empêtrâmes, empêtrai, entortillâtes,
entortillèrent, entortilla, entortillai.
estimation: estimation.
exalt: exalter.
excessive: excessif, immodéré,
excessive.
grossly: de manière brute, de façon
brute, grossièrement.
madness: folie, aliénation, aberration,
affolement.
obstinacy: obstination, entêtement.
regain: regagner, regagnent,
regagnons, regagnes, regagne,
regagnez, rattraper, rattrapons,
rattrapez, rattrapes, rattrapent.
remorse: remords.
require: exiger, requérir, requièrent,
requérez, requiers, exigeons, exige,
exiges, exigez, exigent, requérons.
speculations: spéculations.
steadiness: régularité, fermeté,
stabilité.
unrivalled: sans égal.
ways: glissière, façons.
 Jane Austen 223

"I was six weeks with Edward," said he, "and saw him happy. I could have no
other pleasure. I deserved none. He enquired after you very particularly; asked
even if you were personally altered, little suspecting that to my eye you could
never alter."
Anne smiled, and let it pass. It was too pleasing a blunder for a reproach. It
is something for a woman to be assured, in her eight-and-twentieth year, that she
has not lost one charm of earlier youth; but the value of such homage was
inexpressibly increased to Anne, by comparing it with former words, and
feeling it to be the result, not the cause of a revival of his warm attachment.%
He had remained in Shropshire, lamenting the blindness of his own pride,
and the blunders of his own calculations, till at once released from Louisa by the
astonishing and felicitous intelligence of her engagement with Benwick.
"Here," said he, "ended the worst of my state; for now I could at least put
myself in the way of happiness; I could exert myself; I could do something. But
to be waiting so long in inaction, and waiting only for evil, had been dreadful.
Within the first five minutes I said, `I will be at Bath on Wednesday,' and I was.
Was it unpardonable to think it worth my while to come? and to arrive with
some degree of hope? You were single. It was possible that you might retain
the feelings of the past, as I did; and one encouragement happened to be mine. I
could never doubt that you would be loved and sought by others, but I knew to a
certainty that you had refused one man, at least, of better pretensions than
myself; and I could not help often saying, `Was this for me?'"
Their first meeting in Milsom Street afforded much to be said, but the concert
still more. That evening seemed to be made up of exquisite moments. The
moment of her stepping forward in the Octagon Room to speak to him: the
moment of Mr Elliot's appearing and tearing her away, and one or two
subsequent moments, marked by returning hope or increasing despondency,
were dwelt on with energy.
"To see you," cried he, "in the midst of those who could not be my well-
wishers; to see your cousin close by you, conversing and smiling, and feel all the
horrible eligibilities and proprieties of the match! To consider it as the certain
French
astonishing: étonnant. abominable, odieux, sinistre, abject, reprendre.
blindness: cécité. hideux. retain: retenir, retiennent, retenez,
blunder: gaffe, bévue, maladresse. inaction: inaction. retenons, retiens, réprimer.
blunders: gaffes, embrouille. inexpressibly: de manière single: célibataire, unique, simple,
conversing: conversant. inexprimable, de façon inexprimable. seul, individuel, individuelle.
despondency: découragement. lamenting: lamentant. subsequent: subséquent, postérieur,
encouragement: encouragement. marked: marqué. suivant.
energy: énergie. personally: personnellement, de suspecting: soupçonnant.
felicitous: heureux. manière personnelle, de façon tearing: déchirement, déchirure.
homage: hommage. personnelle. unpardonable: inexcusable.
horrible: affreux, épouvantable, reproach: reproche, reprocher,
horrible, atroce, terrible, désagréable, réprimander, gronder, sermonner,
224 Persuasion

wish of every being who could hope to influence you! Even if your own feelings
were reluctant or indifferent, to consider what powerful supports would be his!
Was it not enough to make the fool of me which I appeared? How could I look
on without agony? Was not the very sight of the friend who sat behind you, was
not the recollection of what had been, the knowledge of her influence, the
indelible, immoveable impression of what persuasion had once done-- was it
not all against me?"%
"You should have distinguished," replied Anne. "You should not have
suspected me now; the case is so different, and my age is so different. If I was
wrong in yielding to persuasion once, remember that it was to persuasion
exerted on the side of safety, not of risk. When I yielded, I thought it was to
duty, but no duty could be called in aid here. In marrying a man indifferent to
me, all risk would have been incurred, and all duty violated."
"Perhaps I ought to have reasoned thus," he replied, "but I could not. I could
not derive benefit from the late knowledge I had acquired of your character. I
could not bring it into play; it was overwhelmed, buried, lost in those earlier
feelings which I had been smarting under year after year. I could think of you
only as one who had yielded, who had given me up, who had been influenced by
any one rather than by me. I saw you with the very person who had guided you
in that year of misery. I had no reason to believe her of less authority now. The
force of habit was to be added."
"I should have thought," said Anne, "that my manner to yourself might have
spared you much or all of this."
"No, no! your manner might be only the ease which your engagement to
another man would give. I left you in this belief; and yet, I was determined to
see you again. My spirits rallied with the morning, and I felt that I had still a
motive for remaining here."
At last Anne was at home again, and happier than any one in that house
could have conceived. All the surprise and suspense, and every other painful
part of the morning dissipated by this conversation, she re-entered the house so
happy as to be obliged to find an alloy in some momentary apprehensions of its
French
aid: aide, aider, secourir, assister, encourut, encourus, encouru, jouons, joue, jeu, pièce de théâtre,
secours, adjoint, assistance. encoururent. pièce, représenter, jouer de.
alloy: alliage, allier. indelible: indélébile. rallied: ralliâmes, rallié, ralliai, ralliés,
apprehensions: appréhensions. indifferent: indifférent, impartial. rallia.
dissipated: dissipé. marrying: se mariant, épousant. reasoned: raisonné.
exerted: pratiquai, pratiquâmes, momentary: momentané. recollection: souvenir, mémoire.
pratiquas, pratiquâtes, pratiqua, overwhelmed: comblé, comblai, smarting: cuisant.
pratiquèrent, pratiqué. comblâmes, comblèrent, comblas, supports: appuie, supporte.
force: force, contraindre, obliger, comblâtes, combla, abreuvé, suspense: suspens.
imposer, forcer, violer, puissance, abreuvâtes, abreuvas, abreuvâmes. yielded: cédâmes, cédèrent, cédé,
contrainte, faire accepter. persuasion: persuasion, croyance. cédas, cédai, céda, cédâtes.
incurred: encourûmes, encourûtes, play: jouer, joues, jouez, jouent, yielding: cédant.
 Jane Austen 225

being impossible to last. An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the
best corrective of everything dangerous in such high-wrought felicity; and she
went to her room, and grew steadfast and fearless in the thankfulness of her
enjoyment.%
The evening came, the drawing-rooms were lighted up, the company
assembled. It was but a card party, it was but a mixture of those who had never
met before, and those who met too often; a commonplace business, too
numerous for intimacy, too small for variety; but Anne had never found an
evening shorter. Glowing and lovely in sensibility and happiness, and more
generally admired than she thought about or cared for, she had cheerful or
forbearing feelings for every creature around her. Mr Elliot was there; she
avoided, but she could pity him. The Wallises, she had amusement in
understanding them. Lady Dalrymple and Miss Carteret--they would soon be
innoxious cousins to her. She cared not for Mrs Clay, and had nothing to blush
for in the public manners of her father and sister. With the Musgroves, there was
the happy chat of perfect ease; with Captain Harville, the kind-hearted
intercourse of brother and sister; with Lady Russell, attempts at conversation,
which a delicious consciousness cut short; with Admiral and Mrs Croft,
everything of peculiar cordiality and fervent interest, which the same
consciousness sought to conceal; and with Captain Wentworth, some moments
of communications continually occurring, and always the hope of more, and
always the knowledge of his being there.
It was in one of these short meetings, each apparently occupied in admiring a
fine display of greenhouse plants, that she said--
"I have been thinking over the past, and trying impartially to judge of the
right and wrong, I mean with regard to myself; and I must believe that I was
right, much as I suffered from it, that I was perfectly right in being guided by the
friend whom you will love better than you do now. To me, she was in the place
of a parent. Do not mistake me, however. I am not saying that she did not err in
her advice. It was, perhaps, one of those cases in which advice is good or bad
only as the event decides; and for myself, I certainly never should, in any

advice: conseil, avis, renseignement,
conseils.
assembled: montâmes, montas,
montâtes, montèrent, assemblas,
assemblâtes, monta, montai, monté,
assemblé, assembla.
commonplace: banal, trivial.
communications: art de la
communication, télécommunications.
cordiality: cordialité.
corrective: correctif, correcteur.
decides: décide.
French
delicious: délicieux, savoureux.
err: se tromper, errer.
fearless: intrépide, courageux.
felicity: félicité.
fervent: fervent.
forbearing: patient.
greenhouse: serre.
impartially: de manière neutre, de
façon neutre, impartialement.
lighted: allumé.
lovely: charmant, agréable, ravissant,
délicieux, beau, mignon, cher, gentil,
magnifique, splendide, superbe.
meditation: méditation.
mixture: mélange, mixture.
occurring: arrivant, survenant.
plants: dispositif de mise à feu,
plantes.
shorter: plus court.
steadfast: constant, inébranlable,
ferme.
thankfulness: gratitude,
reconnaissance.
variety: variété, diversité.
226 Persuasion

circumstance of tolerable similarity, give such advice. But I mean, that I was
right in submitting to her, and that if I had done otherwise, I should have
suffered more in continuing the engagement than I did even in giving it up,
because I should have suffered in my conscience. I have now, as far as such a
sentiment is allowable in human nature, nothing to reproach myself with; and if
I mistake not, a strong sense of duty is no bad part of a woman's portion."
He looked at her, looked at Lady Russell, and looking again at her, replied, as
if in cool deliberation--
"Not yet. But there are hopes of her being forgiven in time. I trust to being in
charity with her soon. But I too have been thinking over the past, and a question
has suggested itself, whether there may not have been one person more my
enemy even than that lady? My own self. Tell me if, when I returned to England
in the year eight, with a few thousand pounds, and was posted into the Laconia,
if I had then written to you, would you have answered my letter? Would you, in
short, have renewed the engagement then?"
"Would I!" was all her answer; but the accent was decisive enough.%
"Good God!" he cried, "you would! It is not that I did not think of it, or desire
it, as what could alone crown all my other success; but I was proud, too proud to
ask again. I did not understand you. I shut my eyes, and would not understand
you, or do you justice. This is a recollection which ought to make me forgive
every one sooner than myself. Six years of separation and suffering might have
been spared. It is a sort of pain, too, which is new to me. I have been used to the
gratification of believing myself to earn every blessing that I enjoyed. I have
valued myself on honourable toils and just rewards. Like other great men under
reverses," he added, with a smile. "I must endeavour to subdue my mind to my
fortune. I must learn to brook being happier than I deserve."

accent: accent, accentuer, accentue,
accentuons, accentuent, accentuez,
accentues, souligner, emphase.
allowable: admissible.
brook: ruisseau.
circumstance: circonstance.
crown: couronne, couronner, cime,
sommet, voûte, sacrer.
decisive: décisif.
earn: gagner, gagnez, gagnent,
gagnons, gagne, gagnes, remporter.
enemy: ennemi.
French
enjoyed: jouirent, jouîmes, joui,
jouîtes, jouis, jouit.
forgiven: pardonné, excusé,
pardonnées.
gratification: satisfaction.
posted: affiché, posté.
pounds: livres.
recollection: souvenir, mémoire.
reproach: reproche, reprocher,
réprimander, gronder, sermonner,
reprendre.
sentiment: sentiment.
similarity: similarité, similitude,
ressemblance.
subdue: soumettre, soumettent,
soumets, soumettons, soumettez,
subjuguer, subjugue, subjugues,
subjuguons, subjuguent, subjuguez.
submitting: soumettant.
suggested: suggéras, suggérâtes,
suggérai, suggérâmes, suggéra,
suggéré, suggérèrent.
tolerable: tolérable, supportable,
passable.
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CHAPTER %24

Who can be in doubt of what followed? When any two young people take it
into their heads to marry, they are pretty sure by perseverance to carry their
point, be they ever so poor, or ever so imprudent, or ever so little likely to be
necessary to each other's ultimate comfort. This may be bad morality to
conclude with, but I believe it to be truth; and if such parties succeed, how
should a Captain Wentworth and an Anne Elliot, with the advantage of maturity
of mind, consciousness of right, and one independent fortune between them, fail
of bearing down every opposition? They might in fact, have borne down a great
deal more than they met with, for there was little to distress them beyond the
want of graciousness and warmth. Sir Walter made no objection, and Elizabeth
did nothing worse than look cold and unconcerned. Captain Wentworth, with
five-and-twenty thousand pounds, and as high in his profession as merit and
activity could place him, was no longer nobody. He was now esteemed quite
worthy to address the daughter of a foolish, spendthrift baronet, who had not
had principle or sense enough to maintain himself in the situation in which
Providence had placed him, and who could give his daughter at present but a
small part of the share of ten thousand pounds which must be hers hereafter.
Sir Walter, indeed, though he had no affection for Anne, and no vanity
flattered, to make him really happy on the occasion, was very far from thinking
it a bad match for her. On the contrary, when he saw more of Captain
French
baronet: baronnet. adulâtes, adula, adulai. conserve, conserves, conservez.
carry: porter, portes, porte, portons, foolish: sot, idiot, stupide, maturity: maturité, échéance.
portent, portez, report, transporter, abracadabrant, insensé. merit: mérite, mériter, gloire.
transportent, transportes, transporte. graciousness: élégance, grâce. morality: moralité, vertu.
conclude: conclure, concluez, hereafter: désormais, dorénavant, objection: objection, opposition,
concluent, concluons, conclus, après l'entrée en vigueur de la réclamation.
terminer. présente loi, après. perseverance: persévérance.
contrary: contraire, opposé, imprudent: imprudent. spendthrift: dépensier.
contradictoire. independent: indépendant. ultimate: ultime.
esteemed: estimé. maintain: maintenir, maintenez, unconcerned: imperturbable.
flattered: flattèrent, flattâtes, flattai, maintiens, maintenons, maintiennent, vanity: vanité, futilité.
flattâmes, flatta, flattas, flatté, adulas, conserver, conservent, conservons,
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Wentworth, saw him repeatedly by daylight, and eyed him well, he was very
much struck by his personal claims, and felt that his superiority of appearance
might be not unfairly balanced against her superiority of rank; and all this,
assisted by his well-sounding name, enabled Sir Walter at last to prepare his pen,
with a very good grace, for the insertion of the marriage in the volume of
honour.%
The only one among them, whose opposition of feeling could excite any
serious anxiety was Lady Russell. Anne knew that Lady Russell must be
suffering some pain in understanding and relinquishing Mr Elliot, and be
making some struggles to become truly acquainted with, and do justice to
Captain Wentworth. This however was what Lady Russell had now to do. She
must learn to feel that she had been mistaken with regard to both; that she had
been unfairly influenced by appearances in each; that because Captain
Wentworth's manners had not suited her own ideas, she had been too quick in
suspecting them to indicate a character of dangerous impetuosity; and that
because Mr Elliot's manners had precisely pleased her in their propriety and
correctness, their general politeness and suavity, she had been too quick in
receiving them as the certain result of the most correct opinions and well-
regulated mind. There was nothing less for Lady Russell to do, than to admit
that she had been pretty completely wrong, and to take up a new set of opinions
and of hopes.
There is a quickness of perception in some, a nicety in the discernment of
character, a natural penetration, in short, which no experience in others can
equal, and Lady Russell had been less gifted in this part of understanding than
her young friend. But she was a very good woman, and if her second object was
to be sensible and well-judging, her first was to see Anne happy. She loved
Anne better than she loved her own abilities; and when the awkwardness of the
beginning was over, found little hardship in attaching herself as a mother to the
man who was securing the happiness of her other child.
Of all the family, Mary was probably the one most immediately gratified by
the circumstance. It was creditable to have a sister married, and she might

acquainted: renseignai, informèrent,
renseignâtes, renseigné,
renseignâmes, renseignèrent,
renseigna, informâtes, informas,
informâmes, informai.
attaching: attachant, apposant.
awkwardness: maladresse, gaucherie.
balanced: équilibré, balancé.
correctness: exactitude.
creditable: honorable, estimable.
daylight: lumière du jour.
discernment: discernement.
French
excite: exciter, excites, excite, excitez, montrer, désigner, marquer,
excitons, excitent, irriter, agacer, désignent, marquons.
hérisser, hérissons, hérisse. insertion: insertion.
eyed: embryonné. nicety: exactitude.
gifted: doué, surdoué. politeness: politesse.
gratified: gratifiâtes, satisfîtes, satisfit, propriety: bienséance.
satisfis, satisfirent, gratifièrent, quickness: rapidité.
gratifias, gratifiâmes, gratifiai, relinquishing: abandonnant.
gratifia, satisfîmes. struggles: lutte.
impetuosity: impétuosité. suspecting: soupçonnant.
indicate: indiquer, indiques, indique, unfairly: de manière injuste, de façon
indiquent, indiquons, indiquez, injuste, injustement.
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flatter herself with having been greatly instrumental to the connexion, by

keeping Anne with her in the autumn; and as her own sister must be better than
her husband's sisters, it was very agreeable that Captain Wentworth should be a
richer man than either Captain Benwick or Charles Hayter. She had something
to suffer, perhaps, when they came into contact again, in seeing Anne restored to
the rights of seniority, and the mistress of a very pretty landaulette; but she had
a future to look forward to, of powerful consolation. Anne had no Uppercross
Hall before her, no landed estate, no headship of a family; and if they could but
keep Captain Wentworth from being made a baronet, she would not change
situations with Anne.%
It would be well for the eldest sister if she were equally satisfied with her
situation, for a change is not very probable there. She had soon the mortification
of seeing Mr Elliot withdraw, and no one of proper condition has since
presented himself to raise even the unfounded hopes which sunk with him.
The news of his cousins Anne's engagement burst on Mr Elliot most
unexpectedly. It deranged his best plan of domestic happiness, his best hope of
keeping Sir Walter single by the watchfulness which a son-in-law's rights would
have given. But, though discomfited and disappointed, he could still do
something for his own interest and his own enjoyment. He soon quitted Bath;
and on Mrs Clay's quitting it soon afterwards, and being next heard of as
established under his protection in London, it was evident how double a game
he had been playing, and how determined he was to save himself from being cut
out by one artful woman, at least.
Mrs Clay's affections had overpowered her interest, and she had sacrificed,
for the young man's sake, the possibility of scheming longer for Sir Walter. She
has abilities, however, as well as affections; and it is now a doubtful point
whether his cunning, or hers, may finally carry the day; whether, after
preventing her from being the wife of Sir Walter, he may not be wheedled and
caressed at last into making her the wife of Sir William.
It cannot be doubted that Sir Walter and Elizabeth were shocked and
mortified by the loss of their companion, and the discovery of their deception in

French
artful: astucieux. adulent, adulez.
baronet: baronnet. game: jeu, gibier, partie, match.
caressed: caressé. instrumental: instrumental.
condition: condition, état, mortification: mortification.
conditionner, situation, manière mortified: mortifia, humilia,
d'être. mortifiâtes, mortifièrent, mortifias,
cunning: rusé, malin, astucieux, mortifiâmes, mortifiai, humilié,
artificieux, ruse, sournois, rouerie. humiliâtes, humilias, humiliai.
deranged: dérangé. overpowered: maîtrisâtes, vaincu,
doubted: douté. vainquîmes, vainquirent, vainquis,
flatter: flatter, flatte, flattons, flattez, maîtrisâmes, vainquîtes, maîtrisas,
flattes, flattent, aduler, adule, adules, vainquit, domina, maîtrisèrent.
quitted: quittés, quittées, quittâmes,
quittèrent, quittai.
quitting: quittant.
scheming: intrigant.
seniority: ancienneté.
unexpectedly: de façon inattendue, de
manière inattendue, inopinément.
unfounded: infondé, sans fondement.
watchfulness: vigilance.
wheedled: câlina, câlinèrent, câliné,
câlinâtes, câlinas, câlinai, cajolèrent,
cajolé, cajolâtes, cajolas, cajolâmes.
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her. They had their great cousins, to be sure, to resort to for comfort; but they
must long feel that to flatter and follow others, without being flattered and
followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.%
Anne, satisfied at a very early period of Lady Russell's meaning to love
Captain Wentworth as she ought, had no other alloy to the happiness of her
prospects than what arose from the consciousness of having no relations to
bestow on him which a man of sense could value. There she felt her own
inferiority very keenly. The disproportion in their fortune was nothing; it did
not give her a moment's regret; but to have no family to receive and estimate him
properly, nothing of respectability, of harmony, of good will to offer in return for
all the worth and all the prompt welcome which met her in his brothers and
sisters, was a source of as lively pain as her mind could well be sensible of under
circumstances of otherwise strong felicity. She had but two friends in the world
to add to his list, Lady Russell and Mrs Smith. To those, however, he was very
well disposed to attach himself. Lady Russell, in spite of all her former
transgressions, he could now value from his heart. While he was not obliged to
say that he believed her to have been right in originally dividing them, he was
ready to say almost everything else in her favour, and as for Mrs Smith, she had
claims of various kinds to recommend her quickly and permanently.
Her recent good offices by Anne had been enough in themselves, and their
marriage, instead of depriving her of one friend, secured her two. She was their
earliest visitor in their settled life; and Captain Wentworth, by putting her in the
way of recovering her husband's property in the West Indies, by writing for her,
acting for her, and seeing her through all the petty difficulties of the case with
the activity and exertion of a fearless man and a determined friend, fully
requited the services which she had rendered, or ever meant to render, to his
wife.
Mrs Smith's enjoyments were not spoiled by this improvement of income,
with some improvement of health, and the acquisition of such friends to be often
with, for her cheerfulness and mental alacrity did not fail her; and while these
prime supplies of good remained, she might have bid defiance even to greater

alacrity: avidité, empressement,
enthousiasme.
alloy: alliage, allier.
bestow: accorder, accorde, accordes,
accordez, accordons, octroyer,
accordent.
cheerfulness: gaieté, bonne humeur.
defiance: défi.
depriving: privant, dépouillant.
dividing: divisant, partageant,
séparant, débitant, triant.
exertion: effort.
French
fearless: intrépide, courageux. petty: petit, mesquin.
felicity: félicité. prompt: invite, ponctuel, prompt,
flatter: flatter, flatte, flattons, flattez, sollicitation, souffler, mobile.
flattes, flattent, aduler, adule, adules, render: rendre.
adulent, adulez. resort: lieu de vacances, recours.
flattered: flattèrent, flattâtes, flattai, spite: rancune, dépit.
flattâmes, flatta, flattas, flatté, adulas, spoiled: gâté.
adulâtes, adula, adulai. supplies: fournitures,
harmony: harmonie. approvisionnement,
inferiority: infériorité. approvisionnements, provisions.
keenly: de manière vive, de façon
vive.
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accessions of worldly prosperity. She might have been absolutely rich and
perfectly healthy, and yet be happy. Her spring of felicity was in the glow of
her spirits, %as her friend Anne's was in the warmth of her heart. Anne was
tenderness itself, and she had the full worth of it in Captain Wentworth's
affection. His profession was all that could ever make her friends wish that
tenderness less, the dread of a future war all that could dim her sunshine. She
gloried in being a sailor's wife, but she must pay the tax of quick alarm for
belonging to that profession which is, if possible, more distinguished in its
domestic virtues than in its national importance.

accessions: acquisition, accessoires.
affection: affection, amour.
alarm: alarme, alarmer, alerte, alerter,
timbre, sirène, consterner, effroi,
abasourdir, abattement,
abasourdissement.
belonging: appartenant.
dim: faible, sombre, obscur, brouiller,
rendre confus, rendre trouble.
distinguished: distingué,
distinguâmes, distinguai,
distinguèrent, distingua, distinguas,
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distinguâtes, dégageâtes, dégagea,
dégagèrent, dégagé.
dread: crainte, redouter.
felicity: félicité.
glow: ardeur, incandescence, brûler,
être en feu, lueur.
healthy: sain, en bonne santé, salubre.
perfectly: parfaitement, de façon
parfaite, de manière parfaite.
profession: profession.
prosperity: prospérité.
quick: rapide, prompt, vite.
spirits: spiritueux.
spring: ressort, source, fontaine,
sauter, émaner, mouillère, sortir de.
sunshine: soleil, lumière du soleil.
tenderness: tendresse, tendreté.
virtues: vertus.
warmth: chaleur.
worldly: mondain, terrestre.
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abbreviation: abréviation,
abrègement
abdication: abdication
abide: demeurer, endurer, attendre,
demeurent, endurent, demeures,
demeurez, endure, demeure,
endures, endurez
abilities: capacités
abode: demeure, domicile, logis,
logement, localité, gîte, habitation
abominable: abominable, hideux,
abject, odieux, horrible
abominate: abominer, abominons,
abominez, abomines, abomine,
abominent, abhorrer, avoir en
abomination, haïr
abominates: abomine
abroad: à l'étranger, dehors
absent: absent
absolute: absolu, complet,
inéluctable, absolue, immense,
illimité, pur
abstraction: abstraction, distraction,
inattention
absurd: absurde, aberrant
absurdity: absurdité
abundance: abondance, richesse,
abondance chiffrée
abuse: abus, abuser, défaut,
tourmenter, insulter, injure,
maltraiter, affront, offenser
abused: abusé, abusai, abusés,
abusées, abusâmes, abusa, abusée
accent: accent, accentuer, accentue,
accentuons, accentuent, accentuez,
accentues, souligner, emphase
acceptable: acceptable, satisfaisant
acceptance: acceptation, réception,
accueil, abord, approbation, recette
accepting: acceptant, agréant
accession: adhésion, accession,
acquisition, inscription, présentation
accessions: acquisition, accessoires
accidental: accidentel
accidentally: accidentellement, de
manière accidentelle, de façon
accidentelle, par hasard
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accommodate: adapter, accommoder,
adapte, adaptent, adaptes, adaptez,
adaptons, accommodent,
accommodez, accommodons,
accommode
accommodating: accommodant,
adaptant
accommodation: accommodation,
logement, accommodement,
compromis, arrangement,
construction, domicile, disposition,
gîte, habitation, hébergement
accommodations: emménagements
accompanied: accompagné,
accompagnâtes, accompagnas,
accompagnai, accompagna,
accompagnèrent, accompagnâmes
accompany: accompagner,
accompagnes, accompagne,
accompagnons, accompagnez,
accompagnent
accompanying: accompagnant
accomplish: accomplir,
accomplissons, accomplissez,
accomplissent, accomplis, réaliser,
réalise, réalisons, réalisez, réalisent,
réalises
accomplished: accompli,
accomplîmes, accomplit,
accomplîtes, accomplis,
accomplirent, réalisâmes, réalisâtes,
réalisèrent, réalisé, réalisai
accomplishment: accomplissement,
réalisation, ouvrage
accomplishments: accomplissements
accord: accord, entente, s'accorder,
concordance, convention, être
d'accord, accommodement,
permettre, pacte, s'harmoniser
according: selon
accordingly: donc, en conséquence,
par conséquent, ensuite
accosted: accostai, abordé, accosta,
accostèrent, accostâmes, accosté,
abordèrent, abordâtes, aborda,
abordai, abordâmes
accurately: de manière précise, de
façon précise
accuse: accuser, accuse, accuses,
accusent, accusez, accusons,
dénoncer, incriminer, livrer
accused: accusé, accusas, accusâtes,
accusa, accusai, accusâmes,
accusèrent, inculpé, prévenu
acknowledge: reconnaître,
reconnaissez, reconnais,
reconnaissent, reconnaissons, croire,
avouer, confesser, confirmer
acknowledged: reconnûtes,
reconnus, reconnurent, reconnûmes,
reconnut, reconnu
acknowledgement: accusé de
réception, reconnaissance,
confession, acquit, aveu, reçu
acquaintance: connaissance, relation,
personne de connaissance, abord
acquainted: renseignai, informèrent,
renseignâtes, renseigné,
renseignâmes, renseignèrent,
renseigna, informâtes, informas,
informâmes, informai
acquiescence: acquiescement,
consentement, abandon
acquired: acquis, acquîtes, acquit,
acquîmes, acquirent, acquise, appris
acquisition: acquisition, achat, prise
en charge, emplette
acquittal: acquittement, décision
absolutoire, accomplissement,
absolution, jugement
d'acquittement, règlement
acquitted: acquittas, acquittâtes,
acquitté, acquittâmes, acquitta,
acquittèrent, acquittai
acre: acre
acted: agi
acting: intérimaire, interprétation
actuated: actionné, déclenchèrent,
déclenché, déclenchâtes, déclenchas,
déclenchâmes, déclencha,
déclenchai
acute: aigu, perçant, aiguë, intense,
sagace, coupant, acéré, âcre, aigre,
avisé, tranchant

adapted: adapté, adaptas, adaptâtes,
adaptai, adaptèrent, adapta,
adaptâmes
adding: ajoutant, additionnant,
adjoignant
addition: addition, ajout, adjonction,
appendice, rajout, extension
addressed: adressé
addresses: adresses
addressing: adressage, adresser,
adressant
adieu: adieu
adjoining: adjacent, attenant,
contigu, aboutissant
admirably: admirablement, de
manière admirable, de façon
admirable
admiral: amiral
admiration: admiration
admire: admirer, admire, admires,
admirons, admirent, admirez
admired: admirâtes, admiras, admira,
admirèrent, admiré, admirâmes,
admirai
admirer: admirateur, admiratrice
admires: admire
admiring: admirant, admiratif
admit: admettre, admettons,
admettez, admets, admettent,
avouer, reconnaître, confesser,
laisser entrer, permettre
admitted: admis, admit, admirent,
admîmes, admîtes
adopt: adopter, adopte, adoptes,
adoptent, adoptons, adoptez
adopted: adopté, adoptas, adoptâtes,
adoptâmes, adopta, adoptèrent,
adoptai, adoptif
advance: avance, avancer,
s'approcher, avancement,
progresser, progrès, promouvoir,
acompte, accélérer, inspirer,
progression
advanced: avancé, poussé, avance
advancing: avançant
advantages: avantages
adverse: ennemi, contradictoire,
contraire, adverse, nuisible, opposé,
hostile
advertised: annoncé, annonçai,
annonças, annonçâtes, annoncèrent,
annonça, annonçâmes
advisable: recommandé
advise: conseiller, recommander
advised: conseillé
advising: avisant, conseillant,
recommandant
affect: affecter, affectes, affecte,
affectons, affectez, affectent,
émouvoir, toucher, influer, influons,
émeus
affecting: affectant, émouvant,
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attendrissant, influant
affection: affection, amour
affectionate: affectueux, tendre,
dévoué, attaché, amoureux
affectionately: affectueusement, de
manière affectueuse, de façon
affectueuse
afflicted: affligé, affligeas, affligea,
affligeai, affligeâmes, affligèrent,
affligeâtes, désolâtes, désolas,
désolâmes, désolai
affliction: affliction, chagrin,
désolation
affluence: richesse, abondance,
aisance
affluent: affluent, riche
afford: produire, produisons,
produisent, produis, produisez,
permettre
afforded: produisîmes, produit,
produisirent, produisis, produisîtes,
produisit
affords: produit
affront: affront, insulte, insulter,
offenser
affronted: insulté
afloat: à flot
afterwards: après, ensuite, puis, par
la suite, plus tard
agent: agent, représentant,
intermédiaire, mandataire,
commissionnaire, ustensile,
instrument, outil, produit
aggravation: aggravation
agitated: agité, agitâtes, agitas,
agitâmes, agita, agitai, agitèrent,
troublé, troublai, troublèrent,
troublâtes
agitation: agitation, bagarre, barouf,
baroufle, brassage
agony: agonie, angoisse, abois
agreeable: agréable, aimable
agreeing: consentant
akin: apparenté
alacrity: avidité, empressement,
enthousiasme
alarm: alarme, alarmer, alerte, alerter,
timbre, sirène, consterner, effroi,
abasourdir, abattement,
abasourdissement
alarmed: alarmé
alarming: alarmant
alas: hélas, malheureusement
alertness: vigilance
alienable: aliénable
alike: semblable, pareil
alive: vivant, en vie
allayed: apaisa, apaisâmes, apaisâtes,
apaisèrent, apaisai, apaisas, apaisé
alliance: alliance
alliances: alliances
allowable: admissible
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allowance: allocation, indemnité,
tolérance, bonification, prestation,
majoration
allowances: allocations
allowing: permettant
alloy: alliage, allier
alluded: insinua, insinuèrent,
insinué, insinuâtes, insinuas,
insinuâmes, insinuai
allusion: allusion
aloud: à haute voix
alter: altérer, altère, altères, altérons,
altérez, altèrent, changer,
transformer, modifier
alteration: modification,
transformation, altération,
changement, retouche
alterations: travaux de réparation,
transformations
altered: altéré, altéras, altérâtes,
altérèrent, altéra, altérai, altérâmes
altering: altérant
alternation: alternance
altogether: tout, tout à fait,
entièrement
amazement: étonnement,
abasourdissement, stupéfaction
amazingly: de manière stupéfiante,
de façon stupéfiante, étonnamment
ambition: ambition, souhait,
aspiration
ambitious: ambitieux
amendment: amendement,
modification, avenant, rectification
amends: amende
amiable: aimable
amicable: amical
amidst: parmi, au milieu de
amiss: de travers
amongst: parmi
ample: ample, large, étendu
amuse: amuser, amusent, amusons,
amusez, amuse, amuses
amused: amusé, amusai, amusa,
amusâmes, amusèrent, amusas,
amusâtes
amusement: distraction, amusement,
détente, récréation, divertissement
amusing: amusant, drôle, plaisant
analogy: analogie
ancestry: ascendance
anchorage: ancrage, mouillage
anew: de nouveau, encore
anger: colère
angry: fâché, en colère, irrité, furieux
anguish: angoisse, angoisser
animate: animer
animated: animé, animée
animation: animation
annexed: annexé
announce: annoncer, annonce,
annonces, annonçons, annoncez,
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annoncent, publier, introduire
answered: répondue, répondis,
répondu, répondus, répondues,
répondit
answers: répond
anticipate: anticiper, anticipent,
anticipons, anticipez, anticipe,
anticipes, prévoir
anticipated: anticipé, anticipâmes,
anticipèrent, anticipa, anticipai,
anticipâtes, anticipas, prévu
anticipating: anticipant
anticipation: anticipation
anxiety: anxiété, inquiétude, angoisse
anxious: inquiet, agité, anxieux,
soucieux, impatient
anxiously: de manière inquiète, de
façon inquiète
anywhere: quelque part, n'importe
où
apart: particulier, à part,
particulièrement, séparément
apartment: appartement
apartments: appartements
apologize: s'excuser
apology: apologie, excuses, excuse
apothecary: apothicaire
appearing: apparaissant
appeased: apaisâtes, apaisas, apaisé,
apaisâmes, apaisèrent, apaisai,
apaisa
apples: pommes
applicant: demandeur, requérant,
candidat, postulant, proposant,
solliciteur
applying: appliquant, pratiquant
appointment: nomination, rencontre
appreciate: apprécier, apprécie,
apprécies, appréciez, apprécions,
apprécient, estimer, aimer, aime,
aiment, aimes
appreciation: appréciation,
estimation
apprehend: appréhender,
appréhende, appréhendes,
appréhendez, appréhendent,
appréhendons
apprehension: arrestation,
appréhension, inquiétude
apprehensions: appréhensions
apprehensive: appréhensif, craintif,
inquiet
approachable: abordable, accessible,
approchable
approached: approché
approaching: approchant
approve: approuver, approuve,
approuves, approuvez, approuvent,
approuvons, donner son accord
approved: approuvé, approuvâtes,
approuvas, approuva, approuvai,
approuvâmes, approuvèrent,
Persuasion
homologué
approves: approuve
approving: approuvant, approbateur
apt: doué
arch: arc, cintre, voûte, arche, arcade
ardent: ardant, ardent
ardour: ardeur
arguing: argumentation,
argumentant, arraisonnant, arguant
arise: naître, naissons, naissez, nais,
naissent, se soulever, surgir, se lever
arising: naissant
aristocratic: aristocratique
armed: armé
arose: naquis, naquit, naquîmes,
naquirent, naquîtes
arrange: arranger, arranges, arrange,
arrangeons, arrangent, arrangez,
disposer, disposons, disposez,
disposes, dispose
arranged: arrangé, arrangèrent,
arrangeâtes, arrangeas, arrangeai,
arrangeâmes, arrangea, disposé,
disposâmes, disposèrent, disposas
arrangement: disposition,
arrangement, construction,
classement, agencement,
aménagement
arranger: arrangeur
arranging: arrangeant, disposant,
rangeant, ordonnant, agençant,
accommodant
arrival: arrivée, arrivage, venue,
fourniture, ravitaillement
arrive: arriver, arrive, arrives,
arrivons, arrivez, arrivent
arriving: arrivant
artful: astucieux
articles: rôle d'équipage
artificial: artificiel, affecté, faux,
factice
artist: artiste
ascended: monta, montâmes, montai,
montas, montâtes, montèrent, monté
ascending: montant, ascendant
ascent: ascension, montée,
ascendance, phase propulsée,
remontée
ascertain: constater, constate,
constatent, constates, constatez,
constatons, vérifier
ascertained: constata, constatèrent,
constaté, constatâtes, constatas,
constatai, constatâmes
ascertaining: constatant
ashamed: honteux
ashore: à terre
aside: de côté, aparté, excepté
asp: aspic
aspect: aspect, allure, apparence,
spectacle, air, faciès, exposition
assembled: montâmes, montas,
montâtes, montèrent, assemblas,
assemblâtes, monta, montai, monté,
assemblé, assembla
assenting: assentant
assert: affirmer, affirme, affirmes,
affirment, affirmez, affirmons
asserted: affirmé, affirmâtes,
affirmas, affirmèrent, affirma,
affirmâmes, affirmai
assertion: assertion, affirmation
assiduous: assidu
assiduously: assidûment, de manière
assidue, de façon assidue
assist: assister, assiste, assistant,
assistes, assistez, assistons, aider,
aide, aidez, aidons, aident
assistance: assistance, aide
assistant: adjoint, assistant, aide,
auxiliaire
assistants: aides
assisted: assisté, assistâtes, assistas,
assistèrent, assistâmes, assista,
assistai, aidèrent, aidâmes, aidas,
aidai
assisting: assistant, aidant
assizes: assises
associate: associé, associer,
s'accoupler
associated: associé
associates: associe
associations: associations
assorting: assortissant, regroupement
de produits
assuage: apaiser
assume: assumer, assumons,
assument, assumez, assume,
assumes, prendre, présumer,
supposer
assuming: assumant, supposant
assure: assurer, assure, assures,
assurons, assurez, assurent, certifier,
garantir, garantis, garantissent,
garantissez
assured: assuré, assuras, assurâtes,
assura, assurèrent, assurai,
assurâmes, garantit, garanti,
garantîmes, garantirent
assuring: assurant, garantissant
astonish: étonner, étonnes, étonne,
étonnent, étonnez, étonnons
astonished: étonné, étonnâmes,
étonnas, étonnâtes, étonnèrent,
étonna, étonnai
astonishing: étonnant
astonishment: étonnement, surprise
astray: égaré
ate: mangea, mangeâtes, mangeas,
mangeai, mangèrent, mangeâmes
atlantic: atlantique, océan Atlantique
atonement: expiation
attach: attacher, attache, attachent,
attachez, attachons, attaches,

appliquer, fixer, apposer, appose,
apposez
attached: attaché, attachai,
attachèrent, attachâmes, attacha,
attachâtes, attachas, apposa,
apposèrent, apposé, apposâtes
attaching: attachant, apposant
attachment: attachement, saisie,
accessoire, annexe, attache
attachments: équipements, outils
adaptables
attacks: attaque
attaining: atteignant, parvenant
attempted: essayèrent, essaya,
essayai, essayâmes, essayâtes,
essayas, essayé
attempting: essayant
attempts: essaie
attend: être présent, assister, soigner,
visiter, soignons, assiste, assistes,
assistez, assistons, soigne, soignent
attendance: assistance, service,
présence
attendant: préposé, gardien,
serviteur, surveillant
attended: assisté, soignas, soignâtes,
assista, assistai, assistâmes, assistas,
assistâtes, assistèrent, soigna,
soignai
attending: assistant, soignant
attends: assiste, soigne
attentive: attentif
attentively: attentivement, de
manière attentive, de façon attentive
attract: attirer, allécher, attires, attire,
attirent, attirez, attirons, allèches,
allèche, alléchez, allèchent
attraction: attraction, appât
attribute: attribut, attribuer
attributing: attribuant
audible: audible
audibly: de manière audible, de
façon audible
augmented: augmenta, augmentai,
augmentâmes, augmentas,
augmentâtes, augmenté,
augmentèrent, accrus, accrûtes,
accru, accrûmes
augur: augure
aunt: tante
authentic: authentique
authorise: autoriser
autumn: automnal, arrière, saison
autumnal: automnal
avail: avantage, profiter
avarice: avarice
avert: détourner, détournez,
détournons, détournes, détourne,
détournent
averted: détourné, détourna,
détournai, détournâmes, détournas,
détournâtes, détournèrent
Jane Austen
avoidance: évitement
avoided: évitâtes, évitas, évité, évitai,
évitâmes, évitèrent, évita, esquiva,
esquivâtes, esquivé, esquivas
avoiding: évitant, esquivant
await: attendre, attends, attendons,
attendent, attendez
awake: éveillé, réveillé
awful: horrible, abominable, hideux,
abject, odieux, terrible
awkward: maladroit, gênant,
embarrassant
awkwardness: maladresse, gaucherie
backed: doublage, chemisé, soutenu
balanced: équilibré, balancé
banish: bannir
banished: banni, exilas, exilâmes,
bannirent, exilé, bannîmes, bannit,
bannîtes, exilai, bannis, exilâtes
barely: à peine, de manière nue, de
façon nue
baronet: baronnet
barouche: calèche
barrier: barrière, bar, barrage,
obstacle
basil: basilic, basane
bath: bain, baignoire, cuvette
bathed: baignâmes, baigna,
baignèrent, baigné, baignai, baignas,
baignâtes
bathing: baignant, baignade
baths: bains
bay: baie, aboyer, bai, bay, laurier,
laurier sauce, laurier noble, laurier
d'Apollon
beach: plage, échouer
bearing: coussinet, relèvement,
palier, roulement, support
bears: ours
beautifying: embellissant
beauty: beauté
becomingly: de manière convenable,
de façon convenable
bedroom: chambre à coucher,
chambre
beforehand: d'avance, au préalable
beg: mendier, mendions, mendiez,
mendies, mendie, mendient,
demander, prier, quémander,
implorer, supplier
begged: mendièrent, mendia,
mendiai, mendiâmes, mendias,
mendiâtes, Mendié
begun: commencé, débuté,
commencées
behave: se conduire, se comporter
behold: voilà, voici, apercevoir, voir
believing: croyant
bell: cloche, clochette, sonnette,
sonnerie
belong: appartenir, faire partie de,
appartenons, appartenez,
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appartiens, appartiennent
belonged: appartenu, appartins,
appartint, appartîntes, appartinrent,
appartînmes
belonging: appartenant
beloved: aimé, cher
bench: banc, banquette, établi, gradin
benches: bancs
bend: courber, fléchir, coude, courbe,
courbure, incliner, ployer, plier,
cintrer, virage, baisser
bending: courbure, flexion, cintrage,
pliage
beneficial: salutaire, avantageux
benevolent: bienveillant
bent: courbé, courbe, courbai,
disposition, cambrai, penché
bequeath: léguer, léguons, lègues,
lègue, léguez, lèguent
bermuda: Bermudes
besides: en outre, hormis, d'ailleurs,
sauf, en prime, et puis, de plus,
outre
bespeak: annoncer, retenez,
retiennent, annonçons, retiens,
annonces, annoncent, annonce,
retenons, annoncez, retenir
bespoke: fait sur mesure
bestow: accorder, accorde, accordes,
accordez, accordons, octroyer,
accordent
bestowed: accordé, accorda, accordai,
accordâmes, accordas, accordâtes,
accordèrent
betray: trahir, trahissent, trahissez,
trahis, trahissons
betraying: trahissant
bewildering: ahurissant, effarant
bewitched: ensorcelâtes, ensorcelas,
ensorcela, ensorcelèrent, ensorcelé,
ensorcelâmes, ensorcelai
bewitching: ensorcelant
bias: biais, parti pris, préjugé,
distorsion, polarisation, erreur
systématique, partialité
bid: offre, soumission, demander,
offrir, prier, enchère, annonce,
tentative de prise, mise dans les
enchères
bills: bacs
bishop: évêque, fou
bitterly: amèrement, de manière
amère, de façon amère
bitterness: amertume, âcreté
blame: blâme, reprocher, gronder,
blâmer, sermonner, réprimander,
reprendre
blameless: irréprochable
bled: saignâmes, saignai, saignèrent,
saignas, saignâtes, saigna, saigné,
purgeâmes, purgeas, purgea, purgé
bless: bénir, bénis, bénissent,
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bénissez, bénissons
blessed: béni, bénis, bénîtes, bénirent,
bénit, bénîmes, bienheureux
blessing: bénédiction, bénissant
blessings: bénédictions
blighted: rouillé
blind: aveugle, éblouir, aveugler,
store, éblouissons, aveuglez,
aveuglent, éblouissez, aveugles,
éblouissent, éblouis
blinded: aveuglai, aveuglâmes,
aveugla, ébloui, éblouis, éblouîtes,
éblouîmes, aveuglèrent, aveuglâtes,
éblouirent, aveuglas
blinding: aveuglant, colmatage,
éblouissant
blindness: cécité
blinds: aveugle, éblouit
blister: ampoule, cloque,
boursouflure, bulle, cloquer,
vésicule, soufflure
bloom: fleur, efflorescence, bloom,
pruine, bleuissement, floraison
blooming: dégrossissage,
éblouissement, ébauchage,
bleuissement, hyperluminosité du
spot, efflorescence, flou d'image,
fleurir, floraison, en fleur, fleurissant
blossoms: fleurit
blotting: transfert, technique de
transfert, tacher
blow: coup, souffler, bataille, souffler
sur, souffle
blowing: soufflage, soufflant
blows: coups, souffle
blunder: gaffe, bévue, maladresse
blunders: gaffes, embrouille
blush: rougir, rougeur
blushed: rougi
blushing: rougissant, rougeur
boast: fanfaronner, vanter, faire le
malin, se vanter
boasted: vanté
boasting: vantardise, fanfaronnade,
taille de pierres, vantant
bodily: corporel, physique,
physiquement
bold: gras, audacieux, épais, gros,
hardi, intrépide
boldly: de manière grasse, de façon
grasse, hardiment
bond: lien, obligation, liaison, coller,
adhérence, titres, lier, bon,
cautionnement
bookish: livresque
boots: bottes
bordered: bordé
borders: borde, bordures
bore: ennuyer, percer, forer, alésage,
lasser, rencontrer, toucher, vrille,
calibre, fatiguer
borough: ville, bourg, municipalité
Persuasion
bough: branche, rameau
bound: bond, lié, limite, relié
bow: arc, proue, archet, avant,
s'incliner, saluer
bowed: incliné
bowing: cintrage, déformation en arc,
bombage
bows: épaulure, boucles, courbures
brain: cerveau, cervelle
brand: marque, marquer
brave: courageux, vaillant, brave
brawn: fromage de tête, hure
bread: pain
breakfast: petit déjeuner, déjeuner, le
petit déjeuner
breaking: rupture, broyage, fracture,
floculation, brisement
breathe: respirer, respire, respires,
respirent, respirons, respirez
breathed: respiras, respirâtes,
respirèrent, respira, respiré,
respirâmes, respirai
breathings: esprits
breeding: élevage, reproduction,
surgénération
breeze: brise, souffle
brethren: frères
bride: fiancée, accordée, mariée
brief: court, dossier, bref, sommaire,
mémoire, passager
briefly: brièvement, de façon courte,
de manière courte
brightened: avivâtes, éclairci,
éclaircîtes, éclaircit, éclaircis,
éclaircirent, éclaircîmes, avivé,
avivas, avivâmes, avivai
brightening: surbrillance
brightness: luminosité, éclat, brillant,
luminance
brilliancy: éclat
brilliant: brillant, magnifique,
luisant, éclatant, génial
brings: apporte, amène
brook: ruisseau
brothers: frères
brow: sourcil, front
bruise: contusion, meurtrissure,
écrasement, contusionner, coup,
ecchymose, accroc, amorce étoilée,
bleu, blessure, bosse
bulky: ample, étendu, large
burden: charge, fardeau, alourdir, lit
de fusion, charger, grever
buried: enterrâtes, enterras, enterré,
enterrâmes, enterra, enterrai,
enterrèrent, ensevelîtes, inhumèrent,
inhumas, inhumâtes
burn: brûler, brûlure, s'allumer
burst: crever, éclater, salve, rafale,
explosion, choc d'ionisation,
éclatement, bouffée
bursting: éclatement
bush: buisson, arbuste, arbrisseau,
bague, coussinet, douille, brousse,
taillis
bustle: tournure
butcher: boucher, abattre, égorger,
massacrer
butler: maître d'hôtel
buzz: bourdonnement, bourdonner,
ronronner, crachement, vrombir,
vrombissement
cake: gâteau, cake
calculate: calculer, calcules, calcule,
calculons, calculent, calculez,
compter, comptez, comptes, compte,
comptons
calculated: calculas, calculâtes,
calculé, calculâmes, calculèrent,
calcula, calculai, comptai,
comptâmes, comptas, comptâtes
calculates: calcule, compte
calculations: calculs
callers: visiteurs
calling: appelant, appel
calm: calme, tranquille, calmer,
abattre, paisible, quiet, rassurer,
repos, accalmie, tranquilliser
calmly: de manière calme, de façon
calme
calmness: calme, repos
candid: franc
canvass: discuter, cabaler, grosse
toile, faire de la sollicitation,
sollicitation porte à porte, cabalez,
cabalons, cabalent
canvassed: cabalés, cabala,
cabalèrent, cabalâmes, cabalai
cap: casquette, bonnet, toque,
chapeau, capsule, calotte, coiffe,
capuchon, bouchon, culot, couvercle
cape: cap, cape
caprice: caprice
captains: capitaines
captivate: captiver, captive, captives,
captivons, captivent, captivez
captures: capture
cards: cartes
careless: négligent, distrait, étourdi,
insouciant
carelessly: de manière négligente, de
façon négligente, négligemment
carelessness: négligence,
imprudence, insouciance
caressed: caressé
caring: prise en charge globale, soin
carpet: tapis, moquette
carriage: wagon, chariot, voiture,
affût
catalogue: catalogue, cataloguer
catastrophe: catastrophe, désastre
catching: attrapant, prenant,
capturant, accroche, frappant
causes: cause

caution: prudence, avertir, alerter,
avertissement, attention, précaution
cautious: prudent, circonspect
cavil: chicaner
cease: cesser, cessent
ceased: cessé
ceaseless: incessant
cellars: caves
ceremonious: solennel
ceremony: cérémonie
certainty: certitude, assurance
certify: certifier, certifions, certifie,
certifient, certifiez, certifies
chairs: chaises
chaise: calèche, cabriolet
chamber: chambre, salle, pièce, local
chambers: chambres
channel: canal, tube, chenal, voie,
tuyau, voie de transmission, canal
radioélectrique, conduit, la Manche,
canaliser, chaîne
characteristic: caractéristique,
caractère
characters: caractères
charitable: indulgent, sensible
charity: charité, compassion,
bienfaisance, aumône
charm: charme, amulette, ravir,
charmer, breloque
charmed: charmé
charming: charmant, ravissant,
gentil, mignon
chat: bavarder, bavardage, causerie,
conversation, babiller, babil,
babillage, causer
chattering: cliquetis, claquement,
bavarder, broutage
cheap: bon marché, abordable
checked: à carreaux, quadrillé
checking: vérification, contrôle,
récolement, pointage
cheeks: joues
cheer: acclamation, acclamer,
applaudir
cheerful: gai, joyeux
cheerfully: de manière gaie, de façon
gaie
cheerfulness: gaieté, bonne humeur
cheerless: morne
cherish: chérir, chéris, chérissons,
chérissent, chérissez
chiefly: principalement, surtout,
particulièrement, de façon chef, de
manière chef
chill: froid, refroidir
chimney: cheminée
chooses: choisit, opte
choosing: choisissant, optant
chose: choisîmes, choisirent,
choisîtes, choisis, choisit, opta, optai,
optâmes, optas, optâtes, optèrent
circle: cercle, rond, ronde, encercler
Jane Austen
circumstance: circonstance
circumventing: circulant
civility: civilité
civilly: de façon civile, de manière
civile, civilement
claiming: réclamation, revendication
clamour: clameur
clay: argile
cleansed: purifia, purifiai,
purifiâmes, purifias, purifiâtes,
purifié, purifièrent
clearer: purgeur, nettoyeur
clearing: clairière, dégagement,
défrichement, éclaircie
clergyman: prêtre, curé,
ecclésiastique, abbé, pasteur
clever: habile, adroit, astucieux,
malin, rusé, intelligent, artificieux
cliff: falaise
cliffs: falaises
cling: cramponner, adhérer, me
cramponne, cramponnez-vous, vous
cramponnez, te cramponnes, se
cramponnent, adhérons, adhère,
adhérez, adhères
clinging: collant, se cramponnant,
adhérant
clink: choquer, crique, tintement,
fissure à chaud, faire tinter, tapure,
tapure à chaud
clock: horloge, pendule, générateur
de rythme
closer: clausoir, clé de voûte,
dispositif de fermeture, piqueur
closet: armoire, placard
clothe: vêtir, vêtent, vêts, vêtons,
vêtez, habiller, revêtir, habillez,
revêts, revêtons, revêtez
clumsy: maladroit, gauche, empoté,
malhabile
cluster: grappe, groupe, barillet, amas
coach: entraîneur, entraîner, wagon,
coach, autocar, voiture, répétiteur
coarse: grossier, vulgaire, rude,
rustique, brut
coarseness: grossièreté
coat: manteau, enduire, pardessus,
couche, capote, paletot, pelage,
enrober, napper
coldness: froideur, froid
collect: recueillir, recueillez,
recueillent, recueillons, recueilles,
recueille, rassembler, collectionner,
rassemblez, rassemblons,
rassemblent
collected: recueillirent, recueilli,
recueillit, recueillîtes, recueillîmes,
recueillis, rassembla, rassemblèrent,
rassemblas, rassemblâmes,
rassemblai
collecting: recueillant, rassemblant,
collectionnant, ramassant, collectant
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collects: recueille, rassemble,
collectionne, ramasse, collecte
colonel: colonel
colonnade: colonnade
coloured: coloré
combat: combattre, combat
comfort: confort, consoler,
consolation, réconfort, réconforter
comfortable: confortable
comforted: soulagé
command: commande,
commandement, commander, ordre,
ordonner, enjoindre, sommer,
instruction, ordre de commande
commander: commandant, capitaine
de frégate
commanders: commandants
committed: commis, commit,
commîtes, commirent, commîmes,
engagé
commonplace: banal, trivial
commons: biens communaux
commonwealth: commonwealth
communicate: communiquer,
communiquent, communiquez,
communiquons, communiques,
communique
communicated: communiqué,
communiqua, communiquâmes,
communiquai, communiquèrent,
communiquas, communiquâtes
communications: art de la
communication,
télécommunications
compact: compact, compacter
companion: compagnon, camarade,
compagne, accompagnateur
comparatively: comparativement, de
manière comparative, de façon
comparative
compare: comparer, comparons,
comparez, comparent, compare,
compares, comparaison
comparing: comparant
comparison: comparaison
compassion: compassion, pitié,
apitoiement
compassionate: compatissant
compatible: compatible,
correspondant
compelled: obligé, obligèrent,
obligeâtes, obligeas, obligeâmes,
obligeai, obligea, astreintes
complain: se plaindre, porter plainte,
plaindre
complained: plaint
complaint: réclamation, accusation
complaints: plaintes
complaisance: complaisance
completed: complété
completion: achèvement
complexion: teint, complexion
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compliance: conformité, souplesse,
élasticité, acquiescement
complicate: compliquer, compliquez,
compliquent, compliquons,
complique, compliques
complication: complication
compliment: compliment
component: composant, composante,
constituant, élément
composed: composé, composa,
composèrent, composâmes,
composai, composâtes, composas,
tranquille, calme
composedly: de manière composée,
de façon composée
composure: repos
compounded: aggravé
comprehend: comprendre,
comprennent, comprends,
comprenez, comprenons
comprehended: compris, comprîmes,
comprirent, comprit, comprîtes
comprehending: comprenant
comprehensible: compréhensible
comprehension: compréhension
comprehensive: compréhensif,
complet, vaste
compressed: compressé, comprimé
comprise: contenir, contenez,
contiens, contenons, contiennent,
renfermer, renferme, renferment,
renfermes, renfermez, renfermons
comprised: contint, contînmes,
contîntes, continrent, contenu,
contins, renfermé, renfermèrent,
renfermâtes, renfermas,
renfermâmes
compromise: compromis,
compromettre, transiger
compromising: compromettant
compunction: componction, remords
conceal: cacher, cachons, cachez,
cachent, caches, cache, dissimuler,
dissimulons, dissimulez, dissimule,
dissimulent
concealed: caché, cachâmes, cachai,
cacha, cachèrent, cachas, cachâtes,
dissimulé, dissimulas, dissimula,
dissimulèrent
concealing: cachant, dissimulant
conceited: vaniteux, vain, frivole,
suffisant
conceive: concevoir, concevez,
conçoivent, conçois, concevons
conceived: conçus, conçut, conçu,
conçurent, conçûtes, conçûmes
conceiving: concevant
conception: conception
concerning: concernant, au sujet de, à
propos de
concerns: concerne
concert: concert
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conclude: conclure, concluez,
concluent, concluons, conclus,
terminer
concluded: conclu, conclûmes,
conclut, conclus, conclurent,
conclûtes
concluding: concluant
concussion: commotion, secousse
condemning: condamnant
condescend: condescendre,
condescendons, condescendez,
condescends, condescendent
condescended: condescendit,
condescendu, condescendis,
condescendirent, condescendîmes,
condescendîtes
condescending: condescendant
condolence: condoléances
conduct: conduire, conduite, guider,
diriger, mener, aboutir, procédé,
régler
conducted: conduit, conduite,
conduites, amenée, mené, amené,
conduisit
confer: conférer, confèrent, conférez,
conférons, confère, confères
confess: confesser, avouer,
confessent, confessons, confessez,
confesses, confesse, avouent,
avouons, avoues, avoue
confessed: confessé, confessai,
confessâmes, confessa, confessèrent,
confessas, confessâtes, avoué,
avouâtes, avouèrent, avouâmes
confessing: confessant, avouant
confide: confier, confions, confient,
confiez, confie, confies
confided: confié, confia, confiâmes,
confiai, confièrent, confiâtes, confias
confident: confiant, assuré
confidential: confidentiel
confined: confiné
confinement: réclusion, détention,
internement, emprisonnement
confirm: confirmer, confirment,
confirmons, confirmez, confirme,
confirmes, ratifier
confirmation: confirmation
confirmed: confirmé, confirmâmes,
confirmai, confirma, confirmèrent,
confirmas, confirmâtes
confused: confondu, confondis,
confondit, confondîmes,
confondîtes, confondirent, confus
confusion: confusion, désordre,
confusion mentale, affolement
congratulated: félicité, félicitèrent,
félicita, félicitai, félicitâmes, félicitas,
félicitâtes
conjecture: conjecturer, prévoir, se
douter de, conjecture
conjunctions: conjonctions
connect: connecter, connectez,
connectent, connectons, connectes,
connecte, joindre, relier, aboucher,
attacher, allier
connected: connecté, connectèrent,
connectai, connectâmes, connectas,
connectâtes, connecta, cohérent,
branché, abouché, abouchèrent
connecting: connectant, branchant,
abouchant, raccordant, alliant,
nouant
connection: connexion, raccord,
liaison, raccordement, ligue, chaîne
de connexion, branchement,
rapport, communication, jonction,
réunion
connections: liaisons, fiche de
branchement, connexions,
raccordements
conscience: conscience
conscious: conscient
consciously: consciemment, de
manière consciente, de façon
consciente
consciousness: conscience,
connaissance
consent: consentement, consentir,
donner son accord, admettre, être
d'accord, agrément
consented: consenti
consequence: conséquence,
aboutissement, répercussion, suite
consequences: effets
consequently: ensuite, donc, de
manière conséquente, de façon
conséquente, par conséquent
considerably: considérablement, de
façon considérable, de manière
considérable
considerately: de manière
prévenante, de façon prévenante
considering: considérant
considers: considère
consigned: consigné, consignai,
consignâmes, consigna,
consignèrent, consignas, consignâtes
consisted: consistai, consisté,
consista, consistâmes, consistèrent,
consistas, consistâtes
consistent: cohérent, logique
consolation: consolation
consoling: consolant
constancy: constance
constant: constant, continuel,
constante, invariable, perpétuel,
permanent
constantly: constamment,
continuellement, de manière
constante, de façon constante
constructed: bâti, bâtîmes, construit,
bâtirent, construisit, construisis,
construisirent, bâtis, bâtit, bâtîtes,

construisîmes
consult: consulter, consultez,
consultons, consultant, consulte,
consultes, consultent
consultation: consultation
consulted: consultai, consultâmes,
consultèrent, consulté, consulta,
consultas, consultâtes
consulting: consultant
consumed: consomma, consommai,
consommé, consommèrent,
consommâmes, consommas,
consommâtes, consumèrent,
consuma, consumâmes, consumai
contained: contenu, continrent,
contînmes, contins, contint,
contîntes, renfermâmes,
renfermèrent, renfermé, renfermas,
renfermai
containing: contenant, renfermant
contemplate: contempler,
contemplent, contemplez,
contemplons, contemples,
contemple
contemplated: contemplèrent,
contemplâmes, contemplai,
contemplé, contempla, contemplas,
contemplâtes
contemplating: contemplant
contemplation: contemplation
contempt: mépris
contemptible: méprisable
contemptuous: dédaigneux,
méprisant
contemptuously: de manière
méprisante, de façon méprisante
contend: combattre, contestent
contended: contesté, contestés,
contestées, contestée, contestèrent,
Combattu, disputâmes, combattit,
disputèrent, disputé, disputâtes
contented: content, satisfait
contentment: contentement
contents: contenu
contiguous: contigu
continual: continuel, constant,
invariable, permanent
continually: continuellement, de
manière continuelle, de façon
continuelle
continuing: continuant, durant
contracted: contracté
contradict: contredire, contredisons,
contredisent, contredis, contredisez,
démentir
contradicted: contredirent, contredis,
contredit, contredîtes, contredîmes
contradictory: contradictoire
contrary: contraire, opposé,
contradictoire
contrasted: contrasté
contributed: contribuâmes,
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contribuai, contribua, contribuèrent,
contribué, contribuas, contribuâtes
contributing: contribuant
contrive: inventer
contrived: inventé, inventas,
inventâmes, inventèrent, inventa,
inventai, inventâtes
contusion: contusion
convenience: convenance
convenient: commode, convenable,
opportun
conveniently: de manière commode,
de façon commode
converse: intervenir, converser
conversing: conversant
convey: transmettre
conveyed: transmis, véhiculé,
véhiculai, véhiculèrent, véhiculâtes,
véhiculâmes, véhicula, transmîtes,
transmit, transmirent, acheminèrent
conviction: conviction, condamnation
convince: convaincre, convaincs,
convainquent, convainquez,
convainquons
convinced: convaincu, convainquit,
convainquis, convainquirent,
convainquîmes, convainquîtes
cook: cuisinier, cuisiner, cuire,
cuisinière
cool: frais, refroidir, froid
coolly: de façon refroidissante
cordial: cordial
cordiality: cordialité
cordially: cordialement, de manière
cordiale, de façon cordiale
cork: liège, bouchon, bouchon de
liège
corrective: correctif, correcteur
correctness: exactitude
correspondence: correspondance
correspondent: correspondant
corresponding: correspondant
cot: lit de camp
cottage: cabanon, petite maison
counsel: conseil, conseiller, avis,
avocat, défenseur
counted: compté
countenance: encourager
counteracting: se neutralisant
counterbalance: contrebalancer,
contrepoids, équilibrer
courage: courage, abattage
courteous: courtois, poli
courting: briguant
cousin: cousin, cousine
covet: convoiter, convoite, convoitent,
convoites, convoitez, convoitons
crape: crêpe
creation: création
creations: créations
creature: créature
credible: croyable
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creditable: honorable, estimable
creditors: créanciers
crescent: croissant
cried: pleuré
cripple: estropié, paralyser
crossed: croisé
crossing: croisement, traversée,
croisée, intersection
crowd: foule, masse, amas, tas,
multitude, cohue
crowded: bondé, encombré
cruel: cruel, atroce, méchant
cruelty: cruauté, sévices
cruise: croisière, croiser
cultivated: cultivé, cultivai,
cultivâmes, cultivèrent, cultiva,
cultivas, cultivâtes
cultivation: culture
cunning: rusé, malin, astucieux,
artificieux, ruse, sournois, rouerie
curate: vicaire
cure: guérir, guérison, traitement,
cure, assainir, soigner, remédier,
cuisson, durcissement d'un adhésif,
vulcanisation, traiter
curiosity: curiosité
curious: curieux, intéressant,
singulier
curl: boucle, friser, coiffer,
rotationnel, battre, faire tournoyer,
boucler, fourche, gode, roulage
curtailed: abrégeâtes, abrégèrent,
abrégeas, abrégeâmes, abrégeai,
abrégea, abrégé
curtsey: faire une révérence
custom: coutume, habitude, usage
cuts: coupures, coupes, chutes, coupe
cutting: coupe, coupant, découpage,
bouture, découpe, acéré, mordant
dab: clicher, tirer à la poupée, touche,
limande, faire une touche, tampon à
encrer, tamponner
damp: humide, amortir, humidité,
mouiller
dance: danse, danser, bal
danced: dansé
dancing: dansant
dare: oser, aventurer, ose, osons,
osez, oses, osent, aventurez,
aventures, aventurent, aventure
dared: osé, osa, osai, osèrent, osâtes,
osâmes, osas, aventurèrent,
aventurâtes, aventura, aventuras
daring: audace, audacieux, hardi,
osant, aventurant
dash: tiret, trait
dated: daté
daughters: filles
dawdling: lambinant
dawning: poindre, naissant
daylight: lumière du jour
dealings: transactions, relations
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dearly: de manière chère, de façon
chère
debts: dettes
deceive: tromper, trompe, trompent,
trompez, trompes, trompons,
tricher, décevoir, triches, trichent,
trichez
deceived: trompé, trompa, trompai,
trompâmes, trompas, trompèrent,
trompâtes, déçu, triché, trichâtes,
trichai
decent: convenable, décent, honnête
deception: tromperie, déception,
supercherie
decidedly: de manière décidé, de
façon décidée
decides: décide
deciding: décidant
decisive: décisif
declaration: déclaration
declarations: conditions particulières
declare: déclarer, déclarent,
déclarons, déclarez, déclare,
déclares
declared: déclaré, déclara, déclarai,
déclarèrent, déclarâmes, déclaras,
déclarâtes
declares: déclare
declaring: déclarant
decline: déclin, décliner, diminuer,
dépérir, baisse, refuser, régression
declined: déclinâmes, déclinés,
déclina, dépéri, décliné, déclinée
declining: déclinant, dépérissant
decorum: décorum
deducting: prélevant
deed: acte, action
deemed: crus, crut, crûtes, cru,
crûmes, crurent, réputé
deeper: plusieurs traductions selon le
contexte
deeply: profondément, de façon
profonde, de manière profonde
defeating: vainquant
defect: défaut, anomalie,
imperfection, tare, malfaçon
defective: défectueux, défectif
defend: défendre, défendent,
défends, défendons, défendez
defended: défendu, défendirent,
défendis, défendit, défendîmes,
défendîtes
defer: différer, différez, différons,
diffère, diffèrent, diffères
deference: déférence
defiance: défi
deficiencies: déficiences
deficiency: déficience, carence,
insuffisance, manque, défaut
deficient: déficient, insuffisant
defied: défiai, défièrent, défiâmes,
défié, défia, défiâtes, défias,
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provoquai, provoquâmes,
provoquas, provoquâtes
defy: défier, provoquer, défions,
défient, défiez, défies, provoquons,
provoquez, provoques, provoquent,
provoque
defying: défiant, provoquant
degradation: dégradation
degrading: dégradant, avilissant
degrees: degrés
dejected: abattu
delay: retard, délai, retarder, différer,
ajourner, sursis, suspendre,
renvoyer, reculer
delayed: retardé, différé
delays: retards, sursied
delicacy: friandise, délicatesse,
finesse
delicate: délicat, tendre, fragile
delicious: délicieux, savoureux
delight: délice, enchanter, ravir,
plaisir
delighted: enchanté, ravi
delightful: délicieux, ravissant,
charmant, superbe
delivered: livré, livrâmes, livra,
livrèrent, livrai, livrâtes, livras
denoted: indiqué, indiqua,
indiquèrent, indiquâtes, indiquas,
indiquai, indiquâmes
deny: nier, niez, nions, nient, nie,
nies, démentir, renier
depend: dépendre, dépendent,
dépendons, dépends, dépendez
depended: dépendis, dépendit,
dépendu, dépendirent, dépendîmes,
dépendîtes
dependence: dépendance
dependent: dépendant, personne à
charge, subordonné, charge de
famille
depending: dépendant
deplore: déplorer, déplorez,
déplorons, déplorent, déplore,
déplores
deplored: déplorèrent, déploré,
déplorai, déplora, déplorâmes,
déplorâtes, déploras
deposited: déposé
deprecated: désapprouvé,
désapprouvai, désapprouvèrent,
désapprouvâtes, désapprouvas,
désapprouva, désapprouvâmes
depression: dépression, crise,
découragement
deprived: privé, dépouillas, privâtes,
privas, privâmes, privai, priva,
dépouillèrent, dépouillâtes,
privèrent, dépouillâmes
depriving: privant, dépouillant
deputation: députation
deranged: dérangé
derive: dériver, dérive, dérivez,
dérivent, dérivons, dérives, provenir
derived: dérivé, dériva, dérivâmes,
dérivai, dérivèrent, dérivas,
dérivâtes
descend: descendre, descendons,
descendent, descendez, descends,
baisser, s'abaisser
descending: descendant
describe: décrire, décris, décrivez,
décrivent, décrivons, représenter,
dépeindre
describing: décrivant
descried: aperçus, aperçûtes, aperçut,
aperçûmes, aperçu, aperçurent
desert: désert, abandonner, délaisser,
quitter, déserter, livrer
deserted: déserté
deserve: mériter, mérite, méritent,
méritez, méritons, mérites
deserved: mérité, méritâmes,
méritèrent, méritai, mérita, méritas,
méritâtes
deserving: méritant, méritoire
designing: conception, concevoir,
dessin, intrigant, mise en carte
desirable: désirable, souhaitable
desired: désiré
desirous: désireux
desolate: désolé, sombre, morne
despair: désespoir, désespérer
desperate: désespéré
desperation: désespoir
despised: méprisé, méprisèrent,
méprisa, méprisai, méprisâmes,
méprisas, méprisâtes, dédaigna,
dédaigné, dédaignâmes,
dédaignèrent
despondency: découragement
destination: destination
destiny: destinée, destin, sort,
destination, fortune
destroy: détruire, détruisez,
détruisent, détruisons, détruis,
ravager, démolir, ravages,
ravageons, ravagent, ravage
destroyed: détruit, détruisirent,
détruisis, détruisit, détruisîmes,
détruisîtes, ravageas, ravageâtes,
ravageâmes, ravageai, ravagea
destruction: destruction, ravage,
annihilation
detected: détectèrent, détecta,
détecté, détectai, détectâmes,
détectâtes, détectas
determine: déterminer, déterminons,
déterminez, déterminent, détermine,
détermines, définir, fixer, attacher
deviated: dévié, déviâmes, dévièrent,
déviai, dévia, dévias, déviâtes
devise: legs, concevoir
devoted: dévoué, consacré, consacra,

consacrai, consacrâmes, consacras,
consacrâtes, consacrèrent,
affectueux, attaché
devoting: consacrant
devotion: dévotion, dévouement
devoured: dévoré, dévorâtes,
dévoras, dévora, dévorai,
dévorèrent, dévorâmes
dictate: dicter, dictons, dictez, dictent,
dictes, dicte
dies: meurt, décède
differ: différer, diffèrent, différons,
différez, diffère, diffères, être
différent
differently: différemment,
autrement, de façon différente, de
manière différente
diffused: diffus
dignified: digne
dignity: dignité
digress: s'écarter
dim: faible, sombre, obscur, brouiller,
rendre confus, rendre trouble
diminished: diminué, diminuai,
diminua, diminuèrent, diminuâmes,
diminuâtes, diminuas
dimming: gradation de l'intensité
lumineuse, impression, matage
dine: dîner, dînent
dined: dîné
dining: dînant
dinners: dîners
dint: force
directed: dirigé
directing: direct, diriger, dirigeant,
direction
directions: instruction
dirt: saleté, boue, crasse
disabled: infirme, désemparé,
handicapé, désactivé, invalide,
désactivèrent, désactivâtes,
désactivas, désactivâmes, désactiva,
désactivai
disadvantage: inconvénient,
désavantage
disadvantages: désavantages
disagreeable: désagréable
disagreement: désaccord, différend,
mésentente
disappeared: disparu, disparus,
disparurent, disparut, disparûmes,
disparûtes
disappointed: déçu, trompai,
trompâmes, trompas, trompâtes,
trompèrent, déçûmes, trompa,
trompé, déçurent, déçûtes
disappointment: déception,
désolation, peine, désappointement
disapprobation: désapprobation
discern: discerner
discerned: décerné, décernâmes,
décerna, décernée, décernèrent,
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décernées, décernés, décernai,
discerné, discerna, discernèrent
discerning: discerner, judicieux,
décernant, discernant
discernment: discernement
discharging: décharge,
déchargement, déchargeant
disclosed: divulgué, divulguèrent,
divulgua, divulguai, divulguâmes,
divulguas, divulguâtes
discontented: mécontent
discourse: discours
discovery: découverte
discredit: discrédit, discréditer
discreet: discret
discretion: discrétion, prudence,
précaution
discriminating: discriminer
disdain: dédain
disdainful: dédaigneux
disengaged: dégagé, dégagea,
dégageai, dégageâmes, dégagèrent,
dégageas, dégageâtes
disengaging: dégageant
disfigured: défiguré, défigurèrent,
défigurâmes, défigura, défigurai,
défiguras, défigurâtes
disgrace: disgrâce, honte, déshonorer,
déshonneur, disgracier
disgraceful: honteux
disgust: dégoût
disgusting: dégoûtant
disingenuous: déloyal
disinterested: désintéressé
dislike: détester, antipathie, déteste,
détestent, détestes, détestez,
détestons, dédaigner
disliked: détesté, détestâmes,
détestèrent, détestas, détestai,
détesta, détestâtes
dislocated: disloqué, disloqua,
disloquai, disloquâmes, disloquâtes,
disloquèrent, disloquas
dismembered: démembré, dépeçai,
démembrâmes, dépecèrent, dépecé,
dépeçâtes, dépeças, dépeçâmes,
démembra, démembrèrent,
démembrâtes
dismissal: renvoi, licenciement,
congé, congédiement, destitution
disobliging: désobligeant
disparity: disparité
dispel: dissiper
dispensation: dispense, dérogation,
dispensation
displaying: affichant
disposal: disposition, vente
dispose: disposer, disposons,
disposez, disposent, dispose,
disposes
disposed: disposé, disposâmes,
disposèrent, disposai, disposa,
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disposâtes, disposas
disposes: dispose
disposition: disposition, don,
dispositif, aptitude, talent
disquiet: déranger, perturber,
inquiétude, brouiller, perturbe,
perturbons, perturbez, perturbent,
dérangez, déranges, dérangeons
disrespectful: irrespectueux
disrespectfully: de manière
irrespectueuse, de façon
irrespectueuse
dissent: dissentiment
dissimilar: dissemblable
dissipated: dissipé
dissolved: dissous
dissuade: dissuader
distant: lointain, loin, distant, éloigné
distinct: net, clair, limpide, distinct
distinction: distinction
distinctly: distinctement, de manière
nette, de façon nette
distinguish: distinguer, distinguent,
distinguez, distinguons, distingues,
distingue, dégager, identifier,
dégage, dégagent, dégageons
distinguished: distingué,
distinguâmes, distinguai,
distinguèrent, distingua, distinguas,
distinguâtes, dégageâtes, dégagea,
dégagèrent, dégagé
distracting: distrayant
distress: détresse, attrister
distressed: affligé
distressing: affligeant, affliger,
vieillissement artificiel, pénible
distrust: se méfier, méfiance, défiance
disturb: déranger, dérange, dérangez,
dérangeons, dérangent, déranges,
gêner, gênons, gênez, gênes, gênent
disturbed: dérangé, dérangèrent,
dérangea, dérangeai, dérangeâmes,
dérangeâtes, dérangeas, gêna, gênai,
gênâmes, gênas
diversified: diversifié, diversifièrent,
diversifia, diversifiâmes, diversifiai,
diversifias, diversifiâtes
diverting: distrayant, détournant
divide: diviser, divisent, divisez,
divisons, divises, divise, partager,
partagent, partagez, partageons,
partage
divided: divisé, divisai, divisa,
divisèrent, divisâmes, divisâtes,
divisas, partageâtes, partagèrent,
partagea, partagé
dividing: divisant, partageant,
séparant, débitant, triant
dogs: griffes médianes, griffes de
serrage
doubted: douté
doubtful: incertain, douteux
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doubting: douter, doutant
doubtingly: de manière doutante, de
façon doutante
doubtless: sans aucun doute
dowager: douairière
dozen: douzaine
drawing: dessin, dessinant, puisant,
étirage, tirage, appâtant, traçant
dread: crainte, redouter
dreaded: redouté
dreadful: terrible, affreux,
épouvantable
dreadfully: de manière terrible, de
façon terrible
dreading: option marchandises
diverses
dreamt: rêvé
dress: robe, habiller, vêtir, panser,
s'habiller, revêtir, dresser, apprêter,
habit, habillement, garnir
dressy: élégant, chic, habillé
drinks: boit
dripping: égouttement, égoutture
driven: conduit, poussé, pourchassé,
piloté, actionné
driving: conduite, conduisant,
poussant, pourchassant, pilotant,
actionnant
drop: goutte, tomber, chute, abattre,
faire tomber, abandonner, baisser,
baisse, laisser tomber, goutte d'eau,
s'amoindrir
dropping: largage
drove: conduisirent, conduisîtes,
poussèrent, poussâtes, poussas,
poussâmes, poussai, poussa,
conduisit, conduisis, conduisîmes
dues: cotisation, redevance
dull: terne, mat, obtus, abêtir, bébête,
sot, ennuyeux, monotone
duplicate: double, copie, dupliquer,
duplicata, copier, contretype, en
double, reproduire
duplicity: duplicité
durable: durable, résistant
dusk: crépuscule
duties: devoirs, responsabilités
dutiful: consciencieux, dévoué
dwell: demeurer, demeure,
demeurent, demeures, demeurez,
demeurons, habiter, loger, loges,
logez, logent
dwelling: habitation, demeurant,
demeure, domicile, logement, logis,
logeant, gîte
dying: mourant, décédant
eager: avide, désireux
eagerly: de manière avide, de façon
avide
eagerness: avidité
ear: oreille, épi
earliest: le plus tôt
Persuasion
earn: gagner, gagnez, gagnent,
gagnons, gagne, gagnes, remporter
earnest: sérieux
earnestly: sérieusement, de manière
sérieuse, de façon sérieuse
earnestness: sérieux
ears: oreilles
ease: aise, soulager, aisance, facilité
ecstasy: extase
edify: édifier, édifiez, édifions,
édifient, édifie, édifies
educated: éduquâmes, éduquai,
éduquèrent, éduqua, éduqué,
éduquas, éduquâtes, cultivé
efficacy: efficacité
elasticity: élasticité
elbow: coude
elder: sureau, aîné, ancien
eldest: aîné
electrified: électrisé, électrisa,
électrisèrent, électrisâmes, électrisai,
électrisâtes, électrisas
elegance: élégance
elegant: élégant
elevate: élever, élève, hausser,
élèvent, élevons, élèves, élevez
elevated: élevé, élevâmes, élevèrent,
élevas, élevai, éleva, élevâtes
eleven: onze
eligible: éligible, admissible
eloquent: éloquent
elude: éluder, éludent, éludez,
éludons, élude, éludes
embargo: embargo
embarrass: embarrasser,
embarrassent, embarrasse,
embarrassons, embarrassez,
embarrasses, gêner
embarrassed: embarrassé,
embarrassai, embarrassa,
embarrassâmes, embarrassèrent,
embarrassas, embarrassâtes, gêné
embarrassment: embarras, gêne
embellishment: embellissement
emboldened: enhardit, enhardis,
enhardîtes, enhardîmes, enhardi,
enhardirent
emendation: correction
emotion: émotion
emotions: émotions
employ: employer, embaucher, user
de, se servir de, appliquer, engager
employed: employé
employing: employant
empowered: autorisé, habilitai,
habilitèrent, habilité, habilitâtes,
habilitas, habilitâmes, habilita,
autorisèrent, autorisâtes, autorisas
emulating: émulant
enabled: permis, permîtes, permit,
permirent, permîmes
enclosed: clos, inclus, enclos,
enserrèrent, enserrai, enserra,
enserrâmes, enserré, enserras,
enserrâtes
enclosures: enclos
encounter: rencontre, rencontrer,
rencontrons, rencontrent,
rencontrez, rencontres, abord
encountered: rencontrai, rencontra,
rencontrèrent, rencontrâmes,
rencontrâtes, rencontras, rencontré
encouraged: incita, incitai, incitâmes,
incitas, incitâtes, incité, incitèrent,
encouragé, encouragèrent,
encouragea, encourageai
encouragement: encouragement
encouraging: encourageant, incitant,
réconfortant
endangering: risquant,
compromettant
endeavour: peiner, se démener
ended: terminé
endless: interminable, infini, sans fin
endowed: doté, dotai, dotâmes,
dotèrent, dota, dotas, dotâtes
ends: finit
endurable: endurable, supportable
endure: endurer, supporter, endurez,
endurent, supportent, supportons,
endurons, supportez, supportes,
endure, endures
endured: supporta, enduré,
supportèrent, endura, endurâmes,
endurèrent, supportâmes, supportai,
endurai, supporté, enduras
enemy: ennemi
enforce: réaliser, imposer, mettre en
vigueur, imposent, réalisent,
réalisez, réalisons, réalises,
imposons, imposez, impose
enforced: imposé, forcé, réalisâtes,
imposa, réalisé, réalisas, réalisâmes,
réalisai, imposèrent, imposâtes,
imposas
engage: engager, engagez, engagent,
engageons, engages, engage,
engrener
engaged: engagé, engageai, engagea,
engageâmes, engagèrent, engageas,
engageâtes, occupé
engagement: engagement, fiançailles,
enclenchement, accordailles
engaging: engageant
engrossed: grossoyèrent, grossoyai,
grossoyâmes, grossoyas,
grossoyâtes, grossoyé, grossoya
enjoyed: jouirent, jouîmes, joui,
jouîtes, jouis, jouit
enjoying: jouissant
enjoyment: jouissance, usufruit
enlargement: agrandissement,
accroissement
ennoble: ennoblir, ennoblis,

ennoblissent, ennoblissez,
ennoblissons, anoblir, anoblis,
anoblissons, anoblissez, anoblissent
enquirer: investigateur
enquiry: enquête, demande de
renseignements
ensured: assuré, assurèrent, assura,
assurai, assurâmes, assuras,
assurâtes
entangled: empêtré, empêtra,
empêtrèrent, empêtrâtes, empêtras,
empêtrâmes, empêtrai, entortillâtes,
entortillèrent, entortilla, entortillai
entered: entrèrent, entrâmes, entré,
entrai, entra, entras, entrâtes,
introduisîtes, introduit, introduisit,
introduisis
entering: entrant, introduisant
entertain: distraire, divertir, régaler,
distraient, distrais, distrayez,
distrayons, abriter, divertis,
divertissons, divertissez
entertained: distrait, divertîmes,
divertirent, diverti, me régalai, vous
régalâtes, te régalas, se régalèrent, se
régalé, nous régalâmes, divertîtes
entertaining: amusant, divertissant,
drôle, distrayant, se régalant
entertainment: divertissement,
amusement, distraction
enthusiasm: enthousiasme
enthusiast: passionné, enthousiaste
entitle: autoriser, titrer, intituler,
intitule, titrons, titrez, titres, titrent,
titre, intitulons, intitulez
entitled: habilité
entrance: admission
entreated: supplié, supplièrent,
suppliâtes, supplias, suppliâmes,
suppliai, supplia, imploré,
implorâtes, imploras, implorâmes
entreaty: imploration, supplication
enumeration: énumération,
dénombrement, recensement
envelope: enveloppe, ampoule
enviable: enviable
envied: envié, envia, enviai,
envièrent, enviâmes, envias,
enviâtes
environs: abords
envy: envie, envier, enviez, envions,
envient, envies, jalousie
equality: égalité
equalled: égalées, égalai, égalâmes,
égalé, égalés, égalèrent
equalling: égalant
equals: égale
equipage: équipage
equipped: équipé, équipâmes,
équipa, équipai, équipèrent,
équipas, équipâtes
equity: équité, capitaux propres
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equivalent: équivalent
ere: avant, avant que
err: se tromper, errer
erring: errant
error: erreur, faute, méprise
escape: échapper, s'échapper,
évasion, échappement, fuite, fuir,
enfuis, enfuir
escaped: échappé
escaping: enfuyant, échappant
escorted: escorté
essentials: essentiel
establishment: établissement,
implantation
esteem: estime, estimer, considérer,
apprécier
esteemed: estimé
estimable: estimable
estimate: évaluer, estimation,
estimer, estime, estimez, estimons,
estiment, estimes, évalue, évaluent,
évalues
estimation: estimation
estranged: aliéné, aliénas, aliéna,
aliénai, aliénâmes, aliénâtes,
aliénèrent
estrangement: séparation
eternal: éternel, perpétuel
evade: éviter, évite, évitent, évites,
évitez, évitons, éluder, éludent,
éludons, éludez, éludes
everywhere: partout
evident: évident, manifeste
evidently: évidemment, de manière
évidente, de façon évidente
evil: mal, mauvais
exact: exact, juste
exaggeration: exagération
exalt: exalter
examine: examiner, examines,
examine, examinent, examinons,
examinez, explorer, fouiller, fouille,
fouillent, fouilles
examined: examinas, examinâtes,
examiné, examinâmes, examina,
examinèrent, examinai, fouillé,
fouilla, fouillai, fouillâmes
exceed: dépasser, dépasses, dépasse,
dépassez, dépassent, dépassons,
excéder, dominer, excède, excèdes,
outrepasser
exceeding: dépassant, excédant,
maîtrisant, outrepassant
exceedingly: extrêmement, de
manière excédante, de façon
excédante
excellence: excellence
excellently: de façon excellente, de
manière excellente, excellemment
excepting: sauf
exception: exception
exceptions: exceptions
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excessive: excessif, immodéré,
excessive
excessively: de manière excessive, de
façon excessive, excessivement
exchanged: échangées
excite: exciter, excites, excite, excitez,
excitons, excitent, irriter, agacer,
hérisser, hérissons, hérisse
excited: excitas, excitâtes, excité,
excitai, excitèrent, excita, excitâmes,
hérissèrent, hérissé, hérissâtes,
hérissas
exclaim: exclamer, exclames,
exclame, exclamez, exclamons,
exclament, s'exclamer
exclaimed: exclamas, exclamâtes,
exclamé, exclama, exclamai,
exclamâmes, exclamèrent
exclamation: exclamation
excluded: exclu, exclûtes, exclut,
exclus, exclurent, exclûmes,
exceptèrent, excepta, exceptai,
exceptâmes, exceptas
excursions: promenades
excusable: pardonnable
excuse: excuser, dispenser, excuse,
pardonner, excusez
excused: excusé
executor: exécuteur, exécuteur
testamentaire
exemplify: exemplifier
exert: pratiquer, pratiquent,
pratiques, pratiquez, pratique,
pratiquons, efforcer, exercer
exerted: pratiquai, pratiquâmes,
pratiquas, pratiquâtes, pratiqua,
pratiquèrent, pratiqué
exerting: pratiquant
exertion: effort
existed: existâtes, existas, existai,
existâmes, existé, exista, existèrent
exit: sortie, issue, sortir, descendre,
donner, aboutir, instruction de sortie
expectation: espérance, expectative,
espérance mathématique
expectations: anticipations
expecting: attendant
expedient: expédient
expedited: expédié
expedition: expédition
expense: dépense, frais
expenses: dépense, frais, dépenses,
charges, sortie
experienced: expérimenté
explains: explique
explanation: explication
explanations: explications
explanatory: explicatif
explicit: explicite
expose: exposer, expose, exposes,
exposez, exposent, exposons
exposed: exposé, exposâtes, exposas,
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exposâmes, exposa, exposèrent,
exposai, irradié
exposing: exposant
express: exprimer, exprimes,
exprime, exprimons, exprimez,
expriment, exprès, répandre,
représenter, express, expresse
expressed: exprimas, exprimâtes,
exprimé, exprimèrent, exprimâmes,
exprimai, exprima
expressing: exprimant
expressive: expressif
expressly: expressément
exquisite: exquis
exquisitely: de manière exquise, de
façon exquise
extended: étendîtes, étendu, étendis,
étendirent, étendîmes, étendit
extension: extension, rallonge,
prolongement, prorogation,
prolongation, suffixe,
agrandissement, allonge,
allongement, poste supplémentaire,
poste
extensive: étendu, extensif, ample,
vaste, large
extenuation: circonstances
atténuantes, excuse atténuante
extinguish: éteindre, éteignent,
éteignez, éteignons, éteins
extraordinarily: extraordinairement,
de manière extraordinaire, de façon
extraordinaire
extraordinary: extraordinaire,
prodigieux, formidable, singulier
extravagance: extravagance
extravagant: extravagant
extreme: extrême
exultation: exultation
eyed: embryonné
faces: faces
faded: pâlirent, pâlîmes, pâli, pâlis,
pâlit, pâlîtes, fané, décoloré,
décolora, déteignîtes, déteignîmes
fail: échouer, avorter, faillir,
manquer, rater
faint: faible, s'évanouir, défaillir
faithful: fidèle, loyal, honnête, droit
fallen: tombé, déchu, abattu, chu
falling: tombant, chute, abattant,
choyant
false: faux, perfide, feint
falter: hésiter
faltering: chancelant, hésitant
fancied: imaginaire
fancy: imaginer, fantaisie, songer,
rêver éveillé, aimer
fare: aller, se porter, prix du billet
farewell: adieu
farmer: agriculteur, fermier, paysan,
cultivateur, laboureur, exploitant
agricole, agriculture, agrarien
Persuasion
farther: plus loin
fascination: fascination
fashion: mode, façon
fashionable: à la mode, dernier cri,
moderne, dans le vent, actuel
fashioned: diminué
fasten: attacher, attachons, attaches,
attachez, attache, attachent, fixer,
verrouiller, verrouille, verrouillez,
verrouillons
fastidious: difficile
fat: gras, gros, graisse, épais
fatal: fatal, mortel
fate: sort, destinée, fatalité, destin,
destination, fortune
fated: destiné, fatal
fathers: pères
fatigue: fatigue, fatigue d'une
substance luminescente
fatigued: fatigué
fatigues: fatigue
fault: défaut, panne, faute, faille,
erreur
favour: faveur, grâce, service,
complaisance, favoriser
favourable: favorable, propice
favourably: de manière favorable, de
façon favorable
favourite: favori, préféré
feared: craint
fearful: effrayant, craintif, affreux
fearfully: de manière effrayante, de
façon effrayante
fearing: craignant
fearless: intrépide, courageux
fearlessness: intrépidité
fears: craintes
fed: alimentas, alimentâtes, alimenté,
alimentâmes, alimentai,
alimentèrent, alimenta, nourrit,
nourris, nourrirent, nourrîtes
feebleness: faiblesse
feels: palpe, sent, tâte, ressent
feign: feindre, simuler
felicitous: heureux
felicity: félicité
fellow: individu, homme, camarade,
ensemble, mâle
fervent: fervent
fervour: ferveur, zèle
fetch: apporter, amener, amène,
amènent, amènes, amenez,
amenons, apporte, apportes,
apportez, apportent
fetching: amenant, apportant
fever: fièvre, la fièvre
fickleness: inconstance
fill: remplir, remplissage, compléter,
charger, obturer, plomber, bourrer,
emplir, remblai
filled: rempli, fourré
filling: remplissage, plombage,
chargement, remplissant, trame,
masticage
finances: finances, finance
finery: parure, finerie, mazerie
finest: le plus fin
finish: terminer, termines, termine,
terminons, terminez, terminent,
finir, finissent, finis, finissez,
finissons
finishing: terminant, finissant,
achevant, finition, finissage,
achèvement
firmly: fermement, de manière ferme,
de façon ferme
firmness: fermeté
fitted: ajusté
fitting: convenable, ajustage,
conforme, essayage, raccord,
montage, adaptation, liquidation,
posage, ferrure, raccord de
tuyauterie
fix: fixer, fixes, fixe, fixent, fixez,
fixons, attacher, réparer, déterminer,
répare, réparent
fixed: fixe, fixâtes, fixas, fixé, fixâmes,
fixèrent, fixa, fixai, réparas, répara,
réparâmes
fixing: fixant, fixation, réparant,
fixage, détermination, dépannage,
remédiant, scellement
flag: drapeau, pavillon, indicateur,
étendard, fanion, dalle, banderole,
cavalier
flagrant: flagrant
flat: plat, appartement, aplati, bémol,
uni, mat
flatter: flatter, flatte, flattons, flattez,
flattes, flattent, aduler, adule,
adules, adulent, adulez
flattered: flattèrent, flattâtes, flattai,
flattâmes, flatta, flattas, flatté,
adulas, adulâtes, adula, adulai
flattering: flattant, adulant,
amadouant, flatteur
flattery: flatterie, adulation
flight: vol, fuite, volée, essor
fling: brandir, agiter, jeter, lancer
flirting: flirt
flow: couler, flux, courant,
écoulement, s'écouler, circulation,
débit, jaillir, flot
flower: fleur, fleurir
flowing: coulant, écoulement, fluent
fly: mouche, voler, volez, voles,
volent, vole, volons, volant
flying: volant
folded: plié, plissé, plissée
folding: pliant, plissement, pliage
folks: gens
follies: folies
folly: folie, sottise
fond: tendre
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fool: imbécile, sot, mystifier, idiot, fortune: fortune, sort, destinée, destin gay: gai, joyeux, homosexuel, enjoué
duper, fou forwardness: état avancé, précocité gaze: regard
foolish: sot, idiot, stupide, fought: combattu, combattit, generosity: générosité, largesse
abracadabrant, insensé combattis generous: généreux
footing: pied, semelle foul: fétide, faute, engagé, salir generously: de manière généreuse,
footpath: trottoir, sentier fourteen: quatorze de façon généreuse
footsteps: pas fragments: débris genius: génie
forbearance: patience, tolérance frames: trames genteel: distingué
forbearing: patient frank: franc, affranchir, franche gentle: doux, gentil, suave, sucré
forbid: interdire, interdis, interdisez, frankness: franchise gentlemen: messieurs
interdisent, interdisons, défendre, fraternal: fraternel gentleness: douceur, bonté
prohiber fraught: chargé, plein gently: doucement, de manière
foreboding: pressentiment freckles: éphélide douce, de façon douce, gentiment
forego: précédons, précède, freehold: pleine propriété gibraltar: Gibraltar
précèdent, précèdes, précédez, freely: librement, de manière giddy: étourdi
précéder gratuite, de façon gratuite gift: cadeau, don
foremost: premier frequent: fréquent, fréquenter gifted: doué, surdoué
foresaw: prévîtes, prévîmes, prévis, freshness: fraîcheur gig: engagement d'un soir
prévit, prévirent friendliness: convivialité, glad: joyeux, content, heureux
foresee: prévoir, prévoyez, prévoient, bienveillance gladden: réjouir, réjouissent,
prévoyons, prévois friendly: amical, aimable, gentil, réjouissez, réjouissons, réjouis
foreseeing: prévoyant affable, amène, amicalement gladly: volontiers, avec plaisir, de
foreseen: prévu, prévue, prévues, friendship: amitié, camaraderie manière joyeuse, de façon joyeuse
prévus frigate: frégate glance: coup d'œil
foresight: prévoyance, préscience, fright: peur, effroi, anxiété, frayeur, glare: éblouissement, éclat, reflet
guidon terreur glasses: lunettes
foretold: prédîmes, prédit, prédis, frightened: effrayé, effrayâtes, gleaning: glanage, glanant
prédirent, prédîtes, auguré, auguras, effrayas, effrayâmes, effrayèrent, glee: joie
augurâmes, augurai, augura, effrayai, effraya, redouté, redouta, glimpse: entrevoir
augurâtes redoutai, redoutâmes glimpses: entrevoit
forgetfulness: oubli frightful: affreux, épouvantable, gloom: mélancolie, obscurité
forgets: oublie effroyable gloomy: sombre, morne
forgetting: oubliant frost: gelée, gel, givre, glaciation, glorious: glorieux, fameux
forgive: pardonner, pardonnes, givrer glossy: lustré
pardonne, pardonnez, pardonnons, frosty: glacial gloves: gants
pardonnent, excuser, excusez, fruit: fruit, fruits glow: ardeur, incandescence, brûler,
excusent, excuse, excusons fruitless: stérile, infructueux être en feu, lueur
forgiven: pardonné, excusé, furnish: fournir, meubler, fournis, glowing: incandescence
pardonnées fournissons, fournissent, fournissez, glued: collé
forgot: oubliâtes, oublias, oubliai, meublent, meublez, meublons, gnawing: rongeant
oublièrent, oubliâmes, oublia meuble, meubles goodness: bonté
forgotten: oublié furnished: fournîtes, fournis, fournit, gossip: cancaner, jaser, commérage,
fork: fourchette, fourche, fourni, fournîmes, fournirent, commérages, bavard
embranchement, fourche d'attelage meublas, meublèrent, meublâtes, gout: goutte
formality: formalité meublai, meubla gouty: goutteux
formed: formé furnishing: fournissant, meublant, governance: gouvernance,
formerly: autrefois, auparavant, ameublement gouvernement
devant, anciennement, jadis furniture: meubles, mobilier, governed: gouvernâtes, gouvernas,
formidable: formidable, ameublement, les meubles, gouverné, gouvernèrent, gouvernai,
extraordinaire, prodigieux, garniture gouvernâmes, gouverna, régnâmes,
singulier, redoutable gaiety: gaieté régna, régnèrent, régné
forming: formation, formage, gained: gagné governess: gouvernante
profilage, formant gainer: gagnant governing: gouvernant, régnant
forth: en avant gale: coup de vent, tempête governor: gouverneur, directeur,
fortify: fortifier, fortifions, fortifiez, gallant: vaillant, brave, galant, régulateur
fortifie, fortifient, fortifies courageux gown: robe, toge
fortitude: courage gallantry: vaillance grace: grâce, charme
fortnight: quinzaine gapes: syngamose graceful: gracieux, élégant, mignon
fortunate: heureux, chanceux gardens: jardins gracefully: de manière gracieuse, de
fortunately: heureusement, de gate: porte, vanne, grille, barrière, façon gracieuse
manière heureuse, de façon portillon, portail, gâchette, doigt, graciously: de manière gracieuse, de
heureuse berceau, entrée façon gracieuse
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graciousness: élégance, grâce
gradual: graduel, progressif
gradually: petit à petit, peu à peu,
graduellement, de proche en proche,
de manière graduelle, de façon
graduelle
grandeur: noblesse, grandeur
grandfather: aïeul
granting: octroi, allouant
grappler: grappin
grass: herbe, gazon
grateful: reconnaissant
gratefully: avec reconnaissance, de
manière reconnaissante, de façon
reconnaissante
gratification: satisfaction
gratified: gratifiâtes, satisfîtes,
satisfit, satisfis, satisfirent,
gratifièrent, gratifias, gratifiâmes,
gratifiai, gratifia, satisfîmes
gratify: satisfaire
gratifying: gratifiant, satisfaisant,
contentant, satisfaire
gratitude: gratitude, reconnaissance,
remerciement
grave: tombe, grave, sérieux
gravel: gravier, silex, gravelle
gravely: gravement, de manière
tombe, de façon tombe
greatly: de façon grande, de manière
grande
greenhouse: serre
greeted: saluas, saluâtes, salua,
saluèrent, saluai, saluâmes, salué,
accueillîtes, accueilli, accueillis,
accueillîmes
grew: crûmes, crût, crûtes, grandîtes,
grandit, grandis, grandîmes, crûs,
grandirent, crûrent
grief: peine, chagrin, désolation,
abattement, douleur
grievance: grief, réclamation
grieved: affligeas, affligeâtes, affligé,
affligea, affligèrent, affligeâmes,
affligeai, chagrinas, chagrinâtes,
chagriné, chagrina
grieving: affligeant, chagrinant,
attristant
groom: palefrenier, valet d'écurie,
panser, marié
gross: brut
grossly: de manière brute, de façon
brute, grossièrement
grove: bosquet
grown: crû, grandi
grows: grandit, croît
guard: garde, protéger, garder,
gardien, contrôleur, préserver,
protecteur, dispositif de protection,
arrière, chef de train, protection
guarded: protégé, gardé
guarding: garde
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guess: deviner, supposer, supposition
guessed: deviné
guests: invités
guidance: guidage
guided: guidé
guile: astuce
guilt: culpabilité
guilty: coupable
gun: fusil, pistolet, canon
habit: habitude, coutume, usage, port
habits: mode de vie, habitudes
haggard: hâve
hail: grêle, héler, grêler
hairs: cheveux
hale: vigoureux
hammer: marteau, marteler,
percuteur
handsome: beau
handsomely: de manière belle, de
façon belle
handwriting: écriture
hang: pendre, suspendre, retomber,
accrocher, faisander
hanging: pendaison, suspension,
suspendu, pendre, mise à la pente
happening: arrivant, advenant,
événement, impromptu, survenance
happiest: le plus heureux
happily: heureusement, de manière
heureuse, de façon heureuse
happiness: bonheur, félicité
harasses: harcelle
harassing: harcelant
harden: durcir, durcis, durcissent,
durcissez, durcissons, tremper,
trempons, trempez, trempes,
trempent, trempe
hardened: durci, durcîtes, durcit,
durcis, durcirent, durcîmes,
trempâmes, trempai, trempas,
trempâtes, trempèrent
hardness: crudité, compacité,
difficulté, dureté d'un feuil, degré
du vide
hardship: privation
harm: nuire, préjudice, mal, tort,
endommager
harmony: harmonie
harp: harpe
harry: harceler
hart: cerf
haste: hâte
hastened: hâta, hâtèrent, hâtâtes,
hâtas, hâtâmes, hâtai, hâté
hastily: à la hâte, hâtivement, de
manière précipitée, de façon
précipitée, précipitamment
hasty: précipité, hâtif
hat: chapeau
hate: haïr, haine, détester
hates: hait
hating: häissant
hazard: risque, danger, hasard, aléa,
péril, risquer, aventurer, oser,
hasarder
hazel: noisetier, coudrier, noisette
headache: céphalée, mal de tête, mal
à la tête
headstrong: têtu
healthy: sain, en bonne santé, salubre
heaped: entassé
hearing: entendant, audition,
audience, ouïe, audition publique,
oyant
hears: entend, oit
heartily: de manière cordiale, de
façon cordiale, chaleureusement
heartiness: cordialité
heartless: sans coeur
hearts: coeurs
hearty: cordial, chaleureux
heave: lever, pilonnement, soulever
heaven: ciel, paradis
heavens: cieux
heaviest: le plus lourd
heavily: fortement, de façon lourde,
de manière lourde, lourdement
hedge: haie, couverture, haie vive
hedges: haies
heedless: insouciant
heels: talons
height: hauteur, altitude, taille
heightened: aggravâtes, aggravèrent,
aggravé, aggravas, aggravâmes,
aggrava, aggravai, rehaussas,
rehaussâtes, rehaussé, rehaussèrent
heir: héritier, légataire
helpless: abandonné, impuissant,
délaissé, faible
herald: Héraut
hereabouts: par ici
hereafter: désormais, dorénavant,
après l'entrée en vigueur de la
présente loi, après
heroism: héroïsme
hers: sien
hesitate: hésiter, hésite, hésites,
hésitent, hésitez, hésitons,
barguigner, barguigne, barguignent,
barguignes, barguignez
hesitated: hésitâtes, hésitas, hésité,
hésita, hésitâmes, hésitai, hésitèrent,
barguignèrent, barguigna,
barguignai, barguignâmes
hesitatingly: de manière hésitante, de
façon hésitante
hesitation: hésitation
hey: hé
heyday: apogée
hid: cachas, cachâtes, cachèrent,
cacha, cachai, cachâmes, masqua,
masquèrent, masquâtes, masquas,
masquâmes
hide: peau, cacher, cachent, cachons,

caches, cache, cachez, fourrure,
s'abriter, dissimuler, pelage
hideous: hideux, horrible,
abominable, abject, odieux,
repoussant, affreux
hills: collines
hint: insinuer, faire allusion, conseil,
allusion
hinting: optimisation
hints: allusions
historian: historien
hither: ici
hitherto: jusqu'ici
holds: tient
holidays: vacances
hollow: creux, cavité, caver
holly: houx
homage: hommage
honest: honnête, intègre, sincère,
loyal
honesty: honnêteté
honour: honneur, honorer
honourable: honorable
honourably: de manière honorable,
de façon honorable
honours: honneurs
hopeless: désespéré, impossible, sans
espoir
hopelessness: désespoir
hopes: espère, souhaite
hoping: espérant, souhaitant
horrible: affreux, épouvantable,
horrible, atroce, terrible,
désagréable, abominable, odieux,
sinistre, abject, hideux
horribly: de manière affreuse, de
façon affreuse
horror: horreur, dégoût, aversion,
répulsion, abomination, atrocité
hospitable: hospitalier
hospitality: hospitalité
household: ménage
housekeepers: gouvernantes
housekeeping: gestion interne,
télémaintenance, ménage
humble: humble, modeste
humiliating: humiliant
humour: humour, humeur
humouredly: de manière ménagée,
de façon ménagée
hung: pendu
hunt: chasser, chassent, chassons,
chassez, chasses, chasse, poursuivre
hunting: chassant, chasse, lacet,
pompage, chasser
hurricane: ouragan, nabot
hurried: hâtif, pressé, dépêché
hurry: se dépêcher, hâte, presser, être
urgent, se presser, se hâter,
dépêcher
hurrying: dépêchant
hurt: blesser
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husbands: maris
hushed: tue, tut, turent, tus, tues
hypocrite: hypocrite
hysterical: hystérique
idle: inactif, fainéant, ralenti, au
repos, inoccupé, paresseux,
fainéanter
idly: de manière inactive, de façon
inactive
ignorance: ignorance
ignorant: ignorant
ill: malade, malsain, mal
illiberal: intolérant
illness: maladie, infirmité
imaginary: imaginaire
imagination: imagination, fantaisie
imagined: imaginas, imaginâtes,
imaginé, imaginai, imaginâmes,
imagina, imaginèrent
imagining: imaginant
imbibed: absorba, absorbai,
absorbâmes, absorbas, absorbâtes,
absorbèrent, absorbé
imitation: imitation
immense: énorme, immense,
formidable
immortality: immortalité
impart: communiquer, donner
impartially: de manière neutre, de
façon neutre, impartialement
impassioned: passionné
impatience: impatience
impatient: impatient
impeaching: récusant, accusant
impediment: empêchement, obstacle,
entrave
imperfect: imparfait
imperfection: imperfection,
défectuosité
imperiously: de manière impérieuse,
de façon impérieuse
impetuosity: impétuosité
implicit: implicite
implied: impliquèrent, impliqua,
impliquai, impliquâmes, impliquas,
impliquâtes, impliqué, implicite
implying: impliquant
import: importation, importer
impose: imposer, impose, imposes,
imposez, imposons, imposent,
contraindre, obliger, contrains,
contraignez, contraignent
impossibility: impossibilité
impressed: impressionné
impression: impression, effet,
empreinte, tirage
impressions: exposition à un
message
impressively: de manière
impressionnante, de façon
impressionnante
imprisonment: emprisonnement,
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improbable: improbable
improper: inexact, incorrect
improved: amélioras, améliorâtes,
amélioré, améliorâmes,
améliorèrent, améliora, améliorai,
amendèrent, amendai, amendas,
amendâmes
improvement: amélioration,
perfectionnement
improvements: améliorations
improving: améliorant, amendant,
réformant
imprudence: imprudence
imprudent: imprudent
impulse: impulsion, incitation,
pulsion
inaccessible: inaccessible
inaction: inaction
inadvertence: inattention,
inadvertance
inattention: inattention
incalculable: incalculable
incapable: incapable, inapte,
incompétent
incessant: incessant
inclination: inclinaison, inclination
inclined: incliné, enclin
incompatible: incompatible,
inconciliable
incomprehensible: incompréhensible
inconsistent: inconsistant,
inconséquent, incompatible, en
contradiction
inconsolable: inconsolable
inconstancy: inconstance
inconstant: inconstant
inconvenience: dérangement,
inconvénient, gêne
inconvenient: difficile, dur, pénible,
inopportun, incommode, gênant
incumbent: titulaire
incurable: incurable, inguérissable
incurious: incurieux
incurred: encourûmes, encourûtes,
encourut, encourus, encouru,
encoururent
indebted: endetté, endettâtes,
endettas, endetta, endettâmes,
endettai, endettèrent, redevable
indecision: indécision
indecisive: indécis, irrésolu
indelible: indélébile
indenture: indenture
independence: indépendance,
autonomie
indicate: indiquer, indiques, indique,
indiquent, indiquons, indiquez,
montrer, désigner, marquer,
désignent, marquons
indies: Indes
indifference: indifférence
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indifferent: indifférent, impartial
indignant: indigné
indignantly: de manière indignée, de
façon indignée
indignation: indignation
indiscreet: indiscret
indispensable: indispensable
indisposed: indisposé, souffrant
indisposition: indisposition
indisputably: de manière
indiscutable, de façon indiscutable
indubitable: indubitable
induce: induire, induisez, induisent,
induis, induisons, conclure,
persuader, provoquer
induced: induit, induisîmes,
induisîtes, induisit, induisis,
induisirent
inducement: incitation, lieu, occasion
indulge: être indulgent, gâter
indulged: gâtas, gâta, gâtai, gâtâtes,
gâté, gâtèrent, gâtâmes
indulgence: indulgence
indulges: gâte
inequality: inégalité
inevitable: inévitable, inéluctable
inevitably: inévitablement, de
manière inévitable, de façon
inévitable
inexcusable: impardonnable
inexhaustible: inépuisable,
intarissable
inexpensive: bon marché, abordable,
peu coûteux
inexpressibly: de manière
inexprimable, de façon inexprimable
infatuation: engouement
infected: infectas, infectâtes,
infectèrent, infecta, infecté, infectai,
infectâmes, septique
inferior: inférieur
inferiority: infériorité
infinitely: infiniment, de manière
infinie, de façon infinie
infirm: infirme
inflicting: infligeant
influenced: influencé
informed: informas, informâtes,
informai, informâmes, informa,
informèrent, informé, renseignas,
renseignâtes, renseignâmes,
renseignèrent
informs: informe, renseigne
infuse: infuser, infusons, infuse,
infusent, infuses, infusez, injecter
ingenious: ingénieux
ingenuity: ingéniosité
ingratitude: ingratitude
inhabit: habiter, habites, habite,
habitons, habitez, habitent
inheriting: héritant
inhumanity: inhumanité, cruauté
Persuasion
inimical: hostile
inimitable: inimitable
injunctions: injonctions
injured: blessé, détérioré, détériora,
abîmai, détériorâtes, détérioras,
détériorèrent, détériorâmes,
détériorai, abîmâmes, abîmas
injuries: blessures
injurious: nuisible, injurieux,
préjudiciable
injury: blessure, lésion, préjudice,
dégât
injustice: injustice
inlaid: tramé, incrusté, marqueté
inn: auberge
inquired: nous enquîmes, m'enquis,
vous enquîtes, t'enquis, s'enquit,
s'enquis, s'enquirent
inquiries: enquêtes
inquiry: enquête, demande de
renseignements, investigation,
interrogation
insensibility: insensibilité
insensible: insensible
inserting: pose
insertion: insertion
insignificant: insignifiant, mineur
insincerity: hypocrisie, manque de
sincérité
insinuating: insinuant
insipid: insipide, fade
insisted: insistas, insistâtes, insista,
insistai, insistèrent, insisté,
insistâmes
insisting: insistant
insolence: insolence, effronterie
inspire: inspirer, inspire, inspires,
inspirons, inspirez, inspirent, dicter,
enthousiasmer
inspired: inspiras, inspirâtes, inspira,
inspirâmes, inspirèrent, inspirai,
inspiré
instance: exemple, instance
instances: exemples
instant: instant, moment
instantaneously: de manière
instantanée, de façon instantanée
instantly: directement, aussitôt,
d'abord, tout d'abord, à l'instant, de
manière instante, de façon instante
instinct: instinct
instinctively: instinctivement, de
manière instinctive, de façon
instinctive
instruction: instruction,
enseignement
instrument: instrument
instrumental: instrumental
insufficient: insuffisant
insult: insulte, insulter, offenser,
injure, affront, injurier
insulted: insulté
integrity: intégrité
intelligence: intelligence,
renseignement
intelligent: intelligent
intelligible: intelligible
intend: viser, visent, visons, visez,
vise, vises, avoir pour but, projeter,
projettent, projette, projetons
intending: visant, projetant
intention: intention, dessein, propos
intently: attentivement, de manière
intentionnelle, de façon
intentionnelle
interchange: échange, échanger,
échangeur
intercourse: rapports sexuels,
relations, rapport sexuel
interference: interférence, brouillage,
ingérence, intervention,
perturbation, immixtion, serrage
interfering: interférant
internally: de manière interne, de
façon interne, intérieurement
interposed: interposa, interposai,
interposèrent, interposé,
interposâtes, interposas,
intercalèrent, intercalâtes, intercalas,
intercalâmes, intercalai
interrupted: interrompit, interrompu,
interrompue
interrupting: interrompant
interruption: interruption, rupture,
coupure
interval: intervalle
intervals: intervalles
intervening: intervenant
intervention: intervention
interview: entrevue, interview,
entretien, interrogation
intimacy: intimité
intimate: intime
intimately: de manière intime,
intimement, de façon intime
intimation: avis
introduce: introduire, présenter,
présentons, présentez, présentes,
présentent, introduis, présente,
introduisez, introduisent,
introduisons
introducing: présentant, introduisant
inure: entrer en vigueur,
s'appliqueront
invalid: invalide, non valide, non
valable, périmé
invaluable: inestimable,
inappréciable
invariably: de manière invariable, de
façon invariable, invariablement
inverted: inversé, inverti
investigate: examiner, examinons,
examinez, examines, examinent,
examine, explorer, enquêter,
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rechercher, recherche, recherchons kindle: allumer, allumez, allumes,
investigated: examinèrent, allument, allume, allumons,
examinâtes, examinas, examinâmes, enflammer
examinai, examina, examiné, kindly: complaisamment, de manière
enquêtèrent, enquêta, recherchai, gentille, de façon gentille
recherchâmes kindness: amabilité, bonté,
invitation: invitation gentillesse, aménité
invite: inviter, invite, invites, invitez, kisses: baise, baisers, bisous
invitent, invitons kneel: s'agenouiller
invited: invitâtes, invitas, invitâmes, knees: genoux
invita, invitèrent, invitai, invité knelt: agenouillé
inviting: invitant knife: couteau, le couteau,
involve: impliquer poignarder
involving: impliquant knight: chevalier, cavalier
irrational: irrationnel, irraisonné, knit: tricoter
irraisonnable knock: frapper, coup, heurter,
irremediable: irrémédiable cogner, cognement, frappe
irresolute: indécis knocked: frappèrent, frappés,
irritable: irritable frappâmes, frappa, frappées
irritation: irritation knot: noeud, nouer, bécasseau
isle: île maubèche, larme, nodule, nœud
issuing: émission lâche
italian: italien knowing: connaissant
jar: jarre, pot, bocal, coulisse lace: dentelle, lacet, lacer
jealous: jaloux ladies: dames
jealousy: jalousie, envie laid: posèrent, posai, posa, posâmes,
jesting: plaisantant, plaisanterie posas, posâtes, posé, vergé, pondu,
joins: joint, relie, accouple, associe, pondit, pondis
noue lake: lac, laque
journeys: parcours lame: boiteux
joy: joie, allégresse lameness: boiterie
joyous: joyeux lament: lamentation, lamenter, se
judged: jugé lamenter, complainte
judgement: jugement, arrêt lamented: lamenté
judgements: jugements lamenting: lamentant
judges: magistrature assise landed: débarqué, atterri
judging: jugeant, juger, jugement, landlady: propriétaire, aubergiste
taxation landlord: propriétaire, aubergiste,
judiciously: de manière judicieuse, logeur
de façon judicieuse lane: voie, ruelle, couloir
jump: saut, sauter, bond, obstacle languor: langueur
jumped: sauté lasted: duré
jumping: saut lasting: permanent, continuel,
junction: jonction, carrefour, perpétuel, durable
embranchement, croisement, lately: dernièrement, de manière
bifurcation, accouplement, tarde, de façon tardive, récemment
raccordement lateness: retard
juncture: jointure laugh: rire, rigoler
justified: justifié, justifiâtes, justifias, laughing: riant
justifièrent, justifiâmes, justifiai, laundress: blanchisseuse
justifia lavish: prodigue, prodiguer,
justify: justifier, justifies, justifie, généreux
justifiez, justifions, justifient lawyer: avocat, défenseur, juriste,
justly: justement, de manière juste, homme de loi, avocat conseil
de façon juste laying: pose, posant, ponte, couchant,
keen: vif, aiguisé, actif, affilé, alerte, pondant, levée
vigilant leaf: feuille, feuillet
keenly: de manière vive, de façon leaned: adossé, adossées, adossâmes,
vive adossai, adossés
keys: clefs leaning: penchant
kicking: coups de pied au ballon, learned: apprîtes, appris, apprîmes,
bottant, puits actif apprirent, apprit, cultivé, savant,
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learnt: appris
legacy: legs, héritage
legible: lisible
leisure: loisir
lend: prêter, prête, prêtes, prêtez,
prêtent, prêtons, emprunter,
empruntes, empruntez,
empruntons, empruntent
lent: prêtâtes, prêtas, prêtâmes,
prêtèrent, prêtai, prêté, prêta,
emprunté, empruntâtes, empruntas,
empruntâmes
lessen: diminuer, diminuez,
diminuons, diminues, diminue,
diminuent, amoindrir,
amoindrissez, amoindris,
amoindrissent, amoindrissons
lessened: diminué, diminua,
diminuâtes, diminuas, diminuâmes,
diminuai, diminuèrent, amoindri,
amoindrîtes, amoindrit, amoindris
lessening: diminuant, amoindrissant
lesser: moindre
lesson: leçon
lessons: leçons
lest: de peur que
letting: laissant, location
levity: légèreté
liable: responsable
liberality: libéralité, générosité
liberty: liberté
license: licence, permis, autoriser
lies: git, ment
lieutenant: lieutenant
lifeless: sans vie, inanimé
lifting: levage
lighted: allumé
lighten: alléger, allègent, allégons,
allèges, allégez, éclaircir, allège,
éclaircis, éclaircissent, éclaircissez,
éclaircissons
lightness: clarté, légèreté, leucie,
luminosité
liked: aimé
likelihood: vraisemblance,
probabilité
likeness: ressemblance
likewise: de même, aussi,
pareillement, également
liking: affection, penchant
limbs: membres
limits: limites
linger: traîner, traînes, traînez,
traînent, traîne, traînons, s'attarder
lingering: traînant, prolongé
lip: lèvre, bord
lisbon: Lisbonne
listened: écoutas, écoutâtes,
écoutèrent, écouté, écoutâmes,
écoutai, écouta
listener: auditeur, écouteur
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listening: écoutant, écoute
lists: listes, lice
literary: littéraire
lively: animé, vif, spirituel, fin,
mental, de manière vivre, de façon
vivre, plein d'entrain
livery: livrée
lobby: groupe de pression, vestibule,
lobby, hall, couloir
lodge: loge, héberger, déposer,
auberge, loger, pavillon, gîte
lodging: verse, logement,
hébergement
lofty: haut, élevé
loitering: flânant
losing: perdant
loved: aimé
loveliest: le plus charmant
loves: amours, aime
loving: amoureux, aimant
lowering: abaissement, baissant
lowest: le plus bas
loyalty: loyauté, fidélité, loyalisme
luck: chance, fortune, sort, destinée
luckily: heureusement, de manière
chanceuse, de façon chanceuse
lucky: chanceux, heureux
luxuriant: exubérant, luxuriant
lying: menteur, mensonge, gisant
machines: machines
mackenzie: fleuve Mackenzie,
Mackenzie
mad: fou, agité, aberrant, enragé
madness: folie, aliénation, aberration,
affolement
mahogany: acajou
maid: femme de chambre, servante,
domestique, bonne
maintained: maintins, maintîntes,
maintint, maintînmes, maintinrent,
maintenu, conservai, conservèrent,
conservé, conservâtes, conservâmes
maintaining: maintenant, conservant,
entretenant
maintenance: entretien, maintenance,
maintien, garde
mamma: sein, mamma, maman
manage: administrer, diriger,
administre, administrez,
administrons, administrent,
administres, gérer, dirige, dirigent,
dirigeons
managing: administrant, gérant,
dirigeant
mankind: humanité
manly: viril
manners: moeurs
manoeuvres: évolutions
manor: manoir
mansion: immeuble, château,
mansion
mantel: plateau de fermeture de puits
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mar: gâter
marked: marqué
marking: marquage, marque,
balisage, notation, marquer
marry: marier, te maries, vous
mariez, nous marions, me marie,
mariez-vous, se marient, épouser, se
marier, épouses, épouse
marrying: se mariant, épousant
marshal: maréchal
materially: matériellement
matrimony: mariage
mature: mûr, adulte, fait, mûrir,
faites, mûrissons, mûrissez,
mûrissent, font, faisons, fais
maturity: maturité, échéance
meadow: pré, prairie, pâturage,
pâture
meat: viande, chair
mechanically: de manière
mécanique, de façon mécanique,
mécaniquement
medicine: médicament, médecine,
remède
meditating: méditant, songeant
meditation: méditation
mediterranean: Méditerranée,
méditerranéen
medium: moyen, médium, milieu,
support, média, moyenne
melancholy: mélancolie,
mélancolique, abattement, sombre
memoirs: mémoires
mend: rapiécer, réparer,
raccommoder, repriser
mention: mentionner, citer
mentioned: mentionné
mentioning: mentionnant
merchandise: marchandise,
marchandises, denrée, produit
merciful: indulgent, Clément,
sensible, miséricordieux
mercy: pitié, compassion, miséricorde
mere: pur, seul, simple
merged: fusionnai, fusionnâmes,
fusionnas, fusionnâtes, fusionnèrent,
fusionna, fusionné
merit: mérite, mériter, gloire
merits: mérites, fond
merry: joyeux, gai
midst: milieu, millieux
mightily: puissamment, de manière
puissante, de façon puissante
mild: doux, suave, bénin, léger, faible
mildness: douceur, clémence
mile: mille
minded: disposé
mindful: attentif
miniature: miniature
mirth: gaieté
misapprehension: malentendu
mischance: malchance
mischief: malice
mischievous: méchant, perfide
misconduct: mauvaise conduite,
inconduite, incorrection, mauvaise
administration
misconstruction: fausse
interprétation
miserable: misérable, malheureux,
pauvre, maussade, vide, pénible,
sombre, mauvais, méchant, mal
miserably: de manière misérable, de
façon misérable
misery: misère, tristesse
misfortune: malheur, infortune,
malchance
misled: égaras, égarâtes, égaré,
égarai, égara, égarèrent, égarâmes
missed: manqué
misses: manque
missing: manquant, disparu
mistake: erreur, faute, méprise, se
tromper
mistaken: abusif, trompé
mistaking: trompant
mistress: maîtresse
misty: brumeux
misuse: abus, emploi abusif, mauvais
emploi
mixed: mélangé, mixte, mêlé
mixture: mélange, mixture
moderate: modéré, raisonnable,
ralentir, abordable, modérer, retenir
moderation: modération
modest: modeste
modesty: modestie, pudeur
modify: modifier, modifies, modifie,
modifions, modifiez, modifient,
modification
momentary: momentané
mood: humeur, ambiance
moral: moral, morale
morality: moralité, vertu
moreover: d'ailleurs, en outre, et
puis, en prime, de plus
morrow: lendemain
mortgage: hypothèque, hypothéquer
mortification: mortification
mortified: mortifia, humilia,
mortifiâtes, mortifièrent, mortifias,
mortifiâmes, mortifiai, humilié,
humiliâtes, humilias, humiliai
mortify: humilier, mortifier
mortifying: humiliant, mortifiant
motion: mouvement, motion,
résolution, marche, requête
motive: motif, lieu, occasion, mobile,
motivation
motives: motifs
motto: devise, épigraphe
mountains: massif
mourning: deuil, regrettant
mouths: bouches
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movements: mouvements novelty: nouveauté
multiply: multiplier, multiplie, numerous: nombreux
multiplies, multipliez, multiplient, nurse: infirmière, infirmier, soigner,
multiplions, de manière multiple, de nourrice, allaiter, veiller sur
façon multiple nursery: pépinière, nourricerie,
multitude: multitude, amas, foule, pouponnière, nursery, crèche,
tas, masse garderie
murmur: murmure, murmurer, bruit nursing: allaitement, soins infirmiers,
musical: musical sciences infirmières
musician: musicien nut: écrou, noix, fruit à coque,
mutual: réciproque, mutuel coinceur
mystery: mystère nuts: fou, aberrant, agité, noix
named: nommé oath: serment, juron
nameless: anonyme, inconnu obeyed: obéis, obéit, obéîtes,
narration: commentaire, narration obéirent, obéi, obéîmes
nation: nation, peuple objection: objection, opposition,
native: autochtone, naturel, natif, réclamation
aborigène, inné, indigène, natal objects: objets
naturally: naturellement, bien sûr, de obligated: obligé
façon naturelle, de manière naturelle oblige: obliger, oblige, obliges,
naval: naval obligez, obligent, obligeons
navy: marine, marine nationale, obliged: obligeâtes, obligeas, obligea,
marine de guerre, marine militaire obligeâmes, obligèrent, obligeai,
nay: non obligé
nearest: plus proche obliging: complaisant, obligeant,
neat: net, propre serviable, gentil
neatness: netteté oblivion: oubli
necessaries: articles d'usage obscure: obscur, obscurcir
necessity: nécessité, besoin observance: observation
needful: nécessaire observant: observateur
negative: négatif, père, réfuter observation: observation, remarque,
neglect: négliger, négligence, réflexion
dédaigner, coups partis avec observe: observer, observes, observe,
éléments erronés, négligent observez, observons, observent,
neglected: négligé respecter, respectons, respectez,
negotiation: négociation respectes, respectent
neighbour: voisin, semblable observed: observas, observâtes,
neighbourhood: voisinage, quartier observai, observa, observèrent,
neighbouring: adjacent, avoisinant observâmes, observé, respecta,
neighbours: voisins respectas, respectai, respectâmes
nerves: nerfs observing: observant, respectant,
nervous: nerveux remplissant
nettles: pique, irrite obstinacy: obstination, entêtement
newspapers: journaux obstinate: obstiné, têtu, tenace, entêté
nicety: exactitude obtain: obtenir, obtiennent, obtiens,
nobility: noblesse obtenons, obtenez, acquérir,
noble: noble, élevé procurer
noise: bruit, bruit de fond, tapage, obtaining: obtenant, obtention
souffle occasional: occasionnel
noisy: bruyant occasionally: occasionnellement, de
nonsense: absurdité, bêtise, temps en temps, de manière
balivernes occasionnelle, de façon
nonsensical: absurde occasionnelle
noon: midi occupation: occupation, métier,
nose: nez, bec profession, emploi
nosegay: petit bouquet odorant occupied: occupas, occupâtes,
noted: noté occupâmes, occupa, occupai,
nothingness: néant occupèrent, occupé
noticed: remarqué occupy: occuper, occupes, occupent,
notion: notion, idée occupez, occupons, occupe
notions: mercerie occupying: occupant
notoriety: notoriété occurred: arrivas, arrivâtes,
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arrivâmes, arrivai, arriva, arrivèrent,
arrivé, survenu, survînmes,
survinrent, survins
occurring: arrivant, survenant
occurs: arrive, survient
octagon: octogone
odd: bizarre, impair, étrange,
singulier, drôle
oddly: de façon bizarre, de manière
bizarre, bizarrement
odious: odieux
offence: délit, infraction, offense,
agacement
offend: offenser, offenses, offensent,
offense, offensez, offensons, insulter,
insulte, insultons, insultez, insultes
offended: offensai, offensèrent,
offensâtes, offensa, offensas,
offensâmes, offensé, insulté,
insultâtes, insultas, insultâmes
offensive: offensant, offensif,
offensive, choquant
offering: offrande
offers: offrit
offices: bureaux
offspring: descendant, descendance,
progéniture, successeur
omission: omission, bourdon
omit: omettre, omettons, omettent,
omettez, omets
omitted: omîtes, omis, omit, omirent,
omîmes
omitting: omettant
opening: ouverture, ouvrant, orifice,
début, déclenchement
openness: franchise
operate: opérer, opère, opères,
opèrent, opérez, opérons,
fonctionner, fonctionne,
fonctionnons, fonctionnes,
fonctionnez
operated: opérâtes, opéras, opérâmes,
opérai, opérèrent, opéra, opéré,
fonctionnèrent, fonctionnâtes,
fonctionnas, fonctionnâmes
opinions: avis
oppose: opposer, oppose, opposes,
opposent, opposons, opposez, se
mettre en travers, rouspéter,
rouspètent, rouspétons, rouspète
opposed: opposé, opposas,
opposâtes, opposa, opposâmes,
opposai, opposèrent, rouspétâtes,
rouspété, rouspétas, rouspétâmes
opposing: opposant, rouspétant
opposite: opposé, en face de,
contraire, contre
oppressed: opprimé, opprimâtes,
opprimas, serré, serrâtes, serras,
serrâmes, serrai, opprimèrent,
serrèrent, opprimai
oppression: abus d'autorité,
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oppression
oral: oral
orange: orange, orangé
orchard: verger, fruitier
orchards: vergers
orchestra: orchestre
ordered: commandé
ordering: classement, commander,
commande, assouplissement, ordre,
passation d'ordre, ordination, mise
en séquence, rangement
origin: origine, provenance, source
originally: de manière originale, de
façon originale
originated: provinrent, provins,
provint, provîntes, provînmes,
Provenu
ostentatiously: de manière
prétentieuse, de façon prétentieuse
ours: nôtre
ourselves: nous
outer: externe, extérieur
outline: contour, silhouette, esquisse,
profil, ébauche, tracé, résumer,
schéma
outward: vers l'extérieur, sortie
outwardly: de manière extérieur,
extérieurement
outweighed: compensas, dépassé,
dépassâtes, dépassas, dépassâmes,
dépassai, dépassa, compensèrent,
compensâtes, dépassèrent,
compensâmes
overbearing: impérieux
overcome: triompher de, vaincre
overflowing: débordant,
débordement
overheard: surprîtes, surprit,
surprîmes, surprirent, surpris
overlooked: négligé
overpowered: maîtrisâtes, vaincu,
vainquîmes, vainquirent, vainquis,
maîtrisâmes, vainquîtes, maîtrisas,
vainquit, domina, maîtrisèrent
overpowering: accablant, dominant,
vainquant, maîtrisant, irrésistible
overpowers: domine, vainc, maîtrise
overthrow: renverser, renverse,
renversent, renverses, renversez,
renversons, abattre, abattage, faire
tomber
overtook: dépassâtes, dépassai,
dépassèrent, dépassâmes, dépassa,
dépassas, doublèrent, doublâtes,
doubla, doublai, doublâmes
overtures: ouvertures
overturned: chavira, chavirée,
chavirâmes, chavirai, chavirées,
renversé
overwhelmed: comblé, comblai,
comblâmes, comblèrent, comblas,
comblâtes, combla, abreuvé,
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abreuvâtes, abreuvas, abreuvâmes
owed: dû, dut, dûmes, dûtes, durent,
dus
owing: devant, dû
owned: possédé
pace: allure, pas, faire les cent pas,
rythme
pacify: pacifier, pacifie, pacifient,
pacifies, pacifiez, pacifions
pacing: gradation
pained: peiné
painful: douloureux, pénible
painfully: de manière pénible, de
façon pénible, péniblement
pains: douleurs
painters: peintres
painting: peinture, tableau
pale: pâle, blême
pallid: pâle, blême
paltry: misérable
panel: panneau, lambris, jury, panel,
tableau
papa: papa
paragraph: alinéa, paragraphe
parcel: paquet, colis, lot, parcelle
pardon: pardon, pardonner, excuser,
grâce
pardonable: pardonnable, excusable
pardoned: pardonné
parent: parent
parental: parental
parish: paroisse
parlour: salon
parson: pasteur
parsonage: presbytère
partial: partiel
partiality: partialité
partially: en partie, de manière
partielle, de façon partielle,
partiellement
particularity: particularité
particularize: particularise,
particularisent, particularises,
particularisez, particularisons,
particulariser
particulars: détails, précisions
parting: séparation, raie
passage: passage, couloir, corridor,
traversée, canal
passing: passant, dépassement,
écoulement, passage
passports: passeports
patents: brevets
paternal: paternel
pathetic: pathétique
patience: patience
patiently: de manière patiente,
patiemment, de façon patiente
patronize: patronner, patronnes,
patronnez, patronnons, patronnent,
patronne, protéger
pause: pause, repos, trêve
pavement: trottoir, pavé, chaussée
paying: payant
peculiar: étrange, singulier, drôle,
particulier
peculiarly: de manière étrange, de
façon étrange
pelisse: pelisse
pen: plume, stylo, enclos
penance: pénitence
penelope: Pénélope
penetrated: pénétras, pénétrâtes,
pénétrâmes, pénétrèrent, pénétra,
pénétrai, pénétré
penetrating: pénétrant
penetration: pénétration
pensive: pensif, songeur
perceive: apercevoir, apercevons,
apercevez, aperçoivent, aperçois,
percevoir, discerner, percevez,
perçoivent, percevons, perçois
perceived: aperçu, aperçus,
aperçûtes, aperçûmes, aperçurent,
aperçut, perçut, perçus, perçurent,
perçûtes, perçûmes
perceiving: apercevant, percevant,
discernant
perceptible: perceptible
perception: perception
perfection: perfection
perfectly: parfaitement, de façon
parfaite, de manière parfaite
perforce: forcément
performed: accompli, réalisa,
réalisèrent, réalisé, réalisâtes,
réalisas, réalisâmes, réalisai,
accomplîtes, accomplit, accomplis
perfume: parfum, parfumer
periods: périodes
permanent: permanent, constant,
continuel, invariable
permanently: de manière
permanente, de façon permanente
permitted: permis
perpetrated: perpétré, perpétrâtes,
perpétras, perpétra, perpétrai,
perpétrèrent, perpétrâmes
perpetual: perpétuel
perpetually: perpétuellement, de
manière perpétuelle, de façon
perpétuelle
perpetuated: perpétuas, perpétuâtes,
perpétuai, perpétué, perpétuâmes,
perpétuèrent, perpétua
perplexed: embarrassa, embarrassai,
embarrassâmes, embarrassas,
embarrassâtes, embarrassèrent,
perplexe, embarrassé
perplexity: perplexité, embarras
perseverance: persévérance
persevered: persévéras, persévérâtes,
persévéré, persévérâmes,
persévérèrent, persévéra, persévérai

persisted: persistas, persistâtes,
persista, persisté, persistèrent,
persistâmes, persistai
persisting: persistant
personage: personnage
personally: personnellement, de
manière personnelle, de façon
personnelle
persons: personnes
persuade: persuader, persuades,
persuade, persuadons, persuadent,
persuadez, convaincre, inspirer
persuaded: persuadas, persuadâtes,
persuadai, persuadâmes, persuada,
persuadèrent, persuadé
persuading: persuadant
persuasion: persuasion, croyance
pervading: imprégnant
petty: petit, mesquin
physician: médecin, docteur, docteur
médecin
piano: piano
pier: jetée, débarcadère, trumeau,
pile, pilier, quai, appontement
pierce: percer, percez, perçons, perce,
percent, perces, transpercer
pierced: perçâmes, perçai, perçâtes,
perça, percèrent, percé, perças
pies: tartes
pin: épingle, broche, goupille, axe,
aiguille, épingler, pin, goujon
pins: bornes
pitch: tangage, hauteur tonale, pas,
tonie, poix, écartement, inclinaison,
espacement, ton, longueur, brai
pitiable: pitoyable
pitiful: pitoyable, pauvre, misérable,
malheureux, lamentable
pity: pitié, plaindre, compassion,
compatir, apitoiement, avoir pitié,
mal, s'apitoyer
placid: placide
placing: classement, plaçant,
chargement, placement, placer,
empilage, encastage, enfournement,
mise en place, mise dans un fichier
plague: peste, fléau
plain: plaine, clair, uni, ordinaire, net,
limpide, évident
plainly: de manière plaine
plaster: plâtre, plâtrer, sparadrap,
stuc, revêtir
plausible: vraisemblable
playful: espiègle
plea: argument, plaider
plead: plaider, plaides, plaidez,
plaident, plaide, plaidons, implorer
pleasant: agréable, plaisant,
charmant, sympathique
pleasantly: agréablement, de manière
agréable, de façon agréable
pleased: content, satisfait, plu
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pleasing: plaisant
plight: situation critique
plods: chemine
ploughs: charrues
plumpness: turgescence, rondeur
plunged: plongé
pockets: empoche, cases, poches
poet: poète
poetical: poétique
poetry: poésie
poets: poètes
poignant: intense
pointedly: de manière pointue, de
façon pointue
pointing: pointage
poisonous: toxique, venimeux,
vénéneux
polished: poli
polite: poli, courtois
politely: poliment, de manière polie,
de façon polie
politeness: politesse
politicians: politiciens
ponder: considérer, pesez,
considérez, réfléchissons,
réfléchissez, réfléchissent, réfléchis,
pesons, considère, pèsent,
considérons
popularity: popularité
pore: pore
port: port, bâbord, accès, porte,
lumière, orifice, porto
portion: partie, portion, part
positively: de façon positive, de
manière positive
possess: posséder, possède, possèdes,
possédons, possèdent, possédez
possessed: possédas, possédâtes,
possédâmes, possédai, posséda,
possédèrent, possédé
possessing: possédant
possession: possession
possessions: biens
possessor: propriétaire, possesseur,
détenteur
posted: affiché, posté
poured: versé
powder: poudre, pulvériser, poudrer
powerless: impuissant
practicable: praticable
practices: pratique
praise: louange, glorifier, éloge,
louer, louanger
praised: loué
pray: prier, prie, pries, prions, priez,
prient
prayer: prière
preach: prêcher, prêches, prêchons,
prêchez, prêchent, prêche
preachers: prédicateurs
precaution: précaution
preceded: précédas, précédâtes,
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précédâmes, précédai, précéda,
précédèrent, précédé, avancé,
avançâtes, avanças, avançâmes
precedence: priorité, préséance
preceding: précédant, précédent,
avançant
precious: précieux, rare
precipitate: précipiter, précipité
precisely: précisément, de manière
précise, de façon précise
precluded: empêché, exclûtes, exclut,
exclus, exclurent, empêchèrent,
empêchâtes, empêchas,
empêchâmes, empêchai, empêcha
predicament: prédicament
prefer: préférer, préfères, préférez,
préfèrent, préférons, préfère, aimer
mieux
preferred: préféra, préférai,
préférâmes, préféras, préférâtes,
préférèrent, préféré
preferring: préférant
prejudice: préjugé, préjudice
preliminary: préliminaire
premature: prématuré
prematurely: de manière prématurée,
de façon prématurée
premises: locaux
preparation: préparation, préparatif
preparations: préparatif,
préparations
prepare: préparer, prépare, prépares,
préparent, préparons, préparez,
apprêter, apprête, apprêtes,
apprêtez, apprêtons
preparing: préparant, apprêtant
prescribed: prescrivîtes,
prescrivîmes, prescrivirent,
prescrivis, prescrivit, prescrit
presently: actuellement
preserve: conserver, confire,
préserver, maintenir, confiture,
conserve, mettre en conserve,
retenir, réserve
preserves: conserves, conserve
preserving: conservation, confisant,
conservant, protection
preside: présider, préside, présides,
présidez, présidons, président
presiding: présidant
pressed: appuyé, pressâmes, pressa,
pressées, pressés, pressai, pressée,
pressé, estampé à la presse
pressing: pressage, pressurage,
pressant, pression
presume: présumer, présume,
présumes, présumez, présumons,
présument, supposer
presumed: présumas, présumâtes,
présumèrent, présuma,
présumâmes, présumai, présumé
presumptive: présomptif
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pretence: prétexte, simulacre
pretend: feindre, feins, feignons,
feignent, feignez, prétexter,
prétendre, prétextons, prétexte,
prétextent, prétextes
pretended: feignîtes, feignirent,
feignis, feignîmes, feignit, feint,
prétexta, prétextai, prétextâmes,
prétextas, prétextâtes
pretending: feignant, prétextant,
prétendant
prettiest: le plus joli
prettiness: beauté, joliesse
prevail: prévaloir, prévaloyez,
prévaux, prévalent, prévalons,
prévalez, prévalois
prevailed: prévalûtes, prévalûmes,
prévalus, prévalut, prévalurent,
prévalu
prevailing: prévalant, dominant
prevented: empêchas, empêchâtes,
empêchâmes, empêché,
empêchèrent, empêchai, empêcha,
prévenu, prévînmes, prévinrent,
prévins
preventing: empêchant, prévenant
prevents: empêche, prévient
prey: proie
pride: fierté, orgueil
principal: commettant, principal,
mandant, directeur, donneur
d'ordre, dominant, capital
principally: principalement, surtout,
de façon commettante
print: imprimer, impression,
imprimé, épreuve, gravure,
estampe, copie, caractères,
empreinte, tirer
printshop: marchand d'estampes
prior: précédent, antérieur
privilege: privilège, privilégier
privileged: privilégié
privileges: privilèges
privy: privé
prize: prix, récompense
probability: probabilité
probable: probable, vraisemblable
proceed: procéder, procèdes,
procède, procèdent, procédez,
procédons, avancer, avancent,
avances, avancez, avançons
proceeded: procédas, procédâtes,
procédâmes, procédèrent, procédai,
procéda, procédé, avançâtes, avancé,
avançâmes, avançai
proceeding: procédant, avançant
proclaim: proclamer, proclames,
proclame, proclamons, proclamez,
proclament
procure: procurer, procure, procures,
procurons, procurez, procurent, se
procurer
Persuasion
procuring: procurant
producing: produisant
profess: confesser, avouer, confessez,
confessons, confesse, confesses,
confessent, professer, professons,
professe, professent
professed: confessèrent, confessé,
confessâtes, confessas, confessâmes,
confessa, confessai, professâtes,
professas, professa, professai
professing: confessant, professant
profession: profession
professionally: professionnellement,
de façon professionnelle, de manière
professionnelle
proficient: compétent
profitable: rentable, profitable,
lucratif
profound: profond
projected: projeté
projecting: projetant, en saillie,
saillant
promise: promettre, promets,
promettent, promettez, promettons,
assurer
promised: promîtes, promîmes,
promit, promirent, promis
promises: promet
promising: promettant, prometteur
promote: promouvoir, promeus,
promeuvent, promouvons,
promouvez
promoted: promûtes, promut,
promurent, promûmes, promus,
promu
promotion: promotion, avancement,
année
prompt: invite, ponctuel, prompt,
sollicitation, souffler, mobile
prompted: incité
prompting: assistance par
programme souffleur, inciter,
incitation, proposition, sollicitation
de l'opérateur
prone: enclin
pronounced: prononças, prononçâtes,
prononçai, prononcèrent,
prononçâmes, prononça, prononcé
proof: preuve, épreuve, témoignage,
démonstration
prophesied: prédit, prédis, prédirent,
prédîtes, prédîmes, auguras,
augurâtes, augurâmes, augurai,
augura, auguré
proposal: proposition, offre
propose: proposer, proposes,
propose, proposons, proposez,
proposent
proposing: proposant
proprietors: propriétaires
propriety: bienséance
prose: prose
prospect: perspective, prospecter
prosperity: prospérité
prosperous: prospère
protected: protégé, protégeâtes,
protégeas, protégea, protégèrent,
protégeai, protégeâmes, abrité,
préservâtes, préserva, préservai
protested: protestées, protestés,
protesta, protesté, protestée
protesting: protestant
protests: proteste
proud: fier, altier, orgueilleux
proved: prouvas, prouvâtes,
prouvèrent, prouva, prouvai,
prouvâmes
proverbs: proverbes
providence: providence
province: province, domaine, région
provocation: provocation
provoke: provoquer, provoque,
provoques, provoquons, provoquez,
provoquent, irriter, agacer
provoked: provoquâtes, provoquas,
provoquai, provoqua, provoqué,
provoquâmes, provoquèrent
prudence: prudence, précaution
prudent: prudent, raisonnable
publicity: publicité, propagande
publicly: publiquement, de façon
publique, de manière publique
publish: publier, éditer, publie,
publies, publient, publiez, publions,
édites, éditent, édite, éditons
pump: pomper, escarpin
punctually: ponctuellement, de
manière ponctuelle, de façon
ponctuelle
puncture: ponction, crevaison, crever,
perforation, piqûre
purchase: achat, acheter, emplette,
acquérir, acquisition
purchased: acheté
pure: pur, blanc, propre
purification: purification, épuration
purse: bourse, sacoche, sac à main
pursue: poursuivre, poursuivez,
poursuis, poursuivons, poursuivent,
pourchasser
pursued: poursuivîmes, poursuivîtes,
poursuivirent, poursuivit,
poursuivis, poursuivi
push: pousser, poussée, poussez
pushed: poussé
pushing: poussant
puzzling: curieux, mystérieux
qualified: qualifias, qualifiâtes,
qualifièrent, qualifia, qualifiai,
qualifiâmes, qualifié, diplômé
quantity: quantité, grandeur
quarters: quartiers
queer: bizarre
quest: recherche, quête

questioned: questionna, questionnai,
questionnés, questionnée,
questionné
quick: rapide, prompt, vite
quicken: accélérer, hâte, hâtons,
hâtez, hâtent, accélérons, accélérez,
accélères, accélèrent, accélère, hâtes
quicker: plus vite
quickness: rapidité
quietly: paisiblement,
tranquillement, de manière calme,
de façon calme, calmement
quit: quitter, quittas, quittes,
quittâtes, quittâmes, quittai, quitta,
quittèrent, quittons, quittez, quitté
quitted: quittés, quittées, quittâmes,
quittèrent, quittai
quitting: quittant
quivering: frisson, tremblant
quotation: citation, cote, cotation,
devis
quotations: citations
rained: plu
rains: pleut
raising: élevage
rallied: ralliâmes, rallié, ralliai, ralliés,
rallia
rally: rallye, rallier
rambling: décousu, randonnée
rank: rang, grade, rangée, file, tour
rapid: rapide, prompt, rapides
rapidity: rapidité
rapidly: rapidement, de manière
rapide, de façon rapide
rapture: ravissement
rare: rare, saignant
rated: nominal
rating: évaluation, notation,
classement, caractéristiques
assignées, régime nominal,
estimation, tarification, cote,
puissance nominale
rational: rationnel, raisonnable
rationality: rationalité
rationally: rationnellement, de
manière rationnelle, de façon
rationnelle
reaching: allures portantes,
parvenant, mouvements de saisie
reader: lecteur
readily: aisément, de façon prête, de
manière prête, facilement
readiness: disponibilité,
empressement
realized: réalisâtes, réalisas, réalisai,
réalisa, réalisèrent, réalisâmes,
réalisé
reap: moissonner, moissonne,
moissonnent, moissonnes,
moissonnez, moissonnons
reappeared: reparus, reparut,
reparurent, reparûmes, réapparut,
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réapparus, réapparurent,
réapparûmes, reparûtes,
réapparûtes, réapparu
rear: élever, arrière
reasonably: de manière raisonnable,
de façon raisonnable,
raisonnablement
reasoned: raisonné
reasoning: raisonnement
recanting: désavouant
recapitulation: récapitulation
receipt: reçu, quittance, réception,
récépissé, acquit, accusé de
réception, ticket de caisse, recette
receiving: recevant, accueillant,
réception
reception: réception, accueil
reciprocal: réciproque, inverse
recital: récital, récit
reckon: calculer, calculent, calculons,
calcule, calculez, calcules, estimer
reckoned: calculèrent, calcula,
calculai, calculâmes, calculas,
calculâtes, calculé
reckoning: calculant
reclaimed: régénérèrent, réclamèrent,
réclamai, réclamâmes, réclamas,
réclamâtes, régénéra, régénérai,
régénérâmes, réclama, régénérâtes
recognise: reconnaître
recollect: se rappeler, se souvenir,
retenir, retenez, retiens, retiennent,
retenons
recollected: retenu, retînmes,
retinrent, retins, retint, retîntes
recollecting: retenant
recollection: souvenir, mémoire
recollections: souvenirs
recommencing: recommençant
recommend: recommander,
recommandes, recommandent,
recommandez, recommande,
recommandons, conseiller
recommendation: recommandation,
liste, liste de candidats, liste de
présentation, proposition,
préconisation
recommendations: recommandations
recommended: recommandâtes,
recommandas, recommandâmes,
recommandai, recommanda,
recommandèrent, recommandé
recomposed: recomposâtes,
recomposé, recomposèrent,
recomposâmes, recomposai,
recomposa, recomposas
reconcile: réconcilier, réconcilies,
réconcilie, réconcilient, réconciliez,
réconcilions
reconciled: réconcilias, réconciliâtes,
réconcilia, réconciliai, réconcilié,
réconcilièrent, réconciliâmes
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reconciliation: réconciliation
recover: récupérer, récupère,
récupères, récupérez, récupérons,
récupèrent, recouvrer, recouvre,
recouvres, recouvrez, recouvrons
recoverable: valorisable, récupérable,
extractible, recouvrable
recovered: récupéra, récupérèrent,
récupérâtes, récupéras,
récupérâmes, récupérai, récupéré,
recouvras, recouvrâtes, recouvra,
recouvrèrent
recovering: récupérant, recouvrant
recovery: récupération, reprise,
rétablissement, guérison, salut,
recouvrement
rector: recteur
recurring: récurrent
reddened: rougit, rougîtes, rougis,
rougirent, rougîmes, rougi
reddening: rougissant
reductions: réductions
refer: référer, déférer, réfères,
réfèrent, réfère, référez, référons
refinement: raffinement, délicatesse,
affinement, affinage
reflect: refléter, reflétons, reflète,
reflètes, reflétez, reflètent, réfléchir,
réfléchissons, réfléchis, réfléchissez,
réfléchissent
reflected: reflétèrent, reflétâtes,
reflétai, reflétas, reflétâmes, refléta,
reflété, réfléchit, réfléchîmes,
réfléchis, réfléchîtes
reflection: réflexion, reflet
reflections: réflexions
reformation: réforme
refrain: refrain
refresh: rafraîchir, rafraîchissons,
rafraîchissez, rafraîchis,
rafraîchissent, actualiser, actualisez,
actualises, actualise, actualisons,
actualisent
refreshing: rafraîchissant, actualisant
refusal: refus
refuse: refuser, détritus, déchets,
repousser, rejeter, ordures
refused: refusé
refutation: réfutation
refute: réfuter, réfute, réfutes,
réfutent, réfutez, réfutons, rejeter,
démentir
regain: regagner, regagnent,
regagnons, regagnes, regagne,
regagnez, rattraper, rattrapons,
rattrapez, rattrapes, rattrapent
regaling: se régalant
regard: considérer, considérez,
considérons, considères,
considèrent, considère, estime,
regarder, contempler, égard, regard
regards: considère
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regret: regret, regretter, ménager
regrets: regrette
regretted: regretté
regretting: regrettant
regulating: réglant, réglementant
regulations: statut, réglement
reigning: régnant
reins: rênes
rejected: rejeté
rejoice: réjouir, réjouissons,
réjouissez, réjouissent, réjouis, être
joyeux
rejoiced: réjouis, réjouit, réjouîtes,
réjouirent, réjouîmes, réjoui
rejoicing: réjouissant
rejoinder: réplique
rejoined: rejoignîmes, rejoignîtes,
rejoignit, rejoint, rejoignis,
rejoignirent
relate: raconter, conter, racontent,
raconte, racontons, racontez,
racontes, conte, content, contez,
contons
relation: relation, abord, rapport
relative: parent, relatif, parente
released: libéré, relâché
relied: compta, comptai, comptâmes,
comptas, comptâtes, comptèrent, fia,
fiés, fiée, compté, fiées
relieve: soulager, soulagez, soulages,
soulageons, soulagent, soulage,
relayer
relieved: soulagea, soulagèrent,
soulageâtes, soulageas,
soulageâmes, soulageai, soulagé
relinquishing: abandonnant
relinquishment: abandon
reluctance: réluctance, répugnance
reluctant: peu disposé
reluctantly: à regret, de manière peu
disposée, à contrecœur, de façon
peu disposée
remainder: reste, débris, reliquat
remaining: restant, qui reste, autre
remark: remarque, observation,
commentaire, remarquer
remarkable: remarquable, saillant,
insigne
remarkably: de manière
remarquable, de façon remarquable,
remarquablement
remarks: remarque
remembered: retenu, retîntes, retint,
retins, retînmes, rappelâtes,
rappelas, rappelâmes, rappelai,
retinrent, rappela
remembering: retenant, rappelant
remembrance: souvenir, mémoire
reminded: rappela, rappelai,
rappelâmes, rappelas, rappelâtes,
rappelèrent, rappelé
remnant: reste
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remonstrance: remontrance
remorse: remords
removal: enlèvement,
déménagement, dépose, piégeage,
renvoi, révocation
remove: ôter, supprimer, ôtes,
supprimons, supprimez, supprimes,
suppriment, supprime, ôtez, ôtent,
ôte
removed: ôtai, ôtèrent, ôtâmes, ôtas,
ôtâtes, supprimèrent, ôté,
supprimai, supprimâmes,
supprimas, supprimé
removing: supprimant, ôtant,
enlevant
render: rendre
rendered: plâtras, rendit, rendîmes,
rendirent, rendîtes, plâtrèrent,
plâtré, plâtrâtes, crépi, rendis,
plâtrâmes
renew: renouveler, renouvellent,
renouvelle, renouvelles,
renouvelons, renouvelez,
reconduire, reconduisez,
reconduisent, reconduis,
reconduisons
renewal: renouvellement,
reconduction, renouveau
renewed: renouvelas, renouvelâtes,
renouvelai, renouvelâmes,
renouvelèrent, renouvela,
renouvelé, reconduisîmes,
reconduisirent, reconduisis,
reconduisit
renewing: renouvelant, reconduisant
rent: loyer, louer, location
renter: locataire
renting: location, louage
rents: accense
repack: catégorie de réparation,
remplacement, repaquer
repaid: remboursai, remboursèrent,
remboursâtes, remboursâmes,
remboursa, remboursas, remboursé
repeat: répéter, répètes, répète,
répètent, répétons, répétez, reprise,
redire, redisent, redisons, redis
repeated: répétâtes, répétas, répétai,
répétâmes, répéta, répétèrent,
répété, redîmes, redirent, redîtes,
redit
repeatedly: plusieurs fois, à plusieurs
reprises, de manière répétée, de
façon répétée
repeating: répétant, redisant
repeats: répète, redit
reply: réponse, répondre, répliquer,
réplique
repose: repos, se reposer, trêve
reprehensible: répréhensible
represent: représenter, représentes,
représentez, représentent,
représentons, représente, figurer
representation: représentation, figure
representations: déclarations,
représentations, observations
representative: représentant, député,
représentatif, délégué
representing: représentant
reprieve: sursis
reproach: reproche, reprocher,
réprimander, gronder, sermonner,
reprendre
repulsive: répulsif, affreux,
épouvantable, horrible, répugnant,
repoussant
repulsively: de manière affreuse, de
façon affreuse
request: demande, demander, prier,
requête
requested: demandé
requiring: exigeant, requérant,
réclamant
resemblance: ressemblance
resemble: ressembler, ressemble,
ressembles, ressemblez,
ressemblons, ressemblent, rejoindre,
rejoignent, rejoignez, rejoignons,
rejoins
resembling: ressemblant, rejoignant
resented: ressenties, ressentirent,
ressenti
resentful: rancunier
resenting: ressentant
resentment: ressentiment, rancune,
dépit
reserve: réserver, réserve, retenir,
commander, demander
reserved: réservé, réservée
reserving: réservant
residence: résidence, domicile,
demeure, habitation, logis,
logement, gîte
resident: résident, habitant, interne,
pensionnaire, résidant
residing: résidant
resignation: démission, résignation
resigned: démissionnas,
démissionnâtes, démissionnai,
démissionna, démissionnèrent,
démissionnâmes, démissionné,
résignas, résignâtes, résignai,
résigné
resist: résister, résiste, résistes,
résistent, résistez, résistons, épargne,
épargnes, enduit protecteur
resolute: résolu
resolutely: de manière résolue, de
façon résolue, résolument
resolution: résolution, motion,
définition, pouvoir de résolution
resolve: résoudre, décider, résolution
resolved: résolu
resolving: résolvant

resort: lieu de vacances, recours
resorted: recouru
respectability: respectabilité
respectable: respectable
respectably: de manière respectable,
de façon respectable
respected: respecté
respecting: respectant
respective: respectif
respects: respecte
restless: agité, remuant
restorative: fortifiant, restaurateur
restore: restaurer, restaures,
restaurez, restaurent, restaure,
restaurons, rétablir, rétablis,
rétablissent, rétablissez, rétablissons
restored: restaurai, restaurèrent,
restaurâtes, restaurâmes, restaura,
restauras, restauré, rétablîtes,
rétabli, rétablîmes, rétablirent
restoring: restaurant, rétablissant,
restituant
restraints: bride
restrictions: limitations
resume: reprendre, reprennent,
reprenons, reprenez, reprends,
recommencer, recommence,
recommencent, recommences,
recommencez, recommençons
resuming: reprenant, recommençant
retain: retenir, retiennent, retenez,
retenons, retiens, réprimer
retentive: fidèle
retired: retiré, retraité, retirâtes,
retiras, retirâmes, retira, retirèrent,
retirai
retirement: retraite, pension,
abandon, repli
retiring: retirant, sortant
retrace: retracer, reconstituer, retour
du spot
retract: rétracter, te rétractes, se
rétractent, rétractez-vous, nous
rétractons, me rétracte, vous
rétractez
retracted: te rétractas, vous
rétractâtes, se rétractèrent, se
rétracté, se rétracta, nous
rétractâmes, me rétractai, rétracté
retreating: dépilage en rabattant
retrench: restreindre
retrenching: restreignant
retrenchment: réduction,
abaissement, retranchement
returning: renvoyant, retournant
revel: se divertir, s'amuser
revenge: revanche, vengeance,
venger
reverie: rêverie
reverse: inverse, inverser, verso,
marche arrière, retourner, renverser,
dos, revers
Jane Austen
reversion: réversion, retour,
inversion
reverted: revinrent, revîntes, revins,
revînmes, revint, revenu
revival: renaissance, reprise,
renouveau
revive: ranimer, ranime, ranimes,
raniment, ranimez, ranimons,
réanimer, raviver
revived: ranimâtes, ranimas,
ranimâmes, ranima, ranimèrent,
ranimai, ranimé
revolting: révoltant
revolts: révoltes
revolution: révolution, tour, rotation
revolving: tournant
reward: récompenser, récompense
rheumatic: rhumatismal, rhumatisant
ribbon: ruban
ribbons: rubans, tabac en lanières
richness: richesse
rid: débarrasser, débarrassâmes,
débarrassez, débarrasses,
débarrassèrent, débarrassent,
débarrassé, débarrasse, débarrassas,
débarrassons, débarrassai
ride: chevaucher, tour, monter à
cheval, aller en véhicule, aller, se
déplacer, monter à bicyclette
ridicule: ridicule, ridiculiser
riding: équitation
rigid: rigide, raide
riotous: tapageur, séditieux
rising: élévation, levée, lever
rivals: rivaux
rivers: rivières
roaring: rugissant
robbing: pillant, ravissant, dévalisant
robust: robuste, vigoureux
rocks: étoc, montages
romance: romance
romantic: romantique
roof: toit, voûte
rouge: rouge
rough: brut, grossier, cru, rugueux,
rude, maussade, rustique, râpeux,
rêche
rouse: irriter, exciter, stimuler,
agacer, stimules, excitons, stimulez,
stimulent, stimule, irritons, irritez
roused: stimulé, irrité, irritai,
irritâmes, irritas, irritâtes, irritèrent,
stimula, stimulai, stimulâmes, irrita
rousing: excitant, stimulant, irritant
rub: frotter, récurer, frottement
rubbed: frotté
rubbish: ordures, débris, déchets,
absurdité, abattis, décombres
rugged: accidenté, raboteux, robuste
ruin: ruine, ruiner, abîmer, abaisser,
ravager
ruined: ruiné
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ruins: ruine, ruines
rumble: grondement, ronronnement
rumour: réputation, renommée,
rumeur
rushed: précipité
rut: ornière, rut
sacrifice: sacrifier, sacrifice,
consacrer, offrir, faire offrande,
immoler
sacrificed: sacrifié
sacrifices: sacrifie
sacrificing: sacrifiant
sad: triste, affligé, désolé, peiné,
maussade, sombre
saddened: rabattu, attristâtes,
rabattîmes, rabattirent, rabattis,
rabattîtes, attristas, attristâmes,
rabattit, attristai, attrista
safely: de manière sûre, de façon sûre
sailor: marin, matelot, navigateur
sake: saké
saleable: vendable
salts: sels
sameness: identité, similitude,
monotonie
sands: sables
sanguine: sanguin
satin: satin
satisfaction: satisfaction,
contentement
satisfactory: satisfaisant
satisfied: satisfait, satisfîmes,
satisfîtes, satisfit, satisfis, satisfirent,
content, contenta, contentèrent,
contenté, contentâtes
satisfy: satisfaire, contenter,
satisfaites, satisfont, satisfaisons,
satisfais, contentent, contentons,
contentes, contente, contentez
sauntering: flânant
saved: épargnâtes, épargnas,
épargnâmes, épargnèrent, épargné,
épargnai, épargna, sauvâtes, sauvas,
sauvâmes, sauvèrent
saving: épargnant, sauvant,
économisant, économie, épargne,
enregistrant, sauvegardant,
sauvegarde
scandalous: scandaleux
scanty: insuffisant
scarcely: à peine, de manière rare, de
façon rare
scarecrows: épouvantails
scattered: dispersé, dispersâmes,
dispersèrent, dispersas, dispersai,
dispersa, dispersâtes, répandu,
répandîtes, répandit, répandis
scenes: scènes
scheming: intrigant
scholar: savant, érudit, écolier
scissors: ciseaux
scolded: grognâmes, grognée,
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grogné, grondé, grogna, grognai
scolding: réprimande, grondeur
scornfully: de manière dédaigneuse,
de façon dédaigneuse
scrawl: griffonner, gribouillage
screamed: crié
screened: trié
scruple: scrupule
scruples: scrupule
scrupulous: scrupuleux
sealed: scellé, étanche, hermétique,
fermé
seated: assis
seating: places assises
seats: sièges
seclusion: solitude
secondly: deuxièmement, de manière
seconde, de façon seconde
secret: secret, arcane
secure: fixer, fixe, fixent, fixes, fixez,
fixons, sûr, attacher, en sûreté, à
l'abri, obtenir
secured: fixâtes, fixèrent, fixas,
fixâmes, fixai, fixa, fixé
securing: fixant, arrimage, fixation
sedentary: sédentaire
sedulously: de manière assidue, de
façon assidue
seeking: cherchant, raillant
seeming: semblant, paraissant
seemingly: apparemment, de
manière paraissante, de façon
paraissante
sees: voit, scie
seize: saisir, saisissez, saisissent,
saisis, saisissons, agripper, attraper,
agrippes, agrippez, agrippent,
agrippe
seized: saisit, saisîtes, saisis, saisîmes,
saisirent, saisi, agrippa, agrippèrent,
agrippas, agrippâmes, agrippai
seizure: saisie, prise, apoplexie,
capture, confiscation, attaque
seldom: rarement
self: même, soi
selfish: égoïste
selfishness: égoïsme
semblance: apparence, semblant
sending: envoyant, adressant, envoi
seniority: ancienneté
sensation: sensation, sentiment
senseless: insensé, déraisonnable,
stupide, sans connaissance
sensibility: sensibilité
sensible: raisonnable, prudent, sensé
sensibly: raisonnablement, de
manière raisonnable, de façon
raisonnable
sentences: phrases
sentiment: sentiment
sentimental: sentimental
separated: séparé
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separation: séparation, abandon,
décollement, espacement, scission
separations: séparations
sequel: suite
sequestration: séquestration,
séquestre, mise sous séquestre
servant: serviteur, domestique,
servante
servants: domestiques, serviteurs
served: servit, servîtes, servis,
servîmes, servirent, servi, desservis,
desservit, desservîtes, desservîmes,
desservi
serving: servant, matelas extérieur,
desservant, service
settle: régler, réglons, réglez, règles,
règlent, règle, s'abattre, s'abaisser,
coloniser
settled: réglâmes, régla, réglas,
réglèrent, réglai, réglâtes, réglé
settling: réglant, affaissement,
tassement, règlement
severe: sévère, austère, grave,
difficile, dur, rigoureux
severed: coupé, disjoint, rompu,
rompîtes, rompit, rompis,
rompîmes, disjoignîtes, disjoignit,
disjoignirent, disjoignîmes
shabby: mesquin, usé, miteux
shade: ombre, nuance, teinte,
ombrage, ombrager, nuancer,
ombrer
shadow: ombre, prendre en filature
shake: secouer, secoue, secouons,
secouez, secoues, secouent, ébranler,
ébranlez, ébranles, ébranlent,
ébranle
shaken: secoué, ébranlé
shakes: secoue, ébranle
shaking: secouant, ébranlant,
ébranlement, secousse
shame: honte, pouah, vergogne
shaped: façonné, profilé
shapeless: informe
sharing: partage, participation,
partageant
sharp: aigu, acéré, coupant,
tranchant, perçant, piquant,
précisément, dièse, âcre, à l'heure,
justement
shaving: rasage, copeau, rasant
shawl: châle
sheep: mouton
sheet: feuille, drap, plaque, drap de
lit, écoute, feuillet, tôle
shelf: étagère, tablette, rayon,
planche, rayon de rangement
shelter: abri, abriter, refuge, s'abriter,
gîte, garantir, se mettre à l'abri, se
retrancher, héberger
shelves: étagères
shepherd: berger, pasteur, pâtre,
soigner
sheriff: shérif
shift: décalage, équipe, déplacer,
changement, poste, décaler, changer
shining: luisant, brillant
ship: navire, bateau, expédier,
expédie, expédions, expédiez,
expédies, expédient, vaisseau
ships: expédie
shock: choc, choquer, secouer,
heurter, secousse, moyette
shocked: choqué
shocking: choquant
shoot: tirer, tires, tire, tirent, tirez,
tirons, pousse, glissière
shooting: tirant, tir, tournage,
fusillade, chasse, prise de vue, prise
de vues
shore: rive, bord, côte, rivage, accore,
côte rivage, étançon, étayer, étai
shorter: plus court
shortly: prochainement, de façon
courte, de manière courte, bientôt
shoulder: épaule, accotement,
épaulement
shrewd: sagace, avisé, perspicace
shrink: rétrécir, se ratatiner, se
racornir
shrubbery: fruticée, massif d'arbustes
shudder: frémissement, frisson,
frissonner
shut: fermer, arrêter, fermé
shy: timide, ombrageux
shyness: timidité
sick: malade, malsain
sickly: maladif, de manière malade,
écoeurant, de façon malade, malsain
sickness: maladie
sigh: soupir
signal: signal, signaler, signe
significance: signification,
importance, valeur significative
signify: signifier, signifies, signifiez,
signifient, signifions, signifie
silent: silencieux
silk: soie, soyeux
silly: idiot, stupide, bête
silver: argent, argenté, argenter
similarity: similarité, similitude,
ressemblance
simpleton: nigaud, niais
simplicity: simplicité
sincere: sincère
sincerely: sincèrement, de manière
sincère, de façon sincère
sincerity: sincérité, bonne foi
sing: chanter, chante, chantes,
chantent, chantez, chantons
singing: chantant, chant, amorçage
singular: singulier
singularity: singularité
sink: évier, forer, couler, lavabo,

sombrer, toucher, puits, enfoncer,
rencontrer, collecteur
sinking: affaissement, naufrage
sinner: pécheur
sisters: soeurs
sits: couve, s'assied, assied
situated: situé, situas, situâtes, situai,
situèrent, situâmes, situa
sixteen: seize
skilful: habile
skirting: plinthe
slam: chelem, claquer
slender: mince, svelte, maigre
slight: léger, affront, insignifiant
slightingly: de façon de dédaine
slip: glissement, glisser, barbotine,
fiche, lapsus, combinaison, cale,
bouture, patiner, glissade
slipped: glissé
sloop: sloop
smallest: le plus petit
smart: rusé, intelligent, astucieux,
malin, artificieux, dégourdi, habile,
roublard
smarting: cuisant
smiling: souriant
smokes: fume
smoking: fumant, fumage, fumer,
tabagisme
smooth: lisse, uni, plat, lisser, douce,
égaliser, polir
smother: étouffer
snatched: saisi
snug: confortable, douillet, oreille de
châssis, ergot
sobering: dégrisement
sofa: canapé, sofa
soften: adoucir, amollir, adoucis,
attendrir, amollis, amollissent,
amollissons, amollissez,
adoucissons, adoucissent,
adoucissez
softened: amolli, adoucis, amollîtes,
amollit, amollis, amollîmes, adoucit,
adoucîmes, adoucîtes, adouci,
adoucirent
soldier: soldat, militaire
solely: seulement, de manière sole,
uniquement, de façon sole
solemnity: solennité
solemnly: solennellement, de
manière solennelle, de façon
solennelle
solicitation: sollicitation
solicited: sollicita, sollicitèrent,
sollicitâtes, sollicitas, sollicitâmes,
sollicitai, sollicité
solicitous: préoccupé, soucieux
solicitude: sollicitude
solid: solide, massif
solitary: solitaire, seul, pur
solitude: solitude
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somehow: d'une façon ou d'une
autre, de façon ou d'autre
somewhat: une certaine quantité, un
peu, quelque peu
song: chanson, chant
sonnet: sonnet
soothe: abattre, calmer, rassurer,
apaiser, calmez, rassurons, rassurez,
rassures, rassurent, calmons, abats
soothing: lénitif, calmant, apaisant,
abattant, rassurant
sore: ulcère, douloureux, plaie
sorrow: abattement, chagrin
sorrowful: affligé, triste
sought: cherchâtes, cherchas,
cherchâmes, cherchèrent, cherché,
cherchai, chercha, raillèrent, raillé,
raillâtes, railla
soul: âme
sounded: sonna, sonnâmes, sonnés,
sonnèrent, sonnées, sonné
sounds: sonne, sons
sour: aigre, acide, acerbe, s'aigrir,
maussade, s'acidifier
spacious: spacieux, ample, étendu,
large
spare: épargner, économiser, être
indulgent, rechange, pièce de
rechange
sparingly: de manière épargnante, de
façon épargnante, frugalement
sparrows: moineaux
speaking: parlant, parler
speaks: parle
speculate: spéculer, spécules,
spécule, spéculez, spéculons,
spéculent
speculations: spéculations
speechless: muet, sans voix
speedily: de manière rapide, de façon
rapide, rapidement
speedy: prompt, rapide, prochain
spell: épeler, charme, sortilège
spending: dépensant, passant
spendthrift: dépensier
spine: épine, colonne vertébrale,
épine dorsale, dos, échine
spirits: spiritueux
spite: rancune, dépit
spoil: abîmer, gâter, gâcher,
détériorer, déblais
spoiled: gâté
spoils: abîme
spoilt: gâté
spoken: parlé
spontaneous: spontané
spontaneously: de manière
spontanée, de façon spontanée,
spontanément
sport: sport, sports
sporting: sportif
spots: poivrage
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springing: compensation, détente
mécanique, agrandissement par
explosion du fond d'un trou de
mine, bondir, gauchissement,
naissance, sautage par mines
pochées, retombée
springs: sources, tortillons
squareness: équerrage, forme carrée,
perpendicularité
squares: carrés
squire: chaperonner, châtelain
stable: écurie, stable, étable, ferme
staggering: chancelant, renversant
stagnation: stagnation
staid: sérieux, sobre
stairs: escalier, escaliers
stake: pieu, poteau, échalas, jalon,
piquet, perche
stamped: affranchi, timbré
startle: effaroucher, alarmer,
effarouchez, surprenons,
surprennent, surprenez,
effarouchons, effarouches, alarme,
effarouche, alarmons
startled: effarouché, effarouchâmes,
surprîtes, effarouchas, effarouchâtes,
effarouchèrent, surprîmes, surprit,
alarmèrent, surprirent, alarmé
starts: démarre
staying: restant
stays: reste
stead: place
steadfast: constant, inébranlable,
ferme
steadiest: le plus régulier
steadiness: régularité, fermeté,
stabilité
steady: régulier, stable
stealing: vol
steep: raide, escarpé, à pic, abrupt,
tremper, trempent, trempons,
trempes, trempe, trempez
stepped: échelonné
stepping: étagement, avance d'un ou
de plusieurs pas, bois de marche,
gradins, exploitation en gradins
renversés, modification
d'instruction, recul d'un ou de
plusieurs pas
stern: poupe, arrière, sévère
stile: échalier, montant
stir: remuer, émouvoir, affecter,
battre, vigueur, faire tournoyer,
agitation, agiter, bouger
stockings: bas
stolen: volé, volés, volée
stopping: arrêtant, cessant, stoppant,
interrompant, arrêt, obturation,
plombage
stout: corpulent, fort, gros, stout
stranger: étranger, inconnu
strangers: étrangers
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stream: courant, ruisseau, jet, fleuve,
flot, rivière
strengthened: fortifias, fortifiâtes,
fortifiai, fortifièrent, fortifiâmes,
fortifia, fortifié, renforcèrent,
renforçâtes, renforças, renforçâmes
strenuous: énergique
stretch: tendre, étirer, étendre,
allongement, s'étendre, s'étirer
stretched: tendu
stretching: étirement, étirage
strict: sévère, austère, strict,
rigoureux
striking: frappant
strikingly: de manière frappante, de
façon frappante
strip: bande, bandeau, se déshabiller,
rayure, dépouiller, raie, déshabiller,
bande photographique, bande
d'atterrissage, lame, feuillard
striving: combattant
stroll: promenade, se promener, faire
un tour, flâner
strolling: ambulant, marche de santé
strongly: fortement, de manière forte,
de façon forte
struck: frappé
struggle: lutter, combat, combattre,
lutte, se démener, se débattre,
bataille, batailler, luter
struggled: lutté
struggles: lutte
struggling: luttant
stuck: collé, être embourbé
studied: étudié
studiously: de manière studieuse, de
façon studieuse
studying: étude
stupid: stupide, sot, idiot, bébête,
bête, abruti
stupidity: stupidité
sturdy: robuste, fort
subdue: soumettre, soumettent,
soumets, soumettons, soumettez,
subjuguer, subjugue, subjugues,
subjuguons, subjuguent, subjuguez
subdued: soumîmes, soumîtes,
soumit, soumirent, soumis,
subjuguâtes, subjuguas,
subjuguâmes, subjugué, subjuguai,
subjugua
submissive: soumis, docile
submit: soumettre, soumettons,
soumets, soumettez, soumettent,
abdiquer, se soumettre
submitted: soumîtes, soumirent,
soumit, soumîmes, soumis
submitting: soumettant
subsequent: subséquent, postérieur,
suivant
subsisted: subsistâtes, subsistas,
subsistai, subsistèrent, subsistâmes,
Persuasion
subsisté, subsista
substitution: substitution,
remplacement
succeed: réussir, réussis, réussissons,
réussissez, réussissent, arriver,
succéder, abouter, succèdes,
succède, succédons
succeeded: réussîmes, réussîtes,
réussit, réussis, réussirent, réussi,
succédas, succédâtes, succédé,
succédai, succédâmes
succeeding: réussissant, succédant,
aboutant
succession: succession
successive: consécutif
sudden: subit, soudain
suddenness: soudaineté
suffer: souffrir, souffre, souffrons,
souffrent, souffres, souffrez,
endurer, subir, subissez, subissent,
subis
suffered: souffrîmes, souffrîtes,
souffrit, souffris, souffert,
souffrirent, subîtes, subi, subîmes,
subirent, subis
sufferer: victime
suffering: souffrant, subissant,
souffrance
suffers: souffre, subit, souffrit
sufficiently: suffisamment, assez,
passablement, plutôt, de façon
suffisante, de manière suffisante
suit: costume, complet, convenir,
procès, couleur
suitably: de façon convenable, de
manière convenable
sum: somme, montant, addition
summarily: de manière résumée, de
façon résumée
summers: étés
summit: sommet, cime, faîte, comble,
pointe, bout, haut, summon
sung: chanté
sunk: sombré, enfoncés, enfoncées,
enfoncée, enfoncé
sunny: ensoleillé
sunshine: soleil, lumière du soleil
superficial: superficiel
superfine: surfin
superior: supérieur, suprême,
dominant, surplombant
superiority: supériorité
supplanted: supplanta, supplantai,
supplantâmes, supplantas,
supplantâtes, supplantèrent,
supplanté
supplement: supplément,
complément, compléter
supplied: fourni
supplies: fournitures,
approvisionnement,
approvisionnements, provisions
supported: soutenu, appuyé
supporting: soutènement
supports: appuie, supporte
supposes: suppose
supposing: supposant
supposition: hypothèse, supposition
suppressed: étouffé, étouffa,
étouffèrent, étouffâtes, étouffas,
étouffai, étouffâmes, réprima,
réprimai, réprimâmes, réprimas
surgeon: chirurgien
surmised: conjecturé
surmounting: surmontant
surname: nom de famille, nom
surprised: surpris
surprises: surprend
surrounded: entourâtes, entouras,
entourai, entoura, entourèrent,
entourâmes, entouré
surrounding: entourant, environnant
surveyor: arpenteur, géomètre
susceptible: sensible, susceptible
suspect: soupçonner, suspecter,
suspect, se méfier
suspected: soupçonné
suspecting: soupçonnant
suspend: suspendre, suspendons,
suspendez, suspendent, suspends
suspended: suspendîmes,
suspendîtes, suspendit, suspendis,
suspendirent, suspendu
suspense: suspens
suspension: suspension
suspicion: soupçon, méfiance,
suspicion
suspicious: méfiant, soupçonneux,
suspect, sinistre
sway: vaciller, balancement,
oscillation, osciller, se balancer
swear: jurer, jures, jure, jurez, jurons,
jurent, blasphémer, prêter serment
swears: jure
sweeps: balaye
sweet: doux, sucré, bonbon, suave,
friandise, gentil, dessert
sweetness: douceur
sweets: sucreries
swept: balayé
swinging: balancement, pivotant,
oscillation
switch: interrupteur, commutateur,
baguette, commuter, badine,
aiguillage, aiguille, échanger,
allumer, tourner, changement
syllable: syllabe
sympathetic: sympathique, sympa,
compatissant
sympathize: compatir, compatis,
compatissez, compatissons,
compatissent
sympathized: compatîmes, compatis,
compatit, compatîtes, compatirent,

compati
sympathy: sympathie, compassion
symptom: symptôme
symptoms: symptômes
tables: tables
tale: conte, récit, relation
talked: parlas, parlâtes, parlai, parla,
parlèrent, parlâmes, parlé
tall: haut, grand
tapping: taraudage, tapotement,
coulée, écoute téléphonique, prise,
soutirage
taste: goût, goûter, saveur, déguster
tasting: dégustation
tattersall's: Tattersall
taught: enseignas, enseignâtes,
enseignai, enseigné, enseignèrent,
enseigna, enseignâmes, instruisirent,
instruit, instruisîtes, instruisis
tauntingly: de manière sarcastique,
de façon sarcastique
tawny: fauve
taxes: impôts, taxes
teach: enseigner, enseignes,
enseignent, enseignons, enseignez,
enseigne, instruire, apprendre,
instruisent, instruisez, instruis
tearing: déchirement, déchirure
tears: larmes
tease: taquiner, agacer
teasing: taquinerie
tells: dit, raconte, enjoint, commande
temper: humeur, tremper, durcir,
tempérament, trempe, tempérer,
gâcher
temperament: tempérament
tempered: ayant subi un revenu,
tempéré, revenu
temple: temple, tempe
tempt: tenter, tentes, tentent, tentons,
tentez, tente, séduire
temptation: tentation
tempted: tentas, tentâtes, tentâmes,
tenta, tentai, tenté, tentèrent
tempting: tentant
tenacious: tenace
tenant: locataire
tendency: tendance, disposition,
aptitude, inclination, penchant
tender: offre, tendre, adjudication,
doux, tender, annexe, offrir,
présenter, proposition, gentil, suave
tenderness: tendresse, tendreté
terror: terreur, effroi
testify: attester, témoigner,
témoignons, atteste, attestes,
témoigne, témoignent, témoignes,
attestez, attestons, attestent
testimony: témoignage, déposition
thames: tamise
thankful: reconnaissant
thankfulness: gratitude,
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reconnaissance transgressed: pécha, péchai,
theirs: leur péchâmes, péchas, péchâtes, péché,
thence: de là péchèrent
thick: épais, dense, gros transient: clic, éphémère, isolé,
thinks: pense personne de passage, routard
thirteen: treize translate: traduire, traduisez, traduis,
thither: là traduisent, traduisons
thorough: minutieux transmitted: transmîtes, transmîmes,
thoroughfare: voie de transmit, transmis, transmirent,
communication adressâtes, adressé, adressâmes,
thoroughly: de manière minutieuse, adressai, adressa, adressèrent
de façon minutieuse transplanted: transplanté
thoughtful: pensif, réfléchi transposed: transposas, transposâtes,
thoughtfulness: préparatif, transposâmes, transposai, transposa,
précaution transposèrent, transposé
thoughtless: irréfléchi trash: camelote
thoughtlessness: étourderie travelled: voyagé
threw: jetâmes, jeta, jetai, jetèrent traveller: voyageur, curseur
thrill: frémissement travelling: voyageant, itinérant
throat: gorge, la gorge, gosier trays: plateaux
throw: jeter, jet, lancer, projeter, treachery: traîtrise
course, lancement treading: côchage, piétinage, marcher
throwing: lancement treason: trahison
thrown: jeté treat: traiter, régaler, soigner, régal,
thursday: jeudi guérir
tide: marée treating: traitant
tidings: nouvelles trembled: tremblé
tight: strict, serré, tendu, étroit, tremulous: timide, tremblotant
étanche tremulously: de manière
till: caisse, à, jusqu'à ce que tremblotante, de façon tremblotante
timidity: timidité trespass: atteinte, offense, entrée sans
tired: fatigué, las permission, empiéter
tiresome: ennuyeux, fatigant tribute: tribut, hommage
toil: travailler dur, labeur trick: artifice, truc, mystifier, astuce,
toilsome: pénible tour, ruse
tolerable: tolérable, supportable, trifle: bagatelle, babiole
passable trifling: mineur
tolerably: de manière tolérable, de trinkets: bibelots
façon tolérable triumph: triomphe, triompher
tolerated: toléras, tolérâtes, triumphantly: de manière
tolérèrent, tolérâmes, toléra, toléré, triomphante, triomphalement, de
tolérai façon triomphante
tone: ton, tonalité, tonicité, timbre trivial: insignifiant, banal
tongue: langue, languette trodden: très fréquentée
tooth: dent troubles: gêne, troubles
topic: sujet, thème, composition, troublesome: pénible, gênant
actualité, topique truly: vraiment, réellement, en vérité,
torment: torture, tourmenter, en fait, en réalité, véritablement
supplice trunks: services aériens
torn: déchiré intercontinentaux
touched: touché trustiest: le plus sûr
toward: vers, en, à, en relation avec trusting: confiant
toys: jouets tuesday: mardi
trace: trace, tracer, décalquer, calquer, tune: accorder, mélodie, air, adapter
empreinte, impression, trait, piste, turnings: copeaux de tournage,
retracer copeaux de tour, tournures
trained: diplômé, dressé turns: tourne, change, retourne, dévie
tranquillity: tranquillité twentieth: vingtième
transformed: transformas, tyranny: tyrannie
transformâtes, transformèrent, ugly: laid, vilain, moche, mauvais
transforma, transformâmes, ultimate: ultime
transformai, transformé umbrellas: parapluies
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umpire: arbitre, surarbitre
unaccountable: inexplicable
unaffected: naturel, simple
unalterable: immuable
unanswered: sans réponse
unattended: automatique,
surveillance, sans surveillance
unbecoming: inconvenant
unbending: inflexible
uncertain: incertain, aléatoire, vague
uncertainty: incertitude
uncle: oncle
uncomfortable: inconfortable
uncommon: rare
unconcerned: imperturbable
unconnected: sans rapport
unconsciously: de manière
inconsciente, de façon inconsciente,
inconsciemment
unconsciousness: inconscience,
évanouissement
understands: comprend
understood: comprîmes, compris,
comprîtes, comprit, comprirent,
comprise
undertakes: entreprend
undertook: entrepris, entreprîtes,
entreprirent, entreprîmes, entreprit
undesirable: indésirable
undone: défait, annulé, défaites,
défaite, défaits
undoubtedly: sans doute,
indubitablement, de manière
indubitable, de façon indubitable
undue: indu
uneasiness: inquiétude, malaise
uneasy: agité, inquiet, gêné
unemployed: chômeur
unequal: inégal
uneventful: sans incidents
unexpected: inattendu, imprévu,
inespéré
unexpectedly: de façon inattendue,
de manière inattendue, inopinément
unfairly: de manière injuste, de façon
injuste, injustement
unfastened: desserré, desserrai,
desserrâmes, desserras, desserrâtes,
desserrèrent, ouvrîmes, ouvris,
ouvrîtes, ouvert, desserra
unfavourable: défavorable
unfeeling: insensible
unfit: inapte
unfolding: dépliant
unfortunate: malheureux
unfortunately: malheureusement,
heureusement, de manière
malheureuse, de façon malheureuse
unfounded: infondé, sans fondement
ungracious: incivil
ungrateful: ingrat
unguarded: irréfléchi
Persuasion
unhappiness: tristesse, chagrin,
malheur
unhappy: malheureux, mécontent
unheard: non entendu
unimpaired: inaltéré, intact, entier,
suffisant, non diminué
unimportant: mineur, insignifiant,
négligeable, sans importance
unintentionally: de manière
involontaire, de façon involontaire,
involontairement
unison: unisson
uniting: unissant, appariant
universal: universel
unjust: injuste
unkind: maussade
unknowingly: de manière
inconsciente, de façon inconsciente
unknown: inconnu, ignoré, inconnue
unlike: à la différence de
unlocked: ouvrit, ouvris, ouvrirent,
ouvrîmes, ouvrîtes, ouvert
unluckily: de manière malchanceuse,
de façon malchanceuse
unlucky: malchanceux, malheureux
unmanageable: intraitable, indocile
unnatural: anormal
unnecessarily: de manière inutile, de
façon inutile
unnecessary: inutile
unobserved: inobservé
unpacked: déballé, déballa, déballai,
déballâmes, déballas, déballâtes,
déballèrent
unpardonable: inexcusable
unpleasant: désagréable, déplaisant,
maussade
unpolished: non poli, non astiqué,
non ciré
unprejudiced: impartial
unproductively: de façon
improductive, de manière
improductive
unprofitable: non rentable
unqualified: incompétent, non
qualifié
unquestionably: de manière
incontestable, de façon incontestable
unreasonable: déraisonnable
unreasonableness: déraison
unreasonably: de manière
déraisonnable, de façon
déraisonnable
unreservedly: de manière non
réservée, de façon non réservée
unrivalled: sans égal
unsafe: dangereux
unsatisfactory: insatisfaisant
unseen: inaperçu
unsettled: perturbé
untaught: ignorant, spontané
unusual: inhabituel, insolite
unutterable: inexprimable
unvarying: invariable
unwelcome: importun
unwell: indisposé, souffrant, malade
unwilling: peu disposé
unwillingly: de manière peu
disposée, de façon peu disposée
unwise: imprudent
unworthily: de manière indigne, de
façon indigne
unworthy: indigne
upright: montant, droit, intègre,
honnête, debout, vertical, montant
droit
uprightness: intégrité
upset: renverser, stupéfait, vexé,
bouleverser, bouleversé
upwards: vers le haut
urged: exhorté
urgency: urgence, instances, instance,
vive sollicitation, impulsion
urgent: urgent, impérieux, pressant
urging: exhortant
usage: usage, coutume, utilisation
usefulness: utilité
useless: inutile, vain, abortif
uses: emploie, utilise
utility: utilité, utilitaire, service
public
utmost: extrême
utter: répandre, émettre, proférer,
prononcer
vacancies: places vacantes
vacant: vide, vague, vacant
vague: vague, imprécis, flou
vain: vain, vaniteux, abortif, frivole
valet: valet, valet de chambre
valuable: cher, coûteux, de valeur,
précieux, objet de valeur
valued: estimé
vanished: disparu, disparurent,
disparûtes, disparut, disparûmes,
disparus
vanity: vanité, futilité
vanquished: vainquîtes, vaincu,
vainquîmes, vainquirent, vainquis,
vainquit
variance: variance, désaccord
variations: variations
varied: varias, variâtes, variâmes,
variai, varièrent, varié, varia, divers
varnished: verni
vary: varier, varie, varies, varient,
variez, varions, différer
varying: variant
vehement: véhément
velvet: velours
venture: risquer, aventurer, oser,
entreprise, oser entreprendre,
aventure, hasarder
ventured: osé
veranda: véranda
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verse: vers, strophe abattre, atténuer, s'affaiblir
vestibule: vestibule weakening: affaiblissant,
vex: chagriner, chagrine, chagrinent, affaiblissement
chagrines, chagrinez, chagrinons, weakness: faiblesse, débilité,
vexer, vexes, vexe, vexent, vexons impuissance, mollesse
vexed: chagrina, chagrinai, wealth: richesse, fortune
chagrinâmes, chagrinas, chagrinâtes, wealthy: riche
chagriné, chagrinèrent, vexé, wearing: ajustement, usure
vexâtes, vexas, vexèrent wearisome: fatigant
vigorous: vigoureux weasel: belette
vigour: vigueur, force, activité, weathered: altéré
énergie welcomed: accueillîtes, accueillîmes,
vine: vigne, vignoble accueillis, accueillit, accueilli,
violated: violâtes, violas, violâmes, accueillirent
violé, violèrent, viola, violai, welcoming: accueillant
enfreignirent, enfreint, enfreignîtes, wet: mouillé, humide, mouiller
attentâmes wheedled: câlina, câlinèrent, câliné,
violation: violation, infraction, viol câlinâtes, câlinas, câlinai, cajolèrent,
violent: violent cajolé, cajolâtes, cajolas, cajolâmes
virtues: vertus whenever: chaque fois que, toutes les
viscount: vicomte fois que
viscountess: vicomtesse whereabouts: où
visible: visible, apparent, manifeste wherever: là où, partout où
visited: visitas, visitâtes, visita, visité, whine: plainte
visitèrent, visitai, visitâmes whisper: chuchoter, chuchotement,
visiting: visitant murmurer
visitor: visiteur whispered: chuchoté
visits: visite whispering: chuchotement
voluntary: volontaire, bénévole whither: où
vouch: attester, attestons, vérifions, whoever: quiconque
vérifiez, vérifies, vérifie, attestez, wholesome: sain, salubre
attestes, attestent, atteste, vérifient wholly: complètement, entièrement,
wainscot: lambris, panneau totalement, tout
waited: attendu, attendîtes, attendit, widow: veuve
attendis, attendîmes, attendirent widower: veuf
waiter: garçon, serveur, garçon de widowhood: veuvage
café wild: sauvage
walker: marcheur, promeneur, willing: volontaire, disposé, prêt
déambulateur willingly: volontiers, de manière
walks: marche volontaire, volontairement, de façon
wandering: errant, vaguant, volontaire
vagabond, errance, nomade willingness: volonté, gré, bonne
wanting: voulant volonté
wantonly: de manière dévergondée, wings: coulisses, ailes
de façon dévergondée wisdom: sagesse, intelligence
warmly: chaudement, de façon wise: sensé, raisonnable
chaude, de manière chaude wished: désira, souhaité, désirées,
warmth: chaleur désirâmes, désirée, désirés
warning: avertissement, avertissant, wishes: vœux
sommation, alerte, alertant, wishing: désirant
recommandation, avis wit: esprit
wary: prudent withdraw: retirer, retire, retirent,
wasted: gaspilla, gaspillèrent, retires, retirez, retirons, décéder,
gaspillâtes, gaspillas, gaspillâmes, prélever
gaspillai, gaspillé, prodiguèrent, withdrawing: retirant
gâché, gâchâtes, gâchas withdrawn: retiré
watches: montres, guette withered: flétri, fané
watchfulness: vigilance withholding: retenant
watchman: veilleur, gardien withstand: résister, résiste, résistent,
weak: faible, débile, lâche, mou résistes, résistez, résistons, affronter
weaken: affaiblir, affaiblissent, witness: témoin, être présent,
affaiblis, affaiblissez, affaiblissons, assister, témoigner
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witnessed: témoignai, témoignées,
témoignèrent, témoignâmes,
témoigné
witnessing: témoignant
woe: hélas, aïe, malheur
wonder: s'étonner, miracle, merveille,
se demander
wont: coutume
wonted: habituel, accoutumé
woody: ligneux, boisé
worldly: mondain, terrestre
worn: usé
worthy: digne
wound: blessure, blesser, plaie
wounded: blessé, blessés
wreck: épave, naufrage, détruire,
accident
wretched: misérable, pauvre,
infortuné, pitoyable, malheureux
wretchedly: de manière misérable, de
façon misérable
wretchedness: misère
wriggles: frétille, gigote, tortille
wrinkles: rides
wrist: poignet
yard: cour, yard, chantier, dépôt,
vergue, parc
yearly: annuellement, annuel
yield: rendement, céder, cèdent,
cèdes, cédez, cédons, cède,
abandonner, produire, abdiquer,
reculer
yielded: cédâmes, cédèrent, cédé,
cédas, cédai, céda, cédâtes
yielding: cédant
youngest: le plus jeune
yours: vôtre
youth: jeunesse, ado, jeunes
youthful: jeune, juvénile
z: z
zeal: zèle, ferveur
zealous: zélé, fervent
zealously: de manière zélé, de façon
zélée