Two Chapters of Persuasion: Diplomatic Display London British Library, MS Egerton 3038
had his penance been the
mostsevere. — He had no sooner been free from the
horror & remorse attending the first few days of Louisa's
accident, no sooner begun to feel himself alive again, thanhe had had begun to feel himselfthough alive, not at liberty. — He found that he was considered by his freind Harville, as an engaged Man. The Harvilles entertained not a doubt of a
mutual attachment betweenhim & Louisa — and though
this,to a degree, was contradicted instantly to them, — it yet made him feel that perhaps byher family, by everybody, by her::selfeven,, the same idea might beheld — and that he
was not freein honour – though,
if such were to be the conclusion, too free alas!in Heart. — He had never thoughtjustly on this subject before — before, of what, his as he ought, His leaving Lyme had been the con::sequence of neverhe had not sufficiently consi::dered that his exceſsive Intimacyat Uppercroſs must have it's danger of ill
consequence in many ways, and that while trying whetherhe cd .could attach himself to either