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Her father having from old age resigned Steventon when Jane was six and twenty, she afterwards lived for a time with her family at Bath, a great watering-place, and the scene of the first part of "Northanger Abbey;" at Lyme, a pretty little sea-bathing place on the coast of Dorset, on the "Cobb" of which takes place the catastrophe of "Persuasion;" and at Southampton, now a great port, then a special seat of gentility.
Of local colouring there is as little in Sense and Sensibility as in Pride and Prejudice. It is not unlikely that some memories of Steventon may survive in Norland; and it may be noted that there is actually a Barton Place to the north of Exeter, not far from Lord Iddesleigh's well-known seat of Upton Pynes. It is scarcely possible, also, not to believe that, in Mrs.
Steventon, W. Hewer's uncle, and so to bed. 7th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning. At noon home to dinner, and thither I sent for Mercer to dine with me, and after dinner she and I called Mrs. Turner, and I carried them to the Duke of York's house, and there saw "The Man's the Master," which proves, upon my seeing it again, a very good play.
Charles breathed freely as they went out; a severe text of Scripture rose on his mind, but he repressed the uncharitable feeling, and turned himself to the anxious duties which lay before him. Nothing happened to Charles worth relating before his arrival at Steventon next day; when, the afternoon being fine, he left his portmanteau to follow him by the omnibus, and put himself upon the road.
"It doesn't follow, my dear," he said, "that the two men were missing together because their names happen to come together on the list." Clara instantly drew the inevitable conclusion from that ill-considered reply. "Frank is missing from the party of relief," she said. "Am I to understand that Wardour is missing from the huts?" Both Crayford and Steventon hesitated. Mrs.
Crayford instantly dropped Clara's arm, and seized the welcome opportunity of speaking of other things. "Any instructions from the ship, Steventon?" he asked, approaching the officer. "Verbal instructions only," Steventon replied. "The ship will sail with the flood-tide. We shall fire a gun to collect the people, and send another boat ashore.
Steventon, W. Hewer's uncle, and so to bed. 7th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning. At noon home to dinner, and thither I sent for Mercer to dine with me, and after dinner she and I called Mrs. Turner, and I carried them to the Duke of York's house, and there saw "The Man's the Master," which proves, upon my seeing it again, a very good play.
An iron branch was at one time proposed between Steventon and Oxford. The same sum which would have been required for this purpose, according to the estimates, would have laid down an excellent road in wood from Steventon through Oxford to Rugby; thus connecting the three great arteries of the country the Great Western, the Birmingham, and the Midland Counties Railways.
"Are you saving it up for another time?" said Steventon. "I'm saving it up," the man answered. "Never mind what for. That's my secret." He looked round the boat-house as he made that reply, and noticed Mrs. Crayford for the first time. "A woman among you!" he said. "Is she English? Is she young? Let me look closer at her." He advanced a few steps toward the table. "Don't be afraid, Mrs.
She was herself a clergyman's daughter. She was the seventh of a family of eight, born in the parsonage at Steventon, in Hampshire. Her life seems to have been far from exciting. Her father, like the clergy in her novels, was a man of leisure of so much leisure, as Mr. Cornish reminds us, that he was able to read out Cowper to his family in the mornings.
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