Memoir of Jane Austen
A MEMOIR OF JANE AUSTEN. [Jane Austen: Jane.jpg] [Title Page: title.jpg] PREFACE. THE MEMOIR of my AUNT, JANE AUSTEN, has been received with more favour than I had ventured to expect. The notices taken of it in the periodical press, as well as letters addressed to me by many with whom I am not personally acquainted, show that an unabated interest is still taken in every particular that can be told about her. I am thus encouraged not only to offer a Second Edition of the Memoir, but also to enlarge it with some additional matter which I might have scrupled to intrude on the public if they had not thus seemed to call for it. In the present
the Temple of God and had been sealed to each other for time and all
eternity, they would take a trip to Rupert's old home. They were married
in the Temple. Within its sacred walls they experienced more fully than
ever before what still sweetness there is in the ministrations of the
Spirit of God.
They reached Willowby late in September. He had written Nina when he
would be there, and she and her husband were at the station to meet
them.
There were tears in their eyes at the meeting.
"Nina, this is my wife," said Rupert. "Signe, my sister, Mrs. Furns."
A number of Rupert's old friends were there who now came forward and
welcomed him home.
Then they rode through the valley behind two spirited grays. Nina had
not changed much, but she declared that had she met her brother on the
street, she would not have known him.
"What has changed you so, brother?" asked she.
"Experience, Nina, experience with the world I have lived a long time in
the two and a half years that I have been away--but never mind that now.
Everything looks the same hereabouts. I seem to have been absent but a
A MEMOIR OF JANE AUSTEN. [Jane Austen: Jane.jpg] [Title Page: title.jpg] PREFACE. THE MEMOIR of my AUNT, JANE AUSTEN, has been received with more favour than I had ventured to expect. The notices taken of it in the periodical press, as well as letters addressed to me by many with whom I am not personally acquainted, show that an unabated interest is still taken in every particular that can be told about her. I am thus encouraged not only to offer a Second Edition of the Memoir, but also to enlarge it with some additional matter which I might have scrupled to intrude on the public if they had not thus seemed to call for it. In the present