Chapter 18
Mr. Frank Churchill did not come. When the time proposed drew
near, Mrs. Weston's fears were justified in the arrival of a letter
of excuse. For the present, he could not be spared, to his "very
great mortification and regret; but still he looked forward with
the hope of coming to Randalls at no distant period."
Mrs. Weston was exceedingly disappointed—much more disappointed,
in fact, than her husband, though her dependence on seeing the
young man had been so much more sober: but a sanguine temper,
though for ever expecting more good than occurs, does not always
pay for its hopes by any proportionate depression. It soon flies
over the present failure, and begins to hope again. For half an
hour Mr. Weston was surprized and sorry; but then he began to
perceive that Fr
