Anne Elliot with all her claims of birth beauty and mind to throw herself away at nineteen involve nineteen in an engagement a young man who had nothing but himself recommend him no hopes attaining affluence the chances most uncertain profession connexions secure even his farther rise would be indeed throwing away which she grieved think of! so young known few be snatched off by stranger without alliance or fortune rather sunk him into state wearing anxious youth-killing dependence! It must not if any fair interference friendship representations from one almost mother’s love rights it prevented