Adieu To The Cottage

"..she could not quit the mansion-house,
or look an adieu to the cottage...
without a sadden heart.
-Scences had passed in Uppercross (North Potomac),
which made it precious.
It stood the record of many sensations of pain, once severe,
but now softened; and of some instances of relenting feeling,
some breathings of friendship and reconciliation
which could never be looked for again,
and which could never cease to be dear.
She left it all behind her,
all but the recollection that such things had been."

Persuasion