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CHAPTER XXV
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CHAPTER XXV
THE INTERCOURSE of the two families was at this period more nearly
restored to what it had been in the autumn, than any member of
the old intimacy had thought ever likely to be againThe return of
Henry Crawford, and the arrival of William Price, had much to
do with it, but much was still owing to Sir Thomas?s more than
toleration of the neighbourly attempts at the ParsonageHis mind,
now disengaged from the cares which had pressed on him at first,
was at leisure to find the Grants and their young inmates really
worth visiting; and though infinitely above scheming or contriving
for any the most advantageous matrimonial establishment that
could be among the apparent possibilities of any one most dear to
him, and disdaining even as a littleness the being quick-sighted
on such points, he could not avoid perceiving, in a grand and
careless way, that MrCrawford was somewhat distinguishing his
niece?nor perhaps refrain (though unconsciously) from giving a
more willing assent to invitations on that account
His readiness, however, in agreeing to dine at the Parsonage, when
the general invitation was at last hazarded, after many debates and
many doubts as to whether it were worth while, ?because Sir Thomas
seemed so ill inclined, and Lady Bertram was so indolent!?
proceeded from good-breeding and goodwill alone, and had nothing
to do with MrCrawford, but as being one in an agreeable group:
for it was in the course of that very visit that he first began to think
that any one in the habit of such idle observations would have thought
that MrCrawford was the admirer of Fanny Price
The meeting was white prada bag generally felt to be a pleasant one, being composed
in a good proportion of those who would talk and those who
would listen; and the dinner itself was elegant and plentiful, according
to the usual style of the Grants, and too much according to the
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usual habits of all to raise any emotion except in MrsNorris, who
could never behold either the wide table or the number of dishes on
it with patience, and who did always contrive to experience some
evil from the passing of the servants behind her chair, and to bring
away some fresh conviction of its being impossible among so many
dishes but that some must be cold
In the evening it was found, according to the predetermination of
MrsGrant and her sister, that after making up the whist-table there
would remain sufficient for a round game, and everybody being as
perfectly complying and without a choice as on such occasions they
always are, speculation was decided on almost as soon as whist; and
Lady Bertram soon found herself in the critical situation of being
applied to for her own choice between the games, and being required
either to draw a card for whist or notLuckily
Sir Thomas was at hand
?What shall I do, Sir Thomas? Whist and speculation; which will
amuse me most??
Sir Thomas, after a moment?s thought, recommended speculation
He was a whist player himself, and perhaps might feel that it
would not much amuse him to have her for a partner
?Very well,? was her ladyship?s contented answer; ?then speculation,
if you please, MrsI know nothing about it, but Fanny
must teach me
Here Fanny interposed, however, with anxious protestations of
her own equal prada borse ignorance; she had never played the game nor seen it
played in her life; and Lady Bertram felt a moment?s indecision
again; but upon everybody?s assuring her that nothing could be so
easy, that it was the easiest game on the cards, and Henry Crawford?s
stepping forward with a most earnest request to be allowed to sit
between her ladyship and Miss Price, and teach them both, it was
so settled; and Sir Thomas, MrsGrant
being seated at the table of prime intellectual state and dignity, the
remaining six, under Miss Crawford?s direction, were arranged round
the otherIt was a fine arrangement for Henry Crawford, who was
close to Fanny, and with his hands full of business, having two persons?
cards to manage as well as his own; for though it was impossible
for Fanny not to feel herself mistress of the rules of the game in
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three minutes, he had yet to inspirit her play, sharpen her avarice,
and harden her heart, which, especially in any competition with
William, was a work of some difficulty; and as for Lady Bertram, he
must continue in charge of all her fame and fortune through the
whole evening; and if quick enough to keep her from looking at her
cards when the deal began, must direct her in whatever was to be
done with them to the end of it
He was in high spirits, doing everything with happy ease, and preeminent
in all the lively turns, quick resources, and playful impudence
that could do honour to the game; and the round table was
altogether a very comfortable contrast to the steady sobriety and orderly
silence of the other
Twice had Sir Thomas inquired into the enjoyment and success
of his lady, but in costume chanel jewelry vain; no pause was long enough for the time his
measured manner needed; and very little of her state could be known
till MrsGrant was able, at the end of the first rubber, to go to her
and pay her compliments
?I hope your ladyship is pleased with the game
?Oh dear, yes! very entertaining indeedI do
not know what it is all aboutI am never to see my cards; and Mr
Crawford does all the rest
?Bertram,? said Crawford, some time afterwards, taking the opportunity
of a little languor in the game, ?I have never told you
what happened to me yesterday in my ride home They had been
hunting together, and were in the midst of a good run, and at some
distance from Mansfield, when his horse being found to have flung
a shoe, Henry Crawford had been obliged to give up, and make the
best of his way back?I told you I lost my way after passing that old
farmhouse with the yew-trees, because I can never bear to ask; but I
have not told you that, with my usual luck?for I never do wrong
without gaining by it?I found myself in due time in the very place
which I had a curiosity to seeI was suddenly, upon turning the corner
of a steepish downy field, in the midst of a retired little village
between gently rising hills; a small stream before me to be forded, a
church standing on a sort of knoll to my right?which church was
strikingly large and handsome for the place, and not a gentleman or
half a gentleman?s house to be seen excepting one?to be presumed
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the Parsonage?within a stone?s throw of the said knoll and churchI
found myself, in short, in Thornton Lacey
?It sounds like it,? said Edmund; ?but which way did you turn
after saddle handbags passing Sewell?s farm??
?I answer no such irrelevant and insidious questions; though were
I to answer all that you could put in the course of an hour, you
would never be able to prove that it was not Thornton Lacey?for
such it certainly was
?You inquired, then??
?No, I never inquireBut I told a man mending a hedge that it
was Thornton Lacey, and he agreed to it
?You have a good memoryI had forgotten having ever told you
half so much of the place
Thornton Lacey was the name of his impending living, as Miss
Crawford well knew; and her interest in a negotiation for William
Price?s knave increased
?Well,? continued Edmund, ?and how did you like what you saw??
?Very much indeedYou are a lucky fellowThere will be work for
five summers at least before the place is liveable
?No, no, not so bad as thatThe farmyard must be moved, I grant
you; but I am not aware of anything elseThe house is by no means
bad, and when the yard is removed, there may be a very tolerable
approach to it
?The farmyard must be cleared away entirely, and planted up to
shut out the blacksmith?s shopThe house must be turned to front
the east instead of the north?the entrance and principal rooms, I
mean, must be on that side, where the view is really very pretty; I
am sure it may be doneAnd there must be your approach, through
what is at present the gardenYou must make a new garden at what
is now the back of the house; which will be giving it the best aspect
in the world, sloping to the south-eastThe ground seems precisely
formed for itI rode fifty yards up the lane, between the church and
the house, in order to look about me; and saw how it might all discount tiffany's necklace |
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We had a long talk about itI should not have mentioned the subject,
though very anxious to know her sentiments; but I had not
been in the room five minutes before she began introducing it with
all that openness of heart, and sweet peculiarity of manner, that spirit
and ingenuousness which are so much a part of herselfGrant
laughed at her for her rapidityGrant in the room, then??
?Yes, when I reached the house I found the two sisters together by
themselves; and when once we had begun, we had not done with
you, Fanny, till Crawford and Dr
?It is above a week since I saw Miss Crawford
?Yes, she laments it; yet owns it may have been bestYou will see
her, however, before she goesShe is very angry with you, Fanny;
you must be prepared for thatShe calls herself very angry, but you
can imagine her angerIt is the regret and disappointment of a sister,
who thinks her brother has a right to everything he may wish
for, at the first momentShe is hurt, as you would be for William;
but she loves and esteems you with all her balenciaga giant bag heart
?I knew she would be very angry with me
?My dearest Fanny,? cried Edmund, pressing her arm closer to
him, ?do not let the idea of her anger distress youIt is anger to be
talked of rather than feltHer heart is made for love and kindness,
not for resentmentI wish you could have overheard her tribute of
praise; I wish you could have seen her countenance, when she said
that you should be Henry?s wifeAnd I observed that she always
spoke of you as ?Fanny,? which she was never used to do; and it had
a sound of most sisterly cordialityGrant, did she say?did she speak; was she there all
the time??
?Yes, she was agreeing exactly with her sisterThe surprise of your
refusal, Fanny, seems to have been unboundedThat you could refuse
such a man as Henry Crawford seems more than they can understand
I said what I could for you; but in good truth, as they stated
the case?you must prove yourself to be in your senses as soon as
you can by a different conduct; nothing else will satisfy themBut
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this is teasing youDo not turn away from me
?I should have thought,? gucci new bag said Fanny, after a pause of recollection
and exertion, ?that every woman must have felt the possibility of a
man?s not being approved, not being loved by some one of her sex at
least, let him be ever so generally agreeableLet him have all the
perfections in the world, I think it ought not to be set down as
certain that a man must be acceptable to every woman he may happen
to like himselfBut, even supposing it is so, allowing Mr
Crawford to have all the claims which his sisters think he has, how
was I to be prepared to meet him with any feeling answerable to his
own? He took me wholly by surpriseI had not an idea that his
behaviour to me before had any meaning; and surely I was not to be
teaching myself to like him only because he was taking what seemed
very idle notice of meIn my situation, it would have been the
extreme of vanity to be forming expectations on MrI
am sure his sisters, rating him as they do, must have thought it so,
supposing he had meant nothingHow, then, was I to be?to be in
love with him the moment he said he was with me? How was I to
have an replica fendi spy attachment at his service, as soon as it was asked for? His
sisters should consider me as well as himThe higher his deserts, the
more improper for me ever to have thought of himAnd, and?we
think very differently of the nature of women, if they can imagine a
woman so very soon capable of returning an affection as this seems
to imply
?My dear, dear Fanny, now I have the truthI know this to be the
truth; and most worthy of you are such feelingsI had attributed
them to you beforeI thought I could understand youYou have
now given exactly the explanation which I ventured to make for
you to your friend and MrsGrant, and they were both better satisfied,
though your warm-hearted friend was still run away with a
little by the enthusiasm of her fondness for HenryI told them that
you were of all human creatures the one over whom habit had most
power and novelty least; and that the very circumstance of the novelty
of Crawford?s addresses was against himTheir being so new
and so recent was all in their disfavour; that you could tolerate nothing
that you were not used to; and a great authentic hermes deal more to the same
purpose, to give them a knowledge of your characterMiss Crawford
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made us laugh by her plans of encouragement for her brotherShe
meant to urge him to persevere in the hope of being loved in time,
and of having his addresses most kindly received at the end of about
ten years? happy marriage
Fanny could with difficulty give the smile that was here asked for
Her feelings were all in revoltShe feared she had been doing wrong:
saying too much, overacting the caution which she had been fancying
necessary; in guarding against one evil, laying herself open to another;
and to have Miss Crawford?s liveliness repeated to her at such a
moment, and on such a subject, was a bitter aggravation
Edmund saw weariness and distress in her face, and immediately
resolved to forbear all farther discussion; and not even to mention
the name of Crawford again, except as it might be connected with
what must be agreeable to herOn this principle, he soon afterwards
observed??They go on MondayYou are sure, therefore, of seeing
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her complaints where she had left off, but Will hushed her
"Scarlett's suffered a deep blow, Sue, leave her alone He poured
whiskey into a glass and placed it in Scarlett's handIt burned the familiar path through her body, dulling her
painShe held out her empty glass to Will, and he poured some more
whiskey into it"Hello, darlings," she said to her children, "come
give Mother a hug Scarlett heard her own voice; it sounded as if it
belonged to someone else, but at least it was saying the right thing
She spent all the time she could in Mammy's room, at Mammy's side
She
had fastened all her hopes on the comfort of Mammy's arms around
her,
but now it was her strong young arms that white chanel bag held the dying old black
womanScarlett lifted the wasted form to bathe Mammy, to change
Mammy's linen, to help her when breathing was too hard, to coax a
few
spoonfuls of broth between her lipsShe sang the lullabies Mammy
had
so often sung to her, and when Mammy talked in delirium to Scarlett's
dead mother, Scarlett answered with the words she thought her
mother
might have saidSometimes Mammy's rheumy eyes recognized her,
and the
old woman's cracked lips smiled at the sight of her favoriteThen her
quavering voice would scold Scarlett, as she had scolded her since
Scarlett was a baby"Your hair looks purely a mess, Miss Scarlett,
now you go brush a hundred strokes like Mammy taught you Or,
"You
ain't got no call to be wearing a gucci taske frock all crumpled up like thatGo
put on something fresh before folks see you Or, "You looks pale as a
ghost, Miss ScarlettIs you putting powder on your face? Wash it off
this minute Whatever Mammy commanded, Scarlett promised to do
There was never time enough to obey before Mammy slid back into
unconsciousness, or that other world where Scarlett did not exist
During the day and evening Suellen or Lutie or even Will would share
the work of the sickroom, and Scarlett could snatch a half hour's
sleep, curled in the sagging rocking chairBut at night Scarlett kept
solitary vigilShe lowered the flame in the oil lamp and held Mammy's
thin dry hand in hersWhile the house slept and Mammy slept, she
was
able at last to cry, and her heartbroken gold gucci watches tears eased her pain a
little
Once, in the small quiet hour before dawn, Mammy woke"What for is
you weeping, honey?" she whispered"Old Mammy is ready to lay
down
her load and rest in the arms of the LordThere ain't no call to take
on so Her hand stirred in Scarlett's, freed itself, stroked
Scarlett's bent head
Nothing's so bad as you think
"I'm sorry," she sobbed, "I just can't stop crying Mammy's bent
fingers pushed Scarlett's tangled hair away from her face"Tell old
Mammy what's troubling her lamb Scarlett looked into the old, wise,
loving eyes and felt the most profound pain she had ever known"I've
done everything wrong, MammyI don't know how I could have made
so
many mistakes
"Miss Scarlett, you done what you had to doCan't gucci men bag nobody do more
than
thatThe good Lord sent you some heavy burdens, and you carried
them
No sense asking why they was laid on you or what it took out of you to
tote them
Don't fret yourself now Mammy's heavy eyelids closed over tears
that
glistened in the dim light, and her ragged breathing slowed in sleep
How can I not fret? Scarlett wanted to shoutMy life is ruined, and
I don't know what to doI need Rhett, and he's goneI need you,
and
you're leaving me, tooShe lifted her head, wiped her tears away on
her sleeve and straightened her aching shoulders
The coals in the pot-bellied stove were nearly used up, and the bucket
was emptyShe had to refill it, she had to feed the fire
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the moment that I spoke of ?Fanny,? and spoke of her as a sister
shouldRushworth?s day of good looks will come; we have
cards for her first party on the 28thThen she will be in beauty, for
she will open one of the best houses in Wimpole StreetI was in it
two years ago, when it was Lady Lascelle?s, and prefer it to almost
any I know in London, and certainly she will then feel, to use a
vulgar phrase, that she has got her pennyworth for her pennyHenry
could not have afforded her such a houseI hope she will recollect
it, and be satisfied, as well as she may, with moving the queen of a
palace, though the king may appear best in the background; and as
I have no desire to tease her, I shall never force your name upon her
againShe will grow sober by degreesFrom all that I hear and guess,
Baron Wildenheim?s attentions to Julia continue, but I do not know
that he has any serious encouragementShe ought to do betterA
poor honourable is no catch, and I cannot imagine any liking in the
case, for take away his rants, and the poor baron has nothingWhat
a difference a vowel makes! If his rents were but equal to his rants!
Your cousin Edmund moves slowly; detained, perchance, by parish
dutiesThere may be some old woman at Thornton Lacey to be
convertedI am unwilling to fancy myself neglected for a young
oneAdieu! my dear sweet Fanny, this is a long letter from London:
write me a pretty one in reply to gladden Henry?s eyes, when he
comes back, and send me an account of all the dashing young captains
whom you disdain for his sake
There was great food for meditation in this letter, and chiefly for
unpleasant meditation; and yet, with all the uneasiness it supplied,
it connected her with the absent, it told her of people and things
about whom she had never felt so much curiosity as now, and she
would have been glad to have been sure of such a letter every week
Her correspondence with her aunt women's santos 100 replica Bertram was her only concern of
higher interest
As for any society in Portsmouth, that could at all make amends
for deficiencies at home, there were none within the circle of her
father?s and mother?s acquaintance to afford her the smallest satisfaction:
she saw nobody in whose favour she could wish to overcome
her own shyness and reserveThe men appeared to her all
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coarse, the women all pert, everybody underbred; and she gave as
little contentment as she received from introductions either to old
or new acquaintanceThe young ladies who approached her at first
with some respect, in consideration of her coming from a baronet?s
family, were soon offended by what they termed ?airs?; for, as she
neither played on the pianoforte nor wore fine pelisses, they could,
on farther observation, admit no right of superiority
The first solid consolation which Fanny received for the evils of
home, the first which her judgment could entirely approve, and
which gave any promise of durability, was in a better knowledge of
Susan, and a hope of being of service to herSusan had always behaved
pleasantly to herself, but the determined character of her general
manners had astonished and alarmed her, and it was at least a
fortnight before she began to understand a disposition so totally
different from her ownSusan saw that much was wrong at home,
and wanted to set it rightThat a girl of fourteen, acting only on her
own unassisted reason, should err in the method of reform, was not
wonderful; and Fanny soon became more disposed to admire the
natural light of the mind which could so early distinguish justly,
than to censure severely the faults of conduct to which it ledSusan
was only acting on the same truths, and pursuing the same system,
which her own judgment acknowledged, but which her more supine
and yielding temper would have shrunk from assertingSusan
tried to be useful, where she could only have gone away and cried;
and china mulberry that Susan was useful she could perceive; that things, bad as
they were, would have been worse but for such interposition, and
that both her mother and Betsey were restrained from some excesses
of very offensive indulgence and vulgarity
In every argument with her mother, Susan had in point of reason
the advantage, and never was there any maternal tenderness to buy
her offThe blind fondness which was for ever producing evil around
her she had never knownThere was no gratitude for affection past
or present to make her better bear with its excesses to the others
All this became gradually evident, and gradually placed Susan
before her sister as an object of mingled compassion and respect
That her manner was wrong, however, at times very wrong, her
measures often ill-chosen and ill-timed, and her looks and language
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very often indefensible, Fanny could not cease to feel; but she began
to hope they might be rectifiedSusan, she found, looked up to her
and wished for her good opinion; and new as anything like an office
of authority was to Fanny, new as it was to imagine herself capable
of guiding or informing any one, she did resolve to give occasional
hints to Susan, and endeavour to exercise for her advantage the juster
notions of what was due to everybody, and what would be wisest for
herself, which her own more favoured education had fixed in her
Her influence, or at least the consciousness and use of it, originated
in an act of kindness by Susan, which, after many hesitations
of delicacy, she at last worked herself up toIt had very early occurred
to her that a small sum of money might, perhaps, restore
peace for ever on the sore subject of the silver knife, canvassed as it
now was continually, and the riches which she was in possession of
herself, her uncle having given her ?10 at parting, made her as able
as she was willing to be generousBut she was so wholly unused to
confer favours, except on the very chanel bags collection poor, so unpractised in removing
evils, or bestowing kindnesses among her equals, and so fearful of
appearing to elevate herself as a great lady at home, that it took
some time to determine that it would not be unbecoming in her to
make such a presentIt was made, however, at last: a silver knife was
bought for Betsey, and accepted with great delight, its newness giving
it every advantage over the other that could be desired; Susan
was established in the full possession of her own, Betsey handsomely
declaring that now she had got one so much prettier herself, she
should never want that again; and no reproach seemed conveyed to
the equally satisfied mother, which Fanny had almost feared to be
impossibleThe deed thoroughly answered: a source of domestic altercation
was entirely done away, and it was the means of opening
Susan?s heart to her, and giving her something more to love and be
interested inSusan shewed that she had delicacy: pleased as she was
to be mistress of property which she had been struggling for at least
two years, she yet feared that her sister?s judgment had been against
her, and that a reproof was designed her for having so struggled as to
make the purchase necessary for the tranquillity of the houseShe acknowledged her fears, blamed herself
for having contended so warmly; and from that hour Fanny,
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understanding the worth of her disposition and perceiving how fully
she was inclined to seek her good opinion and refer to her judgment,
began to feel again the blessing of affection, and to entertain
the hope of being useful to a mind so much in need of help, and so
much deserving itShe gave advice, advice too sound to be resisted
by a good understanding, and given so mildly and considerately as
not to irritate an imperfect temper, and she had the happiness of
observing its good effects not unfrequentlyMore was not expected
by one who, while seeing all the obligation and expediency of knock off chanel earrings submission
and forbearance, saw also with sympathetic acuteness of
feeling all that must be hourly grating to a girl like SusanHer greatest
wonder on the subject soon became?not that Susan should
have been provoked into disrespect and impatience against her better
knowledge?but that so much better knowledge, so many good
notions should have been hers at all; and that, brought up in the
midst of negligence and error, she should have formed such proper
opinions of what ought to be; she, who had had no cousin Edmund
to direct her thoughts or fix her principles
The intimacy thus begun between them was a material advantage
to eachBy sitting together upstairs, they avoided a great deal of the
disturbance of the house; Fanny had peace, and Susan learned to
think it no misfortune to be quietly employedThey sat without a
fire; but that was a privation familiar even to Fanny, and she suffered
the less because reminded by it of the East roomIt was the
only point of resemblanceIn space, light, furniture, and prospect,
there was nothing alike in the two apartments; and she often heaved
a sigh at the remembrance of all her books and boxes, and various
comforts thereBy degrees the girls came to spend the chief of the
morning upstairs, at first only in working and talking, but after a
few days, the remembrance of the said books grew so potent and
stimulative that Fanny found it impossible not to try for books again
There were none in her father?s house; but wealth is luxurious and
daring, and some of hers found its way to a circulating libraryShe
became a subscriber; amazed at being anything in propria persona,
amazed at her own doings in every way, to be a renter, a chuser of
books! And to be having any one?s improvement in view in her choice!
But so it wasSusan had read nothing, and Fanny longed to give her
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not, you must purchase themThen the stream?something must
be done with the stream; but I could not quite determine whatI
had two or three ideas
?And I have two or three ideas also,? said Edmund, ?and one of
them is, that very little of your plan for Thornton Lacey will ever be
put in practiceI must be satisfied with rather less ornament and
beautyI think the house and premises may be made comfortable,
and given the air of a gentleman?s residence, without any very heavy
expense, and that must suffice me; and, I hope, may suffice all who
care about me
Miss Crawford, a little suspicious and resentful of a certain tone
of voice, and a certain half-look attending the last expression of his
hope, made a hasty finish of her dealings with William Price; and
securing his knave at an exorbitant rate, exclaimed, ?There, I will
stake my last like a woman of spiritNo cold prudence for meI am
not born to sit still and do nothingIf I lose the game, it shall not be
from not striving for it
The game was hers, and only did not pay her for what she had
given to secure itAnother chanel jewelry online deal proceeded, and Crawford began
again about Thornton Lacey
?My plan may not be the best possible: I had not many minutes
to form it in; but you must do a good dealThe place deserves it,
and you will find yourself not satisfied with much less than it is
capable of(Excuse me, your ladyship must not see your cardsThere,
let them lie just before you The place deserves it, BertramYou
talk of giving it the air of a gentleman?s residenceThat will be done
by the removal of the farmyard; for, independent of that terrible
nuisance, I never saw a house of the kind which had in itself so
much the air of a gentleman?s residence, so much the look of a something
above a mere parsonage-house?above the expenditure of a
few hundreds a yearIt is not a scrambling collection of low single
rooms, with as many roofs as windows; it is not cramped into the
vulgar compactness of a square farmhouse: it is a solid, roomy, mansion-
like looking house, such as one might suppose a respectable
old country family had lived in from generation to generation,
through two centuries at least, and were now spending from two to
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three thousand a year in Miss Crawford listened, and Edmund
agreed to this?The air of a gentleman?s residence, therefore, you
cannot but give it, if you do anythingBut it is capable of much
more(Let me see, Mary; Lady Bertram bids a dozen for that queen;
no, no, a dozen is more than it is worthLady Bertram does not bid
a dozenShe will have nothing to say to it By some
such improvements as I have suggested (I do not really require you
to proceed upon my plan, though, by the bye, I doubt anybody?s
striking out a better) you may give it a higher characterYou may
raise it into a placeFrom being the mere gentleman?s residence, it
becomes, by judicious improvement, the residence of a man of education,
taste, modern manners, good connexionsAll this may be
stamped on it; and that house receive such an air as to make its
owner be set down as the great landholder of the parish by every
creature travelling the road; especially as there is no real squire?s
house to dispute the point?a circumstance, between ourselves, to
enhance the value of such a situation in point of privilege and independence
beyond all hermes borse calculationYou think with me, I hope? (turning
with a softened voice to Fanny)?Have you ever seen the place??
Fanny gave a quick negative, and tried to hide her interest in the
subject by an eager attention to her brother, who was driving as
hard a bargain, and imposing on her as much as he could; but
Crawford pursued with ?No, no, you must not part with the queen
You have bought her too dearly, and your brother does not offer
half her valueNo, no, sir, hands off, hands offYour sister does not
part with the queenShe is quite determinedThe game will be
yours,? turning to her again; ?it will certainly be yours
?And Fanny had much rather it were William?s,? said Edmund,
smiling at her?Poor Fanny! not allowed to cheat herself as she
wishes!?
?MrBertram,? said Miss Crawford, a few minutes afterwards,
?you know Henry to be such a capital improver, that you cannot
possibly engage in anything of the sort at Thornton Lacey without
accepting his helpOnly think how useful he was at Sotherton! Only
think what grand things were produced there by our all going with
him one hot day in August to drive about the grounds, and see omega automatic seamaster watch his
genius take fireThere we went, and there we came home again;
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and what was done there is not to be told!?
Fanny?s eyes were turned on Crawford for a moment with an expression
more than grave?even reproachful; but on catching his,
were instantly withdrawnWith something of consciousness he shook
his head at his sister, and laughingly replied, ?I cannot say there was
much done at Sotherton; but it was a hot day, and we were all walking
after each other, and bewildered As soon as a general buzz gave
him shelter, he added, in a low voice, directed solely at Fanny, ?I
should be sorry to have my powers of planning judged of by the day
at SothertonI see things very differently nowDo not think of me
as I appeared then
Sotherton was a word to catch MrsNorris, and being just then in
the happy leisure which followed securing the odd trick by Sir
Thomas?s capital play and her own against DrGrant?s
great hands, she called out, in high good-humour, ?Sotherton! Yes,
that is a place, indeed, and we had a charming day thereWilliam,
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should say what I have said; but you have always known my opinion
of her; you can bear me witness, Fanny, that I have never been
blindedHow many a time have we talked over her little errors! You
need not fear me; I have almost given up every serious idea of her;
but I must be a blockhead indeed, if, whatever befell me, I could
think of your kindness and sympathy without the sincerest gratitude
He had said enough to shake the experience of eighteenHe had
said enough to give Fanny some happier feelings than she had lately
known, and with a brighter look, she answered, ?Yes, cousin, I am
convinced that you would be incapable of anything else, though
perhaps some might notI cannot be afraid of hearing anything you
wish to sayDo not check yourselfTell me whatever you like
They were now on the second floor, and the appearance of a housemaid
prevented any farther conversationFor Fanny?s present comfort
it was concluded, perhaps, at the happiest moment: had he
been able to talk another five minutes, there is no saying that he
might not have talked away all Miss Crawford?s faults and his own
despondenceBut as it was, they parted with looks on his side of
grateful affection, and with some very precious sensations on hers
She had felt nothing like it for hoursSince the first joy from Mr
Crawford?s note to William had worn away, she had been in a see by chloe bag state
absolutely the reverse; there had been no comfort around, no hope
within herNow everything was smilingWilliam?s good fortune
returned again upon her mind, and seemed of greater value than at
firstThe ball, too?such an evening of pleasure before her! It was
now a real animation; and she began to dress for it with much of the
happy flutter which belongs to a ballAll went well: she did not
dislike her own looks; and when she came to the necklaces again,
her good fortune seemed complete, for upon trial the one given her
by Miss Crawford would by no means go through the ring of the
crossShe had, to oblige Edmund, resolved to wear it; but it was too
large for the purposeHis, therefore, must be worn; and having,
with delightful feelings, joined the chain and the cross?those memorials
of the two most beloved of her heart, those dearest tokens
so formed for each other by everything real and imaginary?and
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put them round her neck, and seen and felt how full of William and
Edmund they were, she was able, without an effort, to resolve on
wearing Miss Crawford?s necklace tooShe acknowledged it to be
rightMiss Crawford had a claim; and when it was no longer to
encroach on, to interfere with the stronger claims, the truer kindness
of another, she could do her justice even with pleasure to herself
The necklace really looked very well; and Fanny left her room
at last, second hand chanel comfortably satisfied with herself and all about her
Her aunt Bertram had recollected her on this occasion with an
unusual degree of wakefulnessIt had really occurred to her, unprompted,
that Fanny, preparing for a ball, might be glad of better
help than the upper housemaid?s, and when dressed herself, she actually
sent her own maid to assist her; too late, of course, to be of
any useChapman had just reached the attic floor, when Miss
Price came out of her room completely dressed, and only civilities
were necessary; but Fanny felt her aunt?s attention almost as much
as Lady Bertram or MrsChapman could do themselves
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CHAPTER XXVIII
HER UNCLE and both her aunts were in the drawing-room when
Fanny went downTo the former she was an interesting object, and
he saw with pleasure the general elegance of her appearance, and
her being in remarkably good looksThe neatness and propriety of
her dress was all that he would allow himself to commend in her
presence, but upon her leaving the room again soon afterwards, he
spoke of her beauty with very decided praise
?Yes,? said Lady Bertram, ?she looks very wellI sent Chapman to
her
?Look well! Oh, yes!? cried MrsNorris, ?she has good reason to
look well with all her advantages: brought up in this family as she
has been, with all the benefit of her cousins? manners before her
Only think, my dear Sir Thomas, what extraordinary authentic hermes advantages
you and I have been the means of giving herThe very gown you
have been taking notice of is your own generous present to her when
dear MrsWhat would she have been if we had
not taken her by the hand??
Sir Thomas said no more; but when they sat down to table the
eyes of the two young men assured him that the subject might be
gently touched again, when the ladies withdrew, with more success
Fanny saw that she was approved; and the consciousness of looking
well made her look still betterFrom a variety of causes she was
happy, and she was soon made still happier; for in following her
aunts out of the room, Edmund, who was holding open the door,
said, as she passed him, ?You must dance with me, Fanny; you must
keep two dances for me; any two that you like, except the first She
had nothing more to wish forShe had hardly ever been in a state so
nearly approaching high spirits in her lifeHer cousins? former gaiety
on the day of a ball was no longer surprising to her; she felt it to
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be indeed very charming, and was actually practising her steps about
the drawing-room as long as she could be safe from the notice of
her aunt Norris, who was entirely taken up at first in fresh arranging
and injuring the noble fire which the butler had prepared
Half an hour followed that would have been at least languid under
any other circumstances, but Fanny?s happiness still omega automatic seamaster prevailed
It was but to think of her conversation with Edmund, and what was
the restlessness of MrsNorris? What were the yawns of Lady
Bertram?
The gentlemen joined them; and soon after began the sweet expectation
of a carriage, when a general spirit of ease and enjoyment
seemed diffused, and they all stood about and talked and laughed,
and every moment had its pleasure and its hopeFanny felt that
there must be a struggle in Edmund?s cheerfulness, but it was delightful
to see the effort so successfully made
When the carriages were really heard, when the guests began really
to assemble, her own gaiety of heart was much subdued: the
sight of so many strangers threw her back into herself; and besides
the gravity and formality of the first great circle, which the manners
of neither Sir Thomas nor Lady Bertram were of a kind to do away,
she found herself occasionally called on to endure something worse
She was introduced here and there by her uncle, and forced to be
spoken to, and to curtsey, and speak againThis was a hard duty,
and she was never summoned to it without looking at William, as
he walked about at his ease in the background of the scene, and
longing to be with him
The entrance of the Grants and Crawfords was a favourable epoch
The stiffness of the meeting soon gave way before their popular
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a little while, and do have the goodness to hear me my third actI
have brought my book, and if you would but rehearse it with me, I
should be so obliged! I came here to-day intending to rehearse it
with Edmund?by ourselves?against the evening, but he is not in
the way; and if he were, I do not think I could go through it with
him, till I have hardened myself a little; for really there is a speech or
twoYou will be so good, won?t you??
Fanny was most civil in her assurances, though she could not give
them in a very steady voice
?Have you ever happened to look at the part I mean?? continued
Miss Crawford, opening her bookI did not think much
of it at first?but, upon my wordThere, look at that speech, and
that, and thatHow am I ever to look him in the face and say such
things? Could you do it? But then he is your cousin, which makes
all the differenceYou must rehearse it with me, that I may fancy
you him, and get on by degreesYou have a look of his sometimes
?Have I? I will do my best with the greatest readiness; but I must
read the part, for I can say very little of it
?None of it, I supposeYou are to have the book, of courseWe must gucci backpack have two chairs at hand for you to bring forward to
the front of the stageThere?very good school-room chairs, not
made for a theatre, I dare say; much more fitted for little girls to sit
and kick their feet against when they are learning a lessonWhat
would your governess and your uncle say to see them used for such
a purpose? Could Sir Thomas look in upon us just now, he would
bless himself, for we are rehearsing all over the houseYates is storming
away in the dining-roomI heard him as I came upstairs, and
the theatre is engaged of course by those indefatigable rehearsers,
Agatha and FrederickIf they are not perfect, I shall be surprisedBy
the bye, I looked in upon them five minutes ago, and it happened
to be exactly at one of the times when they were trying not to embrace,
and MrRushworth was with meI thought he began to look
a little queer, so I turned it off as well as I could, by whispering to
him, ?We shall have an excellent Agatha; there is something so maternal
in her manner, so completely maternal in her voice and countenance
Was not that well done of me? He brightened up directly
Now for my soliloquy
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She began, and Fanny joined in with all the modest feeling which
the idea of representing women's santos 100 replica Edmund was so strongly calculated to inspire;
but with looks and voice so truly feminine as to be no very
good picture of a manWith such an Anhalt, however, Miss Crawford
had courage enough; and they had got through half the scene, when
a tap at the door brought a pause, and the entrance of Edmund, the
next moment, suspended it all
Surprise, consciousness, and pleasure appeared in each of the
three on this unexpected meeting; and as Edmund was come on
the very same business that had brought Miss Crawford, consciousness
and pleasure were likely to be more than momentary in them
He too had his book, and was seeking Fanny, to ask her to rehearse
with him, and help him to prepare for the evening, without
knowing Miss Crawford to be in the house; and great was the joy
and animation of being thus thrown together, of comparing
schemes, and sympathising in praise of Fanny?s kind offices
She could not equal them in their warmthHer spirits sank under
the glow of theirs, and she felt herself becoming too nearly nothing
to both to have any comfort in having been sought by eitherThey
must now rehearse togetherEdmund proposed, urged, entreated
it, till the lady, not very unwilling at first, could refuse no longer,
and Fanny was chanel earrings stud wanted only to prompt and observe themShe was
invested, indeed, with the office of judge and critic, and earnestly
desired to exercise it and tell them all their faults; but from doing so
every feeling within her shrank?she could not, would not, dared
not attempt it: had she been otherwise qualified for criticism, her
conscience must have restrained her from venturing at disapprobation
She believed herself to feel too much of it in the aggregate for
honesty or safety in particularsTo prompt them must be enough
for her; and it was sometimes more than enough; for she could not
always pay attention to the bookIn watching them she forgot herself;
and, agitated by the increasing spirit of Edmund?s manner, had
once closed the page and turned away exactly as he wanted helpIt
was imputed to very reasonable weariness, and she was thanked and
pitied; but she deserved their pity more than she hoped they would
ever surmiseAt last the scene was over, and Fanny forced herself to
add her praise to the compliments each was giving the other; and
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when again alone and able to recall the whole, she was inclined to
believe their performance would, indeed, have such nature and feeling
in it as must ensure their credit, and miu miu clutch make it a very suffering
exhibition to herselfWhatever might be its effect, however, she
must stand the brunt of it again that very day
The first regular rehearsal of the three first acts was certainly to
take place in the evening: MrsGrant and the Crawfords were engaged
to return for that purpose as soon as they could after dinner;
and every one concerned was looking forward with eagernessThere
seemed a general diffusion of cheerfulness on the occasionTom
was enjoying such an advance towards the end; Edmund was in
spirits from the morning?s rehearsal, and little vexations seemed everywhere
smoothed awayAll were alert and impatient; the ladies
moved soon, the gentlemen soon followed them, and with the exception
of Lady Bertram, MrsNorris, and Julia, everybody was in
the theatre at an early hour; and having lighted it up as well as its
unfinished state admitted, were waiting only the arrival of MrsGrant
and the Crawfords to begin
They did not wait long for the Crawfords, but there was no MrsGrant, professing an indisposition,
for which he had little credit with his fair sister-in-law, could not
spare his wifeGrant is ill,? said she, with mock solemnity?He has been ill
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Afraid of everybody, ashamed of herself, and longing for the
home she had left, she knew not how to look up, and could scarcely
speak to be heard, or without cryingNorris had been talking
to her the whole way from Northampton of her wonderful good
fortune, and the extraordinary degree of gratitude and good
behaviour which it ought to produce, and her consciousness of misery
was therefore increased by the idea of its being a wicked thing for
her not to be happyThe fatigue, too, of so long a journey, became
soon no trifling evilIn vain were the well-meant condescensions of
Sir Thomas, and all the officious prognostications of MrsNorris that
she would be a good girl; in vain did Lady Bertram smile and make
her sit on the sofa with herself and pug, and vain was even the sight of
a gooseberry tart towards giving her comfort; she could scarcely swallow
two mouthfuls before tears interrupted her, and sleep seeming to
be her likeliest friend, she was taken to finish her sorrows in bed
?This is not a very promising beginning,? said MrsNorris, when
Fanny had left the room?After all that I said to her as we came
along, I thought she would have behaved better; I told her how
much might depend upon her acquitting herself well at firstI wish
there may not be a little sulkiness of temper?her poor mother had
a good deal; but we must make allowances for such a child?and I
do not know that her being sorry to leave her home is really against
her, for, with all its faults, it was her home, and she cannot as yet
understand how much she has changed for the better; but then chanel vintage jewelry there
is moderation in all things
It required a longer time, however, than MrsNorris was inclined
to allow, to reconcile Fanny to the novelty of Mansfield Park, and
the separation from everybody she had been used toHer feelings
were very acute, and too little understood to be properly attended
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toNobody meant to be unkind, but nobody put themselves out of
their way to secure her comfort
The holiday allowed to the Miss Bertrams the next day, on purpose
to afford leisure for getting acquainted with, and entertaining
their young cousin, produced little unionThey could not but hold
her cheap on finding that she had but two sashes, and had never
learned French; and when they perceived her to be little struck with
the duet they were so good as to play, they could do no more than
make her a generous present of some of their least valued toys, and
leave her to herself, while they adjourned to whatever might be the
favourite holiday sport of the moment, making artificial flowers or
wasting gold paper
Fanny, whether near or from her cousins, whether in the schoolroom,
the drawing-room, or the shrubbery, was equally forlorn, finding
something to fear in every person and placeShe was disheartened
by Lady Bertram?s silence, awed by Sir Thomas?s grave looks,
and quite overcome by MrsHer elder cousins
mortified her by reflections on her size, and abashed her by noticing
her shyness: Miss Lee wondered at her ignorance, and the
maid-servants sneered at her clothes; and when to these sorrows was
added the idea of the brothers and sisters among whom she had
always been important as playfellow, instructress, and nurse, white chanel watch the
despondence that sunk her little heart was severe
The grandeur of the house astonished, but could not console her
The rooms were too large for her to move in with ease: whatever she
touched she expected to injure, and she crept about in constant
terror of something or other; often retreating towards her own chamber
to cry; and the little girl who was spoken of in the drawingroom
when she left it at night as seeming so desirably sensible of her
peculiar good fortune, ended every day?s sorrows by sobbing herself
to sleepA week had passed in this way, and no suspicion of it conveyed
by her quiet passive manner, when she was found one morning
by her cousin Edmund, the youngest of the sons, sitting crying
on the attic stairs
?My dear little cousin,? said he, with all the gentleness of an excellent
nature, ?what can be the matter?? And sitting down by her,
he was at great pains to overcome her shame in being so surprised,
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and persuade her to speak openly?Was she ill? or was anybody
angry with her? or had she quarrelled with Maria and Julia? or was
she puzzled about anything in her lesson that he could explain? Did
she, in short, want anything he could possibly get her, or do for her?
For a long while no answer could be obtained beyond a ?no, no?
not at all?no, thank you?; but he still persevered; and no sooner
had he begun to revert to her own home, than her increased sobs
explained to him where the grievance layHe tried to console her
?You are sorry to leave Mama, my dear little Fanny,? said he, ?which
shows you to be a very good girl; but you must remember that you
are with relations and tiffany canada friends, who all love you, and wish to make
you happyLet us walk out in the park, and you shall tell me all
about your brothers and sisters
On pursuing the subject, he found that, dear as all these brothers
and sisters generally were, there was one among them who ran more
in her thoughts than the restIt was William whom she talked of
most, and wanted most to seeWilliam, the eldest, a year older than
herself, her constant companion and friend; her advocate with her
mother (of whom he was the darling) in every distress?William
did not like she should come away; he had told her he should miss
her very much indeed ?But William will write to you, I dare say
?Yes, he had promised he would, but he had told her to write first
?And when shall you do it?? She hung her head and answered hesitatingly,
?she did not know; she had not any paper
?If that be all your difficulty, I will furnish you with paper and
every other material, and you may write your letter whenever you
chooseWould it make you happy to write to William??
?Yes, very
?Then let it be done nowCome with me into the breakfast-room,
we shall find everything there, and be sure of having the room to
ourselves
?But, cousin, will it go to the post??
?Yes, depend upon me it shall: it shall go with the other letters;
and, as your uncle will frank it, it will cost William nothing
?My uncle!? repeated Fanny, with a frightened look
?Yes, when you have written the letter, I will take it to my father
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Fanny thought it a bold measure, but offered no further resistance;
and they went together into the breakfast-room, where
Edmund prepared her paper, and omega 18k watch ruled her lines with all the goodwill
that her brother could himself have felt, and probably with
somewhat more exactnessHe continued with her the whole time
of her writing, to assist her with his penknife or his orthography, as
either were wanted; and added to these attentions, which she felt
very much, a kindness to her brother which delighted her beyond
all the restHe wrote with his own hand his love to his cousin William,
and sent him half a guinea under the sealFanny?s feelings on
the occasion were such as she believed herself incapable of expressing;
but her countenance and a few artless words fully conveyed all
their gratitude and delight, and her cousin began to find her an
interesting objectHe talked to her more, and, from all that she
said, was convinced of her having an affectionate heart, and a strong
desire of doing right; and he could perceive her to be farther entitled
to attention by great sensibility of her situation, and great
timidityHe had never knowingly given her pain, but he now felt
that she required more positive kindness; and with that view endeavoured,
in the first place, to lessen her fears of them all, and gave
her especially a great deal of good advice as to playing with Maria
and Julia, and being as merry as possible
From this day Fanny grew more comfortableShe felt that she had
a friend, and the kindness of her cousin Edmund gave her better
spirits with everybody elseThe place became less strange, and the
people less formidable; and if there were some amongst them whom
she could not cease to fear, she began at least to know their ways, and
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?Nay,? said Edmund, who began to listen with alarm?Let us do
nothing by halvesIf we are to act, let it be in a theatre completely
fitted up with pit, boxes, and gallery, and let us have a play entire
from beginning to end; so as it be a German play, no matter what,
with a good tricking, shifting afterpiece, and a figure-dance, and a
hornpipe, and a song between the actsIf we do not outdo Ecclesford,
we do nothing
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?Now, Edmund, do not be disagreeable,? said Julia?Nobody loves
a play better than you do, or can have gone much farther to see
one
?True, to see real acting, good hardened real acting; but I would
hardly walk from this room to the next to look at the raw efforts of
those who have not been bred to the trade: a set of gentlemen and
ladies, who have all the disadvantages of education and decorum to
struggle through
After a short pause, however, the subject still continued, and was
discussed with unabated eagerness, every one?s inclination increasing
by the discussion, and a knowledge of the inclination of the
rest; and though nothing was settled but that Tom Bertram would
prefer a comedy, and his sisters and Henry Crawford a tragedy, and
that nothing in the world chanel pearl necklace could be easier than to find a piece which
would please them all, the resolution to act something or other
seemed so decided as to make Edmund quite uncomfortableHe
was determined to prevent it, if possible, though his mother, who
equally heard the conversation which passed at table, did not evince
the least disapprobation
The same evening afforded him an opportunity of trying his
strengthMaria, Julia, Henry Crawford, and MrYates were in the
billiard-roomTom, returning from them into the drawing-room,
where Edmund was standing thoughtfully by the fire, while Lady
Bertram was on the sofa at a little distance, and Fanny close beside
her arranging her work, thus began as he entered??Such a horribly
vile billiard-table as ours is not to be met with, I believe, above
groundI can stand it no longer, and I think, I may say, that nothing
shall ever tempt me to it again; but one good thing I have just
ascertained: it is the very room for a theatre, precisely the shape and
length for it; and the doors at the farther end, communicating with
each other, as they may be made to do in five minutes, by merely
moving the bookcase in my father?s room, is the very thing we could
have desired, if we had sat down to wish for it; and my father?s room
will be an excellent vintage hermes greenroomIt seems to join the billiard-room
on purpose
?You are not serious, Tom, in meaning to act?? said Edmund, in a
low voice, as his brother approached the fire
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?Not serious! never more so, I assure youWhat is there to surprise
you in it??
?I think it would be very wrongIn a general light, private theatricals
are open to some objections, but as we are circumstanced, I
must think it would be highly injudicious, and more than injudicious
to attempt anything of the kindIt would shew great want of
feeling on my father?s account, absent as he is, and in some degree
of constant danger; and it would be imprudent, I think, with regard
to Maria, whose situation is a very delicate one, considering everything,
extremely delicate
?You take up a thing so seriously! as if we were going to act three
times a week till my father?s return, and invite all the countryBut it
is not to be a display of that sortWe mean nothing but a little
amusement among ourselves, just to vary the scene, and exercise
our powers in something newWe want no audience, no publicity
We may be trusted, I think, in chusing some play most perfectly
unexceptionable; and I can conceive no greater harm or danger to
any of us in conversing in the elegant written language of fendi b some
respectable author than in chattering in words of our ownI have
no fears and no scruplesAnd as to my father?s being absent, it is so
far from an objection, that I consider it rather as a motive; for the
expectation of his return must be a very anxious period to my mother;
and if we can be the means of amusing that anxiety, and keeping up
her spirits for the next few weeks, I shall think our time very well
spent, and so, I am sure, will heIt is a very anxious period for her
As he said this, each looked towards their motherLady Bertram,
sunk back in one corner of the sofa, the picture of health, wealth,
ease, and tranquillity, was just falling into a gentle doze, while Fanny
was getting through the few difficulties of her work for her
Edmund smiled and shook his head
?By Jove! this won?t do,? cried Tom, throwing himself into a chair
with a hearty laugh?To be sure, my dear mother, your anxiety?I
was unlucky there
?What is the matter?? asked her ladyship, in the heavy tone of
one half-roused; ?I was not asleep
?Oh dear, no, ma?am, nobody suspected you! Well, Edmund,? he
continued, returning to the former subject, posture, and voice, as
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soon as Lady Bertram began to nod again, ?but this I will maintain,
that we shall be doing no cartier watches harm
?I cannot agree with you; I am convinced that my father would
totally disapprove it
?And I am convinced to the contraryNobody is fonder of the
exercise of talent in young people, or promotes it more, than my
father, and for anything of the acting, spouting, reciting kind, I
think he has always a decided tasteI am sure he encouraged it in us
as boysHow many a time have we mourned over the dead body of
Julius Caesar, and to be?d and not to be?d, in this very room, for his
amusement? And I am sure, my name was Norval, every evening of
my life through one Christmas holidays
?It was a very different thingYou must see the difference yourself
My father wished us, as schoolboys, to speak well, but he would
never wish his grown-up daughters to be acting playsHis sense of
decorum is strict
?I know all that,? said Tom, displeased?I know my father as well as
you do; and I?ll take care that his daughters do nothing to distress
himManage your own concerns, Edmund, and I?ll take care of the
rest of the family
?If you are resolved on acting,? replied the persevering Edmund,
?I must hope it will be in a very small and quiet way; and I think a
theatre ought not to be attemptedIt would be taking liberties with
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| At least Mammy was being buried here, next to "Miss
Ellen," her first love, and not in the slaves' burial plotSuellen
screamed to high heaven, but I won that fight, soon as Will came in on
my sideWhen Will puts his foot down, it stays putToo bad he's so
stiff-necked about letting me give him some moneyThe house looks
terribleSo does the graveyard, for that matterWeeds all over the
place, it's downright shabbyThis whole funeral is downright shabby,
Mammy would have hated itThat black preacher is going on and on,
and
he didn't even know her, I'll betMammy wouldn't give the time of
day
to the likes of him, she was a Roman Catholic, everybody in the
Robillard house was, except Grandfather, and he didn't have much say
about anything, to buy chanel bags hear Mammy tell itWe should have gotten a
priest,
but the closest one is in Atlanta, it would have taken daysShe died and was buried without a priest
Pa, too, but likely it didn't matter so much to himHe used to doze
through the Devotions Mother led every nightScarlett looked at the
unkempt graveyard, then over at the shabby front of the houseI'm
glad Mother isn't here to see this, she thought with sudden fierce
anger and painIt would break her heartScarlett could-for a
moment-see the tall, graceful form of her mother as clearly as if Ellen
O'Hara were there among the mourners at the burialAlways
impeccably
groomed, her white hands busy with needlework or gloved to go out
on
one of her errands of mercy, always soft-voiced, always occupied omega geneve automatic with
the perpetual work required to produce the orderly perfection that was
life at Tara under her guidanceHow did she do it? Scarlett cried
silentlyHow did she make the world so wonderful as long as she was
there? We were all so happy thenNo matter what happened, Mother
could make it all rightHow I wish she was still here! She'd hold me
close to her, and all the troubles would go awayNo, no, I don't want
her to be hereIt would make her so sad to see what's happened to
Tara, what's happened to meShe'd be disappointed in me, and I
couldn't bear thatI won't think about it, I
mustn'tI'll think about something else-I wonder if Delilah had sense
enough to fix something to feed people after the burial
Suellen wouldn't think of it, and she's hermes kelly handbag too mean to spend money on a
collation anyhowNot that it would set her back all that much-there's
hardly anybody hereThat black preacher looks like he could eat
enough for twenty, thoughIf he doesn't stop going on about resting
in Abraham's bosom and crossing the River Jordan, I'm going to
scream
Those three scrawny women he calls a choir are the only people here
who
don't look twitchy from embarrassmentSome choir! Tambourines
and
spirituals! Mammy should have something
solemn in Latin, not "Climbing Jacob's Ladder Oh, it's all so
tacky
A good thing there's almost nobody here, just Suellen and Will and me
and the children and the servantsAt least we all really loved Mammy
and care that she's goneBig Sam's eyes are red from replica cartier tank cryingLook
at
poor old Pork, crying his eyes out, tooWhy, his share's almost white;
I
never think of him as oldDilcey sure doesn't look her age, whatever
that might be, she hasn't changed a bit since she first came to
Scarlett's exhausted, rambling mind suddenly sharpened
What were Pork and Dilcey doing here at all? They hadn't worked at
TarNot since Pork became Rhett's valet and Dilcey, Pork's
wife, went to Melanie's house, as Beau's mammyHow did they come
to
be here, at Tara? There was no way they could have learned about
Mammy's deathUnless Rhett told themScarlett looked over her
shoulderHad Rhett come back? There was no sign of himAs soon
as
the service was over, she made a beeline for PorkLet Will and
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