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But this had occurred on the first day of its being settled, within the first hour of the burst of such enjoyment, when nothing but the friends she was to visit was before her.
He had since heard her express herself differently, with other feelings, more chequered feelings:
she should leave her with regret;
she began to believe neither the friends nor the pleasures she was going to were worth those she left behind;
though she felt she must go, and knew she should enjoy herself when once away, she was already looking forward to being at Mansfield again.
Was there not a "yes" in all this?
if she would be so kind as to give her opinion, it might be all talked over as well without doors as within.
Fanny's returning with her in a much more cordial manner than before,
their going up into her room, where they might have a comfortable coze, without disturbing Dr. and Mrs. Grant, who were together in the drawing-room.
she did not know how either to wear the cross, or to refrain from wearing it.
to chuse from among several gold chains and necklaces.
Fanny's taking one for the cross and to keep for her sake,
The gift was too valuable.
she might not be accused of pride or indifference, or some other littleness;
to know which might be least valuable;
But this was an unworthy feeling.
Miss Crawford had anticipated her wants with a kindness which proved her a real friend.
To take what had been the gift of another person, of a brother too, impossible! it must not be!
He evidently tried to please her: he was gallant, he was attentive, he was something like what he had been to her cousins: he wanted, she supposed, to cheat her of her tranquillity as he had cheated them; and whether he might not have some concern in this necklace— she could not be convinced that he had not,
for Miss Crawford, complaisant as a sister, was careless as a woman and a friend.
Fanny could not but admit the superior power of one pleasure over his own mind, though it might have its drawback.
She was one of his two dearest— that must support her.
But the other: the first!
She had never heard him speak so openly before, and though it told her no more than what she had long perceived, it was a stab, for it told of his own convictions and views.
They were decided. He would marry Miss Crawford.
she was one of his two dearest,
Could she believe Miss Crawford to deserve him, it would be— oh, how different would it be —how far more tolerable! But he was deceived in her: he gave her merits which she had not; her faults were what they had ever been, but he saw them no longer.
To call or to fancy it a loss, a disappointment, would be a presumption for which she had not words strong enough to satisfy her own humility.
To think of him as Miss Crawford might be justified in thinking, would in her be insanity. To her he could be nothing under any circumstances; nothing dearer than a friend. Why did such an idea occur to her even enough to be reprobated and forbidden? It ought not to have touched on the confines of her imagination. She would endeavour to be rational, and to deserve the right of judging of Miss Crawford's character, and the privilege of true solicitude for him by a sound intellect and an honest heart.
as he found himself obliged to go to London on the morrow for a few days, he could not help trying to procure a companion; and therefore hoped that if William could make up his mind to leave Mansfield half a day earlier than had been proposed, he would accept a place in his carriage. Mr. Crawford meant to be in town by his uncle's accustomary late dinner-hour, and William was invited to dine with him at the Admiral's.
going up with despatches,
for the original plan was that William should go up by the mail from Northampton the following night, which would not have allowed him an hour's rest before he must have got into a Portsmouth coach; and though this offer of Mr. Crawford's would rob her of many hours of his company, she was too happy in having William spared from the fatigue of such a journey,
To dance without much observation or any extraordinary fatigue, to have strength and partners for about half the evening, to dance a little with Edmund, and not a great deal with Mr. Crawford, to see William enjoy himself, and be able to keep away from her aunt Norris,
it had been about the same hour that she had returned from the Parsonage, and found Edmund in the East room.
he had soon ceased to think of her countenance. He did not appear in spirits: something unconnected with her was probably amiss.
The ball, too such an evening of pleasure before her!
those dearest tokens
Miss 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;
very charming,
She looked all loveliness—and what might not be the end of it?
if Mr. Crawford had not asked her, she must have been the last to be sought after, and should have received a partner only through a series of inquiry, and bustle, and interference, which would have been terrible;
having a partner, a voluntary partner, secured against the dancing began.
she was to lead the way and open the ball;
that she hoped it might be settled otherwise;
To be placed above so many elegant young women! The distinction was too great. It was treating her like her cousins!
they were not at home to take their own place in the room, and have their share of a pleasure which would have been so very delightful to them.
So often as she had heard them wish for a ball at home as the greatest of all felicities! And to have them away when it was given—and for her to be opening the ball— and with Mr. Crawford too!
they would not envy her that distinction now
to what they had all been to each other when once dancing in that house before,