Austen Said:

"how thoughtless I have been! I hope you are not very tired. Perhaps,"

"my other companion may do me the honour of taking an arm."

"You scarcely touch me,"

"You do not make me of any use. What a difference in the weight of a woman's arm from that of a man! At Oxford I have been a good deal used to have a man lean on me for the length of a street, and you are only a fly in the comparison."

"Not half a mile,"

"But if you remember, before we left that first great path, we saw directly to the end of it. We looked down the whole vista, and saw it closed by iron gates, and it could not have been more than a furlong in length."

"We have been exactly a quarter of an hour here,"

"Do you think we are walking four miles an hour?"

"I am afraid you are very tired, Fanny,"

"why would not you speak sooner? This will be a bad day's amusement for you if you are to be knocked up. Every sort of exercise fatigues her so soon, Miss Crawford, except riding."

"Your attentiveness and consideration makes me more sensible of my own neglect. Fanny's interest seems in safer hands with you than with me."

"Now, Miss Crawford, if you will look up the walk, you will convince yourself that it cannot be half a mile long, or half half a mile."

her remaining where she was

"Miss Price all alone"

It was the very thing of all others to be wished, it was the best, it was the only way of proceeding with any advantage,

and he directly saw a knoll not half a mile off, which would give them exactly the requisite command of the house.

he had brought the key; he had been very near thinking whether he should not bring the key; he was determined he would never come without the key again;

he would go and fetch the key. He set off accordingly.

"It is undoubtedly the best thing we can do now, as we are so far from the house already,"

"No, indeed, far otherwise. I find it better, grander, more complete in its style, though that style may not be the best. And to tell you the truth,"

"I do not think that I shall ever see Sotherton again with so much pleasure as I do now. Another summer will hardly improve it to me."

"I am afraid I am not quite so much the man of the world as might be good for me in some points. My feelings are not quite so evanescent, nor my memory of the past under such easy dominion as one finds to be the case with men of the world."

"Were we? Yes, I believe we were; but I have not the least recollection at what. Oh! I believe I was relating to her some ridiculous stories of an old Irish groom of my uncle's. Your sister loves to laugh."

"More easily amused,"

"consequently, you know,"

"better company. I could not have hoped to entertain you with Irish anecdotes during a ten miles' drive."

"You have, undoubtedly; and there are situations in which very high spirits would denote insensibility. Your prospects, however, are too fair to justify want of spirits. You have a very smiling scene before you."

"And for the world you would not get out without the key and without Mr. Rushworth's authority and protection, or I think you might with little difficulty pass round the edge of the gate, here, with my assistance; I think it might be done, if you really wished to be more at large, and could allow yourself to think it not prohibited."

"Or if we are, Miss Price will be so good as to tell him that he will find us near that knoll: the grove of oak on the knoll."

"I do not believe I shall go any farther,"

"I see nothing of them. By the time I get to the knoll they may be gone somewhere else. I have had walking enough."

"I think they might as well have staid for me,"

"I should not have had to follow her if she had staid."

"Pray, Miss Price, are you such a great admirer of this Mr. Crawford as some people are? For my part, I can see nothing in him."

"Handsome! Nobody can call such an undersized man handsome. He is not five foot nine. I should not wonder if he is not more than five foot eight. I think he is an ill-looking fellow. In my opinion, these Crawfords are no addition at all. We did very well without them."

"If I had made any difficulty about fetching the key, there might have been some excuse, but I went the very moment she said she wanted it."

"wished he had had the key about him at the time."

Well,"

"if you really think I had better go: it would be foolish to bring the key for nothing."

Edmund had wished for her very much,

he should certainly have come back for her, had she not been tired already;

"I hope I am not to lose my companion, unless she is afraid of the evening air in so exposed a seat."

"It will, indeed, after such an absence; an absence not only long, but including so many dangers."

"Yes."

"There is no sacrifice in the case,"

"it is entirely her own doing."

"My taking orders, I assure you, is quite as voluntary as Maria's marrying."

"Thank you for your good word, Fanny, but it is more than I would affirm myself. On the contrary, the knowing that there was such a provision for me probably did bias me. Nor can I think it wrong that it should. There was no natural disinclination to be overcome, and I see no reason why a man should make a worse clergyman for knowing that he will have a competence early in life. I was in safe hands. I hope I should not have been influenced myself in a wrong way, and I am sure my father was too conscientious to have allowed it. I have no doubt that I was biased, but I think it was blamelessly."

"But the motives of a man who takes orders with the certainty of preferment may be fairly suspected, you think?"

"To be justified in your eyes, he must do it in the most complete uncertainty of any provision."