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her to be very timid, and exceedingly nervous; and
it not improbable that her mind might be in such a state as a little time, a little pressing, a little patience, and a little impatience, a judicious mixture of all on the lover's side, might work their usual effect on.
If the gentleman would but persevere,
As a general reflection on Fanny,
nothing could be more unjust,
At Mansfield Park Mr. Crawford would always be welcome; he had only to consult his own judgment and feelings as to the frequency of his visits, at present or in future. In all his niece's family and friends, there could be but one opinion, one wish on the subject; the influence of all who loved her must incline one way.
to abstain from all farther importunity with his niece, and to shew no open interference
Upon her disposition
kindness might be the best way of working. Entreaty should be from one quarter only. The forbearance of her family on a point, respecting which she could be in no doubt of their wishes, might be their surest means of forwarding it.
the necessity of making his own wife and sister-in-law acquainted with the business without delay; though, on Fanny's account, he almost dreaded the effect of the communication to Mrs. Norris as much as Fanny herself. He deprecated her mistaken but well-meaning zeal.
for the strictest forbearance and silence towards their niece;
to stay dinner;
he had got the very speech.
it might be as well to make one more effort for the young man before he left Mansfield, that all his professions and vows of unshaken attachment might have as much hope to sustain them as possible.
her being at that very time walking alone in the shrubbery,
it should be so.
Edmund's account of Fanny's disposition
to be just;
she had all those feelings, but
it as very unfortunate that she had; for,
he could not help fearing that if such very long allowances of time and habit were necessary for her, she might not have persuaded herself into receiving his addresses properly before the young man's inclination for paying them were over. There was nothing to be done, however, but to submit quietly and hope the best.
She had tasted of consequence in its most flattering form; and he did hope that the loss of it, the sinking again into nothing, would awaken very wholesome regrets in her mind.
how she stood affected on the present occasion, and whether she were more or less happy than she had been.
she should accompany her brother back to Portsmouth, and spend a little time with her own family.
a right and desirable measure;
wished her to be heartily sick of home before her visit ended; and that a little abstinence from the elegancies and luxuries of Mansfield Park would bring her mind into a sober state, and incline her to a juster estimate of the value of that home of greater permanence, and equal comfort, of which she had the offer.
It was a medicinal project upon his niece's understanding, which he must consider as at present diseased. A residence of eight or nine years in the abode of wealth and plenty had a little disordered her powers of comparing and judging. Her father's house would, in all probability, teach her the value of a good income; and he trusted that she would be the wiser and happier woman, all her life, for the experiment he had devised.
very little more than that Sir Thomas thought Fanny ought to go, and therefore that she must.
any necessity for Fanny's ever going near a father and mother who had done without her so long, while she was so useful to herself.
to write to her soon and often,
to be a good correspondent herself;
she was grown into a woman, and he supposed would be wanting a husband soon,
the impossibility of getting Sam ready in time,
the shocking character of all the Portsmouth servants, of whom
her own two were the very worst,
Mr. Price was out, which she regretted very much.
she had never seen so agreeable a man in her life;
so great and so agreeable as he was, he should be come down to Portsmouth neither on a visit to the port-admiral, nor the commissioner, nor yet with the intention of going over to the island, nor of seeing the dockyard.
she could seldom, with her large family, find time for a walk.
to go with them to the Garrison chapel,
she knows but three men in town who have so good a person, height, and air;
her best love, and hopes to hear from you soon.
The fever was subdued; the fever had been his complaint; of course he would soon be well again.
you to invite Susan to go with you for a few months.
her poor sister
but how to find anything to hold Susan's clothes, because Rebecca took away all the boxes and spoilt them,
her, as Fanny's sister, to have a claim at Mansfield,
it a bad thing, done in the worst manner, and at the worst time; and though Julia was yet as more pardonable than Maria as folly than vice, he could not but regard the step she had taken as opening the worst probabilities of a conclusion hereafter like her sister's.
his happiness as very deeply involved in the offence of his sister and friend; cut off by it, as he must be, from the woman whom he had been pursuing with undoubted attachment and strong probability of success; and who, in everything but this despicable brother, would have been so eligible a connexion.
He felt that he ought not to have allowed the marriage; that his daughter's sentiments had been sufficiently known to him to render him culpable in authorising it; that in so doing he had sacrificed the right to the expedient, and been governed by motives of selfishness and worldly wisdom.

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