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its being impossible among so many dishes but that some must be cold.
A ball at such a time! His daughters absent and herself not consulted!
She must be the doer of everything: Lady Bertram would of course be spared all thought and exertion, and it would all fall upon her. She should have to do the honours of the evening;
as to the rooms he would think fittest to be used,
having been on the point of proposing the 22nd herself, as by far the best day for the purpose.
his having succeeded in the object he had undertaken, the promotion of young Price,
It was an injury and affront to Julia, who ought to have been Mr. Crawford's choice;
Fanny could be very well spared— she being ready to give up all her own time to her as requested— and, in short, could not really be wanted or missed.
there being room for a third in the carriage,
to go and see her poor dear sister Price.
She must say that she had more than half a mind to go with the young people; it would be such an indulgence to her; she had not seen her poor dear sister Price for more than twenty years; and it would be a help to the young people in their journey to have her older head to manage for them; and she could not help thinking her poor dear sister Price would feel it very unkind of her not to come by such an opportunity.
she could not possibly be spared from Mansfield Park at present;
she was a great deal too necessary to Sir Thomas and Lady Bertram for her to be able to answer it to herself to leave them even for a week, and therefore must certainly sacrifice every other pleasure to that of being useful to them.
her poor dear sister Price
she hoped that her god-daughter was a good girl, and learnt her book.
One was found to have too small a print for a child's eyes, and the other to be too cumbersome for her to carry about.
the match had been her own contriving,
Her companions were relieved, but there was no good for her.
Had Fanny accepted Mr. Crawford this could not have happened.
her as a spy, and an intruder, and an indigent niece,