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1"You assign greater consequence to the clergyman than one has been used to hear given, or than I can quite comprehend.
2One does not see much of this influence and importance in society, and how can it be acquired where they are so seldom
3seen themselves? How can two sermons a week, even supposing them worth hearing, supposing the preacher to have the sense
4to prefer Blair's to his own, do all that you speak of? govern the conduct and fashion the manners of a large
5congregation for the rest of the week? One scarcely sees a clergyman out of his pulpit." "You are speaking of London, I
6am speaking of the nation at large." "The metropolis, I imagine, is a pretty fair sample of the rest." "Not, I should
7hope, of the proportion of virtue to vice throughout the kingdom. We do not look in great cities for our best morality.
8It is not there that respectable people of any denomination can do most good; and it certainly is not there that the
9influence of the clergy can be most felt. A fine preacher is followed and admired; but it is not in fine preaching only
10that a good clergyman will be useful in his parish and his neighbourhood, where the parish and neighbourhood are of a
11size capable of knowing his private character, and observing his general conduct, which in London can rarely be the
12case. The clergy are lost there in the crowds of their parishioners. They are known to the largest part only as
13preachers. And with regard to their influencing public manners, Miss Crawford must not misunderstand me, or suppose I
14mean to call them the arbiters of good-breeding, the regulators of refinement and courtesy, the masters of the
15ceremonies of life. The manners I speak of might rather be called conduct, perhaps, the result of good principles; the
16effect, in short, of those doctrines which it is their duty to teach and recommend; and it will, I believe, be
17everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation." "Certainly,"
18said Fanny, with gentle earnestness. "There," cried Miss Crawford, "you have quite convinced Miss Price already." "I
19wish I could convince Miss Crawford too." "I do not think you ever will," said she, with an arch smile; "I am just as
20much surprised now as I was at first that you should intend to take orders. You really are fit for something better.
21Come, do change your mind. It is not too late. Go into the law." "Go into the law! With as much ease as I was told to go
22into this wilderness." "Now you are going to say something about law being the worst wilderness of the two, but I
23forestall you; remember, I have forestalled you." "You need not hurry when the object is only to prevent my saying a bon
24mot, for there is not the least wit in my nature. I am a very matter-of-fact, plain-spoken being, and may blunder on the
25borders of a repartee for half an hour together without striking it out." A general silence succeeded. Each was
26thoughtful. Fanny made the first interruption by saying, "I wonder that I should be tired with only walking in this
27sweet wood; but the next time we come to a seat, if it is not disagreeable to you, I should be glad to sit down for a
28little while." "My dear Fanny," cried Edmund, immediately drawing her arm within his, "how thoughtless I have been! I
29hope you are not very tired. Perhaps," turning to Miss Crawford, "my other companion may do me the honour of taking an
30arm." "Thank you, but I am not at all tired." She took it, however, as she spoke, and the gratification of having her do
31so, of feeling such a connexion for the first time, made him a little forgetful of Fanny. "You scarcely touch me," said
32he. "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
33have 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
34comparison." "I am really not tired, which I almost wonder at; for we must have walked at least a mile in this wood. Do
35not you think we have?" "Not half a mile," was his sturdy answer; for he was not yet so much in love as to measure
36distance, or reckon time, with feminine lawlessness. "Oh! you do not consider how much we have wound about. We have
37taken such a very serpentine course, and the wood itself must be half a mile long in a straight line, for we have never
38seen the end of it yet since we left the first great path." "But if you remember, before we left that first great path,
39we 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
40been more than a furlong in length." "Oh! I know nothing of your furlongs, but I am sure it is a very long wood, and
41that we have been winding in and out ever since we came into it; and therefore, when I say that we have walked a mile in
42it, I must speak within compass." "We have been exactly a quarter of an hour here," said Edmund, taking out his watch.
43"Do you think we are walking four miles an hour?" "Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or
44too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch." A few steps farther brought them out at the bottom of the very walk they
45had been talking of; and standing back, well shaded and sheltered, and looking over a ha-ha into the park, was a
46comfortable-sized bench, on which they all sat down. "I am afraid you are very tired, Fanny," said Edmund, observing
47her; "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
48of exercise fatigues her so soon, Miss Crawford, except riding." "How abominable in you, then, to let me engross her
49horse as I did all last week! I am ashamed of you and of myself, but it shall never happen again." "Your attentiveness
50and consideration makes me more sensible of my own neglect. Fanny's interest seems in safer hands with you than with
51me." "That she should be tired now, however, gives me no surprise; for there is nothing in the course of one's duties so
52fatiguing as what we have been doing this morning: seeing a great house, dawdling from one room to another, straining
53one's eyes and one's attention, hearing what one does not understand, admiring what one does not care for. It is
54generally allowed to be the greatest bore in the world, and Miss Price has found it so, though she did not know it." "I
55shall soon be rested," said Fanny; "to sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure, is the most perfect
56refreshment." After sitting a little while Miss Crawford was up again. "I must move," said she; "resting fatigues me. I
57have looked across the ha-ha till I am weary. I must go and look through that iron gate at the same view, without being
58able to see it so well." Edmund left the seat likewise. "Now, Miss Crawford, if you will look up the walk, you will
59convince yourself that it cannot be half a mile long, or half half a mile." "It is an immense distance," said she; "I
60see that with a glance." He still reasoned with her, but in vain. She would not calculate, she would not compare. She
61would only smile and assert. The greatest degree of rational consistency could not have been more engaging, and they
62talked with mutual satisfaction. At last it was agreed that they should endeavour to determine the dimensions of the
63wood by walking a little more about it. They would go to one end of it, in the line they were then in--for there was a
64straight green walk along the bottom by the side of the ha-ha--and perhaps turn a little way in some other direction, if
65it seemed likely to assist them, and be back in a few minutes. Fanny said she was rested, and would have moved too, but
66this was not suffered. Edmund urged her remaining where she was with an earnestness which she could not resist, and she
67was left on the bench to think with pleasure of her cousin's care, but with great regret that she was not stronger. She
68watched them till they had turned the corner, and listened till all sound of them had ceased.
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