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1"I mean to be too rich to lament or to feel anything of the sort. A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever
2heard of. It certainly may secure all the myrtle and turkey part of it." "You intend to be very rich?" said Edmund, with
3a look which, to Fanny's eye, had a great deal of serious meaning. "To be sure. Do not you? Do not we all?" "I cannot
4intend anything which it must be so completely beyond my power to command. Miss Crawford may chuse her degree of wealth.
5She has only to fix on her number of thousands a year, and there can be no doubt of their coming. My intentions are only
6not to be poor." "By moderation and economy, and bringing down your wants to your income, and all that. I understand
7you--and a very proper plan it is for a person at your time of life, with such limited means and indifferent connexions.
8What can you want but a decent maintenance? You have not much time before you; and your relations are in no situation to
9do anything for you, or to mortify you by the contrast of their own wealth and consequence. Be honest and poor, by all
10means--but I shall not envy you; I do not much think I shall even respect you. I have a much greater respect for those
11that are honest and rich." "Your degree of respect for honesty, rich or poor, is precisely what I have no manner of
12concern with. I do not mean to be poor. Poverty is exactly what I have determined against. Honesty, in the something
13between, in the middle state of worldly circumstances, is all that I am anxious for your not looking down on." "But I do
14look down upon it, if it might have been higher. I must look down upon anything contented with obscurity when it might
15rise to distinction." "But how may it rise? How may my honesty at least rise to any distinction?" This was not so very
16easy a question to answer, and occasioned an "Oh!" of some length from the fair lady before she could add, "You ought to
17be in parliament, or you should have gone into the army ten years ago." "That is not much to the purpose now; and as to
18my being in parliament, I believe I must wait till there is an especial assembly for the representation of younger sons
19who have little to live on. No, Miss Crawford," he added, in a more serious tone, "there are distinctions which I should
20be miserable if I thought myself without any chance--absolutely without chance or possibility of obtaining--but they are
21of a different character." A look of consciousness as he spoke, and what seemed a consciousness of manner on Miss
22Crawford's side as she made some laughing answer, was sorrowfull food for Fanny's observation; and finding herself quite
23unable to attend as she ought to Mrs. Grant, by whose side she was now following the others, she had nearly resolved on
24going home immediately, and only waited for courage to say so, when the sound of the great clock at Mansfield Park,
25striking three, made her feel that she had really been much longer absent than usual, and brought the previous
26self-inquiry of whether she should take leave or not just then, and how, to a very speedy issue. With undoubting
27decision she directly began her adieus; and Edmund began at the same time to recollect that his mother had been
28inquiring for her, and that he had walked down to the Parsonage on purpose to bring her back. Fanny's hurry increased;
29and without in the least expecting Edmund's attendance, she would have hastened away alone; but the general pace was
30quickened, and they all accompanied her into the house, through which it was necessary to pass. Dr. Grant was in the
31vestibule, and as they stopt to speak to him she found, from Edmund's manner, that he did mean to go with her. He too
32was taking leave. She could not but be thankful. In the moment of parting, Edmund was invited by Dr. Grant to eat his
33mutton with him the next day; and Fanny had barely time for an unpleasant feeling on the occasion, when Mrs. Grant, with
34sudden recollection, turned to her and asked for the pleasure of her company too. This was so new an attention, so
35perfectly new a circumstance in the events of Fanny's life, that she was all surprise and embarrassment; and while
36stammering out her great obligation, and her "but she did not suppose it would be in her power," was looking at Edmund
37for his opinion and help. But Edmund, delighted with her having such an happiness offered, and ascertaining with half a
38look, and half a sentence, that she had no objection but on her aunt's account, could not imagine that his mother would
39make any difficulty of sparing her, and therefore gave his decided open advice that the invitation should be accepted;
40and though Fanny would not venture, even on his encouragement, to such a flight of audacious independence, it was soon
41settled, that if nothing were heard to the contrary, Mrs. Grant might expect her. "And you know what your dinner will
42be," said Mrs. Grant, smiling--"the turkey, and I assure you a very fine one; for, my dear," turning to her husband,
43"cook insists upon the turkey's being dressed to-morrow." "Very well, very well," cried Dr. Grant, "all the better; I am
44glad to hear you have anything so good in the house. But Miss Price and Mr. Edmund Bertram, I dare say, would take their
45chance. We none of us want to hear the bill of fare. A friendly meeting, and not a fine dinner, is all we have in view.
46A turkey, or a goose, or a leg of mutton, or whatever you and your cook chuse to give us." The two cousins walked home
47together; and, except in the immediate discussion of this engagement, which Edmund spoke of with the warmest
48satisfaction, as so particularly desirable for her in the intimacy which he saw with so much pleasure established, it
49was a silent walk; for having finished that subject, he grew thoughtful and indisposed for any other.
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