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1Miss Crawford's uneasiness was much lightened by this conversation, and she walked home again in spirits which might
2have defied almost another week of the same small party in the same bad weather, had they been put to the proof; but as
3that very evening brought her brother down from London again in quite, or more than quite, his usual cheerfulness, she
4had nothing farther to try her own. His still refusing to tell her what he had gone for was but the promotion of gaiety;
5a day before it might have irritated, but now it was a pleasant joke--suspected only of concealing something planned as
6a pleasant surprise to herself. And the next day did bring a surprise to her. Henry had said he should just go and ask
7the Bertrams how they did, and be back in ten minutes, but he was gone above an hour; and when his sister, who had been
8waiting for him to walk with her in the garden, met him at last most impatiently in the sweep, and cried out, "My dear
9Henry, where can you have been all this time?" he had only to say that he had been sitting with Lady Bertram and Fanny.
10"Sitting with them an hour and a half!" exclaimed Mary. But this was only the beginning of her surprise. "Yes, Mary,"
11said he, drawing her arm within his, and walking along the sweep as if not knowing where he was: "I could not get away
12sooner; Fanny looked so lovely! I am quite determined, Mary. My mind is entirely made up. Will it astonish you? No: you
13must be aware that I am quite determined to marry Fanny Price." The surprise was now complete; for, in spite of whatever
14his consciousness might suggest, a suspicion of his having any such views had never entered his sister's imagination;
15and she looked so truly the astonishment she felt, that he was obliged to repeat what he had said, and more fully and
16more solemnly. The conviction of his determination once admitted, it was not unwelcome. There was even pleasure with the
17surprise. Mary was in a state of mind to rejoice in a connexion with the Bertram family, and to be not displeased with
18her brother's marrying a little beneath him. "Yes, Mary," was Henry's concluding assurance. "I am fairly caught. You
19know with what idle designs I began; but this is the end of them. I have, I flatter myself, made no inconsiderable
20progress in her affections; but my own are entirely fixed." "Lucky, lucky girl!" cried Mary, as soon as she could speak;
21"what a match for her! My dearest Henry, this must be my first feeling; but my second, which you shall have as
22sincerely, is, that I approve your choice from my soul, and foresee your happiness as heartily as I wish and desire it.
23You will have a sweet little wife; all gratitude and devotion. Exactly what you deserve. What an amazing match for her!
24Mrs. Norris often talks of her luck; what will she say now? The delight of all the family, indeed! And she has some true
25friends in it! How they will rejoice! But tell me all about it! Talk to me for ever. When did you begin to think
26seriously about her?" Nothing could be more impossible than to answer such a question, though nothing could be more
27agreeable than to have it asked. "How the pleasing plague had stolen on him" he could not say; and before he had
28expressed the same sentiment with a little variation of words three times over, his sister eagerly interrupted him with,
29"Ah, my dear Henry, and this is what took you to London! This was your business! You chose to consult the Admiral before
30you made up your mind." But this he stoutly denied. He knew his uncle too well to consult him on any matrimonial scheme.
31The Admiral hated marriage, and thought it never pardonable in a young man of independent fortune. "When Fanny is known
32to him," continued Henry, "he will doat on her. She is exactly the woman to do away every prejudice of such a man as the
33Admiral, for she is exactly such a woman as he thinks does not exist in the world. She is the very impossibility he
34would describe, if indeed he has now delicacy of language enough to embody his own ideas. But till it is absolutely
35settled--settled beyond all interference, he shall know nothing of the matter. No, Mary, you are quite mistaken. You
36have not discovered my business yet." "Well, well, I am satisfied. I know now to whom it must relate, and am in no hurry
37for the rest. Fanny Price! wonderful, quite wonderful! That Mansfield should have done so much for--that you should have
38found your fate in Mansfield! But you are quite right; you could not have chosen better. There is not a better girl in
39the world, and you do not want for fortune; and as to her connexions, they are more than good. The Bertrams are
40undoubtedly some of the first people in this country. She is niece to Sir Thomas Bertram; that will be enough for the
41world. But go on, go on. Tell me more. What are your plans? Does she know her own happiness?" "No." "What are you
42waiting for?" "For--for very little more than opportunity. Mary, she is not like her cousins; but I think I shall not
43ask in vain." "Oh no! you cannot. Were you even less pleasing--supposing her not to love you already (of which, however,
44I can have little doubt)--you would be safe. The gentleness and gratitude of her disposition would secure her all your
45own immediately. From my soul I do not think she would marry you without love; that is, if there is a girl in the world
46capable of being uninfluenced by ambition, I can suppose it her; but ask her to love you, and she will never have the
47heart to refuse." As soon as her eagerness could rest in silence, he was as happy to tell as she could be to listen; and
48a conversation followed almost as deeply interesting to her as to himself, though he had in fact nothing to relate but
49his own sensations, nothing to dwell on but Fanny's charms. Fanny's beauty of face and figure, Fanny's graces of manner
50and goodness of heart, were the exhaustless theme. The gentleness, modesty, and sweetness of her character were warmly
51expatiated on; that sweetness which makes so essential a part of every woman's worth in the judgment of man, that though
52he sometimes loves where it is not, he can never believe it absent. Her temper he had good reason to depend on and to
53praise. He had often seen it tried. Was there one of the family, excepting Edmund, who had not in some way or other
54continually exercised her patience and forbearance? Her affections were evidently strong. To see her with her brother!
55What could more delightfully prove that the warmth of her heart was equal to its gentleness? What could be more
56encouraging to a man who had her love in view? Then, her understanding was beyond every suspicion, quick and clear; and
57her manners were the mirror of her own modest and elegant mind. Nor was this all. Henry Crawford had too much sense not
58to feel the worth of good principles in a wife, though he was too little accustomed to serious reflection to know them
59by their proper name; but when he talked of her having such a steadiness and regularity of conduct, such a high notion
60of honour, and such an observance of decorum as might warrant any man in the fullest dependence on her faith and
61integrity, he expressed what was inspired by the knowledge of her being well principled and religious. "I could so
62wholly and absolutely confide in her," said he; "and that is what I want." Well might his sister, believing as she
63really did that his opinion of Fanny Price was scarcely beyond her merits, rejoice in her prospects. "The more I think
64of it," she cried, "the more am I convinced that you are doing quite right; and though I should never have selected
65Fanny Price as the girl most likely to attach you, I am now persuaded she is the very one to make you happy. Your wicked
66project upon her peace turns out a clever thought indeed. You will both find your good in it."
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