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1Sir Thomas came towards the table where she sat in trembling wretchedness, and with a good deal of cold sternness, said,
2"It is of no use, I perceive, to talk to you. We had better put an end to this most mortifying conference. Mr. Crawford
3must not be kept longer waiting. I will, therefore, only add, as thinking it my duty to mark my opinion of your conduct,
4that you have disappointed every expectation I had formed, and proved yourself of a character the very reverse of what I
5had supposed. For I had, Fanny, as I think my behaviour must have shewn, formed a very favourable opinion of you from
6the period of my return to England. I had thought you peculiarly free from wilfulness of temper, self-conceit, and every
7tendency to that independence of spirit which prevails so much in modern days, even in young women, and which in young
8women is offensive and disgusting beyond all common offence. But you have now shewn me that you can be wilful and
9perverse; that you can and will decide for yourself, without any consideration or deference for those who have surely
10some right to guide you, without even asking their advice. You have shewn yourself very, very different from anything
11that I had imagined. The advantage or disadvantage of your family, of your parents, your brothers and sisters, never
12seems to have had a moment's share in your thoughts on this occasion. How they might be benefited, how they must rejoice
13in such an establishment for you, is nothing to you. You think only of yourself, and because you do not feel for Mr.
14Crawford exactly what a young heated fancy imagines to be necessary for happiness, you resolve to refuse him at once,
15without wishing even for a little time to consider of it, a little more time for cool consideration, and for really
16examining your own inclinations; and are, in a wild fit of folly, throwing away from you such an opportunity of being
17settled in life, eligibly, honourably, nobly settled, as will, probably, never occur to you again. Here is a young man
18of sense, of character, of temper, of manners, and of fortune, exceedingly attached to you, and seeking your hand in the
19most handsome and disinterested way; and let me tell you, Fanny, that you may live eighteen years longer in the world
20without being addressed by a man of half Mr. Crawford's estate, or a tenth part of his merits. Gladly would I have
21bestowed either of my own daughters on him. Maria is nobly married; but had Mr. Crawford sought Julia's hand, I should
22have given it to him with superior and more heartfelt satisfaction than I gave Maria's to Mr. Rushworth." After half a
23moment's pause: "And I should have been very much surprised had either of my daughters, on receiving a proposal of
24marriage at any time which might carry with it only half the eligibility of this, immediately and peremptorily, and
25without paying my opinion or my regard the compliment of any consultation, put a decided negative on it. I should have
26been much surprised and much hurt by such a proceeding. I should have thought it a gross violation of duty and respect.
27You are not to be judged by the same rule. You do not owe me the duty of a child. But, Fanny, if your heart can acquit
28you of ingratitude--" He ceased. Fanny was by this time crying so bitterly that, angry as he was, he would not press
29that article farther. Her heart was almost broke by such a picture of what she appeared to him; by such accusations, so
30heavy, so multiplied, so rising in dreadful gradation! Self-willed, obstinate, selfish, and ungrateful. He thought her
31all this. She had deceived his expectations; she had lost his good opinion. What was to become of her? "I am very
32sorry," said she inarticulately, through her tears, "I am very sorry indeed." "Sorry! yes, I hope you are sorry; and you
33will probably have reason to be long sorry for this day's transactions." "If it were possible for me to do otherwise"
34said she, with another strong effort; "but I am so perfectly convinced that I could never make him happy, and that I
35should be miserable myself." Another burst of tears; but in spite of that burst, and in spite of that great black word
36miserable, which served to introduce it, Sir Thomas began to think a little relenting, a little change of inclination,
37might have something to do with it; and to augur favourably from the personal entreaty of the young man himself. He knew
38her to be very timid, and exceedingly nervous; and thought it not improbable that her mind might be in such a state as a
39little time, a little pressing, a little patience, and a little impatience, a judicious mixture of all on the lover's
40side, might work their usual effect on. If the gentleman would but persevere, if he had but love enough to persevere,
41Sir Thomas began to have hopes; and these reflections having passed across his mind and cheered it, "Well," said he, in
42a tone of becoming gravity, but of less anger, "well, child, dry up your tears. There is no use in these tears; they can
43do no good. You must now come downstairs with me. Mr. Crawford has been kept waiting too long already. You must give him
44your own answer: we cannot expect him to be satisfied with less; and you only can explain to him the grounds of that
45misconception of your sentiments, which, unfortunately for himself, he certainly has imbibed. I am totally unequal to
46it." But Fanny shewed such reluctance, such misery, at the idea of going down to him, that Sir Thomas, after a little
47consideration, judged it better to indulge her. His hopes from both gentleman and lady suffered a small depression in
48consequence; but when he looked at his niece, and saw the state of feature and complexion which her crying had brought
49her into, he thought there might be as much lost as gained by an immediate interview. With a few words, therefore, of no
50particular meaning, he walked off by himself, leaving his poor niece to sit and cry over what had passed, with very
51wretched feelings. Her mind was all disorder. The past, present, future, everything was terrible. But her uncle's anger
52gave her the severest pain of all. Selfish and ungrateful! to have appeared so to him! She was miserable for ever. She
53had no one to take her part, to counsel, or speak for her. Her only friend was absent. He might have softened his
54father; but all, perhaps all, would think her selfish and ungrateful. She might have to endure the reproach again and
55again; she might hear it, or see it, or know it to exist for ever in every connexion about her. She could not but feel
56some resentment against Mr. Crawford; yet, if he really loved her, and were unhappy too! It was all wretchedness
57together. In about a quarter of an hour her uncle returned; she was almost ready to faint at the sight of him. He spoke
58calmly, however, without austerity, without reproach, and she revived a little. There was comfort, too, in his words, as
59well as his manner, for he began with, "Mr. Crawford is gone: he has just left me. I need not repeat what has passed. I
60do not want to add to anything you may now be feeling, by an account of what he has felt. Suffice it, that he has
61behaved in the most gentlemanlike and generous manner, and has confirmed me in a most favourable opinion of his
62understanding, heart, and temper. Upon my representation of what you were suffering, he immediately, and with the
63greatest delicacy, ceased to urge to see you for the present."
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