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1The conference was neither so short nor so conclusive as the lady had designed. The gentleman was not so easily
2satisfied. He had all the disposition to persevere that Sir Thomas could wish him. He had vanity, which strongly
3inclined him in the first place to think she did love him, though she might not know it herself; and which, secondly,
4when constrained at last to admit that she did know her own present feelings, convinced him that he should be able in
5time to make those feelings what he wished. He was in love, very much in love; and it was a love which, operating on an
6active, sanguine spirit, of more warmth than delicacy, made her affection appear of greater consequence because it was
7withheld, and determined him to have the glory, as well as the felicity, of forcing her to love him. He would not
8despair: he would not desist. He had every well-grounded reason for solid attachment; he knew her to have all the worth
9that could justify the warmest hopes of lasting happiness with her; her conduct at this very time, by speaking the
10disinterestedness and delicacy of her character (qualities which he believed most rare indeed), was of a sort to
11heighten all his wishes, and confirm all his resolutions. He knew not that he had a pre-engaged heart to attack. Of that
12he had no suspicion. He considered her rather as one who had never thought on the subject enough to be in danger; who
13had been guarded by youth, a youth of mind as lovely as of person; whose modesty had prevented her from understanding
14his attentions, and who was still overpowered by the suddenness of addresses so wholly unexpected, and the novelty of a
15situation which her fancy had never taken into account. Must it not follow of course, that, when he was understood, he
16should succeed? He believed it fully. Love such as his, in a man like himself, must with perseverance secure a return,
17and at no great distance; and he had so much delight in the idea of obliging her to love him in a very short time, that
18her not loving him now was scarcely regretted. A little difficulty to be overcome was no evil to Henry Crawford. He
19rather derived spirits from it. He had been apt to gain hearts too easily. His situation was new and animating. To
20Fanny, however, who had known too much opposition all her life to find any charm in it, all this was unintelligible. She
21found that he did mean to persevere; but how he could, after such language from her as she felt herself obliged to use,
22was not to be understood. She told him that she did not love him, could not love him, was sure she never should love
23him; that such a change was quite impossible; that the subject was most painful to her; that she must entreat him never
24to mention it again, to allow her to leave him at once, and let it be considered as concluded for ever. And when farther
25pressed, had added, that in her opinion their dispositions were so totally dissimilar as to make mutual affection
26incompatible; and that they were unfitted for each other by nature, education, and habit. All this she had said, and
27with the earnestness of sincerity; yet this was not enough, for he immediately denied there being anything uncongenial
28in their characters, or anything unfriendly in their situations; and positively declared, that he would still love, and
29still hope! Fanny knew her own meaning, but was no judge of her own manner. Her manner was incurably gentle; and she was
30not aware how much it concealed the sternness of her purpose. Her diffidence, gratitude, and softness made every
31expression of indifference seem almost an effort of self-denial; seem, at least, to be giving nearly as much pain to
32herself as to him. Mr. Crawford was no longer the Mr. Crawford who, as the clandestine, insidious, treacherous admirer
33of Maria Bertram, had been her abhorrence, whom she had hated to see or to speak to, in whom she could believe no good
34quality to exist, and whose power, even of being agreeable, she had barely acknowledged. He was now the Mr. Crawford who
35was addressing herself with ardent, disinterested love; whose feelings were apparently become all that was honourable
36and upright, whose views of happiness were all fixed on a marriage of attachment; who was pouring out his sense of her
37merits, describing and describing again his affection, proving as far as words could prove it, and in the language,
38tone, and spirit of a man of talent too, that he sought her for her gentleness and her goodness; and to complete the
39whole, he was now the Mr. Crawford who had procured William's promotion! Here was a change, and here were claims which
40could not but operate! She might have disdained him in all the dignity of angry virtue, in the grounds of Sotherton, or
41the theatre at Mansfield Park; but he approached her now with rights that demanded different treatment. She must be
42courteous, and she must be compassionate. She must have a sensation of being honoured, and whether thinking of herself
43or her brother, she must have a strong feeling of gratitude. The effect of the whole was a manner so pitying and
44agitated, and words intermingled with her refusal so expressive of obligation and concern, that to a temper of vanity
45and hope like Crawford's, the truth, or at least the strength of her indifference, might well be questionable; and he
46was not so irrational as Fanny considered him, in the professions of persevering, assiduous, and not desponding
47attachment which closed the interview. It was with reluctance that he suffered her to go; but there was no look of
48despair in parting to belie his words, or give her hopes of his being less unreasonable than he professed himself. Now
49she was angry. Some resentment did arise at a perseverance so selfish and ungenerous. Here was again a want of delicacy
50and regard for others which had formerly so struck and disgusted her. Here was again a something of the same Mr.
51Crawford whom she had so reprobated before. How evidently was there a gross want of feeling and humanity where his own
52pleasure was concerned--And, alas! how always known no principle to supply as a duty what the heart was deficient in.
53Had her own affections been as free--as perhaps they ought to have been--he never could have engaged them. So thought
54Fanny, in good truth and sober sadness, as she sat musing over that too great indulgence and luxury of a fire upstairs:
55wondering at the past and present; wondering at what was yet to come, and in a nervous agitation which made nothing
56clear to her but the persuasion of her being never under any circumstances able to love Mr. Crawford, and the felicity
57of having a fire to sit over and think of it. Sir Thomas was obliged, or obliged himself, to wait till the morrow for a
58knowledge of what had passed between the young people. He then saw Mr. Crawford, and received his account. The first
59feeling was disappointment: he had hoped better things; he had thought that an hour's entreaty from a young man like
60Crawford could not have worked so little change on a gentle-tempered girl like Fanny; but there was speedy comfort in
61the determined views and sanguine perseverance of the lover; and when seeing such confidence of success in the
62principal, Sir Thomas was soon able to depend on it himself. Nothing was omitted, on his side, of civility, compliment,
63or kindness, that might assist the plan. Mr. Crawford's steadiness was honoured, and Fanny was praised, and the
64connexion was still the most desirable in the world. At Mansfield Park Mr. Crawford would always be welcome; he had only
65to consult his own judgment and feelings as to the frequency of his visits, at present or in future. In all his niece's
66family and friends, there could be but one opinion, one wish on the subject; the influence of all who loved her must
67incline one way. Everything was said that could encourage, every encouragement received with grateful joy, and the
68gentlemen parted the best of friends.
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