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1Mr. Crawford gone, Sir Thomas's next object was that he should be missed; and he entertained great hope that his niece
2would find a blank in the loss of those attentions which at the time she had felt, or fancied, an evil. She had tasted
3of consequence in its most flattering form; and he did hope that the loss of it, the sinking again into nothing, would
4awaken very wholesome regrets in her mind. He watched her with this idea; but he could hardly tell with what success. He
5hardly knew whether there were any difference in her spirits or not. She was always so gentle and retiring that her
6emotions were beyond his discrimination. He did not understand her: he felt that he did not; and therefore applied to
7Edmund to tell him how she stood affected on the present occasion, and whether she were more or less happy than she had
8been. Edmund did not discern any symptoms of regret, and thought his father a little unreasonable in supposing the first
9three or four days could produce any. What chiefly surprised Edmund was, that Crawford's sister, the friend and
10companion who had been so much to her, should not be more visibly regretted. He wondered that Fanny spoke so seldom of
11her, and had so little voluntarily to say of her concern at this separation. Alas! it was this sister, this friend and
12companion, who was now the chief bane of Fanny's comfort. If she could have believed Mary's future fate as unconnected
13with Mansfield as she was determined the brother's should be, if she could have hoped her return thither to be as
14distant as she was much inclined to think his, she would have been light of heart indeed; but the more she recollected
15and observed, the more deeply was she convinced that everything was now in a fairer train for Miss Crawford's marrying
16Edmund than it had ever been before. On his side the inclination was stronger, on hers less equivocal. His objections,
17the scruples of his integrity, seemed all done away, nobody could tell how; and the doubts and hesitations of her
18ambition were equally got over--and equally without apparent reason. It could only be imputed to increasing attachment.
19His good and her bad feelings yielded to love, and such love must unite them. He was to go to town as soon as some
20business relative to Thornton Lacey were completed--perhaps within a fortnight; he talked of going, he loved to talk of
21it; and when once with her again, Fanny could not doubt the rest. Her acceptance must be as certain as his offer; and
22yet there were bad feelings still remaining which made the prospect of it most sorrowful to her, independently, she
23believed, independently of self. In their very last conversation, Miss Crawford, in spite of some amiable sensations,
24and much personal kindness, had still been Miss Crawford; still shewn a mind led astray and bewildered, and without any
25suspicion of being so; darkened, yet fancying itself light. She might love, but she did not deserve Edmund by any other
26sentiment. Fanny believed there was scarcely a second feeling in common between them; and she may be forgiven by older
27sages for looking on the chance of Miss Crawford's future improvement as nearly desperate, for thinking that if Edmund's
28influence in this season of love had already done so little in clearing her judgment, and regulating her notions, his
29worth would be finally wasted on her even in years of matrimony. Experience might have hoped more for any young people
30so circumstanced, and impartiality would not have denied to Miss Crawford's nature that participation of the general
31nature of women which would lead her to adopt the opinions of the man she loved and respected as her own. But as such
32were Fanny's persuasions, she suffered very much from them, and could never speak of Miss Crawford without pain. Sir
33Thomas, meanwhile, went on with his own hopes and his own observations, still feeling a right, by all his knowledge of
34human nature, to expect to see the effect of the loss of power and consequence on his niece's spirits, and the past
35attentions of the lover producing a craving for their return; and he was soon afterwards able to account for his not yet
36completely and indubitably seeing all this, by the prospect of another visitor, whose approach he could allow to be
37quite enough to support the spirits he was watching. William had obtained a ten days' leave of absence, to be given to
38Northamptonshire, and was coming, the happiest of lieutenants, because the latest made, to shew his happiness and
39describe his uniform. He came; and he would have been delighted to shew his uniform there too, had not cruel custom
40prohibited its appearance except on duty. So the uniform remained at Portsmouth, and Edmund conjectured that before
41Fanny had any chance of seeing it, all its own freshness and all the freshness of its wearer's feelings must be worn
42away. It would be sunk into a badge of disgrace; for what can be more unbecoming, or more worthless, than the uniform of
43a lieutenant, who has been a lieutenant a year or two, and sees others made commanders before him? So reasoned Edmund,
44till his father made him the confidant of a scheme which placed Fanny's chance of seeing the second lieutenant of H.M.S.
45Thrush in all his glory in another light. This scheme was that she should accompany her brother back to Portsmouth, and
46spend a little time with her own family. It had occurred to Sir Thomas, in one of his dignified musings, as a right and
47desirable measure; but before he absolutely made up his mind, he consulted his son. Edmund considered it every way, and
48saw nothing but what was right. The thing was good in itself, and could not be done at a better time; and he had no
49doubt of it being highly agreeable to Fanny. This was enough to determine Sir Thomas; and a decisive "then so it shall
50be" closed that stage of the business; Sir Thomas retiring from it with some feelings of satisfaction, and views of good
51over and above what he had communicated to his son; for his prime motive in sending her away had very little to do with
52the propriety of her seeing her parents again, and nothing at all with any idea of making her happy. He certainly wished
53her to go willingly, but he as certainly wished her to be heartily sick of home before her visit ended; and that a
54little abstinence from the elegancies and luxuries of Mansfield Park would bring her mind into a sober state, and
55incline her to a juster estimate of the value of that home of greater permanence, and equal comfort, of which she had
56the offer. It was a medicinal project upon his niece's understanding, which he must consider as at present diseased. A
57residence of eight or nine years in the abode of wealth and plenty had a little disordered her powers of comparing and
58judging. Her father's house would, in all probability, teach her the value of a good income; and he trusted that she
59would be the wiser and happier woman, all her life, for the experiment he had devised.
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