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1A week was gone since Edmund might be supposed in town, and Fanny had heard nothing of him. There were three different
2conclusions to be drawn from his silence, between which her mind was in fluctuation; each of them at times being held
3the most probable. Either his going had been again delayed, or he had yet procured no opportunity of seeing Miss
4Crawford alone, or he was too happy for letter-writing! One morning, about this time, Fanny having now been nearly four
5weeks from Mansfield, a point which she never failed to think over and calculate every day, as she and Susan were
6preparing to remove, as usual, upstairs, they were stopped by the knock of a visitor, whom they felt they could not
7avoid, from Rebecca's alertness in going to the door, a duty which always interested her beyond any other. It was a
8gentleman's voice; it was a voice that Fanny was just turning pale about, when Mr. Crawford walked into the room. Good
9sense, like hers, will always act when really called upon; and she found that she had been able to name him to her
10mother, and recall her remembrance of the name, as that of "William's friend," though she could not previously have
11believed herself capable of uttering a syllable at such a moment. The consciousness of his being known there only as
12William's friend was some support. Having introduced him, however, and being all reseated, the terrors that occurred of
13what this visit might lead to were overpowering, and she fancied herself on the point of fainting away. While trying to
14keep herself alive, their visitor, who had at first approached her with as animated a countenance as ever, was wisely
15and kindly keeping his eyes away, and giving her time to recover, while he devoted himself entirely to her mother,
16addressing her, and attending to her with the utmost politeness and propriety, at the same time with a degree of
17friendliness, of interest at least, which was making his manner perfect. Mrs. Price's manners were also at their best.
18Warmed by the sight of such a friend to her son, and regulated by the wish of appearing to advantage before him, she was
19overflowing with gratitude--artless, maternal gratitude--which could not be unpleasing. Mr. Price was out, which she
20regretted very much. Fanny was just recovered enough to feel that she could not regret it; for to her many other sources
21of uneasiness was added the severe one of shame for the home in which he found her. She might scold herself for the
22weakness, but there was no scolding it away. She was ashamed, and she would have been yet more ashamed of her father
23than of all the rest. They talked of William, a subject on which Mrs. Price could never tire; and Mr. Crawford was as
24warm in his commendation as even her heart could wish. She felt that she had never seen so agreeable a man in her life;
25and was only astonished to find that, so great and so agreeable as he was, he should be come down to Portsmouth neither
26on a visit to the port-admiral, nor the commissioner, nor yet with the intention of going over to the island, nor of
27seeing the dockyard. Nothing of all that she had been used to think of as the proof of importance, or the employment of
28wealth, had brought him to Portsmouth. He had reached it late the night before, was come for a day or two, was staying
29at the Crown, had accidentally met with a navy officer or two of his acquaintance since his arrival, but had no object
30of that kind in coming. By the time he had given all this information, it was not unreasonable to suppose that Fanny
31might be looked at and spoken to; and she was tolerably able to bear his eye, and hear that he had spent half an hour
32with his sister the evening before his leaving London; that she had sent her best and kindest love, but had had no time
33for writing; that he thought himself lucky in seeing Mary for even half an hour, having spent scarcely twenty-four hours
34in London, after his return from Norfolk, before he set off again; that her cousin Edmund was in town, had been in town,
35he understood, a few days; that he had not seen him himself, but that he was well, had left them all well at Mansfield,
36and was to dine, as yesterday, with the Frasers. Fanny listened collectedly, even to the last-mentioned circumstance;
37nay, it seemed a relief to her worn mind to be at any certainty; and the words, "then by this time it is all settled,"
38passed internally, without more evidence of emotion than a faint blush. After talking a little more about Mansfield, a
39subject in which her interest was most apparent, Crawford began to hint at the expediency of an early walk. "It was a
40lovely morning, and at that season of the year a fine morning so often turned off, that it was wisest for everybody not
41to delay their exercise"; and such hints producing nothing, he soon proceeded to a positive recommendation to Mrs. Price
42and her daughters to take their walk without loss of time. Now they came to an understanding. Mrs. Price, it appeared,
43scarcely ever stirred out of doors, except of a Sunday; she owned she could seldom, with her large family, find time for
44a walk. "Would she not, then, persuade her daughters to take advantage of such weather, and allow him the pleasure of
45attending them?" Mrs. Price was greatly obliged and very complying. "Her daughters were very much confined; Portsmouth
46was a sad place; they did not often get out; and she knew they had some errands in the town, which they would be very
47glad to do." And the consequence was, that Fanny, strange as it was--strange, awkward, and distressing--found herself
48and Susan, within ten minutes, walking towards the High Street with Mr. Crawford. It was soon pain upon pain, confusion
49upon confusion; for they were hardly in the High Street before they met her father, whose appearance was not the better
50from its being Saturday. He stopt; and, ungentlemanlike as he looked, Fanny was obliged to introduce him to Mr.
51Crawford. She could not have a doubt of the manner in which Mr. Crawford must be struck. He must be ashamed and
52disgusted altogether. He must soon give her up, and cease to have the smallest inclination for the match; and yet,
53though she had been so much wanting his affection to be cured, this was a sort of cure that would be almost as bad as
54the complaint; and I believe there is scarcely a young lady in the United Kingdoms who would not rather put up with the
55misfortune of being sought by a clever, agreeable man, than have him driven away by the vulgarity of her nearest
56relations. Mr. Crawford probably could not regard his future father-in-law with any idea of taking him for a model in
57dress; but (as Fanny instantly, and to her great relief, discerned) her father was a very different man, a very
58different Mr. Price in his behaviour to this most highly respected stranger, from what he was in his own family at home.
59His manners now, though not polished, were more than passable: they were grateful, animated, manly; his expressions were
60those of an attached father, and a sensible man; his loud tones did very well in the open air, and there was not a
61single oath to be heard. Such was his instinctive compliment to the good manners of Mr. Crawford; and, be the
62consequence what it might, Fanny's immediate feelings were infinitely soothed.
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