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1The conclusion of the two gentlemen's civilities was an offer of Mr. Price's to take Mr. Crawford into the dockyard,
2which Mr. Crawford, desirous of accepting as a favour what was intended as such, though he had seen the dockyard again
3and again, and hoping to be so much the longer with Fanny, was very gratefully disposed to avail himself of, if the Miss
4Prices were not afraid of the fatigue; and as it was somehow or other ascertained, or inferred, or at least acted upon,
5that they were not at all afraid, to the dockyard they were all to go; and but for Mr. Crawford, Mr. Price would have
6turned thither directly, without the smallest consideration for his daughters' errands in the High Street. He took care,
7however, that they should be allowed to go to the shops they came out expressly to visit; and it did not delay them
8long, for Fanny could so little bear to excite impatience, or be waited for, that before the gentlemen, as they stood at
9the door, could do more than begin upon the last naval regulations, or settle the number of three-deckers now in
10commission, their companions were ready to proceed. They were then to set forward for the dockyard at once, and the walk
11would have been conducted--according to Mr. Crawford's opinion--in a singular manner, had Mr. Price been allowed the
12entire regulation of it, as the two girls, he found, would have been left to follow, and keep up with them or not, as
13they could, while they walked on together at their own hasty pace. He was able to introduce some improvement
14occasionally, though by no means to the extent he wished; he absolutely would not walk away from them; and at any
15crossing or any crowd, when Mr. Price was only calling out, "Come, girls; come, Fan; come, Sue, take care of yourselves;
16keep a sharp lookout!" he would give them his particular attendance. Once fairly in the dockyard, he began to reckon
17upon some happy intercourse with Fanny, as they were very soon joined by a brother lounger of Mr. Price's, who was come
18to take his daily survey of how things went on, and who must prove a far more worthy companion than himself; and after a
19time the two officers seemed very well satisfied going about together, and discussing matters of equal and never-failing
20interest, while the young people sat down upon some timbers in the yard, or found a seat on board a vessel in the stocks
21which they all went to look at. Fanny was most conveniently in want of rest. Crawford could not have wished her more
22fatigued or more ready to sit down; but he could have wished her sister away. A quick-looking girl of Susan's age was
23the very worst third in the world: totally different from Lady Bertram, all eyes and ears; and there was no introducing
24the main point before her. He must content himself with being only generally agreeable, and letting Susan have her share
25of entertainment, with the indulgence, now and then, of a look or hint for the better-informed and conscious Fanny.
26Norfolk was what he had mostly to talk of: there he had been some time, and everything there was rising in importance
27from his present schemes. Such a man could come from no place, no society, without importing something to amuse; his
28journeys and his acquaintance were all of use, and Susan was entertained in a way quite new to her. For Fanny, somewhat
29more was related than the accidental agreeableness of the parties he had been in. For her approbation, the particular
30reason of his going into Norfolk at all, at this unusual time of year, was given. It had been real business, relative to
31the renewal of a lease in which the welfare of a large and--he believed--industrious family was at stake. He had
32suspected his agent of some underhand dealing; of meaning to bias him against the deserving; and he had determined to go
33himself, and thoroughly investigate the merits of the case. He had gone, had done even more good than he had foreseen,
34had been useful to more than his first plan had comprehended, and was now able to congratulate himself upon it, and to
35feel that in performing a duty, he had secured agreeable recollections for his own mind. He had introduced himself to
36some tenants whom he had never seen before; he had begun making acquaintance with cottages whose very existence, though
37on his own estate, had been hitherto unknown to him. This was aimed, and well aimed, at Fanny. It was pleasing to hear
38him speak so properly; here he had been acting as he ought to do. To be the friend of the poor and the oppressed!
39Nothing could be more grateful to her; and she was on the point of giving him an approving look, when it was all
40frightened off by his adding a something too pointed of his hoping soon to have an assistant, a friend, a guide in every
41plan of utility or charity for Everingham: a somebody that would make Everingham and all about it a dearer object than
42it had ever been yet. She turned away, and wished he would not say such things. She was willing to allow he might have
43more good qualities than she had been wont to suppose. She began to feel the possibility of his turning out well at
44last; but he was and must ever be completely unsuited to her, and ought not to think of her. He perceived that enough
45had been said of Everingham, and that it would be as well to talk of something else, and turned to Mansfield. He could
46not have chosen better; that was a topic to bring back her attention and her looks almost instantly. It was a real
47indulgence to her to hear or to speak of Mansfield. Now so long divided from everybody who knew the place, she felt it
48quite the voice of a friend when he mentioned it, and led the way to her fond exclamations in praise of its beauties and
49comforts, and by his honourable tribute to its inhabitants allowed her to gratify her own heart in the warmest eulogium,
50in speaking of her uncle as all that was clever and good, and her aunt as having the sweetest of all sweet tempers. He
51had a great attachment to Mansfield himself; he said so; he looked forward with the hope of spending much, very much, of
52his time there; always there, or in the neighbourhood. He particularly built upon a very happy summer and autumn there
53this year; he felt that it would be so: he depended upon it; a summer and autumn infinitely superior to the last. As
54animated, as diversified, as social, but with circumstances of superiority undescribable. "Mansfield, Sotherton,
55Thornton Lacey," he continued; "what a society will be comprised in those houses! And at Michaelmas, perhaps, a fourth
56may be added: some small hunting-box in the vicinity of everything so dear; for as to any partnership in Thornton Lacey,
57as Edmund Bertram once good-humouredly proposed, I hope I foresee two objections: two fair, excellent, irresistible
58objections to that plan." Fanny was doubly silenced here; though when the moment was passed, could regret that she had
59not forced herself into the acknowledged comprehension of one half of his meaning, and encouraged him to say something
60more of his sister and Edmund. It was a subject which she must learn to speak of, and the weakness that shrunk from it
61would soon be quite unpardonable. When Mr. Price and his friend had seen all that they wished, or had time for, the
62others were ready to return; and in the course of their walk back, Mr. Crawford contrived a minute's privacy for telling
63Fanny that his only business in Portsmouth was to see her; that he was come down for a couple of days on her account,
64and hers only, and because he could not endure a longer total separation. She was sorry, really sorry; and yet in spite
65of this and the two or three other things which she wished he had not said, she thought him altogether improved since
66she had seen him; he was much more gentle, obliging, and attentive to other people's feelings than he had ever been at
67Mansfield; she had never seen him so agreeable--so near being agreeable; his behaviour to her father could not offend,
68and there was something particularly kind and proper in the notice he took of Susan. He was decidedly improved. She
69wished the next day over, she wished he had come only for one day; but it was not so very bad as she would have
70expected: the pleasure of talking of Mansfield was so very great! Before they parted, she had to thank him for another
71pleasure, and one of no trivial kind. Her father asked him to do them the honour of taking his mutton with them, and
72Fanny had time for only one thrill of horror, before he declared himself prevented by a prior engagement. He was engaged
73to dinner already both for that day and the next; he had met with some acquaintance at the Crown who would not be
74denied; he should have the honour, however, of waiting on them again on the morrow, etc., and so they parted--Fanny in a
75state of actual felicity from escaping so horrible an evil! To have had him join their family dinner-party, and see all
76their deficiencies, would have been dreadful! Rebecca's cookery and Rebecca's waiting, and Betsey's eating at table
77without restraint, and pulling everything about as she chose, were what Fanny herself was not yet enough inured to for
78her often to make a tolerable meal. She was nice only from natural delicacy, but he had been brought up in a school of
79luxury and epicurism.
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