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1Fanny sighed, and said, "I cannot see things as you do; but I ought to believe you to be right rather than myself, and I
2am very much obliged to you for trying to reconcile me to what must be. If I could suppose my aunt really to care for
3me, it would be delightful to feel myself of consequence to anybody. Here, I know, I am of none, and yet I love the
4place so well." "The place, Fanny, is what you will not quit, though you quit the house. You will have as free a command
5of the park and gardens as ever. Even your constant little heart need not take fright at such a nominal change. You will
6have the same walks to frequent, the same library to choose from, the same people to look at, the same horse to ride."
7"Very true. Yes, dear old grey pony! Ah! cousin, when I remember how much I used to dread riding, what terrors it gave
8me to hear it talked of as likely to do me good (oh! how I have trembled at my uncle's opening his lips if horses were
9talked of), and then think of the kind pains you took to reason and persuade me out of my fears, and convince me that I
10should like it after a little while, and feel how right you proved to be, I am inclined to hope you may always prophesy
11as well." "And I am quite convinced that your being with Mrs. Norris will be as good for your mind as riding has been
12for your health, and as much for your ultimate happiness too." So ended their discourse, which, for any very appropriate
13service it could render Fanny, might as well have been spared, for Mrs. Norris had not the smallest intention of taking
14her. It had never occurred to her, on the present occasion, but as a thing to be carefully avoided. To prevent its being
15expected, she had fixed on the smallest habitation which could rank as genteel among the buildings of Mansfield parish,
16the White House being only just large enough to receive herself and her servants, and allow a spare room for a friend,
17of which she made a very particular point. The spare rooms at the Parsonage had never been wanted, but the absolute
18necessity of a spare room for a friend was now never forgotten. Not all her precautions, however, could save her from
19being suspected of something better; or, perhaps, her very display of the importance of a spare room might have misled
20Sir Thomas to suppose it really intended for Fanny. Lady Bertram soon brought the matter to a certainty by carelessly
21observing to Mrs. Norris-- "I think, sister, we need not keep Miss Lee any longer, when Fanny goes to live with you."
22Mrs. Norris almost started. "Live with me, dear Lady Bertram! what do you mean?" "Is she not to live with you? I thought
23you had settled it with Sir Thomas." "Me! never. I never spoke a syllable about it to Sir Thomas, nor he to me. Fanny
24live with me! the last thing in the world for me to think of, or for anybody to wish that really knows us both. Good
25heaven! what could I do with Fanny? Me! a poor, helpless, forlorn widow, unfit for anything, my spirits quite broke
26down; what could I do with a girl at her time of life? A girl of fifteen! the very age of all others to need most
27attention and care, and put the cheerfullest spirits to the test! Sure Sir Thomas could not seriously expect such a
28thing! Sir Thomas is too much my friend. Nobody that wishes me well, I am sure, would propose it. How came Sir Thomas to
29speak to you about it?" "Indeed, I do not know. I suppose he thought it best." "But what did he say? He could not say he
30wished me to take Fanny. I am sure in his heart he could not wish me to do it." "No; he only said he thought it very
31likely; and I thought so too. We both thought it would be a comfort to you. But if you do not like it, there is no more
32to be said. She is no encumbrance here." "Dear sister, if you consider my unhappy state, how can she be any comfort to
33me? Here am I, a poor desolate widow, deprived of the best of husbands, my health gone in attending and nursing him, my
34spirits still worse, all my peace in this world destroyed, with hardly enough to support me in the rank of a
35gentlewoman, and enable me to live so as not to disgrace the memory of the dear departed--what possible comfort could I
36have in taking such a charge upon me as Fanny? If I could wish it for my own sake, I would not do so unjust a thing by
37the poor girl. She is in good hands, and sure of doing well. I must struggle through my sorrows and difficulties as I
38can." "Then you will not mind living by yourself quite alone?" "Dear Lady Bertram! what am I fit for but solitude? Now
39and then I shall hope to have a friend in my little cottage (I shall always have a bed for a friend); but the most part
40of my future days will be spent in utter seclusion. If I can but make both ends meet, that's all I ask for." "I hope,
41sister, things are not so very bad with you neither considering Sir Thomas says you will have six hundred a year." "Lady
42Bertram, I do not complain. I know I cannot live as I have done, but I must retrench where I can, and learn to be a
43better manager. I have been a liberal housekeeper enough, but I shall not be ashamed to practise economy now. My
44situation is as much altered as my income. A great many things were due from poor Mr. Norris, as clergyman of the
45parish, that cannot be expected from me. It is unknown how much was consumed in our kitchen by odd comers and goers. At
46the White House, matters must be better looked after. I must live within my income, or I shall be miserable; and I own
47it would give me great satisfaction to be able to do rather more, to lay by a little at the end of the year." "I dare
48say you will. You always do, don't you?" "My object, Lady Bertram, is to be of use to those that come after me. It is
49for your children's good that I wish to be richer. I have nobody else to care for, but I should be very glad to think I
50could leave a little trifle among them worth their having." "You are very good, but do not trouble yourself about them.
51They are sure of being well provided for. Sir Thomas will take care of that." "Why, you know, Sir Thomas's means will be
52rather straitened if the Antigua estate is to make such poor returns." "Oh! that will soon be settled. Sir Thomas has
53been writing about it, I know." "Well, Lady Bertram," said Mrs. Norris, moving to go, "I can only say that my sole
54desire is to be of use to your family: and so, if Sir Thomas should ever speak again about my taking Fanny, you will be
55able to say that my health and spirits put it quite out of the question; besides that, I really should not have a bed to
56give her, for I must keep a spare room for a friend." Lady Bertram repeated enough of this conversation to her husband
57to convince him how much he had mistaken his sister-in-law's views; and she was from that moment perfectly safe from all
58expectation, or the slightest allusion to it from him. He could not but wonder at her refusing to do anything for a
59niece whom she had been so forward to adopt; but, as she took early care to make him, as well as Lady Bertram,
60understand that whatever she possessed was designed for their family, he soon grew reconciled to a distinction which, at
61the same time that it was advantageous and complimentary to them, would enable him better to provide for Fanny himself.
62Fanny soon learnt how unnecessary had been her fears of a removal; and her spontaneous, untaught felicity on the
63discovery, conveyed some consolation to Edmund for his disappointment in what he had expected to be so essentially
64serviceable to her. Mrs. Norris took possession of the White House, the Grants arrived at the Parsonage, and these
65events over, everything at Mansfield went on for some time as usual.
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