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1The Grants showing a disposition to be friendly and sociable, gave great satisfaction in the main among their new
2acquaintance. They had their faults, and Mrs. Norris soon found them out. The Doctor was very fond of eating, and would
3have a good dinner every day; and Mrs. Grant, instead of contriving to gratify him at little expense, gave her cook as
4high wages as they did at Mansfield Park, and was scarcely ever seen in her offices. Mrs. Norris could not speak with
5any temper of such grievances, nor of the quantity of butter and eggs that were regularly consumed in the house. "Nobody
6loved plenty and hospitality more than herself; nobody more hated pitiful doings; the Parsonage, she believed, had never
7been wanting in comforts of any sort, had never borne a bad character in her time, but this was a way of going on that
8she could not understand. A fine lady in a country parsonage was quite out of place. Her store-room, she thought, might
9have been good enough for Mrs. Grant to go into. Inquire where she would, she could not find out that Mrs. Grant had
10ever had more than five thousand pounds." Lady Bertram listened without much interest to this sort of invective. She
11could not enter into the wrongs of an economist, but she felt all the injuries of beauty in Mrs. Grant's being so well
12settled in life without being handsome, and expressed her astonishment on that point almost as often, though not so
13diffusely, as Mrs. Norris discussed the other. These opinions had been hardly canvassed a year before another event
14arose of such importance in the family, as might fairly claim some place in the thoughts and conversation of the ladies.
15Sir Thomas found it expedient to go to Antigua himself, for the better arrangement of his affairs, and he took his
16eldest son with him, in the hope of detaching him from some bad connexions at home. They left England with the
17probability of being nearly a twelvemonth absent. The necessity of the measure in a pecuniary light, and the hope of its
18utility to his son, reconciled Sir Thomas to the effort of quitting the rest of his family, and of leaving his daughters
19to the direction of others at their present most interesting time of life. He could not think Lady Bertram quite equal
20to supply his place with them, or rather, to perform what should have been her own; but, in Mrs. Norris's watchful
21attention, and in Edmund's judgment, he had sufficient confidence to make him go without fears for their conduct. Lady
22Bertram did not at all like to have her husband leave her; but she was not disturbed by any alarm for his safety, or
23solicitude for his comfort, being one of those persons who think nothing can be dangerous, or difficult, or fatiguing to
24anybody but themselves. The Miss Bertrams were much to be pitied on the occasion: not for their sorrow, but for their
25want of it. Their father was no object of love to them; he had never seemed the friend of their pleasures, and his
26absence was unhappily most welcome. They were relieved by it from all restraint; and without aiming at one gratification
27that would probably have been forbidden by Sir Thomas, they felt themselves immediately at their own disposal, and to
28have every indulgence within their reach. Fanny's relief, and her consciousness of it, were quite equal to her cousins';
29but a more tender nature suggested that her feelings were ungrateful, and she really grieved because she could not
30grieve. "Sir Thomas, who had done so much for her and her brothers, and who was gone perhaps never to return! that she
31should see him go without a tear! it was a shameful insensibility." He had said to her, moreover, on the very last
32morning, that he hoped she might see William again in the course of the ensuing winter, and had charged her to write and
33invite him to Mansfield as soon as the squadron to which he belonged should be known to be in England. "This was so
34thoughtful and kind!" and would he only have smiled upon her, and called her "my dear Fanny," while he said it, every
35former frown or cold address might have been forgotten. But he had ended his speech in a way to sink her in sad
36mortification, by adding, "If William does come to Mansfield, I hope you may be able to convince him that the many years
37which have passed since you parted have not been spent on your side entirely without improvement; though, I fear, he
38must find his sister at sixteen in some respects too much like his sister at ten." She cried bitterly over this
39reflection when her uncle was gone; and her cousins, on seeing her with red eyes, set her down as a hypocrite.
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