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1And she immediately scrambled across the fence, and walked away, not attending to Fanny's last question of whether she
2had seen anything of Miss Crawford and Edmund. The sort of dread in which Fanny now sat of seeing Mr. Rushworth
3prevented her thinking so much of their continued absence, however, as she might have done. She felt that he had been
4very ill-used, and was quite unhappy in having to communicate what had passed. He joined her within five minutes after
5Julia's exit; and though she made the best of the story, he was evidently mortified and displeased in no common degree.
6At first he scarcely said anything; his looks only expressed his extreme surprise and vexation, and he walked to the
7gate and stood there, without seeming to know what to do. "They desired me to stay--my cousin Maria charged me to say
8that you would find them at that knoll, or thereabouts." "I do not believe I shall go any farther," said he sullenly; "I
9see nothing of them. By the time I get to the knoll they may be gone somewhere else. I have had walking enough." And he
10sat down with a most gloomy countenance by Fanny. "I am very sorry," said she; "it is very unlucky." And she longed to
11be able to say something more to the purpose. After an interval of silence, "I think they might as well have staid for
12me," said he. "Miss Bertram thought you would follow her." "I should not have had to follow her if she had staid." This
13could not be denied, and Fanny was silenced. After another pause, he went on--"Pray, Miss Price, are you such a great
14admirer of this Mr. Crawford as some people are? For my part, I can see nothing in him." "I do not think him at all
15handsome." "Handsome! Nobody can call such an undersized man handsome. He is not five foot nine. I should not wonder if
16he is not more than five foot eight. I think he is an ill-looking fellow. In my opinion, these Crawfords are no addition
17at all. We did very well without them." A small sigh escaped Fanny here, and she did not know how to contradict him. "If
18I had made any difficulty about fetching the key, there might have been some excuse, but I went the very moment she said
19she wanted it." "Nothing could be more obliging than your manner, I am sure, and I dare say you walked as fast as you
20could; but still it is some distance, you know, from this spot to the house, quite into the house; and when people are
21waiting, they are bad judges of time, and every half minute seems like five." He got up and walked to the gate again,
22and "wished he had had the key about him at the time." Fanny thought she discerned in his standing there an indication
23of relenting, which encouraged her to another attempt, and she said, therefore, "It is a pity you should not join them.
24They expected to have a better view of the house from that part of the park, and will be thinking how it may be
25improved; and nothing of that sort, you know, can be settled without you." She found herself more successful in sending
26away than in retaining a companion. Mr. Rushworth was worked on. "Well," said he, "if you really think I had better go:
27it would be foolish to bring the key for nothing." And letting himself out, he walked off without farther ceremony.
28Fanny's thoughts were now all engrossed by the two who had left her so long ago, and getting quite impatient, she
29resolved to go in search of them. She followed their steps along the bottom walk, and had just turned up into another,
30when the voice and the laugh of Miss Crawford once more caught her ear; the sound approached, and a few more windings
31brought them before her. They were just returned into the wilderness from the park, to which a sidegate, not fastened,
32had tempted them very soon after their leaving her, and they had been across a portion of the park into the very avenue
33which Fanny had been hoping the whole morning to reach at last, and had been sitting down under one of the trees. This
34was their history. It was evident that they had been spending their time pleasantly, and were not aware of the length of
35their absence. Fanny's best consolation was in being assured that Edmund had wished for her very much, and that he
36should certainly have come back for her, had she not been tired already; but this was not quite sufficient to do away
37with the pain of having been left a whole hour, when he had talked of only a few minutes, nor to banish the sort of
38curiosity she felt to know what they had been conversing about all that time; and the result of the whole was to her
39disappointment and depression, as they prepared by general agreement to return to the house. On reaching the bottom of
40the steps to the terrace, Mrs. Rushworth and Mrs. Norris presented themselves at the top, just ready for the wilderness,
41at the end of an hour and a half from their leaving the house. Mrs. Norris had been too well employed to move faster.
42Whatever cross-accidents had occurred to intercept the pleasures of her nieces, she had found a morning of complete
43enjoyment; for the housekeeper, after a great many courtesies on the subject of pheasants, had taken her to the dairy,
44told her all about their cows, and given her the receipt for a famous cream cheese; and since Julia's leaving them they
45had been met by the gardener, with whom she had made a most satisfactory acquaintance, for she had set him right as to
46his grandson's illness, convinced him that it was an ague, and promised him a charm for it; and he, in return, had shewn
47her all his choicest nursery of plants, and actually presented her with a very curious specimen of heath. On this
48rencontre they all returned to the house together, there to lounge away the time as they could with sofas, and
49chit-chat, and Quarterly Reviews, till the return of the others, and the arrival of dinner. It was late before the Miss
50Bertrams and the two gentlemen came in, and their ramble did not appear to have been more than partially agreeable, or
51at all productive of anything useful with regard to the object of the day. By their own accounts they had been all
52walking after each other, and the junction which had taken place at last seemed, to Fanny's observation, to have been as
53much too late for re-establishing harmony, as it confessedly had been for determining on any alteration. She felt, as
54she looked at Julia and Mr. Rushworth, that hers was not the only dissatisfied bosom amongst them: there was gloom on
55the face of each. Mr. Crawford and Miss Bertram were much more gay, and she thought that he was taking particular pains,
56during dinner, to do away any little resentment of the other two, and restore general good-humour. Dinner was soon
57followed by tea and coffee, a ten miles' drive home allowed no waste of hours; and from the time of their sitting down
58to table, it was a quick succession of busy nothings till the carriage came to the door, and Mrs. Norris, having
59fidgeted about, and obtained a few pheasants' eggs and a cream cheese from the housekeeper, and made abundance of civil
60speeches to Mrs. Rushworth, was ready to lead the way. At the same moment Mr. Crawford, approaching Julia, said, "I hope
61I am not to lose my companion, unless she is afraid of the evening air in so exposed a seat." The request had not been
62foreseen, but was very graciously received, and Julia's day was likely to end almost as well as it began. Miss Bertram
63had made up her mind to something different, and was a little disappointed; but her conviction of being really the one
64preferred comforted her under it, and enabled her to receive Mr. Rushworth's parting attentions as she ought. He was
65certainly better pleased to hand her into the barouche than to assist her in ascending the box, and his complacency
66seemed confirmed by the arrangement. "Well, Fanny, this has been a fine day for you, upon my word," said Mrs. Norris, as
67they drove through the park. "Nothing but pleasure from beginning to end! I am sure you ought to be very much obliged to
68your aunt Bertram and me for contriving to let you go. A pretty good day's amusement you have had!"
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