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1Sir Thomas was to return in November, and his eldest son had duties to call him earlier home. The approach of September
2brought tidings of Mr. Bertram, first in a letter to the gamekeeper and then in a letter to Edmund; and by the end of
3August he arrived himself, to be gay, agreeable, and gallant again as occasion served, or Miss Crawford demanded; to
4tell of races and Weymouth, and parties and friends, to which she might have listened six weeks before with some
5interest, and altogether to give her the fullest conviction, by the power of actual comparison, of her preferring his
6younger brother. It was very vexatious, and she was heartily sorry for it; but so it was; and so far from now meaning to
7marry the elder, she did not even want to attract him beyond what the simplest claims of conscious beauty required: his
8lengthened absence from Mansfield, without anything but pleasure in view, and his own will to consult, made it perfectly
9clear that he did not care about her; and his indifference was so much more than equalled by her own, that were he now
10to step forth the owner of Mansfield Park, the Sir Thomas complete, which he was to be in time, she did not believe she
11could accept him. The season and duties which brought Mr. Bertram back to Mansfield took Mr. Crawford into Norfolk.
12Everingham could not do without him in the beginning of September. He went for a fortnight--a fortnight of such dullness
13to the Miss Bertrams as ought to have put them both on their guard, and made even Julia admit, in her jealousy of her
14sister, the absolute necessity of distrusting his attentions, and wishing him not to return; and a fortnight of
15sufficient leisure, in the intervals of shooting and sleeping, to have convinced the gentleman that he ought to keep
16longer away, had he been more in the habit of examining his own motives, and of reflecting to what the indulgence of his
17idle vanity was tending; but, thoughtless and selfish from prosperity and bad example, he would not look beyond the
18present moment. The sisters, handsome, clever, and encouraging, were an amusement to his sated mind; and finding nothing
19in Norfolk to equal the social pleasures of Mansfield, he gladly returned to it at the time appointed, and was welcomed
20thither quite as gladly by those whom he came to trifle with further. Maria, with only Mr. Rushworth to attend to her,
21and doomed to the repeated details of his day's sport, good or bad, his boast of his dogs, his jealousy of his
22neighbours, his doubts of their qualifications, and his zeal after poachers, subjects which will not find their way to
23female feelings without some talent on one side or some attachment on the other, had missed Mr. Crawford grievously; and
24Julia, unengaged and unemployed, felt all the right of missing him much more. Each sister believed herself the
25favourite. Julia might be justified in so doing by the hints of Mrs. Grant, inclined to credit what she wished, and
26Maria by the hints of Mr. Crawford himself. Everything returned into the same channel as before his absence; his manners
27being to each so animated and agreeable as to lose no ground with either, and just stopping short of the consistence,
28the steadiness, the solicitude, and the warmth which might excite general notice. Fanny was the only one of the party
29who found anything to dislike; but since the day at Sotherton, she could never see Mr. Crawford with either sister
30without observation, and seldom without wonder or censure; and had her confidence in her own judgment been equal to her
31exercise of it in every other respect, had she been sure that she was seeing clearly, and judging candidly, she would
32probably have made some important communications to her usual confidant. As it was, however, she only hazarded a hint,
33and the hint was lost. "I am rather surprised," said she, "that Mr. Crawford should come back again so soon, after being
34here so long before, full seven weeks; for I had understood he was so very fond of change and moving about, that I
35thought something would certainly occur, when he was once gone, to take him elsewhere. He is used to much gayer places
36than Mansfield." "It is to his credit," was Edmund's answer; "and I dare say it gives his sister pleasure. She does not
37like his unsettled habits." "What a favourite he is with my cousins!" "Yes, his manners to women are such as must
38please. Mrs. Grant, I believe, suspects him of a preference for Julia; I have never seen much symptom of it, but I wish
39it may be so. He has no faults but what a serious attachment would remove." "If Miss Bertram were not engaged," said
40Fanny cautiously, "I could sometimes almost think that he admired her more than Julia." "Which is, perhaps, more in
41favour of his liking Julia best, than you, Fanny, may be aware; for I believe it often happens that a man, before he has
42quite made up his own mind, will distinguish the sister or intimate friend of the woman he is really thinking of more
43than the woman herself. Crawford has too much sense to stay here if he found himself in any danger from Maria; and I am
44not at all afraid for her, after such a proof as she has given that her feelings are not strong." Fanny supposed she
45must have been mistaken, and meant to think differently in future; but with all that submission to Edmund could do, and
46all the help of the coinciding looks and hints which she occasionally noticed in some of the others, and which seemed to
47say that Julia was Mr. Crawford's choice, she knew not always what to think. She was privy, one evening, to the hopes of
48her aunt Norris on the subject, as well as to her feelings, and the feelings of Mrs. Rushworth, on a point of some
49similarity, and could not help wondering as she listened; and glad would she have been not to be obliged to listen, for
50it was while all the other young people were dancing, and she sitting, most unwillingly, among the chaperons at the
51fire, longing for the re-entrance of her elder cousin, on whom all her own hopes of a partner then depended. It was
52Fanny's first ball, though without the preparation or splendour of many a young lady's first ball, being the thought
53only of the afternoon, built on the late acquisition of a violin player in the servants' hall, and the possibility of
54raising five couple with the help of Mrs. Grant and a new intimate friend of Mr. Bertram's just arrived on a visit. It
55had, however, been a very happy one to Fanny through four dances, and she was quite grieved to be losing even a quarter
56of an hour. While waiting and wishing, looking now at the dancers and now at the door, this dialogue between the two
57above-mentioned ladies was forced on her-- "I think, ma'am," said Mrs. Norris, her eyes directed towards Mr. Rushworth
58and Maria, who were partners for the second time, "we shall see some happy faces again now." "Yes, ma'am, indeed,"
59replied the other, with a stately simper, "there will be some satisfaction in looking on now, and I think it was rather
60a pity they should have been obliged to part. Young folks in their situation should be excused complying with the common
61forms. I wonder my son did not propose it." "I dare say he did, ma'am. Mr. Rushworth is never remiss. But dear Maria has
62such a strict sense of propriety, so much of that true delicacy which one seldom meets with nowadays, Mrs.
63Rushworth--that wish of avoiding particularity! Dear ma'am, only look at her face at this moment; how different from
64what it was the two last dances!" Miss Bertram did indeed look happy, her eyes were sparkling with pleasure, and she was
65speaking with great animation, for Julia and her partner, Mr. Crawford, were close to her; they were all in a cluster
66together. How she had looked before, Fanny could not recollect, for she had been dancing with Edmund herself, and had
67not thought about her. Mrs. Norris continued, "It is quite delightful, ma'am, to see young people so properly happy, so
68well suited, and so much the thing! I cannot but think of dear Sir Thomas's delight. And what do you say, ma'am, to the
69chance of another match? Mr. Rushworth has set a good example, and such things are very catching." Mrs. Rushworth, who
70saw nothing but her son, was quite at a loss. "The couple above, ma'am. Do you see no symptoms there?" "Oh dear! Miss
71Julia and Mr. Crawford. Yes, indeed, a very pretty match. What is his property?" "Four thousand a year."
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