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1Pleasantly, courteously, it was spoken; but the manner was lost in the matter to Julia's feelings. She saw a glance at
2Maria which confirmed the injury to herself: it was a scheme, a trick; she was slighted, Maria was preferred; the smile
3of triumph which Maria was trying to suppress shewed how well it was understood; and before Julia could command herself
4enough to speak, her brother gave his weight against her too, by saying, "Oh yes! Maria must be Agatha. Maria will be
5the best Agatha. Though Julia fancies she prefers tragedy, I would not trust her in it. There is nothing of tragedy
6about her. She has not the look of it. Her features are not tragic features, and she walks too quick, and speaks too
7quick, and would not keep her countenance. She had better do the old countrywoman: the Cottager's wife; you had, indeed,
8Julia. Cottager's wife is a very pretty part, I assure you. The old lady relieves the high-flown benevolence of her
9husband with a good deal of spirit. You shall be Cottager's wife." "Cottager's wife!" cried Mr. Yates. "What are you
10talking of? The most trivial, paltry, insignificant part; the merest commonplace; not a tolerable speech in the whole.
11Your sister do that! It is an insult to propose it. At Ecclesford the governess was to have done it. We all agreed that
12it could not be offered to anybody else. A little more justice, Mr. Manager, if you please. You do not deserve the
13office, if you cannot appreciate the talents of your company a little better." "Why, as to that, my good friend, till I
14and my company have really acted there must be some guesswork; but I mean no disparagement to Julia. We cannot have two
15Agathas, and we must have one Cottager's wife; and I am sure I set her the example of moderation myself in being
16satisfied with the old Butler. If the part is trifling she will have more credit in making something of it; and if she
17is so desperately bent against everything humorous, let her take Cottager's speeches instead of Cottager's wife's, and
18so change the parts all through; he is solemn and pathetic enough, I am sure. It could make no difference in the play,
19and as for Cottager himself, when he has got his wife's speeches, I would undertake him with all my heart." "With all
20your partiality for Cottager's wife," said Henry Crawford, "it will be impossible to make anything of it fit for your
21sister, and we must not suffer her good-nature to be imposed on. We must not allow her to accept the part. She must not
22be left to her own complaisance. Her talents will be wanted in Amelia. Amelia is a character more difficult to be well
23represented than even Agatha. I consider Amelia is the most difficult character in the whole piece. It requires great
24powers, great nicety, to give her playfulness and simplicity without extravagance. I have seen good actresses fail in
25the part. Simplicity, indeed, is beyond the reach of almost every actress by profession. It requires a delicacy of
26feeling which they have not. It requires a gentlewoman--a Julia Bertram. You will undertake it, I hope?" turning to her
27with a look of anxious entreaty, which softened her a little; but while she hesitated what to say, her brother again
28interposed with Miss Crawford's better claim. "No, no, Julia must not be Amelia. It is not at all the part for her. She
29would not like it. She would not do well. She is too tall and robust. Amelia should be a small, light, girlish, skipping
30figure. It is fit for Miss Crawford, and Miss Crawford only. She looks the part, and I am persuaded will do it
31admirably." Without attending to this, Henry Crawford continued his supplication. "You must oblige us," said he, "indeed
32you must. When you have studied the character, I am sure you will feel it suit you. Tragedy may be your choice, but it
33will certainly appear that comedy chuses you. You will be to visit me in prison with a basket of provisions; you will
34not refuse to visit me in prison? I think I see you coming in with your basket." The influence of his voice was felt.
35Julia wavered; but was he only trying to soothe and pacify her, and make her overlook the previous affront? She
36distrusted him. The slight had been most determined. He was, perhaps, but at treacherous play with her. She looked
37suspiciously at her sister; Maria's countenance was to decide it: if she were vexed and alarmed--but Maria looked all
38serenity and satisfaction, and Julia well knew that on this ground Maria could not be happy but at her expense. With
39hasty indignation, therefore, and a tremulous voice, she said to him, "You do not seem afraid of not keeping your
40countenance when I come in with a basket of provisions--though one might have supposed--but it is only as Agatha that I
41was to be so overpowering!" She stopped--Henry Crawford looked rather foolish, and as if he did not know what to say.
42Tom Bertram began again-- "Miss Crawford must be Amelia. She will be an excellent Amelia." "Do not be afraid of my
43wanting the character," cried Julia, with angry quickness: "I am not to be Agatha, and I am sure I will do nothing else;
44and as to Amelia, it is of all parts in the world the most disgusting to me. I quite detest her. An odious, little,
45pert, unnatural, impudent girl. I have always protested against comedy, and this is comedy in its worst form." And so
46saying, she walked hastily out of the room, leaving awkward feelings to more than one, but exciting small compassion in
47any except Fanny, who had been a quiet auditor of the whole, and who could not think of her as under the agitations of
48jealousy without great pity. A short silence succeeded her leaving them; but her brother soon returned to business and
49Lovers' Vows, and was eagerly looking over the play, with Mr. Yates's help, to ascertain what scenery would be
50necessary--while Maria and Henry Crawford conversed together in an under-voice, and the declaration with which she began
51of, "I am sure I would give up the part to Julia most willingly, but that though I shall probably do it very ill, I feel
52persuaded she would do it worse," was doubtless receiving all the compliments it called for. When this had lasted some
53time, the division of the party was completed by Tom Bertram and Mr. Yates walking off together to consult farther in
54the room now beginning to be called the Theatre, and Miss Bertram's resolving to go down to the Parsonage herself with
55the offer of Amelia to Miss Crawford; and Fanny remained alone. The first use she made of her solitude was to take up
56the volume which had been left on the table, and begin to acquaint herself with the play of which she had heard so much.
57Her curiosity was all awake, and she ran through it with an eagerness which was suspended only by intervals of
58astonishment, that it could be chosen in the present instance, that it could be proposed and accepted in a private
59theatre! Agatha and Amelia appeared to her in their different ways so totally improper for home representation--the
60situation of one, and the language of the other, so unfit to be expressed by any woman of modesty, that she could hardly
61suppose her cousins could be aware of what they were engaging in; and longed to have them roused as soon as possible by
62the remonstrance which Edmund would certainly make.
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