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1"Me!" cried Fanny, sitting down again with a most frightened look. "Indeed you must excuse me. I could not act anything
2if you were to give me the world. No, indeed, I cannot act." "Indeed, but you must, for we cannot excuse you. It need
3not frighten you: it is a nothing of a part, a mere nothing, not above half a dozen speeches altogether, and it will not
4much signify if nobody hears a word you say; so you may be as creep-mouse as you like, but we must have you to look at."
5"If you are afraid of half a dozen speeches," cried Mr. Rushworth, "what would you do with such a part as mine? I have
6forty-two to learn." "It is not that I am afraid of learning by heart," said Fanny, shocked to find herself at that
7moment the only speaker in the room, and to feel that almost every eye was upon her; "but I really cannot act." "Yes,
8yes, you can act well enough for us. Learn your part, and we will teach you all the rest. You have only two scenes, and
9as I shall be Cottager, I'll put you in and push you about, and you will do it very well, I'll answer for it." "No,
10indeed, Mr. Bertram, you must excuse me. You cannot have an idea. It would be absolutely impossible for me. If I were to
11undertake it, I should only disappoint you." "Phoo! Phoo! Do not be so shamefaced. You'll do it very well. Every
12allowance will be made for you. We do not expect perfection. You must get a brown gown, and a white apron, and a mob
13cap, and we must make you a few wrinkles, and a little of the crowsfoot at the corner of your eyes, and you will be a
14very proper, little old woman." "You must excuse me, indeed you must excuse me," cried Fanny, growing more and more red
15from excessive agitation, and looking distressfully at Edmund, who was kindly observing her; but unwilling to exasperate
16his brother by interference, gave her only an encouraging smile. Her entreaty had no effect on Tom: he only said again
17what he had said before; and it was not merely Tom, for the requisition was now backed by Maria, and Mr. Crawford, and
18Mr. Yates, with an urgency which differed from his but in being more gentle or more ceremonious, and which altogether
19was quite overpowering to Fanny; and before she could breathe after it, Mrs. Norris completed the whole by thus
20addressing her in a whisper at once angry and audible--"What a piece of work here is about nothing: I am quite ashamed
21of you, Fanny, to make such a difficulty of obliging your cousins in a trifle of this sort--so kind as they are to you!
22Take the part with a good grace, and let us hear no more of the matter, I entreat." "Do not urge her, madam," said
23Edmund. "It is not fair to urge her in this manner. You see she does not like to act. Let her chuse for herself, as well
24as the rest of us. Her judgment may be quite as safely trusted. Do not urge her any more." "I am not going to urge her,"
25replied Mrs. Norris sharply; "but I shall think her a very obstinate, ungrateful girl, if she does not do what her aunt
26and cousins wish her--very ungrateful, indeed, considering who and what she is." Edmund was too angry to speak; but Miss
27Crawford, looking for a moment with astonished eyes at Mrs. Norris, and then at Fanny, whose tears were beginning to
28shew themselves, immediately said, with some keenness, "I do not like my situation: this place is too hot for me," and
29moved away her chair to the opposite side of the table, close to Fanny, saying to her, in a kind, low whisper, as she
30placed herself, "Never mind, my dear Miss Price, this is a cross evening: everybody is cross and teasing, but do not let
31us mind them"; and with pointed attention continued to talk to her and endeavour to raise her spirits, in spite of being
32out of spirits herself. By a look at her brother she prevented any farther entreaty from the theatrical board, and the
33really good feelings by which she was almost purely governed were rapidly restoring her to all the little she had lost
34in Edmund's favour. Fanny did not love Miss Crawford; but she felt very much obliged to her for her present kindness;
35and when, from taking notice of her work, and wishing she could work as well, and begging for the pattern, and supposing
36Fanny was now preparing for her appearance, as of course she would come out when her cousin was married, Miss Crawford
37proceeded to inquire if she had heard lately from her brother at sea, and said that she had quite a curiosity to see
38him, and imagined him a very fine young man, and advised Fanny to get his picture drawn before he went to sea again--she
39could not help admitting it to be very agreeable flattery, or help listening, and answering with more animation than she
40had intended. The consultation upon the play still went on, and Miss Crawford's attention was first called from Fanny by
41Tom Bertram's telling her, with infinite regret, that he found it absolutely impossible for him to undertake the part of
42Anhalt in addition to the Butler: he had been most anxiously trying to make it out to be feasible, but it would not do;
43he must give it up. "But there will not be the smallest difficulty in filling it," he added. "We have but to speak the
44word; we may pick and chuse. I could name, at this moment, at least six young men within six miles of us, who are wild
45to be admitted into our company, and there are one or two that would not disgrace us: I should not be afraid to trust
46either of the Olivers or Charles Maddox. Tom Oliver is a very clever fellow, and Charles Maddox is as gentlemanlike a
47man as you will see anywhere, so I will take my horse early to-morrow morning and ride over to Stoke, and settle with
48one of them." While he spoke, Maria was looking apprehensively round at Edmund in full expectation that he must oppose
49such an enlargement of the plan as this: so contrary to all their first protestations; but Edmund said nothing. After a
50moment's thought, Miss Crawford calmly replied, "As far as I am concerned, I can have no objection to anything that you
51all think eligible. Have I ever seen either of the gentlemen? Yes, Mr. Charles Maddox dined at my sister's one day, did
52not he, Henry? A quiet-looking young man. I remember him. Let him be applied to, if you please, for it will be less
53unpleasant to me than to have a perfect stranger." Charles Maddox was to be the man. Tom repeated his resolution of
54going to him early on the morrow; and though Julia, who had scarcely opened her lips before, observed, in a sarcastic
55manner, and with a glance first at Maria and then at Edmund, that "the Mansfield theatricals would enliven the whole
56neighbourhood exceedingly," Edmund still held his peace, and shewed his feelings only by a determined gravity. "I am not
57very sanguine as to our play," said Miss Crawford, in an undervoice to Fanny, after some consideration; "and I can tell
58Mr. Maddox that I shall shorten some of his speeches, and a great many of my own, before we rehearse together. It will
59be very disagreeable, and by no means what I expected."
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