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1How is the consternation of the party to be described? To the greater number it was a moment of absolute horror. Sir
2Thomas in the house! All felt the instantaneous conviction. Not a hope of imposition or mistake was harboured anywhere.
3Julia's looks were an evidence of the fact that made it indisputable; and after the first starts and exclamations, not a
4word was spoken for half a minute: each with an altered countenance was looking at some other, and almost each was
5feeling it a stroke the most unwelcome, most ill-timed, most appalling! Mr. Yates might consider it only as a vexatious
6interruption for the evening, and Mr. Rushworth might imagine it a blessing; but every other heart was sinking under
7some degree of self-condemnation or undefined alarm, every other heart was suggesting, "What will become of us? what is
8to be done now?" It was a terrible pause; and terrible to every ear were the corroborating sounds of opening doors and
9passing footsteps. Julia was the first to move and speak again. Jealousy and bitterness had been suspended: selfishness
10was lost in the common cause; but at the moment of her appearance, Frederick was listening with looks of devotion to
11Agatha's narrative, and pressing her hand to his heart; and as soon as she could notice this, and see that, in spite of
12the shock of her words, he still kept his station and retained her sister's hand, her wounded heart swelled again with
13injury, and looking as red as she had been white before, she turned out of the room, saying, "I need not be afraid of
14appearing before him." Her going roused the rest; and at the same moment the two brothers stepped forward, feeling the
15necessity of doing something. A very few words between them were sufficient. The case admitted no difference of opinion:
16they must go to the drawing-room directly. Maria joined them with the same intent, just then the stoutest of the three;
17for the very circumstance which had driven Julia away was to her the sweetest support. Henry Crawford's retaining her
18hand at such a moment, a moment of such peculiar proof and importance, was worth ages of doubt and anxiety. She hailed
19it as an earnest of the most serious determination, and was equal even to encounter her father. They walked off, utterly
20heedless of Mr. Rushworth's repeated question of, "Shall I go too? Had not I better go too? Will not it be right for me
21to go too?" but they were no sooner through the door than Henry Crawford undertook to answer the anxious inquiry, and,
22encouraging him by all means to pay his respects to Sir Thomas without delay, sent him after the others with delighted
23haste. Fanny was left with only the Crawfords and Mr. Yates. She had been quite overlooked by her cousins; and as her
24own opinion of her claims on Sir Thomas's affection was much too humble to give her any idea of classing herself with
25his children, she was glad to remain behind and gain a little breathing-time. Her agitation and alarm exceeded all that
26was endured by the rest, by the right of a disposition which not even innocence could keep from suffering. She was
27nearly fainting: all her former habitual dread of her uncle was returning, and with it compassion for him and for almost
28every one of the party on the development before him, with solicitude on Edmund's account indescribable. She had found a
29seat, where in excessive trembling she was enduring all these fearful thoughts, while the other three, no longer under
30any restraint, were giving vent to their feelings of vexation, lamenting over such an unlooked-for premature arrival as
31a most untoward event, and without mercy wishing poor Sir Thomas had been twice as long on his passage, or were still in
32Antigua. The Crawfords were more warm on the subject than Mr. Yates, from better understanding the family, and judging
33more clearly of the mischief that must ensue. The ruin of the play was to them a certainty: they felt the total
34destruction of the scheme to be inevitably at hand; while Mr. Yates considered it only as a temporary interruption, a
35disaster for the evening, and could even suggest the possibility of the rehearsal being renewed after tea, when the
36bustle of receiving Sir Thomas were over, and he might be at leisure to be amused by it. The Crawfords laughed at the
37idea; and having soon agreed on the propriety of their walking quietly home and leaving the family to themselves,
38proposed Mr. Yates's accompanying them and spending the evening at the Parsonage. But Mr. Yates, having never been with
39those who thought much of parental claims, or family confidence, could not perceive that anything of the kind was
40necessary; and therefore, thanking them, said, "he preferred remaining where he was, that he might pay his respects to
41the old gentleman handsomely since he was come; and besides, he did not think it would be fair by the others to have
42everybody run away." Fanny was just beginning to collect herself, and to feel that if she staid longer behind it might
43seem disrespectful, when this point was settled, and being commissioned with the brother and sister's apology, saw them
44preparing to go as she quitted the room herself to perform the dreadful duty of appearing before her uncle. Too soon did
45she find herself at the drawing-room door; and after pausing a moment for what she knew would not come, for a courage
46which the outside of no door had ever supplied to her, she turned the lock in desperation, and the lights of the
47drawing-room, and all the collected family, were before her. As she entered, her own name caught her ear. Sir Thomas was
48at that moment looking round him, and saying, "But where is Fanny? Why do not I see my little Fanny?"--and on perceiving
49her, came forward with a kindness which astonished and penetrated her, calling her his dear Fanny, kissing her
50affectionately, and observing with decided pleasure how much she was grown! Fanny knew not how to feel, nor where to
51look. She was quite oppressed. He had never been so kind, so very kind to her in his life. His manner seemed changed,
52his voice was quick from the agitation of joy; and all that had been awful in his dignity seemed lost in tenderness. He
53led her nearer the light and looked at her again--inquired particularly after her health, and then, correcting himself,
54observed that he need not inquire, for her appearance spoke sufficiently on that point. A fine blush having succeeded
55the previous paleness of her face, he was justified in his belief of her equal improvement in health and beauty. He
56inquired next after her family, especially William: and his kindness altogether was such as made her reproach herself
57for loving him so little, and thinking his return a misfortune; and when, on having courage to lift her eyes to his
58face, she saw that he was grown thinner, and had the burnt, fagged, worn look of fatigue and a hot climate, every tender
59feeling was increased, and she was miserable in considering how much unsuspected vexation was probably ready to burst on
60him. Sir Thomas was indeed the life of the party, who at his suggestion now seated themselves round the fire. He had the
61best right to be the talker; and the delight of his sensations in being again in his own house, in the centre of his
62family, after such a separation, made him communicative and chatty in a very unusual degree; and he was ready to give
63every information as to his voyage, and answer every question of his two sons almost before it was put. His business in
64Antigua had latterly been prosperously rapid, and he came directly from Liverpool, having had an opportunity of making
65his passage thither in a private vessel, instead of waiting for the packet; and all the little particulars of his
66proceedings and events, his arrivals and departures, were most promptly delivered, as he sat by Lady Bertram and looked
67with heartfelt satisfaction on the faces around him--interrupting himself more than once, however, to remark on his good
68fortune in finding them all at home--coming unexpectedly as he did--all collected together exactly as he could have
69wished, but dared not depend on. Mr. Rushworth was not forgotten: a most friendly reception and warmth of hand-shaking
70had already met him, and with pointed attention he was now included in the objects most intimately connected with
71Mansfield. There was nothing disagreeable in Mr. Rushworth's appearance, and Sir Thomas was liking him already.
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