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1Henry Crawford had quite made up his mind by the next morning to give another fortnight to Mansfield, and having sent
2for his hunters, and written a few lines of explanation to the Admiral, he looked round at his sister as he sealed and
3threw the letter from him, and seeing the coast clear of the rest of the family, said, with a smile, "And how do you
4think I mean to amuse myself, Mary, on the days that I do not hunt? I am grown too old to go out more than three times a
5week; but I have a plan for the intermediate days, and what do you think it is?" "To walk and ride with me, to be sure."
6"Not exactly, though I shall be happy to do both, but that would be exercise only to my body, and I must take care of my
7mind. Besides, that would be all recreation and indulgence, without the wholesome alloy of labour, and I do not like to
8eat the bread of idleness. No, my plan is to make Fanny Price in love with me." "Fanny Price! Nonsense! No, no. You
9ought to be satisfied with her two cousins." "But I cannot be satisfied without Fanny Price, without making a small hole
10in Fanny Price's heart. You do not seem properly aware of her claims to notice. When we talked of her last night, you
11none of you seemed sensible of the wonderful improvement that has taken place in her looks within the last six weeks.
12You see her every day, and therefore do not notice it; but I assure you she is quite a different creature from what she
13was in the autumn. She was then merely a quiet, modest, not plain-looking girl, but she is now absolutely pretty. I used
14to think she had neither complexion nor countenance; but in that soft skin of hers, so frequently tinged with a blush as
15it was yesterday, there is decided beauty; and from what I observed of her eyes and mouth, I do not despair of their
16being capable of expression enough when she has anything to express. And then, her air, her manner, her tout ensemble,
17is so indescribably improved! She must be grown two inches, at least, since October." "Phoo! phoo! This is only because
18there were no tall women to compare her with, and because she has got a new gown, and you never saw her so well dressed
19before. She is just what she was in October, believe me. The truth is, that she was the only girl in company for you to
20notice, and you must have a somebody. I have always thought her pretty--not strikingly pretty--but 'pretty enough,' as
21people say; a sort of beauty that grows on one. Her eyes should be darker, but she has a sweet smile; but as for this
22wonderful degree of improvement, I am sure it may all be resolved into a better style of dress, and your having nobody
23else to look at; and therefore, if you do set about a flirtation with her, you never will persuade me that it is in
24compliment to her beauty, or that it proceeds from anything but your own idleness and folly." Her brother gave only a
25smile to this accusation, and soon afterwards said, "I do not quite know what to make of Miss Fanny. I do not understand
26her. I could not tell what she would be at yesterday. What is her character? Is she solemn? Is she queer? Is she
27prudish? Why did she draw back and look so grave at me? I could hardly get her to speak. I never was so long in company
28with a girl in my life, trying to entertain her, and succeed so ill! Never met with a girl who looked so grave on me! I
29must try to get the better of this. Her looks say, 'I will not like you, I am determined not to like you'; and I say she
30shall." "Foolish fellow! And so this is her attraction after all! This it is, her not caring about you, which gives her
31such a soft skin, and makes her so much taller, and produces all these charms and graces! I do desire that you will not
32be making her really unhappy; a little love, perhaps, may animate and do her good, but I will not have you plunge her
33deep, for she is as good a little creature as ever lived, and has a great deal of feeling." "It can be but for a
34fortnight," said Henry; "and if a fortnight can kill her, she must have a constitution which nothing could save. No, I
35will not do her any harm, dear little soul! I only want her to look kindly on me, to give me smiles as well as blushes,
36to keep a chair for me by herself wherever we are, and be all animation when I take it and talk to her; to think as I
37think, be interested in all my possessions and pleasures, try to keep me longer at Mansfield, and feel when I go away
38that she shall be never happy again. I want nothing more." "Moderation itself!" said Mary. "I can have no scruples now.
39Well, you will have opportunities enough of endeavouring to recommend yourself, for we are a great deal together." And
40without attempting any farther remonstrance, she left Fanny to her fate, a fate which, had not Fanny's heart been
41guarded in a way unsuspected by Miss Crawford, might have been a little harder than she deserved; for although there
42doubtless are such unconquerable young ladies of eighteen (or one should not read about them) as are never to be
43persuaded into love against their judgment by all that talent, manner, attention, and flattery can do, I have no
44inclination to believe Fanny one of them, or to think that with so much tenderness of disposition, and so much taste as
45belonged to her, she could have escaped heart-whole from the courtship (though the courtship only of a fortnight) of
46such a man as Crawford, in spite of there being some previous ill opinion of him to be overcome, had not her affection
47been engaged elsewhere. With all the security which love of another and disesteem of him could give to the peace of mind
48he was attacking, his continued attentions--continued, but not obtrusive, and adapting themselves more and more to the
49gentleness and delicacy of her character--obliged her very soon to dislike him less than formerly. She had by no means
50forgotten the past, and she thought as ill of him as ever; but she felt his powers: he was entertaining; and his manners
51were so improved, so polite, so seriously and blamelessly polite, that it was impossible not to be civil to him in
52return. A very few days were enough to effect this; and at the end of those few days, circumstances arose which had a
53tendency rather to forward his views of pleasing her, inasmuch as they gave her a degree of happiness which must dispose
54her to be pleased with everybody. William, her brother, the so long absent and dearly loved brother, was in England
55again. She had a letter from him herself, a few hurried happy lines, written as the ship came up Channel, and sent into
56Portsmouth with the first boat that left the Antwerp at anchor in Spithead; and when Crawford walked up with the
57newspaper in his hand, which he had hoped would bring the first tidings, he found her trembling with joy over this
58letter, and listening with a glowing, grateful countenance to the kind invitation which her uncle was most collectedly
59dictating in reply. It was but the day before that Crawford had made himself thoroughly master of the subject, or had in
60fact become at all aware of her having such a brother, or his being in such a ship, but the interest then excited had
61been very properly lively, determining him on his return to town to apply for information as to the probable period of
62the Antwerp's return from the Mediterranean, etc.; and the good luck which attended his early examination of ship news
63the next morning seemed the reward of his ingenuity in finding out such a method of pleasing her, as well as of his
64dutiful attention to the Admiral, in having for many years taken in the paper esteemed to have the earliest naval
65intelligence. He proved, however, to be too late. All those fine first feelings, of which he had hoped to be the
66exciter, were already given. But his intention, the kindness of his intention, was thankfully acknowledged: quite
67thankfully and warmly, for she was elevated beyond the common timidity of her mind by the flow of her love for William.
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