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1"The farmyard must be cleared away entirely, and planted up to shut out the blacksmith's shop. The house must be turned
2to front the east instead of the north--the entrance and principal rooms, I mean, must be on that side, where the view
3is really very pretty; I am sure it may be done. And there must be your approach, through what is at present the garden.
4You must make a new garden at what is now the back of the house; which will be giving it the best aspect in the world,
5sloping to the south-east. The ground seems precisely formed for it. I rode fifty yards up the lane, between the church
6and the house, in order to look about me; and saw how it might all be. Nothing can be easier. The meadows beyond what
7will be the garden, as well as what now is, sweeping round from the lane I stood in to the north-east, that is, to the
8principal road through the village, must be all laid together, of course; very pretty meadows they are, finely sprinkled
9with timber. They belong to the living, I suppose; if not, you must purchase them. Then the stream--something must be
10done with the stream; but I could not quite determine what. I had two or three ideas." "And I have two or three ideas
11also," said Edmund, "and one of them is, that very little of your plan for Thornton Lacey will ever be put in practice.
12I must be satisfied with rather less ornament and beauty. I think the house and premises may be made comfortable, and
13given the air of a gentleman's residence, without any very heavy expense, and that must suffice me; and, I hope, may
14suffice all who care about me." Miss Crawford, a little suspicious and resentful of a certain tone of voice, and a
15certain half-look attending the last expression of his hope, made a hasty finish of her dealings with William Price; and
16securing his knave at an exorbitant rate, exclaimed, "There, I will stake my last like a woman of spirit. No cold
17prudence for me. I am not born to sit still and do nothing. If I lose the game, it shall not be from not striving for
18it." The game was hers, and only did not pay her for what she had given to secure it. Another deal proceeded, and
19Crawford began again about Thornton Lacey. "My plan may not be the best possible: I had not many minutes to form it in;
20but you must do a good deal. The place deserves it, and you will find yourself not satisfied with much less than it is
21capable of. (Excuse me, your ladyship must not see your cards. There, let them lie just before you.) The place deserves
22it, Bertram. You talk of giving it the air of a gentleman's residence. That will be done by the removal of the farmyard;
23for, independent of that terrible nuisance, I never saw a house of the kind which had in itself so much the air of a
24gentleman's residence, so much the look of a something above a mere parsonage-house--above the expenditure of a few
25hundreds a year. It is not a scrambling collection of low single rooms, with as many roofs as windows; it is not cramped
26into the vulgar compactness of a square farmhouse: it is a solid, roomy, mansion-like looking house, such as one might
27suppose a respectable old country family had lived in from generation to generation, through two centuries at least, and
28were now spending from two to three thousand a year in." Miss Crawford listened, and Edmund agreed to this. "The air of
29a gentleman's residence, therefore, you cannot but give it, if you do anything. But it is capable of much more. (Let me
30see, Mary; Lady Bertram bids a dozen for that queen; no, no, a dozen is more than it is worth. Lady Bertram does not bid
31a dozen. She will have nothing to say to it. Go on, go on.) By some such improvements as I have suggested (I do not
32really require you to proceed upon my plan, though, by the bye, I doubt anybody's striking out a better) you may give it
33a higher character. You may raise it into a place. From being the mere gentleman's residence, it becomes, by judicious
34improvement, the residence of a man of education, taste, modern manners, good connexions. All this may be stamped on it;
35and that house receive such an air as to make its owner be set down as the great landholder of the parish by every
36creature travelling the road; especially as there is no real squire's house to dispute the point--a circumstance,
37between ourselves, to enhance the value of such a situation in point of privilege and independence beyond all
38calculation. You think with me, I hope" (turning with a softened voice to Fanny). "Have you ever seen the place?" Fanny
39gave a quick negative, and tried to hide her interest in the subject by an eager attention to her brother, who was
40driving as hard a bargain, and imposing on her as much as he could; but Crawford pursued with "No, no, you must not part
41with the queen. You have bought her too dearly, and your brother does not offer half her value. No, no, sir, hands off,
42hands off. Your sister does not part with the queen. She is quite determined. The game will be yours," turning to her
43again; "it will certainly be yours." "And Fanny had much rather it were William's," said Edmund, smiling at her. "Poor
44Fanny! not allowed to cheat herself as she wishes!" "Mr. Bertram," said Miss Crawford, a few minutes afterwards, "you
45know Henry to be such a capital improver, that you cannot possibly engage in anything of the sort at Thornton Lacey
46without accepting his help. Only think how useful he was at Sotherton! Only think what grand things were produced there
47by our all going with him one hot day in August to drive about the grounds, and see his genius take fire. There we went,
48and there we came home again; and what was done there is not to be told!" Fanny's eyes were turned on Crawford for a
49moment with an expression more than grave--even reproachful; but on catching his, were instantly withdrawn. With
50something of consciousness he shook his head at his sister, and laughingly replied, "I cannot say there was much done at
51Sotherton; but it was a hot day, and we were all walking after each other, and bewildered." As soon as a general buzz
52gave him shelter, he added, in a low voice, directed solely at Fanny, "I should be sorry to have my powers of planning
53judged of by the day at Sotherton. I see things very differently now. Do not think of me as I appeared then." Sotherton
54was a word to catch Mrs. Norris, and being just then in the happy leisure which followed securing the odd trick by Sir
55Thomas's capital play and her own against Dr. and Mrs. Grant's great hands, she called out, in high good-humour,
56"Sotherton! Yes, that is a place, indeed, and we had a charming day there. William, you are quite out of luck; but the
57next time you come, I hope dear Mr. and Mrs. Rushworth will be at home, and I am sure I can answer for your being kindly
58received by both. Your cousins are not of a sort to forget their relations, and Mr. Rushworth is a most amiable man.
59They are at Brighton now, you know; in one of the best houses there, as Mr. Rushworth's fine fortune gives them a right
60to be. I do not exactly know the distance, but when you get back to Portsmouth, if it is not very far off, you ought to
61go over and pay your respects to them; and I could send a little parcel by you that I want to get conveyed to your
62cousins." "I should be very happy, aunt; but Brighton is almost by Beachey Head; and if I could get so far, I could not
63expect to be welcome in such a smart place as that--poor scrubby midshipman as I am." Mrs. Norris was beginning an eager
64assurance of the affability he might depend on, when she was stopped by Sir Thomas's saying with authority, "I do not
65advise your going to Brighton, William, as I trust you may soon have more convenient opportunities of meeting; but my
66daughters would be happy to see their cousins anywhere; and you will find Mr. Rushworth most sincerely disposed to
67regard all the connexions of our family as his own." "I would rather find him private secretary to the First Lord than
68anything else," was William's only answer, in an undervoice, not meant to reach far, and the subject dropped.
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