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1The ball was over, and the breakfast was soon over too; the last kiss was given, and William was gone. Mr. Crawford had,
2as he foretold, been very punctual, and short and pleasant had been the meal. After seeing William to the last moment,
3Fanny walked back to the breakfast-room with a very saddened heart to grieve over the melancholy change; and there her
4uncle kindly left her to cry in peace, conceiving, perhaps, that the deserted chair of each young man might exercise her
5tender enthusiasm, and that the remaining cold pork bones and mustard in William's plate might but divide her feelings
6with the broken egg-shells in Mr. Crawford's. She sat and cried con amore as her uncle intended, but it was con amore
7fraternal and no other. William was gone, and she now felt as if she had wasted half his visit in idle cares and selfish
8solicitudes unconnected with him. Fanny's disposition was such that she could never even think of her aunt Norris in the
9meagreness and cheerlessness of her own small house, without reproaching herself for some little want of attention to
10her when they had been last together; much less could her feelings acquit her of having done and said and thought
11everything by William that was due to him for a whole fortnight. It was a heavy, melancholy day. Soon after the second
12breakfast, Edmund bade them good-bye for a week, and mounted his horse for Peterborough, and then all were gone. Nothing
13remained of last night but remembrances, which she had nobody to share in. She talked to her aunt Bertram--she must talk
14to somebody of the ball; but her aunt had seen so little of what had passed, and had so little curiosity, that it was
15heavy work. Lady Bertram was not certain of anybody's dress or anybody's place at supper but her own. "She could not
16recollect what it was that she had heard about one of the Miss Maddoxes, or what it was that Lady Prescott had noticed
17in Fanny: she was not sure whether Colonel Harrison had been talking of Mr. Crawford or of William when he said he was
18the finest young man in the room--somebody had whispered something to her; she had forgot to ask Sir Thomas what it
19could be." And these were her longest speeches and clearest communications: the rest was only a languid "Yes, yes; very
20well; did you? did he? I did not see that; I should not know one from the other." This was very bad. It was only better
21than Mrs. Norris's sharp answers would have been; but she being gone home with all the supernumerary jellies to nurse a
22sick maid, there was peace and good-humour in their little party, though it could not boast much beside. The evening was
23heavy like the day. "I cannot think what is the matter with me," said Lady Bertram, when the tea-things were removed. "I
24feel quite stupid. It must be sitting up so late last night. Fanny, you must do something to keep me awake. I cannot
25work. Fetch the cards; I feel so very stupid." The cards were brought, and Fanny played at cribbage with her aunt till
26bedtime; and as Sir Thomas was reading to himself, no sounds were heard in the room for the next two hours beyond the
27reckonings of the game--"And that makes thirty-one; four in hand and eight in crib. You are to deal, ma'am; shall I deal
28for you?" Fanny thought and thought again of the difference which twenty-four hours had made in that room, and all that
29part of the house. Last night it had been hope and smiles, bustle and motion, noise and brilliancy, in the drawing-room,
30and out of the drawing-room, and everywhere. Now it was languor, and all but solitude. A good night's rest improved her
31spirits. She could think of William the next day more cheerfully; and as the morning afforded her an opportunity of
32talking over Thursday night with Mrs. Grant and Miss Crawford, in a very handsome style, with all the heightenings of
33imagination, and all the laughs of playfulness which are so essential to the shade of a departed ball, she could
34afterwards bring her mind without much effort into its everyday state, and easily conform to the tranquillity of the
35present quiet week. They were indeed a smaller party than she had ever known there for a whole day together, and he was
36gone on whom the comfort and cheerfulness of every family meeting and every meal chiefly depended. But this must be
37learned to be endured. He would soon be always gone; and she was thankful that she could now sit in the same room with
38her uncle, hear his voice, receive his questions, and even answer them, without such wretched feelings as she had
39formerly known. "We miss our two young men," was Sir Thomas's observation on both the first and second day, as they
40formed their very reduced circle after dinner; and in consideration of Fanny's swimming eyes, nothing more was said on
41the first day than to drink their good health; but on the second it led to something farther. William was kindly
42commended and his promotion hoped for. "And there is no reason to suppose," added Sir Thomas, "but that his visits to us
43may now be tolerably frequent. As to Edmund, we must learn to do without him. This will be the last winter of his
44belonging to us, as he has done." "Yes," said Lady Bertram, "but I wish he was not going away. They are all going away,
45I think. I wish they would stay at home." This wish was levelled principally at Julia, who had just applied for
46permission to go to town with Maria; and as Sir Thomas thought it best for each daughter that the permission should be
47granted, Lady Bertram, though in her own good-nature she would not have prevented it, was lamenting the change it made
48in the prospect of Julia's return, which would otherwise have taken place about this time. A great deal of good sense
49followed on Sir Thomas's side, tending to reconcile his wife to the arrangement. Everything that a considerate parent
50ought to feel was advanced for her use; and everything that an affectionate mother must feel in promoting her children's
51enjoyment was attributed to her nature. Lady Bertram agreed to it all with a calm "Yes"; and at the end of a quarter of
52an hour's silent consideration spontaneously observed, "Sir Thomas, I have been thinking--and I am very glad we took
53Fanny as we did, for now the others are away we feel the good of it." Sir Thomas immediately improved this compliment by
54adding, "Very true. We shew Fanny what a good girl we think her by praising her to her face, she is now a very valuable
55companion. If we have been kind to her, she is now quite as necessary to us." "Yes," said Lady Bertram presently; "and
56it is a comfort to think that we shall always have her." Sir Thomas paused, half smiled, glanced at his niece, and then
57gravely replied, "She will never leave us, I hope, till invited to some other home that may reasonably promise her
58greater happiness than she knows here." "And that is not very likely to be, Sir Thomas. Who should invite her? Maria
59might be very glad to see her at Sotherton now and then, but she would not think of asking her to live there; and I am
60sure she is better off here; and besides, I cannot do without her."
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