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1Full well could Fanny guess where his thoughts were now: Miss Crawford's power was all returning. He had been speaking
2of her cheerfully from the hour of his coming home. His avoiding her was quite at an end. He had dined at the Parsonage
3only the preceding day. After leaving him to his happier thoughts for some minutes, Fanny, feeling it due to herself,
4returned to Mr. Crawford, and said, "It is not merely in temper that I consider him as totally unsuited to myself;
5though, in that respect, I think the difference between us too great, infinitely too great: his spirits often oppress
6me; but there is something in him which I object to still more. I must say, cousin, that I cannot approve his character.
7I have not thought well of him from the time of the play. I then saw him behaving, as it appeared to me, so very
8improperly and unfeelingly--I may speak of it now because it is all over--so improperly by poor Mr. Rushworth, not
9seeming to care how he exposed or hurt him, and paying attentions to my cousin Maria, which--in short, at the time of
10the play, I received an impression which will never be got over." "My dear Fanny," replied Edmund, scarcely hearing her
11to the end, "let us not, any of us, be judged by what we appeared at that period of general folly. The time of the play
12is a time which I hate to recollect. Maria was wrong, Crawford was wrong, we were all wrong together; but none so wrong
13as myself. Compared with me, all the rest were blameless. I was playing the fool with my eyes open." "As a bystander,"
14said Fanny, "perhaps I saw more than you did; and I do think that Mr. Rushworth was sometimes very jealous." "Very
15possibly. No wonder. Nothing could be more improper than the whole business. I am shocked whenever I think that Maria
16could be capable of it; but, if she could undertake the part, we must not be surprised at the rest." "Before the play, I
17am much mistaken if Julia did not think he was paying her attentions." "Julia! I have heard before from some one of his
18being in love with Julia; but I could never see anything of it. And, Fanny, though I hope I do justice to my sisters'
19good qualities, I think it very possible that they might, one or both, be more desirous of being admired by Crawford,
20and might shew that desire rather more unguardedly than was perfectly prudent. I can remember that they were evidently
21fond of his society; and with such encouragement, a man like Crawford, lively, and it may be, a little unthinking, might
22be led on to--there could be nothing very striking, because it is clear that he had no pretensions: his heart was
23reserved for you. And I must say, that its being for you has raised him inconceivably in my opinion. It does him the
24highest honour; it shews his proper estimation of the blessing of domestic happiness and pure attachment. It proves him
25unspoilt by his uncle. It proves him, in short, everything that I had been used to wish to believe him, and feared he
26was not." "I am persuaded that he does not think, as he ought, on serious subjects." "Say, rather, that he has not
27thought at all upon serious subjects, which I believe to be a good deal the case. How could it be otherwise, with such
28an education and adviser? Under the disadvantages, indeed, which both have had, is it not wonderful that they should be
29what they are? Crawford's feelings, I am ready to acknowledge, have hitherto been too much his guides. Happily, those
30feelings have generally been good. You will supply the rest; and a most fortunate man he is to attach himself to such a
31creature--to a woman who, firm as a rock in her own principles, has a gentleness of character so well adapted to
32recommend them. He has chosen his partner, indeed, with rare felicity. He will make you happy, Fanny; I know he will
33make you happy; but you will make him everything." "I would not engage in such a charge," cried Fanny, in a shrinking
34accent; "in such an office of high responsibility!" "As usual, believing yourself unequal to anything! fancying
35everything too much for you! Well, though I may not be able to persuade you into different feelings, you will be
36persuaded into them, I trust. I confess myself sincerely anxious that you may. I have no common interest in Crawford's
37well-doing. Next to your happiness, Fanny, his has the first claim on me. You are aware of my having no common interest
38in Crawford." Fanny was too well aware of it to have anything to say; and they walked on together some fifty yards in
39mutual silence and abstraction. Edmund first began again-- "I was very much pleased by her manner of speaking of it
40yesterday, particularly pleased, because I had not depended upon her seeing everything in so just a light. I knew she
41was very fond of you; but yet I was afraid of her not estimating your worth to her brother quite as it deserved, and of
42her regretting that he had not rather fixed on some woman of distinction or fortune. I was afraid of the bias of those
43worldly maxims, which she has been too much used to hear. But it was very different. She spoke of you, Fanny, just as
44she ought. She desires the connexion as warmly as your uncle or myself. We had a long talk about it. I should not have
45mentioned the subject, though very anxious to know her sentiments; but I had not been in the room five minutes before
46she began introducing it with all that openness of heart, and sweet peculiarity of manner, that spirit and ingenuousness
47which are so much a part of herself. Mrs. Grant laughed at her for her rapidity." "Was Mrs. Grant in the room, then?"
48"Yes, when I reached the house I found the two sisters together by themselves; and when once we had begun, we had not
49done with you, Fanny, till Crawford and Dr. Grant came in." "It is above a week since I saw Miss Crawford." "Yes, she
50laments it; yet owns it may have been best. You will see her, however, before she goes. She is very angry with you,
51Fanny; you must be prepared for that. She calls herself very angry, but you can imagine her anger. It is the regret and
52disappointment of a sister, who thinks her brother has a right to everything he may wish for, at the first moment. She
53is hurt, as you would be for William; but she loves and esteems you with all her heart." "I knew she would be very angry
54with me." "My dearest Fanny," cried Edmund, pressing her arm closer to him, "do not let the idea of her anger distress
55you. It is anger to be talked of rather than felt. Her heart is made for love and kindness, not for resentment. I wish
56you could have overheard her tribute of praise; I wish you could have seen her countenance, when she said that you
57should be Henry's wife. And I observed that she always spoke of you as 'Fanny,' which she was never used to do; and it
58had a sound of most sisterly cordiality." "And Mrs. Grant, did she say--did she speak; was she there all the time?"
59"Yes, she was agreeing exactly with her sister. The surprise of your refusal, Fanny, seems to have been unbounded. That
60you could refuse such a man as Henry Crawford seems more than they can understand. I said what I could for you; but in
61good truth, as they stated the case--you must prove yourself to be in your senses as soon as you can by a different
62conduct; nothing else will satisfy them. But this is teasing you. I have done. Do not turn away from me."
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