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1"I should have thought," said Fanny, after a pause of recollection and exertion, "that every woman must have felt the
2possibility of a man's not being approved, not being loved by some one of her sex at least, let him be ever so generally
3agreeable. Let him have all the perfections in the world, I think it ought not to be set down as certain that a man must
4be acceptable to every woman he may happen to like himself. But, even supposing it is so, allowing Mr. Crawford to have
5all the claims which his sisters think he has, how was I to be prepared to meet him with any feeling answerable to his
6own? He took me wholly by surprise. I had not an idea that his behaviour to me before had any meaning; and surely I was
7not to be teaching myself to like him only because he was taking what seemed very idle notice of me. In my situation, it
8would have been the extreme of vanity to be forming expectations on Mr. Crawford. I am sure his sisters, rating him as
9they do, must have thought it so, supposing he had meant nothing. How, then, was I to be--to be in love with him the
10moment he said he was with me? How was I to have an attachment at his service, as soon as it was asked for? His sisters
11should consider me as well as him. The higher his deserts, the more improper for me ever to have thought of him. And,
12and--we think very differently of the nature of women, if they can imagine a woman so very soon capable of returning an
13affection as this seems to imply." "My dear, dear Fanny, now I have the truth. I know this to be the truth; and most
14worthy of you are such feelings. I had attributed them to you before. I thought I could understand you. You have now
15given exactly the explanation which I ventured to make for you to your friend and Mrs. Grant, and they were both better
16satisfied, though your warm-hearted friend was still run away with a little by the enthusiasm of her fondness for Henry.
17I told them that you were of all human creatures the one over whom habit had most power and novelty least; and that the
18very circumstance of the novelty of Crawford's addresses was against him. Their being so new and so recent was all in
19their disfavour; that you could tolerate nothing that you were not used to; and a great deal more to the same purpose,
20to give them a knowledge of your character. Miss Crawford made us laugh by her plans of encouragement for her brother.
21She meant to urge him to persevere in the hope of being loved in time, and of having his addresses most kindly received
22at the end of about ten years' happy marriage." Fanny could with difficulty give the smile that was here asked for. Her
23feelings were all in revolt. She feared she had been doing wrong: saying too much, overacting the caution which she had
24been fancying necessary; in guarding against one evil, laying herself open to another; and to have Miss Crawford's
25liveliness repeated to her at such a moment, and on such a subject, was a bitter aggravation. Edmund saw weariness and
26distress in her face, and immediately resolved to forbear all farther discussion; and not even to mention the name of
27Crawford again, except as it might be connected with what must be agreeable to her. On this principle, he soon
28afterwards observed--"They go on Monday. You are sure, therefore, of seeing your friend either to-morrow or Sunday. They
29really go on Monday; and I was within a trifle of being persuaded to stay at Lessingby till that very day! I had almost
30promised it. What a difference it might have made! Those five or six days more at Lessingby might have been felt all my
31life." "You were near staying there?" "Very. I was most kindly pressed, and had nearly consented. Had I received any
32letter from Mansfield, to tell me how you were all going on, I believe I should certainly have staid; but I knew nothing
33that had happened here for a fortnight, and felt that I had been away long enough." "You spent your time pleasantly
34there?" "Yes; that is, it was the fault of my own mind if I did not. They were all very pleasant. I doubt their finding
35me so. I took uneasiness with me, and there was no getting rid of it till I was in Mansfield again." "The Miss
36Owens--you liked them, did not you?" "Yes, very well. Pleasant, good-humoured, unaffected girls. But I am spoilt, Fanny,
37for common female society. Good-humoured, unaffected girls will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women.
38They are two distinct orders of being. You and Miss Crawford have made me too nice." Still, however, Fanny was oppressed
39and wearied; he saw it in her looks, it could not be talked away; and attempting it no more, he led her directly, with
40the kind authority of a privileged guardian, into the house.
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