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1They both declared they should prefer it to anything. "Then, Betsey, my dear, run into the kitchen and see if Rebecca
2has put the water on; and tell her to bring in the tea-things as soon as she can. I wish we could get the bell mended;
3but Betsey is a very handy little messenger." Betsey went with alacrity, proud to shew her abilities before her fine new
4sister. "Dear me!" continued the anxious mother, "what a sad fire we have got, and I dare say you are both starved with
5cold. Draw your chair nearer, my dear. I cannot think what Rebecca has been about. I am sure I told her to bring some
6coals half an hour ago. Susan, you should have taken care of the fire." "I was upstairs, mama, moving my things," said
7Susan, in a fearless, self-defending tone, which startled Fanny. "You know you had but just settled that my sister Fanny
8and I should have the other room; and I could not get Rebecca to give me any help." Farther discussion was prevented by
9various bustles: first, the driver came to be paid; then there was a squabble between Sam and Rebecca about the manner
10of carrying up his sister's trunk, which he would manage all his own way; and lastly, in walked Mr. Price himself, his
11own loud voice preceding him, as with something of the oath kind he kicked away his son's portmanteau and his daughter's
12bandbox in the passage, and called out for a candle; no candle was brought, however, and he walked into the room. Fanny
13with doubting feelings had risen to meet him, but sank down again on finding herself undistinguished in the dusk, and
14unthought of. With a friendly shake of his son's hand, and an eager voice, he instantly began--"Ha! welcome back, my
15boy. Glad to see you. Have you heard the news? The Thrush went out of harbour this morning. Sharp is the word, you see!
16By G--, you are just in time! The doctor has been here inquiring for you: he has got one of the boats, and is to be off
17for Spithead by six, so you had better go with him. I have been to Turner's about your mess; it is all in a way to be
18done. I should not wonder if you had your orders to-morrow: but you cannot sail with this wind, if you are to cruise to
19the westward; and Captain Walsh thinks you will certainly have a cruise to the westward, with the Elephant. By G--, I
20wish you may! But old Scholey was saying, just now, that he thought you would be sent first to the Texel. Well, well, we
21are ready, whatever happens. But by G--, you lost a fine sight by not being here in the morning to see the Thrush go out
22of harbour! I would not have been out of the way for a thousand pounds. Old Scholey ran in at breakfast-time, to say she
23had slipped her moorings and was coming out, I jumped up, and made but two steps to the platform. If ever there was a
24perfect beauty afloat, she is one; and there she lays at Spithead, and anybody in England would take her for an
25eight-and-twenty. I was upon the platform two hours this afternoon looking at her. She lays close to the Endymion,
26between her and the Cleopatra, just to the eastward of the sheer hulk." "Ha!" cried William, "that's just where I should
27have put her myself. It's the best berth at Spithead. But here is my sister, sir; here is Fanny," turning and leading
28her forward; "it is so dark you do not see her." With an acknowledgment that he had quite forgot her, Mr. Price now
29received his daughter; and having given her a cordial hug, and observed that she was grown into a woman, and he supposed
30would be wanting a husband soon, seemed very much inclined to forget her again. Fanny shrunk back to her seat, with
31feelings sadly pained by his language and his smell of spirits; and he talked on only to his son, and only of the
32Thrush, though William, warmly interested as he was in that subject, more than once tried to make his father think of
33Fanny, and her long absence and long journey. After sitting some time longer, a candle was obtained; but as there was
34still no appearance of tea, nor, from Betsey's reports from the kitchen, much hope of any under a considerable period,
35William determined to go and change his dress, and make the necessary preparations for his removal on board directly,
36that he might have his tea in comfort afterwards. As he left the room, two rosy-faced boys, ragged and dirty, about
37eight and nine years old, rushed into it just released from school, and coming eagerly to see their sister, and tell
38that the Thrush was gone out of harbour; Tom and Charles. Charles had been born since Fanny's going away, but Tom she
39had often helped to nurse, and now felt a particular pleasure in seeing again. Both were kissed very tenderly, but Tom
40she wanted to keep by her, to try to trace the features of the baby she had loved, and talked to, of his infant
41preference of herself. Tom, however, had no mind for such treatment: he came home not to stand and be talked to, but to
42run about and make a noise; and both boys had soon burst from her, and slammed the parlour-door till her temples ached.
43She had now seen all that were at home; there remained only two brothers between herself and Susan, one of whom was a
44clerk in a public office in London, and the other midshipman on board an Indiaman. But though she had seen all the
45members of the family, she had not yet heard all the noise they could make. Another quarter of an hour brought her a
46great deal more. William was soon calling out from the landing-place of the second story for his mother and for Rebecca.
47He was in distress for something that he had left there, and did not find again. A key was mislaid, Betsey accused of
48having got at his new hat, and some slight, but essential alteration of his uniform waistcoat, which he had been
49promised to have done for him, entirely neglected. Mrs. Price, Rebecca, and Betsey all went up to defend themselves, all
50talking together, but Rebecca loudest, and the job was to be done as well as it could in a great hurry; William trying
51in vain to send Betsey down again, or keep her from being troublesome where she was; the whole of which, as almost every
52door in the house was open, could be plainly distinguished in the parlour, except when drowned at intervals by the
53superior noise of Sam, Tom, and Charles chasing each other up and down stairs, and tumbling about and hallooing. Fanny
54was almost stunned. The smallness of the house and thinness of the walls brought everything so close to her, that, added
55to the fatigue of her journey, and all her recent agitation, she hardly knew how to bear it. Within the room all was
56tranquil enough, for Susan having disappeared with the others, there were soon only her father and herself remaining;
57and he, taking out a newspaper, the accustomary loan of a neighbour, applied himself to studying it, without seeming to
58recollect her existence. The solitary candle was held between himself and the paper, without any reference to her
59possible convenience; but she had nothing to do, and was glad to have the light screened from her aching head, as she
60sat in bewildered, broken, sorrowful contemplation. She was at home. But, alas! it was not such a home, she had not such
61a welcome, as--she checked herself; she was unreasonable. What right had she to be of importance to her family? She
62could have none, so long lost sight of! William's concerns must be dearest, they always had been, and he had every
63right. Yet to have so little said or asked about herself, to have scarcely an inquiry made after Mansfield! It did pain
64her to have Mansfield forgotten; the friends who had done so much--the dear, dear friends! But here, one subject
65swallowed up all the rest. Perhaps it must be so. The destination of the Thrush must be now preeminently interesting. A
66day or two might shew the difference. She only was to blame. Yet she thought it would not have been so at Mansfield. No,
67in her uncle's house there would have been a consideration of times and seasons, a regulation of subject, a propriety,
68an attention towards everybody which there was not here.
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