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1Fanny was right enough in not expecting to hear from Miss Crawford now at the rapid rate in which their correspondence
2had begun; Mary's next letter was after a decidedly longer interval than the last, but she was not right in supposing
3that such an interval would be felt a great relief to herself. Here was another strange revolution of mind! She was
4really glad to receive the letter when it did come. In her present exile from good society, and distance from everything
5that had been wont to interest her, a letter from one belonging to the set where her heart lived, written with
6affection, and some degree of elegance, was thoroughly acceptable. The usual plea of increasing engagements was made in
7excuse for not having written to her earlier; "And now that I have begun," she continued, "my letter will not be worth
8your reading, for there will be no little offering of love at the end, no three or four lines passionnées from the most
9devoted H. C. in the world, for Henry is in Norfolk; business called him to Everingham ten days ago, or perhaps he only
10pretended the call, for the sake of being travelling at the same time that you were. But there he is, and, by the bye,
11his absence may sufficiently account for any remissness of his sister's in writing, for there has been no 'Well, Mary,
12when do you write to Fanny? Is not it time for you to write to Fanny?' to spur me on. At last, after various attempts at
13meeting, I have seen your cousins, 'dear Julia and dearest Mrs. Rushworth'; they found me at home yesterday, and we were
14glad to see each other again. We seemed very glad to see each other, and I do really think we were a little. We had a
15vast deal to say. Shall I tell you how Mrs. Rushworth looked when your name was mentioned? I did not use to think her
16wanting in self-possession, but she had not quite enough for the demands of yesterday. Upon the whole, Julia was in the
17best looks of the two, at least after you were spoken of. There was no recovering the complexion from the moment that I
18spoke of 'Fanny,' and spoke of her as a sister should. But Mrs. Rushworth's day of good looks will come; we have cards
19for her first party on the 28th. Then she will be in beauty, for she will open one of the best houses in Wimpole Street.
20I was in it two years ago, when it was Lady Lascelle's, and prefer it to almost any I know in London, and certainly she
21will then feel, to use a vulgar phrase, that she has got her pennyworth for her penny. Henry could not have afforded her
22such a house. I hope she will recollect it, and be satisfied, as well as she may, with moving the queen of a palace,
23though the king may appear best in the background; and as I have no desire to tease her, I shall never force your name
24upon her again. She will grow sober by degrees. From all that I hear and guess, Baron Wildenheim's attentions to Julia
25continue, but I do not know that he has any serious encouragement. She ought to do better. A poor honourable is no
26catch, and I cannot imagine any liking in the case, for take away his rants, and the poor baron has nothing. What a
27difference a vowel makes! If his rents were but equal to his rants! Your cousin Edmund moves slowly; detained,
28perchance, by parish duties. There may be some old woman at Thornton Lacey to be converted. I am unwilling to fancy
29myself neglected for a young one. Adieu! my dear sweet Fanny, this is a long letter from London: write me a pretty one
30in reply to gladden Henry's eyes, when he comes back, and send me an account of all the dashing young captains whom you
31disdain for his sake." There was great food for meditation in this letter, and chiefly for unpleasant meditation; and
32yet, with all the uneasiness it supplied, it connected her with the absent, it told her of people and things about whom
33she had never felt so much curiosity as now, and she would have been glad to have been sure of such a letter every week.
34Her correspondence with her aunt Bertram was her only concern of higher interest. As for any society in Portsmouth, that
35could at all make amends for deficiencies at home, there were none within the circle of her father's and mother's
36acquaintance to afford her the smallest satisfaction: she saw nobody in whose favour she could wish to overcome her own
37shyness and reserve. The men appeared to her all coarse, the women all pert, everybody underbred; and she gave as little
38contentment as she received from introductions either to old or new acquaintance. The young ladies who approached her at
39first with some respect, in consideration of her coming from a baronet's family, were soon offended by what they termed
40"airs"; for, as she neither played on the pianoforte nor wore fine pelisses, they could, on farther observation, admit
41no right of superiority. The first solid consolation which Fanny received for the evils of home, the first which her
42judgment could entirely approve, and which gave any promise of durability, was in a better knowledge of Susan, and a
43hope of being of service to her. Susan had always behaved pleasantly to herself, but the determined character of her
44general manners had astonished and alarmed her, and it was at least a fortnight before she began to understand a
45disposition so totally different from her own. Susan saw that much was wrong at home, and wanted to set it right. That a
46girl of fourteen, acting only on her own unassisted reason, should err in the method of reform, was not wonderful; and
47Fanny soon became more disposed to admire the natural light of the mind which could so early distinguish justly, than to
48censure severely the faults of conduct to which it led. Susan was only acting on the same truths, and pursuing the same
49system, which her own judgment acknowledged, but which her more supine and yielding temper would have shrunk from
50asserting. Susan tried to be useful, where she could only have gone away and cried; and that Susan was useful she could
51perceive; that things, bad as they were, would have been worse but for such interposition, and that both her mother and
52Betsey were restrained from some excesses of very offensive indulgence and vulgarity. In every argument with her mother,
53Susan had in point of reason the advantage, and never was there any maternal tenderness to buy her off. The blind
54fondness which was for ever producing evil around her she had never known. There was no gratitude for affection past or
55present to make her better bear with its excesses to the others. All this became gradually evident, and gradually placed
56Susan before her sister as an object of mingled compassion and respect. That her manner was wrong, however, at times
57very wrong, her measures often ill-chosen and ill-timed, and her looks and language very often indefensible, Fanny could
58not cease to feel; but she began to hope they might be rectified. Susan, she found, looked up to her and wished for her
59good opinion; and new as anything like an office of authority was to Fanny, new as it was to imagine herself capable of
60guiding or informing any one, she did resolve to give occasional hints to Susan, and endeavour to exercise for her
61advantage the juster notions of what was due to everybody, and what would be wisest for herself, which her own more
62favoured education had fixed in her.
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