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1Where she could be placed became a subject of most melancholy and momentous consultation. Mrs. Norris, whose attachment
2seemed to augment with the demerits of her niece, would have had her received at home and countenanced by them all. Sir
3Thomas would not hear of it; and Mrs. Norris's anger against Fanny was so much the greater, from considering her
4residence there as the motive. She persisted in placing his scruples to her account, though Sir Thomas very solemnly
5assured her that, had there been no young woman in question, had there been no young person of either sex belonging to
6him, to be endangered by the society or hurt by the character of Mrs. Rushworth, he would never have offered so great an
7insult to the neighbourhood as to expect it to notice her. As a daughter, he hoped a penitent one, she should be
8protected by him, and secured in every comfort, and supported by every encouragement to do right, which their relative
9situations admitted; but farther than that he could not go. Maria had destroyed her own character, and he would not, by
10a vain attempt to restore what never could be restored, by affording his sanction to vice, or in seeking to lessen its
11disgrace, be anywise accessory to introducing such misery in another man's family as he had known himself. It ended in
12Mrs. Norris's resolving to quit Mansfield and devote herself to her unfortunate Maria, and in an establishment being
13formed for them in another country, remote and private, where, shut up together with little society, on one side no
14affection, on the other no judgment, it may be reasonably supposed that their tempers became their mutual punishment.
15Mrs. Norris's removal from Mansfield was the great supplementary comfort of Sir Thomas's life. His opinion of her had
16been sinking from the day of his return from Antigua: in every transaction together from that period, in their daily
17intercourse, in business, or in chat, she had been regularly losing ground in his esteem, and convincing him that either
18time had done her much disservice, or that he had considerably over-rated her sense, and wonderfully borne with her
19manners before. He had felt her as an hourly evil, which was so much the worse, as there seemed no chance of its ceasing
20but with life; she seemed a part of himself that must be borne for ever. To be relieved from her, therefore, was so
21great a felicity that, had she not left bitter remembrances behind her, there might have been danger of his learning
22almost to approve the evil which produced such a good. She was regretted by no one at Mansfield. She had never been able
23to attach even those she loved best; and since Mrs. Rushworth's elopement, her temper had been in a state of such
24irritation as to make her everywhere tormenting. Not even Fanny had tears for aunt Norris, not even when she was gone
25for ever. That Julia escaped better than Maria was owing, in some measure, to a favourable difference of disposition and
26circumstance, but in a greater to her having been less the darling of that very aunt, less flattered and less spoilt.
27Her beauty and acquirements had held but a second place. She had been always used to think herself a little inferior to
28Maria. Her temper was naturally the easiest of the two; her feelings, though quick, were more controllable, and
29education had not given her so very hurtful a degree of self-consequence. She had submitted the best to the
30disappointment in Henry Crawford. After the first bitterness of the conviction of being slighted was over, she had been
31tolerably soon in a fair way of not thinking of him again; and when the acquaintance was renewed in town, and Mr.
32Rushworth's house became Crawford's object, she had had the merit of withdrawing herself from it, and of chusing that
33time to pay a visit to her other friends, in order to secure herself from being again too much attracted. This had been
34her motive in going to her cousin's. Mr. Yates's convenience had had nothing to do with it. She had been allowing his
35attentions some time, but with very little idea of ever accepting him; and had not her sister's conduct burst forth as
36it did, and her increased dread of her father and of home, on that event, imagining its certain consequence to herself
37would be greater severity and restraint, made her hastily resolve on avoiding such immediate horrors at all risks, it is
38probable that Mr. Yates would never have succeeded. She had not eloped with any worse feelings than those of selfish
39alarm. It had appeared to her the only thing to be done. Maria's guilt had induced Julia's folly. Henry Crawford, ruined
40by early independence and bad domestic example, indulged in the freaks of a cold-blooded vanity a little too long. Once
41it had, by an opening undesigned and unmerited, led him into the way of happiness. Could he have been satisfied with the
42conquest of one amiable woman's affections, could he have found sufficient exultation in overcoming the reluctance, in
43working himself into the esteem and tenderness of Fanny Price, there would have been every probability of success and
44felicity for him. His affection had already done something. Her influence over him had already given him some influence
45over her. Would he have deserved more, there can be no doubt that more would have been obtained, especially when that
46marriage had taken place, which would have given him the assistance of her conscience in subduing her first inclination,
47and brought them very often together. Would he have persevered, and uprightly, Fanny must have been his reward, and a
48reward very voluntarily bestowed, within a reasonable period from Edmund's marrying Mary. Had he done as he intended,
49and as he knew he ought, by going down to Everingham after his return from Portsmouth, he might have been deciding his
50own happy destiny. But he was pressed to stay for Mrs. Fraser's party; his staying was made of flattering consequence,
51and he was to meet Mrs. Rushworth there. Curiosity and vanity were both engaged, and the temptation of immediate
52pleasure was too strong for a mind unused to make any sacrifice to right: he resolved to defer his Norfolk journey,
53resolved that writing should answer the purpose of it, or that its purpose was unimportant, and staid. He saw Mrs.
54Rushworth, was received by her with a coldness which ought to have been repulsive, and have established apparent
55indifference between them for ever; but he was mortified, he could not bear to be thrown off by the woman whose smiles
56had been so wholly at his command: he must exert himself to subdue so proud a display of resentment; it was anger on
57Fanny's account; he must get the better of it, and make Mrs. Rushworth Maria Bertram again in her treatment of himself.
58In this spirit he began the attack, and by animated perseverance had soon re-established the sort of familiar
59intercourse, of gallantry, of flirtation, which bounded his views; but in triumphing over the discretion which, though
60beginning in anger, might have saved them both, he had put himself in the power of feelings on her side more strong than
61he had supposed. She loved him; there was no withdrawing attentions avowedly dear to her. He was entangled by his own
62vanity, with as little excuse of love as possible, and without the smallest inconstancy of mind towards her cousin. To
63keep Fanny and the Bertrams from a knowledge of what was passing became his first object. Secrecy could not have been
64more desirable for Mrs. Rushworth's credit than he felt it for his own. When he returned from Richmond, he would have
65been glad to see Mrs. Rushworth no more. All that followed was the result of her imprudence; and he went off with her at
66last, because he could not help it, regretting Fanny even at the moment, but regretting her infinitely more when all the
67bustle of the intrigue was over, and a very few months had taught him, by the force of contrast, to place a yet higher
68value on the sweetness of her temper, the purity of her mind, and the excellence of her principles.
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