It must be sitting up so late last night Fanny,...
It must be sitting up so late last night
Fanny, you must do something to keep me awake
Fetch the cards; I feel so very stupid
The cards were brought, and Fanny played at cribbage with her
aunt till bedtime; and as Sir Thomas was reading to himself, no
sounds were heard in the room for the next two hours beyond the
reckonings of the game—”And that makes thirty-one; four in hand
and eight in cribYou are to deal, ma’am; shall I deal for you?”
Fanny thought and thought again of the difference which twentyfour
hours had made in that room, and all that part of the house
Last night it had been hope and smiles, bustle and motion, noise
and brilliancy, in the drawing-room, and out of the drawing-room,
and everywhereNow it was languor, and all but solitude
A good night’s rest improved her spiritsShe could think of William
the next day more cheerfully; and as the morning afforded her an
opportunity of talking over Thursday night with MrsGrant and Miss
Crawford, in a very handsome style, with all the heightenings of imagination,
and all the laughs of playfulness which are so essential to the
shade of a departed ball, she could afterwards bring her mind without
much effort into its everyday state, and easily conform to the tranquillity
of the present chanel costume jewelry quiet week
They were indeed a smaller party than she had ever known there
for a whole day together, and he was gone on whom the comfort
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and cheerfulness of every family meeting and every meal chiefly
dependedBut this must be learned to be enduredHe would soon
be always gone; and she was thankful that she could now sit in the
same room with her uncle, hear his voice, receive his questions, and
even answer them, without such wretched feelings as she had formerly
known
“We miss our two young men,” was Sir Thomas’s observation on
both the first and second day, as they formed their very reduced
circle after dinner; and in consideration of Fanny’s swimming eyes,
nothing more was said on the first day than to drink their good
health; but on the second it led to something fartherWilliam was
kindly commended and his promotion hoped for“And there is no
reason to suppose,” added Sir Thomas, “but that his visits to us may
now be tolerably frequentAs to Edmund, we must learn to do
without himThis will be the last winter of his belonging to us, as
he has done
“Yes,” said Lady Bertram, “but I wish he was not going away
They are all going away, I thinkI wish they would stay at home
This wish was levelled principally at Julia, who had just shopping online chanel bags applied
for permission to go to town with Maria; and as Sir Thomas thought
it best for each daughter that the permission should be granted,
Lady Bertram, though in her own good-nature she would not have
prevented it, was lamenting the change it made in the prospect of
Julia’s return, which would otherwise have taken place about this
timeA great deal of good sense followed on Sir Thomas’s side, tending
to reconcile his wife to the arrangementEverything that a considerate
parent ought to feel was advanced for her use; and everything
that an affectionate mother must feel in promoting her
children’s enjoyment was attributed to her natureLady Bertram
agreed to it all with a calm “Yes”; and at the end of a quarter of an
hour’s silent consideration spontaneously observed, “Sir Thomas, I
have been thinking—and I am very glad we took Fanny as we did,
for now the others are away we feel the good of it
Sir Thomas immediately improved this compliment by adding,
“Very trueWe shew Fanny what a good girl we think her by praising
her to her face, she is now a very valuable companionIf we
have been kind to her, she is now quite as necessary to us
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“Yes,” said Lady Bertram presently; “and it is a comfort to think
that we shall always have miu miu leather black coffer bag her
Sir Thomas paused, half smiled, glanced at his niece, and then
gravely replied, “She will never leave us, I hope, till invited to some
other home that may reasonably promise her greater happiness than
she knows here
“And that is not very likely to be, Sir ThomasWho should invite
her? Maria might be very glad to see her at Sotherton now and then,
but she would not think of asking her to live there; and I am sure
she is better off here; and besides, I cannot do without her
The week which passed so quietly and peaceably at the great house
in Mansfield had a very different character at the ParsonageTo the
young lady, at least, in each family, it brought very different feelings
What was tranquillity and comfort to Fanny was tediousness
and vexation to MarySomething arose from difference of disposition
and habit: one so easily satisfied, the other so unused to endure;
but still more might be imputed to difference of circumstances
In some points of interest they were exactly opposed to each other
To Fanny’s mind, Edmund’s absence was really, in its cause and its
tendency, a reliefTo Mary it was every way painfulShe felt the
want of his society every day, almost every hour, and was too much
in want of it to derive anything but irritation from tiffany and company necklace considering the
object for which he wentHe could not have devised anything more
likely to raise his consequence than this week’s absence, occurring as
it did at the very time of her brother’s going away, of William Price’s
going too, and completing the sort of general break-up of a party
which had been so animatedThey were now a
miserable trio, confined within doors by a series of rain and snow,
with nothing to do and no variety to hope forAngry as she was
with Edmund for adhering to his own notions, and acting on them
in defiance of her (and she had been so angry that they had hardly
parted friends at the ball), she could not help thinking of him continually
when absent, dwelling on his merit and affection, and longing
again for the almost daily meetings they lately hadHis absence
was unnecessarily longHe should not have planned such an absence—
he should not have left home for a week, when her own
departure from Mansfield was so nearThen she began to blame
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herselfShe wished she had not spoken so warmly in their last conversation
She was afraid she had used some strong, some contemptuous
expressions in speaking of the clergy, and that should not
have beenIt was ill-bred; it was wrongShe wished such words
unsaid with all her knock off gucci bags hea