But then,” with a more thoughtful air and lowered...
But then,” with a more thoughtful air and lowered voice,
“there is no saying what it may lead to
Fanny’s heart beat quick, and she felt quite unequal to surmising
or soliciting anything moreMiss Crawford, however, with renewed
animation, soon went on—
“I am conscious of being far better reconciled to a country residence
than I had ever expected to beI can even suppose it pleasant
to spend half the year in the country, under certain circumstances,
very pleasantAn elegant, moderate-sized house in the centre of
family connexions; continual engagements among them; commanding
the first society in the neighbourhood; looked up to, perhaps, as
leading it even more than those of larger fortune, and turning from
the cheerful round of such amusements to nothing worse than a
tete-a-tete with the person one feels most agreeable in the world
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There is nothing frightful in such a picture, is there, Miss Price?
One need not envy the new MrsRushworth with such a home as
thatRushworth!” was all that Fanny attempted to say
“Come, come, it would be very un-handsome in us to be rolex replica severe on
MrsRushworth, for I look forward to our owing her a great many
gay, brilliant, happy hoursI expect we shall be all very much at
Sotherton another yearSuch a match as Miss Bertram has made is
a public blessing; for the first pleasures of MrRushworth’s wife
must be to fill her house, and give the best balls in the country
Fanny was silent, and Miss Crawford relapsed into thoughtfulness,
till suddenly looking up at the end of a few minutes, she exclaimed,
“Ah! here he isRushworth, however, but
Edmund, who then appeared walking towards them with MrsI am so glad your eldest cousin is gone,
that he may be MrThere is something in the sound
of MrEdmund Bertram so formal, so pitiful, so younger-brotherlike,
that I detest it
“How differently we feel!” cried Fanny“To me, the sound of Mr
Bertram is so cold and nothing-meaning, so entirely without warmth
or character! It just stands for a gentleman, and that’s allBut there
is nobleness in the name of EdmundIt is a name of heroism and
renown; of kings, princes, and knights; and seems to breathe the
spirit of chivalry and warm tiffany 925 silver jewelry affections
“I grant you the name is good in itself, and Lord Edmund or Sir
Edmund sound delightfully; but sink it under the chill, the annihilation
of a MrEdmund is no more than MrWell, shall we join and disappoint them of half their lecture
upon sitting down out of doors at this time of year, by being up before
they can begin?”
Edmund met them with particular pleasureIt was the first time
of his seeing them together since the beginning of that better acquaintance
which he had been hearing of with great satisfactionA
friendship between two so very dear to him was exactly what he
could have wished: and to the credit of the lover’s understanding, be
it stated, that he did not by any means consider Fanny as the only,
or even as the greater gainer by such a friendship
“Well,” said Miss Crawford, “and do you not scold us for our
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imprudence? What do you think we have been sitting down for but
to be talked to about it, and entreated and supplicated never to do
so again?”
“Perhaps I might have scolded,” said Edmund, “if either of you
had been sitting down alone; but gucci purses while you do wrong together, I
can overlook a great deal
“They cannot have been sitting long,” cried MrsGrant, “for when
I went up for my shawl I saw them from the staircase window, and
then they were walking
“And really,” added Edmund, “the day is so mild, that your sitting
down for a few minutes can be hardly thought imprudentOur
weather must not always be judged by the calendarWe may sometimes
take greater liberties in November than in May
“Upon my word,” cried Miss Crawford, “you are two of the most
disappointing and unfeeling kind friends I ever met with! There is
no giving you a moment’s uneasinessYou do not know how much
we have been suffering, nor what chills we have felt! But I have long
thought MrBertram one of the worst subjects to work on, in any
little manoeuvre against common sense, that a woman could be
plagued withI had very little hope of him from the first; but you,
MrsGrant, my sister, my own sister, I think I had a right to alarm
you a little
“Do not flatter yourself, my dearest MaryYou have not the smallest
chance of moving meI have my alarms, but they are gucci mens wallets quite in a
different quarter; and if I could have altered the weather, you would
have had a good sharp east wind blowing on you the whole time—
for here are some of my plants which Robert will leave out because
the nights are so mild, and I know the end of it will be, that we shall
have a sudden change of weather, a hard frost setting in all at once,
taking everybody (at least Robert) by surprise, and I shall lose every
one; and what is worse, cook has just been telling me that the turkey,
which I particularly wished not to be dressed till Sunday, because
I know how much more DrGrant would enjoy it on Sunday
after the fatigues of the day, will not keep beyond to-morrowThese
are something like grievances, and make me think the weather most
unseasonably close
“The sweets of housekeeping in a country village!” said Miss
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Crawford archly“Commend me to the nurseryman and the
poulterer
“My dear child, commend DrGrant to the deanery of
Westminster or StPaul’s, and I should be as glad of your nurseryman
and poulterer as you could beBut we have no such people chloe paddingtons in
Mansfi