| We were all delighted
She could not do otherwise than accept him, for he was
rich, and she had nothing; but he turns out ill-tempered and exigeant,
and wants a young woman, a beautiful young woman of five-andtwenty,
to be as steady as himselfAnd my friend does not manage
him well; she does not seem to know how to make the best of it
There is a spirit of irritation which, to say nothing worse, is certainly
very ill-bredIn their house I shall call to mind the conjugal
manners of Mansfield Parsonage with respectGrant does
shew a thorough confidence in my sister, and a certain consideration
for her judgment, which makes one feel there is attachment;
but of that I shall see nothing with the FrasersI shall be at Mansfield
for ever, FannyMy own sister as a wife, Sir Thomas Bertram as a
husband, are my standards of perfectionPoor Janet has been sadly
taken in, and yet there was nothing improper on her side: she did
not run into the match inconsiderately; there was no want of foresight
She took three days to consider of his proposals, and during
those three days asked the advice of chanel jumbo flap bag everybody connected with her
whose opinion was worth having, and especially applied to my late
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dear aunt, whose knowledge of the world made her judgment very
generally and deservedly looked up to by all the young people of her
acquaintance, and she was decidedly in favour of MrThis
seems as if nothing were a security for matrimonial comfortI have
not so much to say for my friend Flora, who jilted a very nice young
man in the Blues for the sake of that horrid Lord Stornaway, who
has about as much sense, Fanny, as MrRushworth, but much worselooking,
and with a blackguard characterI had my doubts at the
time about her being right, for he has not even the air of a gentleman,
and now I am sure she was wrongBy the bye, Flora Ross was
dying for Henry the first winter she came outBut were I to attempt
to tell you of all the women whom I have known to be in love with
him, I should never have doneIt is you, only you, insensible Fanny,
who can think of him with anything like indifferenceBut are you
so insensible as you profess yourself? No, no, I see you are omega seamaster de ville not
There was, indeed, so deep a blush over Fanny?s face at that moment
as might warrant strong suspicion in a predisposed mind
?Excellent creature! I will not tease youEverything shall take its
courseBut, dear Fanny, you must allow that you were not so absolutely
unprepared to have the question asked as your cousin fancies
It is not possible but that you must have had some thoughts on the
subject, some surmises as to what might beYou must have seen
that he was trying to please you by every attention in his power
Was not he devoted to you at the ball? And then before the ball, the
necklace! Oh! you received it just as it was meantYou were as conscious
as heart could desireI remember it perfectly
?Do you mean, then, that your brother knew of the necklace beforehand?
Oh! Miss Crawford, that was not fair
?Knew of it! It was his own doing entirely, his own thoughtI am
ashamed to say that it had never entered my head, but I was delighted
to act on his proposal for both your sakes
?I will not say,? replied Fanny, ?that I was not half afraid at the
time of its being so, for there cartier santos de cartier was something in your look that frightened
me, but not at first; I was as unsuspicious of it at first?indeed,
indeed I wasIt is as true as that I sit hereAnd had I had an
idea of it, nothing should have induced me to accept the necklace
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larity: I had been sensible of it some little time, perhaps two or three
weeks; but then I considered it as meaning nothing: I put it down as
simply being his way, and was as far from supposing as from wishing
him to have any serious thoughts of meI had not, Miss
Crawford, been an inattentive observer of what was passing between
him and some part of this family in the summer and autumnI was
quiet, but I was not blindI could not but see that MrCrawford
allowed himself in gallantries which did mean nothing
?Ah! I cannot deny itHe has now and then been a sad flirt, and
cared very little for the havoc he might be making in young ladies?
affectionsI have often scolded him for it, but it is his only fault;
and there is this to be said, that very few young ladies cartier tank louis cartier have any
affections worth caring forAnd then, Fanny, the glory of fixing one
who has been shot at by so many; of having it in one?s power to pay
off the debts of one?s sex! Oh! I am sure it is not in woman?s nature
to refuse such a triumph
Fanny shook her head?I cannot think well of a man who sports
with any woman?s feelings; and there may often be a great deal more
suffered than a stander-by can judge of
?I do not defend himI leave him entirely to your mercy, and
when he has got you at Everingham, I do not care how much you
lecture himBut this I will say, that his fault, the liking to make girls
a little in love with him, is not half so dangerous to a wife?s happiness
as a tendency to fall in love himself, which he has never been
addicted toAnd I do seriously and truly believe that he is attached
to you in a way that he never was to any woman before; that he
loves you with all his heart, and will love you as nearly for ever as
possibleIf any man ever loved a woman for ever, I think Henry will
do as much for you
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