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  "slug": "mansfield-park-pg141",
  "title": "Mansfield Park",
  "quotes": [
    {
      "text": "He knew her\nto be clever, to have a quick apprehension as well as good sense, and a\nfondness for reading, which, properly directed, must be an education in itself."
    },
    {
      "text": "he made reading useful by talking to her of\nwhat she read, and heightened its attraction by judicious praise."
    },
    {
      "text": "There is\nno reason in the world why you should not be important where you are known. You\nhave good sense, and a sweet temper, and I am sure you have a grateful heart,\nthat could never receive kindness without wishing to return it. I do not know\nany better qualifications for a friend and companion."
    },
    {
      "text": "Mrs. Norris is much better\nfitted than my mother for having the charge of you now. She is of a temper to\ndo a great deal for anybody she really interests herself about, and she will\nforce you to do justice to your natural powers."
    },
    {
      "text": "In everything but\ndisposition they were admirably taught. Sir Thomas did not know what was\nwanting, because, though a truly anxious father, he was not outwardly\naffectionate, and the reserve of his manner repressed all the flow of their\nspirits before him."
    },
    {
      "text": "To the education of her daughters Lady Bertram paid not the smallest attention.\nShe had not time for such cares. She was a woman who spent her days in sitting,\nnicely dressed, on a sofa, doing some long piece of needlework, of little use\nand no beauty, thinking more of her pug than her children, but very indulgent\nto the latter when it did not put herself to inconvenience, guided in\neverything important by Sir Thomas, and in smaller concerns by her sister."
    },
    {
      "text": "The necessity of the measure in a pecuniary light, and the hope of its utility\nto his son, reconciled Sir Thomas to the effort of quitting the rest of his\nfamily, and of leaving his daughters to the direction of others at their\npresent most interesting time of life."
    },
    {
      "text": "He could not think Lady Bertram quite\nequal to supply his place with them, or rather, to perform what should have\nbeen her own; but, in Mrs. Norris’s watchful attention, and in\nEdmund’s judgment, he had sufficient confidence to make him go without\nfears for their conduct."
    },
    {
      "text": "Their vanity was in such good\norder that they seemed to be quite free from it, and gave themselves no airs;\nwhile the praises attending such behaviour, secured and brought round by their\naunt, served to strengthen them in believing they had no faults."
    },
    {
      "text": "She\nregarded her cousin as an example of everything good and great, as possessing\nworth which no one but herself could ever appreciate, and as entitled to such\ngratitude from her as no feelings could be strong enough to pay."
    },
    {
      "text": "The return of\nwinter engagements, however, was not without its effect; and in the course of\ntheir progress, her mind became so pleasantly occupied in superintending the\nfortunes of her eldest niece, as tolerably to quiet her nerves."
    },
    {
      "text": "Maria was indeed the pride and delight of them\nall—perfectly faultless—an angel; and, of course, so surrounded by\nadmirers, must be difficult in her choice: but yet, as far as Mrs. Norris could\nallow herself to decide on so short an acquaintance, Mr. Rushworth appeared\nprecisely the young man to deserve and attach her."
    },
    {
      "text": "He could allow his sister to be the best judge\nof her own happiness, but he was not pleased that her happiness should centre\nin a large income;"
    },
    {
      "text": "An engaged woman is always more\nagreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over,\nand she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion.\nAll is safe with a lady engaged: no harm can be done."
    },
    {
      "text": "With all due respect to such of the present\ncompany as chance to be married, my dear Mrs. Grant, there is not one in a\nhundred of either sex who is not taken in when they marry."
    },
    {
      "text": "if\none scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first\ncalculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort\nsomewhere"
    },
    {
      "text": "I would rather have an inferior degree of beauty, of my\nown choice, and acquired progressively. I would rather abide by my own blunders\nthan by his."
    },
    {
      "text": "You would not write to each\nother but upon the most urgent necessity in the world; and when obliged to take\nup the pen to say that such a horse is ill, or such a relation dead, it is done\nin the fewest possible words."
    },
    {
      "text": "it is natural and amiable that Miss Crawford should\nacquit her aunt entirely. I do not censure her opinions; but there\ncertainly is impropriety in making them public."
    },
    {
      "text": "She is perfectly\nfeminine, except in the instances we have been speaking of. There she cannot be\njustified."
    },
    {
      "text": "There was a charm, perhaps, in his sincerity, his\nsteadiness, his integrity, which Miss Crawford might be equal to feel, though\nnot equal to discuss with herself."
    },
    {
      "text": "Selfishness must always be forgiven, you know, because\nthere is no hope of a cure."
    },
    {
      "text": "A successful scheme of this sort generally brings on\nanother; and the having been to Mansfield Common disposed them all for going\nsomewhere else the day after."
    },
    {
      "text": "Nothing of this would have happened had she been properly considered; but\nshe had been left four days together without any choice of companions or\nexercise, and without any excuse for avoiding whatever her unreasonable aunts\nmight require."
    },
    {
      "text": "She was a little surprised that he could spend so many\nhours with Miss Crawford, and not see more of the sort of fault which he had\nalready observed, and of which she was almost always reminded by a\nsomething of the same nature whenever she was in her company; but so it was."
    },
    {
      "text": "She had none of Fanny’s delicacy of taste,\nof mind, of feeling; she saw Nature, inanimate Nature, with little observation;\nher attention was all for men and women, her talents for the light and lively."
    },
    {
      "text": "The mind which does not struggle against itself under one\ncircumstance, would find objects to distract it in the other, I believe;\nand the influence of the place and of example may often rouse better feelings\nthan are begun with."
    },
    {
      "text": "The obligation of attendance, the formality, the restraint,\nthe length of time—altogether it is a formidable thing, and what nobody\nlikes; and if the good people who used to kneel and gape in that gallery could\nhave foreseen that the time would ever come when men and women might lie\nanother ten minutes in bed, when they woke with a headache, without danger of\nreprobation, because chapel was missed, they would have jumped with joy and\nenvy."
    },
    {
      "text": "Your lively mind can hardly be serious even on serious subjects."
    },
    {
      "text": "The greater length of the service, however, I admit to be\nsometimes too hard a stretch upon the mind. One wishes it were not so; but I\nhave not yet left Oxford long enough to forget what chapel prayers are."
    },
    {
      "text": "The politeness which she had been brought up to\npractise as a duty made it impossible for her to escape; while the want of that\nhigher species of self-command, that just consideration of others, that\nknowledge of her own heart, that principle of right, which had not formed any\nessential part of her education, made her miserable under it."
    },
    {
      "text": "A clergyman is nothing."
    },
    {
      "text": "No one here can call the office nothing. If\nthe man who holds it is so, it is by the neglect of his duty, by foregoing its\njust importance, and stepping out of his place to appear what he ought not to\nappear."
    },
    {
      "text": "We do not look in great cities for our best morality. It is not there\nthat respectable people of any denomination can do most good; and it certainly\nis not there that the influence of the clergy can be most felt."
    },
    {
      "text": "The manners I speak of might\nrather be called conduct, perhaps, the result of good principles; the\neffect, in short, of those doctrines which it is their duty to teach and\nrecommend; and it will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are,\nor are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation."
    },
    {
      "text": "I am a very\nmatter-of-fact, plain-spoken being, and may blunder on the borders of a\nrepartee for half an hour together without striking it out."
    },
    {
      "text": "to sit in the shade on\na fine day, and look upon verdure, is the most perfect refreshment."
    },
    {
      "text": "It is generally\nallowed to be the greatest bore in the world, and Miss Price has found it so,\nthough she did not know it."
    },
    {
      "text": "You had better not go."
    },
    {
      "text": "I and my gown are alive and well, and so good-bye."
    },
    {
      "text": "The sort of dread in which Fanny now sat of seeing Mr.\nRushworth prevented her thinking so much of their continued absence, however,\nas she might have done."
    },
    {
      "text": "It would probably be the middle of November at least; the\nmiddle of November was three months off. Three months comprised thirteen weeks.\nMuch might happen in thirteen weeks."
    },
    {
      "text": "Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are\ncondemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or\n(smiling) of something else."
    },
    {
      "text": "A man—a sensible man like Dr. Grant, cannot be in\nthe habit of teaching others their duty every week, cannot go to church twice\nevery Sunday, and preach such very good sermons in so good a manner as he does,\nwithout being the better for it himself."
    },
    {
      "text": "He has no faults but what a serious attachment\nwould remove."
    },
    {
      "text": "I believe it often happens that a man, before he has\nquite made up his own mind, will distinguish the sister or intimate friend of\nthe woman he is really thinking of more than the woman herself."
    },
    {
      "text": "If you look at them you may see they\nare so many couple of lovers—all but Yates and Mrs. Grant—and,\nbetween ourselves, she, poor woman, must want a lover as much as any one of\nthem."
    },
    {
      "text": "I feel as if I could be anything or everything; as\nif I could rant and storm, or sigh or cut capers, in any tragedy or comedy in\nthe English language."
    },
    {
      "text": "We\nwant no audience, no publicity. We may be trusted, I think, in chusing some\nplay most perfectly unexceptionable; and I can conceive no greater harm or\ndanger to any of us in conversing in the elegant written language of some\nrespectable author than in chattering in words of our own."
    },
    {
      "text": "Family\nsquabbling is the greatest evil of all, and we had better do anything than be\naltogether by the ears."
    },
    {
      "text": "There could be no harm in what had been done in\nso many respectable families, and by so many women of the first consideration;\nand it must be scrupulousness run mad that could see anything to censure in a\nplan like theirs"
    },
    {
      "text": "the charm of acting might well carry fascination to the\nmind of genius"
    },
    {
      "text": "There were, in fact, so many things to be attended to, so many people to be\npleased, so many best characters required, and, above all, such a need that the\nplay should be at once both tragedy and comedy, that there did seem as little\nchance of a decision as anything pursued by youth and zeal could hold out"
    },
    {
      "text": "Fanny looked on and listened, not unamused to observe the selfishness which,\nmore or less disguised, seemed to govern them all, and wondering how it would\nend"
    },
    {
      "text": "If\na part is insignificant, the greater our credit in making anything of it"
    },
    {
      "text": "It is only Count Cassel and Anhalt"
    },
    {
      "text": "The many laughs we have had\ntogether would infallibly come across me, and Frederick and his knapsack would\nbe obliged to run away"
    },
    {
      "text": "she was slighted, Maria was preferred;\nthe smile of triumph which Maria was trying to suppress shewed how well it was\nunderstood"
    },
    {
      "text": "I am sure I\nwould give up the part to Julia most willingly, but that though I shall\nprobably do it very ill, I feel persuaded she would do it worse"
    },
    {
      "text": "You\nmust not, indeed you must not"
    },
    {
      "text": "It is not at all the part for her. She\nwould not like it. She would not do well. She is too tall and robust. Amelia\nshould be a small, light, girlish, skipping figure. It is fit for Miss\nCrawford, and Miss Crawford only. She looks the part, and I am persuaded will\ndo it admirably"
    },
    {
      "text": "Simplicity, indeed, is beyond the reach\nof almost every actress by profession. It requires a delicacy of feeling which\nthey have not. It requires a gentlewoman—a Julia Bertram"
    },
    {
      "text": "Do not be afraid of my wanting the character"
    },
    {
      "text": "I am not to be Agatha, and I am sure I will\ndo nothing else; and as to Amelia, it is of all parts in the world the most\ndisgusting to me. I quite detest her. An odious, little, pert, unnatural,\nimpudent girl. I have always protested against comedy, and this is comedy in\nits worst form"
    },
    {
      "text": "There should\nalways be one steady head to superintend so many young ones."
    },
    {
      "text": "I hate such greediness—so good\nas your father is to the family, employing the man all the year round!"
    },
    {
      "text": "You must get a\nbrown gown, and a white apron, and a mob cap, and we must make you a few\nwrinkles, and a little of the crowsfoot at the corner of your eyes, and you\nwill be a very proper, little old woman."
    },
    {
      "text": "I do not like\nmy situation: this place is too hot for me,"
    },
    {
      "text": "the excessive intimacy which must spring from his being admitted\namong us in this manner is highly objectionable, the more than\nintimacy—the familiarity."
    },
    {
      "text": "There is but one thing to be done, Fanny. I must take Anhalt\nmyself. I am well aware that nothing else will quiet Tom."
    },
    {
      "text": "She never appeared more amiable than in her behaviour to you last night."
    },
    {
      "text": "She was safe; but peace and safety were unconnected here."
    },
    {
      "text": "Her heart and her\njudgment were equally against Edmund’s decision: she could not acquit his\nunsteadiness, and his happiness under it made her wretched."
    },
    {
      "text": "They\nwere two solitary sufferers, or connected only by Fanny’s consciousness."
    },
    {
      "text": "The inattention of the two brothers and the aunt to Julia’s discomposure,\nand their blindness to its true cause, must be imputed to the fullness of their\nown minds."
    },
    {
      "text": "Everybody had a part\neither too long or too short; nobody would attend as they ought; nobody would\nremember on which side they were to come in; nobody but the complainer would\nobserve any directions."
    },
    {
      "text": "She did not believe they had yet rehearsed it,\neven in private."
    },
    {
      "text": "She worked very diligently\nunder her aunt’s directions, but her diligence and her silence concealed\na very absent, anxious mind"
    },
    {
      "text": "She\nbelieved herself to feel too much of it in the aggregate for honesty or safety\nin particulars"
    },
    {
      "text": "She was properly punished"
    },
    {
      "text": "Her agitation and alarm exceeded all that was endured by the\nrest, by the right of a disposition which not even innocence could keep from\nsuffering"
    },
    {
      "text": "The ruin of the play was to them a certainty: they felt the total\ndestruction of the scheme to be inevitably at hand"
    },
    {
      "text": "He had\nnever been so kind, so very kind to her in his life. His manner seemed\nchanged, his voice was quick from the agitation of joy; and all that had been\nawful in his dignity seemed lost in tenderness"
    },
    {
      "text": "She had been almost\nfluttered for a few minutes, and still remained so sensibly animated as to put\naway her work, move Pug from her side, and give all her attention and all the\nrest of her sofa to her husband"
    },
    {
      "text": "Mrs.\nNorris felt herself defrauded of an office on which she had always depended,\nwhether his arrival or his death were to be the thing unfolded"
    },
    {
      "text": "she was vexed by the\nmanner of his return. It had left her nothing to do"
    },
    {
      "text": "It was like treading old ground again."
    },
    {
      "text": "She never ceased to think of what was due to you."
    },
    {
      "text": "He was not a man to be endured but for his\nchildren’s sake,"
    },
    {
      "text": "The hand which had so pressed hers to his heart! the\nhand and the heart were alike motionless and passive now!"
    },
    {
      "text": "so ended all\nthe hopes his selfish vanity had raised in Maria and Julia Bertram."
    },
    {
      "text": "She heard it at\ndinner, and felt it a blessing."
    },
    {
      "text": "In\nhimself he was wearisome, but as the friend of Tom and the admirer of Julia he\nbecame offensive."
    },
    {
      "text": "There was little intercourse\nwith the Parsonage. Sir Thomas, drawing back from intimacies in general, was\nparticularly disinclined, at this time, for any engagements but in one quarter."
    },
    {
      "text": "They seem to belong to\nus; they seem to be part of ourselves."
    },
    {
      "text": "I believe our evenings are rather returned to what they\nwere, than assuming a new character. The novelty was in their being lively."
    },
    {
      "text": "Your uncle thinks you very pretty, dear Fanny—and that is the long\nand the short of the matter."
    },
    {
      "text": "You must really begin to harden yourself\nto the idea of being worth looking at. You must try not to mind growing up into\na pretty woman."
    },
    {
      "text": "She was in a state of\nmind to be glad that she had secured her fate beyond recall: that she had\npledged herself anew to Sotherton; that she was safe from the possibility of\ngiving Crawford the triumph of governing her actions, and destroying her\nprospects;"
    },
    {
      "text": "Henry Crawford had destroyed her happiness, but he should not know that he had\ndone it; he should not destroy her credit, her appearance, her prosperity, too."
    },
    {
      "text": "The preparations of new carriages and furniture might wait\nfor London and spring, when her own taste could have fairer play."
    },
    {
      "text": "It was a very proper wedding. The bride was elegantly dressed; the two\nbridesmaids were duly inferior; her father gave her away; her mother stood with\nsalts in her hand, expecting to be agitated; her aunt tried to cry; and the\nservice was impressively read by Dr. Grant."
    },
    {
      "text": "Since rivalry between the sisters had\nceased, they had been gradually recovering much of their former good\nunderstanding; and were at least sufficiently friends to make each of them\nexceedingly glad to be with the other at such a time."
    },
    {
      "text": "Their departure made another material change at Mansfield, a chasm which\nrequired some time to fill up."
    },
    {
      "text": "Becoming,\nas she then did, the only young woman in the drawing-room, the only occupier of\nthat interesting division of a family in which she had hitherto held so humble\na third, it was impossible for her not to be more looked at, more thought of\nand attended to, than she had ever been before;"
    },
    {
      "text": "The value of an event on a wet day in the\ncountry was most forcibly brought before her."
    },
    {
      "text": "She played till Fanny’s eyes, straying to the\nwindow on the weather’s being evidently fair, spoke what she felt must be\ndone."
    },
    {
      "text": "South or north, I know a black cloud when I see it; and you must not set\nforward while it is so threatening."
    },
    {
      "text": "There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible\nin the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of\nour intelligences."
    },
    {
      "text": "The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so\nobedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so\ntyrannic, so beyond control!"
    },
    {
      "text": "We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our\npowers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding\nout."
    },
    {
      "text": "I have a much greater respect for those that are honest and\nrich."
    },
    {
      "text": "I do not mean to be poor. Poverty is exactly\nwhat I have determined against."
    },
    {
      "text": "Honesty, in the something between, in the\nmiddle state of worldly circumstances, is all that I am anxious for your not\nlooking down on."
    },
    {
      "text": "I must look\ndown upon anything contented with obscurity when it might rise to\ndistinction."
    },
    {
      "text": "A large\nincome is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of."
    },
    {
      "text": "By moderation and economy, and bringing down your wants to your income,\nand all that. I understand you—and a very proper plan it is for a person\nat your time of life, with such limited means and indifferent connexions."
    },
    {
      "text": "Be honest and\npoor, by all means—but I shall not envy you; I do not much think I shall\neven respect you."
    },
    {
      "text": "You ought to be in parliament, or you should have gone into the army ten\nyears ago."
    },
    {
      "text": "there are\ndistinctions which I should be miserable if I thought myself without any\nchance—absolutely without chance or possibility of obtaining—but\nthey are of a different character."
    },
    {
      "text": "Mrs. Grant’s shewing civility to Miss Price,\nto Lady Bertram’s niece, could never want explanation."
    },
    {
      "text": "The only surprise\nI can feel is, that this should be the first time of its being paid."
    },
    {
      "text": "Fanny was perfectly right in giving only a conditional answer. She appears to\nfeel as she ought."
    },
    {
      "text": "I can see no reason why she should be denied the\nindulgence."
    },
    {
      "text": "Simple as such an\nengagement might appear in other eyes, it had novelty and importance in hers,"
    },
    {
      "text": "She had neither sympathy nor assistance from those who ought to\nhave entered into her feelings and directed her taste;"
    },
    {
      "text": "Mrs. Norris had now so ingeniously done away all Mrs. Grant’s part of the\nfavour, that Fanny, who found herself expected to speak, could only say that\nshe was very much obliged to her aunt Bertram for sparing her,"
    },
    {
      "text": "people are never respected when they step out\nof their proper sphere."
    },
    {
      "text": "Remember,\nwherever you are, you must be the lowest and last;"
    },
    {
      "text": "It is as a dream, a pleasant dream!"
    },
    {
      "text": "I\nnever was happier."
    },
    {
      "text": "It was more pleasant than\nprudent."
    },
    {
      "text": "I want nothing more."
    },
    {
      "text": "With all the security which love of another and disesteem of him could give to\nthe peace of mind he was attacking,"
    },
    {
      "text": "Children of the same family, the same blood, with the\nsame first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their\npower, which no subsequent connexions can supply"
    },
    {
      "text": "Fraternal love, sometimes almost\neverything, is at others worse than nothing"
    },
    {
      "text": "Too often, alas! it is so. Fraternal love, sometimes almost\neverything, is at others worse than nothing"
    },
    {
      "text": "Fraternal love, sometimes almost\neverything, is at others worse than nothing"
    },
    {
      "text": "it must be by a long and\nunnatural estrangement, by a divorce which no subsequent connexion can justify,\nif such precious remains of the earliest attachments are ever entirely\noutlived"
    },
    {
      "text": "With spirits, courage, and curiosity up to anything, William expressed\nan inclination to hunt"
    },
    {
      "text": "He was no longer in doubt of the capabilities of her\nheart. She had feeling, genuine feeling"
    },
    {
      "text": "I am not born to sit still and do nothing. If\nI lose the game, it shall not be from not striving for it"
    },
    {
      "text": "You think with me, I hope"
    },
    {
      "text": "He knows that human nature needs more lessons than a weekly\nsermon can convey; and that if he does not live among his parishioners, and\nprove himself, by constant attention, their well-wisher and friend, he does\nvery little either for their good or his own."
    },
    {
      "text": "The issue of all depended on one question. Did she love him well enough to\nforego what had used to be essential points? Did she love him well enough to\nmake them no longer essential?"
    },
    {
      "text": "He knew his own mind, but he was not always\nperfectly assured of knowing Miss Crawford’s."
    },
    {
      "text": "the whirl of a ballroom, perhaps, was not\nparticularly favourable to the excitement or expression of serious feelings."
    },
    {
      "text": "It is to be a family remembrancer.\nThe sister is not to be in your mind without bringing the brother too."
    },
    {
      "text": "I have no\npleasure in the world superior to that of contributing to yours. No, I can\nsafely say, I have no pleasure so complete, so unalloyed. It is without a\ndrawback."
    },
    {
      "text": "The enthusiasm of a woman’s love is even beyond the\nbiographer’s. To her, the handwriting itself, independent of anything it\nmay convey, is a blessedness."
    },
    {
      "text": "She was one of his two dearest—that must support her."
    },
    {
      "text": "To think\nof him as Miss Crawford might be justified in thinking, would in her be\ninsanity. To her he could be nothing under any circumstances; nothing dearer\nthan a friend."
    },
    {
      "text": "She never has danced with a\nclergyman, she says, and she never will."
    },
    {
      "text": "She\nsat and cried con amore as her uncle intended, but it was\ncon amore fraternal and no other."
    },
    {
      "text": "To Fanny’s mind, Edmund’s absence was really, in its cause\nand its tendency, a relief."
    },
    {
      "text": "He is their lawful\nproperty; he fairly belongs to them."
    },
    {
      "text": "She is the very impossibility he would describe, if indeed he has now\ndelicacy of language enough to embody his own ideas."
    },
    {
      "text": "The gentleness and gratitude of her disposition would secure her\nall your own immediately."
    },
    {
      "text": "I will make her very happy, Mary; happier than she has ever yet\nbeen herself, or ever seen anybody else."
    },
    {
      "text": "your regard for him has blinded you; but, in my estimation, your\nmarrying early may be the saving of you."
    },
    {
      "text": "To have seen you grow like the Admiral\nin word or deed, look or gesture, would have broken my heart."
    },
    {
      "text": "I care neither what they say nor what they feel. They will now see what\nsort of woman it is that can attach me, that can attach a man of sense."
    },
    {
      "text": "Now she is dependent, helpless, friendless,\nneglected, forgotten."
    },
    {
      "text": "He had previously made her the happiest of\nhuman beings, and now he had insulted—she knew not what to say, how to\nclass, or how to regard it."
    },
    {
      "text": "There was wretchedness in the idea of its being\nserious; there was perplexity and agitation every way."
    },
    {
      "text": "Everything natural, probable, reasonable, was against it; all their habits and\nways of thinking, and all her own demerits."
    },
    {
      "text": "She would not have him be serious, and yet what\ncould excuse the use of such words and offers, if they meant but to trifle?"
    },
    {
      "text": "You think only of\nyourself, and because you do not feel for Mr. Crawford exactly what a young\nheated fancy imagines to be necessary for happiness, you resolve to refuse him\nat once, without wishing even for a little time to consider of it, a little\nmore time for cool consideration, and for really examining your own\ninclinations"
    },
    {
      "text": "You have shewn\nyourself very, very different from anything that I had imagined"
    },
    {
      "text": "The advantage\nor disadvantage of your family, of your parents, your brothers and sisters,\nnever seems to have had a moment’s share in your thoughts on this\noccasion"
    },
    {
      "text": "You are not to be judged by the same rule. You do\nnot owe me the duty of a child"
    },
    {
      "text": "He knew her to be very timid, and exceedingly nervous; and thought\nit not improbable that her mind might be in such a state as a little time, a\nlittle pressing, a little patience, and a little impatience, a judicious\nmixture of all on the lover’s side, might work their usual effect on"
    },
    {
      "text": "She had no doubt that her note must\nappear excessively ill-written, that the language would disgrace a child, for\nher distress had allowed no arrangement"
    },
    {
      "text": "He had vanity, which strongly\ninclined him in the first place to think she did love him, though she might not\nknow it herself; and which, secondly, when constrained at last to admit that\nshe did know her own present feelings, convinced him that he should be able in\ntime to make those feelings what he wished."
    },
    {
      "text": "He was in love, very much in love; and it was a love which, operating on an\nactive, sanguine spirit, of more warmth than delicacy, made her affection\nappear of greater consequence because it was withheld, and determined him to\nhave the glory, as well as the felicity, of forcing her to love him."
    },
    {
      "text": "Love such as his, in a man like himself, must with\nperseverance secure a return, and at no great distance; and he had so much\ndelight in the idea of obliging her to love him in a very short time, that her\nnot loving him now was scarcely regretted."
    },
    {
      "text": "She found that he did mean to\npersevere; but how he could, after such language from her as she felt herself\nobliged to use, was not to be understood."
    },
    {
      "text": "He knew not that he had a pre-engaged heart to\nattack. Of that he had no suspicion. He considered her rather as one who\nhad never thought on the subject enough to be in danger; who had been guarded\nby youth, a youth of mind as lovely as of person; whose modesty had prevented\nher from understanding his attentions, and who was still overpowered by the\nsuddenness of addresses so wholly unexpected, and the novelty of a situation\nwhich her fancy had never taken into account."
    },
    {
      "text": "Must it not follow of course, that, when he was understood, he should succeed?\nHe believed it fully."
    },
    {
      "text": "A little difficulty to be overcome\nwas no evil to Henry Crawford. He rather derived spirits from it."
    },
    {
      "text": "She found that he did mean to\npersevere; but how he could, after such language from her as she felt herself\nobliged to use, was not to be understood."
    },
    {
      "text": "He knew not that he had a pre-engaged heart to\nattack. Of that he had no suspicion. He considered her rather as one who\nhad never thought on the subject enough to be in danger; who had been guarded\nby youth, a youth of mind as lovely as of person; whose modesty had prevented\nher from understanding his attentions, and who was still overpowered by the\nsuddenness of addresses so wholly unexpected, and the novelty of a situation\nwhich her fancy had never taken into account."
    },
    {
      "text": "Must it not follow of course, that, when he was understood, he should succeed?\nHe believed it fully."
    },
    {
      "text": "A little difficulty to be overcome\nwas no evil to Henry Crawford. He rather derived spirits from it."
    },
    {
      "text": "He\nwas, in fact, entirely on his father’s side of the question."
    },
    {
      "text": "Crawford had been too\nprecipitate. He had not given her time to attach herself. He had begun at the\nwrong end."
    },
    {
      "text": "Fanny was worth it all; he held her to be worth\nevery effort of patience, every exertion of mind, but he did not think he could\nhave gone on himself with any woman breathing, without something more to warm\nhis courage than his eyes could discern in hers."
    },
    {
      "text": "She seemed determined to be interested by nothing else. But taste was too\nstrong in her. She could not abstract her mind five minutes: she was forced to\nlisten;"
    },
    {
      "text": "To know him in bits and\nscraps is common enough; to know him pretty thoroughly is, perhaps, not\nuncommon; but to read him well aloud is no everyday talent."
    },
    {
      "text": "It is\nfelt that distinctness and energy may have weight in recommending the most\nsolid truths;"
    },
    {
      "text": "There is something in the eloquence of the pulpit, when it is really\neloquence, which is entitled to the highest praise and honour."
    },
    {
      "text": "It is not by protestations that I\nshall endeavour to convince you I am wronged; it is not by telling you that my\naffections are steady. My conduct shall speak for me; absence, distance, time\nshall speak for me."
    },
    {
      "text": "It is he who sees and worships your merit the strongest, who\nloves you most devotedly, that has the best right to a return."
    },
    {
      "text": "You have given the name such reality of sweetness,\nthat nothing else can now be descriptive of you."
    },
    {
      "text": "A counteraction, gentle and continual, is the best\nsafeguard of manners and conduct."
    },
    {
      "text": "the very circumstance of the novelty of Crawford’s\naddresses was against him."
    },
    {
      "text": "You have proved yourself upright and disinterested,\nprove yourself grateful and tender-hearted; and then you will be the perfect\nmodel of a woman"
    },
    {
      "text": "I know\nthat the apprehension of being forced to quit Mansfield will for a time be\narming you against him."
    },
    {
      "text": "Some opposition here is, I am thoroughly\nconvinced, friendly to matrimonial happiness."
    },
    {
      "text": "He was to be describing and\nrecommending matrimony to me."
    },
    {
      "text": "When two\nsympathetic hearts meet in the marriage state, matrimony may be called a happy\nlife."
    },
    {
      "text": "I\nhave not the least inclination to go near her. I can think only of the friends\nI am leaving:"
    },
    {
      "text": "You all give me a feeling of being able to trust and confide in you,\nwhich in common intercourse one knows nothing of."
    },
    {
      "text": "There never was anything\nquite like it."
    },
    {
      "text": "You should come to London to know how to estimate your conquest."
    },
    {
      "text": "Innocent and quiet as you sit here,\nyou cannot have an idea of the sensation that you will be occasioning,"
    },
    {
      "text": "I have not so much to say for\nmy friend Flora, who jilted a very nice young man in the Blues for the sake of\nthat horrid Lord Stornaway,"
    },
    {
      "text": "It is you, only you, insensible Fanny, who can think of him with\nanything like indifference."
    },
    {
      "text": "I cannot think well of a man who sports with any\nwoman’s feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than\na stander-by can judge of."
    },
    {
      "text": "his fault, the liking to make girls a little in love with him, is not\nhalf so dangerous to a wife’s happiness as a tendency to fall in love\nhimself,"
    },
    {
      "text": "If any man ever loved a woman for ever, I think Henry will do\nas much for you."
    },
    {
      "text": "The recollection of what had been done for William was always the\nmost powerful disturber of every decision against Mr. Crawford;"
    },
    {
      "text": "She might love, but she did not deserve\nEdmund by any other sentiment."
    },
    {
      "text": "A residence of eight or nine years in the\nabode of wealth and plenty had a little disordered her powers of comparing and\njudging."
    },
    {
      "text": "Her father’s house would, in all probability, teach her the\nvalue of a good income;"
    },
    {
      "text": "to be at\npeace from all mention of the Crawfords, safe from every look which could be\nfancied a reproach on their account."
    },
    {
      "text": "At a distance, unassailed\nby his looks or his kindness, and safe from the perpetual irritation of knowing\nhis heart, and striving to avoid his confidence, she should be able to reason\nherself into a properer state;"
    },
    {
      "text": "She was of use to no one else; but there she might be\nmissed to a degree that she did not like to think of;"
    },
    {
      "text": "she could not\nacknowledge any necessity for Fanny’s ever going near a father and mother\nwho had done without her so long, while she was so useful to herself."
    },
    {
      "text": "She had probably alienated love by the helplessness and\nfretfulness of a fearful temper, or been unreasonable in wanting a larger share\nthan any one among so many could deserve."
    },
    {
      "text": "The vicissitudes of the\nhuman mind had not yet been exhausted by her."
    },
    {
      "text": "She had tears for every room in the house, much more for every beloved\ninhabitant."
    },
    {
      "text": "She clung to her aunt, because she would miss her; she kissed the\nhand of her uncle with struggling sobs, because she had displeased him;"
    },
    {
      "text": "Would they but love\nher, she should be satisfied."
    },
    {
      "text": "she had nothing to do, and was glad to have the light screened\nfrom her aching head, as she sat in bewildered, broken, sorrowful\ncontemplation."
    },
    {
      "text": "The elegance, propriety, regularity,\nharmony, and perhaps, above all, the peace and tranquillity of Mansfield, were\nbrought to her remembrance every hour of the day, by the prevalence of\neverything opposite to them here."
    },
    {
      "text": "The instinct of nature was soon satisfied, and Mrs. Price’s attachment\nhad no other source."
    },
    {
      "text": "She might have made just as good a woman of consequence as Lady\nBertram, but Mrs. Norris would have been a more respectable mother of nine\nchildren on a small income."
    },
    {
      "text": "If tenderness could be ever supposed wanting, good sense and good breeding\nsupplied its place;"
    },
    {
      "text": "Whatever was wanted was hallooed for, and the servants\nhallooed out their excuses from the kitchen."
    },
    {
      "text": "though Mansfield Park\nmight have some pains, Portsmouth could have no pleasures."
    },
    {
      "text": "Good sense, like hers, will always act when really called upon"
    },
    {
      "text": "wealth is\nluxurious and daring"
    },
    {
      "text": "She was willing to\nallow he might have more good qualities than she had been wont to suppose"
    },
    {
      "text": "He had gone, had done even more good than he had\nforeseen, had been useful to more than his first plan had comprehended"
    },
    {
      "text": "To be the friend of the poor and the oppressed! Nothing\ncould be more grateful to her"
    },
    {
      "text": "She was sorry, really sorry; and yet in spite of this and the\ntwo or three other things which she wished he had not said, she thought him\naltogether improved since she had seen him;"
    },
    {
      "text": "Nature had given them no inconsiderable\nshare of beauty, and every Sunday dressed them in their cleanest skins and best\nattire. Sunday always brought this comfort to Fanny, and on this Sunday she\nfelt it more than ever."
    },
    {
      "text": "It often\ngrieved her to the heart to think of the contrast between them; to think that\nwhere nature had made so little difference, circumstances should have made so\nmuch,"
    },
    {
      "text": "The loveliness of the day, and of the view, he felt like herself."
    },
    {
      "text": "I know\nMansfield, I know its way, I know its faults towards you. I know the\ndanger of your being so far forgotten, as to have your comforts give way to the\nimaginary convenience of any single being in the family."
    },
    {
      "text": "Your\njudgment is my rule of right."
    },
    {
      "text": "We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we\nwould attend to it, than any other person can be."
    },
    {
      "text": "She was so little equal to Rebecca’s\npuddings and Rebecca’s hashes, brought to table, as they all were, with\nsuch accompaniments of half-cleaned plates, and not half-cleaned knives and\nforks, that she was very often constrained to defer her heartiest meal till she\ncould send her brothers in the evening for biscuits and buns."
    },
    {
      "text": "The idea that returned the oftenest\nwas that Miss Crawford, after proving herself cooled and staggered by a return\nto London habits, would yet prove herself in the end too much attached to him\nto give him up."
    },
    {
      "text": "Those parts of the letter which related only to Mr. Crawford and herself,\ntouched her, in comparison, slightly."
    },
    {
      "text": "I am more and more satisfied with all that I see\nand hear of him. There is not a shadow of wavering. He thoroughly knows his own\nmind, and acts up to his resolutions: an inestimable quality."
    },
    {
      "text": "The loss of Mary I must consider as\ncomprehending the loss of Crawford and of Fanny."
    },
    {
      "text": "So long divided and so differently situated, the ties of blood were little more\nthan nothing."
    },
    {
      "text": "An attachment, originally as tranquil as their tempers, was now\nbecome a mere name."
    },
    {
      "text": "That was\nnow the home. Portsmouth was Portsmouth; Mansfield was home."
    },
    {
      "text": "To be losing such pleasures was no trifle; to be losing them, because she was\nin the midst of closeness and noise, to have confinement, bad air, bad smells,\nsubstituted for liberty, freshness, fragrance, and verdure, was infinitely\nworse"
    },
    {
      "text": "It was so long since Fanny had had\nany letter from her, that she had some reason to think lightly of the\nfriendship which had been so dwelt on."
    },
    {
      "text": "Varnish and gilding hide many stains."
    },
    {
      "text": "It was a foolish precipitation last Christmas, but the evil of a few days\nmay be blotted out in part."
    },
    {
      "text": "She had only\nlearnt to think nothing of consequence but money."
    },
    {
      "text": "There was\nneither health nor gaiety in sunshine in a town."
    },
    {
      "text": "the sun’s rays falling strongly\ninto the parlour, instead of cheering, made her still more melancholy, for\nsunshine appeared to her a totally different thing in a town and in the\ncountry."
    },
    {
      "text": "It was too horrible a confusion of guilt, too\ngross a complication of evil, for human nature, not in a state of utter\nbarbarism, to be capable"
    },
    {
      "text": "the greatest blessing to every one of kindred with Mrs. Rushworth\nwould be instant annihilation."
    },
    {
      "text": "Never had Fanny more wanted a cordial. Never had she felt such a one as this\nletter contained."
    },
    {
      "text": "Employment, even melancholy, may dispel melancholy, and her\noccupations were hopeful."
    },
    {
      "text": "She had not time to be miserable."
    },
    {
      "text": "The happiness she was imparting, too, happiness\nvery little alloyed by the black communication which must briefly precede\nit—the joyful consent of her father and mother to Susan’s going\nwith her—the general satisfaction with which the going of both seemed\nregarded, and the ecstasy of Susan herself, was all serving to support her\nspirits."
    },
    {
      "text": "The affliction of the Bertrams was little felt in the family."
    },
    {
      "text": "if she could help rejoicing from\nbeginning to end, it was as much as ought to be expected from human virtue at\nfourteen."
    },
    {
      "text": "the state of his own mind made him find\nrelief only in motion."
    },
    {
      "text": "He was\ngone again; glad to get away even from Fanny."
    },
    {
      "text": "It made her melancholy again; and the knowledge of what must be enduring there,\ninvested even the house, modern, airy, and well situated as it was, with a\nmelancholy aspect."
    },
    {
      "text": "To be listened to and borne with, and hear the\nvoice of kindness and sympathy in return, was everything that could be done for\nher."
    },
    {
      "text": "Her affections were not acute, nor was her mind tenacious. After a time, Fanny\nfound it not impossible to direct her thoughts to other subjects, and revive\nsome interest in the usual occupations; but whenever Lady Bertram was\nfixed on the event, she could see it only in one light, as comprehending the\nloss of a daughter, and a disgrace never to be wiped off."
    },
    {
      "text": "The case admitted of no\ncomfort."
    },
    {
      "text": "She thought he did, but she wanted to be assured\nof it."
    },
    {
      "text": "He\nyielded, but it was with agonies which did not admit of speech."
    },
    {
      "text": "It was the imprudence which had brought things to\nextremity, and obliged her brother to give up every dearer plan in order to fly\nwith her."
    },
    {
      "text": "She would have fixed him; she\nwould have made him happy for ever."
    },
    {
      "text": "Hers are faults of principle, Fanny; of blunted delicacy and a\ncorrupted, vitiated mind."
    },
    {
      "text": "Too late he became aware how unfavourable to the character of any young people\nmust be the totally opposite treatment which Maria and Julia had been always\nexperiencing at home,"
    },
    {
      "text": "He had meant them to be good, but his cares had\nbeen directed to the understanding and manners, not the disposition;"
    },
    {
      "text": "They had been\ninstructed theoretically in their religion, but never required to bring it into\ndaily practice."
    },
    {
      "text": "He had felt her as an hourly evil, which was so\nmuch the worse, as there seemed no chance of its ceasing but with life;"
    },
    {
      "text": "She had despised him, and loved another; and\nhe had been very much aware that it was so."
    },
    {
      "text": "Curiosity and vanity were both engaged, and the temptation of\nimmediate pleasure was too strong for a mind unused to make any sacrifice to\nright:"
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