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Admiral agitation agreeable Anhalt answer appeared attention aunt Norris barouche began believe Betsey better body brother certainly comfort cousin Craw cried dance dare say daugh dear Fanny delighted east room Edmund eyes fancy Fanny's father feelings felt girl give glad gone Grant half happy hear heard heart Henry Crawford honour hope hour Julia kind knew Lady Bertram listened look manner Mansfield Park Maria marriage marry Mary means mind Miss Bertram Miss Crawford Miss Price morning mother never niece Norris's Northamptonshire obliged opinion Parsonage party perhaps play pleasure poor Portsmouth pretty racter replied Rushworth seemed Sir Thomas Sir Thomas's sister sitting smile soon sort Sotherton speak spirits Spithead spoke Stornaway suppose sure Susan talk tell thing thought Thrush Tom Bertram tram uncle voice walk William wish woman wonder word Yates young
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Page 412 - LET other pens dwell on guilt and misery. I quit such odious subjects as soon as I can, impatient to restore everybody, not greatly in fault themselves, to tolerable comfort, and to have done with all the rest.
Page 179 - In all the important preparations of the mind she was complete ; being prepared for matrimony by a hatred of home, restraint, and tranquillity; by the misery of disappointed affection, and contempt of the man she was to marry.
Page 15 - Dear mamma, only think, my cousin cannot put the map of Europe together — or my cousin cannot tell the principal rivers in Russia — or she never heard of Asia Minor — or she does not know the difference between water-colours and crayons! How strange! Did you ever hear anything so stupid?
Page 135 - ... and her works of charity and ingenuity, were all within her reach; or if indisposed for employment, if nothing but musing would do, she could scarcely see an object in that room which had not an interesting remembrance connected with it.
Page 350 - At Mansfield no sounds of contention, no raised voice, no abrupt bursts, no tread of violence was ever heard ; all proceeded in a regular course of cheerful orderliness, everybody had their due importance, everybody's feelings were consulted. If tenderness could be ever supposed wanting, good sense and good breeding supplied its place; and as to the little irritations sometimes introduced by aunt Norris.
Page 413 - Street, to which he felt himself accessory by all the dangerous intimacy of his unjustifiable theatre, made an impression on his mind which, at the age of six-and-twenty, with no want of sense or good companions, was durable in its happy effects. He became what he ought to be: useful to his father, steady and quiet, and not living merely for himself.
Page 72 - Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions ; and in observing the appearance of the country, the bearings of the roads, the difference of soil, the state of the harvest, the cottages, the cattle, the children, she found entertainment that could only have been heightened by having Edmund to speak to of what she felt.
Page 394 - The evening passed without a pause of misery, the night was totally sleepless. She passed only from feelings of sickness to shudderings of horror; and from hot fits of fever to cold. The event was so shocking, that there were moments even when her heart revolted from it as impossible : when she thought it could not be. A woman married only six months ago ; a man professing himself devoted, even engaged to another ; that other her near relation ; the whole family, both families connected as they were...
Page 348 - She was a manager by necessity, without any of Mrs. Norris's inclination for it, or any of her activity. Her disposition was naturally easy and indolent, like Lady Bertram's ; and a situation of similar affluence and do-nothingness would have been much more suited to her capacity than the exertions and self-denials of the one which her imprudent marriage had placed her in. She might have made just as good a woman of consequence as Lady Bertram, but Mrs. Norris would have been a more respectable mother...
Page 1 - ABOUT thirty years ago, Miss Maria Ward, of Huntingdon, with only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram, of Mansfield Park, in the county of Northampton, and to be thereby raised to the rank of a baronet's lady, with all the comforts and consequences of an handsome house and large income.