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@@@@@What have you got on?? ?The new dress that my uncle was so good as to give me on my cousin?s marriageI hope it is not too fine; but I thought I ought to 193 Jane Austen wear it as soon as I could, and that I might not have such another opportunity all the winterI hope you do not think me too fine ?A woman can never be too fine while she is all in whiteNo, I see no finery about you; nothing but what is perfectly properYour gown seems very prettyI like these glossy spotsHas not Miss Crawford a gown something the same?? In approaching the Parsonage they passed close by the stable-yard and coach-house ?Heyday!? said Edmund, ?here?s company, here?s a carriage! who have they got to meet us?? And letting down the side-glass to distinguish, ??Tis Crawford?s, Crawford?s barouche, I protest! There are his own two men pushing it back into its old quartersHe is here, of courseThis is quite a surprise, FannyI shall be very glad to see him There was no occasion, there was no time for Fanny to say how very differently she felt; but the idea of having such another to observe her was a great increase of the trepidation with which she performed the very awful ceremony of walking into the drawingroom In the drawing-room MrCrawford certainly was, having been just long enough arrived to be ready for dinner; and the smiles and pleased looks of the three others standing round him, shewed how welcome was his sudden resolution of coming to them for a few days on leaving BathA very cordial meeting passed between him and Edmund; and with the exception of Fanny, the pleasure was general; and even to her there might be some advantage in his presence, since every addition to the party must rather forward her favourite indulgence of being suffered to sit silent and unattended toShe was soon aware of this herself; for though she must submit, as her own propriety of mind directed, in spite of her aunt Norris?s opinion, to being the principal lady in company, and to all the little distinctions consequent thereon, she found, while they were at table, such a happy flow of conversation prevailing, in which she was not required to take any part?there was so much to be said between the brother and sister about Bath, so much between the two young men about hunting, so much of politics between MrGrant, and of everything and all together between MrCrawford 194 Mansfield Park and MrsGrant, as to leave her the fairest prospect of having only to listen in quiet, and of passing a very agreeable dayShe could not compliment the newly arrived gentleman, however, with any appearance of interest, in a scheme for extending his stay at Mansfield, and sending for his hunters from Norfolk, which, suggested by Dr Grant, advised by Edmund, and warmly urged by the two sisters, was soon in possession of his mind, and which he seemed to want to be encouraged even by her to resolve onHer opinion was sought as to the probable continuance of the open weather, but her answers were as short and indifferent as civility allowedShe could not wish him to stay, and would much rather not have him speak to her Her two absent cousins, especially Maria, were much in her thoughts on seeing him; but no embarrassing remembrance affected his spir