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@@@@@ ?Handsome! Nobody can call such an undersized man handsome He is not five foot nineI should not wonder if he is not more than five foot eightI think he is an ill-looking fellowIn my opinion, these Crawfords are no addition at allWe did very well without them A small sigh escaped Fanny here, and she did not know how to contradict him ?If I had made any difficulty about fetching the key, there might have been some excuse, but I went the very moment she said she wanted it ?Nothing could be more obliging than your manner, I am sure, and I dare say you walked as fast as you could; but still it is some distance, you know, from this spot to the house, quite into the house; 90 Mansfield Park and when people are waiting, they are bad judges of time, and every half minute seems like five He got up and walked to the gate again, and ?wished he had had the key about him at the time Fanny thought she discerned in his standing there an indication of relenting, which encouraged her to another attempt, and she said, therefore, ?It is a pity you should not join themThey expected to have a better view of the house from that part of the park, and will be thinking how it may be improved; and nothing of that sort, you know, can be settled without you She found herself more successful in sending away than in retaining a companionRushworth was worked on?Well,? said he, ?if you really think I had better go: it would be foolish to bring the key for nothing And letting himself out, he walked off without farther ceremony Fanny?s thoughts were now all engrossed by the two who had left her so long ago, and getting quite impatient, she resolved to go in search of themShe followed their steps along the bottom walk, and had just turned up into another, when the voice and the laugh of Miss Crawford once more caught her ear; the sound approached, and a few more windings brought them before herThey were just returned into the wilderness from the park, to which a sidegate, not fastened, had tempted them very soon after their leaving her, and they had been across a portion of the park into the very avenue which Fanny had been hoping the whole morning to reach at last, and had been sitting down under one of the treesThis was their historyIt was evident that they had been spending their time pleasantly, and were not aware of the length of their absenceFanny?s best consolation was in being assured that Edmund had wished for her very much, and that he should certainly have come back for her, had she not been tired already; but this was not quite sufficient to do away with the pain of having been left a whole hour, when he had talked of only a few minutes, nor to banish the sort of curiosity she felt to know what they had been conversing about all that time; and the result of the whole was to her disappointment and depression, as they prepared by general agreement to return to the house On reaching the bottom of the steps to the terrace, MrsNorris presented themselves at the top, just ready for the 91 Jane Austen wilderness, at the end of an hour and a half from their leaving the houseNorris had been too well employed to move fa