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@@@@@I hope we shall keep it up these two hoursHow can you be tired so soon?? ?So soon! my good friend,? said Sir Thomas, producing his watch with all necessary caution; ?it is three o?clock, and your sister is not used to these sort of hours ?Well, then, Fanny, you shall not get up to-morrow before I go Sleep as long as you can, and never mind me 243 Jane Austen ?What! Did she think of being up before you set off?? ?Oh! yes, sir,? cried Fanny, rising eagerly from her seat to be nearer her uncle; ?I must get up and breakfast with himIt will be the last time, you know; the last morning ?You had better notHe is to have breakfasted and be gone by half-past nineCrawford, I think you call for him at half-past nine?? Fanny was too urgent, however, and had too many tears in her eyes for denial; and it ended in a gracious ?Well, well!? which was permission ?Yes, half-past nine,? said Crawford to William as the latter was leaving them, ?and I shall be punctual, for there will be no kind sister to get up for me And in a lower tone to Fanny, ?I shall have only a desolate house to hurry fromYour brother will find my ideas of time and his own very different to-morrow After a short consideration, Sir Thomas asked Crawford to join the early breakfast party in that house instead of eating alone: he should himself be of it; and the readiness with which his invitation was accepted convinced him that the suspicions whence, he must confess to himself, this very ball had in great measure sprung, were well foundedCrawford was in love with FannyHe had a pleasing anticipation of what would beHis niece, meanwhile, did not thank him for what he had just doneShe had hoped to have William all to herself the last morningIt would have been an unspeakable indulgenceBut though her wishes were overthrown, there was no spirit of murmuring within herOn the contrary, she was so totally unused to have her pleasure consulted, or to have anything take place at all in the way she could desire, that she was more disposed to wonder and rejoice in having carried her point so far, than to repine at the counteraction which followed Shortly afterward, Sir Thomas was again interfering a little with her inclination, by advising her to go immediately to bed?Advise? was his word, but it was the advice of absolute power, and she had only to rise, and, with MrCrawford?s very cordial adieus, pass quietly away; stopping at the entrance-door, like the Lady of Branxholm Hall, ?one moment and no more,? to view the happy scene, and take a last look at the five or six determined couple who were still 244 Mansfield Park hard at work; and then, creeping slowly up the principal staircase, pursued by the ceaseless country-dance, feverish with hopes and fears, soup and negus, sore-footed and fatigued, restless and agitated, yet feeling, in spite of everything, that a ball was indeed delightful In thus sending her away, Sir Thomas perhaps might not be thinking merely of her healthIt might occur to him that