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@@@@@Grant should not contrive better! And round their enormous great wide table, too, which fills up the room so dreadfully! Had the doctor been contented to take my dining-table when I came away, as anybody in their senses would have done, instead of having that absurd new one of his own, which is wider, literally wider than the dinnertable here, how infinitely better it would have been! and how much more he would have been respected! for people are never respected when they step out of their proper sphere Five?only five to be sitting round that tableHowever, you will have dinner enough on it for ten, I dare sayNorris fetched breath, and went on again ?The nonsense and folly of people?s stepping out of their rank and trying to appear above themselves, makes me think it right to give you a hint, Fanny, now that you are going into company without any of us; and I do beseech and entreat you not to be putting yourself forward, and talking and giving your opinion as if you were one of your cousins?as if you were dear Mrs That will never do, believe meRemember, wherever you are, you must be the lowest and last; and though Miss Crawford is in a manner at home at the Parsonage, you are not to be taking place of her And as to coming away at night, you are to stay just as long as Edmund chusesLeave him to settle that ?Yes, ma?am, I should not think of anything else ?And if it should rain, which I think exceedingly likely, for I never saw it more threatening for a wet evening in my life, you must manage as well as you can, and not be expecting the carriage to be sent for 192 Mansfield Park youI certainly do not go home to-night, and, therefore, the carriage will not be out on my account; so you must make up your mind to what may happen, and take your things accordingly Her niece thought it perfectly reasonableShe rated her own claims to comfort as low even as MrsNorris could; and when Sir Thomas soon afterwards, just opening the door, said, ?Fanny, at what time would you have the carriage come round?? she felt a degree of astonishment which made it impossible for her to speak ?My dear Sir Thomas!? cried MrsNorris, red with anger, ?Fanny can walk ?Walk!? repeated Sir Thomas, in a tone of most unanswerable dignity, and coming farther into the room?My niece walk to a dinner engagement at this time of the year! Will twenty minutes after four suit you?? ?Yes, sir,? was Fanny?s humble answer, given with the feelings almost of a criminal towards MrsNorris; and not bearing to remain with her in what might seem a state of triumph, she followed her uncle out of the room, having staid behind him only long enough to hear these words spoken in angry agitation? ?Quite unnecessary! a great deal too kind! But Edmund goes; true, it is upon Edmund?s accountI observed he was hoarse on Thursday night But this could not impose on FannyShe felt that the carriage was for herself, and herself alone: and her uncle?s consideration of her, coming immediately after such representations from her aunt, cost her some tears of gratitude when she was alone The coachman drove round to a minute; another minute brought down the gentleman; and as the lady had, with a most scrupulous fear of being late, been many minutes seated in the drawing-room, Sir Thomas saw them off in as good time as his own correctly punctual habits required ?Now I must look at you, Fanny,? said Edmund, with the kind smile of an affectionate brother, ?and tell you how I like you; and as well as I can judge by this light, you look very nicely indeed