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@@@@@ ?Come, come, it would be very un-handsome in us to be severe on MrsRushworth, for I look forward to our owing her a great many gay, brilliant, happy hoursI expect we shall be all very much at Sotherton another yearSuch a match as Miss Bertram has made is a public blessing; for the first pleasures of MrRushworth?s wife must be to fill her house, and give the best balls in the country Fanny was silent, and Miss Crawford relapsed into thoughtfulness, till suddenly looking up at the end of a few minutes, she exclaimed, ?Ah! here he isRushworth, however, but Edmund, who then appeared walking towards them with MrsI am so glad your eldest cousin is gone, that he may be MrThere is something in the sound of MrEdmund Bertram so formal, so pitiful, so younger-brotherlike, that I detest it ?How differently we feel!? cried Fanny?To me, the sound of Mr Bertram is so cold and nothing-meaning, so entirely without warmth or character! It just stands for a gentleman, and that?s allBut there is nobleness in the name of EdmundIt is a name of heroism and renown; of kings, princes, and knights; and seems to breathe the spirit of chivalry and warm affections ?I grant you the name is good in itself, and Lord Edmund or Sir Edmund sound delightfully; but sink it under the chill, the annihilation of a MrEdmund is no more than MrWell, shall we join and disappoint them of half their lecture upon sitting down out of doors at this time of year, by being up before they can begin?? Edmund met them with particular pleasureIt was the first time of his seeing them together since the beginning of that better acquaintance which he had been hearing of with great satisfactionA friendship between two so very dear to him was exactly what he could have wished: and to the credit of the lover?s understanding, be it stated, that he did not by any means consider Fanny as the only, or even as the greater gainer by such a friendship ?Well,? said Miss Crawford, ?and do you not scold us for our 184 Mansfield Park imprudence? What do you think we have been sitting down for but to be talked to about it, and entreated and supplicated never to do so again?? ?Perhaps I might have scolded,? said Edmund, ?if either of you had been sitting down alone; but while you do wrong together, I can overlook a great deal ?They cannot have been sitting long,? cried MrsGrant, ?for when I went up for my shawl I saw them from the staircase window, and then they were walking ?And really,? added Edmund, ?the day is so mild, that your sitting down for a few minutes can be hardly thought imprudentOur weather must not always be judged by the cale