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security which love of another and disesteem of him could give to
the peace of mind he was attacking, his continued attentions?continued,
but not obtrusive, and adapting themselves more and more
to the gentleness and delicacy of her character?obliged her very soon
to dislike him less than formerlyShe had by no means forgotten the
past, and she thought as ill of him as ever; but she felt his powers: he
was entertaining; and his manners were so improved, so polite, so
seriously and blamelessly polite, that it was impossible not to be civil
to him in return
A very few days were enough to effect this; and at the end of those
few days, circumstances arose which had a tendency rather to forward
his views of pleasing her, inasmuch as they gave her a degree of
happiness which must dispose her to be pleased with everybody
William, her brother, the so long absent and dearly loved brother,
was in England againShe had a letter from him herself, a few hurried
happy lines, written as the ship came up Channel, and sent
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into Portsmouth with the first boat that left the Antwerp at anchor
in Spithead; and when Crawford walked up with the newspaper in
his hand, which he had hoped would bring the first tidings, he found
her trembling with joy over this letter, and listening with a glowing,
grateful countenance to the kind invitation which her
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It was but the day before that Crawford had made himself thoroughly
master of the subject, or had in fact become at all aware of
her having such a brother, or his being in such a ship, but the interest
then excited had been very properly lively, determining him on
his return to town to apply for information as to the probable period
of the Antwerp?s return from the Mediterranean, etc and the
good luck which attended his early examination of ship news the
next morning seemed the reward of his ingenuity in finding out
such a method of pleasing her, as well as of his dutiful attention to
the Admiral, in having for many years taken in the paper esteemed
to have the earliest naval intelligenceHe proved, however, to be too
lateAll those fine first feelings, of which he had hoped to be the
exciter, were already givenBut his intention, the kindness of his
intention, was thankfully acknowledged: quite thankfully and
warmly, for she was elevated beyond the common timidity of her
mind by the flow of her love for William
This dear William would soon be amongst themThere could be
no doubt of his obtaining leave of absence immediately, for he was
still only a midshipman; and as his parents, from living on the spot,
must already have seen him, and be seeing him perhaps daily, his
direct holidays might with justice be
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who had been his best correspondent through a period of seven
years, and the uncle who had done most for his support and advancement;
and accordingly the reply to her reply, fixing a very early
day for his arrival, came as soon as possible; and scarcely ten days
had passed since Fanny had been in the agitation of her first dinnervisit,
when she found herself in an agitation of a higher nature,
watching in the hall, in the lobby, on the stairs, for the first sound of
the carriage which was to bring her a brother
It came happily while she was thus waiting; and there being neither
ceremony nor fearfulness to delay the moment of meeting, she was
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with him as he entered the house, and the first minutes of exquisite
feeling had no interruption and no witnesses, unless the servants chiefly
intent upon opening the proper doors could be called suchThis was
exactly what Sir Thomas and Edmund had been separately conniving
at, as each proved to the other by the sympathetic alacrity with which
they both advised MrsNorris?s continuing where she was, instead of
rushing out into the hall as soon as the noises of the arrival reached
them
William and Fanny soon shewed themselves; and Sir Thomas had
the pleasure of receiving, in his protege, certainly a very different
person from the one he had equipped seven years ago, but a
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man of an open, pleasant countenance, and frank, unstudied, but
feeling and respectful manners, and such as confirmed him his friend
It was long before Fanny could recover from the agitating happiness
of such an hour as was formed by the last thirty minutes of
expectation, and the first of fruition; it was some time even before
her happiness could be said to make her happy, before the disappointment
inseparable from the alteration of person had vanished,
and she could see in him the same William as before, and talk to
him, as her heart had been yearning to do through many a past year
That time, however, did gradually come, forwarded by an affection
on his side as warm as her own, and much less encumbered by refinement
or self-distrustShe was the first object of his love, but it
was a love which his stronger spirits, and bolder temper, made it as
natural for him to express as to feelOn the morrow they were walking
about together with true enjoyment, and every succeeding morrow
renewed a tete-a-tete which Sir Thomas could not but observe
with complacency, even before Edmund had pointed it out to him
Excepting the moments of peculiar delight, which any marked or
unlooked-for instance of Edmund?s consideration of her in the last
few months had excited, Fanny had never known so much felicity
in her life, as in this unchecked, equal, fearless intercourse with
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all his hopes and fears, plans, and solicitudes respecting that long
thought of, dearly earned, and justly valued blessing of promotion;
who could give her direct and minute information of the father and
mother, brothers and sisters, of whom she very seldom heard; who
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was interested in all the comforts and all the little hardships of her
home at Mansfield; ready to think of every member of that home as
she directed, or differing only by a less scrupulous opinion, and
more noisy abuse of their aunt Norris, and with whom (perhaps the
dearest indulgence of the whole) all the evil and good of their earliest
years could be gone over again, and every former united pain
and pleasure retraced with the fondest recollectionAn advantage
this, a strengthener of love, in which even the conjugal tie is beneath
the fraternalChildren of the same family, the same blood,
with the same first associations and habits, have some means of
enjoyment in their power, which no subsequent connexions can
supply; and it must be by a long and unnatural estrangement, by a
divorce which no subsequent connexion can justify, if such precious
remains of the earliest attachments are ever entirely outlivedToo
often, alas! it is soFraternal love, sometimes almost everything, is at
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