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His sturdy spirit to bend as it did! Oh! it was sweet beyond expressionBut alas, that very evening destroyed it allThat very evening brought your most unwelcome unclePoor Sir Thomas, who was glad to see you? Yet, Fanny, do not imagine I would now speak disrespectfully of Sir Thomas, though I certainly did hate him for many a weekNo, I do him justice nowHe is just what the head of such a family should beNay, in sober sadness, I believe I now love you all And having said so, with a degree of tenderness and consciousness which Fanny had never seen in her before, and now thought only too becoming, she turned away for a moment to recover herself?I have had a little fit since I came into this room, as you may perceive,? said she presently, with a playful smile, ?but it is over now; so let us sit down and be comfortable; for as to scolding you, Fanny, which I came fully intending to do, I have not the heart for it when it comes to the point And embracing her very affectionately, ?Good, gentle Fanny! when I think of this being the last time of seeing you for I do not know how long, I feel it quite impossible to do anything but love youShe had not omega seamaster replica watches foreseen anything of this, and her feelings could seldom withstand the melancholy influence of the word ?last She cried as if she had loved Miss Crawford more 312 Mansfield Park than she possibly could; and Miss Crawford, yet farther softened by the sight of such emotion, hung about her with fondness, and said, ?I hate to leave youI shall see no one half so amiable where I am goingWho says we shall not be sisters? I know we shallI feel that we are born to be connected; and those tears convince me that you feel it too, dear Fanny Fanny roused herself, and replying only in part, said, ?But you are only going from one set of friends to anotherYou are going to a very particular friendFraser has been my intimate friend for years But I have not the least inclination to go near herI can think only of the friends I am leaving: my excellent sister, yourself, and the Bertrams in generalYou have all so much more heart among you than one finds in the world at largeYou all give me a feeling of being able to trust and confide in you, which in common intercourse one knows nothing ofI wish I had settled with MrsFraser not to go to her till after Easter, a much women's tank watch replica better time for the visit, but now I cannot put her offAnd when I have done with her I must go to her sister, Lady Stornaway, because she was rather my most particular friend of the two, but I have not cared much for her these three years After this speech the two girls sat many minutes silent, each thoughtful: Fanny meditating on the different sorts of friendship in the world, Mary on something of less philosophic tendencyShe first spoke again ?How perfectly I remember my resolving to look for you upstairs, and setting off to find my way to the East room, without having an idea whereabouts it was! How well I remember what I was thinking of as I came along, and my looking in and seeing you here sitting at this table at work; and then your cousin?s astonishment, when he opened the door, at seeing me here! To be sure, your uncle?s returning that very evening! There never was anything quite like it Another short fit of abstraction followed, when, shaking it off, she thus attacked her companion ?Why, Fanny, you are absolutely in a reverieThinking, I hope, of one who is always thinking of youOh! that I could transport you for a short time into our cartier tank louis circle in town, that you might understand how your power over Henry is thought of there! Oh! the envyings 313 Jane Austen and heartburnings of dozens and dozens; the wonder, the incredulity that will be felt at hearing what you have done! For as to secrecy, Henry is quite the hero of an old romance, and glories in his chains You should come to London to know how to estimate your conquest If you were to see how he is courted, and how I am courted for his sake! Now, I am well aware that I shall not be half so welcome to MrsFraser in consequence of his situation with youWhen she comes to know the truth she will, very likely, wish me in Northamptonshire again; for there is a daughter of MrFraser, by a first wife, whom she is wild to get married, and wants Henry to takeOh! she has been trying for him to such a degreeInnocent and quiet as you sit here, you cannot have an idea of the sensation that you will be occasioning, of the curiosity there will be to see you, of the endless questions I shall have to answer! Poor Margaret Fraser will be at me for ever about your eyes and your teeth, and how you do your hair, and who makes your shoesI wish prada handbags sale Margaret were married, for my poor friend?s sake, for I look upon the Frasers to be about as unhappy as most other married peopleAnd yet it was a most desirable match for Janet at the timeWe were all delighted She could not do otherwise than accept him, for he was rich, and she had nothing; but he turns out ill-tempered and exigeant, and wants a young woman, a beautiful young woman of five-andtwenty, to be as steady as himselfAnd my friend does not manage him well; she does not seem to know how to make the best of it There is a spirit of irritation which, to say nothing worse, is certainly very ill-bredIn their house I shall call to mind the conjugal manners of Mansfield Parsonage with respectGrant does shew a thorough confidence in my sister, and a certain consideration for her judgment, which makes one feel there is attachment; but of that I shall see nothing with the FrasersI shall be at Mansfield for ever, FannyMy own sister as a wife, Sir Thomas Bertram as a husband, are my standards of perfectionPoor Janet has been sadly taken in, and yet there was nothing improper on her side: she did not run into the match inconsiderately; there was no want of cartier tank watch foresigh