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@@@@@Fraser, is mad for such a house, and it would not make me miserableI go to Lady Stornaway after Easter; she seems in high spirits, and very happyis very good-humoured and pleasant in his own family, and I do not think him so very ill-looking as I did?at least, one sees many worseHe will not do by the side of your cousin EdmundOf the last-mentioned hero, what shall I say? If I avoided his name entirely, it would look suspiciousI will say, then, that we have seen him two or three times, and that my friends here are very much struck with his gentlemanlike appearanceFraser (no bad judge) declares she knows but three men in town who have so good a person, height, and air; and I must confess, when he dined here the other day, there were none to compare with him, and we were a party of sixteenLuckily there is no distinction of dress nowadays to tell tales, but?but?but Yours affectionately I had almost forgot (it was Edmund?s fault: he gets into my head more than does me good) one very material thing I had to say from Henry and myself?I mean about our taking you back into NorthamptonshireMy dear little creature, do not stay at Portsmouth to lose your pretty looksThose vile sea-breezes are the ruin of beauty and healthMy poor aunt always felt affected if within ten miles of the sea, which the Admiral of course never believed, but I know it was soI am at your service and Henry?s, at an hour?s noticeI should like the scheme, and we would make a little circuit, and shew you Everingham in our way, and perhaps you would not mind passing through London, and seeing the inside of StGeorge?s, Hanover SquareOnly keep your cousin Edmund from me at such a time: I should not like to be temptedWhat a long letter! one word moreHenry, I find, has some idea of going into Norfolk again upon some business that you approve; but this cannot possibly be permitted before the middle of next week; that is, he cannot anyhow be spared till after the 14th, for we have a party that eveningThe value of a man like Henry, on such an occasion, is what you can have no conception of; so you must take it upon my word to be inestimable He will see the Rushworths, which own I am not sorry for? 365 Jane Austen having a little curiosity, and so I think has he?though he will not acknowledge it This was a letter to be run through eagerly, to be read deliberately, to supply matter for much reflection, and to leave everything in greater suspense than everThe only certainty to be drawn from it was, that nothing decisive had yet taken placeEdmund had not yet spokenHow Miss Crawford really felt, how she meant to act, or might act without or against her meaning; whether his importance to her were quite what it had been before the last separation; whether, if lessened, it were likely to lessen more, or to recover itself, were subjects for endless conjecture, and to be thought of on that day and many days to come, without producing any conclusionThe idea that returned the oftenest was that Miss Crawford, after proving herself cooled and staggered by a return to London habits, would yet prove herself in the end too much attached to him to give him