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with such an education and adviser? Under the disadvantages, indeed,
which both have had, is it not wonderful that they should be
what they are? Crawford?s feelings, I am ready to acknowledge, have
hitherto been too much his guidesHappily, those feelings have generally
been goodYou will supply the rest; and a most fortunate man
he is to attach himself to such a creature?to a woman who, firm as a
rock in her own principles, has a gentleness of character so well adapted
to recommend themHe has chosen his partner, indeed, with rare
felicityHe will make you happy, Fanny; I know he will make you
happy; but you will make him everything
?I would not engage in such a charge,? cried Fanny, in a shrinking
accent; ?in such an office of high responsibility!?
?As usual, believing yourself unequal to anything! fancying everything
too much for you! Well, though I may not be able to persuade
you into different feelings, you will be persuaded into them, I trust
I confess myself sincerely anxious that you mayI have no common
interest in Crawford?s well-doingNext to your happiness, Fanny,
his has the first claim on meYou are aware of my having no common
interest in Crawford
Fanny was too well aware of it to have anything to say; and they
walked on together some fifty yards in mutual silence and abstraction
Edmund first began again?
?I was very much pleased by her manner of speaking of it yesterday,
particularly pleased, because I had not depended upon her seeing
everything in so just a lightI knew she was very fond of you;
but yet I was afraid of her not estimating your worth to her brother
quite as it deserved, and of her regretting that he had not rather
fixed on some woman of distinction or fortuneI was afraid of the
bias of those worldly maxims, which she has been too much used to
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hearBut it was very differentShe spoke of you, Fanny, just as she
oughtShe desires the connexion as warmly as your uncle or myself
We had a long talk about itI should not have mentioned the subject,
though very anxious to know her sentiments; but I had not
been in the room five minutes before she began introducing it with
all that openness of heart, and sweet peculiarity of manner, that spirit
and ingenuousness which are so much a part of herselfGrant
laughed at her for her rapidityGrant in the room, then??
?Yes, when I reached the house I found the two sisters together by
themselves; and when once we had begun, we had not done with
you, Fanny, till Crawford and Dr
?It is above a week since I saw Miss Crawford
?Yes, she laments it; yet owns it may have been bestYou will see
her, however, before she goesShe is very angry with you, Fanny;
you must be prepared for tha
