日期：2023-06-26 CHAPTER XX Edmunds first object the next morning was to see his father alone, and give him a fair statement of the whole acting scheme, defending his own share in it as far only as he could then, in a soberer moment, feel his motives to deserve, and... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-06-26 CHAPTER XIX How is the consternation of the party to be described? To the greater number it was a moment of absolute horror. Sir Thomas in the house! All felt the instantaneous conviction. Not a hope of imposition or mistake was harboured anywhere.... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-06-26 CHAPTER XVIII Everything was now in a regular train: theatre, actors, actresses, and dresses, were all getting forward; but though no other great impediments arose, Fanny found, before many days were past, that it was not all uninterrupted enjoyment... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-06-26 CHAPTER XVII It was, indeed, a triumphant day to Mr. Bertram and Maria. Such a victory over Edmunds discretion had been beyond their hopes, and was most delightful. There was no longer anything to disturb them in their darling project, and they cong... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-06-26 CHAPTER XVI It was not in Miss Crawfords power to talk Fanny into any real forgetfulness of what had passed. When the evening was over, she went to bed full of it, her nerves still agitated by the shock of such an attack from her cousin Tom, so publi... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-06-26 CHAPTER XV Miss Crawford accepted the part very readily; and soon after Miss Bertrams return from the Parsonage, Mr. Rushworth arrived, and another character was consequently cast. He had the offer of Count Cassel and Anhalt, and at first did not kn... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-06-26 CHAPTER XIV Fanny seemed nearer being right than Edmund had supposed. The business of finding a play that would suit everybody proved to be no trifle; and the carpenter had received his orders and taken his measurements, had suggested and removed at... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-06-26 CHAPTER XIII The Honourable John Yates, this new friend, had not much to recommend him beyond habits of fashion and expense, and being the younger son of a lord with a tolerable independence; and Sir Thomas would probably have thought his introducti... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-06-26 CHAPTER XII Sir Thomas was to return in November, and his eldest son had duties to call him earlier home. The approach of September brought tidings of Mr. Bertram, first in a letter to the gamekeeper and then in a letter to Edmund; and by the end of... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-06-26 CHAPTER XI The day at Sotherton, with all its imperfections, afforded the Miss Bertrams much more agreeable feelings than were derived from the letters from Antigua, which soon afterwards reached Mansfield. It was much pleasanter to think of Henry C... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-06-26 CHAPTER X A quarter of an hour, twenty minutes, passed away, and Fanny was still thinking of Edmund, Miss Crawford, and herself, without interruption from any one. She began to be surprised at being left so long, and to listen with an anxious desire... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-06-26 CHAPTER IX Mr. Rushworth was at the door to receive his fair lady; and the whole party were welcomed by him with due attention. In the drawing-room they were met with equal cordiality by the mother, and Miss Bertram had all the distinction with each... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-06-26 CHAPTER VIII Fannys rides recommenced the very next day; and as it was a pleasant fresh-feeling morning, less hot than the weather had lately been, Edmund trusted that her losses, both of health and pleasure, would be soon made good. While she was g... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-06-26 CHAPTER VII Well, Fanny, and how do you like Miss Crawford _now_? said Edmund the next day, after thinking some time on the subject himself. How did you like her yesterday? Very well--very much. I like to hear her talk. She entertains me; and she is... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-06-26 CHAPTER VI Mr. Bertram set off for--------, and Miss Crawford was prepared to find a great chasm in their society, and to miss him decidedly in the meetings which were now becoming almost daily between the families; and on their all dining together... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-06-26 CHAPTER V The young people were pleased with each other from the first. On each side there was much to attract, and their acquaintance soon promised as early an intimacy as good manners would warrant. Miss Crawfords beauty did her no disservice with... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-06-26 CHAPTER IV Tom Bertram had of late spent so little of his time at home that he could be only nominally missed; and Lady Bertram was soon astonished to find how very well they did even without his father, how well Edmund could supply his place in car... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-06-26 CHAPTER III The first event of any importance in the family was the death of Mr. Norris, which happened when Fanny was about fifteen, and necessarily introduced alterations and novelties. Mrs. Norris, on quitting the Parsonage, removed first to the... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-06-26 CHAPTER II The little girl performed her long journey in safety; and at Northampton was met by Mrs. Norris, who thus regaled in the credit of being foremost to welcome her, and in the importance of leading her in to the others, and recommending her... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-06-26 CHAPTER I About thirty years ago Miss Maria Ward, of Huntingdon, with only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram, of Mansfield Park, in the county of Northampton, and to be thereby raised to the rank of a baronets... 阅读全文>>