日期：2023-07-06 CHAPTER XXVII On reaching home Fanny went immediately upstairs to deposit this unexpected acquisition, this doubtful good of a necklace, in some favourite box in the East room, which held all her smaller treasures; but on opening the door, what was... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-07-06 CHAPTER XXVI Williams desire of seeing Fanny dance made more than a momentary impression on his uncle. The hope of an opportunity, which Sir Thomas had then given, was not given to be thought of no more. He remained steadily inclined to gratify so a... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-07-06 CHAPTER XXV The intercourse of the two families was at this period more nearly restored to what it had been in the autumn, than any member of the old intimacy had thought ever likely to be again. The return of Henry Crawford, and the arrival of Will... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-07-06 CHAPTER XXIV Henry Crawford had quite made up his mind by the next morning to give another fortnight to Mansfield, and having sent for his hunters, and written a few lines of explanation to the Admiral, he looked round at his sister as he sealed and... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-07-06 CHAPTER XXIII But why should Mrs. Grant ask Fanny? said Lady Bertram. How came she to think of asking Fanny? Fanny never dines there, you know, in this sort of way. I cannot spare her, and I am sure she does not want to go. Fanny, you do not want to... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-07-06 CHAPTER XXII Fannys consequence increased on the departure of her cousins. Becoming, as she then did, the only young woman in the drawing-room, the only occupier of that interesting division of a family in which she had hitherto held so humble a thi... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-07-06 CHAPTER XXI Sir Thomass return made a striking change in the ways of the family, independent of Lovers Vows. Under his government, Mansfield was an altered place. Some members of their society sent away, and the spirits of many others saddened-- it... 阅读全文>>

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>>