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Mansfield Park

Jane Austen

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Mansfield Park
Volume I
Chapter I. The Bertrams of Mansfield Park adopt their niece     6
Chapter II. Fanny Price arrives; Cousin Edmund is
kind to her   16
Chapter III. Sir Thomas Bertram goes to the West Indies
with Tom   28
Chapter IV. Maria Bertram engaged to Mr Rushworth; the
Crawfords arrive at the parsonage   40
Chapter V. The Bertrams and Crawfords together   52
Chapter VI. Dinner at Mansfield Park   62
Chapter VII. Edmund teaches Miss Crawford to ride;
Fanny neglected   75
Chapter VIII. A drive to Sotherton   89
Chapter IX. Sotherton explored; Miss Crawford discovers
Edmund to take orders   99
Chapter X. Several walks round Sotherton Park 114
Chapter XI. Miss Crawford insults clergymen 125
Chapter XII. A ball at Mansfield Park; Tom Bertram returns 134
Chapter XIII. Yates arrives, suggests a play; Edmund’s
objections defeated 142
Chapter XIV. Neither play nor parts can be agreed 153
Chapter XV. Lover’s Vow chosen; Edmund and Fanny
mortified 162
Chapter XVI. Edmund to act; Fanny more mortified 175
Chapter XVII. Julia jealous of Henry Crawford and Maria 183

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Chapter XVIII. Rehearsals and bustle; Sir Thomas
arrives at home 190
Volume II
Chapter I. Sir Thomas discovers “the Theatre” 200
Chapter II. Sir Thomas dismantles “the Theatre”; Henry
Crawford departs 214
Chapter III. Maria marries Mr Rushworth; the sisters depart
Mansfield Park 224
Chapter IV. Fanny grows intimate with Mary Crawford 234
Chapter V. Fanny dines at the parsonage; Henry
Crawford returns 247
Chapter VI. Henry to flirt with Fanny; her brother
William arrives from sea 261
Chapter VII. All dine at the parsonage; Henry attends
to Fanny 271
Chapter VIII. Sir Thomas offers a ball; Mary gives Fanny
a necklace from Henry 287
Chapter IX. Edmund gives Fanny a chain; she prepares
to “come out” 297
Chapter X. The ball; Fanny dances first and often with
Henry 310
Chapter XI. William, Henry and Edmund all depart 321
Chapter XII. Henry returns, resolved to marry Fanny 331
Chapter XIII. Henry manages William’s promotion;
proposes to Fanny and is refused 339

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Volume III
Chapter I. Henry speaks to Sir Thomas; Sir Thomas
speaks to Fanny 351
Chapter II. Henry speaks again to Fanny; she is resolute  368
Chapter III. Edmund returns and triumphs Henry’s cause;
Henry reads Shakespeare 378
Chapter IV. Edmund speaks again to Fanny, and dines
at the parsonage 391
Chapter V. Mary calls on Fanny;  Crawfords go to London 403
Chapter VI. William visits; Fanny goes with him
to Portsmouth 414
Chapter VII. Fanny at Portsmouth, introduced to her family 425
Chapter VIII. Fanny “at home” 441
Chapter IX. Fanny takes her sister Susan under her wing 447
Chapter X. Henry Crawford visits Portsmouth; calls
on Fanny 455
Chapter XI. A walk round Portsmouth with Henry 465
Chapter XII. A letter from Mary Crawford 473
Chapter XIII. A letter from Edmund declaring his love
for Mary; Tom falls ill 479
Chapter XIV. An upsetting letter from Mary; Tom
remains unwell 489
Chapter XV. Henry goes off with Maria Rushworth;
Julia elopes; Edmund brings Fanny and Susan
to Mansfield Park 498
Chapter XVI. Edmund visits Mary and is astonished 510
Chapter XVII. Mrs Norris and Maria move away; Fanny
marries Edmund; Susan replaces her at Mansfield Park 525

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MANSFIELD

PARK

VOLUME I

CHAPTER I

bout 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

baronet’s lady, with all the comforts and consequences of an

handsome house and large income. All Huntingdon exclaimed on

the greatness of the match, and her uncle, the lawyer, himself,

allowed her to be at least three thousand pounds short of any

equitable claim to it. She had two sisters to be benefited by her

elevation; and such of their acquaintance as thought Miss Ward

and Miss Frances quite as handsome as Miss Maria, did not

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scruple to predict their marrying with almost equal advantage.

But there certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the

world as there are pretty women to deserve them. Miss Ward, at

the end of half a dozen years, found herself obliged to be attached

to the Rev. Mr. Norris, a friend of her brother-in-law, with scarcely

any private fortune, and Miss Frances fared yet worse. Miss

Ward’s match, indeed, when it came to the point, was not

contemptible, Sir Thomas being happily able to give his friend an

income in the living of Mansfield, and Mr. and Mrs. Norris began

their career of conjugal felicity with very little less than a thousand

a year. But Miss Frances married, in the common phrase, to

disoblige her family, and by fixing on a lieutenant of marines,

without education, fortune, or connexions, did it very thoroughly.

She could hardly have made a more untoward choice. Sir Thomas

Bertram had interest, which, from principle as well as pride—from

a general wish of doing right, and a desire of seeing all that were

connected with him in situations of respectability, he would have

been glad to exert for the advantage of Lady Bertram’s sister; but

her husband’s profession was such as no interest could reach; and

before he had time to devise any other method of assisting them,

an absolute breach between the sisters had taken place. It was the

natural result of the conduct of each party, and such as a very

imprudent marriage almost always produces. To save herself from

useless remonstrance, Mrs. Price never wrote to her family on the

subject till actually married. Lady Bertram, who was a woman of

very tranquil feelings, and a temper remarkably easy and indolent,

would have contented herself with merely giving up her sister, and

thinking no more of the matter; but Mrs. Norris had a spirit of

activity, which could not be satisfied till she had written a long and

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angry letter to Fanny, to point out the folly of her conduct, and

threaten her with all its possible ill consequences. Mrs. Price, in

her turn, was injured and angry; and an answer, which

comprehended each sister in its bitterness, and bestowed such

very disrespectful reflections on the pride of Sir Thomas as Mrs.

Norris could not possibly keep to herself, put an end to all

intercourse between them for a considerable period.

Their homes were so distant, and the circles in which they

moved so distinct, as almost to preclude the means of ever hearing

of each other’s existence during the eleven following years, or, at

least, to make it very wonderful to Sir Thomas that Mrs. Norris

should ever have it in her power to tell them, as she now and then

did, in an angry voice, that Fanny had got another child. By the

end of eleven years, however, Mrs. Price could no longer afford to

cherish pride or resentment, or to lose one connexion that might

possibly assist her. A large and still increasing family, an husband

disabled for active service, but not the less equal to company and

good liquor, and a very small income to supply their wants, made

her eager to regain the friends she had so carelessly sacrificed;

and she addressed Lady Bertram in a letter which spoke so much

contrition and despondence, such a superfluity of children, and

such a want of almost everything else, as could not but dispose

them all to a reconciliation. She was preparing for her ninth lying-

in; and after bewailing the circumstance, and imploring their

countenance as sponsors to the expected child, she could not

conceal how important she felt they might be to the future

maintenance of the eight already in being. Her eldest was a boy of

ten years old, a fine spirited fellow, who longed to be out in the

world; but what could she do? Was there any chance of his being

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hereafter useful to Sir Thomas in the concerns of his West Indian

property? No situation would be beneath him; or what did Sir

Thomas think of Woolwich? or how could a boy be sent out to the

East?

The letter was not unproductive. It re-established peace and

kindness. Sir Thomas sent friendly advice and professions, Lady

Bertram dispatched money and baby-linen, and Mrs. Norris wrote

the letters.

Such were its immediate effects, and within a twelvemonth a

more important advantage to Mrs. Price resulted from it. Mrs.

Norris was often observing to the others that she could not get her

poor sister and her family out of her head, and that, much as they

had all done for her, she seemed to be wanting to do more; and at

length she could not but own it to be her wish that poor Mrs. Price

should be relieved from the charge and expense of one child

entirely out of her great number. “What if they were among them

to undertake the care of her eldest daughter, a girl now nine years

old, of an age to require more attention than her poor mother

could possibly give? The trouble and expense of it to them would

be nothing, compared with the benevolence of the action.” Lady

Bertram agreed with her instantly. “I think we cannot do better,”

said she, “let us send for the child.”

Sir Thomas could not give so instantaneous and unqualified a

consent. He debated and hesitated;—it was a serious charge;—a

girl so brought up must be adequately provided for, or there would

be cruelty instead of kindness in taking her from her family. He

thought of his own four children, of his two sons, of cousins in

love, &c.;—but no sooner had he deliberately begun to state his

objections, than Mrs. Norris interrupted him with a reply to them

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all whether stated or not.

“My dear Sir Thomas, I perfectly comprehend you, and do

justice to the generosity and delicacy of your notions, which

indeed are quite of a piece with your general conduct; and I

entirely agree with you in the main as to the propriety of doing

everything one could by way of providing for a child one had in a

manner taken into one’s own hands; and I am sure I should be the

last person in the world to withhold my mite upon such an

occasion. Having no children of my own, who should I look to in

any little matter I may ever have to bestow, but the children of my

sisters?—and I am sure Mr. Norris is too just—but you know I am

a woman of few words and professions. Do not let us be frightened

from a good deed by a trifle. Give a girl an education, and

introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has

the means of settling well, without farther expense to anybody. A

niece of ours, Sir Thomas, I may say, or at least of yours, would

not grow up in this neighbourhood without many advantages. I

don’t say she would be so handsome as her cousins. I dare say she

would not; but she would be introduced into the society of this

country under such very favourable circumstances as, in all

human probability, would get her a creditable establishment. You

are thinking of your sons—but do not you know that, of all things

upon earth, that is the least likely to happen, brought up as they

would be, always together like brothers and sisters? It is morally

impossible. I never knew an instance of it. It is, in fact, the only

sure way of providing against the connexion. Suppose her a pretty

girl, and seen by Tom or Edmund for the first time seven years

hence, and I dare say there would be mischief. The very idea of

her having been suffered to grow up at a distance from us all in

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