| The maids do their work very well, and I
think we shall be able to send back some dozens of the ringsThere is
no occasion to put them so very close togetherI am of some use, I
hope, in preventing waste and making the most of thingsThere should
always be one steady head to superintend so many young onesI
forgot to tell Tom of something that happened to me this very dayI
had been looking about me in the poultry-yard, and was just coming
out, when who should I see but Dick Jackson making up to the servants?
hall-door with two bits of deal board in his hand, bringing
them to father, you may be sure; mother had chanced to send him of
a message to father, and then father had bid him bring up them two
bits of board, for he could not no how do without themI knew what
all this meant, for the servants? dinner-bell was ringing at the very
moment over our heads; and as I hate such encroaching people (the
Jacksons are very encroaching, I have always said so: just the sort of
people to get all they can), I said to the boy directly (a great lubberly
fellow of ten years old, you know, who ought to be ashamed of himself),
?I?ll take the boards to your father, Dick, so get you home again
as fast as you can The boy looked very silly, and turned away without
offering a word, for I believe I might speak pretty sharp; and I
dare say it will cure him of coming miu miu leather black coffer bag marauding about the house for
one whileI hate such greediness?so good as your father is to the
family, employing the man all the year round!?
Nobody was at the trouble of an answer; the others soon returned;
and Edmund found that to have endeavoured to set them right
must be his only satisfaction
Dinner passed heavilyNorris related again her triumph over
Dick Jackson, but neither play nor preparation were otherwise much
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talked of, for Edmund?s disapprobation was felt even by his brother,
though he would not have owned itMaria, wanting Henry Crawford?s
animating support, thought the subject better avoidedYates,
who was trying to make himself agreeable to Julia, found her gloom
less impenetrable on any topic than that of his regret at her secession
from their company; and MrRushworth, having only his own part
and his own dress in his head, had soon talked away all that could be
said of either
But the concerns of the theatre were suspended only for an hour
or two: there was still a great deal to be settled; and the spirits of
evening giving fresh courage, Tom, Maria, and MrYates, soon after
their being reassembled in the drawing-room, seated themselves in
committee at a separate table, with the play open before them, and
were just getting deep in the subject when a most welcome interruption
was given by the entrance of chanel purse knock offs Mrand Miss Crawford, who,
late and dark and dirty as it was, could not help coming, and were
received with the most grateful joy
?Well, how do you go on?? and ?What have you settled?? and
?Oh! we can do nothing without you,? followed the first salutations;
and Henry Crawford was soon seated with the other three at
the table, while his sister made her way to Lady Bertram, and with
pleasant attention was complimenting her?I must really congratulate
your ladyship,? said she, ?on the play being chosen; for though
you have borne it with exemplary patience, I am sure you must be
sick of all our noise and difficultiesThe actors may be glad, but the
bystanders must be infinitely more thankful for a decision; and I do
sincerely give you joy, madam, as well as MrsNorris, and everybody
else who is in the same predicament,? glancing half fearfully,
half slyly, beyond Fanny to Edmund
She was very civilly answered by Lady Bertram, but Edmund said
nothingHis being only a bystander was not disclaimedAfter continuing
in chat with the party round the fire a few minutes, Miss
Crawford returned to the party round the table; and standing by
them, seemed to interest herself in their arrangements till, as if struck
by a sudden recollection, she exclaimed, ?My good friends, you are
most composedly at work upon these cottages and alehouses, inside
and out; but pray rolex watches for women let me know my fate in the meanwhileWho is to
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be Anhalt? What gentleman among you am I to have the pleasure of
making love to??
For a moment no one spoke; and then many spoke together to
tell the same melancholy truth, that they had not yet got any AnhaltRushworth was to be Count Cassel, but no one had yet undertaken
Anhalt
?I had my choice of the parts,? said MrRushworth; ?but I thought
I should like the Count best, though I do not much relish the finery
I am to have
?You chose very wisely, I am sure,? replied Miss Crawford, with a
brightened look; ?Anhalt is a heavy part
?The Count has two-and-forty speeches,? returned MrRushworth,
?which is no trifle
?I am not at all surprised,? said Miss Crawford, after a short pause,
?at this want of an AnhaltAmelia deserves no betterSuch a forward
young lady may well frighten the men
?I should be but too happy in taking the part, if it were possible,?
cried Tom; ?but, unluckily, the Butler and Anhalt are in togetherI
will not entirely give it up, however; I will try what can be done?I
will look it over again
?Your brother should take the part,? said MrYates, in a low voice
?Do not you think he would??
?I shall not ask him,? replied Tom, in a cold, determined manner
Miss Crawford talked of something else, and soon afterwards rejoined
the party at the fire
?They do not want me at buy chanel purse all,? said she, seating herself?I only
puzzle them, and oblige them to make civil speechesEdmund
Bertram, as you do not act yourself, you will be a disinterested adviser;
and, therefore, I apply to youWhat shall we do for an Anhalt?
Is it practicable for any of the others to double it? What is your
advice??
?My advice,? said he calmly, ?is that you change the play
?I should have no objection,? she replied; ?for though I should
not particularly dislike the part of Amelia if well supported, that is,
if everything went well, I shall be sorry to be an inconvenience; but
as they do not chuse to hear your advice at that table? (looking
round), ?it certainly will not be taken
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Edmund said no more
?If any part could tempt you to act, I suppose it would be Anhalt,?
observed the lady archly, after a short pause; ?for he is a clergyman,
you know
?That circumstance would by no means tempt me,? he replied,
?for I should be sorry to make the character ridiculous by bad acting
It must be very difficult to keep Anhalt from appearing a formal,
solemn lecturer; and the man who chuses the profession itself
is, perhaps, one of the last who would wish to represent it on the
stage
Miss Crawford was silenced, and with some feelings of resentment
and mortification, moved her chair considerably nearer the
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