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Edmund looked round at MrRushworth too, but had...
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Edmund looked round at MrRushworth too, but had nothing
to say
?Your father?s return will be a very interesting event
?It will, indeed, after such an absence; an absence not only long,
but including so many dangers
?It will be the forerunner also of other interesting events: your
sister?s marriage, and your taking orders
?Don?t be affronted,? said she, laughing, ?but it does put me in
mind of some of the old heathen heroes, who, after performing
great exploits in a foreign land, offered sacrifices to the gods on
their safe return
?There is no sacrifice in the case,? replied Edmund, with a serious
smile, and glancing at the pianoforte again; ?it is entirely her own
doing
?Oh yes I know it isShe has done no more
than what every young woman would do; and I have no doubt of
her being extremely happyMy other sacrifice, of course, you do
not understand
?My taking orders, I assure you, is quite as voluntary as Maria?s
marrying
?It is fortunate that your inclination and your father?s convenience
should accord so wellThere is a very good living kept for you, I
understand, hereabouts
?Which you suppose has biassed me??
?But that I am sure it has not,? cried Fanny
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?Thank you for your good word, Fanny, but it is more than I
would affirm myselfOn the contrary, the knowing that there was
such a provision for me probably did bias meNor can I think it
wrong that it shouldThere was no natural disinclination to be overcome,
and I see no reason why a man should make a worse clergyman
for knowing that he will have a competence early in lifeI hope I should not have been influenced myself in a
wrong way, and I am sure my father was too conscientious to have
allowed itI have no doubt that I was biased, but I think it was
blamelessly
?It is the same sort of thing,? said Fanny, after a short pause, ?as for
the son of an admiral to go into the navy, or the son of a general to be in
the army, and nobody sees anything wrong in thatNobody wonders
that they should prefer the line where their friends can serve them best,
or suspects them to be less in earnest in it than they appear
?No, my dear Miss Price, and for reasons goodThe profession,
either navy or army, is its own justificationIt has everything in its
favour: heroism, danger, bustle, fashionSoldiers and sailors are always
acceptable in societyNobody can wonder that men are soldiers
and sailors
?But the wholesale rolex watches motives of a man who takes orders with the certainty of
preferment may be fairly suspected, you think?? said Edmund?To
be justified in your eyes, he must do it in the most complete uncertainty
of any provision
?What! take orders without a living! No; that is madness indeed;
absolute madness
?Shall I ask you how the church is to be filled, if a man is neither
to take orders with a living nor without? No; for you certainly would
not know what to sayBut I must beg some advantage to the clergyman
from your own argumentAs he cannot be influenced by those
feelings which you rank highly as temptation and reward to the
soldier and sailor in their choice of a profession, as heroism, and
noise, and fashion, are all against him, he ought to be less liable to
the suspicion of wanting sincerity or good intentions in the choice
of his
?Oh! no doubt he is very sincere in preferring an income ready
made, to the trouble of working for one; and has the best intentions
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of doing nothing all the rest of his days but eat, drink, and grow fatIndolence and love of ease; a
want of all laudable ambition, of taste for good company, or of inclination
to take the trouble of being agreeable, which christian dior china make men
clergymenA clergyman has nothing to do but be slovenly and selfish?
read the newspaper, watch the weather, and quarrel with his
wifeHis curate does all the work, and the business of his own life is
to dine
?There are such clergymen, no doubt, but I think they are not so
common as to justify Miss Crawford in esteeming it their general
characterI suspect that in this comprehensive and (may I say) commonplace
censure, you are not judging from yourself, but from prejudiced
persons, whose opinions you have been in the habit of hearing
It is impossible that your own observation can have given you much
knowledge of the clergyYou can have been personally acquainted
with very few of a set of men you condemn so conclusivelyYou are
speaking what you have been told at your uncle?s table
?I speak what appears to me the general opinion; and where an opinion
is general, it is usually correctThough I have not seen much of the
domestic lives of clergymen, it is seen by too many to leave any deficiency
of information
?Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination,
are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of
information, or (smiling) of something elseYour rolex daytona men's watches uncle, and his
brother admirals, perhaps knew little of clergymen beyond the chaplains
whom, good or bad, they were always wishing away
?Poor William! He has met with great kindness from the chaplain
of the Antwerp,? was a tender apostrophe of Fanny?s, very much to
the purpose of her own feelings if not of the conversation
?I have been so little addicted to take my opinions from my uncle,?
said Miss Crawford, ?that I can hardly suppose?and since you push
me so hard, I must observe, that I am not entirely without the means
of seeing what clergymen are, being at this present time the guest of
my own brother, DrGrant is most kind
and obliging to me, and though he is really a gentleman, and, I dare
say, a good scholar and clever, and often preaches good sermons,
and is very respectable, I see him to be an indolent, selfish bon vi98
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vant, who must have his palate consulted in everything; who will
not stir a finger for the convenience of any one; and who, moreover,
if the cook makes a blunder, is out of humour with his excellent
wifeTo own the truth, Henry and I were partly driven out this very
evening by a disappointment about a green goose, which he could
not get the better black chanel handbag o
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