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Jane Austen
Mansfield Park
(1814)
by
Jane Austen
(1775-1817)
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 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 itShe 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 scruple to predict their marrying with almost
equal advantageBut 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 RevNorris, a friend of her brother-in-law,
with scarcely any private fortune, and Miss Frances dolce
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