Wednesday, May 5, 2010 - The manners I speak of might
rather be called...
The manners I speak of might
rather be called conduct, perhaps, the result of good principles; the
effect, in short, of those doctrines which it is their duty to teach and
recommend; and it will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the
clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the
nation
?Certainly,? said Fanny, with gentle earnestness
?There,? cried Miss Crawford, ?you have quite convinced Miss
Price already
?I wish I could convince Miss Crawford too
?I do not think you ever will,? said she, with an arch smile; ?I am
just as much surprised now as I was at first that you should intend
to take ordersYou really are fit for something betterCome, do
change your mind
?Go into the law! With as much ease as I was told to go into this
wilderness
?Now you are going to say something about law being the worst
wilderness of the two, but I forestall you; remember, I have forestalled
you
?You need not hurry when the object is only to prevent my saying
a bon mot, for there is not the least wit in my natureI am a chanel necklace very
matter-of-fact, plain-spoken being, and may blunder on the borders
of a repartee for half an hour together without striking it out
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A general silence succeededFanny made
the first interruption by saying, ?I wonder that I should be tired
with only walking in this sweet wood; but the next time we come to
a seat, if it is not disagreeable to you, I should be glad to sit down
for a little while
?My dear Fanny,? cried Edmund, immediately drawing her arm
within his, ?how thoughtless I have been! I hope you are not very
tiredPerhaps,? turning to Miss Crawford, ?my other companion may
do me the honour of taking an arm
?Thank you, but I am not at all tired She took it, however, as
she spoke, and the gratification of having her do so, of feeling such
a connexion for the first time, made him a little forgetful of Fanny
?You scarcely touch me,? said he?You do not make me of any use
What a difference in the weight of a woman?s arm from that of a
man! At Oxford I have been a good deal used to have a man lean on
me for the length of a street, and you are only cheap chanel 2.55 bag a fly in the comparison
?I am really not tired, which I almost wonder at; for we must have
walked at least a mile in this woodDo not you think we have??
?Not half a mile,? was his sturdy answer; for he was not yet so
much in love as to measure distance, or reckon time, with feminine
lawlessness
?Oh! you do not consider how much we have wound aboutWe
have taken such a very serpentine course, and the wood itself must
be half a mile long in a straight line, for we have never seen the end
of it yet since we left the first great path
?But if you remember, before we left that first great path, we saw
directly to the end of itWe looked down the whole vista, and saw it
closed by iron gates, and it could not have been more than a furlong
in length
?Oh! I know nothing of your furlongs, but I am sure it is a very long
wood, and that we have been winding in and out ever since we came
into it; and therefore, when I say that we have walked a mile in it, I
must speak within compass
?We have been exactly a quarter of an hour here,? said Edmund,
taking out his fendi large clutch watch?Do you think we are walking four miles an
hour??
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?Oh! do not attack me with your watchA watch is always too fast
or too slowI cannot be dictated to by a watch
A few steps farther brought them out at the bottom of the very
walk they had been talking of; and standing back, well shaded and
sheltered, and looking over a ha-ha into the park, was a comfortable-
sized bench, on which they all sat down
?I am afraid you are very tired, Fanny,? said Edmund, observing
her; ?why would not you speak sooner? This will be a bad day?s
amusement for you if you are to be knocked upEvery sort of exercise
fatigues her so soon, Miss Crawford, except riding
?How abominable in you, then, to let me engross her horse as I
did all last week! I am ashamed of you and of myself, but it shall
never happen again
?Your attentiveness and consideration makes me more sensible of
my own neglectFanny?s interest seems in safer hands with you than
with me
?That she should be tired now, however, gives me no surprise; for
there is nothing in the course of one?s balenciaga bag made with goat leather duties so fatiguing as what we
have been doing this morning: seeing a great house, dawdling from
one room to another, straining one?s eyes and one?s attention, hearing
what one does not understand, admiring what one does not
care forIt is generally allowed to be the greatest bore in the world,
and Miss Price has found it so, though she did not know it
?I shall soon be rested,? said Fanny; ?to sit in the shade on a fine
day, and look upon verdure, is the most perfect refreshment
After sitting a little while Miss Crawford was up again?I must
move,? said she; ?resting fatigues meI have looked across the ha-ha
till I am wearyI must go and look through that iron gate at the
same view, without being able to see it so well
Edmund left the seat likewise?Now, Miss Crawford, if you will
look up the walk, you will convince yourself that it cannot be half a
mile long, or half half a mile
?It is an immense distance,? said she; ?I see that with a glance
He still reasoned with her, but in vainShe would not calculate,
she would not compareShe would only smile and gucci mens wallets ass
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