He should
have worked upon my plansI must hope, however, that time, proving
him (as I firmly believe it will) to deserve you by his steady
affection, will give him his rewardI cannot suppose that you have
not the wish to love him?the natural wish of gratitudeYou must
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have some feeling of that sortYou must be sorry for your own
indifference
?We are so totally unlike,? said Fanny, avoiding a direct answer,
?we are so very, very different in all our inclinations and ways, that
I consider it as quite impossible we should ever be tolerably happy
together, even if I could like himThere never were two people more
dissimilarWe have not one taste in commonWe should be miserable
?You are mistaken, FannyThe dissimilarity is not so strongYou
are quite enough alikeYou have tastes in commonYou have moral
and literary tastes in commonYou have both warm hearts and benevolent
feelings; and, Fanny, who that heard him read, and saw
you listen to Shakespeare the other http://www.ttluxury.com/categorys_106_Prada-Clutchs-and-Evening_1.html" target="_blank night, will think you unfitted as
companions? You forget yourself: there is a decided difference in
your tempers, I allowHe is lively, you are serious; but so much the
better: his spirits will support yoursIt is your disposition to be
easily dejected and to fancy difficulties greater than they areHis
cheerfulness will counteract thisHe sees difficulties nowhere: and
his pleasantness and gaiety will be a constant support to youYour
being so far unlike, Fanny, does not in the smallest degree make
against the probability of your happiness together: do not imagine
itI am myself convinced that it is rather a favourable circumstance
I am perfectly persuaded that the tempers had better be unlike: I
mean unlike in the flow of the spirits, in the manners, in the inclination
for much or little company, in the propensity to talk or to be
silent, to be grave or to be gaySome opposition here is, I am thoroughly
convinced, friendly to matrimonial happinessI exclude extremes,
of course; http://www.ttluxury.com/categorys_105_Chanel-Earrings_1.html" target="_blank and a very close resemblance in all those points
would be the likeliest way to produce an extremeA counteraction,
gentle and continual, is the best safeguard of manners and conduct
Full well could Fanny guess where his thoughts were now: Miss
Crawford?s power was all returningHe had been speaking of her
cheerfully from the hour of his coming homeHis avoiding her was
quite at an endHe had dined at the Parsonage only the preceding
day
After leaving him to his happier thoughts for some minutes, Fanny,
feeling it due to herself, returned to MrCrawford, and said, ?It is
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not merely in temper that I consider him as totally unsuited to myself;
though, in that respect, I think the difference between us too
great, infinitely too great: his spirits often oppress me; but there is
something in him which I object to still moreI must say, cousin,
that I cannot approve his characterI have not thought well of him
from the time of the playI then saw him behaving, as it http://www.ttluxury.com/categorys_28_Aqua-Terra-_1.html" target="_blank appeared to
me, so very improperly and unfeelingly?I may speak of it now
because it is all over?so improperly by poor MrRushworth, not
seeming to care how he exposed or hurt him, and paying attentions
to my cousin Maria, which?in short, at the time of the play, I
received an impression which will never be got over
?My dear Fanny,? replied Edmund, scarcely hearing her to the
end, ?let us not, any of us, be judged by what we appeared at that
period of general follyThe time of the play is a time which I hate to
recollectMaria was wrong, Crawford was wrong, we were all wrong
together; but none so wrong as myselfCompared with me, all the
rest were blamelessI was playing the fool with my eyes open
?As a bystander,? said Fanny, ?perhaps I saw more than you did;
and I do think that MrRushworth was sometimes very jealousNothing could be more improper than
the whole businessI am shocked whenever I think that Maria could
be capable of it; but, if she could undertake the part, we must http://www.ttluxury.com/categorys_94_Chanel-Purse_1.html" target="_blank not
be surprised at the rest
?Before the play, I am much mistaken if Julia did not think he
was paying her attentions
?Julia! I have heard before from some one of his being in love with
Julia; but I could never see anything of itAnd, Fanny, though I
hope I do justice to my sisters? good qualities, I think it very possible
that they might, one or both, be more desirous of being admired
by Crawford, and might shew that desire rather more unguardedly
than was perfectly prudentI can remember that they
were evidently fond of his society; and with such encouragement, a
man like Crawford, lively, and it may be, a little unthinking, might
be led on to?there could be nothing very striking, because it is
clear that he had no pretensions: his heart was reserved for you
And I must say, that its being for you has raised him inconceivably
in my opinionIt does him the highest honour; it shews his proper
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