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Mansfield Park

CHAPTER XV
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I remember him.

Let _him_ be applied to, if you please, for it will be less unpleasant to me than to have a perfect stranger." Charles Maddox was to be the man.

Tom repeated his resolution of going to him early on the morrow; and though Julia, who had scarcely opened her lips before, observed, in a sarcastic manner, and with a glance first at Maria and then at Edmund, that "the Mansfield theatricals would enliven the whole neighbourhood exceedingly," Edmund still held his peace, and shewed his feelings only by a determined gravity.
"I am not very sanguine as to our play," said Miss Crawford, in an undervoice to Fanny, after some consideration; "and I can tell Mr.
Maddox that I shall shorten some of _his_ speeches, and a great many of _my_ _own_, before we rehearse together.

It will be very disagreeable, and by no means what I expected.".


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