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Mansfield Park

CHAPTER XVI
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He had told her the most extraordinary, the most inconceivable, the most unwelcome news; and she could think of nothing else.

To be acting! After all his objections--objections so just and so public! After all that she had heard him say, and seen him look, and known him to be feeling.

Could it be possible?
Edmund so inconsistent! Was he not deceiving himself?
Was he not wrong?
Alas! it was all Miss Crawford's doing.

She had seen her influence in every speech, and was miserable.

The doubts and alarms as to her own conduct, which had previously distressed her, and which had all slept while she listened to him, were become of little consequence now.


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