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Mansfield Park

CHAPTER XXVI
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"You must think of Henry, for it was his choice in the first place.

He gave it to me, and with the necklace I make over to you all the duty of remembering the original giver.

It is to be a family remembrancer.

The sister is not to be in your mind without bringing the brother too." Fanny, in great astonishment and confusion, would have returned the present instantly.

To take what had been the gift of another person, of a brother too, impossible! it must not be! and with an eagerness and embarrassment quite diverting to her companion, she laid down the necklace again on its cotton, and seemed resolved either to take another or none at all.


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