[Mansfield Park by Jane Austen]@TWC D-Link bookMansfield Park CHAPTER XXXVI 21/22
And the other, that you will often call on Mrs.Grant, and make her amends for my being gone." The first, at least, of these favours Fanny would rather not have been asked; but it was impossible for her to refuse the correspondence; it was impossible for her even not to accede to it more readily than her own judgment authorised.
There was no resisting so much apparent affection.
Her disposition was peculiarly calculated to value a fond treatment, and from having hitherto known so little of it, she was the more overcome by Miss Crawford's.
Besides, there was gratitude towards her, for having made their _tete-a-tete_ so much less painful than her fears had predicted. It was over, and she had escaped without reproaches and without detection.
Her secret was still her own; and while that was the case, she thought she could resign herself to almost everything. In the evening there was another parting.
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