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Mansfield Park

CHAPTER XL
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There was no recovering the complexion from the moment that I spoke of 'Fanny,' and spoke of her as a sister should.

But Mrs.Rushworth's day of good looks will come; we have cards for her first party on the 28th.

Then she will be in beauty, for she will open one of the best houses in Wimpole Street.

I was in it two years ago, when it was Lady Lascelle's, and prefer it to almost any I know in London, and certainly she will then feel, to use a vulgar phrase, that she has got her pennyworth for her penny.

Henry could not have afforded her such a house.


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