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Mansfield Park

CHAPTER XL
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I hope she will recollect it, and be satisfied, as well as she may, with moving the queen of a palace, though the king may appear best in the background; and as I have no desire to tease her, I shall never _force_ your name upon her again.

She will grow sober by degrees.

From all that I hear and guess, Baron Wildenheim's attentions to Julia continue, but I do not know that he has any serious encouragement.

She ought to do better.
A poor honourable is no catch, and I cannot imagine any liking in the case, for take away his rants, and the poor baron has nothing.

What a difference a vowel makes! If his rents were but equal to his rants! Your cousin Edmund moves slowly; detained, perchance, by parish duties.


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