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Mansfield Park

CHAPTER XLVII
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I would not dwell upon them if I could.

Their substance was great anger at the _folly_ of each.
She reprobated her brother's folly in being drawn on by a woman whom he had never cared for, to do what must lose him the woman he adored; but still more the folly of poor Maria, in sacrificing such a situation, plunging into such difficulties, under the idea of being really loved by a man who had long ago made his indifference clear.

Guess what I must have felt.

To hear the woman whom--no harsher name than folly given! So voluntarily, so freely, so coolly to canvass it! No reluctance, no horror, no feminine, shall I say, no modest loathings?
This is what the world does.

For where, Fanny, shall we find a woman whom nature had so richly endowed?
Spoilt, spoilt!" After a little reflection, he went on with a sort of desperate calmness.
"I will tell you everything, and then have done for ever.


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