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Mansfield Park

CHAPTER VI
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But the woods are fine, and there is a stream, which, I dare say, might be made a good deal of.

Mr.
Rushworth is quite right, I think, in meaning to give it a modern dress, and I have no doubt that it will be all done extremely well." Miss Crawford listened with submission, and said to herself, "He is a well-bred man; he makes the best of it." "I do not wish to influence Mr.Rushworth," he continued; "but, had I a place to new fashion, I should not put myself into the hands of an improver.

I would rather have an inferior degree of beauty, of my own choice, and acquired progressively.

I would rather abide by my own blunders than by his." "_You_ would know what you were about, of course; but that would not suit _me_.

I have no eye or ingenuity for such matters, but as they are before me; and had I a place of my own in the country, I should be most thankful to any Mr.Repton who would undertake it, and give me as much beauty as he could for my money; and I should never look at it till it was complete." "It would be delightful to _me_ to see the progress of it all," said Fanny.
"Ay, you have been brought up to it.


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