[Mansfield Park by Jane Austen]@TWC D-Link bookMansfield Park CHAPTER VI 17/18
Its natural beauties, I am sure, are great.
Everingham, as it _used_ to be, was perfect in my estimation: such a happy fall of ground, and such timber! What would I not give to see it again ?" "Nothing could be so gratifying to me as to hear your opinion of it," was his answer; "but I fear there would be some disappointment: you would not find it equal to your present ideas.
In extent, it is a mere nothing; you would be surprised at its insignificance; and, as for improvement, there was very little for me to do--too little: I should like to have been busy much longer." "You are fond of the sort of thing ?" said Julia. "Excessively; but what with the natural advantages of the ground, which pointed out, even to a very young eye, what little remained to be done, and my own consequent resolutions, I had not been of age three months before Everingham was all that it is now.
My plan was laid at Westminster, a little altered, perhaps, at Cambridge, and at one-and-twenty executed.
I am inclined to envy Mr.Rushworth for having so much happiness yet before him.
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