The first day I went over Mansfield Wood, and Edmund took the copses beyond Easton, and we brought home six brace between us, and might each have killed six times as many, but we respect your pheasants, sir, I assure you, as much as you could desire.

I do not think you will find your woods by any means worse stocked than they were.

_I_ never saw Mansfield Wood so full of pheasants in my life as this year.

I hope you will take a day's sport there yourself, sir, soon." For the present the danger was over, and Fanny's sick feelings subsided; but when tea was soon afterwards brought in, and Sir Thomas, getting up, said that he found that he could not be any longer in the house without just looking into his own dear room, every agitation was returning.

He was gone before anything had been said to prepare him for the change he must find there; and a pause of alarm followed his disappearance.