[Mansfield Park by Jane Austen]@TWC D-Link bookMansfield Park CHAPTER XX 2/15
She never ceased to think of what was due to you.
You will find Fanny everything you could wish." Sir Thomas saw all the impropriety of such a scheme among such a party, and at such a time, as strongly as his son had ever supposed he must; he felt it too much, indeed, for many words; and having shaken hands with Edmund, meant to try to lose the disagreeable impression, and forget how much he had been forgotten himself as soon as he could, after the house had been cleared of every object enforcing the remembrance, and restored to its proper state.
He did not enter into any remonstrance with his other children: he was more willing to believe they felt their error than to run the risk of investigation.
The reproof of an immediate conclusion of everything, the sweep of every preparation, would be sufficient. There was one person, however, in the house, whom he could not leave to learn his sentiments merely through his conduct.
He could not help giving Mrs.Norris a hint of his having hoped that her advice might have been interposed to prevent what her judgment must certainly have disapproved.
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