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Mansfield Park

CHAPTER XX
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Her greatest support and glory was in having formed the connexion with the Rushworths.

_There_ she was impregnable.

She took to herself all the credit of bringing Mr.
Rushworth's admiration of Maria to any effect.

"If I had not been active," said she, "and made a point of being introduced to his mother, and then prevailed on my sister to pay the first visit, I am as certain as I sit here that nothing would have come of it; for Mr.Rushworth is the sort of amiable modest young man who wants a great deal of encouragement, and there were girls enough on the catch for him if we had been idle.

But I left no stone unturned.


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