LibriVox audiorecording of Mansfield ParkHenry Crawford had quite made up his mind by the next morning to give another fortnight to Mansfield, and having sent for his hunters, and written a few lines of explanation to the Admiral, he looked round at his sister as he sealed and threw the letter from him, and seeing the coast clear of the rest of the
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Vous, avoir la Présidente de Tourvel! mais quel ridicule caprice! Je reconnais bien là votre mauvaise tête qui ne sait désirer que ce qu'elle croit ne pas pouvoir obtenir. Qu'est-ce donc que cette femme? des traits réguliers si vous voulez, mais nulle expression: passablement faite, mais sans grâces: toujours mise à faire rire! avec ses paquets de fichus sur la gorge, et son corps qui remonte au menton! is presented in a softer version in Miss Crawford's I have always thought her pretty-not strikingly pretty-but ‘pretty enough,’ as people say; a sort of beauty that grows on one. Her eyes should be darker, but she has a sweet smile; but as for this wonderful degree of improvement, I am sure it may all be resolved into a better style of dress, and your having nobody else to look at.
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