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[notallworthy]

Tom is out by the porch trying to read. He really isn't a very intellectual young man but at the moment he's trying to overcome that. Something feels like it is missing from his mind and he can't put his finger on it. Everytime he's certain he has it, it slips away. So he sits and reads and tries to forget what he can't remember. But he'd

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[modestnature]

Fanny isn't exactly the interrupting sort, but she does try to read the title of his book.

[modestnature]

"A long time."

[notallworthy]

"It certainly feels that way sometimes."

[modestnature]

"I do wish," she says after a pause, "that I could hear any news from home. Otherwise I am quite content."

[notallworthy]

"Where do you call home?"

[modestnature]

"Mansfield Park, sir, in Northamptonshire." She smiles just a little as she says it.

[notallworthy]

"I'm afraid I've never been there. I'm from Somersetshire."