Mansfield Park - Chapter 10

A quarter of an hour, twenty minutes, passed away, and Fanny was still thinking of Edmund, Miss Crawford, and herself, without interruption from any one. She began to be surprised at being left so long, and to listen with an anxious desire of hearing their steps and their voices again. She listened, and at length she heard; she heard voices and feet approaching; but she had just satisfied herself that it was not those she wanted, when Miss Bertram, Mr. Rushworth, and Mr. Crawford issued from the same path which she had trod herself, and were before her., ,"Miss Price all alone" and "My dear Fanny, how comes this?" were the first salutations. She told her story. "Poor dear Fanny," cried her cousin, "how ill you have been used by them! You had better have staid with us.", ,Then seating herself with a gentleman on each side, she resumed the conversation which had engaged them before, and discussed the possibility of improvements with much animation ¹. Nothing was fixed ² on; but Henry Crawford was full of ideas and projects, and, generally speaking, whatever he proposed was immediately approved, first by her, and then by Mr. Rushworth, whose principal business seemed to be to hear the others, and who scarcely risked an original thought of his own beyond a wish that they had seen his friend Smith's place., , ,"It is undoubtedly ¹⁰ the best thing we can do now, as we are so far from the house already," said Mr. Crawford, when he was gone., ,"Yes, there is nothing else to be done. But now, sincerely, do not you find the place altogether worse than you expected?", ,The animation of China made a great progress.中国的卡通片制作取得很大发展。,Have you two fixed on a date for the wedding yet?你们俩选定婚期了吗？