Mansfield Park - Chapter 37

Mr. Crawford gone, Sir Thomas's next object was that he should be missed; and he entertained great hope that his niece would find a blank in the loss of those attentions which at the time she had felt, or fancied, an evil. She had tasted of consequence in its most flattering form; and he did hope that the loss of it, the sinking again into nothing, would awaken ¹ very wholesome ² regrets in her mind. He watched her with this idea; but he could hardly tell with what success. He hardly knew whether there were any difference in her spirits or not. She was always so gentle and retiring that her emotions were beyond his discrimination. He did not understand her: he felt that he did not; and therefore applied ³ to Edmund to tell him how she stood affected ⁴ on the present occasion, and whether she were more or less happy than she had been., ,Edmund did not discern any symptoms of regret, and thought his father a little unreasonable ⁵ in supposing the first three or four days could produce any., ,What chiefly surprised Edmund was, that Crawford's sister, the friend and companion who had been so much to her, should not be more visibly regretted. He wondered that Fanny spoke ⁶ so seldom of her, and had so little voluntarily to say of her concern at this separation., , ,In their very last conversation, Miss Crawford, in spite of some amiable ¹⁸ sensations, and much personal kindness, had still been Miss Crawford; still shewn a mind led astray and bewildered, and without any suspicion of being so; darkened, yet fancying itself light. She might love, but she did not deserve Edmund by any other sentiment. Fanny believed there was scarcely a second feeling in common between them; and she may be forgiven by older sages ¹⁹ for looking on the chance of Miss Crawford's future improvement as nearly desperate, for thinking that if Edmund's influence in this season of love had already done so little in clearing her judgment ²⁰, and regulating her notions, his worth would be finally wasted on her even in years of matrimony., ,Experience might have hoped more for any young people so circumstanced, and impartiality ²² would not have denied to Miss Crawford's nature that participation ²³ of the general nature of women which would lead her to adopt the opinions of the man she loved and respected as her own. But as such were Fanny's persuasions ²⁴, she suffered very much from them, and could never speak of Miss Crawford without pain., ,Please awaken me at six.请于六点叫醒我。,In actual fact the things I like doing are mostly wholesome.实际上我喜欢做的事大都是有助于增进身体健康的 。