LibriVox audiorecording of Mansfield ParkEdmund’s first object the next morning was to see his father alone, and give him a fair statement of the whole acting scheme, defending his own share in it as far only as he could then, in a soberer moment, feel his motives to deserve, and acknowledging, with perfect ingenuousness, that his concession had
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I love that line because of course, you can imagine the momentary pause she takes before rushing to her defense. Sir Thomas never scratches the surface of things. It's the only reason he can still hope to have a sensible conversation with her, he doesn't know her at all.
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Aw, how *giving* of Mrs. Norris, to relieve Sir Thomas of the green baize curtain!
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