been noticed for the next six months

Miss Augusta ought not to have been noticed for the next six months; and Miss Sneyd, I believe, has never forgiven me. "That was bad indeed. Poor Miss Sneyd! Though I have no younger sister, I feel for her. To be neglected before one's time must be very vexatious; but it was entirely the mother's fault. Miss Augusta should have been with her governess. Such half and half doings never prosper. But now I must be satisfied about Miss Price. Does she go to balls ? Does she dine out every where, as well as at my sister's ?" " No," replied Edmund, " I do not think she has ever been to a ball. My mother seldom goes into company herself, and dines nowhere but with Mrs. Grant, and Fanny stays at home with her" Oh, then the point is clear. Miss Price is not out and Miss Crawford was pre¬pared to find a great chasm in their society, and to miss him decidedly in the meetings which were now becoming almost daily between the families; and on their all dining together at the Park soon after his going, she retook her chosen place near the bottom of the table, fully expecting to feel a most melancholy difference in the change of masters. It would be a very flat business, she was sure. In comparison with his brother, Edmund would have nothing to say. The soup would be sent round in a most spiritless manner, wine drank without any smiles, or agreeable trifling, and the venison cut up without supplying one pleasant anecdote of any former haunch, or a single entertaining story about " my friend such a one." She must try to find amusement in what was pass¬ing at the upper end of the table, and in observing Mr. Rush- worth, who was now making his appearance at Mansfield, for the first time since the Crawfords' arrival. Yadoreen20120827

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