Mansfield Park Ch. 29: After the Ball

Summary

The ball is over and William is gone. Mr Crawford has been as punctual as he promised at the early breakfast. Fanny walks back to the empty room with a sad heart. Sir Thomas says, "We miss our two young men", and tells his wife that this will be Edmund's last winter belonging to the family as he has done. Julia asks to go to town with Maria, and Sir Thomas allows it.

Edmund has gone away to be ordained, and the week passes without him. He writes home to put off his return, having promised to stay some days longer with his friend Mr Owen. At the Parsonage Mary is restless. She thinks of Mr Owen's sisters and feels jealousy for the first time in her life. She makes her way through the mud to the Park for the chance of hearing his name, and asks Fanny how she likes his staying away so long.

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Why This Matters

Reading Charm Against Character

Learn to hear what the Crawfords say, and what they do when it costs them something. The ball is over and William is gone.

Watch what someone does when it costs them something, not only what they say they feel.

Coming Up in Chapter 30

Henry comes home from London. He tells Mary what he has decided about Fanny.

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Chapter 29

After the Ball

The ball was over, and the breakfast was soon over too; the last kiss was given, and William was gone. Mr. Crawford had, as he foretold, been very punctual, and short and pleasant had been the meal. After seeing William to the last moment, Fanny walked back to the breakfast-room with a very saddened heart to grieve over the melancholy change; and there her uncle kindly left her to cry in peace, conceiving, perhaps, that the deserted chair of each young man might exercise her tender enthusiasm, and that the remaining cold pork bones and mustard in William’s plate might…

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Write six lines on After the Ball: who asked, who paid, and what you would have said. Keep it to this chapter.

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•The working skill is Reading Charm Against Character.
•Use only beats from this chapter.
•Name a cost, not a slogan.

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