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having given her a cordial hug, and observed that she was grown into a woman, and he supposed would
be wanting a husband soon, seemed very much inclined to forget her again.
Fanny shrunk back to her seat, with feelings sadly pained by his language and his smell of spirits; and he
talked on only to his son, and only of the Thrush, though William, warmly interested, as he was, in that
subject, more than once tried to make his father think of Fanny, and her long absence and long journey.
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After sitting some time longer, a candle was obtained; but, as there was still no appearance of tea, nor,
from Betsey's reports from the kitchen, much hope of any under a considerable period, William
determined to go and change his dress, and make the necessary preparations for his removal on board
directly, that he might have his tea in comfort afterwards.
As he left the room, two rosy-faced boys, ragged and dirty, about eight and nine years old, rushed into it
just released from school, and coming eagerly to see their sister, and tell that the Thrush was gone out of
harbor; Tom and Charles: Charles had been born since Fanny's going away, but Tom she had often
helped to nurse, and now felt a particular pleasure in seeing again. Both were kissed very tenderly, but
Tom she wanted to keep by her, to try to trace the features of the baby she had loved, and talk to him of
his infant preference of herself. Tom, however, had no mind for such treatment: he came home, not to
stand and be talked to, but to run about and make a noise; and both boys had soon burst away from her,
and slammed the parlor door till her temples ached.
She had now seen all that were at home; there remained only two brothers between herself and Susan,
one of whom was clerk in a public office in London, and the other midshipman on board an Indiaman.
But though she had seen all the members of the family, she had not yet heard all the noise they could
make. Another quarter of an hour brought her a great deal more. William was soon calling out from the
landing-place of the second storey, for his mother and for Rebecca. He was in distress for something that
he had left there, and did not find again. A key was mislaid, Betsey accused of having got at his new hat,
and some slight, but essential alteration of his uniform waistcoat, which he had been promised to have
done for him, entirely neglected.
Mrs. Price, Rebecca, and Betsey, all went up to defend themselves, all talking together, but Rebecca
loudest, and the job was to be done, as well as it could, in a great hurry; William trying in vain to send
Betsey down again, or keep her from being troublesome where she was; the whole of which, as almost
every door in the house was open, could be plainly distinguished in the parlor, except when drowned at
intervals by the superior noise of Sam, Tom, and Charles chasing each other up and down stairs, and
tumbling about and hallooing.
Fanny was almost stunned. The smallness of the house, and thinness of the walls, brought everything so
close to her, that, added to the fatigue of her journey, and all her recent agitation, she hardly knew how
to bear it. Within the room all was tranquil enough, for Susan having disappeared with the others, there
were soon only her father and herself remaining; and he taking out a newspaper the accustomary loan
of a neighbor, applied himself to studying it, without seeming to recollect her existence. The solitary
candle was held between himself and the paper, without any reference to her possible convenience; but
she had nothing to do, and was glad to have the light screened from her aching head, as she sat in
bewildered, broken, sorrowful contemplation.
She was at home. But alas! it was not such a home, she had not such a welcome, as she checked
herself; she was unreasonable. What right had she to be of importance to her family? She could have
none, so long lost sight of! William's concerns must be dearest they always had been and he had
every right. Yet to have so little said or asked about herself to have scarcely an enquiry made after
Mansfield! It did pain her to have Mansfield forgotten; the friends who had done so much the dear,
dear friends! But here, one subject swallowed up all the rest. Perhaps it must be so. The destination of
the Thrush must be now pre-eminently interesting. A day or two might show the difference. She only was
to blame. Yet she thought it would not have been so at Mansfield. No, in her uncle's house there would
have been a consideration of times and seasons, a regulation of subject, a propriety, an attention towards
everybody which there was not here.
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