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H uncle and both her aunts were in the drawing-room when Fanny went down. To the former she was an interesting object, and he saw with pleasure the general elegance of her appearance and her being in remarkably good looks. The neatness and propriety of her dress was all that he would allow himself to commend in her presence, but upon her leaving the room again soon afterwards he spoke of her beauty with very decided praise.

"Yes," said Lady Bertram, "she looks very well. I sent Chapman to her."

"Look well! Oh yes," cried Mrs. Norris, "she has good reason to look well with all her advantages: brought up in this family as she has been with all the benefit of her cousins' manners before her. Only think, my dear Sir Thomas,