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 affectionate sympathy; nor is he wholly unavenged, for though Mary Crawford laughed at his "sermon," her heart had been touched by his devotion, and "she was long in ﬁnding among the dashing representatives, or idle heirs-apparent, who were at the command of her beauty and her twenty thousand pounds, anyone who could satisfy the better taste she had acquired at Mansﬁeld, whose character and manners could authorise a hope of the domestic happiness she had there learned to estimate, or put Edmund Bertram sufficiently out of her head."

Henry Crawford will not marry Maria Rushworth; and, as Sir Thomas refuses to let her live again at Mansﬁeld Park, Mrs. Norris, to everyone's extreme relief, departs to make a home for Maria elsewhere, which is as unhappy as might be expected. In every other respect matters, by degrees, brighten for the Bertrams. Julia's marriage turns out better than it had any right to do; Tom Bertram recovers and reforms, and Edmund's marriage to Fanny, some years later, completes everyone's happiness.

"With so much true merit and true love, and no want of fortune or friends, the happiness of the married cousins must appear as secure as earthly happiness can be. Equally formed for domestic life, and attached to country pleasures, their home was the home of affection and comfort; and, to complete the picture of good, the acquisition of Mansﬁeld living, by the death of Dr. Grant, occurred just after they had been married long enough to begin to want an increase of income, and feel their distance from the paternal abode an inconvenience. On that event they removed to Mansﬁeld; and the Parsonage there, which, under each of its two former owners, Fanny had never been