man!”
“Yes, they have been there about a fortnight, Miss Price, have they not? And Julia is with them.”
“And Mr. Yates, I presume, is not far off.”
“Mr. Yates! Oh! we hear nothing of Mr. Yates. I do not imagine he figures much in the letters to Mansfield Park; do you, Miss Price? I think my friend Julia knows better than to entertain her father with Mr. Yates.”
“Poor Rushworth and his two-and-forty speeches!” continued Crawford. “Nobody can ever forget them.
Poor fellow! I see him now — his toil and his despair. Well, I am much mistaken if his lovely Maria will ever want him to make two-and-forty speeches to her”; adding, with a momentary seriousness,