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1,282 | 141_chapters_31-36 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | At Mansfield Park the next morning, Henry informs Fanny that her brother William has finally been commissioned as a lieutenant. Henry has introduced William to Henry's uncle, the Admiral. Fanny cannot believe the good news, and is overwhelmed with gratitude - that is, until Henry tells Fanny of his feelings for her. Sh... | [
"Henry Crawford was at Mansfield Park again the next morning, and at an\nearlier hour than common visiting warrants. The two ladies were together\nin the breakfast-room, and, fortunately for him, Lady Bertram was on the\nvery point of quitting it as he entered. She was almost at the door, and\nnot chusing by any me... |
1,283 | 141_chapters_37-42 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Sir Thomas believes that if Fanny returns to Portsmouth for a family visit, she will come to understand the difference between a poor life and a rich life, and will accept Henry Crawford's proposal: "Sir Thomas...went on with his own hopes and his own observations, still feeling a right, by all his knowledge of human n... | [
"Mr. Crawford gone, Sir Thomas's next object was that he should be\nmissed; and he entertained great hope that his niece would find a blank\nin the loss of those attentions which at the time she had felt, or\nfancied, an evil. She had tasted of consequence in its most flattering\nform; and he did hope that the loss... |
1,284 | 141_chapters_43-48 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Henry seems to have improved greatly in Fanny's estimation, but any changes to his character must be viewed with caution. He is, after all, an actor, and a spoiled child who desires what he cannot have - in this case, the unattainable Miss Price. Based on his past actions, if Henry were to actually win Fanny's hand in ... | [
"It was presumed that Mr. Crawford was travelling back, to London, on the\nmorrow, for nothing more was seen of him at Mr. Price's; and two days\nafterwards, it was a fact ascertained to Fanny by the following letter\nfrom his sister, opened and read by her, on another account, with the\nmost anxious curiosity:--",... |
1,285 | 141_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Thirty years ago a Miss Maria Ward married a guy named Sir Thomas Bertram. She became Lady Bertram and the two lived in Sir Thomas's fancy pad, Mansfield Park. The former Miss Ward had two sisters. One married a reverend named Mr. Norris who didn't have a ton of money, but wasn't poor. The last Miss Ward, Frances, had ... | [
"About thirty years ago Miss Maria Ward, of Huntingdon, with only seven\nthousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram, of\nMansfield Park, in the county of Northampton, and to be thereby raised\nto the rank of a baronet's lady, with all the comforts and consequences\nof an handsome house and l... |
1,286 | 141_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Fanny Price, age ten, meets Mrs. Norris in Northampton and proceeds with her to Mansfield Park. Fanny is very small and very shy. Her aunt and uncle greet Fanny kindly and her cousins are friendly enough. The entire family is good looking, like a bunch of J. Crew models, and Fanny looks a bit dumpy by comparison. We fi... | [
"The little girl performed her long journey in safety; and at Northampton\nwas met by Mrs. Norris, who thus regaled in the credit of being foremost\nto welcome her, and in the importance of leading her in to the others,\nand recommending her to their kindness.",
"Fanny Price was at this time just ten years old, a... |
1,287 | 141_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mr. Norris dies and Mrs. Norris moves to a small house nearby, but spends most of her time hanging out at Mansfield and mooching off her sister. Since Mr. Norris died, his parsonage has been vacant. Historical Context Lesson time! OK, during the 1800s in England, clergymen got "livings" which were basically a church to... | [
"The first event of any importance in the family was the death of Mr.\nNorris, which happened when Fanny was about fifteen, and necessarily\nintroduced alterations and novelties. Mrs. Norris, on quitting the\nParsonage, removed first to the Park, and afterwards to a small house\nof Sir Thomas's in the village, and ... |
1,288 | 141_chapter_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Edmund steps up and handles his father's business while Sir Thomas and Tom are on their Caribbean vacation. Life is pretty dull for everyone. Fanny spends most her time doing things for the lazy Lady Bertram and putting up with Mrs. Norris. The Bertram sisters get to go to a lot of balls and tell Fanny all about them. ... | [
"Tom Bertram had of late spent so little of his time at home that he\ncould be only nominally missed; and Lady Bertram was soon astonished\nto find how very well they did even without his father, how well Edmund\ncould supply his place in carving, talking to the steward, writing to\nthe attorney, settling with the ... |
1,289 | 141_chapter_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | All the young people become fast friends. The Bertram girls like Mary a lot. Both the Bertram sisters develop crushes on Henry who isn't super good looking but makes up for it in the personality department. He's extremely charming. Henry is Julia's by default, since she's not engaged. But Maria's really falling for Hen... | [
"The young people were pleased with each other from the first. On each\nside there was much to attract, and their acquaintance soon promised as\nearly an intimacy as good manners would warrant. Miss Crawford's beauty\ndid her no disservice with the Miss Bertrams. They were too handsome\nthemselves to dislike any wo... |
1,290 | 141_chapter_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Tom goes off to gamble and get into trouble with friends. Later, Tom. Mary thought she'd be bummed since Edmund is not fun. At a dinner party Mary amuses herself by observing Mr. Rushworth and Maria. Mr. Rushworth is talking about hiring an "improver," or a landscape person to fix up the house for him. Home improvement... | [
"Mr. Bertram set off for--------, and Miss Crawford was prepared to\nfind a great chasm in their society, and to miss him decidedly in the\nmeetings which were now becoming almost daily between the families;\nand on their all dining together at the Park soon after his going, she\nretook her chosen place near the bo... |
1,291 | 141_chapter_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Later, Edmund asks Fanny about her opinion of Miss Crawford. Edmund asks leading questions and Fanny makes sure her answers match up to Edmund's opinions. They both "agree" that Mary shouldn't have spoken as she did about her Admiral uncle, but Edmund adds that while Mary is lively, she isn't a bad person. Fanny almost... | [
"\"Well, Fanny, and how do you like Miss Crawford _now_?\" said Edmund the\nnext day, after thinking some time on the subject himself. \"How did you\nlike her yesterday?\"",
"\"Very well--very much. I like to hear her talk. She entertains me; and\nshe is so extremely pretty, that I have great pleasure in looking ... |
1,292 | 141_chapter_8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Edmund feels bad about ignoring Fanny and he makes sure she goes riding again the next day. Mr. Rushworth and his mom show up and everyone starts planning the road trip to Sotherton. The planning is a fiasco since no one can agree on which carriage to take or on who's actually coming along. Lady Bertram is too lazy to ... | [
"Fanny's rides recommenced the very next day; and as it was a pleasant\nfresh-feeling morning, less hot than the weather had lately been, Edmund\ntrusted that her losses, both of health and pleasure, would be soon made\ngood. While she was gone Mr. Rushworth arrived, escorting his mother,\nwho came to be civil and ... |
1,293 | 141_chapter_9 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mr. Rushworth and his mom greet everyone at the front door. They decide to start by taking a tour of the house and Mrs. Rushworth leads them around. Eventually, Mrs. Rushworth leads them all to the chapel. Fanny doesn't think it looks romantic or gothic enough. Mrs. Rushworth does her tour guide routine and says that t... | [
"Mr. Rushworth was at the door to receive his fair lady; and the whole\nparty were welcomed by him with due attention. In the drawing-room they\nwere met with equal cordiality by the mother, and Miss Bertram had all\nthe distinction with each that she could wish. After the business of\narriving was over, it was fir... |
1,294 | 141_chapter_10 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Fanny is sitting by herself, which is pretty sad. Eventually Maria, Henry, and Mr. Rushworth stumble upon her. They comment on what a bummer it is that she got ditched. However, the group quickly ditches Fanny as well. They want to go check out a hill to get a good view of the property. But there's a locked gate, so Mr... | [
"A quarter of an hour, twenty minutes, passed away, and Fanny was still\nthinking of Edmund, Miss Crawford, and herself, without interruption\nfrom any one. She began to be surprised at being left so long, and to\nlisten with an anxious desire of hearing their steps and their voices\nagain. She listened, and at len... |
1,295 | 141_chapter_11 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | A letter arrives from Antigua and Sir Thomas is now planning to return home in November, which is three months away. Maria isn't so happy to hear this since she's supposed to marry Mr. Rushworth after her dad returns. She decides to ignore it since a lot can change in three months. Mary is intrigued by the return of Si... | [
"The day at Sotherton, with all its imperfections, afforded the Miss\nBertrams much more agreeable feelings than were derived from the letters\nfrom Antigua, which soon afterwards reached Mansfield. It was much\npleasanter to think of Henry Crawford than of their father; and to think\nof their father in England aga... |
1,296 | 141_chapter_12 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Tom returns home, which most people are happy about since he's a life-of-the-party kind of guy. Mary is upset, though, because she discovers that she really likes Edmund better and she can't quite figure out why. Love is illogical that way. Henry leaves Mansfield and goes back to his own house, Everingham. It's now Sep... | [
"Sir Thomas was to return in November, and his eldest son had duties to\ncall him earlier home. The approach of September brought tidings of Mr.\nBertram, first in a letter to the gamekeeper and then in a letter\nto Edmund; and by the end of August he arrived himself, to be gay,\nagreeable, and gallant again as occ... |
1,297 | 141_chapter_13 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The narrator fills us in on John Yates. He's the younger son of a wealthy Lord, and he and Tom have mutual friends. Tom invited him to come visit Mansfield, so Mr. Yates takes him up on the offer. Mr. Yates is bummed when he arrives, though: he'd recently been hanging out at a fancy house with some Lords and Earls and ... | [
"The Honourable John Yates, this new friend, had not much to recommend\nhim beyond habits of fashion and expense, and being the younger son of\na lord with a tolerable independence; and Sir Thomas would probably\nhave thought his introduction at Mansfield by no means desirable. Mr. Bertram's acquaintance with him h... |
1,298 | 141_chapter_14 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Fanny's prediction about the group having a hard time picking a play was correct. Some want a tragedy, others a comedy, and no one can agree. Fanny sits back and watches everyone argue. Finally they have a "duh" moment and decide to perform Lovers' Vows since Mr. Yates is familiar with it already and can direct everyon... | [
"Fanny seemed nearer being right than Edmund had supposed. The business\nof finding a play that would suit everybody proved to be no trifle; and\nthe carpenter had received his orders and taken his measurements, had\nsuggested and removed at least two sets of difficulties, and having made\nthe necessity of an enlar... |
1,299 | 141_chapter_15 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mary accepts her part in the play and Mr. Rushworth shows up for a part, too. Mr. Rushworth gets distracted with his part and his costume and so doesn't notice what's going on between Maria and Henry right in front of him. Edmund pops in and learns what the play will be. He's really upset. Edmund pulls Maria aside and ... | [
"Miss Crawford accepted the part very readily; and soon after Miss\nBertram's return from the Parsonage, Mr. Rushworth arrived, and another\ncharacter was consequently cast. He had the offer of Count Cassel\nand Anhalt, and at first did not know which to chuse, and wanted Miss\nBertram to direct him; but upon being... |
1,300 | 141_chapter_16 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Fanny goes to bed but is still really upset over how her evening had gone. The next morning Fanny goes to her room, which used to be the school room. Fanny had claimed it and used it as a place to keep her books and keepsakes since her attic bedroom was too small to fit her treasures. We get a lot more details about th... | [
"It was not in Miss Crawford's power to talk Fanny into any real\nforgetfulness of what had passed. When the evening was over, she went to\nbed full of it, her nerves still agitated by the shock of such an attack\nfrom her cousin Tom, so public and so persevered in, and her spirits\nsinking under her aunt's unkind ... |
1,301 | 141_chapter_17 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | It's a glorious day for Tom and Maria: their overly-moral brother has fallen off his pedestal and has agreed to act with them. Edmund is now no better than they are and he's a big hypocrite, to boot. Edmund still insists he's doing the most moral thing he could do given the situation, but everyone ignores him. Edmund d... | [
"It was, indeed, a triumphant day to Mr. Bertram and Maria. Such a\nvictory over Edmund's discretion had been beyond their hopes, and was\nmost delightful. There was no longer anything to disturb them in their\ndarling project, and they congratulated each other in private on the\njealous weakness to which they attr... |
1,302 | 141_chapter_18 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Everyone is now super busy with the Theater Club. Tom's hired scene-painter arrives and Edmund gets increasingly annoyed by how overblown this production is getting. Fanny is stuck listening to everyone complain to her about everyone else. She's also forced to read through lines with everyone. The behind-the-scenes dra... | [
"Everything was now in a regular train: theatre, actors, actresses, and\ndresses, were all getting forward; but though no other great impediments\narose, Fanny found, before many days were past, that it was not all\nuninterrupted enjoyment to the party themselves, and that she had not to\nwitness the continuance of... |
1,303 | 141_chapter_19 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Everyone is shocked and horrified. If Sir Thomas was expecting a welcome home party, he's in for a bad surprise. Mr. Yates thinks someone is out to get him since this is the second play he's been involved in that's gotten canceled last minute. He's cursed, clearly. The Bertram kids rush out to greet their dad. Maria is... | [
"How is the consternation of the party to be described? To the greater\nnumber it was a moment of absolute horror. Sir Thomas in the house! All\nfelt the instantaneous conviction. Not a hope of imposition or mistake\nwas harboured anywhere. Julia's looks were an evidence of the fact that\nmade it indisputable; and ... |
1,304 | 141_chapter_20 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Edmund goes to apologize to his dad for his involvement in the Theater Club. He does try to vindicate, or defend, his own actions as still super moral, though. Edmund also insists that Fanny is totally blameless in the whole thing. Sir Thomas forgives Edmund and tries to forget all about the theater hullabaloo. He'd ra... | [
"Edmund's first object the next morning was to see his father alone, and\ngive him a fair statement of the whole acting scheme, defending his own\nshare in it as far only as he could then, in a soberer moment, feel his\nmotives to deserve, and acknowledging, with perfect ingenuousness, that\nhis concession had been... |
1,305 | 141_chapter_21 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Everyone at Mansfield Park is in a bad mood and things aren't fun anymore now that Sir Thomas is back in the house. Edmund complains to Fanny about the Grants not coming over with Mary as much anymore, since they don't really know Sir Thomas. Fanny says that things are back to the way they used to be - boring and lame.... | [
"Sir Thomas's return made a striking change in the ways of the family,\nindependent of Lovers' Vows. Under his government, Mansfield was an\naltered place. Some members of their society sent away, and the spirits\nof many others saddened--it was all sameness and gloom compared with\nthe past--a sombre family party ... |
1,306 | 141_chapter_22 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Fanny suddenly becomes more important in the household since Maria and Julia are no longer around. The Grants start inviting her over to the Parsonage more often, too. This all started when Fanny got caught in the rain one day near the Parsonage and Dr. Grant insisted she come inside to wait out the storm. Mary was thr... | [
"Fanny's consequence increased on the departure of her cousins. Becoming,\nas she then did, the only young woman in the drawing-room, the only\noccupier of that interesting division of a family in which she had\nhitherto held so humble a third, it was impossible for her not to be\nmore looked at, more thought of an... |
1,307 | 141_chapter_23 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Bertrams and Aunt Norris are confused as to why the Grants would invite Fanny for dinner. Fanny offers to not go but Edmund won't hear of it and keeps arguing the point. Lady Bertram finally asks Sir Thomas about it and he says that it's fine for Fanny to go and he's glad she was invited. Fanny is happy to go to di... | [
"\"But why should Mrs. Grant ask Fanny?\" said Lady Bertram. \"How came she\nto think of asking Fanny? Fanny never dines there, you know, in this\nsort of way. I cannot spare her, and I am sure she does not want to go.\nFanny, you do not want to go, do you?\"",
"\"If you put such a question to her,\" cried Edmund... |
1,308 | 141_chapter_24 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Henry and Mary are talking together the next day and Henry complains that he's bored and needs a project. He then shares his idea with her: he plans to make Fanny fall in love him, just for fun. Mary tells him to shut up and be satisfied with already winning over both the Bertram girls. Henry insists he has to make Fan... | [
"Henry Crawford had quite made up his mind by the next morning to give\nanother fortnight to Mansfield, and having sent for his hunters, and\nwritten a few lines of explanation to the Admiral, he looked round at\nhis sister as he sealed and threw the letter from him, and seeing the\ncoast clear of the rest of the f... |
1,309 | 141_chapter_25 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Crawfords, the Grants, and the Bertrams start hanging out more and more. Sir Thomas notices that Henry is paying quite a bit of attention to Fanny. The families are all having dinner and afterwards they start playing some card games. Lady Bertram, Fanny, Henry, Mary, William, and Edmund all play a game together. La... | [
"The intercourse of the two families was at this period more nearly\nrestored to what it had been in the autumn, than any member of the\nold intimacy had thought ever likely to be again. The return of Henry\nCrawford, and the arrival of William Price, had much to do with it,\nbut much was still owing to Sir Thomas'... |
1,310 | 141_chapter_26 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Sir Thomas decides to throw a ball at Mansfield Park in honor of the Price siblings. Though Mrs. Norris isn't thrilled to have a ball for the Prices, she is thrilled to be planning everything. The young people are psyched for a ball and they set a date for it that falls right before William has to leave again. Fanny ha... | [
"William's desire of seeing Fanny dance made more than a momentary\nimpression on his uncle. The hope of an opportunity, which Sir Thomas\nhad then given, was not given to be thought of no more. He remained\nsteadily inclined to gratify so amiable a feeling; to gratify anybody\nelse who might wish to see Fanny danc... |
1,311 | 141_chapter_27 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Fanny quickly goes to her room and finds Edmund there writing her a note. Fanny is excited to see him, as usual. Edmund explains that he has a gift for her: it's a chain for William's cross. Fanny is thrilled yet horrified because she already has a chain now from Mary/Henry. Fanny gushes her thanks and then asks Edmund... | [
"On reaching home Fanny went immediately upstairs to deposit this\nunexpected acquisition, this doubtful good of a necklace, in some\nfavourite box in the East room, which held all her smaller treasures;\nbut on opening the door, what was her surprise to find her cousin Edmund\nthere writing at the table! Such a si... |
1,312 | 141_chapter_28 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Fanny heads downstairs and all the adults agree that she looks very nice. Fanny is excited and happy to go to her first ball. But she gets less happy when the Crawfords arrive and she sees Mary and Edmund together again, especially since Mary looks particularly pretty. Henry quickly asks Fanny to dance the first two da... | [
"Her uncle and both her aunts were in the drawing-room when Fanny went\ndown. To the former she was an interesting object, and he saw with\npleasure the general elegance of her appearance, and her being in\nremarkably good looks. The neatness and propriety of her dress was all\nthat he would allow himself to commen... |
1,313 | 141_chapter_29 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | William and Henry depart and Fanny cries. Sir Thomas thinks she's crying for both of them but it's really only for William. Edmund soon leaves, too, to get ordained. Mansfield is suddenly very quiet. The day after the ball is really long and really boring. Fanny has never been at Mansfield without any of her cousins be... | [
"The ball was over, and the breakfast was soon over too; the last kiss\nwas given, and William was gone. Mr. Crawford had, as he foretold, been\nvery punctual, and short and pleasant had been the meal.",
"After seeing William to the last moment, Fanny walked back to the\nbreakfast-room with a very saddened heart ... |
1,314 | 141_chapter_30 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Henry arrives back at the Grants' house in a really great mood. He won't tell Mary what he's been up to, though, and won't say why he was gone for so long. He tells Mary that he's already been over to Mansfield Park to visit with Fanny. Henry then announces that he has fallen in love with Fanny and plans to ask her to ... | [
"Miss Crawford's uneasiness was much lightened by this conversation, and\nshe walked home again in spirits which might have defied almost another\nweek of the same small party in the same bad weather, had they been put\nto the proof; but as that very evening brought her brother down from\nLondon again in quite, or ... |
1,315 | 141_chapter_31 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Henry finally reveals what he was so happy about the other day: he convinced his uncle to help him get William a promotion. So William is now a Lieutenant. Henry rushes to tell Fanny and she's beyond thrilled for William. Fanny is shocked at the role Henry had in all of it, though, and doesn't know whether to be alarme... | [
"Henry Crawford was at Mansfield Park again the next morning, and at an\nearlier hour than common visiting warrants. The two ladies were together\nin the breakfast-room, and, fortunately for him, Lady Bertram was on the\nvery point of quitting it as he entered. She was almost at the door, and\nnot chusing by any me... |
1,316 | 141_chapter_32 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Fanny is massively stressed out and wants Henry to just go away and leave her alone. She feels that he's turning into a stalker. She wants Mary to leave already, too. Henry drops by the house again to talk to Sir Thomas. This doesn't bode well for Fanny. Finally Sir Thomas comes upstairs to Fanny's room to talk with he... | [
"Fanny had by no means forgotten Mr. Crawford when she awoke the next\nmorning; but she remembered the purport of her note, and was not less\nsanguine as to its effect than she had been the night before. If Mr.\nCrawford would but go away! That was what she most earnestly desired:\ngo and take his sister with him, ... |
1,317 | 141_chapter_33 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Henry is in love and is determined and he won't take no for an answer. He and Fanny talk in circles for ages. Fanny refuses him, but she's so overly nice about it that Henry doesn't get the message. Henry finds her challenging and likes her even more because of this. In turn, Fanny thinks he's annoying. Fanny is still ... | [
"The conference was neither so short nor so conclusive as the lady had\ndesigned. The gentleman was not so easily satisfied. He had all the\ndisposition to persevere that Sir Thomas could wish him. He had vanity,\nwhich strongly inclined him in the first place to think she did love\nhim, though she might not know i... |
1,318 | 141_chapter_34 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Edmund returns home and is a clergyman now. He quickly gets caught up on the stuff with Henry and he fully approves of the match. However, Edmund thinks that Henry went about this the wrong way and shouldn't have sprung his proposal on Fanny. Fanny has to be slowly eased into things, like a reluctant swimmer dipping he... | [
"Edmund had great things to hear on his return. Many surprises were\nawaiting him. The first that occurred was not least in interest: the\nappearance of Henry Crawford and his sister walking together through the\nvillage as he rode into it. He had concluded--he had meant them to be\nfar distant. His absence had bee... |
1,319 | 141_chapter_35 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Edmund decides to give Fanny some space but he eventually approaches her to talk about Henry at the request of Sir Thomas. Fanny is reluctant to open up since she's worried that Edmund will pressure her to accept Henry and that he disapproves of her refusing Henry. Edmund denies this and says Fanny did the right thing ... | [
"Edmund had determined that it belonged entirely to Fanny to chuse\nwhether her situation with regard to Crawford should be mentioned\nbetween them or not; and that if she did not lead the way, it should\nnever be touched on by him; but after a day or two of mutual reserve, he\nwas induced by his father to change h... |
1,320 | 141_chapter_36 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Edmund is convinced that he perfectly understands Fanny now and reports back to Sir Thomas. They agree that Fanny just needs some time and more space to get used to Henry and the idea of being with him. Sir Thomas just hopes his niece won't be too slow about changing her mind because Henry probably won't wait forever. ... | [
"Edmund now believed himself perfectly acquainted with all that Fanny\ncould tell, or could leave to be conjectured of her sentiments, and he\nwas satisfied. It had been, as he before presumed, too hasty a measure\non Crawford's side, and time must be given to make the idea first\nfamiliar, and then agreeable to he... |
1,321 | 141_chapter_37 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Sir Thomas is scheming. He needs a way to make Fanny miss Henry. Sir Thomas has trouble reading Fanny since she's just so gentle all the time, and isn't very forward about what she's really thinking or feeling. Edmund is also confused that Fanny doesn't really seem to miss the Crawfords all that much. He thought she an... | [
"Mr. Crawford gone, Sir Thomas's next object was that he should be\nmissed; and he entertained great hope that his niece would find a blank\nin the loss of those attentions which at the time she had felt, or\nfancied, an evil. She had tasted of consequence in its most flattering\nform; and he did hope that the loss... |
1,322 | 141_chapter_38 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Fanny and William have a nice trip to Portsmouth. We learn that William is sad that Fanny isn't marrying Henry, since Henry was so helpful and cool about getting him promoted within the navy. We also learn that, lately, Fanny has been having to share the letters Mary sent her with Edmund, and that these letters really ... | [
"The novelty of travelling, and the happiness of being with William, soon\nproduced their natural effect on Fanny's spirits, when Mansfield Park\nwas fairly left behind; and by the time their first stage was ended, and\nthey were to quit Sir Thomas's carriage, she was able to take leave of\nthe old coachman, and se... |
1,323 | 141_chapter_39 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Fanny is not having the best time at the Price house, but she's getting used to it. William comes down to say good-bye and Fanny is sad to see him go. She's now alone with a group of people who are basically strangers. Fanny admits to herself that home isn't what she expected or wanted, and that she's disappointed with... | [
"Could Sir Thomas have seen all his niece's feelings, when she wrote her\nfirst letter to her aunt, he would not have despaired; for though a good\nnight's rest, a pleasant morning, the hope of soon seeing William again,\nand the comparatively quiet state of the house, from Tom and Charles\nbeing gone to school, Sa... |
1,324 | 141_chapter_40 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Fanny finally gets a letter from Mary Crawford. She's actually glad to hear from her because she's desperate for any news of Mansfield Park and all the people she's left behind. Mary gossips about the friends she is visiting, drops hints about Henry and his undying love for Fanny, and is very witty in general. She fill... | [
"Fanny was right enough in not expecting to hear from Miss Crawford now\nat the rapid rate in which their correspondence had begun; Mary's next\nletter was after a decidedly longer interval than the last, but she\nwas not right in supposing that such an interval would be felt a great\nrelief to herself. Here was an... |
1,325 | 141_chapter_41 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Edmund is now probably in London and Fanny's trying not to feel broken-hearted or jealous about the courtship that is likely ensuing. Suddenly, Henry turns up at the Price house. He says he's in town to visit some friends, but really just wants to see Fanny. Fanny's family acts well around Henry, sensing that he is ric... | [
"A week was gone since Edmund might be supposed in town, and Fanny had\nheard nothing of him. There were three different conclusions to be drawn\nfrom his silence, between which her mind was in fluctuation; each of\nthem at times being held the most probable. Either his going had been\nagain delayed, or he had yet ... |
1,326 | 141_chapter_42 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Henry pops back up the next day and goes to church with the Prices. Fanny is surprised by how much her mom resembles Lady Bertram when she's dressed up and relaxed on Sunday. The family and Henry all go for a walk and it's a beautiful day. Once again, Fanny has a pretty good time with Henry and Susan. Though Henry isn'... | [
"The Prices were just setting off for church the next day when Mr.\nCrawford appeared again. He came, not to stop, but to join them; he was\nasked to go with them to the Garrison chapel, which was exactly what he\nhad intended, and they all walked thither together.",
"The family were now seen to advantage. Nature... |
1,327 | 141_chapter_43 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | After Henry leaves, Fanny gets another letter from Mary. Mary reports that Henry still loves and misses her. Mary confesses that she's confused about her feelings for Edmund and could really use someone to talk to. Mary's friends all really like Edmund, though. She reiterates that she is happy to come with Henry to get... | [
"It was presumed that Mr. Crawford was travelling back, to London, on the\nmorrow, for nothing more was seen of him at Mr. Price's; and two days\nafterwards, it was a fact ascertained to Fanny by the following letter\nfrom his sister, opened and read by her, on another account, with the\nmost anxious curiosity:--",... |
1,328 | 141_chapter_44 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Fanny has been in Portsmouth for seven weeks and finally gets a letter from Edmund. Things are still unsettled between him and Mary. Edmund wasn't happy with what he saw of Mary in London, especially her fashionable friends. He's now especially confused about what to do. He loves Mary and wants to marry her, but he sti... | [
"Seven weeks of the two months were very nearly gone, when the one\nletter, the letter from Edmund, so long expected, was put into Fanny's\nhands. As she opened, and saw its length, she prepared herself for a\nminute detail of happiness and a profusion of love and praise towards\nthe fortunate creature who was now ... |
1,329 | 141_chapter_45 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Tom begins to recover slowly and Lady Bertram is happy once again. However, Edmund then writes Fanny a quick note to tell her the truth about Tom's condition: he still has some serious health problems and might not make it. He and his dad decide not to tell Lady Bertram about this so as to not worry her even more. Tom ... | [
"At about the week's end from his return to Mansfield, Tom's immediate\ndanger was over, and he was so far pronounced safe as to make his mother\nperfectly easy; for being now used to the sight of him in his suffering,\nhelpless state, and hearing only the best, and never thinking beyond\nwhat she heard, with no di... |
1,330 | 141_chapter_46 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Another letter from Mary arrives, but this one is uncharacteristically short and vague. Mary tells Fanny that if she's heard any rumors about Henry and the Rushworths and Julia to please just ignore them. Fanny is really confused. She's also surprised because she was starting to finally think that Henry actually loved ... | [
"As Fanny could not doubt that her answer was conveying a real\ndisappointment, she was rather in expectation, from her knowledge of\nMiss Crawford's temper, of being urged again; and though no second\nletter arrived for the space of a week, she had still the same feeling\nwhen it did come.",
"On receiving it, sh... |
1,331 | 141_chapter_47 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mrs. Norris is totally changed - she's crushed over what happened with Maria, who was always her favorite. Mrs. Norris is noticeably much quieter now, with it all. Everyone at Mansfield Park has been suffering alone. Mrs. Norris is furious with Fanny, though - she blames her niece for everything. If Fanny had married H... | [
"It had been a miserable party, each of the three believing themselves\nmost miserable. Mrs. Norris, however, as most attached to Maria, was\nreally the greatest sufferer. Maria was her first favourite, the dearest\nof all; the match had been her own contriving, as she had been wont with\nsuch pride of heart to fee... |
1,332 | 141_chapter_48 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | It's now time for the narrator to wrap things up. Here's the character rundown. Fanny is happy to be back home and helps her family deal with everything. Edmund takes time to get over Mary. Sir Thomas also takes along time to get over his parenting failure. Julia's marriage actually turned out OK and Julia came home to... | [
"Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. I quit such odious subjects\nas soon as I can, impatient to restore everybody, not greatly in fault\nthemselves, to tolerable comfort, and to have done with all the rest.",
"My Fanny, indeed, at this very time, I have the satisfaction of knowing,\nmust have been happy in... |
1,333 | 141_chapters_1-3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Some thirty years before the time of the narrative, and eleven years before the start of the events which are to be recounted, a young woman named Maria Ward married the wealthy and titled Sir Thomas Bertram of Mansfield Park. The new Lady Bertram became the talk of the neighborhood for her marriage; although her famil... | [
"About thirty years ago Miss Maria Ward, of Huntingdon, with only seven\nthousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram, of\nMansfield Park, in the county of Northampton, and to be thereby raised\nto the rank of a baronet's lady, with all the comforts and consequences\nof an handsome house and l... |
1,334 | 141_chapters_4-8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The family flourishes in Sir Thomas's absence. Edmund takes over as leader of the family and proves to be just and kind. Maria and Julia are the toast of the neighborhood, and Mrs. Norris supervises their social outings and screens potential suitors. Lady Bertram rarely goes out, and Fanny becomes her companion and hel... | [
"Tom Bertram had of late spent so little of his time at home that he\ncould be only nominally missed; and Lady Bertram was soon astonished\nto find how very well they did even without his father, how well Edmund\ncould supply his place in carving, talking to the steward, writing to\nthe attorney, settling with the ... |
1,335 | 141_chapters_9_-_11 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The party arrives at Sotherton and is immediately given a tour of the house by Mr. Rushworth's mother, a garrulous old woman as dull as her son. Fanny is disappointed by the chapel, which is a mere room. She conveys her feeling to Edmund and Mary Crawford, who disagree with her and with each other. Mary finds the idea ... | [
"Mr. Rushworth was at the door to receive his fair lady; and the whole\nparty were welcomed by him with due attention. In the drawing-room they\nwere met with equal cordiality by the mother, and Miss Bertram had all\nthe distinction with each that she could wish. After the business of\narriving was over, it was fir... |
1,336 | 141_chapters_12-15 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In anticipation of Sir Thomas's return, Tom returns to Mansfield Park. Mary Crawford is now repelled by him and definitely interested in Edmund. Henry Crawford returns to his own estate to take care of some business, and Maria and Julia are pained by his absence. Upon Tom's return, a small ball is held at Mansfield; it... | [
"Sir Thomas was to return in November, and his eldest son had duties to\ncall him earlier home. The approach of September brought tidings of Mr.\nBertram, first in a letter to the gamekeeper and then in a letter\nto Edmund; and by the end of August he arrived himself, to be gay,\nagreeable, and gallant again as occ... |
1,337 | 141_chapters_16-18 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Fanny, still distressed by Tom and Mrs. Norris's attack on her, retreats to the old nursery where she keeps her books and other possessions. Edmund comes to ask for her advice. Having found out that Tom intends to ask a neighbor to take the remaining part in the play, he has resolved to take the part himself rather tha... | [
"It was not in Miss Crawford's power to talk Fanny into any real\nforgetfulness of what had passed. When the evening was over, she went to\nbed full of it, her nerves still agitated by the shock of such an attack\nfrom her cousin Tom, so public and so persevered in, and her spirits\nsinking under her aunt's unkind ... |
1,338 | 141_chapters_19-23 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Sir Thomas's unexpected return leaves everyone scrambling. They try to present the theatricals to him in the best light, but he is clearly disapproving. Exhausted by his trip, Sir Thomas wants to be alone with his family. He hurries Yates's departure and would even banish Henry and Mary Crawford, although his family pr... | [
"How is the consternation of the party to be described? To the greater\nnumber it was a moment of absolute horror. Sir Thomas in the house! All\nfelt the instantaneous conviction. Not a hope of imposition or mistake\nwas harboured anywhere. Julia's looks were an evidence of the fact that\nmade it indisputable; and ... |
1,339 | 141_chapters_24-28 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The day after the dinner, Henry announces to his sister Mary that he will be staying in Mansfield for a while. His entertainment, he tells her to her amusement, will be to make Fanny fall in love with him. Mary tells him that, while Fanny is pretty, she only appears so attractive because Maria and Julia are not around;... | [
"Henry Crawford had quite made up his mind by the next morning to give\nanother fortnight to Mansfield, and having sent for his hunters, and\nwritten a few lines of explanation to the Admiral, he looked round at\nhis sister as he sealed and threw the letter from him, and seeing the\ncoast clear of the rest of the f... |
1,340 | 141_chapters_29-31 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | William and Henry leave, followed a few days later by Edmund, who is to take orders. Those remaining at Mansfield Park are melancholy, particularly since Julia is delaying her return home to go to London with Maria and Rushworth. Sir Thomas and Lady Bertram begin to appreciate Fanny more than ever. Mary Crawford, in th... | [
"The ball was over, and the breakfast was soon over too; the last kiss\nwas given, and William was gone. Mr. Crawford had, as he foretold, been\nvery punctual, and short and pleasant had been the meal.",
"After seeing William to the last moment, Fanny walked back to the\nbreakfast-room with a very saddened heart ... |
1,341 | 141_chapters_32-36 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Fanny hopes that she has discouraged Henry Crawford permanently. To her dismay, though, he comes to see her uncle, Sir Thomas, to plead his case. Fanny is upstairs in the nursery when her uncle comes to talk to her. He is startled that she has no fire in the cold upstairs room and tells her that she will have one from... | [
"Fanny had by no means forgotten Mr. Crawford when she awoke the next\nmorning; but she remembered the purport of her note, and was not less\nsanguine as to its effect than she had been the night before. If Mr.\nCrawford would but go away! That was what she most earnestly desired:\ngo and take his sister with him, ... |
1,283 | 141_chapters_37-42 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Sir Thomas hopes that Fanny will begin to miss Henry in his absence. Particularly, he thinks she will miss the attention of being at the center of such a situation. Edmund is more realistic about Henry's chances, but he is surprised that Fanny does not seem to miss Mary, who has been her closest companion recently. In ... | [
"Mr. Crawford gone, Sir Thomas's next object was that he should be\nmissed; and he entertained great hope that his niece would find a blank\nin the loss of those attentions which at the time she had felt, or\nfancied, an evil. She had tasted of consequence in its most flattering\nform; and he did hope that the loss... |
1,342 | 141_chapters_43-45 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Fanny receives a letter from Mary, teasing her about Henry's visit. Mary also mentions Edmund's presence in London in terms that make Fanny sure an engagement is imminent. No more letters arrive, and Fanny is nervous about Edmund. She sets aside her fears, though, and undertakes to improve Susan's education. Susan is a... | [
"It was presumed that Mr. Crawford was travelling back, to London, on the\nmorrow, for nothing more was seen of him at Mr. Price's; and two days\nafterwards, it was a fact ascertained to Fanny by the following letter\nfrom his sister, opened and read by her, on another account, with the\nmost anxious curiosity:--",... |
1,343 | 141_chapters_46-48 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Fanny receives a second letter from Mary Crawford. The letter is vague and mysterious, warning Fanny not to believe any stories that might reach her concerning Henry and Maria. Fanny is surprised by the letter; Mary would never have mentioned anything unless a major scandal were brewing. Fanny had been almost convinced... | [
"As Fanny could not doubt that her answer was conveying a real\ndisappointment, she was rather in expectation, from her knowledge of\nMiss Crawford's temper, of being urged again; and though no second\nletter arrived for the space of a week, she had still the same feeling\nwhen it did come.",
"On receiving it, sh... |
1,344 | 141_chapter_1_-_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Chapter One and Chapter Two The first chapter begins with an explanation of how 30 years ago Miss Maria Ward of Huntingdon had the luck to 'captivate' Sir Thomas Bertram of Mansfield Park, in the county of Northampton, and was raised 'to the rank of a baronet's lady'. Of her sisters, Miss Ward married the Reverend Mr N... | [
"About thirty years ago Miss Maria Ward, of Huntingdon, with only seven\nthousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram, of\nMansfield Park, in the county of Northampton, and to be thereby raised\nto the rank of a baronet's lady, with all the comforts and consequences\nof an handsome house and l... |
1,345 | 141_chapter_5_-_10 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Chapter Six and Chapter Seven The 'young people' are pleased with each other and Mr Crawford assures Mrs Grant he likes Julia the best because she has ordered him to. She reminds him Miss Bertram is engaged and he says he likes her the better for it. Miss Crawford wonders to the Miss Bertrams about Fanny and if she i... | [
"The young people were pleased with each other from the first. On each\nside there was much to attract, and their acquaintance soon promised as\nearly an intimacy as good manners would warrant. Miss Crawford's beauty\ndid her no disservice with the Miss Bertrams. They were too handsome\nthemselves to dislike any wo... |
1,346 | 141_chapter_11_-_16 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Chapter Twelve and Chapter Thirteen Letters from Antigua tell of the return of Sir Thomas in November and both of his daughters prefer to not think about it. Miss Crawford mentions the subject one evening at Mansfield Park and supposes that when this happens Miss Bertram will marry and Edmund will be taking his order... | [
"The day at Sotherton, with all its imperfections, afforded the Miss\nBertrams much more agreeable feelings than were derived from the letters\nfrom Antigua, which soon afterwards reached Mansfield. It was much\npleasanter to think of Henry Crawford than of their father; and to think\nof their father in England aga... |
1,347 | 141_chapter_17_-_24 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Chapter Eighteen and Chapter Nineteen | [
"It was, indeed, a triumphant day to Mr. Bertram and Maria. Such a\nvictory over Edmund's discretion had been beyond their hopes, and was\nmost delightful. There was no longer anything to disturb them in their\ndarling project, and they congratulated each other in private on the\njealous weakness to which they attr... |
1,281 | 141_chapter_25_-_30 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Five, Chapter Twenty Six and Chapter Twenty Seven The Grants invite the Bertrams to the parsonage for a dinner. Afterwards, they play cards and Mr Crawford shows Fanny and Lady Bertram how to play speculation. As they talk, Mr Crawford tells Edmund how he happened upon Thornton Lacey, which is 'the name of his impend... | [
"The intercourse of the two families was at this period more nearly\nrestored to what it had been in the autumn, than any member of the\nold intimacy had thought ever likely to be again. The return of Henry\nCrawford, and the arrival of William Price, had much to do with it,\nbut much was still owing to Sir Thomas'... |
1,282 | 141_chapter_31_-_36 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | One, Chapter Thirty Two and Chapter Thirty Three Mr Crawford has the chance to speak alone with Fanny the next day and says how William has been made a Lieutenant. He gives her the letters that announce it and she is speechless. The first letter is from his uncle and this informs Mr Crawford he has succeeded in his ob... | [
"Henry Crawford was at Mansfield Park again the next morning, and at an\nearlier hour than common visiting warrants. The two ladies were together\nin the breakfast-room, and, fortunately for him, Lady Bertram was on the\nvery point of quitting it as he entered. She was almost at the door, and\nnot chusing by any me... |
1,283 | 141_chapter_37_-_42 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Seven, Chapter Thirty Eight and Chapter Thirty Nine With Mr Crawford gone, Sir Thomas's next object is that Fanny will miss him, but she is so 'gentle and retiring' he cannot tell if this is the case and asks Edmund how affected she is. Edmund thinks it is a little early, after three or four days, but expects Fanny to ... | [
"Mr. Crawford gone, Sir Thomas's next object was that he should be\nmissed; and he entertained great hope that his niece would find a blank\nin the loss of those attentions which at the time she had felt, or\nfancied, an evil. She had tasted of consequence in its most flattering\nform; and he did hope that the loss... |
1,284 | 141_chapter_43_-_48 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Three, Chapter Forty Four and Chapter Forty Five After Mr Crawford leaves, Fanny receives a letter from his sister and she reads from it that 'nothing decisive' has yet taken place between her and Edmund. Fanny grows closer to Susan and conversations often turn to Mansfield Park. Fanny sees Susan has a 'very great ad... | [
"It was presumed that Mr. Crawford was travelling back, to London, on the\nmorrow, for nothing more was seen of him at Mr. Price's; and two days\nafterwards, it was a fact ascertained to Fanny by the following letter\nfrom his sister, opened and read by her, on another account, with the\nmost anxious curiosity:--",... |
1,348 | 145_book_1,_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The novel begins in the upper-class Brooke household in Tipton, inhabited by Mr. Brooke and his two nieces, Dorothea and Celia. Dorothea and her sister Celia are well-connected, sensible girls from a good family; they believe in economy of dress and are rather mainstream in their beliefs and behavior. Dorothea is drawn... | [
"\"Since I can do no good because a woman,\n Reach constantly at something that is near it.\n --The Maid's Tragedy: BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER.",
"Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into\nrelief by poor dress. Her hand and wrist were so finely formed that\nshe could wear sleeves... |
1,349 | 145_book_1,_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Sir James and Casaubon are over for supper, with Sir James trying to appeal to Dorothea, while Dorothea begins to admire Casaubon. Dorothea hopes that Sir James will try to appeal to her sister Celia, rather than to herself, and Dorothea continues her perverse fascination with Casaubon. | [
"\"'Dime; no ves aquel caballero que hacia nosotros viene\n sobre un caballo rucio rodado que trae puesto en la cabeza\n un yelmo de oro?' 'Lo que veo y columbro,' respondio Sancho,\n 'no es sino un hombre sobre un as no pardo como el mio, que\n trae sobre la cabeza una cosa que relumbra.' 'Pues ese es ... |
1,350 | 145_book_1,_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Dorothea continues to admire Casaubon, especially admiring his vast studies and knowledge. She understands that Casaubon has some regard for her, and feels honored, despite Casaubon's complete inability to show emotion. She is blind to the fact that he wants to marry her to fulfill his needs, and is taking advantage of... | [
"\"Say, goddess, what ensued, when Raphael,\n The affable archangel . . .\n Eve\n The story heard attentive, and was filled\n With admiration, and deep muse, to hear\n Of things so high and strange.\"\n --Paradise Lost, B. vii."... |
1,351 | 145_book_1,_chapter_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Sir James has acted on Dorothea's plan, and made new, more pleasant cottages for his poor tenants; Dorothea is still determined not to think highly of him, though Celia is rather fond of Sir James. Dorothea admits to her sister that she does not like Sir James, although he plainly likes her; Celia cannot believe that D... | [
"1st Gent. Our deeds are fetters that we forge ourselves.\n 2d Gent. Ay, truly: but I think it is the world\n That brings the iron.",
"\"Sir James seems determined to do everything you wish,\" said Celia, as\nthey were driving home from an inspection of the new building-site.",
"\"He is a go... |
1,352 | 145_book_1,_chapter_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Dorothea reads Casaubon's letter, and is touched by it; she immediately writes out an acceptance, taking the letter to mean that he feels the same about her as she does about him. Celia has no idea what has happened until Casaubon joins them all for dinner, and she, at least, knows that her sister has made a serious mi... | [
"\"Hard students are commonly troubled with gowts, catarrhs,\n rheums, cachexia, bradypepsia, bad eyes, stone, and collick,\n crudities, oppilations, vertigo, winds, consumptions, and\n all such diseases as come by over-much sitting: they are\n most part lean, dry, ill-colored . . . and all through\n ... |
1,353 | 145_book_1,_chapter_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mrs. Cadwallader is finally introduced, a shrewd, somewhat manipulative, and meddling woman whom Mr. Brooke has little affection for. Mrs. Casaubon and Mr. Brooke talk politics for a little while, which Mr. Brooke does not want to do; finally, Celia tells Mrs. Cadwallader that Dorothea is going to marry Casaubon, which... | [
"My lady's tongue is like the meadow blades,\n That cut you stroking them with idle hand.\n Nice cutting is her function: she divides\n With spiritual edge the millet-seed,\n And makes intangible savings.",
"As Mr. Casaubon's carriage was passing out of the gateway, it arrested\nthe entrance of a pony... |
1,354 | 145_book_1,_chapter_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Casaubon has exhausted his meager reserves of passion already, and looks forward to married life, which he expects will be more pleasant and fulfilled. Not once does he stop and consider his duties for Dorothea, showing himself to be an unsuitable partner who will be hard-pressed to make her happy. Dorothea is eager to... | [
"\"Piacer e popone\n Vuol la sua stagione.\"\n --Italian Proverb.",
"Mr. Casaubon, as might be expected, spent a great deal of his time at\nthe Grange in these weeks, and the hindrance which courtship occasioned\nto the progress of his great work--the Key to all\nMythologies--naturally made him loo... |
1,355 | 145_book_1,_chapter_8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Sir James, in spite of Dorothea's engagement, begins to like visiting the Grange, her home, once again; he is stung by her rejection, and cannot understand her attraction to Casaubon at all. He goes to speak to Mr. Cadwallader, a great friend, to clear his mind about this issue. Sir James cannot help his great pride, b... | [
"\"Oh, rescue her! I am her brother now,\n And you her father. Every gentle maid\n Should have a guardian in each gentleman.\"",
"It was wonderful to Sir James Chettam how well he continued to like\ngoing to the Grange after he had once encountered the difficulty of\nseeing Dorothea for the first time i... |
1,356 | 145_book_1,_chapter_9 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Dorothea gets her new home, Lowick, ready for her impending residence there. The house is rather big, but not particularly cheery; in fact, it rather resembles Casaubon in its looks. Dorothea, however, finds it agreeable, as she finds Casaubon also; but, chances are, she will soon find that she is mistaken, as the newn... | [
"1st Gent. An ancient land in ancient oracles\n Is called \"law-thirsty\": all the struggle there\n Was after order and a perfect rule.\n Pray, where lie such lands now? . . .\n 2d Gent. Why, where they lay of old--in human souls.",
"Mr. Casaubon's behavior abou... |
1,357 | 145_book_1,_chapter_10 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Ladislaw leaves suddenly for Europe; he has a view of life and work completely opposed to Casaubon's, and is much more impulsive and full of passion than his dull cousin. Casaubon, to his credit, does try to be more joyful about his marriage, and to understand his young bride better; but, he is fundamentally unsuited t... | [
"\"He had catched a great cold, had he had no other clothes\n to wear than the skin of a bear not yet killed.\"--FULLER.",
"Young Ladislaw did not pay that visit to which Mr. Brooke had invited\nhim, and only six days afterwards Mr. Casaubon mentioned that his young\nrelative had started for the Continent, se... |
1,358 | 145_book_1,_chapter_11 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Lydgate, the new doctor, is already enamoured of Rosamond Vincy, the mayor's daughter. She is attractive and affable, but he is not economically set for marriage yet. Lydgate believes that women should be quiet, obedient, and beautiful; he is not looking for a partner, but rather an adornment, for a wife. Rosamond seem... | [
"\"But deeds and language such as men do use,\n And persons such as comedy would choose,\n When she would show an image of the times,\n And sport with human follies, not with crimes.\"\n --BEN JONSON.",
"Lydgate, in fact, was already conscious of being fascinated ... |
1,359 | 145_book_2,_chapter_12 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Fred and Rosamond travel to Stone Court, the house of their wealthy uncle, Mr. Featherstone. Mrs. Waule, Mr. Featherstone's sister, is there; and though she is also well off, she tries to get even more money from her brother. Mary Garth is Mr. Featherstone's servant, and Fred admires her very much. Mrs. Waule's visit i... | [
"\"He had more tow on his distaffe\n Than Gerveis knew.\"\n --CHAUCER.",
"The ride to Stone Court, which Fred and Rosamond took the next morning,\nlay through a pretty bit of midland landscape, almost all meadows and\npastures, with hedgerows still allowed to grow in bushy beauty and... |
1,360 | 145_book_2,_chapter_13 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mr. Vincy goes to see Mr. Bulstrode at the bank on his son Fred's behalf; Lydgate is already there with Bulstrode, talking about the construction of a new hospital in town. Bulstrode likes Lydgate, and expects that he will make reforms and improve medical care in the town, but both are aware of the professional jealous... | [
"1st Gent. How class your man?--as better than the most,\n Or, seeming better, worse beneath that cloak?\n As saint or knave, pilgrim or hypocrite?\n 2d Gent. Nay, tell me how you class your wealth of books\n The drifted relics of all time.\n As we... |
1,361 | 145_book_2,_chapter_14 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Bulstrode writes out a letter to the effect that Fred has not borrowed money on his inheritance from Featherstone, because his wife Harriet, Fred's aunt, wishes him to do so. In fact, Fred is in debt, and is given some money by Featherstone on the spot, though it is not enough to unburden him. Fred is grateful, but not... | [
"\"Follows here the strict receipt\n For that sauce to dainty meat,\n Named Idleness, which many eat\n By preference, and call it sweet:\n First watch for morsels, like a hound\n Mix well with buffets, stir them round\n With good thick oil of flatteries,\n And froth with mean self-laudin... |
1,362 | 145_book_2,_chapter_15 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Eliot begins the chapter with a bit of narration about the scope of the book, and then begins to delve into Lydgate's background. Lydgate was very intelligent as a young man, and fell in love with anatomy at a young age. He is a hard worker, driven to succeed in his field and make innovations, and to help people get be... | [
"\"Black eyes you have left, you say,\n Blue eyes fail to draw you;\n Yet you seem more rapt to-day,\n Than of old we saw you.",
"\"Oh, I track the fairest fair\n Through new haunts of pleasure;\n Footprints here and echoes there\n Guide me to my treasure:",
"\"Lo! she turns--immortal yo... |
1,363 | 145_book_2,_chapter_16 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mr. Bulstrode's power becomes plain; as a banker, he has some control over those he lends money to, and he defends people in return for certain expected favors. There is a debate going on whether Bulstrode's choice of Mr. Tyke for the chaplain's position at the hospital is indeed correct; Lydgate, Mr. Vincy, Mr. Chiche... | [
"\"All that in woman is adored\n In thy fair self I find--\n For the whole sex can but afford\n The handsome and the kind.\"\n --SIR CHARLES SEDLEY.",
"The question whether Mr. Tyke should be appointed as salaried chaplain\nto the hospital was an exciting topic to the Middle... |
1,364 | 145_book_2,_chapter_17 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Lydgate goes to see Farebrother at home, and observes his domestic situation. Farebrother's mother engages Lydgate in a debate about changes in religion, which Farebrother and Lydgate seem to espouse. Farebrother is a man of science, like Lydgate; they get along well, which makes Lydgate question Bulstrode's championin... | [
"\"The clerkly person smiled and said\n Promise was a pretty maid,\n But being poor she died unwed.\"",
"The Rev. Camden Farebrother, whom Lydgate went to see the next evening,\nlived in an old parsonage, built of stone, venerable enough to match\nthe church which it looked out upon. All the furniture too... |
1,365 | 145_book_2,_chapter_18 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Lydgate is compelled to vote for Farebrother, at the expense of any help from Bulstrode; he debates this with himself, and the outcomes of either decision. Lydgate wants to secure Farebrother the much needed money, but also wants to keep in Bulstrode's good graces, and knows that Tyke might be better suited to the posi... | [
"\"Oh, sir, the loftiest hopes on earth\n Draw lots with meaner hopes: heroic breasts,\n Breathing bad air, ran risk of pestilence;\n Or, lacking lime-juice when they cross the Line,\n May languish with the scurvy.\"",
"Some weeks passed after this conversation before the question of the\nchaplain... |
1,366 | 145_book_2,_chapter_19 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Dorothea is at last in Rome on her honeymoon, and Will Ladislaw is there too, spotting her but not daring to approach. Will's friend, Naumann, is there too, is taken with her beauty and wants to paint her picture; Will is still under the influence of his negative first impression of her, and does not want to see her at... | [
"\"L' altra vedete ch'ha fatto alla guancia\n Della sua palma, sospirando, letto.\"\n --Purgatorio, vii.",
"When George the Fourth was still reigning over the privacies of\nWindsor, when the Duke of Wellington was Prime Minister, and Mr. Vincy\nwas mayor of the old corporation in ... |
1,367 | 145_book_2,_chapter_20 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Dorothea is in shock by the combination of lately having become a wife, being in a place so foreign to her as Rome, and being completely alone, with the absence of her husband due to his study. Dorothea appeals to her husband to let her help, so that he may get his work finished and published; in her desperation for so... | [
"\"A child forsaken, waking suddenly,\n Whose gaze afeard on all things round doth rove,\n And seeth only that it cannot see\n The meeting eyes of love.\"",
"Two hours later, Dorothea was seated in an inner room or boudoir of a\nhandsome apartment in the Via Sistina.",
"I am sorry to add that she wa... |
1,368 | 145_book_2,_chapter_21 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Just as Dorothea is beginning to despair again, Will Ladislaw comes to visit her. Will is surprised to find that she is nice, friendly, and far better than his dried-up old cousin could ever deserve; Will's bad first impression is proven completely wrong. They discuss art, which Dorothea can't understand; Will admits t... | [
"\"Hire facounde eke full womanly and plain,\n No contrefeted termes had she\n To semen wise.\"\n --CHAUCER.",
"It was in that way Dorothea came to be sobbing as soon as she was\nsecurely alone. But she was presently roused by a knock at the door,\nwhich made her hastily dry her ey... |
1,369 | 145_book_2,_chapter_22 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Will impresses Dorothea with the way he is able to listen to Casaubon and make him feel at ease; Will is also able to engage Dorothea in the conversation, and draw some statements out of her that make Casaubon proud of his well-spoken wife. Will gets Casaubon to agree to bring Dorothea to the studio; once there, Nauman... | [
"\"Nous causames longtemps; elle etait simple et bonne.\n Ne sachant pas le mal, elle faisait le bien;\n Des richesses du coeur elle me fit l'aumone,\n Et tout en ecoutant comme le coeur se donne,\n Sans oser y penser je lui donnai le mien;\n Elle emporta ma vie, et n'en sut jamais rien.\"\n ... |
1,370 | 145_book_3,_chapter_23 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Fred still has a debt to pay, and the money he got from Featherstone will not cover the balance; even worse, his dear Mary's brother, Caleb, co-signed on Fred's debt and will be held responsible if he defaults. Fred decides to make money to pay his debt by speculating on horses; unfortunately, he buys a horse that lame... | [
"\"Your horses of the Sun,\" he said,\n \"And first-rate whip Apollo!\n Whate'er they be, I'll eat my head,\n But I will beat them hollow.\"",
"Fred Vincy, we have seen, had a debt on his mind, and though no such\nimmaterial burthen could depress that buoyant-hearted young gentleman\nfor many hours tog... |
1,371 | 145_book_3,_chapter_24 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Fred finally feels very sorry about his debt, and the fact that he has only fifty pounds and five days to pay up. Fred is most sorry because Mary's father is going to have to pay, and he feels this will jeopardize his chances with Mary. Fred goes to the Garth household to tell Caleb Garth, whose wife is very fond of Fr... | [
"\"The offender's sorrow brings but small relief\n To him who wears the strong offence's cross.\"\n --SHAKESPEARE: Sonnets.",
"I am sorry to say that only the third day after the propitious events\nat Houndsley Fred Vincy had fallen into worse spirits than he had known\n... |
1,372 | 145_book_3,_chapter_25 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Fred goes to Stone Court to tell Mary the news; he is not as repentant as he should be, and wants comforting words from Mary about his irresponsibility. He still doesn't see the entire magnitude of what he did; he tries to rationalize things with his good intentions, and by claiming that he is not so bad, compared to w... | [
"\"Love seeketh not itself to please,\n Nor for itself hath any care\n But for another gives its ease\n And builds a heaven in hell's despair.\n . . . . . . .\n Love seeketh only self to please,\n To bind another to its delight,\n Joys in another's loss of ea... |
1,373 | 145_book_3,_chapter_26 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Fred is foolish enough to go back in search of his old horse, and ends up with an even worse one. He soon becomes ill, and after their regular doctor tries to help and fails, Lydgate is brought in and says he has scarlet fever. Mr. and Mrs. Vincy get angry at their regular doctor, Mr. Wrench, for failing to catch such ... | [
"\"He beats me and I rail at him: O worthy satisfaction!\n would it were otherwise--that I could beat him while\n he railed at me.--\"\n --Troilus and Cressida.",
"But Fred did not go to Stone Court the next day, for reasons that were\nquite peremptory. From those visits ... |
1,374 | 145_book_3,_chapter_27 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mrs. Vincy becomes completely consumed by Fred and his illness, to an unhealthy extent; Lydgate is around the house frequently, and sees a good bit of Rosamond as well. Lydgate's attentions to Rosamond are causing some resentment in the neighborhood, as rivals for her affection become jealous of him; Rosamond continues... | [
"Let the high Muse chant loves Olympian:\n We are but mortals, and must sing of man.",
"An eminent philosopher among my friends, who can dignify even your ugly\nfurniture by lifting it into the serene light of science, has shown me\nthis pregnant little fact. Your pier-glass or extensive surface of\npolished s... |
1,375 | 145_book_3,_chapter_28 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Dorothea arrives at Lowick with her husband in January, after their honeymoon. Dorothea, who had been so dejected during their honeymoon, feels revived by being home, in familiar surroundings. However, she is still haunted by the knowledge that her vision of marriage is yet unfulfilled, and the depressing atmosphere of... | [
"1st Gent. All times are good to seek your wedded home\n Bringing a mutual delight.",
"2d Gent. Why, true.\n The calendar hath not an evil day\n For souls made one by love, and even death\n Were sweetness, if it came... |
1,376 | 145_book_3,_chapter_29 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mr. Casaubon's beliefs about marriage are reiterated; he wanted to marry someone young and impressionable, so that she would be pleasant and able to help him with his work and be taught by him. He also believed that marriage would make him happy for the first time; but marriage could never instantly change his disposit... | [
"\"I found that no genius in another could please me. My\n unfortunate paradoxes had entirely dried up that source of\n comfort.\"--GOLDSMITH.",
"One morning, some weeks after her arrival at Lowick, Dorothea--but why\nalways Dorothea? Was her point of view the only possible one with\nregard to this marriag... |
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