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Charles Dickens
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Mansfield Park
by Jane Austen
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- 01Front matter~1 min
- 02CHAPTER I~20 min
- 03CHAPTER II~23 min
- 04CHAPTER III~24 min
- 05CHAPTER IV~22 min
- 06CHAPTER V~18 min
- 07CHAPTER VI~24 min
- 08CHAPTER VII — part 1~25 min
- 09CHAPTER VII — part 2~2 min
- 10CHAPTER VIII~18 min
- 11CHAPTER IX — part 1~25 min
- 12CHAPTER IX — part 2~4 min
- 13CHAPTER X~21 min
- 14CHAPTER XI~16 min
- 15CHAPTER XII~15 min
- 16CHAPTER XIII~20 min
- 17CHAPTER XIV~17 min
- 18CHAPTER XV~25 min
- 19CHAPTER XVI~16 min
- 20CHAPTER XVII~13 min
- 21CHAPTER XVIII~20 min
- 22CHAPTER XIX — part 1~25 min
- 23CHAPTER XIX — part 2~2 min
- 24CHAPTER XX~19 min
- 25CHAPTER XXI~19 min
- 26CHAPTER XXII — part 1~25 min
- 27CHAPTER XXII — part 2~1 min
- 28CHAPTER XXIII — part 1~25 min
- 29CHAPTER XXIII — part 2~1 min
- 30CHAPTER XXIV~20 min
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About thirty years ago Miss Maria Ward, of Huntingdon, with only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram, of Mansfield Park, in the county of Northampton, and to be thereby raised to the rank of a baronet’s lady, with all the comforts and consequences of an handsome house and large income. All Huntingdon exclaimed on the greatness of the match, and her uncle, the lawyer, himself, allowed her to be at least three thousand pounds short of any equitable claim to it. She had two sisters to be benefited by her elevation; and such of their acquaintance as thought Miss Ward and Miss Frances quite as handsome as Miss Maria, did not scruple to predict their marrying with almost equal advantage. But there certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are pretty women to deserve them. Miss Ward, at the end of half a dozen years, found herself obliged to be attached to the Rev. Mr. Norris, a friend of her brother-in-law, with scarcely any private fortune, and Miss Frances fared yet worse. Miss Ward’s match, indeed, when it came to the point, was not contemptible: Sir Thomas being happily able to give his friend an income in the living of Mansfield; and Mr. and Mrs. Norris began their career of conjugal felicity with very little less than a thousand a year. But Miss Frances married, in the common phrase, to disoblige her family, and by…
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