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No objection was made,but for some time there seemed no inclination to move in any plan,or to any distance.All were attracted at first by the plants or the pheasants,and all dispersed about in happy independence.Mr Crawford was the first to move forward,to examine the capabilities of that end of the house.The lawn,bounded on each side by a high wall,contained beyond the first planted area,a bowling green,and beyond the bowling green a long terrace walk,backed by iron palisades,and commanding a view over them into the tops of the trees of the wilderness immediately adjoining.It was a good spot for fault-finding.Mr Crawford was soon followed by Miss Bertram and Mr Rushworth,and when after a little time the others began to form into parties,these three were found in busy consultation on the terrace by Edmund,Miss Crawford and Fanny,who seemed as naturally to unite,and who after a short participation of their regrets and difficulties,left them and walked on.The remaining three,Mrs Rushworth,Mrs Norris,and Julia,were still far behind;for Julia,whose happy star no longer prevailed,was obliged to keep by the side of Mrs Rushworth,and restrain her impatient feet to that lady's slow pace,while her aunt,having fallen in with the housekeeper,who was come out to feed the pheasants,was lingering behind in gossip with her.Poor Julia,the only one out of the nine not tolerably satisfied with their lot,was now in a state of complete penance,and as different from the Julia of the barouche-box as could well be imagined.The politeness which she had been brought up to practise as a duty,made it impossible for her to escape;while the want of that higher species of self-command,that just consideration of others,that knowledge of her own heart,that principle of right which had not formed any essential part of her education,made her miserable under it.

‘This is insufferably hot,’said Miss Crawford when they had taken one turn on the terrace,and were drawing a second time to the door in the middle which opened to the wilderness.‘Shall any of us object to being comfortable?Here is a nice little wood,if one can but get into it.What happiness if the door should not be locked!-but of course it is,for in these great places,the gardeners are the only people who can go where they like.’

The door,however,proved not to be locked,and they were all agreed in turning joyfully through it,and leaving the unmitigated glare of day behind.A considerable flight of steps landed them in the wilderness,which was a planted wood of about two acres,and though chiefly of larch and laurel,and beech cut down,and though laid out with too much regularity,was darkness and shade,and natural beauty,compared with the bowling green and the terrace.They all felt the refreshment of it,and for some time could only walk and admire.At length,after a short pause,Miss Crawford began with,‘So you are to be a clergyman,Mr Bertram.This is rather a surprise to me.’

‘Why should it surprise you?You must suppose me designed for some profession,and might perceive that I am neither a lawyer,nor a soldier,nor a sailor.’

‘Very true;but,in short,it had not occurred to me.And you know there is generally an uncle or a grandfather to leave a fortune to the second son.’

‘A very praiseworthy practice,’said Edmund,‘but not quite universal.I am one of the exceptions,and being one,must do something for myself.’

‘But why are you to be a clergyman?I thought that was always the lot of the youngest,where there were many to choose before him.’

‘Do you think the church itself never chosen then?’

‘Never is a black word.But yes,in the never of conversation which means not very often,I do think it.For what is to be done in the church?Men love to distinguish themselves,and in either of the other lines,distinction may be gained,but not in the church.A clergyman is nothing.’

‘The nothing of conversation has its gradations,I hope,as well as the never.A clergyman cannot be high in state or fashion.He must not head mobs,or set the tone in dress.But I cannot call that situation nothing,which has the charge of all that is of the first importance to mankind,individually or collectively considered,temporally and eternally-which has the guardianship of religion and morals,and consequently of the manners which result from their influence.No one here can call the office nothing.If the man who holds it is so,it is by the neglect of his duty,by foregoing its just importance,and stepping out of his place to appear what he ought not to appear.’

‘You assign greater consequence to the clergyman than one has been used to hear given,or than I can quite comprehend.One does not see much of this influence and importance in society,and how can it be acquired where they are so seldom seen themselves?How can two sermons a week,even supposing them worth hearing,supposing the preacher to have the sense to prefer Blair's to his own,do all that you speak of,govern the conduct and fashion the manners of a large congregation for the rest of the week?One scarcely sees a clergyman out of his pulpit.’

‘You are speaking of London,I am speaking of the nation at large.’

‘The metropolis,I imagine,is a pretty fair sample of the rest.’

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