| Quotations | ||
 Chapter 1 "They may easily get her from Portsmouth to town by the coach, under the care of any creditable person that may chance to be going. I dare say there is always some reputable tradesman’s wife or other going up.” | ||
| Chapter 24 She had a letter from him herself, a few hurried happy lines, written as the ship came up Channel, and sent into Portsmouth with the first boat that left the Antwerp at anchor in Spithead; | ||
| Chapter 25 "I do not exactly know the distance, but when you get back to Portsmouth, if it is not very far off, you ought to go over and pay your respects to them;" | ||
| Chapter 25 “This is the assembly night,” said William. “If I were at Portsmouth I should be at it, perhaps.” | ||
| Chapter 25 “No, Fanny, that I do not. I shall have enough of Portsmouth and of dancing too, when I cannot have you." | ||
| Chapter 26 William was required to be at Portsmouth on the 24th; the 22nd would therefore be the last day of his visit; | ||
| Chapter 27 For the original plan was that William should go up by the mail from Northampton the following night, which would not have allowed him an hour’s rest before he must have got into a Portsmouth coach; | ||
| Chapter 37 This scheme was that she should accompany her brother back to Portsmouth, and spend a little time with her own family. | ||
| Chapter 37 What might have been hard to bear at Mansfield was to become a slight evil at Portsmouth. | ||
| Chapter 38 When no longer under the same roof with Edmund, she trusted that Miss Crawford would have no motive for writing strong enough to overcome the trouble, and that at Portsmouth their correspondence would dwindle into nothing. | ||
| Chapter 38 The next morning saw them off again at an early hour; and with no events, and no delays, they regularly advanced, and were in the environs of Portsmouth while there was yet daylight for Fanny to look around her, and wonder at the new buildings. | ||
| Chapter 39 The Thrush had had her orders, the wind had changed, and he was sailed within four days from their reaching Portsmouth; | ||
| Chapter 39 In a review of the two houses, as they appeared to her before the end of a week, Fanny was tempted to apply to them Dr. Johnson’s celebrated judgment as to matrimony and celibacy, and say, that though Mansfield Park might have some pains, Portsmouth could have no pleasures. | ||
| Chapter 40 As for any society in Portsmouth, that could at all make amends for deficiencies at home, there were none within the circle of her father’s and mother’s acquaintance to afford her the smallest satisfaction: | ||
| Chapter 41 She felt that she had never seen so agreeable a man in her life; and was only astonished to find that, so great and so agreeable as he was, he should be come down to Portsmouth neither on a visit to the port–admiral, nor the commissioner, nor yet with the intention of going over to the island, nor of seeing the dockyard. | ||
| Chapter 41 “Her daughters were very much confined; Portsmouth was a sad place; they did not often get out; and she knew they had some errands in the town, which they would be very glad to do.” | ||
| Chapter 41 When Mr. Price and his friend had seen all that they wished, or had time for, the others were ready to return; and in the course of their walk back, Mr. Crawford contrived a minute’s privacy for telling Fanny that his only business in Portsmouth was to see her; | ||
| Chapter 42 It was her public place: there she met her acquaintance, heard a little news, talked over the badness of the Portsmouth servants, and wound up her spirits for the six days ensuing. | ||
| Chapter 42 Fanny was beginning to feel the effect of being debarred from her usual regular exercise; she had lost ground as to health since her being in Portsmouth; | ||
| Chapter 42 I am considering your sister’s health,” said he, addressing himself to Susan, “which I think the confinement of Portsmouth unfavourable to." | ||
| Chapter 43 “I have to inform you, my dearest Fanny, that Henry has been down to Portsmouth to see you;" | ||
| Chapter 43 He makes me write, but I do not know what else is to be communicated, except this said visit to Portsmouth, and these two said walks, and his introduction to your family, | ||
| Chapter 43 My dear little creature, do not stay at Portsmouth to lose your pretty looks. | ||
| Chapter 43 And as Fanny grew thoroughly to understand this, she began to feel that when her own release from Portsmouth came, her happiness would have a material drawback in leaving Susan behind. | ||
| Chapter 44 You are happy at Portsmouth, I hope, but this must not be a yearly visit. | ||
| Chapter 45 Easter came particularly late this year, as Fanny had most sorrowfully considered, on first learning that she had no chance of leaving Portsmouth till after it. | ||
| Chapter 45 When she had been coming to Portsmouth, she had loved to call it her home, had been fond of saying that she was going home; the word had been very dear to her, and so it still was, but it must be applied to Mansfield. That was now the home. Portsmouth was Portsmouth; Mansfield was home. | ||
| Chapter 45 In proof, he repeats, and more eagerly, what he said at Portsmouth about our conveying you home, and I join him in it with all my soul. | ||
| Chapter 46 Its object was unquestionable; and two moments were enough to start the probability of its being merely to give her notice that they should be in Portsmouth that very day, | ||
| Chapter 46 I shall be at Portsmouth the morning after you receive this, and hope to find you ready to set off for Mansfield. | ||
| Chapter 46 To–morrow! to leave Portsmouth to–morrow! She was, she felt she was, in the greatest danger of being exquisitely happy, while so many were miserable. | ||
| Chapter 46 How her heart swelled with joy and gratitude as she passed the barriers of Portsmouth, and how Susan’s face wore its broadest smiles, may be easily conceived. | ||
| Chapter 48 Had he done as he intended, and as he knew he ought, by going down to Everingham after his return from Portsmouth, he might have been deciding his own happy destiny. | ||
