#I need the perfect mood for Aunt Norris not taking fanny

[bethanydelleman]

Tom, after hearing that he lost half of Edmund's inheritance:

Tom listened with some shame and some sorrow; but escaping as quickly as possible, could soon with cheerful selfishness reflect, firstly, that he had not been half so much in debt as some of his friends; secondly, that his father had made a most tiresome piece of work of it; and, thirdly, that the future incumbent, whoever he might be, would, in all probability, die very soon.

Mansfield Park memes, Ch 3