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Mansfield Park The Home Quotes

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Quote #10

[H]ad not her sister's conduct burst forth as it did, and her increased dread of her father and of home, on that event – imagining its certain consequence to herself would be greater severity and restraint – made her hastily resolve on avoiding such immediate horrors at all risks, it is probable that Mr. Yates would never have succeeded (48.17).

Once again, Mansfield becomes a place of repression and misery and anxiety. All the kids except Edmund experience Mansfield as a stressful environment at some point, and all except Edmund want to escape the house and Sir Thomas sometimes.