MANSFIELD PARK
(1814)
By Jane Austen
CHAPTER I
About thirty years ago Miss Maria Ward, with only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sr Thomas Bertram, of Mansfield Park, in the county of Northampton, and to be thereby raised to the rank of naronet‘s lady, with all the comforts and consequences of an handsome house and large income.
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