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Lady Bertram
Sir Thomas is Lady Bertram’s husband, Fanny’s uncle by law, and the father of the Bertram children. He is a baronet and the owner of Mansfield Park. Sir Thomas is stoic and severe, but also genuinely loving, and wants what’s best for his children and Fanny. Sir Thomas also has business interests in Antigua (presumably involving the slave trade). In the middle of the book, he leaves for the West Indies to settle some business there, and returns just in time to put an end to the play that his children are putting on. After his return, Sir Thomas treats Fanny very warmly, ensuring that she has what she needs and throwing a ball in her honor.
Sir Thomas Bertram Quotes in Mansfield Park
The Mansfield Park quotes below are all either spoken by Sir Thomas Bertram or refer to Sir Thomas Bertram. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 1 Quotes
There will be some difficulty in our way, Mrs. Norris…as to the distinction proper to be made between the girls as they grow up… how, without depressing her spirits too far, to make her remember that she is not a Miss Bertram… they cannot be equals. Their rank, fortune, rights, and expectations will always be different.
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Chapter 28 Quotes
Having…a general prevailing desire of recommending herself to [Sir Thomas], [Mary] took an opportunity of stepping aside to say something agreeable of Fanny.
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Chapter 48 Quotes
In [Susan’s] usefulness, in Fanny’s excellence, in William’s continued good conduct and rising fame, and in the general well-doing and success of the other members of the family…Sir Thomas saw repeated, and forever repeated reason to rejoice in what he had done for them all, and acknowledge the advantages of early hardship and discipline, and the consciousness of being born to struggle and endure.
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Sir Thomas Bertram Quotes in Mansfield Park
The Mansfield Park quotes below are all either spoken by Sir Thomas Bertram or refer to Sir Thomas Bertram. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 1 Quotes
There will be some difficulty in our way, Mrs. Norris…as to the distinction proper to be made between the girls as they grow up… how, without depressing her spirits too far, to make her remember that she is not a Miss Bertram… they cannot be equals. Their rank, fortune, rights, and expectations will always be different.
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Chapter 28 Quotes
Having…a general prevailing desire of recommending herself to [Sir Thomas], [Mary] took an opportunity of stepping aside to say something agreeable of Fanny.
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Chapter 48 Quotes
In [Susan’s] usefulness, in Fanny’s excellence, in William’s continued good conduct and rising fame, and in the general well-doing and success of the other members of the family…Sir Thomas saw repeated, and forever repeated reason to rejoice in what he had done for them all, and acknowledge the advantages of early hardship and discipline, and the consciousness of being born to struggle and endure.
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