Note 68 — “SENSE AND SENSIBILITY,” AND “MANSFIELD PARK.”

In “Mansfield Park” it would seem as if Jane Austen impartially afforded a glimpse in Admiral Crawford and Lieutenant Price—though, to be sure, the last was only a lieutenant of marines—of the dark side of the members of the naval profession, whose bright side she illustrated, con amore, in William Price and in the naval officers in “Persuasion.”