#tom bertram

Tom Bertram (Mansfield Park by Jane Austen)

Sees Fanny Price not dancing at the ball that's for her CORRECTION: her first ball!

Drags a chair next to her and starts reading the newspaper

Says if you want to dance I'll dance with you

Fanny politely declines because she's been conditioned to be a people-pleaser and knows Tom doesn't really want to dance

Uses dancing with Fanny as an excuse to get out of playing cards with his Aunt Norris, Mrs. Rushworth and Dr. Grant

Complains about how annoying it is to be "volun-told" to play cards

Fanny was very willing to dance, but how grateful can you be when it's done reluctantly to get out of doing a favor for someone else?

Henry Tilney (Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen)

Goes to Bath to prepare housing on behalf of his father for their family trip

While he's in town, goes to the Lower Rooms (at the Assembly where dances are held) and asks the master of ceremonies to introduce him to any young lady that needs a dance partner

Is a very friendly and witty conversationalist with Catherine Morland

He had no obligation to do any of this! He just did it out of the goodness of his heart and because he loves dancing!

Mrs Norris: Maria, Jules, Tim, Edward and Fanny

Sir Thomas Bertram: *surprised* you remember Fanny? I knew you cared deep down-

She acknowledged, however, that the Mr. Bertrams were very fine young men, that two such young men were not often seen together even in London, and that their manners, particularly those of the eldest, were very good. He had been much in London, and had more liveliness and gallantry than Edmund, and must, therefore, be preferred; and, indeed, his being the eldest was another strong claim. She had felt an early presentiment that she should like the eldest best. She knew it was her way.

Tom Bertram must have been thought pleasant, indeed, at any rate; he was the sort of young man to be generally liked, his agreeableness was of the kind to be oftener found agreeable than some endowments of a higher stamp, for he had easy manners, excellent spirits, a large acquaintance, and a great deal to say; and the reversion of Mansfield Park, and a baronetcy, did no harm to all this. Miss Crawford soon felt that he and his situation might do. She looked about her with due consideration, and found almost everything in his favour: a park, a real park, five miles round, a spacious modern-built house, so well placed and well screened as to deserve to be in any collection of engravings of gentlemen’s seats in the kingdom, and wanting only to be completely new furnished—pleasant sisters, a quiet mother, and an agreeable man himself...

Mansfield Park, Ch 5

An Overabundance of Tom Bertrams (30734 words) by LucyCrewe11 Chapters: 4/4 Fandom: Mansfield Park - Jane Austen, Mansfield Park (TV 1983), Mansfield Park (2007), Mansfield Park - All Media Types, AUSTEN Jane - Works, Mansfield Park (1999) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Tom Bertram/Fanny Price, Edmund Bertram & Fanny Price Characters: Tom Bertram, Fanny Price, Edmund Bertram, Mrs. Norris (Mansfield Park) Additional Tags: Inspired by The Time Traveler's Wife, Alternate Universe - Time Travel, Time Travel, Romance, Slow Romance, Eventual Romance, Tom Is Not Traumatised By Antigua He's Just A Goofball With A Gambling Problem, Falling In Love, Sharing a Bed, Mrs. Norris has issues, three-shot, Tom Bertram is a Time Traveller, Four-Shot, Time Travel Fix-It, Alternate Universe - The Time Traveler's Wife Fusion Summary:

Tom Bertram, thanks to a haywire medical condition he can't control, travels randomly through time and visits Fanny Price (unknowingly his future wife) in the East Room while he's supposed to be away in Antigua.

But she's not too keen on her selfish, older cousin.

Not just yet.

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