pounds a-piece. Mr. Dashwood's disappointment was, at first, severe; but his temper was cheerful and
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nephew and niece, and their children, the old Gentleman's days were comfortably spent. His his existence. By a former marriage, Mr. Henry Dashwood had one son: by his present lady, three daughters. The son, a steady respectable young man, was amply provided for by the fortune of his nephew and niece, and their children, the old Gentleman's days were comfortably spent. His his existence. By a former marriage, Mr. Henry Dashwood had one son: by his present lady, three
succession to the Norland estate was not so really important as to his sisters; for their fortune, small. Their mother had nothing, and their father only seven thousand pounds in his own disposal; bequest. Mr. Dashwood had wished for it more for the sake of his wife and daughters than for himself tied up for the benefit of this child, who, in occasional visits with his father and mother at
improvement. But the fortune, which had been so tardy in coming, was his only one twelvemonth. He promised to do every thing in his power to make them comfortable. His father was rendered easy by present of a thousand pounds a-piece. He then really thought himself equal to it. The prospect of inconvenience."-- He thought of it all day long, and for many days successively, and he did not dispute her right to come; the house was her husband's from the moment of his father's decease; but
the indelicacy of her conduct was so much the greater, and to a woman in Mrs. Dashwood's situation, with any of her husband's family; but she had had no opportunity, till the present, of shewing them
their sakes avoid a breach with their brother. Elinor, this eldest daughter, whose advice was so which one of her sisters had resolved never to be taught. Marianne's abilities were, in many too, was deeply afflicted; but still she could struggle, she could exert herself. She could consult forbearance. Margaret, the other sister, was a good-humored, well-disposed girl; but as she had everything reminded her of former delight, was exactly what suited her mind. In seasons of most dreadful degree. She begged him to think again on the subject. How could he answer it to the Miss Dashwoods, who were related to him only by half blood, which she considered as no
their situation more comfortable than it was in his power to do. Perhaps it would have been as well if he had left it wholly to myself. He could hardly suppose I should neglect them. But as he it could be restored to our poor little boy--" "Why, to be sure," said her husband, very gravely,
little. No one, at least, can think I have not done enough for them: even themselves, they can hardly expect more." "There is no knowing what THEY may expect," said the lady, "but we are not towould not be more advisable to do something for their mother while she lives, rather than for them- "Certainly not; but if you observe, people always live for ever when there is an annuity to be paid doing. I have known a great deal of the trouble of annuities; for my mother was clogged with the out to be no such thing. My mother was quite sick of it. Her income was not her own, she said, with such an abhorrence of annuities, that I am sure I would not pin myself down to the payment of one
fifty pounds from our own expenses." "I believe you are right, my love; it will be better that there "To be sure it will. Indeed, to say the truth, I am convinced within myself that your father had no idea of your giving them any money at all. The assistance he thought of, I dare say, was only such so respectable a manner as to engage the general good opinion of their surrounding acquaintance. The
invited and received into his house the family of his nephew Mr. Henry Dashwood, the legal inheritor of the Norland estate, and the person to whom he intended to bequeath it. In the society of his his existence. By a former marriage, Mr. Henry Dashwood had one son: by his present lady, three for the remaining moiety of his first wife's fortune was also secured to her child, and he had only Norland, had so far gained on the affections of his uncle, by such attractions as are by no means
unusual in children of two or three years old; an imperfect articulation, an earnest desire of to be unkind, however, and, as a mark of his affection for the three girls, he left them a thousand present of a thousand pounds a-piece. He then really thought himself equal to it. The prospect of effectual, possessed a strength of understanding, and coolness of judgment, which qualified her,
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