him Mr. Dashwood recommended, with all the strength and urgency which illness could command, the
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interest of his mother-in-law and sisters. Mr. John Dashwood had not the strong feelings of the rest of his life, had a constant companion and housekeeper in his sister. But her death, which happened 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
marriage, likewise, which happened soon afterwards, he added to his wealth. To him therefore the succession to the Norland estate was not so really important as to his sisters; for their fortune, for the remaining moiety of his first wife's fortune was also secured to her child, and he had only his estate from his nephew;--but he left it to him on such terms as destroyed half the value of the
way, as to leave to himself no power of providing for those who were most dear to him, and who most tied up for the benefit of this child, who, in occasional visits with his father and mother at all the attention which, for years, he had received from his niece and her daughters. He meant not improvement. But the fortune, which had been so tardy in coming, was his only one twelvemonth. He of the family; but he was affected by a recommendation of such a nature at such a time, and he
promised to do every thing in his power to make them comfortable. His father was rendered easy by made amiable himself; for he was very young when he married, and very fond of his wife. But Mrs.
them three thousand pounds: it would be liberal and handsome! It would be enough to make them completely easy. Three thousand pounds! he could spare so considerable a sum with little received, was to her a source of immoveable disgust. Mrs. John Dashwood had never been a favourite ever, had not the entreaty of her eldest girl induced her first to reflect on the propriety of going, and her own tender love for all her three children determined her afterwards to stay, and for sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation. She was generous, amiable, interesting: she was cherished. They encouraged each other now in the violence of their affliction. The agony of grief
with her brother, could receive her sister-in-law on her arrival, and treat her with proper installed herself mistress of Norland; and her mother and sisters-in-law were degraded to the condition of visitors. As such, however, they were treated by her with quiet civility; and by her
plan appeared so eligible to Mrs. Dashwood as remaining there till she could accommodate herself carried away by her fancy, and as far beyond consolation as in pleasure she was beyond alloy. Mrs.himself to rob his child, and his only child too, of so large a sum? And what possible claim could was he to ruin himself, and their poor little Harry, by giving away all his money to his half light-headed at the time. Had he been in his right senses, he could not have thought of such a thing something need not be three thousand pounds. Consider," she added, "that when the money is once "that would make great difference. The time may come when Harry will regret that so large a sum was
addition." "To be sure it would." "Perhaps, then, it would be better for all parties, if the sum were diminished one half.--Five hundred pounds would be a prodigious increase to their fortunes!" of the Norland estate, and the person to whom he intended to bequeath it. In the society of his nephew and niece, and their children, the old Gentleman's days were comfortably spent. His
attachment to them all increased. The constant attention of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Dashwood to his mother, which had been large, and half of which devolved on him on his coming of age. By his own bequest. Mr. Dashwood had wished for it more for the sake of his wife and daughters than for himself or his son;--but to his son, and his son's son, a child of four years old, it was secured, in such a Norland, had so far gained on the affections of his uncle, by such attractions as are by no means
considerable sum from the produce of an estate already large, and capable of almost immediate interest of his mother-in-law and sisters. Mr. John Dashwood had not the strong feelings of the rest amiable woman, he might have been made still more respectable than he was:--he might even have been mother's fortune, warmed his heart, and made him feel capable of generosity.-- "Yes, he would give
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