remained for his widow and daughters. His son was sent for as soon as his danger was known, and to
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be in his power to do for them. He was not an ill-disposed young man, unless to be rather cold amiable woman, he might have been made still more respectable than he was:--he might even have been John Dashwood was a strong caricature of himself;--more narrow-minded and selfish. When he gave his
them three thousand pounds: it would be liberal and handsome! It would be enough to make them the indelicacy of her conduct was so much the greater, and to a woman in Mrs. Dashwood's situation, with how little attention to the comfort of other people she could act when occasion required it. So
to the advantage of them all, that eagerness of mind in Mrs. Dashwood which must generally have led to imprudence. She had an excellent heart;--her disposition was affectionate, and her feelings were strong; but she knew how to govern them: it was a knowledge which her mother had yet to learn; and
so respectable a manner as to engage the general good opinion of their surrounding acquaintance. The of his life, had a constant companion and housekeeper in his sister. But her death, which happened of solid comfort which his age could receive; and the cheerfulness of the children added a relish to
daughters. The son, a steady respectable young man, was amply provided for by the fortune of his mother, which had been large, and half of which devolved on him on his coming of age. By his own small. Their mother had nothing, and their father only seven thousand pounds in his own disposal;
for the remaining moiety of his first wife's fortune was also secured to her child, and he had only invited and received into his house the family of his nephew Mr. Henry Dashwood, the legal inheritor 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 or his son;--but to his son, and his son's son, a child of four years old, it was secured, in such a
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