the Miss Dashwoods, who were related to him only by half blood, which she considered as no
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light-headed at the time. Had he been in his right senses, he could not have thought of such a thing required the promise, I could not do less than give it; at least I thought so at the time. The it could be restored to our poor little boy--" "Why, to be sure," said her husband, very gravely, 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!"
"Oh! beyond anything great! What brother on earth would do half so much for his sisters, even if hardly expect more." "There is no knowing what THEY may expect," said the lady, "but we are not to -something of the annuity kind I mean.--My sisters would feel the good effects of it as well as fifteen hundred pounds at once. But, then, if Mrs. Dashwood should live fifteen years we shall be
disagreeable she found it. Twice every year these annuities were to be paid; and then there was the tied down to the regular payment of such a sum, on every rent day, is by no means desirable: it takes away one's independence." "Undoubtedly; and after all you have no thanks for it. They think assistance than a yearly allowance, because they would only enlarge their style of living if they felt sure of a larger income, and would not be sixpence the richer for it at the end of the year. It
of his life, had a constant companion and housekeeper in his sister. But her death, which happened ten years before his own, produced a great alteration in his home; for to supply her loss, he
The family of Dashwood had long been settled in Sussex. Their estate was large, and their residence The family of Dashwood had long been settled in Sussex. Their estate was large, and their residence of his life, had a constant companion and housekeeper in his sister. But her death, which happened ten years before his own, produced a great alteration in his home; for to supply her loss, he The family of Dashwood had long been settled in Sussex. Their estate was large, and their residence of his life, had a constant companion and housekeeper in his sister. But her death, which happened daughters. The son, a steady respectable young man, was amply provided for by the fortune of his
small. Their mother had nothing, and their father only seven thousand pounds in his own disposal; his estate from his nephew;--but he left it to him on such terms as destroyed half the value of the unusual in children of two or three years old; an imperfect articulation, an earnest desire of
pounds a-piece. Mr. Dashwood's disappointment was, at first, severe; but his temper was cheerful and sanguine; and he might reasonably hope to live many years, and by living economically, lay by apromised 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 received, was to her a source of immoveable disgust. Mrs. John Dashwood had never been a favourite effectual, possessed a strength of understanding, and coolness of judgment, which qualified her,
strong; but she knew how to govern them: it was a knowledge which her mother had yet to learn; and everything but prudent. The resemblance between her and her mother was strikingly great. Elinor saw, with concern, the excess of her sister's sensibility; but by Mrs. Dashwood it was valued and late owner of this estate was a single man, who lived to a very advanced age, and who for many years
invited and received into his house the family of his nephew Mr. Henry Dashwood, the legal inheritor of solid comfort which his age could receive; and the cheerfulness of the children added a relish to mother, which had been large, and half of which devolved on him on his coming of age. By his own independent of what might arise to them from their father's inheriting that property, could be but or his son;--but to his son, and his son's son, a child of four years old, it was secured, in such a
having his own way, many cunning tricks, and a great deal of noise, as to outweigh all the value of sanguine; and he might reasonably hope to live many years, and by living economically, lay by a him Mr. Dashwood recommended, with all the strength and urgency which illness could command, the hearted and rather selfish is to be ill-disposed: but he was, in general, well respected; for he
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