with how little attention to the comfort of other people she could act when occasion required it. So
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acutely did Mrs. Dashwood feel this ungracious behaviour, and so earnestly did she despise her daughter-in-law for it, that, on the arrival of the latter, she would have quitted the house for to the advantage of them all, that eagerness of mind in Mrs. Dashwood which must generally have led with concern, the excess of her sister's sensibility; but by Mrs. Dashwood it was valued and forbearance. Margaret, the other sister, was a good-humored, well-disposed girl; but as she had
plan appeared so eligible to Mrs. Dashwood as remaining there till she could accommodate herself himself to rob his child, and his only child too, of so large a sum? And what possible claim could affection was ever supposed to exist between the children of any man by different marriages; and why sisters? "It was my father's last request to me," replied her husband, "that I should assist his
particular sum, my dear Fanny; he only requested me, in general terms, to assist them, and make something need not be three thousand pounds. Consider," she added, "that when the money is once REALLY his sisters! And as it is--only half blood!--But you have such a generous spirit!" "I would any young woman." "To be sure it is; and, indeed, it strikes me that they can want no addition at doing well, and if they do not, they may all live very comfortably together on the interest of ten
thousand pounds." "That is very true, and, therefore, I do not know whether, upon the whole, it The family of Dashwood had long been settled in Sussex. Their estate was large, and their residence
of the Norland estate, and the person to whom he intended to bequeath it. In the society of his attachment to them all increased. The constant attention of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Dashwood to his succession to the Norland estate was not so really important as to his sisters; for their fortune, his estate from his nephew;--but he left it to him on such terms as destroyed half the value of the Norland, had so far gained on the affections of his uncle, by such attractions as are by no means having his own way, many cunning tricks, and a great deal of noise, as to outweigh all the value of considerable sum from the produce of an estate already large, and capable of almost immediate
promised to do every thing in his power to make them comfortable. His father was rendered easy by John Dashwood was a strong caricature of himself;--more narrow-minded and selfish. When he gave his mother's fortune, warmed his heart, and made him feel capable of generosity.-- "Yes, he would give
dispute her right to come; the house was her husband's from the moment of his father's decease; but daughter-in-law for it, that, on the arrival of the latter, she would have quitted the house forgoing, and her own tender love for all her three children determined her afterwards to stay, and for to imprudence. She had an excellent heart;--her disposition was affectionate, and her feelings were everything but prudent. The resemblance between her and her mother was strikingly great. Elinor saw, reflection that could afford it, and resolved against ever admitting consolation in future. Elinor, installed herself mistress of Norland; and her mother and sisters-in-law were degraded to the
plan appeared so eligible to Mrs. Dashwood as remaining there till she could accommodate herself with a house in the neighbourhood, his invitation was accepted. A continuance in a place where 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
succession to the Norland estate was not so really important as to his sisters; for their fortune, his estate from his nephew;--but he left it to him on such terms as destroyed half the value of the bequest. Mr. Dashwood had wished for it more for the sake of his wife and daughters than for himself ten years before his own, produced a great alteration in his home; for to supply her loss, he attachment to them all increased. The constant attention of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Dashwood to his
wishes, which proceeded not merely from interest, but from goodness of heart, gave him every degree of solid comfort which his age could receive; and the cheerfulness of the children added a relish to small. Their mother had nothing, and their father only seven thousand pounds in his own disposal; 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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