hearted and rather selfish is to be ill-disposed: but he was, in general, well respected; for he
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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 of her intention to her mother-in-law, arrived with her child and their attendants. No one could dispute her right to come; the house was her husband's from the moment of his father's decease; but with how little attention to the comfort of other people she could act when occasion required it. So
though only nineteen, to be the counsellor of her mother, and enabled her frequently to counteract, sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation. She was generous, amiable, interesting: she was too, was deeply afflicted; but still she could struggle, she could exert herself. She could consult with her brother, could receive her sister-in-law on her arrival, and treat her with proper
attention; and could strive to rouse her mother to similar exertion, and encourage her to similar installed herself mistress of Norland; and her mother and sisters-in-law were degraded to the everything reminded her of former delight, was exactly what suited her mind. In seasons of cheerfulness, no temper could be more cheerful than hers, or possess, in a greater degree, that sanguine expectation of happiness which is happiness itself. But in sorrow she must be equally
the Miss Dashwoods, who were related to him only by half blood, which she considered as no sisters? "It was my father's last request to me," replied her husband, "that I should assist his
widow and daughters." "He did not know what he was talking of, I dare say; ten to one but he was promise, therefore, was given, and must be performed. Something must be done for them whenever they leave Norland and settle in a new home." "Well, then, LET something be done for them; but THAT something need not be three thousand pounds. Consider," she added, "that when the money is once parted with, it never can return. Your sisters will marry, and it will be gone for ever. If, indeed, The family of Dashwood had long been settled in Sussex. Their estate was large, and their residence was at Norland Park, in the centre of their property, where, for many generations, they had lived in
nephew and niece, and their children, the old Gentleman's days were comfortably spent. His of solid comfort which his age could receive; and the cheerfulness of the children added a relish to his existence. By a former marriage, Mr. Henry Dashwood had one son: by his present lady, three
late owner of this estate was a single man, who lived to a very advanced age, and who for many years of solid comfort which his age could receive; and the cheerfulness of the children added a relish tosuccession to the Norland estate was not so really important as to his sisters; for their fortune, or his son;--but to his son, and his son's son, a child of four years old, it was secured, in such a way, as to leave to himself no power of providing for those who were most dear to him, and who most unusual in children of two or three years old; an imperfect articulation, an earnest desire of all the attention which, for years, he had received from his niece and her daughters. He meant not
to be unkind, however, and, as a mark of his affection for the three girls, he left them a thousand interest of his mother-in-law and sisters. Mr. John Dashwood had not the strong feelings of the rest conducted himself with propriety in the discharge of his ordinary duties. Had he married a more amiable woman, he might have been made still more respectable than he was:--he might even have been
four thousand a-year, in addition to his present income, besides the remaining half of his own inconvenience."-- He thought of it all day long, and for many days successively, and he did not repent. No sooner was his father's funeral over, than Mrs. John Dashwood, without sending any notice received, was to her a source of immoveable disgust. Mrs. John Dashwood had never been a favourite with any of her husband's family; but she had had no opportunity, till the present, of shewing them
with how little attention to the comfort of other people she could act when occasion required it. So ten years before his own, produced a great alteration in his home; for to supply her loss, he 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
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