widow and daughters." "He did not know what he was talking of, I dare say; ten to one but he was
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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, late owner of this estate was a single man, who lived to a very advanced age, and who for many years of his life, had a constant companion and housekeeper in his sister. But her death, which happened of his life, had a constant companion and housekeeper in his sister. But her death, which happened
of the Norland estate, and the person to whom he intended to bequeath it. In the society of his 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 a life-interest in it. The old gentleman died: his will was read, and like almost every other will,
needed a provision by any charge on the estate, or by any sale of its valuable woods. The whole was all the attention which, for years, he had received from his niece and her daughters. He meant not sanguine; and he might reasonably hope to live many years, and by living economically, lay by a considerable sum from the produce of an estate already large, and capable of almost immediate improvement. But the fortune, which had been so tardy in coming, was his only one twelvemonth. He
so respectable a manner as to engage the general good opinion of their surrounding acquaintance. The of the Norland estate, and the person to whom he intended to bequeath it. In the society 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, a life-interest in it. The old gentleman died: his will was read, and like almost every other will, unusual in children of two or three years old; an imperfect articulation, an earnest desire of to be unkind, however, and, as a mark of his affection for the three girls, he left them a thousand remained for his widow and daughters. His son was sent for as soon as his danger was known, and to promised to do every thing in his power to make them comfortable. His father was rendered easy by
such an assurance, and Mr. John Dashwood had then leisure to consider how much there might prudently amiable woman, he might have been made still more respectable than he was:--he might even have been inconvenience."-- He thought of it all day long, and for many days successively, and he did not
dispute her right to come; the house was her husband's from the moment of his father's decease; but the indelicacy of her conduct was so much the greater, and to a woman in Mrs. Dashwood's situation,acutely did Mrs. Dashwood feel this ungracious behaviour, and so earnestly did she despise her to the advantage of them all, that eagerness of mind in Mrs. Dashwood which must generally have led respects, quite equal to Elinor's. She was sensible and clever; but eager in everything: her which overpowered them at first, was voluntarily renewed, was sought for, was created again and attention; and could strive to rouse her mother to similar exertion, and encourage her to similar
with a house in the neighbourhood, his invitation was accepted. A continuance in a place where most dreadful degree. She begged him to think again on the subject. How could he answer it to light-headed at the time. Had he been in his right senses, he could not have thought of such a thing their situation more comfortable than it was in his power to do. Perhaps it would have been as well
it could be restored to our poor little boy--" "Why, to be sure," said her husband, very gravely, hardly expect more." "There is no knowing what THEY may expect," said the lady, "but we are not to may afford to give them five hundred pounds a-piece. As it is, without any addition of mine, they thousand pounds." "That is very true, and, therefore, I do not know whether, upon the whole, it would not be more advisable to do something for their mother while she lives, rather than for them-
The family of Dashwood had long been settled in Sussex. Their estate was large, and their residence ten years before his own, produced a great alteration in his home; for to supply her loss, he nephew and niece, and their children, the old Gentleman's days were comfortably spent. His independent of what might arise to them from their father's inheriting that property, could be but
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