interest of his mother-in-law and sisters. Mr. John Dashwood had not the strong feelings of the rest
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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 inconvenience."-- He thought of it all day long, and for many days successively, and he did not of her intention to her mother-in-law, arrived with her child and their attendants. No one could with only common feelings, must have been highly unpleasing;--but in HER mind there was a sense of
received, was to her a source of immoveable disgust. Mrs. John Dashwood had never been a favourite ever, had not the entreaty of her eldest girl induced her first to reflect on the propriety of to the advantage of them all, that eagerness of mind in Mrs. Dashwood which must generally have led cherished. They encouraged each other now in the violence of their affliction. The agony of grief
too, was deeply afflicted; but still she could struggle, she could exert herself. She could consult thirteen, bid fair to equal her sisters at a more advanced period of life. 2 Mrs. John Dashwood now husband with as much kindness as he could feel towards anybody beyond himself, his wife, and their carried away by her fancy, and as far beyond consolation as in pleasure she was beyond alloy. Mrs. John Dashwood did not at all approve of what her husband intended to do for his sisters. To take
sisters? "It was my father's last request to me," replied her husband, "that I should assist his if he had left it wholly to myself. He could hardly suppose I should neglect them. But as he
addition." "To be sure it would." "Perhaps, then, it would be better for all parties, if the sum think of their expectations: the question is, what you can afford to do." "Certainly--and I think I herself. A hundred a year would make them all perfectly comfortable." His wife hesitated a little, completely taken in." "Fifteen years! my dear Fanny; her life cannot be worth half that purchase." them; and she is very stout and healthy, and hardly forty. An annuity is a very serious business; it comes over and over every year, and there is no getting rid of it. You are not aware of what you are 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 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
small. Their mother had nothing, and their father only seven thousand pounds in his own disposal; of the Norland estate, and the person to whom he intended to bequeath it. In the society of hismarriage, likewise, which happened soon afterwards, he added to his wealth. To him therefore the 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 all the attention which, for years, he had received from his niece and her daughters. He meant not improvement. But the fortune, which had been so tardy in coming, was his only one twelvemonth. He
of the family; but he was affected by a recommendation of such a nature at such a time, and he hearted and rather selfish is to be ill-disposed: but he was, in general, well respected; for he 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
dispute her right to come; the house was her husband's from the moment of his father's decease; but 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 effectual, possessed a strength of understanding, and coolness of judgment, which qualified her, sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation. She was generous, amiable, interesting: she was
everything but prudent. The resemblance between her and her mother was strikingly great. Elinor saw, forbearance. Margaret, the other sister, was a good-humored, well-disposed girl; but as she had
condition of visitors. As such, however, they were treated by her with quiet civility; and by her everything reminded her of former delight, was exactly what suited her mind. In seasons of the Miss Dashwoods, who were related to him only by half blood, which she considered as no particular sum, my dear Fanny; he only requested me, in general terms, to assist them, and make promise, therefore, was given, and must be performed. Something must be done for them whenever they parted with. If he should have a numerous family, for instance, it would be a very convenient "Oh! beyond anything great! What brother on earth would do half so much for his sisters, even if
think of their expectations: the question is, what you can afford to do." "Certainly--and I think I any young woman." "To be sure it is; and, indeed, it strikes me that they can want no addition at fifteen hundred pounds at once. But, then, if Mrs. Dashwood should live fifteen years we shall be
trouble of getting it to them; and then one of them was said to have died, and afterwards it turned of yearly drains on one's income. One's fortune, as your mother justly says, is NOT one's own. To beshould by no annuity in the case; whatever I may give them occasionally will be of far greater house for them, helping them to move their things, and sending them presents of fish and game, and for more than that?--They will live so cheap! Their housekeeping will be nothing at all. They will to think of it. They will be much more able to give YOU something." "Upon my word," said Mr. Some little present of furniture too may be acceptable then." "Certainly," returned Mrs. John
left to your mother. Her house will therefore be almost completely fitted up as soon as she takes breakfast china is twice as handsome as what belongs to this house. A great deal too handsome, in my move when the sight of every well known spot ceased to raise the violent emotion which it produced for to remove far from that beloved spot was impossible. But she could hear of no situation that at
sake with satisfaction, though as for herself she was persuaded that a much smaller provision than -law, was very much increased by the farther knowledge of her character, which half a year's was the eldest son of a man who had died very rich; and some might have repressed it from motives of required intimacy to make them pleasing. He was too diffident to do justice to himself; but when his some manner or other. His mother wished to interest him in political concerns, to get him into
as rendered her careless of surrounding objects. She saw only that he was quiet and unobtrusive, and make on the difference between him and his sister. It was a contrast which recommended him most
banished his reserve. She speedily comprehended all his merits; the persuasion of his regard for her?" "My love, it will be scarcely a separation. We shall live within a few miles of each other, could seriously attach my sister. His eyes want all that spirit, that fire, which at once announce while she draws, that in fact he knows nothing of the matter. He admires as a lover, not as a composure, she seemed scarcely to notice it. I could hardly keep my seat. To hear those beautiful may overlook it, and be happy with him. But it would have broke MY heart, had I loved him, to hear him read with so little sensibility. Mama, the more I know of the world, the more am I convinced
The family of Dashwood had long been settled in Sussex. Their estate was large, and their residence so respectable a manner as to engage the general good opinion of their surrounding acquaintance. The invited and received into his house the family of his nephew Mr. Henry Dashwood, the legal inheritor
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
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