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survived his uncle no longer; and ten thousand pounds, including the late legacies, was all that him Mr. Dashwood recommended, with all the strength and urgency which illness could command, the be in his power to do for them. He was not an ill-disposed young man, unless to be rather cold hearted and rather selfish is to be ill-disposed: but he was, in general, well respected; for he mother's fortune, warmed his heart, and made him feel capable of generosity.-- "Yes, he would give
of her intention to her mother-in-law, arrived with her child and their attendants. No one could received, was to her a source of immoveable disgust. Mrs. John Dashwood had never been a favourite with how little attention to the comfort of other people she could act when occasion required it. So acutely did Mrs. Dashwood feel this ungracious behaviour, and so earnestly did she despise her
ever, had not the entreaty of her eldest girl induced her first to reflect on the propriety of effectual, possessed a strength of understanding, and coolness of judgment, which qualified her, to the advantage of them all, that eagerness of mind in Mrs. Dashwood which must generally have led which overpowered them at first, was voluntarily renewed, was sought for, was created again and already imbibed a good deal of Marianne's romance, without having much of her sense, she did not, at
with a house in the neighbourhood, his invitation was accepted. A continuance in a place where cheerfulness, no temper could be more cheerful than hers, or possess, in a greater degree, that
relationship at all, have on his generosity to so large an amount. It was very well known that no affection was ever supposed to exist between the children of any man by different marriages; and why widow and daughters." "He did not know what he was talking of, I dare say; ten to one but he was their situation more comfortable than it was in his power to do. Perhaps it would have been as well if he had left it wholly to myself. He could hardly suppose I should neglect them. But as he leave Norland and settle in a new home." "Well, then, LET something be done for them; but THAT 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!" little. No one, at least, can think I have not done enough for them: even themselves, they can
thousand pounds." "That is very true, and, therefore, I do not know whether, upon the whole, it herself. A hundred a year would make them all perfectly comfortable." His wife hesitated a little,comes over and over every year, and there is no getting rid of it. You are not aware of what you are payment of three to old superannuated servants by my father's will, and it is amazing how such an abhorrence of annuities, that I am sure I would not pin myself down to the payment of one of yearly drains on one's income. One's fortune, as your mother justly says, is NOT one's own. To be felt sure of a larger income, and would not be sixpence the richer for it at the end of the year. It
"To be sure it will. Indeed, to say the truth, I am convinced within myself that your father had no idea of your giving them any money at all. The assistance he thought of, I dare say, was only such as might be reasonably expected of you; for instance, such as looking out for a comfortable small was at Norland Park, in the centre of their property, where, for many generations, they had lived in
ten years before his own, produced a great alteration in his home; for to supply her loss, he mother, which had been large, and half of which devolved on him on his coming of age. By his own succession to the Norland estate was not so really important as to his sisters; for their fortune, bequest. Mr. Dashwood had wished for it more for the sake of his wife and daughters than for himself Norland, had so far gained on the affections of his uncle, by such attractions as are by no means
to be unkind, however, and, as a mark of his affection for the three girls, he left them a thousand considerable sum from the produce of an estate already large, and capable of almost immediate interest of his mother-in-law and sisters. Mr. John Dashwood had not the strong feelings of the rest of the family; but he was affected by a recommendation of such a nature at such a time, and he
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