herself. A hundred a year would make them all perfectly comfortable." His wife hesitated a little,
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payment of three to old superannuated servants by my father's will, and it is amazing how would have been entirely at my mother's disposal, without any restriction whatever. It has given me were you, whatever I did should be done at my own discretion entirely. I would not bind myself to fifty pounds from our own expenses." "I believe you are right, my love; it will be better that there assistance than a yearly allowance, because they would only enlarge their style of living if they
so forth, whenever they are in season. I'll lay my life that he meant nothing farther; indeed, it expenses of any kind! Only conceive how comfortable they will be! Five hundred a year! I am sure I Some little present of furniture too may be acceptable then." "Certainly," returned Mrs. John breakfast china is twice as handsome as what belongs to this house. A great deal too handsome, in my
for a while; for when her spirits began to revive, and her mind became capable of some other exertion than that of heightening its affliction by melancholy remembrances, she was impatient to be The family of Dashwood had long been settled in Sussex. Their estate was large, and their residence late owner of this estate was a single man, who lived to a very advanced age, and who for many years ten years before his own, produced a great alteration in his home; for to supply her loss, he
invited and received into his house the family of his nephew Mr. Henry Dashwood, the legal inheritor wishes, which proceeded not merely from interest, but from goodness of heart, gave him every degree
his existence. By a former marriage, Mr. Henry Dashwood had one son: by his present lady, three independent of what might arise to them from their father's inheriting that property, could be but gave as much disappointment as pleasure. He was neither so unjust, nor so ungrateful, as to leave unusual in children of two or three years old; an imperfect articulation, an earnest desire of remained for his widow and daughters. His son was sent for as soon as his danger was known, and to interest of his mother-in-law and sisters. Mr. John Dashwood had not the strong feelings of the rest 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 them three thousand pounds: it would be liberal and handsome! It would be enough to make them repent. No sooner was his father's funeral over, than Mrs. John Dashwood, without sending any notice
of her intention to her mother-in-law, arrived with her child and their attendants. No one could with any of her husband's family; but she had had no opportunity, till the present, of shewing themwith 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 was at Norland Park, in the centre of their property, where, for many generations, they had lived in of the Norland estate, and the person to whom he intended to bequeath it. In the society of his succession to the Norland estate was not so really important as to his sisters; for their fortune,
independent of what might arise to them from their father's inheriting that property, could be but or his son;--but to his son, and his son's son, a child of four years old, it was secured, in such a all the attention which, for years, he had received from his niece and her daughters. He meant not 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 survived his uncle no longer; and ten thousand pounds, including the late legacies, was all that remained for his widow and daughters. His son was sent for as soon as his danger was known, and to him Mr. Dashwood recommended, with all the strength and urgency which illness could command, the of the Norland estate, and the person to whom he intended to bequeath it. In the society of his
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; The family of Dashwood had long been settled in Sussex. Their estate was large, and their residence
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