leave Norland and settle in a new home." "Well, then, LET something be done for them; but THAT
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parted with, it never can return. Your sisters will marry, and it will be gone for ever. If, indeed, it could be restored to our poor little boy--" "Why, to be sure," said her husband, very gravely, "that would make great difference. The time may come when Harry will regret that so large a sum was not wish to do any thing mean," he replied. "One had rather, on such occasions, do too much than too may afford to give them five hundred pounds a-piece. As it is, without any addition of mine, they
will each have about three thousand pounds on their mother's death--a very comfortable fortune for any young woman." "To be sure it is; and, indeed, it strikes me that they can want no addition at thousand pounds." "That is very true, and, therefore, I do not know whether, upon the whole, it -something of the annuity kind I mean.--My sisters would feel the good effects of it as well as
herself. A hundred a year would make them all perfectly comfortable." His wife hesitated a little, 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 or his son;--but to his son, and his son's son, a child of four years old, it was secured, in such a tied up for the benefit of this child, who, in occasional visits with his father and mother at
to be unkind, however, and, as a mark of his affection for the three girls, he left them a thousand sanguine; and he might reasonably hope to live many years, and by living economically, lay by a
improvement. But the fortune, which had been so tardy in coming, was his only one twelvemonth. He 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 John Dashwood was a strong caricature of himself;--more narrow-minded and selfish. When he gave his repent. No sooner was his father's funeral over, than Mrs. John Dashwood, without sending any notice acutely did Mrs. Dashwood feel this ungracious behaviour, and so earnestly did she despise her though only nineteen, to be the counsellor of her mother, and enabled her frequently to counteract,
cherished. They encouraged each other now in the violence of their affliction. The agony of grief again. They gave themselves up wholly to their sorrow, seeking increase of wretchedness in every reflection that could afford it, and resolved against ever admitting consolation in future. Elinor,
The family of Dashwood had long been settled in Sussex. Their estate was large, and their residence attachment to them all increased. The constant attention of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Dashwood to hisof solid comfort which his age could receive; and the cheerfulness of the children added a relish to for the remaining moiety of his first wife's fortune was also secured to her child, and he had only needed a provision by any charge on the estate, or by any sale of its valuable woods. The whole was having his own way, many cunning tricks, and a great deal of noise, as to outweigh all the value of pounds a-piece. Mr. Dashwood's disappointment was, at first, severe; but his temper was cheerful and
survived his uncle no longer; and ten thousand pounds, including the late legacies, was all that be in his power to do for them. He was not an ill-disposed young man, unless to be rather cold conducted himself with propriety in the discharge of his ordinary duties. Had he married a more completely easy. Three thousand pounds! he could spare so considerable a sum with little
honor so keen, a generosity so romantic, that any offence of the kind, by whomsoever given or acutely did Mrs. Dashwood feel this ungracious behaviour, and so earnestly did she despise her effectual, possessed a strength of understanding, and coolness of judgment, which qualified her, strong; but she knew how to govern them: it was a knowledge which her mother had yet to learn; and reflection that could afford it, and resolved against ever admitting consolation in future. Elinor,
condition of visitors. As such, however, they were treated by her with quiet civility; and by her John Dashwood did not at all approve of what her husband intended to do for his sisters. To take three thousand pounds from the fortune of their dear little boy would be impoverishing him to the light-headed at the time. Had he been in his right senses, he could not have thought of such a thing
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