received, was to her a source of immoveable disgust. Mrs. John Dashwood had never been a favourite
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with any of her husband's family; but she had had no opportunity, till the present, of shewing them going, and her own tender love for all her three children determined her afterwards to stay, and for strong; but she knew how to govern them: it was a knowledge which her mother had yet to learn; and everything but prudent. The resemblance between her and her mother was strikingly great. Elinor saw, which overpowered them at first, was voluntarily renewed, was sought for, was created again and
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, 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.
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 parted with, it never can return. Your sisters will marry, and it will be gone for ever. If, indeed, were diminished one half.--Five hundred pounds would be a prodigious increase to their fortunes!"
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
however, in giving her consent to this plan. "To be sure," said she, "it is better than parting with them; and she is very stout and healthy, and hardly forty. An annuity is a very serious business; it doing. I have known a great deal of the trouble of annuities; for my mother was clogged with the out to be no such thing. My mother was quite sick of it. Her income was not her own, she said, with such perpetual claims on it; and it was the more unkind in my father, because, otherwise, the money 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
attachment to them all increased. The constant attention of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Dashwood to his his existence. By a former marriage, Mr. Henry Dashwood had one son: by his present lady, three daughters. The son, a steady respectable young man, was amply provided for by the fortune of his
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 wassanguine; and he might reasonably hope to live many years, and by living economically, lay by a him Mr. Dashwood recommended, with all the strength and urgency which illness could command, the interest of his mother-in-law and sisters. Mr. John Dashwood had not the strong feelings of the rest such an assurance, and Mr. John Dashwood had then leisure to consider how much there might prudently be in his power to do for them. He was not an ill-disposed young man, unless to be rather cold
ten years before his own, produced a great alteration in his home; for to supply her loss, he daughters. The son, a steady respectable young man, was amply provided for by the fortune of his for the remaining moiety of his first wife's fortune was also secured to her child, and he had only his estate from his nephew;--but he left it to him on such terms as destroyed half the value of the
way, as to leave to himself no power of providing for those who were most dear to him, and who most pounds a-piece. Mr. Dashwood's disappointment was, at first, severe; but his temper was cheerful and interest of his mother-in-law and sisters. Mr. John Dashwood had not the strong feelings of the rest 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
inconvenience."-- He thought of it all day long, and for many days successively, and he did not with any of her husband's family; but she had had no opportunity, till the present, of shewing them 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
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