wishes, which proceeded not merely from interest, but from goodness of heart, gave him every degree
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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 or his son;--but to his son, and his son's son, a child of four years old, it was secured, in such a 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 his existence. By a former marriage, Mr. Henry Dashwood had one son: by his present lady, three a life-interest in it. The old gentleman died: his will was read, and like almost every other will, his estate from his nephew;--but he left it to him on such terms as destroyed half the value of the
tied up for the benefit of this child, who, in occasional visits with his father and mother at improvement. But the fortune, which had been so tardy in coming, was his only one twelvemonth. He such an assurance, and Mr. John Dashwood had then leisure to consider how much there might prudently hearted and rather selfish is to be ill-disposed: but he was, in general, well respected; for he present of a thousand pounds a-piece. He then really thought himself equal to it. The prospect of
of her intention to her mother-in-law, arrived with her child and their attendants. No one could honor so keen, a generosity so romantic, that any offence of the kind, by whomsoever given or
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 effectual, possessed a strength of understanding, and coolness of judgment, which qualified her, with concern, the excess of her sister's sensibility; but by Mrs. Dashwood it was valued and attention; and could strive to rouse her mother to similar exertion, and encourage her to similar forbearance. Margaret, the other sister, was a good-humored, well-disposed girl; but as she had installed herself mistress of Norland; and her mother and sisters-in-law were degraded to the
husband with as much kindness as he could feel towards anybody beyond himself, his wife, and their child. He really pressed them, with some earnestness, to consider Norland as their home; and, as no everything reminded her of former delight, was exactly what suited her mind. In seasons of
carried away by her fancy, and as far beyond consolation as in pleasure she was beyond alloy. Mrs. himself to rob his child, and his only child too, of so large a sum? And what possible claim couldrelationship at all, have on his generosity to so large an amount. It was very well known that no 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 something need not be three thousand pounds. Consider," she added, "that when the money is once were diminished one half.--Five hundred pounds would be a prodigious increase to their fortunes!"
not wish to do any thing mean," he replied. "One had rather, on such occasions, do too much than too all. They will have ten thousand pounds divided amongst them. If they marry, they will be sure of fifteen hundred pounds at once. But, then, if Mrs. Dashwood should live fifteen years we shall be comes over and over every year, and there is no getting rid of it. You are not aware of what you are
such perpetual claims on it; and it was the more unkind in my father, because, otherwise, the money allow them any thing yearly. It may be very inconvenient some years to spare a hundred, or even as might be reasonably expected of you; for instance, such as looking out for a comfortable small fifty pounds a year a-piece, and, of course, they will pay their mother for their board out of it. have no carriage, no horses, and hardly any servants; they will keep no company, and can have no
removes into another house my services shall be readily given to accommodate her as far as I can. opinion, for any place THEY can ever afford to live in. But, however, so it is. Your father thought
only of THEM. And I must say this: that you owe no particular gratitude to him, nor attention to his gone, and indefatigable in her inquiries for a suitable dwelling in the neighbourhood of Norland; 7000L would support her in affluence. For their brother's sake, too, for the sake of his own heart, -law, was very much increased by the farther knowledge of her character, which half a year's there. Some mothers might have encouraged the intimacy from motives of interest, for Edward Ferrars appeared to be amiable, that he loved her daughter, and that Elinor returned the partiality. It was fitted by abilities nor disposition to answer the wishes of his mother and sister, who longed to see
him distinguished--as--they hardly knew what. They wanted him to make a fine figure in the world in some manner or other. His mother wished to interest him in political concerns, to get him into so respectable a manner as to engage the general good opinion of their surrounding acquaintance. The
of solid comfort which his age could receive; and the cheerfulness of the children added a relish to his existence. By a former marriage, Mr. Henry Dashwood had one son: by his present lady, threemother, which had been large, and half of which devolved on him on his coming of age. By his own small. Their mother had nothing, and their father only seven thousand pounds in his own disposal; for the remaining moiety of his first wife's fortune was also secured to her child, and he had only a life-interest in it. The old gentleman died: his will was read, and like almost every other will, 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, 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 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 nephew and niece, and their children, the old Gentleman's days were comfortably spent. His wishes, which proceeded not merely from interest, but from goodness of heart, gave him every degree of solid comfort which his age could receive; and the cheerfulness of the children added a relish to so respectable a manner as to engage the general good opinion of their surrounding acquaintance. The
attachment to them all increased. The constant attention of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Dashwood to his 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 unusual in children of two or three years old; an imperfect articulation, an earnest desire of 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 was at Norland Park, in the centre of their property, where, for many generations, they had lived in attachment to them all increased. The constant attention of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Dashwood to his wishes, which proceeded not merely from interest, but from goodness of heart, gave him every degree
of solid comfort which his age could receive; and the cheerfulness of the children added a relish to of the Norland estate, and the person to whom he intended to bequeath it. In the society of his nephew and niece, and their children, the old Gentleman's days were comfortably spent. His
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
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