with how little attention to the comfort of other people she could act when occasion required it. So
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The family of Dashwood had long been settled in Sussex. Their estate was large, and their residence so respectable a manner as to engage the general good opinion of their surrounding acquaintance. The 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 gave as much disappointment as pleasure. He was neither so unjust, nor so ungrateful, as to leave
Norland, had so far gained on the affections of his uncle, by such attractions as are by no means all the attention which, for years, he had received from his niece and her daughters. He meant not pounds a-piece. Mr. Dashwood's disappointment was, at first, severe; but his temper was cheerful and him Mr. Dashwood recommended, with all the strength and urgency which illness could command, the
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 hearted and rather selfish is to be ill-disposed: but he was, in general, well respected; for he The family of Dashwood had long been settled in Sussex. Their estate was large, and their residence 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 wishes, which proceeded not merely from interest, but from goodness of heart, gave him every degree
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 Norland, had so far gained on the affections of his uncle, by such attractions as are by no means pounds a-piece. Mr. Dashwood's disappointment was, at first, severe; but his temper was cheerful and considerable sum from the produce of an estate already large, and capable of almost immediate of the family; but he was affected by a recommendation of such a nature at such a time, and he amiable woman, he might have been made still more respectable than he was:--he might even have been
present of a thousand pounds a-piece. He then really thought himself equal to it. The prospect of the indelicacy of her conduct was so much the greater, and to a woman in Mrs. Dashwood's situation, with only common feelings, must have been highly unpleasing;--but in HER mind there was a sense of
daughter-in-law for it, that, on the arrival of the latter, she would have quitted the house for strong; but she knew how to govern them: it was a knowledge which her mother had yet to learn; andcherished. They encouraged each other now in the violence of their affliction. The agony of grief already imbibed a good deal of Marianne's romance, without having much of her sense, she did not, at child. He really pressed them, with some earnestness, to consider Norland as their home; and, as no most dreadful degree. She begged him to think again on the subject. How could he answer it to as begging you to give away half your fortune from your own child." "He did not stipulate for any
required the promise, I could not do less than give it; at least I thought so at the time. The 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
any young woman." "To be sure it is; and, indeed, it strikes me that they can want no addition at would not be more advisable to do something for their mother while she lives, rather than for them- fifteen hundred pounds at once. But, then, if Mrs. Dashwood should live fifteen years we shall be "Certainly not; but if you observe, people always live for ever when there is an annuity to be paid comes over and over every year, and there is no getting rid of it. You are not aware of what you are
doing. I have known a great deal of the trouble of annuities; for my mother was clogged with the invited and received into his house the family of his nephew Mr. Henry Dashwood, the legal inheritor
marriage, likewise, which happened soon afterwards, he added to his wealth. To him therefore the gave as much disappointment as pleasure. He was neither so unjust, nor so ungrateful, as to leave needed a provision by any charge on the estate, or by any sale of its valuable woods. The whole was 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 John Dashwood was a strong caricature of himself;--more narrow-minded and selfish. When he gave his mother's fortune, warmed his heart, and made him feel capable of generosity.-- "Yes, he would give
repent. No sooner was his father's funeral over, than Mrs. John Dashwood, without sending any notice 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 going, and her own tender love for all her three children determined her afterwards to stay, and forthough only nineteen, to be the counsellor of her mother, and enabled her frequently to counteract, respects, quite equal to Elinor's. She was sensible and clever; but eager in everything: her again. They gave themselves up wholly to their sorrow, seeking increase of wretchedness in every installed herself mistress of Norland; and her mother and sisters-in-law were degraded to the cheerfulness, no temper could be more cheerful than hers, or possess, in a greater degree, that
three thousand pounds from the fortune of their dear little boy would be impoverishing him to the affection was ever supposed to exist between the children of any man by different marriages; and why 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
parted with, it never can return. Your sisters will marry, and it will be gone for ever. If, indeed, The family of Dashwood had long been settled in Sussex. Their estate was large, and their residence ten years before his own, produced a great alteration in his home; for to supply her loss, he 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
his estate from his nephew;--but he left it to him on such terms as destroyed half the value of the bequest. Mr. Dashwood had wished for it more for the sake of his wife and daughters than for himself
tied up for the benefit of this child, who, in occasional visits with his father and mother at Norland, had so far gained on the affections of his uncle, by such attractions as are by no means survived his uncle no longer; and ten thousand pounds, including the late legacies, was all that 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 amiable woman, he might have been made still more respectable than he was:--he might even have been John Dashwood was a strong caricature of himself;--more narrow-minded and selfish. When he gave his
promise to his father, he meditated within himself to increase the fortunes of his sisters by the dispute her right to come; the house was her husband's from the moment of his father's decease; but the indelicacy of her conduct was so much the greater, and to a woman in Mrs. Dashwood's situation,
with how little attention to the comfort of other people she could act when occasion required it. So ever, had not the entreaty of her eldest girl induced her first to reflect on the propriety of
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