to give his opinion on any picture; but he has an innate propriety and simplicity of taste, which in
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partiality to Edward which produced it. "I hope, Marianne," continued Elinor, "you do not consider him as deficient in general taste. Indeed, I think I may say that you cannot, for your behaviour to 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 a life-interest in it. The old gentleman died: his will was read, and like almost every other will,
way, as to leave to himself no power of providing for those who were most dear to him, and who most having his own way, many cunning tricks, and a great deal of noise, as to outweigh all the value of to be unkind, however, and, as a mark of his affection for the three girls, he left them a thousand 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 interest of his mother-in-law and sisters. Mr. John Dashwood had not the strong feelings of the rest The family of Dashwood had long been settled in Sussex. Their estate was large, and their residence invited and received into his house the family of his nephew Mr. Henry Dashwood, the legal inheritor 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 The family of Dashwood had long been settled in Sussex. Their estate was large, and their residence
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 wishes, which proceeded not merely from interest, but from goodness of heart, gave him every degree succession to the Norland estate was not so really important as to his sisters; for their fortune, 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 his estate from his nephew;--but he left it to him on such terms as destroyed half the value of 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 needed a provision by any charge on the estate, or by any sale of its valuable woods. The whole was 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 hearted and rather selfish is to be ill-disposed: but he was, in general, well respected; for heJohn Dashwood was a strong caricature of himself;--more narrow-minded and selfish. When he gave his of her intention to her mother-in-law, arrived with her child and their attendants. No one could 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, to the advantage of them all, that eagerness of mind in Mrs. Dashwood which must generally have led
sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation. She was generous, amiable, interesting: she was with her brother, could receive her sister-in-law on her arrival, and treat her with proper 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
sanguine expectation of happiness which is happiness itself. But in sorrow she must be equally the Miss Dashwoods, who were related to him only by half blood, which she considered as no light-headed at the time. Had he been in his right senses, he could not have thought of such a thing something need not be three thousand pounds. Consider," she added, "that when the money is once "that would make great difference. The time may come when Harry will regret that so large a sum was
were diminished one half.--Five hundred pounds would be a prodigious increase to their fortunes!" any young woman." "To be sure it is; and, indeed, it strikes me that they can want no addition at fifteen hundred pounds at once. But, then, if Mrs. Dashwood should live fifteen years we shall be out to be no such thing. My mother was quite sick of it. Her income was not her own, she said, with
