nephew and niece, and their children, the old Gentleman's days were comfortably spent. His
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mother, which had been large, and half of which devolved on him on his coming of age. By his own independent of what might arise to them from their father's inheriting that property, could be but small. Their mother had nothing, and their father only seven thousand pounds in his own disposal; of his life, had a constant companion and housekeeper in his sister. But her death, which happened ten years before his own, produced a great alteration in his home; for to supply her loss, he
attachment to them all increased. The constant attention of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Dashwood to his succession to the Norland estate was not so really important as to his sisters; for their fortune, a life-interest in it. The old gentleman died: his will was read, and like almost every other will, or his son;--but to his son, and his son's son, a child of four years old, it was secured, in such a
all the attention which, for years, he had received from his niece and her daughters. He meant not 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 survived his uncle no longer; and ten thousand pounds, including the late legacies, was all that 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
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, respects, quite equal to Elinor's. She was sensible and clever; but eager in everything: her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation. She was generous, amiable, interesting: she was was at Norland Park, in the centre of their property, where, for many generations, they had lived in 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 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
him Mr. Dashwood recommended, with all the strength and urgency which illness could command, the made amiable himself; for he was very young when he married, and very fond of his wife. But Mrs.inconvenience."-- He thought of it all day long, and for many days successively, and he did not dispute her right to come; the house was her husband's from the moment of his father's decease; but 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 for though only nineteen, to be the counsellor of her mother, and enabled her frequently to counteract,
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, with her brother, could receive her sister-in-law on her arrival, and treat her with proper child. He really pressed them, with some earnestness, to consider Norland as their home; and, as no
with a house in the neighbourhood, his invitation was accepted. A continuance in a place where John Dashwood did not at all approve of what her husband intended to do for his sisters. To take himself to rob his child, and his only child too, of so large a sum? And what possible claim could relationship at all, have on his generosity to so large an amount. It was very well known that no particular sum, my dear Fanny; he only requested me, in general terms, to assist them, and make
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, of his life, had a constant companion and housekeeper in his sister. But her death, which happened ten years before his own, produced a great alteration in his home; for to supply her loss, he
