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a-year acquaintance affection Allenham assure attention Barton behaviour believe brother cern Cleveland Colonel Brandon comfort cottage cried Marianne curricle dare say daugh daughter dear Delaford delight Devonshire doubt Edward engagement everything expected eyes fancy Fanny farther fear feel felt Ferrars friends gave girl give glad happy hear heard heart Honiton hope immediately Jennings Jennings's John Dashwood kind knew Lady Middleton laughed leave less letter live look loughby Lucy Lucy's ma'am manner Marianne's marriage married ment mind Miss Dashwood Miss Steeles morning mother ness never Norland obliged opinion pain Palmer park party perhaps pleasure poor present replied Elinor returned Robert Ferrars seemed SENSE AND SENSIBILITY silent Sir John sister smile soon speak spirits suppose sure surprise talk tell thing thought thousand pounds tion told town voice walked Willoughby wish woman young
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Page 14 - Certainly not; but if you observe, people always live for ever when there is any annuity to be paid them; and she is very stout and healthy, and hardly forty. An annuity is a very serious business ; it 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 payment of three to old superannuated servants by my father's will, and it is amazing how disagreeable...
Page 36 - On each side of the entrance was a sitting-room, about sixteen feet square ; and beyond them were the offices and the stairs. Four bedrooms and two garrets formed the rest of the house. It had not been built many years, and was in good repair.
Page 11 - John Dashwood did not at all approve of what her husband intended to do for his sisters. To take three thousand pounds from the fortune of their dear little boy would be impoverishing him to the most dreadful degree. She begged him to think again on the subject. How could he answer it to himself to rob his child, and his only child too, of so large a sum?
Page 186 - Elinor could sit it no longer. She almost ran out of the room, and as soon as the door was closed, burst into tears of joy, which at first she thought would never cease.
Page 111 - No, Marianne, never. My doctrine has never aimed at the subjection of the understanding. All I have ever attempted to influence has been the behaviour. You must not confound my meaning. I am guilty, I confess, of having often wished you to treat our acquaintance in general with greater attention; but when have I advised you to adopt their sentiments or conform to their judgment in serious matters?
Page 12 - He did not know what he was talking of, I dare say; ten f<~rone but he was lightheaded at the time. Had he been in his right senses, he could not have thought of such a thing as begging you to give away half your fortune from your own child.
Page 27 - Elinor started at this declaration, and was sorry for the warmth she had been betrayed into, in speaking of him. She felt that Edward stood very high in her opinion. She believed the regard to be mutual ; but she required greater certainty of it to make Marianne's conviction of their attachment agreeable to her.
Page 114 - ... atmosphere. You must be satisfied with such admiration as I can honestly give. I call it a very fine country — the hills are steep, the woods seem full of fine timber, and the valley looks comfortable and snug— with rich meadows and several neat farm houses scattered here and there.
Page 154 - Willoug' by, in spite of all his faults, excited a degree of commiseration for the sufferings produced by them, which made her think of him as now separated for ever from her family with a tenderness, a regret, rather in proportion, as she soon acknowledged within herself, to his wishes than to his merits.
Page 115 - I do not like crooked, twisted, blasted trees. I admire them much more if they are tall, straight, and flourishing. I do not like ruined, tattered cottages. 1 am not fond of nettles or thistles, or heath blossoms. I have more pleasure in a snug farm-house than a watch-tower, — and a troop of tidy, happy villagers please me better than the finest banditti in the world.