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acquaintance affection Allenham assure attention Barton behavior believe brother Cleveland Colonel Brandon comfort cottage cried Marianne curricle dare say daugh daughter Dawlish dear Delaford delight Devonshire doubt Edward engagement everything expected eyes fancy Fanny feel felt Ferrars Ferrars's friends gave girl give glad happy Harley Street hear heard heart hope immediately Jennings Jennings's John Dashwood kind knew Lady Middleton laughed less letter live look loughby Lucy Lucy's ma'am mamma manner Margaret Marianne's marriage married ment mind Miss Dashwood Miss Steeles morning mother ness never Norland obliged opinion pain Palmer Park party perhaps pleasure poor 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 wonder young
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Page 296 - Marianne Dashwood was born to an extraordinary fate. She was born to discover the falsehood of her own opinions, and to counteract, by her conduct, her most favourite maxims. She was born to overcome an affection formed so late in life as at seventeen, and with no sentiment superior to strong esteem and lively friendship, voluntarily to give her hand to another!
Page 53 - JENNINGS was a widow with an ample jointure. She had only two daughters, both of whom she had lived to see respectably married, and she had now therefore nothing to do but to marry all the rest of the world.
Page 10 - ... a strength of understanding, and coolness of judgment, which qualified 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 to imprudence. She had an excellent heart ; — her disposition was affectionate, and her feelings were strong; but she knew how to govern them...
Page 41 - ... when shall I cease to regret you! When learn to feel a home elsewhere! Oh! happy house, could you know what I suffer in now viewing you from this spot, from whence perhaps I may view you no more! And you, ye well-known trees! But you will continue the same. No leaf will decay because we are removed, nor any branch become motionless, although we can observe you no longer! No, you will continue the same: unconscious of the pleasure or the regret you occasion and insensible of any change in those...
Page 292 - The whole of Lucy's behaviour in the affair, and the prosperity which crowned it, therefore, may be held forth as a most encouraging instance of what an earnest, an unceasing attention to self-interest, however its progress may be apparently obstructed, will do in securing every advantage of fortune, with no other sacrifice than that of time and conscience.
Page 75 - Brandon is just the kind of man," said Willoughby one day, when they were talking of him together, "whom everybody speaks well of, and nobody cares about; whom all are delighted to see, and nobody remembers to talk to." "That is exactly what I think of him,
Page 10 - Elinor, this eldest daughter whose advice was so effectual, possessed a strength of understanding, and coolness of judgment, which qualified 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 to imprudence.
Page 13 - 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 230 - ... confinement of a carriage, and ready to enjoy all the luxury of a good fire. The house was handsome and handsomely fitted up, and the young ladies were immediately put in possession of a very comfortable apartment. It had formerly...
Page 89 - John Dashwood had not much to say for himself that was worth hearing, and his wife had still less. But there was no peculiar disgrace in this, for it was very much the case with the chief of their visitors, who almost all laboured under one or other of these disqualifications for being agreeable - want of sense, either natural or improved, want of elegance, want of spirits, or want of temper.