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this good-natured visit would at least set her heart at ease for a time,
it probable, as a secondary consideration in his wish of waiting on their worthy neighbours, that he might have some explanation to give of his father’s behaviour, which it must be more pleasant for him to communicate only to Catherine,
there being nothing like practice.
being unjust to his merit before, in believing him incapable of generosity.
her beloved Elinor should not be exposed another week to such insinuations.
she was going into Devonshire. —
It was within four miles northward of Exeter.
to whom she was obliged.
was Willoughby, and his present home was at Allenham, from whence he hoped she would allow him the honour of calling tomorrow to enquire after Miss Dashwood.
whether he knew any gentleman of the name of Willoughby at Allenham.
no alteration of the kind should be attempted.
her daughters might do as they pleased.
greater openness towards them both;
bear up with fortitude under this misfortune.
by all means not to shorten their visit to Mrs. Jennings;
might yet,
cheat Marianne, at times, into some interest beyond herself, and even into some amusement, much as the ideas of both might now be spurned by her.
'But how can it be done?'
'my dear Ferrars, do tell me how it is to be managed. There is not a room in this cottage that will hold ten couple, and where can the supper be?'
one of the happiest women in the world.
Marianne was restored to her from a danger in which,
her own mistaken judgment in encouraging the unfortunate attachment to Willoughby, had contributed to place her;
something more than gratitude already dawned.
she was sorry for him; — she wished him happy.
every thing had been expressly softened at the time, to spare her from an increase of unhappiness, suffering as she then had suffered for Marianne.
she had been misled by the careful, the considerate attention of her daughter, to think the attachment, which once she had so well understood, much slighter in reality, than she had been wont to believe, or than it was now proved to be.
she had been unjust, inattentive, nay, almost unkind, to her Elinor;
— that Marianne's affliction, because more acknowledged, more immediately before her, had too much engrossed her tenderness, and led her away to forget that in Elinor she might have a daughter suffering almost as much, certainly with less self-provocation, and greater fortitude.
to hope that he had left Mrs. Ferrars very well.
It was owing to her persuasion, as
his being out in bad weather did him a great deal of harm.
Her eldest was a boy of ten years old, a fine spirited fellow, who longed to be out in the world; but what could she do? Was there any chance of his being hereafter useful to Sir Thomas in the concerns of his West Indian property? No situation would be beneath him; or what did Sir Thomas think of Woolwich? or how could a boy be sent out to the East?
only wanted him to wait till Sir Thomas's return, and then Sir Thomas might settle it all himself. He would be at home in September, and where would be the harm of only waiting till September?
how dreadfully she must have missed him, and how impossible it would have been for her to bear a lengthened absence.
Fanny, preparing for a ball, might be glad of better help than the upper housemaid's,
being waited for,
he had got the very speech.
very little more than that Sir Thomas thought Fanny ought to go, and therefore that she must.
any necessity for Fanny's ever going near a father and mother who had done without her so long, while she was so useful to herself.
to write to her soon and often,
to be a good correspondent herself;
the impossibility of getting Sam ready in time,
the shocking character of all the Portsmouth servants, of whom
her own two were the very worst,
Mr. Price was out, which she regretted very much.
she had never seen so agreeable a man in her life;
so great and so agreeable as he was, he should be come down to Portsmouth neither on a visit to the port-admiral, nor the commissioner, nor yet with the intention of going over to the island, nor of seeing the dockyard.
she could seldom, with her large family, find time for a walk.
to go with them to the Garrison chapel,
she knows but three men in town who have so good a person, height, and air;

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