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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.
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.
a most fortunate creature, and surrounded with blessings in such an excellent mother, and so many good neighbours and friends, and a home that wanted for nothing.
had the ball taken place, she did not think Jane could have attended it;
the most amiable, affable, delightful woman— just as accomplished and condescending
Mrs. Dixon had written most pressingly.
dear Miss Woodhouse's most obliging invitation.
thinking an airing might be of the greatest service—
Jane was quite unpersuadable; the mere proposal of going out seemed to make her worse.—
Jane would hardly eat any thing:—Mr. Perry recommended nourishing food; but every thing they could command (and never had any body such good neighbours) was distasteful.
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,
The fever was subdued; the fever had been his complaint; of course he would soon be well again.
her poor sister
but how to find anything to hold Susan's clothes, because Rebecca took away all the boxes and spoilt them,
her, as Fanny's sister, to have a claim at Mansfield,

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