Austen Said:

'that we had asked your sisters instead of them.'"

'THERE, to be sure,'

'I might have thought myself safe.'

she would settle on him the Norfolk estate, which, clear of land-tax, brings in a good thousand a-year;

His own two thousand pounds

should be his all; she would never see him again; and so far would she be from affording him the smallest assistance, that if he were to enter into any profession with a view of better support, she would do all in her power to prevent him advancing in it."

Nothing should prevail on him to give up his engagement. He would stand to it, cost him what it might."

he really believed there was no material danger in Fanny's indisposition, and that they need not therefore be very uneasy about it,

she would never trim me up a new bonnet, nor do any thing else for me again, so long as she lived;

nobody in their senses could expect Mr. Ferrars to give up a woman like Miss Morton, with thirty thousand pounds to her fortune, for Lucy Steele that had nothing at all;

when it came to the point he was afraid Mr. Ferrars would be off;

he loved nobody but Lucy, and nobody but Lucy would he have.

it seemed to him as if, now he had no fortune, and no nothing at all, it would be quite unkind to keep her on to the engagement, because it must be for her loss, for he had nothing but two thousand pounds, and no hope of any thing else; and if he was to go into orders, as he had some thoughts, he could get nothing but a curacy, and how was they to live upon that?

if she had the least mind for it, to put an end to the matter directly, and leave him shift for himself.

she had not the least mind in the world to be off, for she could live with him upon a trifle, and how little so ever he might have, she should be very glad to have it all,

Mrs. Richardson was come in her coach, and would take one of us to Kensington Gardens;

Edward have got some business at Oxford,

it should never be, he did not regard his mother's anger, while he could have my affections;

if any place could give her ease, Barton must do it.

as a measure which would fix the time of her returning to that dear mother, whom she so much wished to see, in a more eligible, more comfortable manner, than any other plan could do, and perhaps without any greater delay. From Cleveland, which was within a few miles of Bristol, the distance to Barton was not beyond one day, though a long day's journey; and their mother's servant might easily come there to attend them down; and as there could be no occasion of their staying above a week at Cleveland, they might now be at home in little more than three weeks' time.

to return with her again from Cleveland.

This set the matter beyond a doubt.

she did not think THAT any material objection;

The preferment,

was already provided to enable him to marry; — and SHE, of all people in the world, was fixed on to bestow it!

to undertake the commission with pleasure, if it were really his wish to put off so agreeable an office to another.

no one could so well perform it as himself. It was an office in short, from which, unwilling to give Edward the pain of receiving an obligation from HER, she would have been very glad to be spared herself;

Edward,

was still in town, and fortunately she had heard his address from Miss Steele. She could undertake therefore to inform him of it, in the course of the day.

the house was small and indifferent;

Delaford living could supply such an income, as anybody in his style of life would venture to settle on —

Why Mr. Ferrars was to have been written to about it in such a hurry,

Miss Dashwood was above, and wanted to speak with him on very particular business.

however difficult it might be to express herself properly by letter, it was at least preferable to giving the information by word of mouth,

understanding you mean to take orders, he has great pleasure in offering you the living of Delaford now just vacant, and only wishes it were more valuable.

the probability of their not waiting for any thing more.

she had never seen him in such spirits before in her life.

no exertion for their good on Miss Dashwood's part, either present or future, would ever surprise her, for she believed her capable of doing any thing in the world for those she really valued.

she was not only ready to worship him as a saint, but was moreover truly anxious that he should be treated as one in all worldly concerns; anxious that his tithes should be raised to the utmost;

she thought Fanny might have borne with composure, an acquisition of wealth to her brother, by which neither she nor her child could be possibly impoverished.

'It would have been beyond comparison,'

'the least evil of the two, and she would be glad to compound NOW for nothing worse.'

Edward reading prayers in a white surplice, and publishing the banns of marriage between John Smith and Mary Brown,

conceive nothing more ridiculous.

concerned to find that Elinor and her sister were so soon to leave town, as she had hoped to see more of them;

their travelling so far towards Barton without any expense, and on Colonel Brandon's being to follow them to Cleveland in a day or two,

to come to Norland whenever it should happen to be in their way,

all her friends seemed determined to send her to Delaford; — a place, in which, of all others, she would now least chuse to visit, or wish to reside;

from their summits Combe Magna might be seen.

perfectly the gentleman in his behaviour to all his visitors, and only occasionally rude to his wife and her mother; she found him very capable of being a pleasant companion, and only prevented from being so always, by too great an aptitude to fancy himself as much superior to people in general, as he must feel himself to be to Mrs. Jennings and Charlotte. For the rest of his character and habits, they were marked, as far as Elinor could perceive, with no traits at all unusual in his sex and time of life. He was nice in his eating, uncertain in his hours; fond of his child, though affecting to slight it; and idled away the mornings at billiards, which ought to have been devoted to business. She liked him, however, upon the whole, much better than she had expected, and in her heart was not sorry that she could like him no more; — not sorry to be driven by the observation of his Epicurism, his selfishness, and his conceit, to rest with complacency on the remembrance of Edward's generous temper, simple taste, and diffident feelings.