Austen Said:

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;

her best love, and hopes to hear from you soon.

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,