Austen Said:

One's fortune,

is NOT one's own.

'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."

'It would have been beyond comparison,'

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