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of a slight rheumatic feel in one of his shoulders."
  • Novel: Sense And Sensibility
  • Character: Elinor Dashwood speaking as Colonel Brandon
  • Link to text in chapter 8
  • Text ID: 00275
No, he had been in Devonshire a fortnight.
He had no pleasure at Norland; he detested being in town;
He valued their kindness beyond any thing, and his greatest happiness was in being with them.
he had been staying a fortnight with some friends near Plymouth."
he should be easy.
that was some comfort to him,
but not equal to a picture.
his pleasure at seeing them in London,
when he was to congratulate her on the acquisition of a brother?
her not finding London agree with her.
Why they WERE different,
GAUCHERIE
much less to any natural deficiency, than to the misfortune of a private education; while he himself, though probably without any particular, any material superiority by nature, merely from the advantage of a public school, was as well fitted to mix in the world as any other man.
Nothing should prevail on him to give up his engagement. He would stand to it, cost him what it might."
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.
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;
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 —
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.
Edward reading prayers in a white surplice, and publishing the banns of marriage between John Smith and Mary Brown,
conceive nothing more ridiculous.
he should see Marianne no more.
she has forgiven me already.
perhaps, at first accidentally meeting, the vanity of the one had been so worked on by the flattery of the other, as to lead by degrees to all the rest.
a well-disposed, good-hearted girl, and thoroughly attached to himself.
not only to be better acquainted with him, but to have an opportunity of convincing him that he no longer resented his giving him the living of Delaford —