Austen Said:

the limited remnant of the earliest patents;

the blessing of beauty as inferior only to the blessing of a baronetcy;

remaining single for his dear daughters' sake.

His two other children were of very inferior value. Mary had acquired a little artificial importance, by becoming Mrs Charles Musgrove;

Anne,

was nobody

ever reading her name in any other page of his favourite work.

All equality of alliance must rest with Elizabeth, for Mary had merely connected herself with an old country family of respectability and large fortune, and had therefore given all the honour and received none: Elizabeth would, one day or other, marry suitably.

himself and Elizabeth as blooming as ever, amidst the wreck of the good looks of everybody else;

how old all the rest of his family and acquaintance were growing. Anne haggard, Mary coarse, every face in the neighbourhood worsting,

the modest drawing-back of youth;

he ought to have been consulted, especially after taking the young man so publicly by the hand;

It had not been possible for him to spend less; he had done nothing but what Sir Walter Elliot was imperiously called on to do;

No; he would never disgrace his name so far. The Kellynch estate should be transmitted whole and entire, as he had received it.

could not be put up with, were not to be borne.

spurned the idea of its being offered in any manner; forbad the slightest hint being dropped of his having such an intention; and it was only on the supposition of his being spontaneously solicited by some most unexceptionable applicant, on his own terms, and as a great favour, that he would let it at all.

a more unobjectionable tenant, in all essentials, than Admiral Croft bid fair to be, could hardly offer.

"I have let my house to Admiral Croft," would sound extremely well; very much better than to any mere Mr -- a Mr (save, perhaps, some half dozen in the nation,) always needs a note of explanation. An admiral speaks his own consequence, and, at the same time, can never make a baronet look small. In all their dealings and intercourse, Sir Walter Elliot must ever have the precedence.

a very degrading alliance;

the Admiral to be the best-looking sailor he had ever met with,

if his own man might have had the arranging of his hair, he should not be ashamed of being seen with him any where;

(and not an ill-looking man,

A very fine woman with a large fortune, in love with him!

his very gentlemanlike appearance, his air of elegance and fashion, his good shaped face, his sensible eye; but, at the same time,

but Sir Walter had

she was said to be an excessively pretty woman, beautiful.

whether the Crofts travelled with four horses, and whether they were likely to be situated in such a part of Bath as it might suit Miss Elliot and himself to visit in;

his superiority of appearance might be not unfairly balanced against her superiority of rank;