Austen Said:

whether she should ever be able to part with them.

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

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,

Mrs. Ferrars was the most unfortunate of women — poor Fanny had suffered agonies of sensibility —

Robert's offence was unpardonable, but Lucy's was infinitely worse. Neither of them were ever again to be mentioned to Mrs. Ferrars; and even, if she might hereafter be induced to forgive her son, his wife should never be acknowledged as her daughter, nor be permitted to appear in her presence. The secrecy with which everything had been carried on between them, was rationally treated as enormously heightening the crime, because, had any suspicion of it occurred to the others, proper measures would have been taken to prevent the marriage;

join with him in regretting that Lucy's engagement with Edward had not rather been fulfilled, than that she should thus be the means of spreading misery farther in the family. —

in Miss Morton he would have a woman of higher rank and larger fortune;

Miss Morton was the daughter of a nobleman with thirty thousand pounds, while Miss Dashwood was only the daughter of a private gentleman with no more than THREE;

as bearing no comparison with Mrs. Brandon.