Austen Said:

to do every thing in his power to make them comfortable.

to increase the fortunes of his sisters by the present of a thousand pounds a-piece.

"Yes, he would give them three thousand pounds: it would be liberal and handsome! It would be enough to make them completely easy. Three thousand pounds! he could spare so considerable a sum with little inconvenience." —

she was in need of a dwelling; and though the house he now offered her was merely a cottage,

everything should be done to it which she might think necessary, if the situation pleased her.

to come with her daughters to Barton Park, the place of his own residence, from whence she might judge, herself, whether Barton Cottage,

could, by any alteration, be made comfortable to her.

she would not be settled far from Norland.

how exceedingly sorry he was that she had taken a house at such a distance from Norland as to prevent his being of any service to her in removing her furniture.

at being unable to get any smart young men to meet them.

They would see,

only one gentleman there besides himself; a particular friend who was staying at the park, but who was neither very young nor very gay. He hoped they would all excuse the smallness of the party, and could assure them it should never happen so again. He had been to several families that morning in hopes of procuring some addition to their number, but it was moonlight and every body was full of engagements. Luckily Lady Middleton's mother had arrived at Barton within the last hour, and as she was a very cheerful agreeable woman, he hoped the young ladies would not find it so very dull as they might imagine.

of a slight rheumatic feel in one of his shoulders."

Mr. Willoughby had no property of his own in the country;

he resided there only while he was visiting the old lady at Allenham Court, to whom he was related, and whose possessions he was to inherit;

as they were all got together, they must do something by way of being happy;

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.

the carriage should be sent for them and they must come.

their being the sweetest girls in the world.

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.

in the name of charity, that they would all dine with Lady Middleton that day, as he was obliged to attend the club at Exeter, and she would otherwise be quite alone, except her mother and the two Miss Steeles.

his pleasure at seeing them in London,

none had.

when he was to congratulate her on the acquisition of a brother?

it did him more good than any thing else in the world.

of his daughter's being entirely unconcerned in the business.

he and his wife were to be in town before the middle of February,

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.

The expense would be nothing, the inconvenience not more;

it was altogether an attention

requisite to its complete enfranchisement from his promise to his father.

another year would make the invitation needless, by bringing Elinor to town as Colonel Brandon's wife, and Marianne as THEIR visitor.

Mrs. Dashwood had never been so much pleased with any young women in her life, as she was with them; had given each of them a needle book made by some emigrant; called Lucy by her Christian name; and did not know

For fear any unpleasant report should reach the young ladies under your care as to their sister's indisposition, I think it advisable to say, that I believe there is no great reason for alarm; I hope Mrs. Dashwood will do very well.'"

to let them stay till they had packed up their clothes.

in such a condition,

she could hardly walk; and Nancy, she was almost as bad.

there is nothing materially to be apprehended; her constitution is a good one, and her resolution equal to any thing.

Nothing should prevail on him to give up his engagement. He would stand to it, cost him what it might."

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

when it came to the point he was afraid Mr. Ferrars would be off;

he loved nobody but Lucy, and nobody but Lucy would he have.