Austen Said:

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.

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.

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,

he should see Marianne no more.

his patient materially better. Her pulse was much stronger, and every symptom more favourable than on the preceding visit.

entirely out of danger.

she has forgiven me already.

Marianne Dashwood was dying of a putrid fever at Cleveland — a letter that morning received from Mrs. Jennings declared her danger most imminent — the Palmers are all gone off in a fright,

an old promise about a pointer puppy.

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 —

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. —

all were well in Brunswick Square.

'poor Miss Taylor.'

he never saw such a handsome letter in his life."

wedding-cake might certainly disagree with many— perhaps with most people, unless taken moderately.

It was quite a chance,

that he had not gone round by Randalls. He did not think we ever walked this road. He thought we walked towards Randalls most days. He has not been able to get the Romance of the Forest yet. He was so busy the last time he was at Kingston that he quite forgot it, but he goes again to-morrow.

Harriet a beautiful girl,

Not think they will do each other any good!

"Might he be trusted with the commission, what infinite pleasure should he have in executing it! he could ride to London at any time. It was impossible to say how much he should be gratified by being employed on such an errand."

'Exactly so,'

whether I thought it would be imprudent in him to settle so early; whether I thought her too young:

whether I approved his choice altogether; having some apprehension perhaps of her being considered (especially since your making so much of her) as in a line of society above him.

a large family of young ladies that his sisters are intimate with, who have all twenty thousand pounds apiece."

as he was coming back yesterday from Clayton Park, he had met Mr. Elton, and found to his great surprize, that Mr. Elton was actually on his road to London, and not meaning to return till the morrow, though it was the whist-club night, which he had been never known to miss before; and Mr. Perry had remonstrated with him about it, and told him how shabby it was in him, their best player, to absent himself, and tried very much to persuade him to put off his journey only one day; but it would not do; Mr. Elton had been determined to go on, and had said in a very particular way indeed, that

he was going on business which he would not put off for any inducement in the world; and something about a very enviable commission, and being the bearer of something exceedingly precious. Mr. Perry could not quite understand him, but he was very sure there must be a lady in the case, and he told him so; and Mr. Elton only looked very conscious and smiling, and rode off in great spirits.

did not at present recollect any thing of the riddle kind;

Perry to be upon the watch,

and as he went about so much, something,

might come from that quarter.