1 "I would not wish to do any thing mean," he replied.
2 I would not bind myself to allow them any thing yearly.
3 Perhaps it would have been as well if he had left it wholly to myself.
4 Had he ever been in the way of learning, I think he would have drawn very well.
5 Why, to be sure," said her husband, very gravely, "that would make great difference.
6 Perhaps, then, it would be better for all parties, if the sum were diminished one half.
7 It would not be likely to produce that dejection of mind which frequently attended him.
8 But it would have broke MY heart, had I loved him, to hear him read with so little sensibility.
9 I'll lay my life that he meant nothing farther; indeed, it would be very strange and unreasonable if he did.
10 She would not wound the feelings of her sister on any account, and yet to say what she did not believe was impossible.
11 To take three thousand pounds from the fortune of their dear little boy would be impoverishing him to the most dreadful degree.
12 Mrs. John Dashwood wished it likewise; but in the mean while, till one of these superior blessings could be attained, it would have quieted her ambition to see him driving a barouche.
13 Her income was not her own, she said, with such perpetual claims on it; and it was the more unkind in my father, because, otherwise, the money would have been entirely at my mother's disposal, without any restriction whatever.
14 The situation of Barton, in a county so far distant from Sussex as Devonshire, which, but a few hours before, would have been a sufficient objection to outweigh every possible advantage belonging to the place, was now its first recommendation.
15 But she could hear of no situation that at once answered her notions of comfort and ease, and suited the prudence of her eldest daughter, whose steadier judgment rejected several houses as too large for their income, which her mother would have approved.
16 It gave to his intentions whatever of decision was wanting before; and he finally resolved, that it would be absolutely unnecessary, if not highly indecorous, to do more for the widow and children of his father, than such kind of neighbourly acts as his own wife pointed out.
17 I believe you are right, my love; it will be better that there should be no annuity in the case; whatever I may give them occasionally will be of far greater assistance than a yearly allowance, because they would only enlarge their style of living if they felt sure of a larger income, and would not be sixpence the richer for it at the end of the year.
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