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and like almost every other will, gave as much disappointment as pleasure.
AHAHAHAH
She was generous, amiable, interesting: she was everything but prudent.
Easily victimized type of personailty but queen anyways, just know your boundaries!
and why was he to ruin himself, and their poor little Harry, by giving away all his money to his half sisters?
It seems like she loves her step-son than her own daughters.
A hundred a-year would make them all perfectly comfortable.”
Now look at a hundred dollars today!
One’s fortune, as your mother justly says, is not one’s own. To be tied down to the regular payment of such a sum, on every rent day, is by no means desirable: it takes away one’s independence.”
This is me evading taxes.
For their brother’s sake, too, for the sake of his own heart, she rejoiced; and she reproached herself for being unjust to his merit before, in believing him incapable of generosity. His attentive behaviour to herself and his sisters convinced her that their welfare was dear to him, and, for a long time, she firmly relied on the liberality of his intentions.
He got those charities in his virtues.
He was not handsome, and his manners required intimacy to make them pleasing. He was too diffident to do justice to himself; but when his natural shyness was overcome, his behaviour gave every indication of an open, affectionate heart.
Mhm…
But yet—he is not the kind of young man; there is something wanting—his figure is not striking; it has none of that grace which I should expect in the man who could seriously attach my sister. His eyes want all that spirit, that fire, which at once announce virtue and intelligence. And besides all this, I am afraid, Mamma, he has no real taste. Music seems scarcely to attract him, and though he admires Elinor’s drawings very much, it is not the admiration of a person who can understand their worth. It is evident, in spite of his frequent attention to her while she draws, that in fact he knows
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She may be imprudent, but passion gave her a sense of observation.
Mamma, the more I know of the world, the more am I convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!
Sense…
In one circumstance only, my Marianne, may your destiny be different from hers!”
Mhm… Yes I'm hearing…
He distrusts his own judgment in such matters so much, that he is always unwilling to give his opinion on any picture;
He and I have been at times thrown a good deal together, while you have been wholly engrossed on the most affectionate principle by my mother.
OMG are they beefing.
that with them, to wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect.
“Esteem him! Like him! Cold-hearted Elinor! Oh! worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise. Use those words again, and I will leave the room this moment.”
Ok this is sounding for like a drama climax.
Elinor could not help laughing.
GIRL
I meant no offence to you, by speaking, in so quiet a way, of my own feelings.
AHAHAHHAH
