"The family of Dashwood had long been settled in Sussex. Their estate was large, and their residence..."

"Mrs. John Dashwood now installed herself mistress of Norland; and her mother and sisters-in-law were..."

"Mrs. Dashwood remained at Norland several months; not from any disinclination to move when the sight..."

"“What a pity it is, Elinor,” said Marianne, “that Edward should have no taste for drawing.”“No taste..."

"No sooner was her answer dispatched, than Mrs. Dashwood indulged herself in the pleasure of announci..."

"The first part of their journey was performed in too melancholy a disposition to be otherwise than t..."

"Barton Park was about half a mile from the cottage. The ladies had passed near it in their way along..."

"Mrs. Jennings was a widow with an ample jointure. She had only two daughters, both of whom she had l..."

"The Dashwoods were now settled at Barton with tolerable comfort to themselves. The house and the gar..."

"Marianne’s preserver, as Margaret, with more elegance than precision, styled Willoughby, called at t..."

"Little had Mrs. Dashwood or her daughters imagined when they first came into Devonshire, that so man..."

"As Elinor and Marianne were walking together the next morning the latter communicated a piece of new..."

"Their intended excursion to Whitwell turned out very different from what Elinor had expected. She wa..."

"The sudden termination of Colonel Brandon’s visit at the park, with his steadiness in concealing its..."

"Mrs. Dashwood’s visit to Lady Middleton took place the next day, and two of her daughters went with..."

"Marianne would have thought herself very inexcusable had she been able to sleep at all the first nig..."

"Mrs. Dashwood was surprised only for a moment at seeing him; for his coming to Barton was, in her op..."

"Elinor saw, with great uneasiness the low spirits of her friend. His visit afforded her but a very p..."

"Edward remained a week at the cottage; he was earnestly pressed by Mrs. Dashwood to stay longer; but..."

"As the Miss Dashwoods entered the drawing-room of the park the next day, at one door, Mrs. Palmer ca..."

"The Palmers returned to Cleveland the next day, and the two families at Barton were again left to en..."

"Marianne, who had never much toleration for any thing like impertinence, vulgarity, inferiority of p..."

"However small Elinor’s general dependence on Lucy’s veracity might be, it was impossible for her on..."

"In a firm, though cautious tone, Elinor thus began.“I should be undeserving of the confidence you ha..."

"Though Mrs. Jennings was in the habit of spending a large portion of the year at the houses of her c..."

"Elinor could not find herself in the carriage with Mrs. Jennings, and beginning a journey to London..."

"“If this open weather holds much longer,” said Mrs. Jennings, when they met at breakfast the followi..."

"Nothing occurred during the next three or four days, to make Elinor regret what she had done, in app..."

"Before the housemaid had lit their fire the next day, or the sun gained any power over a cold, gloom..."

"Mrs. Jennings came immediately to their room on her return, and without waiting to have her request..."

"From a night of more sleep than she had expected, Marianne awoke the next morning to the same consci..."

"When the particulars of this conversation were repeated by Miss Dashwood to her sister, as they very..."

"After some opposition, Marianne yielded to her sister’s entreaties, and consented to go out with her..."

"Mrs. John Dashwood had so much confidence in her husband’s judgment, that she waited the very next d..."

"Elinor’s curiosity to see Mrs. Ferrars was satisfied. She had found in her every thing that could te..."

"Within a few days after this meeting, the newspapers announced to the world, that the lady of Thomas..."

"Mrs. Palmer was so well at the end of a fortnight, that her mother felt it no longer necessary to gi..."

"Mrs. Jennings was very warm in her praise of Edward’s conduct, but only Elinor and Marianne understo..."

"The Miss Dashwoods had now been rather more than two months in town, and Marianne’s impatience to be..."

"“Well, Miss Dashwood,” said Mrs. Jennings, sagaciously smiling, as soon as the gentleman had withdra..."

"Edward, having carried his thanks to Colonel Brandon, proceeded with his happiness to Lucy; and such..."

"One other short call in Harley Street, in which Elinor received her brother’s congratulations on the..."

"Marianne got up the next morning at her usual time; to every inquiry replied that she was better, an..."

"Elinor, starting back with a look of horror at the sight of him, obeyed the first impulse of her hea..."

"Elinor, for some time after he left her, for some time even after the sound of his carriage had died..."

"Marianne’s illness, though weakening in its kind, had not been long enough to make her recovery slow..."

"Mrs. Dashwood did not hear unmoved the vindication of her former favourite. She rejoiced in his bein..."

"Elinor now found the difference between the expectation of an unpleasant event, however certain the..."

"Unaccountable, however, as the circumstances of his release might appear to the whole family, it was..."

"After a proper resistance on the part of Mrs. Ferrars, just so violent and so steady as to preserve..."