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"Perhaps," said Elinor, s, "we may come to the same point YOUR competence and MY wealth are very oes noe shall both agree that every kind of external co Your ideas are only more noble than hteen hundred or two thousand a year; not hed "TWO thousand a year! ONE is uessed hoould end"

"And yet two thousand a-year is a very moderate income," said Marianne

"A family cannot well be ant in e, perhaps two, and hunters, cannot be supported on less"

Elinor s so accurately their future expenses at Cona

"Hunters!" repeated Edward--"but why must you have hunters? Every body does not hunt"

Marianne coloured as she replied, "Butout a novel thought, "that soe fortune apiece!"

"Oh that they would!" cried Marianne, her eyes sparkling with aniinary happiness

"We are all unanimous in that wish, I suppose," said Elinor, "in spite of the insufficiency of wealth"

"Oh dear!" cried Margaret, "how happy I should be! I wonder what I should do with it!"

Marianne looked as if she had no doubt on that point

"I should be puzzled to spend so large a fortune myself," said Mrs Dashwood, "if in your improvements on this house," observed Elinor, "and your difficulties will soon vanish"

"What nificent orders would travel from this family to London," said Edward, "in such an event! What a happy day for booksellers, ive a general commission for every new print of reatness of soul, there would not be h in London to content her And books!--Thoain: she would buy up every copy, I believe, to prevent their falling into unworthy hands; and she would have every book that tells her how to adiveto shew you that I had not forgot our old disputes"