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"I think, Edward," said Mrs Dashwood, as they were at breakfast the last , "you would be a happier ive an interest to your plans and actions Soht result froive them so much of your time But (with a smile) you would be materially benefited in one particular at least--you would knohere to go when you left theht on this point, as you think now It has been, and is, and probably will always be a heavy age ivelike independence But unfortunately my own nicety, and the nicety ofWe never could agree in our choice of a profession I always preferred the church, as I still do But that was not sh for reat deal too sh; ood appearance in the first circles, and drove about town in very knowing gigs But I had no inclination for the law, even in this less abstruse study of it, which my family approved As for the navy, it had fashion on its side, but I was too old when the subject was first started to enter it--and, at length, as there was no necessity forand expensive without a red coat on my back as with one, idleness was pronounced on the whole to be hteen is not in general so earnestly bent on being busy as to resist the solicitations of his friends to do nothing I was therefore entered at Oxford and have been properly idle ever since"

"The consequence of which, I suppose, will be," said Mrs Dashwood, "since leisure has not proht up to as many pursuits, employments, professions, and trades as Coluht up," said he, in a serious accent, "to be as unlike , in action, in condition, in every thing"