ENTAILMENT in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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1 Your father's estate is entailed on Mr. Collins, I think.
2 Jane and Elizabeth tried to explain to her the nature of an entail.
3 I never can be thankful, Mr. Bennet, for anything about the entail.
4 "For your sake," turning to Charlotte, "I am glad of it; but otherwise I see no occasion for entailing estates from the female line."
5 The consequence of it is, that Lady Lucas will have a daughter married before I have, and that the Longbourn estate is just as much entailed as ever.
6 The son was to join in cutting off the entail, as soon as he should be of age, and the widow and younger children would by that means be provided for.
7 Mr. Bennet's property consisted almost entirely in an estate of two thousand a year, which, unfortunately for his daughters, was entailed, in default of heirs male, on a distant relation; and their mother's fortune, though ample for her situation in life, could but ill supply the deficiency of his.
8 As a clergyman, moreover, I feel it my duty to promote and establish the blessing of peace in all families within the reach of my influence; and on these grounds I flatter myself that my present overtures are highly commendable, and that the circumstance of my being next in the entail of Longbourn estate will be kindly overlooked on your side, and not lead you to reject the offered olive-branch.