1 Fifty thousand pounds, my dear.
2 They will have ten thousand pounds divided amongst them.
3 Miss Morton, only daughter of the late Lord Morton, with thirty thousand pounds.
4 To be sure," said she, "it is better than parting with fifteen hundred pounds at once.
5 Well, then, LET something be done for them; but THAT something need not be three thousand pounds.
6 To take three thousand pounds from the fortune of their dear little boy would be impoverishing him to the most dreadful degree.
7 He meant not to be unkind, however, and, as a mark of his affection for the three girls, he left them a thousand pounds a-piece.
8 He survived his uncle no longer; and ten thousand pounds, including the late legacies, was all that remained for his widow and daughters.
9 When he gave his promise to his father, he meditated within himself to increase the fortunes of his sisters by the present of a thousand pounds a-piece.
10 He has only two thousand pounds of his own; it would be madness to marry upon that, though for my own part, I could give up every prospect of more without a sigh.
11 Their mother had nothing, and their father only seven thousand pounds in his own disposal; for the remaining moiety of his first wife's fortune was also secured to her child, and he had only a life-interest in it.
12 Edward had two thousand pounds, and Elinor one, which, with Delaford living, was all that they could call their own; for it was impossible that Mrs. Dashwood should advance anything; and they were neither of them quite enough in love to think that three hundred and fifty pounds a-year would supply them with the comforts of life.
13 Do but consider, my dear Mr. Dashwood, how excessively comfortable your mother-in-law and her daughters may live on the interest of seven thousand pounds, besides the thousand pounds belonging to each of the girls, which brings them in fifty pounds a year a-piece, and, of course, they will pay their mother for their board out of it.