1 Fifty thousand pounds, my dear.
2 They will have ten thousand pounds divided amongst them.
3 "And yet two thousand a-year is a very moderate income," said Marianne.
4 Miss Morton, only daughter of the late Lord Morton, with thirty thousand pounds.
5 Well, then, LET something be done for them; but THAT something need not be three thousand pounds.
6 The estate at Delaford was never reckoned more than two thousand a year, and his brother left everything sadly involved.
7 A thousand a-year is a great deal for a mother to give away, to make over for ever; but Mrs. Ferrars has a noble spirit.
8 Mrs. Ferrars, with the utmost liberality, will come forward, and settle on him a thousand a year, if the match takes place.
9 To take three thousand pounds from the fortune of their dear little boy would be impoverishing him to the most dreadful degree.
10 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.
11 He survived his uncle no longer; and ten thousand pounds, including the late legacies, was all that remained for his widow and daughters.
12 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.
13 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.
14 To my fancy, a thousand times prettier than Barton Park, where they are forced to send three miles for their meat, and have not a neighbour nearer than your mother.
15 The prospect of four thousand a-year, in addition to his present income, besides the remaining half of his own mother's fortune, warmed his heart, and made him feel capable of generosity.
16 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.
17 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.
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