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Title: Sense and Sensibility
Author: Jane Austen
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SENSE AND SENSIBILITY
by Jane Austen
(1811)

CONTENTS
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER XI

CHAPTER II CHAPTER III CHAPTER IV CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VII CHAPTER VIII CHAPTER IX CHAPTER X
CHAPTER XII CHAPTER XIIICHAPTER XIV CHAPTER XV

CHAPTER XVI CHAPTER
XVII
CHAPTER XXI CHAPTER
XXII
CHAPTER
CHAPTER
XXVI
XXVII
CHAPTER
CHAPTER
XXXI
XXXII
CHAPTER
CHAPTER
XXXVI
XXXVII
CHAPTER XLI CHAPTER
XLII
CHAPTER
CHAPTER
XLVI
XLVII

CHAPTER
XVIII
CHAPTER
XXIII
CHAPTER
XXVIII
CHAPTER
XXXIII
CHAPTER
XXXVIII
CHAPTER
XLIII
CHAPTER
XLVIII

CHAPTER XIX CHAPTER XX
CHAPTER
XXIV
CHAPTERXXIX
CHAPTER
XXXIV
CHAPTER
XXXIX
CHAPTER
XLIV
CHAPTER
XLIX

CHAPTER
XXV
CHAPTER
XXX
CHAPTER
XXXV
CHAPTER XL
CHAPTER
XLV
CHAPTER L

CHAPTER 1
The family of Dashwood had long been settled in Sussex. Their estate was large,
and their residence was at Norland Park, in the centre of their property, where, for
many generations, they had lived in so respectable a manner as toengage the general
good opinion of their surrounding acquaintance. The late owner of this estate was a
single man, who lived to a very advanced age, and who for many years of his life, had
a constant companion and housekeeper in his sister. But her death, which happened
ten years before his own, produced a great alteration in his home; for to supply her
loss, he invited and received into hishouse the family of his nephew Mr. Henry
Dashwood, the legal inheritor of the Norland estate, and the person to whom he
intended to bequeath it. In the society of his nephew and niece, and their children, the
old Gentleman's days were comfortably spent. His attachment to them all increased.
The constant attention of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Dashwood to his wishes, which
proceeded not merely frominterest, but from goodness of heart, gave him every
degree of solid comfort which his age could receive; and the cheerfulness of the
children added a relish to his existence.
By a former marriage, Mr. Henry Dashwood had one son: by his present lady,
three daughters. The son, a steady respectable young man, was amply provided for by
the fortune of his mother, which had been large, and half ofwhich devolved on him
on his coming of age. By his own marriage, likewise, which happened soon

afterwards, he added to his wealth. To him therefore the succession to the Norland
estate was not so really important as to his sisters; for their fortune, independent of
what might arise to them from their father's inheriting that property, could be but
small. Their mother had nothing, and theirfather 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.
The old gentleman died: his will was read, and like almost every other will, gave
as much disappointment as pleasure. He was neither so unjust, nor so ungrateful, as to
leave his estate from his nephew;—but he left it tohim on such terms as destroyed
half the value of the bequest. Mr. Dashwood had wished for it mo re for the sake of his
wife and daughters than for himself or his son;—but to his son, and his son's son, a
child of four years old, it was secured, in such a way, as to leave to himself no power
of providing for those who were most dear to him, and who mo st needed a provision
by any charge on...