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Sense and sensibility. Chapter one, the family of Dashwood had long been settled in Sussex. Their estate was large and their residence was at Norland Park in the center of their property where for many generations, they had lived in so respectable a manner as to engage the general good opinion of the 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 10 years before his own produced a great alteration to his home for to supply for her loss. He invited and received into his house. The family of his nephew, Mr Henry Dashwood, the legal inheritor of the northern 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 from investment, 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 of which devolved on him on his coming of age by his own marriage. Likewise, which happened soon afterwards, he added to his own wealth to him. Therefore, the succession of the Norland estate was not so really important as to his sisters for their fortune, independent of what might arise to them from their fathers, inheriting that property could be bought small. Their mother had nothing and their father only had £7000 to his own disposal for the remaining mo mo of his first wife's fortune was already secure to her child. And he had only a life interest in it.