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@@ -944,6 +944,15 @@ my sorrows and difficulties as I can.” “Then you will not mind living by yourself quite alone?” +“Dear Lady Bertram! what am I fit for but solitude? Now and then I +shall hope to have a friend in my little cottage (I shall always have +a bed for a friend); but the most part of my future days will be spent +in utter seclusion. If I can but make both ends meet, that's all I ask +for.” + +“I hope, sister, things are not so very bad with you neither +considering Sir Thomas says you will have six hundred a year.” + “Lady Bertram, I do not complain. I know I cannot live as I have done, but I must retrench where I can, and learn to be a better manager. I _have_ _been_ a liberal housekeeper enough, but I shall not be ashamed |