He so frequently talked of the increasing expenses of housekeeping, and of the perpetual demands upon his purse, which a man of any consequence in the world was beyond calculation exposed to, that he seemed rather to stand in need of more money himself than to have any design of giving money away.
Muy pocas semanas después del día que trajo la primera carta de sir John Middleton a Norland, todos los arreglos estaban tan avanzados en su futuro alojamiento que la señora Dashwood y sus hijas pudieron comenzar su viaje.