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<Author>Austen, Jane</Author>
<Title>Sense and Sensibility</Title>
<Edition>The Novels of Jane Austen. R. W. Chapman, ed. 2nd. ed. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1926</Edition>
<Date>1797-1811</Date>
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The family of Dashwood had been long 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 to engage 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 his house the family of his nephew Mr. Henry . . .