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Miss Ward‘s match indeed, when it came to the point, was not contemptible: Sir Thomas being happily able to give his friend an income in the living of Mansfield; and Mr. and Mrs. Norris began with their career of conjugal felicity with very little less than a thousand a year.
- P11

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But there certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are pretty women to deserve them. Miss Ward, at the end of half a dozen years, found herself obliged to be attached to the Rev. Mr. Norris, a friend of her brother-in-law, with scarcely any private fortune, and Miss Frances fared yet worse.
- P11

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All Huntingdon exclaimed on the greatness of the match, and her uncle , the lawyer, himself, allowed her to be at least three thousand pounds short of any equitable claim to it. She had two sisters to be benefited by her elevation; and such of their acquaintance as thought Miss Ward and Miss Frances quite as handsome as Miss Maria, did not scruple to predict their marrying with almost equal advantage.
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MANSFIELD PARK
(1814)

By Jane Austen

CHAPTER I

About thirty years ago Miss Maria Ward, with only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sr Thomas Bertram, of Mansfield Park, in the county of Northampton, and to be thereby raised to the rank of naronet‘s lady, with all the comforts and consequences of an handsome house and large income.
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■ 저자 소개

제인 오스틴(1775년 ~ 1817년)은 영미문학 최고의 인기 작가이자 현대 로맨스물의 원조 작가라고 할 수 있습니다. 생전에는 그리 유명하지 않았으나, 20세기에 들어와서는 작품 중 <<오만과 편견>>, <<이성과 감성>> 등은여러 번 영화화되는 등 인기를 끌고 있습니다.
- P3