YOUR competence and MY wealth are very much alike, I dare say; and without them, as the world goes now, we shall both agree that every kind of external comfort must be wanting.

Your ideas are only more noble than mine.

Come, what is your competence ?" "About eighteen hundred or two thousand a year; not more than THAT." Elinor laughed.

"TWO thousand a year! ONE is my wealth! I guessed how it would end." "And yet two thousand a-year is a very moderate income," said Marianne.
"A family cannot well be maintained on a smaller.

I am sure I am not extravagant in my demands.