As my focus I decided to pick out some gem like passages, masterpieces - as I find them!!! Yes, Robbin, this is the same one you like :)

The following passage in CH 1 is so colourful; like a rainbow, refracted by a cut diamond.

- JD; "...he meditated within himself to increase the fortunes of his sisters by the present of a thousand pounds a-piece.-" Violet.
FD; "...rob his child, and his only child too,[..]ruin himself, and their poor little Harry..."red

- JD; "It was my father's last request to me," Indigo
FD; "....to give away half your fortune from your own child."orange

- JD; "Something must be done for them whenever they leave Norland..."Blue
FD; "that something need not be three thousand pounds."yellow

-JD; "Perhaps, then, it would be better for all parties if the sum were diminished one half."green
FD; "-- only half blood! -- But you have such a generous spirit!"green

-JD; "I think I may afford to give them five hundred pounds a-piece."
yellow
FD; "..it strikes me that they can want no addition at all."blue

-JD; "..for their mother while she lives [..]A hundred a year would make them all perfectly comfortable."orange
FD; "But then if Mrs. Dashwood should live fifteen years, we shall be completely taken in."indigo

-JD; "It is certainly an unpleasant thing," [..] "to have those kind of yearly drains on one's income.[..]A present of fifty pounds, now and then,red
FD; "I am convinced within myself that your father had no idea of your giving them any money at all.[..]looking out for a comfortable small house for them, helping them to move their things, violet

This last is *what Fanny really wants* - and gets her husband to agree to. She is therefore in a good position at the end of the conversation while John started well, and ends badly.

This extremely picturesque and colourful passage conveys the character of Fanny and John without having to really describe them.

It's a masterpiece IMO!!!