id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt austen-mansfield_011-1814 austen austen-mansfield_011-1814 1814 .txt text/plain 2437 111 75 And though Dr. Grant is most kind and obliging to me, and though he is really a gentleman, and, I dare say, a good scholar and clever, and often preaches good sermons, and is very respectable, I see him to be an indolent, selfish bon vivant, who must have his palate consulted in everything; who will not stir a finger for the convenience of any one; and who, moreover, if the cook makes a blunder, is out of humour with his excellent wife. As he cannot be influenced by those feelings which you rank highly as temptation and reward to the soldier and sailor in their choice of a profession, as heroism, and noise, and fashion, are all against him, he ought to be less liable to the suspicion of wanting sincerity or good intentions in the choice of his. Oh! cache/austen-mansfield_011-1814.txt txt/austen-mansfield_011-1814.txt