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1 " do not "
― Jane Austen , The Complete Novels
2 " The good sense of Colonel "
3 " maid! and that’s so dreadful! "
4 " Every thing was safe enough and she smiled over the many anxious feelings she had wasted on the subject. "
5 " I do not like the studied air and artificial inflexions of voice which your very popular and most admired preachers generally have. A simple delivery is much better calculated to inspire devotion, and shows a much better taste. "
6 " Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. "
7 " the ladies, young or old. There is no resisting a cockade, "
8 " Barton "
9 " for I have always seen a great similarity in the turn of our minds.—We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room, and be handed down to posterity with all the eclat of a proverb. "
10 " home, they could go directly to their own room, where hartshorn "
11 " soon will happen. But two advantages will "
12 " Half the sum of attraction, on either side, might have been enough, for he had nothing to do, and she had hardly any body to love; but the encounter of such lavish recommendations could not fail. "
13 " In revolving these matters, while she undressed, it suddenly struck her as not unlikely, that she might that morning have passed near the very spot of this unfortunate woman’s confinement—might have been within a few paces of the cell in which she languished out her days; for what part of the Abbey could be more fitted for the purpose than that which yet bore the traces of monastic division? "