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1  Anne enquired after Captain Benwick, Mary's face was clouded directly.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14
2  This decision checked Mary's eagerness, and stopped her short in the midst of the Elliot countenance.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14
3  A little further perseverance in patience and forced cheerfulness on Anne's side produced nearly a cure on Mary's.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
4  It was Mary's hope and belief that he had received a positive dismissal from Henrietta, and her husband lived under the constant dependence of seeing him to-morrow.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
5  The half hour was chatted away pleasantly enough; and she was not at all surprised at the end of it, to have their walking party joined by both the Miss Musgroves, at Mary's particular invitation.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
6  When she could command Mary's attention, Anne quietly tried to convince her that their father and Mr Elliot had not, for many years, been on such terms as to make the power of attempting an introduction at all desirable.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 12
7  This invitation of Mary's removed all Lady Russell's difficulties, and it was consequently soon settled that Anne should not go to Bath till Lady Russell took her, and that all the intervening time should be divided between Uppercross Cottage and Kellynch Lodge.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
8  Again, it was Mary's complaint, that Mrs Musgrove was very apt not to give her the precedence that was her due, when they dined at the Great House with other families; and she did not see any reason why she was to be considered so much at home as to lose her place.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
9  Her own spirits improved by change of place and subject, by being removed three miles from Kellynch; Mary's ailments lessened by having a constant companion, and their daily intercourse with the other family, since there was neither superior affection, confidence, nor employment in the cottage, to be interrupted by it, was rather an advantage.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6