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1  It was really expected to be a good one, and Captain Wentworth was very fond of music.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 19
2  The little Durands were there, I conclude," said she, "with their mouths open to catch the music, like unfledged sparrows ready to be fed.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 21
3  The Mr Musgroves had their own game to guard, and to destroy, their own horses, dogs, and newspapers to engage them, and the females were fully occupied in all the other common subjects of housekeeping, neighbours, dress, dancing, and music.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 6
4  The others returned, the room filled again, benches were reclaimed and repossessed, and another hour of pleasure or of penance was to be sat out, another hour of music was to give delight or the gapes, as real or affected taste for it prevailed.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 20
5  There had been music, singing, talking, laughing, all that was most agreeable; charming manners in Captain Wentworth, no shyness or reserve; they seemed all to know each other perfectly, and he was coming the very next morning to shoot with Charles.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7
6  In music she had been always used to feel alone in the world; and Mr and Mrs Musgrove's fond partiality for their own daughters' performance, and total indifference to any other person's, gave her much more pleasure for their sakes, than mortification for her own.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 6
7  I have had all my own little concerns to arrange, books and music to divide, and all my trunks to repack, from not having understood in time what was intended as to the waggons: and one thing I have had to do, Mary, of a more trying nature: going to almost every house in the parish, as a sort of take-leave.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 5