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1  In all their dealings and intercourse, Sir Walter Elliot must ever have the precedence.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
2  Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and of situation.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
3  But here you are in Bath, and the object is to be established here with all the credit and dignity which ought to belong to Sir Walter Elliot.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
4  He considered the blessing of beauty as inferior only to the blessing of a baronetcy; and the Sir Walter Elliot, who united these gifts, was the constant object of his warmest respect and devotion.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
5  This very awkward history of Mr Elliot was still, after an interval of several years, felt with anger by Elizabeth, who had liked the man for himself, and still more for being her father's heir, and whose strong family pride could see only in him a proper match for Sir Walter Elliot's eldest daughter.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
6  It had not been possible for him to spend less; he had done nothing but what Sir Walter Elliot was imperiously called on to do; but blameless as he was, he was not only growing dreadfully in debt, but was hearing of it so often, that it became vain to attempt concealing it longer, even partially, from his daughter.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
7  If he will adopt these regulations, in seven years he will be clear; and I hope we may be able to convince him and Elizabeth, that Kellynch Hall has a respectability in itself which cannot be affected by these reductions; and that the true dignity of Sir Walter Elliot will be very far from lessened in the eyes of sensible people, by acting like a man of principle.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2