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1  But for particulars Isabella could well afford to wait.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 15
2  Yes; I remember, I asked you while you were waiting in the lobby for your cloak.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 10
3  The general listened with assenting gratitude; and it seemed as if his own estimation of Northanger had waited unfixed till that hour.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 22
4  When the contents of the letter were ascertained, John Thorpe, who had only waited its arrival to begin his journey to London, prepared to set off.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 15
5  General Tilney was not less sanguine, having already waited on her excellent friends in Pulteney Street, and obtained their sanction of his wishes.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 17
6  Catherine had seen nothing to compare with it; and her feelings of delight were so strong, that without waiting for any better authority, she boldly burst forth in wonder and praise.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 22
7  James expressed himself on the occasion with becoming gratitude; and the necessity of waiting between two and three years before they could marry, being, however unwelcome, no more than he had expected, was borne by him without discontent.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 16
8  Catherine had never heard Mrs. Tilney mentioned in the family before, and the interest excited by this tender remembrance showed itself directly in her altered countenance, and in the attentive pause with which she waited for something more.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 22
9  Here was I, in my eagerness to get on, refusing to wait only five minutes for my sister, breaking the promise I had made of reading it aloud, and keeping her in suspense at a most interesting part, by running away with the volume, which, you are to observe, was her own, particularly her own.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 14