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1  And she longed to be able to say something more to the purpose.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER X
2  She was less and less able to endure the restraint which her father imposed.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXI
3  The maids do their work very well, and I think we shall be able to send back some dozens of the rings.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XV
4  She wished to be able to decline it; but the tears, which a variety of feelings created, made it easier to swallow than to speak.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VII
5  Maria had a moment's struggle as she listened, and only a moment's: when her father ceased, she was able to give her answer immediately, decidedly, and with no apparent agitation.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXI
6  She was delighted with each, but Mary was her dearest object; and having never been able to glory in beauty of her own, she thoroughly enjoyed the power of being proud of her sister's.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV
7  It was time to have done with cards, if sermons prevailed; and she was glad to find it necessary to come to a conclusion, and be able to refresh her spirits by a change of place and neighbour.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXV
8  Henry Crawford was in the first glow of another scheme about Thornton Lacey; and not being able to catch Edmund's ear, was detailing it to his fair neighbour with a look of considerable earnestness.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXV
9  Cousin," said she, "something is going to happen which I do not like at all; and though you have often persuaded me into being reconciled to things that I disliked at first, you will not be able to do it now.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III
10  Fanny, who had heard it all, and borne Edmund company in every feeling throughout the whole, now ventured to say, in her anxiety to suggest some comfort, "Perhaps they may not be able to find any play to suit them."
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIII
11  But they were too much used to company and praise to have anything like natural shyness; and their confidence increasing from their cousin's total want of it, they were soon able to take a full survey of her face and her frock in easy indifference.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER II
12  Having regulated her thoughts and comforted her feelings by this happy mixture of reason and weakness, she was able in due time to go down and resume her usual employments near her aunt Bertram, and pay her the usual observances without any apparent want of spirits.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
13  Miss Ward's match, indeed, when it came to the point, was not contemptible: Sir Thomas being happily able to give his friend an income in the living of Mansfield; and Mr. and Mrs. Norris began their career of conjugal felicity with very little less than a thousand a year.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I
14  Twice had Sir Thomas inquired into the enjoyment and success of his lady, but in vain; no pause was long enough for the time his measured manner needed; and very little of her state could be known till Mrs. Grant was able, at the end of the first rubber, to go to her and pay her compliments.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXV
15  At last the scene was over, and Fanny forced herself to add her praise to the compliments each was giving the other; and when again alone and able to recall the whole, she was inclined to believe their performance would, indeed, have such nature and feeling in it as must ensure their credit, and make it a very suffering exhibition to herself.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
16  To dance without much observation or any extraordinary fatigue, to have strength and partners for about half the evening, to dance a little with Edmund, and not a great deal with Mr. Crawford, to see William enjoy himself, and be able to keep away from her aunt Norris, was the height of her ambition, and seemed to comprehend her greatest possibility of happiness.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
17  There was another family living actually held for Edmund; but though this circumstance had made the arrangement somewhat easier to Sir Thomas's conscience, he could not but feel it to be an act of injustice, and he earnestly tried to impress his eldest son with the same conviction, in the hope of its producing a better effect than anything he had yet been able to say or do.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III
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