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1  No, indeed, I do not wish to avoid the walk.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7
2  If he wishes to avoid seeing me, he must go.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter 16
3  "We are speaking of music, madam," said he, when no longer able to avoid a reply.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter 31
4  She dreaded seeing Mr. Wickham again, and was resolved to avoid it as long as possible.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter 39
5  They were within twenty yards of each other, and so abrupt was his appearance, that it was impossible to avoid his sight.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter 43
6  These parties were acceptable to all; to avoid a family circle was even more desirable to such as did think, than such as did not.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter 51
7  She had been unwilling to mention Bingley; and the unsettled state of her own feelings had made her equally avoid the name of his friend.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter 59
8  To the rest of the family they paid little attention; avoiding Mrs. Bennet as much as possible, saying not much to Elizabeth, and nothing at all to the others.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter 17
9  As for the gentleman himself, his feelings were chiefly expressed, not by embarrassment or dejection, or by trying to avoid her, but by stiffness of manner and resentful silence.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter 21
10  As it was certain, however, that somebody was coming, Bingley instantly prevailed on Miss Bennet to avoid the confinement of such an intrusion, and walk away with him into the shrubbery.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter 56
11  We are not on friendly terms, and it always gives me pain to meet him, but I have no reason for avoiding him but what I might proclaim before all the world, a sense of very great ill-usage, and most painful regrets at his being what he is.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter 16
12  Presuming however, that this studied avoidance spoke rather a momentary embarrassment than any dislike of the proposal, and seeing in her husband, who was fond of society, a perfect willingness to accept it, she ventured to engage for her attendance, and the day after the next was fixed on.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter 44
13  I do not know the particulars, but I know very well that Mr. Darcy is not in the least to blame, that he cannot bear to hear George Wickham mentioned, and that though my brother thought that he could not well avoid including him in his invitation to the officers, he was excessively glad to find that he had taken himself out of the way.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter 18
14  But Mr. Gardiner, though he assured her again of his earnest endeavours in the cause, could not avoid recommending moderation to her, as well in her hopes as her fear; and after talking with her in this manner till dinner was on the table, they all left her to vent all her feelings on the housekeeper, who attended in the absence of her daughters.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter 47
15  He who, she had been persuaded, would avoid her as his greatest enemy, seemed, on this accidental meeting, most eager to preserve the acquaintance, and without any indelicate display of regard, or any peculiarity of manner, where their two selves only were concerned, was soliciting the good opinion of her friends, and bent on making her known to his sister.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter 44
16  But amidst your concern for the defects of your nearest relations, and your displeasure at this representation of them, let it give you consolation to consider that, to have conducted yourselves so as to avoid any share of the like censure, is praise no less generally bestowed on you and your elder sister, than it is honourable to the sense and disposition of both.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter 35
17  He was anxious to avoid the notice of his cousins, from a conviction that if they saw him depart, they could not fail to conjecture his design, and he was not willing to have the attempt known till its success might be known likewise; for though feeling almost secure, and with reason, for Charlotte had been tolerably encouraging, he was comparatively diffident since the adventure of Wednesday.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter 22
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