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1  No one can withstand the charm of such a mystery.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 20
2  The charm of Kellynch and of "Lady Elliot" all faded away.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 17
3  She had been at Bath the year before, and Lady Russell had heard her spoken of as a charming woman.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 16
4  Lady Dalrymple had acquired the name of "a charming woman," because she had a smile and a civil answer for everybody.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 16
5  It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before; and, generally speaking, if there has been neither ill health nor anxiety, it is a time of life at which scarcely any charm is lost.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 1
6  The idea of becoming what her mother had been; of having the precious name of "Lady Elliot" first revived in herself; of being restored to Kellynch, calling it her home again, her home for ever, was a charm which she could not immediately resist.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 17
7  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
8  There was so much of friendliness, and of flattery, and of everything most bewitching in his reception there; the old were so hospitable, the young so agreeable, that he could not but resolve to remain where he was, and take all the charms and perfections of Edward's wife upon credit a little longer.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 9
9  Lady Russell had only to listen composedly, and wish them happy, but internally her heart revelled in angry pleasure, in pleased contempt, that the man who at twenty-three had seemed to understand somewhat of the value of an Anne Elliot, should, eight years afterwards, be charmed by a Louisa Musgrove.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 13
10  It is something for a woman to be assured, in her eight-and-twentieth year, that she has not lost one charm of earlier youth; but the value of such homage was inexpressibly increased to Anne, by comparing it with former words, and feeling it to be the result, not the cause of a revival of his warm attachment.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 23
11  There was so much attachment to Captain Wentworth in all this, and such a bewitching charm in a degree of hospitality so uncommon, so unlike the usual style of give-and-take invitations, and dinners of formality and display, that Anne felt her spirits not likely to be benefited by an increasing acquaintance among his brother-officers.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 11