1 As soon as she met with Edmund she told him her distress.
2 "How distressed she will be at what she said just now," passed across her mind.
3 He was in distress for something that he had left there, and did not find again.
4 Fanny struggled for speech, and said, "I am very sorry that anything has occurred to distress you."
5 I know my father as well as you do; and I'll take care that his daughters do nothing to distress him.
6 My dearest Fanny," cried Edmund, pressing her arm closer to him, "do not let the idea of her anger distress you.
7 She must have been a happy creature in spite of all that she felt, or thought she felt, for the distress of those around her.
8 She would not, could not believe, that Mr. Crawford's affection for her could distress him long; his mind was not of that sort.
9 One should be a brute not to feel for the distress they are in; and from what I hear, poor Mr. Bertram has a bad chance of ultimate recovery.
10 Some very grave reproof, or at least the coldest expression of indifference, must be coming to distress her brother, and sink her to the ground.
11 Fanny, being always a very courteous listener, and often the only listener at hand, came in for the complaints and the distresses of most of them.
12 The doubts and alarms as to her own conduct, which had previously distressed her, and which had all slept while she listened to him, were become of little consequence now.
13 Edmund saw weariness and distress in her face, and immediately resolved to forbear all farther discussion; and not even to mention the name of Crawford again, except as it might be connected with what must be agreeable to her.
14 Connected as we already are, and, I hope, are to be, to give up Mary Crawford would be to give up the society of some of those most dear to me; to banish myself from the very houses and friends whom, under any other distress, I should turn to for consolation.
15 She had no doubt that her note must appear excessively ill-written, that the language would disgrace a child, for her distress had allowed no arrangement; but at least it would assure them both of her being neither imposed on nor gratified by Mr. Crawford's attentions.
16 To be going so soon, sent for so kindly, sent for as a comfort, and with leave to take Susan, was altogether such a combination of blessings as set her heart in a glow, and for a time seemed to distance every pain, and make her incapable of suitably sharing the distress even of those whose distress she thought of most.
17 William knew what had passed, and from his heart lamented that his sister's feelings should be so cold towards a man whom he must consider as the first of human characters; but he was of an age to be all for love, and therefore unable to blame; and knowing her wish on the subject, he would not distress her by the slightest allusion.
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