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1  Miss Harville only died last June.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 14
2  She had died the preceding summer while he was at sea.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 11
3  The husband had died just in time to be spared the full knowledge of it.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 21
4  While Lady Elliot lived, there had been method, moderation, and economy, which had just kept him within his income; but with her had died all such right-mindedness, and from that period he had been constantly exceeding it.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 1
5  I wish you could persuade Mary not to be always fancying herself ill," was Charles's language; and, in an unhappy mood, thus spoke Mary: "I do believe if Charles were to see me dying, he would not think there was anything the matter with me.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 6
6  The neglect had been visited on the head of the sinner; for when poor Lady Elliot died herself, no letter of condolence was received at Kellynch, and, consequently, there was but too much reason to apprehend that the Dalrymples considered the relationship as closed.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 16
7  It would not be a great match for Henrietta, but Charles has a very fair chance, through the Spicers, of getting something from the Bishop in the course of a year or two; and you will please to remember, that he is the eldest son; whenever my uncle dies, he steps into very pretty property.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 9