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1  Mr. and Mrs. Morland were all compliance, and Catherine all happiness.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 1
2  Her feelings, her preferences, had each known the happiness of a return.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 17
3  Mr. Allen's house, he was sure, must be exactly of the true size for rational happiness.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 21
4  You have gained a new source of enjoyment, and it is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 22
5  The happiness of having such a sister was their first effusion, and the fair ladies mingled in embraces and tears of joy.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 15
6  The two friends, with hearts now more united than ever, were inseparable for the day; and in schemes of sisterly happiness the hours flew along.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
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7  With a mind thus full of happiness, Catherine was hardly aware that two or three days had passed away, without her seeing Isabella for more than a few minutes together.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 18
8  Her whole happiness seemed at stake, while the affair was in suspense, and everything secured when it was determined that the lodgings should be taken for another fortnight.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
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9  Her happiness in going with Miss Tilney, however, prevented their wishing it otherwise; and, as they were to remain only one more week in Bath themselves, her quitting them now would not long be felt.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
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10  Yet, though longing to make her acquainted with her happiness, she cheerfully submitted to the wish of Mr. Allen, which took them rather early away, and her spirits danced within her, as she danced in her chair all the way home.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
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11  A sacrifice was always noble; and if she had given way to their entreaties, she should have been spared the distressing idea of a friend displeased, a brother angry, and a scheme of great happiness to both destroyed, perhaps through her means.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
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12  It was only in his presence that Catherine felt the smallest fatigue from her journey; and even then, even in moments of languor or restraint, a sense of general happiness preponderated, and she could think of her friends in Bath without one wish of being with them.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
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13  Catherine, meanwhile, undisturbed by presentiments of such an evil, or of any evil at all, except that of having but a short set to dance down, enjoyed her usual happiness with Henry Tilney, listening with sparkling eyes to everything he said; and, in finding him irresistible, becoming so herself.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
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14  I do not think anything would justify me in wishing you to sacrifice all your happiness merely to oblige my brother, because he is my brother, and who perhaps after all, you know, might be just as happy without you, for people seldom know what they would be at, young men especially, they are so amazingly changeable and inconstant.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
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15  James, who was now in constant attendance, maintained a similar position, and separating themselves from the rest of their party, they walked in that manner for some time, till Catherine began to doubt the happiness of a situation which, confining her entirely to her friend and brother, gave her very little share in the notice of either.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
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16  As they walked home again, Mrs. Morland endeavoured to impress on her daughter's mind the happiness of having such steady well-wishers as Mr. and Mrs. Allen, and the very little consideration which the neglect or unkindness of slight acquaintance like the Tilneys ought to have with her, while she could preserve the good opinion and affection of her earliest friends.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 29
17  The happiness with which their time now passed, every employment voluntary, every laugh indulged, every meal a scene of ease and good humour, walking where they liked and when they liked, their hours, pleasures, and fatigues at their own command, made her thoroughly sensible of the restraint which the general's presence had imposed, and most thankfully feel their present release from it.
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