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1  She was come to be happy, and she felt happy already.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 2
2  I have always lived there, and always been very happy.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
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3  Mrs. Morland was not happy in her attempt at consolation.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
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4  Historians, you think," said Miss Tilney, "are not happy in their flights of fancy.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
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5  If you can be induced to honour us with a visit, you will make us happy beyond expression.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
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6  Henry was greatly honoured and very happy, and Catherine was quite delighted with the scheme.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
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7  Isabella's countenance was once more all smiles and good humour, and James too looked happy again.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
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8  Mrs. Hughes could not have applied to any creature in the room more happy to oblige her than Catherine.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
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9  Isabella now entered the room with so eager a step, and a look of such happy importance, as engaged all her friend's notice.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
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10  A gleam of sunshine took her quite by surprise; she looked round; the clouds were parting, and she instantly returned to the window to watch over and encourage the happy appearance.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
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11  A glance at the old chest, as she turned away from this examination, was not without its use; she scorned the causeless fears of an idle fancy, and began with a most happy indifference to prepare herself for bed.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
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12  Catherine was saved the embarrassment of attempting an answer by the entrance of the general, whose smiling compliments announced a happy state of mind, but whose gentle hint of sympathetic early rising did not advance her composure.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
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13  With such news to communicate, and such a visit to prepare for, her departure was not to be delayed by anything in his nature to urge; and she hurried away, leaving him to the undivided consciousness of his own happy address, and her explicit encouragement.
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  Her suspense was of full five minutes' duration; and she was beginning to think it a very long quarter of an hour, when they both returned, and an explanation was given, by Henry's requesting to know if she thought her friend, Miss Thorpe, would have any objection to dancing, as his brother would be most happy to be introduced to her.
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16  Catherine, delighted at so happy an escape, spoke her pleasure aloud with grateful surprise; and her companion immediately made the matter perfectly simple by assuring her that it was entirely owing to the peculiarly judicious manner in which he had then held the reins, and the singular discernment and dexterity with which he had directed his whip.
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17  This declaration brought on a loud and overpowering reply, of which no part was very distinct, except the frequent exclamations, amounting almost to oaths, which adorned it, and Catherine was left, when it ended, with rather a strengthened belief of there being a great deal of wine drunk in Oxford, and the same happy conviction of her brother's comparative sobriety.
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