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1  No letter from Willoughby came; and none seemed expected by Marianne.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 16
2  Her letter was scarcely finished, when a rap foretold a visitor, and Colonel Brandon was announced.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
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3  The letter was from this gentleman himself, and written in the true spirit of friendly accommodation.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
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4  His countenance was thoroughly good-humoured; and his manners were as friendly as the style of his letter.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
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5  This conviction, though not entirely satisfactory, gave her pleasure, and she continued her letter with greater alacrity.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
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6  I heard from him just before I left Exeter; taking a letter from her pocket and carelessly showing the direction to Elinor.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
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7  But if she DID, the letter was written and sent away with a privacy which eluded all her watchfulness to ascertain the fact.
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8  In this state of her spirits, a letter was delivered to her from the post, which contained a proposal particularly well timed.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
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9  Writing to each other," said Lucy, returning the letter into her pocket, "is the only comfort we have in such long separations.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
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10  In a very few weeks from the day which brought Sir John Middleton's first letter to Norland, every thing was so far settled in their future abode as to enable Mrs. Dashwood and her daughters to begin their journey.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
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11  Elinor thought she could distinguish a large W in the direction; and no sooner was it complete than Marianne, ringing the bell, requested the footman who answered it to get that letter conveyed for her to the two-penny post.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
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12  That good lady, however, saw only that Marianne had received a letter from Willoughby, which appeared to her a very good joke, and which she treated accordingly, by hoping, with a laugh, that she would find it to her liking.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
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13  It was some minutes before she could go on with her letter, and the frequent bursts of grief which still obliged her, at intervals, to withhold her pen, were proofs enough of her feeling how more than probable it was that she was writing for the last time to Willoughby.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
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14  About the middle of the day, Mrs. Jennings went out by herself on business, and Elinor began her letter directly, while Marianne, too restless for employment, too anxious for conversation, walked from one window to the other, or sat down by the fire in melancholy meditation.
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15  He seemed really anxious to accommodate them and the whole of his letter was written in so friendly a style as could not fail of giving pleasure to his cousin; more especially at a moment when she was suffering under the cold and unfeeling behaviour of her nearer connections.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
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16  But still I might not have believed it, for where the mind is perhaps rather unwilling to be convinced, it will always find something to support its doubts, if I had not, when the servant let me in today, accidentally seen a letter in his hand, directed to Mr. Willoughby in your sister's writing.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
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17  As this was a favourite meal with Mrs. Jennings, it lasted a considerable time, and they were just setting themselves, after it, round the common working table, when a letter was delivered to Marianne, which she eagerly caught from the servant, and, turning of a death-like paleness, instantly ran out of the room.
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