1 I might not like them the better for that perhaps.
2 If we were all like you, I believe we might sit four.
3 You would not like to leave him yourself, but you see I can be of no use.
4 The Musgroves, like their houses, were in a state of alteration, perhaps of improvement.
5 "It would not be a great match for her; but if Henrietta liked him,"--and Henrietta did seem to like him.
6 "I cannot imagine why they should suppose I should not like a long walk," said Mary, as she went up stairs.
7 If I were to shut myself up for ever with the child, I should not be able to persuade him to do anything he did not like.
8 Frederick Wentworth had used such words, or something like them, but without an idea that they would be carried round to her.
9 But I hate to hear you talking so like a fine gentleman, and as if women were all fine ladies, instead of rational creatures.
10 And as to Captain Wentworth's liking Louisa as well as Henrietta, it is nonsense to say so; for he certainly does like Henrietta a great deal the best.
11 Her manners were open, easy, and decided, like one who had no distrust of herself, and no doubts of what to do; without any approach to coarseness, however, or any want of good humour.
12 They did not like each other, and no renewal of acquaintance now could do any good; and were Lady Russell to see them together, she might think that he had too much self-possession, and she too little.
13 He was cut short by the eager attacks of the little boys, clinging to him like an old friend, and declaring he should not go; and being too much engrossed by proposals of carrying them away in his coat pockets, &c.
14 Elizabeth had succeeded, at sixteen, to all that was possible, of her mother's rights and consequence; and being very handsome, and very like himself, her influence had always been great, and they had gone on together most happily.
15 She occupied her mind as much as possible in such like musings and quotations; but it was not possible, that when within reach of Captain Wentworth's conversation with either of the Miss Musgroves, she should not try to hear it; yet she caught little very remarkable.
16 There was a numerous family; but the only two grown up, excepting Charles, were Henrietta and Louisa, young ladies of nineteen and twenty, who had brought from school at Exeter all the usual stock of accomplishments, and were now like thousands of other young ladies, living to be fashionable, happy, and merry.
17 If he will adopt these regulations, in seven years he will be clear; and I hope we may be able to convince him and Elizabeth, that Kellynch Hall has a respectability in itself which cannot be affected by these reductions; and that the true dignity of Sir Walter Elliot will be very far from lessened in the eyes of sensible people, by acting like a man of principle.
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