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1  Of her unhappiness in marriage, she felt persuaded.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 22
2  I consider a country-dance as an emblem of marriage.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 10
3  In marriage, the man is supposed to provide for the support of the woman, the woman to make the home agreeable to the man; he is to purvey, and she is to smile.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 10
4  It was there, it was on that day, that the general had made use of such expressions with regard to Henry and herself, had so spoken and so looked as to give her the most positive conviction of his actually wishing their marriage.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 29
5  Of a very considerable fortune, his son was, by marriage settlements, eventually secure; his present income was an income of independence and comfort, and under every pecuniary view, it was a match beyond the claims of their daughter.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 31
6  On the strength of this, the general, soon after Eleanor's marriage, permitted his son to return to Northanger, and thence made him the bearer of his consent, very courteously worded in a page full of empty professions to Mr. Morland.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 31
7  She endeavoured to believe that the delay of the marriage was the only source of Isabella's regret; and when she saw her at their next interview as cheerful and amiable as ever, endeavoured to forget that she had for a minute thought otherwise.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 16
8  The marriage of Eleanor Tilney, her removal from all the evils of such a home as Northanger had been made by Henry's banishment, to the home of her choice and the man of her choice, is an event which I expect to give general satisfaction among all her acquaintance.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 31