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1  I am not obliged to punish myself for her sins.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER X
2  Miss Ward, at the end of half a dozen years, found herself obliged to be attached to the Rev.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I
3  Mrs. Rushworth being obliged to yield to Lady Bertram's staying at home, could only be sorry.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VIII
4  Fanny would have had quite as good a walk there, I assure you, with the advantage of being of some use, and obliging her aunt: it is all her fault.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
5  "I am sure she ought to be very much obliged to you," added Julia, hastily leaving the room as she spoke, from a consciousness that she ought to offer to stay at home herself.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VIII
6  Edmund said no more to either lady; but going quietly to another table, on which the supper-tray yet remained, brought a glass of Madeira to Fanny, and obliged her to drink the greater part.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VII
7  Fanny sighed, and said, "I cannot see things as you do; but I ought to believe you to be right rather than myself, and I am very much obliged to you for trying to reconcile me to what must be."
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III
8  The Admiral delighted in the boy, Mrs. Crawford doted on the girl; and it was the lady's death which now obliged her protegee, after some months' further trial at her uncle's house, to find another home.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV
9  More was not expected by one who, while seeing all the obligation and expediency of submission and forbearance, saw also with sympathetic acuteness of feeling all that must be hourly grating to a girl like Susan.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XL
10  It was much pleasanter to think of Henry Crawford than of their father; and to think of their father in England again within a certain period, which these letters obliged them to do, was a most unwelcome exercise.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XI
11  Love such as his, in a man like himself, must with perseverance secure a return, and at no great distance; and he had so much delight in the idea of obliging her to love him in a very short time, that her not loving him now was scarcely regretted.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
12  I know so many who have married in the full expectation and confidence of some one particular advantage in the connexion, or accomplishment, or good quality in the person, who have found themselves entirely deceived, and been obliged to put up with exactly the reverse.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER V
13  This was so new an attention, so perfectly new a circumstance in the events of Fanny's life, that she was all surprise and embarrassment; and while stammering out her great obligation, and her "but she did not suppose it would be in her power," was looking at Edmund for his opinion and help.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXII
14  Fanny would rather have had Edmund tell the story, but his determined silence obliged her to relate her brother's situation: her voice was animated in speaking of his profession, and the foreign stations he had been on; but she could not mention the number of years that he had been absent without tears in her eyes.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VI
15  Being now in her twenty-first year, Maria Bertram was beginning to think matrimony a duty; and as a marriage with Mr. Rushworth would give her the enjoyment of a larger income than her father's, as well as ensure her the house in town, which was now a prime object, it became, by the same rule of moral obligation, her evident duty to marry Mr. Rushworth if she could.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV
16  The remaining three, Mrs. Rushworth, Mrs. Norris, and Julia, were still far behind; for Julia, whose happy star no longer prevailed, was obliged to keep by the side of Mrs. Rushworth, and restrain her impatient feet to that lady's slow pace, while her aunt, having fallen in with the housekeeper, who was come out to feed the pheasants, was lingering behind in gossip with her.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX
17  Sir Thomas's sending away his son seemed to her so like a parent's care, under the influence of a foreboding of evil to himself, that she could not help feeling dreadful presentiments; and as the long evenings of autumn came on, was so terribly haunted by these ideas, in the sad solitariness of her cottage, as to be obliged to take daily refuge in the dining-room of the Park.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV
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