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1 The pause was to Elizabeth's feelings dreadful.
2 After pausing on this point a considerable while, she once more continued to read.
3 After a short pause, her companion added, "You are too generous to trifle with me."
4 Elizabeth quietly answered "Undoubtedly;" and after an awkward pause, they returned to the rest of the family.
5 Miss Bennet paused a little, and then replied, "Surely there can be no occasion for exposing him so dreadfully."
6 There is also one other person in the party," he continued after a pause, "who more particularly wishes to be known to you.
7 Darcy only smiled; and the general pause which ensued made Elizabeth tremble lest her mother should be exposing herself again.
8 It is unlucky," said she, after a short pause, "that you should not be able to see your friends before they leave the country.
9 She paused, and saw with no slight indignation that he was listening with an air which proved him wholly unmoved by any feeling of remorse.
10 Mrs. Gardiner was standing a little behind; and on her pausing, he asked her if she would do him the honour of introducing him to her friends.
11 By Mrs. Hurst and Miss Bingley they were noticed only by a curtsey; and, on their being seated, a pause, awkward as such pauses must always be, succeeded for a few moments.
12 By Mrs. Hurst and Miss Bingley they were noticed only by a curtsey; and, on their being seated, a pause, awkward as such pauses must always be, succeeded for a few moments.
13 It seemed like wilful ill-nature, or a voluntary penance, for on these occasions it was not merely a few formal inquiries and an awkward pause and then away, but he actually thought it necessary to turn back and walk with her.
14 Elizabeth's eyes were fixed on her with most painful sensations, and she watched her progress through the several stanzas with an impatience which was very ill rewarded at their close; for Mary, on receiving, amongst the thanks of the table, the hint of a hope that she might be prevailed on to favour them again, after the pause of half a minute began another.