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1  Do let us have the pleasure of taking you home.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 10
2  Anne, far from wishing to cavil at the pleasure, replied, "I can easily believe it."
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 17
3  This was handsome, and gave her more pleasure than almost anything else could have done.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 13
4  She knew that when she played she was giving pleasure only to herself; but this was no new sensation.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 6
5  They had the pleasure of assuring her that Bath more than answered their expectations in every respect.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 15
6  Once she did contrive to push him away, but the boy had the greater pleasure in getting upon her back again directly.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 9
7  Their time and strength, and spirits, were, therefore, exactly ready for this walk, and they entered into it with pleasure.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 10
8  Mrs Croft always met her with a kindness which gave her the pleasure of fancying herself a favourite, and on the present occasion, receiving her in that house, there was particular attention.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 13
9  The Crofts knew quite as many people in Bath as they wished for, and considered their intercourse with the Elliots as a mere matter of form, and not in the least likely to afford them any pleasure.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 18
10  But the remembrance of the appeal remained a pleasure to her, as a proof of friendship, and of deference for her judgement, a great pleasure; and when it became a sort of parting proof, its value did not lessen.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 12
11  A small house in their own neighbourhood, where they might still have Lady Russell's society, still be near Mary, and still have the pleasure of sometimes seeing the lawns and groves of Kellynch, was the object of her ambition.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 2
12  In music she had been always used to feel alone in the world; and Mr and Mrs Musgrove's fond partiality for their own daughters' performance, and total indifference to any other person's, gave her much more pleasure for their sakes, than mortification for her own.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 6
13  It was a remainder of former sentiment; it was an impulse of pure, though unacknowledged friendship; it was a proof of his own warm and amiable heart, which she could not contemplate without emotions so compounded of pleasure and pain, that she knew not which prevailed.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 10
14  Captain Benwick was most considerately attentive to her; and, united as they all seemed by the distress of the day, she felt an increasing degree of good-will towards him, and a pleasure even in thinking that it might, perhaps, be the occasion of continuing their acquaintance.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 12
15  Lady Russell had only to listen composedly, and wish them happy, but internally her heart revelled in angry pleasure, in pleased contempt, that the man who at twenty-three had seemed to understand somewhat of the value of an Anne Elliot, should, eight years afterwards, be charmed by a Louisa Musgrove.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 13
16  She only knew that Henrietta was at home again; and that Louisa, though considered to be recovering fast, was still in Lyme; and she was thinking of them all very intently one evening, when a thicker letter than usual from Mary was delivered to her; and, to quicken the pleasure and surprise, with Admiral and Mrs Croft's compliments.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 18
17  The girls were now hunting for the Laconia; and Captain Wentworth could not deny himself the pleasure of taking the precious volume into his own hands to save them the trouble, and once more read aloud the little statement of her name and rate, and present non-commissioned class, observing over it that she too had been one of the best friends man ever had.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 8
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