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1  His regret increased as he listened.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 15
2  He was gone; he had disappeared, she felt a moment's regret.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 20
3  She stopped, regretting with a deep blush that she had implied so much; but less would hardly have been sufficient.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 21
4  Her attachment and regrets had, for a long time, clouded every enjoyment of youth, and an early loss of bloom and spirits had been their lasting effect.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 4
5  Sir Walter, however, would choose his own means, and at last wrote a very fine letter of ample explanation, regret, and entreaty, to his right honourable cousin.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 16
6  No, it was not regret which made Anne's heart beat in spite of herself, and brought the colour into her cheeks when she thought of Captain Wentworth unshackled and free.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 18
7  As she spoke, she felt that Captain Wentworth was looking at her, the consciousness of which vexed and embarrassed her, and made her regret that she had said so much, simple as it was.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 22
8  After laying out for some compliments of being deeply regretted in their old neighbourhood, which Anne could not pay, they had only a few faint enquiries to make, before the talk must be all their own.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 15
9  However, when I found how excessively he was regretting that he should miss my father this morning, I gave way immediately, for I would never really omit an opportunity of bring him and Sir Walter together.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
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10  To her, its greatest interest must be, in having been very much talked of between her friend and Mr Elliot; in having been wished for, regretted, and at the same time honoured for staying away in such a cause.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
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11  Lady Russell had not been arrived five minutes the day before, when a full account of the whole had burst on her; but still it must be talked of, she must make enquiries, she must regret the imprudence, lament the result, and Captain Wentworth's name must be mentioned by both.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
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12  The conclusion of the whole was, that if the woman who had been sensible of Captain Wentworth's merits could be allowed to prefer another man, there was nothing in the engagement to excite lasting wonder; and if Captain Wentworth lost no friend by it, certainly nothing to be regretted.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 18
13  She had a strong impression of his having said, in a vext tone of voice, after Captain Wentworth's interference, "You ought to have minded me, Walter; I told you not to teaze your aunt;" and could comprehend his regretting that Captain Wentworth should do what he ought to have done himself.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
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14  Anne talked of being perfectly ready, and tried to look it; but she felt that could Henrietta have known the regret and reluctance of her heart in quitting that chair, in preparing to quit the room, she would have found, in all her own sensations for her cousin, in the very security of his affection, wherewith to pity her.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
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15  As soon as he could, he began to talk to her of Lyme, wanting to compare opinions respecting the place, but especially wanting to speak of the circumstance of their happening to be guests in the same inn at the same time; to give his own route, understand something of hers, and regret that he should have lost such an opportunity of paying his respects to her.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
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16  She had the remembrance of all this, she had the consciousness of being nine-and-twenty to give her some regrets and some apprehensions; she was fully satisfied of being still quite as handsome as ever, but she felt her approach to the years of danger, and would have rejoiced to be certain of being properly solicited by baronet-blood within the next twelvemonth or two.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 1