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1  It was driven by a servant in mourning.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 12
2  Depend upon it, that is a circumstance which his servants take care to publish, wherever he goes.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 12
3  Lady Dalrymple's carriage, for which Miss Elliot was growing very impatient, now drew up; the servant came in to announce it.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 19
4  She had before conjectured him to be a stranger like themselves, and determined that a well-looking groom, who was strolling about near the two inns as they came back, should be his servant.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 12
5  She had come to Bath on that account, and was now in lodgings near the hot baths, living in a very humble way, unable even to afford herself the comfort of a servant, and of course almost excluded from society.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 17
6  Mrs Musgrove thinks all her servants so steady, that it would be high treason to call it in question; but I am sure, without exaggeration, that her upper house-maid and laundry-maid, instead of being in their business, are gadding about the village, all day long.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 6
7  She felt that Mrs Musgrove and all her party ought to be asked to dine with them; but she could not bear to have the difference of style, the reduction of servants, which a dinner must betray, witnessed by those who had been always so inferior to the Elliots of Kellynch.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 22
8  Her accommodations were limited to a noisy parlour, and a dark bedroom behind, with no possibility of moving from one to the other without assistance, which there was only one servant in the house to afford, and she never quitted the house but to be conveyed into the warm bath.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 17
9  The word curricle made Charles Musgrove jump up that he might compare it with his own; the servant in mourning roused Anne's curiosity, and the whole six were collected to look, by the time the owner of the curricle was to be seen issuing from the door amidst the bows and civilities of the household, and taking his seat, to drive off.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 12