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1  There," cried Isabella, "you hear what your sister says, and yet you will not mind her.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 8
2  Again Catherine excused herself; and at last he walked off to quiz his sisters by himself.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 8
3  Thank ye," cried Thorpe, "but I did not come to Bath to drive my sisters about, and look like a fool.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 13
4  Come along with me, and I will show you the four greatest quizzers in the room; my two younger sisters and their partners.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 8
5  With a yet sweeter smile, he said everything that need be said of his sister's concern, regret, and dependence on Catherine's honour.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 12
6  Particularly well; I always buy my own cravats, and am allowed to be an excellent judge; and my sister has often trusted me in the choice of a gown.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 3
7  On his two younger sisters he then bestowed an equal portion of his fraternal tenderness, for he asked each of them how they did, and observed that they both looked very ugly.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 7
8  Her eldest daughter had great personal beauty, and the younger ones, by pretending to be as handsome as their sister, imitating her air, and dressing in the same style, did very well.
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ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 4
9  Catherine inquired no further; she had heard enough to feel that Mrs. Allen had no real intelligence to give, and that she was most particularly unfortunate herself in having missed such a meeting with both brother and sister.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 9
10  She was so amazingly tired, and it was so odious to parade about the pump-room; and if she moved from her seat she should miss her sisters; she was expecting her sisters every moment; so that her dearest Catherine must excuse her, and must sit quietly down again.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 18
11  But guided only by what was simple and probable, it had never entered her head that Mr. Tilney could be married; he had not behaved, he had not talked, like the married men to whom she had been used; he had never mentioned a wife, and he had acknowledged a sister.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
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12  Here was I, in my eagerness to get on, refusing to wait only five minutes for my sister, breaking the promise I had made of reading it aloud, and keeping her in suspense at a most interesting part, by running away with the volume, which, you are to observe, was her own, particularly her own.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 14
13  From these circumstances sprang the instant conclusion of his sister's now being by his side; and therefore, instead of turning of a deathlike paleness and falling in a fit on Mrs. Allen's bosom, Catherine sat erect, in the perfect use of her senses, and with cheeks only a little redder than usual.
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14  Miss Tilney, to whom all the commonly frequented environs were familiar, spoke of them in terms which made her all eagerness to know them too; and on her openly fearing that she might find nobody to go with her, it was proposed by the brother and sister that they should join in a walk, some morning or other.
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15  He looked as handsome and as lively as ever, and was talking with interest to a fashionable and pleasing-looking young woman, who leant on his arm, and whom Catherine immediately guessed to be his sister; thus unthinkingly throwing away a fair opportunity of considering him lost to her forever, by being married already.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
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16  The dancing began within a few minutes after they were seated; and James, who had been engaged quite as long as his sister, was very importunate with Isabella to stand up; but John was gone into the card-room to speak to a friend, and nothing, she declared, should induce her to join the set before her dear Catherine could join it too.
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17  Mrs. Thorpe and her son, who were acquainted with everything, and who seemed only to want Mr. Morland's consent, to consider Isabella's engagement as the most fortunate circumstance imaginable for their family, were allowed to join their counsels, and add their quota of significant looks and mysterious expressions to fill up the measure of curiosity to be raised in the unprivileged younger sisters.
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ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 15
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