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1  Elinor tried to make a civil answer, though doubting her own success.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 35
2  As these considerations occurred to her in painful succession, she wept for him, more than for herself.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 23
3  Since the death of her husband, who had traded with success in a less elegant part of the town, she had resided every winter in a house in one of the streets near Portman Square.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 25
4  Here they were interrupted by the entrance of a third person, and Elinor withdrew to think it all over in private, to wish success to her friend, and yet in wishing it, to feel a pang for Willoughby.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 45
5  To him therefore the succession to the Norland estate was not so really important as to his sisters; for their fortune, independent of what might arise to them from their father's inheriting that property, could be but small.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 1
6  All that could be done was, to sit down at that end of the counter which seemed to promise the quickest succession; one gentleman only was standing there, and it is probable that Elinor was not without hope of exciting his politeness to a quicker despatch.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 33
7  But he judged it unnecessary: he had still something more to try, some more fresh application, of whose success he was as confident as the last, and his visit concluded with encouraging assurances which reached the ear, but could not enter the heart of Miss Dashwood.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 43
8  Yet as she was convinced that Marianne's affection for Willoughby, could leave no hope of Colonel Brandon's success, whatever the event of that affection might be, and at the same time wished to shield her conduct from censure, she thought it most prudent and kind, after some consideration, to say more than she really knew or believed.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 27