1 Mrs. Dashwood looked at Elinor with surprise.
2 Elinor heard all this with attention and surprise.
3 Marianne saw and listened with increasing surprise.
4 Perhaps," said Marianne, "I may consider it with some surprise.
5 Mrs. Jennings received the refusal with some surprise, and repeated her invitation immediately.
6 Your secret is safe with me; but pardon me if I express some surprise at so unnecessary a communication.
7 In some surprise at the familiarity of this question, or at least of the manner in which it was spoken, Elinor replied that she was.
8 It suggested no other surprise than that Elinor and Marianne should sit so composedly by, without claiming a share in what was passing.
9 After a short silence which succeeded the first surprise and enquiries of meeting, Marianne asked Edward if he came directly from London.
10 She remembered too, her own surprise at the time, at his mentioning nothing farther of those friends, at his total silence with respect even to their names.
11 This was quite a new idea to Mrs. Dashwood; she had never been used to find wit in the inattention of any one, and could not help looking with surprise at them both.
12 Mrs. Palmer laughed heartily at the recollection of their astonishment, and every body agreed, two or three times over, that it had been quite an agreeable surprise.
13 As soon as they left the dining-room, Elinor enquired of her about it; and great was her surprise when she found that every circumstance related by Mrs. Jennings was perfectly true.
14 Mrs. Jennings, in the meantime, talked on as loud as she could, and continued her account of their surprise, the evening before, on seeing their friends, without ceasing till every thing was told.
15 From that moment she doubted not of their being engaged to each other; and the belief of it created no other surprise than that she, or any of their friends, should be left by tempers so frank, to discover it by accident.
16 Marianne looked again; her heart sunk within her; and abruptly turning round, she was hurrying back, when the voices of both her sisters were raised to detain her; a third, almost as well known as Willoughby's, joined them in begging her to stop, and she turned round with surprise to see and welcome Edward Ferrars.
17 Fortunately for those who pay their court through such foibles, a fond mother, though, in pursuit of praise for her children, the most rapacious of human beings, is likewise the most credulous; her demands are exorbitant; but she will swallow any thing; and the excessive affection and endurance of the Miss Steeles towards her offspring were viewed therefore by Lady Middleton without the smallest surprise or distrust.
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