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1  You should not have suspected me now; the case is so different, and my age is so different.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 23
2  I suspect," said Sir Walter coolly, "that Admiral Croft will be best known in Bath as the renter of Kellynch Hall.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 18
3  And as to my father, I really should not have thought that he, who has kept himself single so long for our sakes, need be suspected now.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 5
4  She left her seat, she would go; one half of her should not be always so much wiser than the other half, or always suspecting the other of being worse than it was.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 19
5  The offence which had been given her father, many years back, she knew; Elizabeth's particular share in it she suspected; and that Mr Elliot's idea always produced irritation in both was beyond a doubt.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 12
6  Very good humoured, unaffected girls, indeed," said Mrs Croft, in a tone of calmer praise, such as made Anne suspect that her keener powers might not consider either of them as quite worthy of her brother; "and a very respectable family.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 10
7  That was a point which Anne had not been able to avoid suspecting before; and instead of drawing the same conclusion as Mary, from the present course of events, they served only to confirm the idea of his having felt some dawning of tenderness toward herself.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 18
8  I should be extremely happy; I hope you cannot doubt my willingness to be of even the slightest use to you," replied Anne; "but I suspect that you are considering me as having a higher claim on Mr Elliot, a greater right to influence him, than is really the case.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 21
9  It was nothing more than that his pen had fallen down; but Anne was startled at finding him nearer than she had supposed, and half inclined to suspect that the pen had only fallen because he had been occupied by them, striving to catch sounds, which yet she did not think he could have caught.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 23