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1  Hear the truth, therefore, now, while you are unprejudiced.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 21
2  And all this was said with a truth and sincerity of feeling irresistible.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 12
3  To confess the truth," said Mrs Smith, assuming her usual air of cheerfulness, "that is exactly the pleasure I want you to have.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 21
4  And, indeed, to own the truth, I do not think nurse, in her heart, is a very strenuous opposer of Sir Walter's making a second match.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 21
5  The truth was, that Elizabeth had been long enough in Bath to understand the importance of a man of such an air and appearance as his.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 22
6  I considered your marrying him as certain, though he might not yet have made the offer, and I could no more speak the truth of him, than if he had been your husband.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 21
7  But," continued Anne, presently, "though there is no truth in my having this claim on Mr Elliot, I should be extremely happy to be of use to you in any way that I could.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 21
8  Captain Harville, who had in truth been hearing none of it, now left his seat, and moved to a window, and Anne seeming to watch him, though it was from thorough absence of mind, became gradually sensible that he was inviting her to join him where he stood.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 23
9  There they returned again into the past, more exquisitely happy, perhaps, in their re-union, than when it had been first projected; more tender, more tried, more fixed in a knowledge of each other's character, truth, and attachment; more equal to act, more justified in acting.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 23
10  The two ladies continued to talk, to re-urge the same admitted truths, and enforce them with such examples of the ill effect of a contrary practice as had fallen within their observation, but Anne heard nothing distinctly; it was only a buzz of words in her ear, her mind was in confusion.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 23