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1  Lady Russell had little taste for wit, and of anything approaching to imprudence a horror.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 4
2  She gave a moment's recollection, as they hurried along, to the little circumstances which the same spots had witnessed earlier in the morning.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 12
3  Such confidence, powerful in its own warmth, and bewitching in the wit which often expressed it, must have been enough for Anne; but Lady Russell saw it very differently.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 4
4  She could only compare Mr Elliot to Lady Russell, in the wish of really comprehending what had passed, and in the degree of concern for what she must have suffered in witnessing it.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 15
5  She could think only of the invitation she had with such astonishment witnessed, and of the manner in which it had been received; a manner of doubtful meaning, of surprise rather than gratification, of polite acknowledgement rather than acceptance.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 22
6  She felt that Mrs Musgrove and all her party ought to be asked to dine with them; but she could not bear to have the difference of style, the reduction of servants, which a dinner must betray, witnessed by those who had been always so inferior to the Elliots of Kellynch.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 22
7  She wished it might be possible for her to avoid ever seeing Captain Wentworth at the Hall: those rooms had witnessed former meetings which would be brought too painfully before her; but she was yet more anxious for the possibility of Lady Russell and Captain Wentworth never meeting anywhere.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 11