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1  In my situation, it would have been the extreme of vanity to be forming expectations on Mr. Crawford.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
2  Henry Crawford, ruined by early independence and bad domestic example, indulged in the freaks of a cold-blooded vanity a little too long.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII
3  He was entangled by his own vanity, with as little excuse of love as possible, and without the smallest inconstancy of mind towards her cousin.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII
4  It would have been a vast deal pleasanter to have had her more disinterested in her attachment; but his vanity was not of a strength to fight long against reason.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
5  Henry Crawford was gone, gone from the house, and within two hours afterwards from the parish; and so ended all the hopes his selfish vanity had raised in Maria and Julia Bertram.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XX
6  His unsettled affections, wavering with his vanity, Maria's decided attachment, and no sufficient principle on either side, gave it possibility: Miss Crawford's letter stampt it a fact.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XLVI
7  Their vanity was in such good order that they seemed to be quite free from it, and gave themselves no airs; while the praises attending such behaviour, secured and brought round by their aunt, served to strengthen them in believing they had no faults.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV
8  Miss Bertram could now speak with decided information of what she had known nothing about when Mr. Rushworth had asked her opinion; and her spirits were in as happy a flutter as vanity and pride could furnish, when they drove up to the spacious stone steps before the principal entrance.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VIII
9  The family were not consumptive, and she was more inclined to hope than fear for her cousin, except when she thought of Miss Crawford; but Miss Crawford gave her the idea of being the child of good luck, and to her selfishness and vanity it would be good luck to have Edmund the only son.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XLV
10  Curiosity and vanity were both engaged, and the temptation of immediate pleasure was too strong for a mind unused to make any sacrifice to right: he resolved to defer his Norfolk journey, resolved that writing should answer the purpose of it, or that its purpose was unimportant, and staid.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII
11  He had vanity, which strongly inclined him in the first place to think she did love him, though she might not know it herself; and which, secondly, when constrained at last to admit that she did know her own present feelings, convinced him that he should be able in time to make those feelings what he wished.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
12  To be finding herself, perhaps within three days, transported to Mansfield, was an image of the greatest felicity, but it would have been a material drawback to be owing such felicity to persons in whose feelings and conduct, at the present moment, she saw so much to condemn: the sister's feelings, the brother's conduct, her cold-hearted ambition, his thoughtless vanity.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XLV