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1  She loved the child, and had always kept it with her.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 31
2  With such a reward for her tears, the child was too wise to cease crying.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 21
3  On every formal visit a child ought to be of the party, by way of provision for discourse.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 6
4  The old well-established grievance of duty against will, parent against child, was the cause of all.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 19
5  She treated her therefore, with all the indulgent fondness of a parent towards a favourite child on the last day of its holidays.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 30
6  She left to my care her only child, a little girl, the offspring of her first guilty connection, who was then about three years old.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 31
7  No sooner was his father's funeral over, than Mrs. John Dashwood, without sending any notice of her intention to her mother-in-law, arrived with her child and their attendants.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 1
8  As such, however, they were treated by her with quiet civility; and by her husband with as much kindness as he could feel towards anybody beyond himself, his wife, and their child.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 2
9  He was nice in his eating, uncertain in his hours; fond of his child, though affecting to slight it; and idled away the mornings at billiards, which ought to have been devoted to business.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 42
10  Lucy directly drew her work table near her and reseated herself with an alacrity and cheerfulness which seemed to infer that she could taste no greater delight than in making a filigree basket for a spoilt child.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 23
11  Their mother had nothing, and their father only seven thousand pounds in his own disposal; for the remaining moiety of his first wife's fortune was also secured to her child, and he had only a life-interest in it.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
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12  Elinor had some difficulty here to refrain from observing, that she thought Fanny might have borne with composure, an acquisition of wealth to her brother, by which neither she nor her child could be possibly impoverished.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 41
13  For the convenience of Charlotte and her child, they were to be more than two days on their journey, and Mr. Palmer, travelling more expeditiously with Colonel Brandon, was to join them at Cleveland soon after their arrival.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
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14  But unfortunately in bestowing these embraces, a pin in her ladyship's head dress slightly scratching the child's neck, produced from this pattern of gentleness such violent screams, as could hardly be outdone by any creature professedly noisy.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
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15  Mrs. Palmer had her child, and Mrs. Jennings her carpet-work; they talked of the friends they had left behind, arranged Lady Middleton's engagements, and wondered whether Mr. Palmer and Colonel Brandon would get farther than Reading that night.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 42
16  Had he been even old, ugly, and vulgar, the gratitude and kindness of Mrs. Dashwood would have been secured by any act of attention to her child; but the influence of youth, beauty, and elegance, gave an interest to the action which came home to her feelings.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 9
17  But Charlotte, she would not be satisfied, so Mr. Donavan was sent for; and luckily he happened to just come in from Harley Street, so he stepped over directly, and as soon as ever he saw the child, he said just as we did, that it was nothing in the world but the red gum, and then Charlotte was easy.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 37
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