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1  They have borne more than our conduct.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 46
2  Willoughby may undoubtedly have very sufficient reasons for his conduct, and I will hope that he has.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 15
3  And this, I fear, is all that can be said for the conduct of one, who was at once her uncle and guardian.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 31
4  Mrs. Jennings was very warm in her praise of Edward's conduct, but only Elinor and Marianne understood its true merit.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 38
5  Such conduct made them of course most exceedingly laughed at; but ridicule could not shame, and seemed hardly to provoke them.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 11
6  His expensiveness is acknowledged even by himself, and his whole conduct declares that self-denial is a word hardly understood by him.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 47
7  Nothing could do away the knowledge of what the latter had suffered through his means, nor remove the guilt of his conduct towards Eliza.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 47
8  If the impertinent remarks of Mrs. Jennings are to be the proof of impropriety in conduct, we are all offending every moment of our lives.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 13
9  We all wish her extremely happy; and Mrs. Ferrars's conduct throughout the whole, has been such as every conscientious, good mother, in like circumstances, would adopt.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 37
10  But that was not enough; for when people are determined on a mode of conduct which they know to be wrong, they feel injured by the expectation of any thing better from them.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 36
11  What Mrs. Ferrars would say and do, though there could not be a doubt of its nature, she was anxious to hear; and still more anxious to know how Edward would conduct himself.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 37
12  Eliza had confessed to me, though most reluctantly, the name of her lover; and when he returned to town, which was within a fortnight after myself, we met by appointment, he to defend, I to punish his conduct.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 31
13  But while the imaginations of other people will carry them away to form wrong judgments of our conduct, and to decide on it by slight appearances, one's happiness must in some measure be always at the mercy of chance.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 36
14  Elinor said no more; it immediately struck her that she must then be writing to Willoughby; and the conclusion which as instantly followed was, that, however mysteriously they might wish to conduct the affair, they must be engaged.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 26
15  She was previously disposed, I believe, to doubt the morality of my conduct in general, and was moreover discontented with the very little attention, the very little portion of my time that I had bestowed on her, in my present visit.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 44
16  He had quitted Oxford within four and twenty hours after Lucy's letter arrived, and with only one object before him, the nearest road to Barton, had had no leisure to form any scheme of conduct, with which that road did not hold the most intimate connection.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 49
17  Yet as she was convinced that Marianne's affection for Willoughby, could leave no hope of Colonel Brandon's success, whatever the event of that affection might be, and at the same time wished to shield her conduct from censure, she thought it most prudent and kind, after some consideration, to say more than she really knew or believed.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 27
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