1 Willoughby certainly does not deserve to be suspected.
2 My brother did not deserve her; he did not even love her.
3 Elinor agreed to it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.
4 Edward tried to return her kindness as it deserved, but before such witnesses he dared not say half what he really felt.
5 Miss Lucy Steele is, I dare say, a very deserving young woman, but in the present case you know, the connection must be impossible.
6 I should never deserve her confidence again, after forcing from her a confession of what is meant at present to be unacknowledged to any one.
7 Her affection for me deserved better treatment, and I often, with great self-reproach, recall the tenderness which, for a very short time, had the power of creating any return.
8 Here ceased the rapid flow of her self-reproving spirit; and Elinor, impatient to soothe, though too honest to flatter, gave her instantly that praise and support which her frankness and her contrition so well deserved.
9 I have heard," said he, with great compassion, "of the injustice your friend Mr. Ferrars has suffered from his family; for if I understand the matter right, he has been entirely cast off by them for persevering in his engagement with a very deserving young woman.
10 She thanked him for it with all her heart, spoke of Edward's principles and disposition with that praise which she knew them to deserve; and promised to undertake the commission with pleasure, if it were really his wish to put off so agreeable an office to another.