1 I like to hear your enthusiasm, Fanny.
2 You will hear enough of it to-morrow, sir.
3 I love to hear my uncle talk of the West Indies.
4 Mrs. Norris was talking to Julia, and did not hear.
5 So they are indeed, and I am delighted to hear you say it.
6 Allow me to stay here a little while, and do have the goodness to hear me my third act.
7 Edmund spoke of the harp as his favourite instrument, and hoped to be soon allowed to hear her.
8 Edmund was sorry to hear Miss Crawford, whom he was much disposed to admire, speak so freely of her uncle.
9 Very well, very well," cried Dr. Grant, "all the better; I am glad to hear you have anything so good in the house.
10 You assign greater consequence to the clergyman than one has been used to hear given, or than I can quite comprehend.
11 Nothing could be so gratifying to me as to hear your opinion of it," was his answer; "but I fear there would be some disappointment: you would not find it equal to your present ideas.
12 As to her cousins' gaieties, she loved to hear an account of them, especially of the balls, and whom Edmund had danced with; but thought too lowly of her own situation to imagine she should ever be admitted to the same, and listened, therefore, without an idea of any nearer concern in them.
13 It was so agreeable to her to see him again, and hear him talk, to have her ear amused and her whole comprehension filled by his narratives, that she began particularly to feel how dreadfully she must have missed him, and how impossible it would have been for her to bear a lengthened absence.
14 It was beginning to look brighter, when Fanny, observing a harp in the room, asked some questions about it, which soon led to an acknowledgment of her wishing very much to hear it, and a confession, which could hardly be believed, of her having never yet heard it since its being in Mansfield.
15 As I am now, I have no influence, I can do nothing: I have offended them, and they will not hear me; but when I have put them in good-humour by this concession, I am not without hopes of persuading them to confine the representation within a much smaller circle than they are now in the high road for.
16 "We will stay till this is finished, Fanny," said he, turning his back on the window; and as it advanced, she had the mortification of seeing him advance too, moving forward by gentle degrees towards the instrument, and when it ceased, he was close by the singers, among the most urgent in requesting to hear the glee again.
17 Nothing was fixed on; but Henry Crawford was full of ideas and projects, and, generally speaking, whatever he proposed was immediately approved, first by her, and then by Mr. Rushworth, whose principal business seemed to be to hear the others, and who scarcely risked an original thought of his own beyond a wish that they had seen his friend Smith's place.
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