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1  But she shall forgive me again, and on more reasonable grounds.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 44
2  You are endeavouring to disarm me by reason, and to convince me against my will.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 10
3  I have no wish to be distinguished; and have every reason to hope I never shall.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 17
4  The reason alleged was their determined resolution of not leaving their mother at that time of the year.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 25
5  A more reasonable cause might be found in the dependent situation which forbade the indulgence of his affection.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 4
6  Elinor's compassion for him increased, as she had reason to suspect that the misery of disappointed love had already been known to him.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 11
7  She could easily conceive that marriage might not be immediately in their power; for though Willoughby was independent, there was no reason to believe him rich.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 14
8  Indeed, I can easily believe that it was a very great relief to you, to acknowledge your situation to me, and be assured that you shall never have reason to repent it.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 24
9  Like half the rest of the world, if more than half there be that are clever and good, Marianne, with excellent abilities and an excellent disposition, was neither reasonable nor candid.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 31
10  The forgiveness, at first, indeed, as was reasonable, comprehended only Robert; and Lucy, who had owed his mother no duty and therefore could have transgressed none, still remained some weeks longer unpardoned.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
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11  She turned towards Lucy in silent amazement, unable to divine the reason or object of such a declaration; and though her complexion varied, she stood firm in incredulity, and felt in no danger of an hysterical fit, or a swoon.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
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12  She wondered, with little intermission what could be the reason of it; was sure there must be some bad news, and thought over every kind of distress that could have befallen him, with a fixed determination that he should not escape them all.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
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13  Elinor would not attempt to disturb a solitude so reasonable as what she now sought; and with a mind anxiously pre-arranging its result, and a resolution of reviving the subject again, should Marianne fail to do it, she turned into the parlour to fulfill her parting injunction.
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14  But Marianne abhorred all concealment where no real disgrace could attend unreserve; and to aim at the restraint of sentiments which were not in themselves illaudable, appeared to her not merely an unnecessary effort, but a disgraceful subjection of reason to common-place and mistaken notions.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
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15  Her manners gave some re-assurance to Edward, and he had courage enough to sit down; but his embarrassment still exceeded that of the ladies in a proportion, which the case rendered reasonable, though his sex might make it rare; for his heart had not the indifference of Lucy's, nor could his conscience have quite the ease of Elinor's.
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16  His pleasure in music, though it amounted not to that ecstatic delight which alone could sympathize with her own, was estimable when contrasted against the horrible insensibility of the others; and she was reasonable enough to allow that a man of five and thirty might well have outlived all acuteness of feeling and every exquisite power of enjoyment.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
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17  In the whole of her subsequent manner, she traced the direction of a mind awakened to reasonable exertion; for no sooner had they entered their common sitting-room, than Marianne turned her eyes around it with a look of resolute firmness, as if determined at once to accustom herself to the sight of every object with which the remembrance of Willoughby could be connected.
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