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self-gratulation
suspence
chuse
befal
cassino,
staid
rencontre
shewn.
developement
sallad
shewing
chuse.”
uncontrouled!
staid
staid
staid
secresy
developement.
chuses,
staid
Teazing,
teazing,
teazing
laught
teazing
your’s.
chuse;
I wish I could say,
The narrator's voice intrudes.
he made reading useful by talking to her of what she read, and heightened its attraction by judicious praise.
alloy
In the sense of "debase".
a man of fortune and consequence,
I take it that a "man of fortune and consequence" in Jane Austen's time meant something quite different than a "man of fortune" today.
“The notions of a young man of one or two and twenty,” said he, “as to what is necessary in manners to make him quite the thing, are more absurd, I believe, than those of any other set of beings in the world. The folly of the means they often employ is only to be equalled by the folly of what they have in view.”
chose
choose
