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Excerpt: Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen.

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Excerpt: Lady Susan Vernon to Mr. Vernon. My Dear Brother,--I can no longer refuse myself the pleasure of profiting by your kind invitation when we last parted of spending some weeks with you at Churchhill, and, therefore, if quite convenient to you and Mrs. Vernon to receive me at present, I shall hope within a few days to be introduced to a sister whom I have so long desired to be acquainted with. My kind friends here are most affectionately urgent with me to prolong my stay, but their hospitable and cheerful dispositions lead them too much into society for my present situation and state of mind; and I impatiently look forward to the hour when I shall be admitted into Your delightful retirement....

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Excerpt: Persuasion by Jane Austen.

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Excerpt: Emma Woodhouse. Handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her....

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Excerpt: Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen.

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Excerpt: About thirty years ago Miss Maria Ward, of Huntingdon, with only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram, of Mansfield Park, in the county of Northampton, and to be thereby raised to the rank of a baronet?s lady, with all the comforts and consequences of an handsome house and large income. All Huntingdon exclaimed on the greatness of the match, and her uncle, the lawyer, himself, allowed her to be at least three thousand pounds short of any equitable claim to it....

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Excerpt: Deceived in Friendship and Betrayed in Love.? Letter the First From Isabel to Laura How often, in answer to my repeated intreaties that you would give my Daughter a regular detail of the Misfortunes and Adventures of your Life, have you said ?No, my friend never will I comply with your request till I may be no longer in Danger of again experiencing such dreadful ones.?...

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Contents LOVE AND FREINDSHIP................................................. 4 AN UNFINISHED NOVEL IN LETTERS ................................................................................................................ 34 LESLEY CASTLE .......................................................................................................................... 35 THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND ................................................................................................... 61 A COLLECTION OF LETTERS ................................................................................................. 72 SCRAPS .......................................................................................................................................... 91 THE FEMALE PHILOSOPHER ................................................................................................. 92 THE FIRST ACT OF A COMEDY .............................................................................................. 93 A LETTER from a YOUNG LADY, whose feelings being too strong for her Judgement led her into the commission of Errors which her Heart dis...

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