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" Poor Charlotte! it was melancholy to leave her to such society! But she had chosen it with her eyes open ; and though evidently regretting that her visitors were to go, she did not seem to ask for compassion. Her home and her housekeeping, her parish... "
Pride and Prejudice - Page 43
by Jane Austen - 1892
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Pride and prejudice. Routledge's ed, Volume 272

Jane Austen - 1883 - 390 pages
...the recital of them interrupted by the entrance of the lady from whom they sprung. Poor Charlotte i it was melancholy to leave her to such society ! But...dependent concerns, had not yet lost their charms. was attended to the carriage by Mr. Collins, and as they walked down the garden, he was commissioning...
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The Novels of Jane Austen: Pride and prejudice

Jane Austen - English fiction - 1892 - 234 pages
...Rosings. could add, that she firmly believed and rejoiced in his domestic comforts. She was not sorry, however, to have the recital of them interrupted by...dependent concerns, had not yet lost their charms. " But," he added, " you will of course wish to have your humble respects delivered to them, with your...
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The Novels of Jane Austen: Pride & prejudice, 2 v

Jane Austen - England - 1905 - 318 pages
...sincerity could add, that she firmly believed and rejoiced in his domestic comforts. She was not sorry, however, to have the recital of them interrupted by...charms. At length the chaise arrived, the trunks were 34 fastened on, the parcels placed within, and it was pronounced to be ready. After an affectionate...
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The Novels and Letters of Jane Austen, Volume 4

Jane Austen - 1906 - 352 pages
...sincerity could add, that she firmly believed and rejoiced in his domestic comforts. She was not sorry, however, to have the recital of them interrupted by...within, and it was pronounced to be ready. After an affec[44] tionate parting between the friends, Elizabeth was attended to the carriage by Mr Collins,...
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 113

American essays - 1914 - 884 pages
...portrait with an acid almost chemically pure. Like a true artist she leaves Charlotte in her story when 'her home and her housekeeping, her parish and her...dependent concerns, had not yet lost their charms.' Admirable Miss Austen, who trusts us to see the rest! Among those women of thirty and over who married...
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The Novels and Letters of Jane Austen, Volume 4

Jane Austen - 1915 - 340 pages
...sincerity could add, that she firmly believed and rejoiced in his domestic comforts. She was not sorry, however, to have the recital of them interrupted by...within, and it was pronounced to be ready. After an affec[44] Uonate parting between the friends, Elizabeth was attended to the carriage by Mr Collins,...
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Jane Austen: Real and Imagined Worlds

Oliver MacDonagh - Literary Criticism - 1991 - 212 pages
...Collins, but has to admit that Charlotte herself seemed quite content for the present, at any rate. 'Her home and her housekeeping, her parish and her...dependent concerns, had not yet lost their charms' (p. 216). Charlotte had lived up to her creed. At the outset, she had laid down to Elizabeth the supreme...
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Lovers, Clowns, and Fairies: An Essay on Comedies

Stuart M. Tave - Education - 1993 - 294 pages
...Charlotte does not seem to ask for compassion. She keeps busy: her home and housekeeping, parish and poultry and all their dependent concerns "had not yet lost their charms" (II, xv, 216). Charlotte is no blind lover, makes her choice with her eyes open, takes the consequences...
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The Patient in the Family: An Ethics of Medicine and Families

Hilde Lindemann Nelson, Hilde Lindemann, James Lindemann Nelson - Families - 1995 - 268 pages
...the private sector; she was to rear the children and occupy herself with the domestic arts. She had "her home and her housekeeping, her parish and her poultry, and all their dependent concerns." 7 Although the father was still unquestionably the head of the household, his relations with his wife...
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Jane Austen: Illusion and Reality

Christopher Brooke, Christopher Nugent Lawrence Brooke - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 252 pages
...Marianne, and rather better pasturage for their cows'.79 More modestly, Mrs Collins found charms in 'her home and her housekeeping, her parish and her poultry, and all their dependent concerns'.80 From Jane Austen's letters one might gain the impression that her father's hobby was pig-keeping.81...
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