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Persuasion

CHAPTER 5
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Then, forgetting to think of it, she was at the other end of the room, beautifying a nosegay; then, she ate her cold meat; and then she was well enough to propose a little walk.
"Where shall we go ?" said she, when they were ready.

"I suppose you will not like to call at the Great House before they have been to see you ?" "I have not the smallest objection on that account," replied Anne.

"I should never think of standing on such ceremony with people I know so well as Mrs and the Miss Musgroves." "Oh! but they ought to call upon you as soon as possible.

They ought to feel what is due to you as my sister.

However, we may as well go and sit with them a little while, and when we have that over, we can enjoy our walk." Anne had always thought such a style of intercourse highly imprudent; but she had ceased to endeavour to check it, from believing that, though there were on each side continual subjects of offence, neither family could now do without it.


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