[Lucy Steele] " . . . for my part, I love to see children full of life and spirits; I cannot bear them if they are tame and quiet."
"I confess," replied Elinor, "that while I am at Barton Park, I never think of tame and quiet children with any abhorrence."
Sense and Sensibility, volume 1, chapter 21
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Elinor soon allowed them credit for some kind of sense . . .
Sense and Sensibility, volume 1, chapter 21
Of the Miss Steeles
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Sir John . . . set off directly for the cottage to tell the Miss Dashwoods of the Miss Steeles’ arrival, and to assure them of their being the sweetest girls in the world. From such commendation as this, however, there was not much to be learned; Elinor well knew that the sweetest girls in the world were to be met with in every part of England, under every possible variation of form, face, temper and understanding.
Sense and Sensibility, volume 1, chapter 21
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