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I dare say Mr. Bingley will be veryglad to see you; and I will send a few lines by you to assure him of myhearty consent to his marrying whichever he chooses of the girls; thoughI must throw in a good word for my little Lizzy.<>
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Elizabeth most thankfully consented, and a servant was dispatched toLongbourn to acquaint the family with her stay and bring back a supplyof clothes.<>
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(Jane Austen - Pride and prejudice ) Sir William and Lady Lucas were speedily applied to for their consent;and it was bestowed with a most joyful alacrity.<>
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(Jane Austen - Pride and prejudice ) "My father and Maria are coming to me in March," added Charlotte, "and Ihope you will consent to be of the party.<>
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Younge, in whose character we were most unhappily deceived; andby her connivance and aid, he so far recommended himself to Georgiana,whose affectionate heart retained a strong impression of his kindness toher as a child, that she was persuaded to believe herself in love, andto consent to an elopement.<>
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(Jane Austen - Pride and prejudice ) "But can you think that Lydia is so lost to everything but love of himas to consent to live with him on any terms other than marriage?""It does seem, and it is most shocking indeed," replied Elizabeth, withtears in her eyes, "that a sister's sense of decency and virtue in sucha point should admit of doubt.<>
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His consenting tomarry her is a proof, I will believe, that he is come to a right way ofthinking.<>
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Elizabeth wassurprised, however, that Wickham should consent to such a scheme, andhad she consulted only her own inclination, any meeting with him wouldhave been the last object of her wishes.<>
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Bennet could not give her consent orspeak her approbation in terms warm enough to satisfy her feelings,though she talked to Bingley of nothing else for half an hour; and whenMr. Bennet joined them at supper, his voice and manner plainly showedhow really happy he was.<>
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And pray, Lizzy, what said Lady Catherineabout this report? Did she call to refuse her consent?"To this question his daughter replied only with a laugh; and as it hadbeen asked without the least suspicion, she was not distressed byhis repeating it.<>
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Darcy professed a great curiosity to seethe view from the Mount, and Elizabeth silently consented.<>
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(Jane Austen - Pride and prejudice ) During their walk, it was resolved that Mr. Bennet's consent should beasked in the course of the evening.<>
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(Jane Austen - Pride and prejudice ) "Lizzy," said her father, "I have given him my consent.<>
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Wickhamfrequently invited her to come and stay with her, with the promise ofballs and young men, her father would never consent to her going.<>
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Tomlinson, thepost-office keeper, seemed by mutual consent to have been chosen theleader of the trade party.<>
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He commissioned me to say, that should this be pleaded as an excusefor your behaviour, he will consent to accept a written apology, to bepenned by you, from my dictation.<>
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Thus Mr. Pickwick was ledby the very warmth of his own good feelings to give his consent to aproceeding from which his better judgment would have recoiled--a morestriking illustration of his amiable character could hardly have beenconceived, even if the events recorded in these pages had been whollyimaginary.<>
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By them it was proposed, as a test ofMr. Pickwick's sincerity, that he should immediately submit to personalrestraint; and that gentleman having consented to hold a conference withMiss Tomkins, from the interior of a closet in which the day boardershung their bonnets and sandwich-bags, he at once stepped into it, ofhis own accord, and was securely locked in.<>
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The most unskilful observer couldhave detected in his troubled countenance, a readiness to resign hisWellington boots to any efficient substitute who would have consented tostand in them at that moment.<>
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I am very sorry tomake any further objection, but I cannot consent to go on, unless youcarry it as Winkle does his.<>
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I cannot consent to get up, in this state of uncertainty.<>
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At length whenhe had received ocular demonstration of the groundless nature of eachand every of these suspicions, he consented to climb up to the roof ofthe coach, observing that now he had taken everything off his mind, hefelt quite comfortable and happy.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) 'I do, Sir,' replied Mr. Pickwick; 'I object to say anything which maycompromise that lady, or awaken unpleasant recollections in her breast,without her consent and permission.<>
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While we thank you for suchhospitality as we have received, permit me to assure you, in ourjoint names, that we should not have accepted it, or have consented toextricate ourselves in this way, from our previous dilemma, had we notbeen impelled by a strong sense of duty.<>
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He had adistinct recollection of having once consented to eat salt butter, andhe had, moreover, on an occasion of sudden sickness in the house, so farforgotten himself as to carry a coal-scuttle up to the second floor.<>
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Sir,' said Mr. Winkle, trembling from head to foot, 'before I consentto sit down beside, or opposite you, without the presence of a waiter, Imust be secured by some further understanding.<>
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That a letter should be writtento Mr. Pickwick early next morning, and forwarded per Dowler, requestinghis consent to Sam and Mr. Winkle's remaining at Bristol, for thepurpose and with the object already assigned, and begging an answerby the next coach--, if favourable, the aforesaid parties to remainaccordingly, and if not, to return to Bath immediately on the receiptthereof.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) 'I thought it better to come myself,' said Mr. Pickwick, addressing Mr.Winkle, as Sam disencumbered him of his great-coat and travelling-shawl,'to ascertain, before I gave my consent to Sam's employment in thismatter, that you are quite in earnest and serious, with respect to thisyoung lady.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) It is, and has been, time out of mind, the remarkable fate of this courtto be, somehow or other, held and understood, by the general consentof all the destitute shabby-genteel people in London, as their commonresort, and place of daily refuge.<>
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He stopped, smileddarkly, and added, in a low, vindictive tone, 'It serves him right!'Having given vent to this cruel ebullition of deadly malice andcold-blooded triumph over a fallen enemy, Mr. Pott inquired whether Mr.Pickwick's friends were 'blue?' Receiving a most satisfactory answerin the affirmative from Sam, who knew as much about the matter as Potthimself, he consented to accompany him to Mr. Pickwick's room, wherea hearty welcome awaited him, and an agreement to club their dinnerstogether was at once made and ratified.<>
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Arabella wrote,the day before yesterday, to say she had made a stolen match without herhusband's father's consent, and so you had gone down to get it whenhis refusing it couldn't prevent the match, and all the rest of it.<>
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Ithought it a very good time to say something serious to my girls; soI said what a dreadful thing it was that children should marry withouttheir parents' consent, and so forth; but, bless your hearts, I couldn'tmake the least impression upon them.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) Mr. Weller was at first obstinately determined on cashing the cheque innothing but sovereigns; but it being represented by the umpires that byso doing he must incur the expense of a small sack to carry them homein, he consented to receive the amount in five-pound notes.<>
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I mean that I thought and thought about how a man might come tobe like that, until I realized that I really was like that, ineverything except actual final consent to the action.<>
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Sybil had sent forFather Brown, who was a friend of hers and had helped her out of adifficulty in the past; and under the pressure of the apparent peril hehad consented to remain at the house and see it through.<>
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(Chesterton The secret of father Brown )My wife is a great friend of the unfortunate lady who was the occasionof the quarrel and she has an idea that if Jim would consent to seeViola Grayson once again, and receive her assurance that old quarrelsare buried, it might restore his sanity.<>
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