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More a conscious repining at their existence, mixed with revulsion at the thought that she occasionally had to share space with them.
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She had not much time for repining, however, for the three young girls were busily employed in ‘having a good time’.
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I will not pause either to accuse or repine.
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“But the wife of Mr. Darcy must have such extraordinary sources of happiness necessarily attached to her situation, that she could, upon the whole, have no cause to repine.”
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Freeman called Lee “the Southern Arthur” who “accepted fame without vanity and defeat without repining.”
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