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<Author>Austen, Jane</Author>
<Title>Persuasion</Title>
<Edition>The Novels of Jane Austen. R. W. Chapman, ed. 2nd. ed. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1926</Edition>
<Date>1815-1817</Date>
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Sir Walter Elliot, of Kellynch-hall, in Somersetshire,
was a man who, for his own amusement, never took up
any book but the Baronetage; there he found occupation
for an idle hour, and consolation in a distressed one;
there his faculties were roused into admiration and respect,
by contemplating the limited remnant of the earliest
patents; there any unwelcome sensations, arising from
domestic affairs, changed naturally into pity and contempt,
as he turned over the almost endless creations of the last
century -- and there, if every other leaf were powerless,
he could read his own history with an interest which
never failed -- this was the page at which the favourite
volume . . .
