All 4 Uses of
tête-à-tête
in
Mansfield Park
- She talked to her, listened to her, read to her; and the tranquillity of such evenings, her perfect security in such a tete-a-tete from any sound of unkindness, was unspeakably welcome to a mind which had seldom known a pause in its alarms or embarrassments.†
Chpt 4 *
- An elegant, moderate-sized house in the centre of family connexions; continual engagements among them; commanding the first society in the neighbourhood; looked up to, perhaps, as leading it even more than those of larger fortune, and turning from the cheerful round of such amusements to nothing worse than a tete-a-tete with the person one feels most agreeable in the world.†
Chpt 22
- On the morrow they were walking about together with true enjoyment, and every succeeding morrow renewed a tete-a-tete which Sir Thomas could not but observe with complacency, even before Edmund had pointed it out to him.†
Chpt 24
- Besides, there was gratitude towards her, for having made their tete-a-tete so much less painful than her fears had predicted.†
Chpt 36
Definition:
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(tête-à-tête as in: involved in a tête-à-tête) a private conversation between two people