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- Without any reason that could justify, any apology that could atone for the abruptness, the rudeness, nay, the insolence of it.Chapter 28 (64% in)
- A silence of several minutes succeeded their first short dialogue; it was broken by Thorpe's saying very abruptly, "Old Allen is as rich as a Jew—is not he?"Chapter 9 (36% in)
- But her words were lost on Thorpe, who had turned abruptly away.Chapter 13 (31% in)
There are no more uses of "abrupt" in Northanger Abbey.
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