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carefully observant or attentive — often to possible danger
- It will probably seem to the reader, however, that the Doctor's vigilance was by no means excessive, and that these two young people had an open field.Chapter 10 (14% in)
- He was not in the least in a state of tension or of vigilance with regard to Catherine's prospects he was even on his guard against the ridicule that might attach itself to the spectacle of a house thrown into agitation by its daughter and heiress receiving attentions unprecedented in its annals.Chapter 7 (3% in)
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