id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt austen-pride_027-1813 austen austen-pride_027-1813 1813 .txt text/plain 1271 65 76 On the stairs were a troop of little boys and girls, whose eagerness for their cousin's appearance would not allow them to wait in the drawing-room, and whose shyness, as they had not seen her for a twelvemonth, prevented their coming lower. She had not at first thought very seriously of going thither; but Charlotte, she soon found, was depending on the plan and she gradually learned to consider it herself with greater pleasure as well as greater certainty. cache/austen-pride_027-1813.txt txt/austen-pride_027-1813.txt