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acquaintance admiration affection agreeable amiable answer asked assure attention behaviour believe beth Bingley's Brighton brother CHAPTER Charlotte Charlotte Lucas civility Collins Colonel Fitzwilliam Colonel Forster connexions cousin dance Darcy's dare say daugh daughter dear dear Jane delight Derbyshire Eliza Elizabeth Bennet endeavour engaged expected eyes father feelings felt FREDERIKA BREMER Gardiner gentlemen girls give Gracechurch Street handsome happy hear heard Hertfordshire honour hope Hunsford Hurst Jane Jane's Kitty Lady Catherine ladyship letter Lizzy London Longbourn looked Lydia manner marriage married Meryton Miss Bennet Miss Bingley MISS BREMER Miss Darcy Miss Lucas morning mother Netherfield never object OLD BAILEY opinion party Pemberley pleasure pride received replied SENSE AND SENSIBILITY Sir William sister smile soon speak suppose sure surprise talking tell thought tion told town uncle and aunt walk Wickham wish woman young ladies
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Page 5 - Bennet,' said his lady to him one day, 'have you heard that Netherfield Park is let at last?' Mr Bennet replied that he had not. 'But it is,' returned she; 'for Mrs Long has just been here, and she told me all about it.
Page 182 - For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn ? ' ' Oh ! ' cried Elizabeth,
Page 47 - you must comprehend a great deal in your idea of an accomplished woman.' 'Yes; I do comprehend a great deal in it.' 'Oh! certainly,' cried his faithful assistant, 'no one can be really esteemed accomplished, who does not greatly surpass what is usually met with. A woman must have a thorough knowledge of music, singing, drawing, dancing, and the modern languages, to deserve the word; and besides all this, she must possess...
Page 52 - ... evils arising from so ill-judged a direction of talents; talents which, rightly used, might at least have preserved the respectability of his daughters, even if incapable of enlarging the mind of his wife.
Page 171 - While in their cradles we planned the union ; and now, at the moment when the wishes of both sisters would be accomplished, In their marriage, to be prevented by a young woman of inferior birth, of no importance in the world, and wholly unallied to the family ! Do you pay no regard to the wishes of his friends— to his tacit engagement with Miss De Bourgh ? Are you lost to every feeling of propriety and delicacy ? Have you not heard me say that from his earliest hours he was destined for his cousin...
Page 47 - ... all this, she must possess a certain something in her air and manner of walking, the tone of her voice, her address and expressions, or the word will be but half deserved.' 'All this she must possess,' added Darcy, ' and to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading.
Page 25 - Pride," observed Mary, who piqued herself upon the solidity of her reflections, " is a very common failing, I believe. By all that I have ever read, I am convinced that it is very common indeed; that human nature is particularly prone to it, and that there are very few of us who do not cherish a feeling of selfcomplacency on the score of some quality or the other, real or imaginary.
Page 8 - Mr Bennet, how can you abuse your own children in such a way? You take delight in vexing me. You have no compassion on my poor nerves.' 'You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty years at least.
Page 6 - Do not you want to know who has taken it?' cried his wife impatiently. 'You want to tell me, and I have no objection to hearing it.' This was invitation enough. 'Why, my dear, you must know, Mrs Long says that Netherfield is taken by a young man of large fortune from the north of England; that he came down on Monday in a chaise and four to...