Read the excerpt from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen."I was very much flattered by his asking me to dance a second time. I did not expect such a compliment.”"Did not you? I did for you. But that is one great difference between us. Compliments always take you by surprise, and me never. What could be more natural than his asking you again? He could not help seeing that you were about five times as pretty as every other woman in the room. No thanks to his gallantry for that. Well, he certainly is very agreeable, and I give you leave to like him. You have liked many a stupider person.”"Dear Lizzy!”
Read the excerpt from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.They were in fact very fine ladies; not deficient in good humour when they were pleased, nor in the power of being agreeable where they chose it; but proud and conceited.
Read the excerpt from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.They were rather handsome, had been educated in one of the first private seminaries in town, had a fortune of twenty thousand pounds, were in the habit of spending more than they ought, and of associating with people of rank; and were therefore in every respect entitled to think well of themselves, and meanly of others. They were of a respectable family in the north of England; a circumstance more deeply impressed on their memories than that their brother’s fortune and their own had been acquired by trade.
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Read the excerpt from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen."Certainly not; at first. But they are very pleasing women when you converse with them. Miss Bingley is to live with her brother and keep his house; and I am much mistaken if we shall not find a very charming neighbour in her.”Elizabeth listened in silence, but was not convinced; their behaviour at the assembly had not been calculated to please in general; and with more quickness of observation and less pliancy of temper than her sister, and with a judgment too unassailed by any attention to herself, she was very little disposed to approve them.
Read the excerpt from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen."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.”
Read the excerpt from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.[Elizabeth] "Oh! you are a great deal too apt you know, to like people in general. You never see a fault in any body. All the world are good and agreeable in your eyes. I never heard you speak ill of a human being in my life.”[Jane] "I would wish not to be hasty in censuring any one; but I always speak what I think.”
Read the excerpt from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen."They have none of them much to recommend them,” replied he; "they are all silly and ignorant like other girls; but Lizzy has something more of quickness than her sisters.”"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.”"Ah! you do not know what I suffer.”"But I hope you will get over it, and live to see many young men of four thousand a year come into the neighbourhood.”"It will be no use to us, if twenty such should come since you will not visit them.”"Depend upon it, my dear, that when there are twenty, I will visit them all.”
Read the excerpt from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen."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. . . .”"What is his name?”"Bingley.”"Is he married or single?”"Oh! single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine thing for our girls!”"How so? how can it affect them?”"My dear Mr. Bennet,” replied his wife, "how can you be so tiresome! You must know that I am thinking of his marrying one of them.”"Is that his design in settling here?”"Design! nonsense, how can you talk so! But it is very likely that he may fall in love with one of them, and therefore you must visit him as soon as he comes.”
Read the excerpt from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen."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. . . .”"What is his name?”"Bingley.”"Is he married or single?”"Oh! single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine thing for our girls!”"How so? how can it affect them?”"My dear Mr. Bennet,” replied his wife, "how can you be so tiresome! You must know that I am thinking of his marrying one of them.”"Is that his design in settling here?”"Design! nonsense, how can you talk so! But it is very likely that he may fall in love with one of them, and therefore you must visit him as soon as he comes.”
Read the excerpt from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.Between him and Darcy there was a very steady friendship, in spite of a great opposition of character.—Bingley was endeared to Darcy by the easiness, openness, ductility* of his temper, though no disposition** could offer a greater contrast to his own, and though with his own he never appeared dissatisfied.* the ability to change without breaking** personality
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Read the excerpt from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.The manner in which they spoke of the Meryton assembly was sufficiently characteristic. Bingley had never met with pleasanter people or prettier girls in his life; every body had been most kind and attentive to him, there had been no formality, no stiffness, he had soon felt acquainted with all the room; and as to Miss Bennet, he could not conceive an angel more beautiful. Darcy, on the contrary, had seen a collection of people in whom there was little beauty and no fashion, for none of whom he had felt the smallest interest, and from none received either attention or pleasure. Miss Bennet he acknowledged to be pretty, but she smiled too much.
Read the excerpt from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.Mrs. Hurst and her sister allowed it to be so—but still they admired her and liked her, and pronounced her to be a sweet girl, and one whom they should not object to know more of. Miss Bennet was therefore established as a sweet girl, and their brother felt authorised by such commendation to think of her as he chose.
Read the excerpt from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.Between him and Darcy there was a very steady friendship, in spite of a great opposition of character.—Bingley was endeared to Darcy by the easiness, openness, ductility* of his temper, though no disposition** could offer a greater contrast to his own, and though with his own he never appeared dissatisfied.* the ability to change without breaking** personality
Read the excerpt from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters.
Read the excerpt from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.Mr. Darcy danced only once with Mrs. Hurst and once with Miss Bingley, declined being introduced to any other lady, and spent the rest of the evening in walking about the room, speaking occasionally to one of his own party. His character was decided. He was the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world, and every body hoped that he would never come there again.
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