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though I must throw in a good word for my little Lizzy.

“I desire you will do no such thing.
Lizzy is not a bit better than the others:
and I am sure...

“You mistake me, my dear.
I have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty years at least.”

“Ah, you do not know what I suffer.”

and li...

“It is a rule with me,
that a person who can write a long letter with ease
cannot write ill.”

“That will not do for a compliment to Darcy, Caroline,”...

a preference which I trust my cousin Jane
will attribute to the right cause,

Elizabeth felt herself completely taken in.
by Wickham for those very da...

“My dear Mr. 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 ...

CHAPTER X.

THE day passed much as the day before had done.
Mrs. Hurst and Miss Bingley
who continued, though slowly, to mend ;
and, in the evening,
E...

‘Bingley,
you had better stay till next week,’
you would probably do it—
you would probably not go—
and, at another word,
might stay a month.”

“You h...

“Do you not feel a great inclination, Miss Bennet,

She smiled, but made no answer.
He repeated the question,
with some surprise at her silence.

“Oh,...

“Indeed I do not dare.”

Elizabeth, having rather expected to affront him,
was amazed at his gallantry;
but there was a mixture of sweetness and archn...

He smiled,
and assured her
that whatever she wished him to say
should be said.

“Very well;
that reply will do for the present.
Perhaps, by-and-by, I ...

which gave them time to see
how heartily they were wished away by some of the family.
Mrs. Hurst and her sister
except to complain of fatigue,
and wer...

and of their meaning to dine that day in Grosvenor Street,
where Mar. Hurst had a house.
The next was in these words:—
“‘I do not pretend to regret an...

and upon the whole
there were half hours of pleasant conversation with Charlotte,
and the weather was so fine for the time of year,
that she had often...

Elizabeth laughed heartily
at this picture of herself,
and said to Colonel Fitzwilliam,
“Your cousin will give you a very pretty notion of me,
and tea...

CHAPTER XXXVI.

IF ELIZABETH, when Mr. Darcy gave her the letter,
did not expect it to contain a renewal of his offers,
she had formed no expectation ...

His belief of her sister’s insensibility
she instantly resolved to be false;
and his account of the real, the worst objections to the match,
made her ...

and the circumstances to which he particularly alluded,
as having passed at the Netherfield ball,
and as confirming all his first disapprobation,
coul...

She was not sorry,
however, to have the recital of them interrupted
Poor Charlotte!
it was melancholy to leave her to such society!
and though evident...

After an affectionate parting between the friends,
Elizabeth was attended to the carriage by Mr. Collins;
and as they walked down the garden,
he was c...

CHAPTER XLI.

THE first week of their return was soon gone.
The second began.
It was the last of the regiment’s stay in Meryton,
The dejection was alm...

“Oh yes!—
if one could but go to Brighton!
But papa is so disagreeable.”

“A little sea-bathing would set me up for ever.”

“And my aunt Philips is su...

At Brighton she will be of less importance
even as a common flirt
than she has been here.
The officers will find women better worth their notice.
that...

His pride, in that direction,
may be of service, if not to himself,
to many others,
for it must deter him from such foul misconduct
as I have suffered...

CHAPTER XXV.

in professions of love and schemes of felicity,
Mr. Collins was called from his amiable Charlotte
by the arrival of Saturday.
The pain o...

and she removed, at his desire,
to the other side of the fireplace,
that she might be farther from the door.
He then sat down by her,
and talked scarc...

CHAPTER XXXVIII.

ON Saturday morning Elizabeth and Mr. Collins met for breakfast
a few minutes before the others appeared;
of paying the parting civi...

Mr. Bennet saw that her whole heart was in the subject;
and, affectionately taking her hand, said, in reply,—

“Do not make yourself uneasy, my love.
...

Had she known that her sister sought to tear her
what would have been her sensations?
They could have been understood only by her mother,
who might ha...

“Yes, there can ;
for mine is totally different.
Will you hear it ? ”

“Most willingly.”

“You shall have it in a few words.
Miss Bingley sees that he...