Her love of dirt gave way to an inclination for finery, and she grew clean as she grew smart;.
Oh, yes! – of that kind of love which I suppose him to have felt.
Here Catherine secretly acknowledged the power of love; for, though exceedingly fond of her brother, and partial to all his endowments, she had never in her life thought him handsome.
Miss Eliza Bennet, let me persuade you to follow my example, and take a turn about the room. I assure you it is very refreshing after sitting so long in one attitude.
No leaf will decay because we are removed, nor any branch become motionless although we can observe you no longer! – No; you will continue the same; unconscious of the pleasure or the regret you occasion, and insensible of any change in those who walk under your shade! – But who will remain to enjoy you?
Even Elizabeth began to fear – not that Bingley was indifferent – but that his sisters would be successful in keeping him away. Unwilling as she was to admit an idea so destructive.
She had seen the same Frederick Wentworth.
They were gone, she hoped, to be happy, however oddly constructed such happiness might seem; as for herself, she was left with as many sensations of comfort as were, perhaps, ever likely to be hers.
Nothing could be more impossible than to answer such a question, though nothing could be more agreeable than to have it asked. “How.
My mother looks forward with as much certainty as you can do to our keeping two maids; my father is the only one not in the secret. We plan having a steady cook and a young giddy housemaid, with a sedate, middle-aged man, who is to undertake the double office of husband to the former and sweetheart to the latter. No children of course to be allowed on either side.
Don’t act yourself, if you do not like it, but don’t expect to govern everybody else.
So long divided and so differently situated, the ties of blood were little more than nothing.
Very true indeed, my dears, but you are blessed with wonderful memories, and your poor cousin has probably none at all.
I could not excuse a man’s having more music than love – more ear than eye – a more acute sensibility to fine sounds than to my feelings.
But I, who have had no such charm thrown over my senses, must still hear, see, and remember.
But I will endeavour to banish every painful thought, and think only of what will make me happy.
Mr. Darcy had at first scarcely allowed her to be pretty; he had looked at her without admiration at the ball; and when they next met, he looked at her only to criticise. But no sooner had he made it clear to himself and his friends that she hardly had a good feature in her face, than he began to find it was rendered uncommonly intelligent by the beautiful expression of her dark eyes. To this discovery succeeded some others equally mortifying.
Such extreme and perpetual cautiousness of word and manner, such a dread of giving a distinct idea about any body, is apt to suggest suspicions of there being something to conceal.
I am particularly unlucky in meeting with a person so able to expose my real character, in a part of the world where I had hoped to pass myself off with some degree of credit.
Miss Bennet I am shocked and astonished. I expected to find a more reasonable young woman. But do not deceive yourself into a belief that I will ever recede. I shall not go away till you have given me the assurance I require.” “And I certainly never shall give it. I am not to be intimidated into anything so wholly unreasonable.