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She attracted him more than he liked--and Miss Bingley was uncivil to HER, and

tolerably

Darcy was not of a disposition in which happiness overflows in mirth; and Elizabeth, agitated and confused, rather knew that she was happy than felt herself to be so;

Upon my word, you five your opinion very decidedly for so young a person.

What arises from discretion must be honoured.

I am ill-qualified to recommend myself to strangers.

One cannot know what a man really is by the end of a fortnight.

Emma knows I never flatter her,

What think you of books?" said he, smiling. "Books—oh! no. I am sure we never read the same, or not with the same feelings." "I

He is so excessively handsome!

Where I have a regard, I always think a person well-looking.

I have faults enough, but they are not, I hope, of understanding. My temper I dare not vouch for. It is, I believe, too little yielding—certainly too little for the convenience of the world. I cannot forget the follies and vices of others so soon as I ought, nor their offenses against myself. My feelings are not puffed about with every attempt to move them. My temper would perhaps be called resentful. My good opinion once lost, is lost forever.

Sólo el amor más profundo me hará contraer matrimonio es por eso por lo que terminaré soltera.

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acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

business he could have in town so soon

Jane Fairfax is a very charming young woman—but not even Jane Fairfax is perfect. She has a fault. She has not the open temper which a man would wish for in a wife. Emma

such

They were not welcomed home very cordially by their mother.

The real evils, indeed, of Emma’s situation were the power of having rather too much her own way, and a disposition to think a little too well of herself;