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I hope Mr. Bingley will like it, Lizzy.

I detest jargon of every kind, and sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in but what was worn and hackneyed out of all sense and meaning. ~ Marianne Dashwood

You mean to frighten me, Mr. Darcy, by coming in all this state to hear me? I will not be alarmed though your sister does play so well. There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.""I shall not say you are mistaken," he replied, "because you could not really believe me to entertain any design of alarming you; and I have had the pleasure of your acquaintance long enough to know that you find great enjoyment in occasionally professing opinions which in fact are not your own.

She had only two daughters, both of whom she had lived to see respectably married, and she now therefore nothing to do but to marry all the rest of the world.

This was invitation enough.

Me!" returned Elinor in some confusion; "indeed, Marianne, I have nothing to tell." "Nor I," answered Marianne with energy, "our situations then are alike. We have neither of us anything to tell; you, because you do not communicate, and I, because I conceal nothing." (27.17)

I honour your circumspection. A fortnight's acquaintance is certainly very little. One cannot know what a man really is by the end of a fortnight. But if we do not venture somebody else will; and after all, Mrs. Long and her daughters must stand their chance; and, therefore, as she will think it an act of kindness, if you decline the office, I will take it on myself.

bequeath

Del pasado no tiene usted que recordar más que lo placentero

I have not known him long indeed, but I am much better acquainted with him than I am with any other creature in the world.

for when people are determined on a mode of conduct which they know to be wrong, they feel injured by the expectation of any thing better from them.

He looks miserable poor soul!

I will be mistress of myself.

It is not every one," said Elinor, "who has your passion for dead leaves.

Do not you feel a great inclination, Miss Bennet, to seize such an opportunity of dancing a reel?

But while the imaginations of other people will carry them away to form wrong judgements of our conduct, and to decide on it by slight appearances, one's happiness must in some measure be always at the mercy of chance.

I should indefinitely prefer a book.

An hour's complete leisure for such reflections as these,on a dark November day, a small thick rain almost blotting outthe very few objects ever to be discerned from the windows...

Mr. Palmer does not hear me," said she, laughing, "he never does sometimes. It is so ridiculous!

Are you consulting your own feelings in the present case, or do you imagine that you are gratifying mine?