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Pride and Prejudice
Pride and Prejudice
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18475.37
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SPES-VINCIT-TERONUM
VILLE-LINDALL-WINTHROP
THE BEQUEST OF
Grenville L. Winthrop
1943
VOLUME I.
1
Prejudice
By Jane
Austen
In Two Volumes
Vol. I.
Boston, 1892
Roberts Brothers, Publishers
18475.37 (1),
HARVARD
UNIVERSITY
LIBRARY
SEP 22 1955
Copyright, 1892,
BY ROBERTS BROTHERS .
University Press :
JOHN WILSON AND SON, CAMBRIDGE, U.S.A.
PRIDE AND PREJUDICE .
CHAPTER I.
" Do not you want to know who has taken it? "
cried his wife, impatiently.
" You want to tell me, and I have no objection
to hearing it."
This was invitation enough.
"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; that he
came down on Monday in a chaise and four to see
the place, and was so much delighted with it that
he agreed with Mr. Morris immediately ; that he
is to take possession before Michaelmas, and some
of his servants are to be in the house by the end of
next week."
" 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. "
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directly . "
The boy protested that she should not ; she
continued to declare that she would ; and the ar
gument ended only with the visit .
CHAPTER VI.
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" You excel so much in the dance, Miss Eliza,
that it is cruel to deny me the happiness of seeing
you ; and though this gentleman dislikes the
amusement in general, he can have no objection,
I am sure, to oblige us for one half-hour. ” P
" Mr. Darcy is all politeness, " said Elizabeth,
smiling.
" He is, indeed; but considering the induce
ment, my dear Miss Eliza, we cannot wonder at
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CHAPTER IX .
He made no answer.
" You write uncommonly fast. "
" You are mistaken . I write rather slowly. "
" How many letters you must have occasion to
write in the course of a year! Letters of business,
too ! How odious I should think them! "
" It is fortunate, then, that they fall to my lot
instead of to yours . "
" Pray tell your sister that I long to see her. "
" I have already told her so once, by your
desire."
" I am afraid you do not like your pen. Let me
mend it for you. I mend pens remarkably well . ”
“ Thank you, -- but I always mend my own. "
" How can you contrive to write so even? "
He was silent.
" Tell your sister I am delighted to hear of her
improvement on the harp, and pray let her know
that I am quite in raptures with her beautiful
little design for a table, and I think it infinitely
superior to Miss Grantley's. "
" Will you give me leave to defer your raptures
till I write again ? At present I have not room to
do them justice . "
" Oh, it is of no consequence. I shall see her
in January . But do you always write such
charming long letters to her, Mr. Darcy? "
" They are generally long ; but whether always
charming, it is not for me to determine."
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Bennet, alarmed. " Lizzy is only headstrong in
such matters as these. In everything else she is
as good-natured a girl as ever lived. I will go
directly to Mr. Bennet, and we shall very soon
settle it with her, I am sure."
She would not give him time to reply, but
hurrying instantly to her husband, called out, as
she entered the library, -
" Oh, Mr. Bennet, you are wanted immediately;
we are all in an uproar. You must come and
make Lizzy marry Mr. Collins, for she vows she
will not have him ; and if you do not make haste,
he will change his mind and not have her. "
Mr. Bennet raised his eyes from his book as she
entered, and fixed them on her face with a calm
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CHAPTER XXVI.
T I am
and teach you not to believe a word I say.
apart particularly unlucky in meeting with a person so
well able to expose my real character, in a part of
ride25 the world where I had hoped to pass myself off
Ma with some degree of credit. Indeed, Mr. Darcy,
√ it is very ungenerous in you to mention all that
you knew to my disadvantage in Hertfordshire, ―
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and, give me leave to say, very impolitic too, - for
it is provoking me to retaliate, and such things
pad may come out as will shock your relations to
hear."
"I am not afraid of you, " said he, smilingly.
86 Pray let me hear what you have to accuse him
BA of," cried Colonel Fitzwilliam. " I should like
el to know how he behaves among strangers ."
33 " You shall hear, then-- but prepare for some
√ thing very dreadful . The first time of my ever
seeing him in Hertfordshire, you must know, was
at a ball , - and at this ball what do you think
he did? He danced only four dances ! I am sorry
to pain you, but so it was. He danced only four
I dances, though gentlemen were scarce ; and, to my
certain knowledge, more than one young lady was
sitting down in want of a partner . Mr. Darcy,
you cannot deny the fact. "
" I had not at that time the honor of know
ing any lady in the assembly beyond my own
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party. "
" True; and nobody can ever be introduced in
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