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Pride and prejudice / by Jane Austen, preface by

George Saintsbury and illustrations by Hugh
Thomson.
Jane Austen

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 PREFACE. xxiii
run away witlz lzer if they can. Though not zn the least
"impudent and mannish grown," she !tas no mere sensi-
bility, no nasty niceness about Iter. Tlze form of passion
common and likely to seem natural in Miss Austen's day
was so invariably connected with tlze display of one or the
other, or bot/z of these qualities, that she has not made Eliza-
beth outwardly passionate. But I, at least, lzave not the
slightest doubt that she would have married Dm'cy just as
willingly without Pemberley as with it, and anybody who
can read between lines will not find the lovers' conversations
in the final chapters so frigid as they might have looked
to the Della Cruscans of their own day, and perhaps do !oolc
to t/ze Della Cruscans of this.
And, after all, what is the good of seeking for the reason
of c/zamz ?-it is there. There were better sense in the sad
mechanic exercise of determining the reason of its absence
where it is not. In the novels of tlze last hundred years
there a1'e vast numbers of young ladies with whom it
mig!tt be a pleasure to fall in love/ there are at least five
wit!t whom, as it seems to me, no man of taste and spirit can
help doing so. Their names are, in chronological order,
Elizabeth Bennet, Diana Vernon, A rgemone Lavington,
Beatrix Esmond, and Barbara Grant. I should have been
most in love with Beatrix and Argemone / I should, I
tlzink, for mere occasional companionship, have preferred
Diana and Barbara. But to live with and to marry, I do
not know t/zat any one of the four can come into competition
with Elizabeth.
GEORGE SA!NTSBURY.
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PAGE
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Frontispiece
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Title-page
Dedication \·ii
lX
Heading to Preface
Heading to List of Illustrations XXV

Heading to Chapter I.
" He came down to see the place " 2
Mr. and Mrs. Bennet 5
" I hope Mr. Bingley will like it" . 6
"I'm the tallest " . 9
"He rode a black horse" 10
"When the party entered" 12
"She is tolerable " IS
Heading to Chapter IV. 18
Heading to Chapter V .. 22
"Without once opening his lips" 24
Tailpiece to Chapter V. 26
Heading to Chapter VI. 27
"The entreaties of several" 31
''A note for Miss Bennet" 36
" Cheerful prognostics" 40
"The apothecary came" 43
" Covering a screen " 45
 is uni-
versally acknow-
ledged, that a single man in
possession of a good fortune
must be in want of a wife.
However little known the
feelings or views of such a
man may be on his first enter-
ing a neighbourhood, this
truth is so well fixed in the
minds of the surrounding
families, that he is considered
as the rightful property of
some one or other of their
daughters.
"My dear Mr. Bennet,"
said his lady to him one
day, "have you heard that
Netherfield Park is let at last?"
B
 CHAPTER II.

BENNET was among the ear-

liest of those who waited on Mr.
Bingley. He had always intended
to visit him, though to the last always
assuring his wife that he should not
go ; and till the evening after the
visit was paid she had no know-
ledge of it. It was then disclosed in the following manner.
Observing his second daughter employed in trimming
a hat, he suddenly addressed her with,-
" I hope Mr. Bingley will like it, Lizzy."
"We are not in a way to know wltat Mr. Bingley
likes," said her mother, resentfully, "since we are not to
visit."
 [Copyright 18g4 by Gtor!fe Allen.]

CHAPTER IX.

LIZABETH passed the chief of the

night in her sister's room, and in the
morning had the pleasure of being
able to send a tolerable answer to
the inquiries which she very early
received from Mr. Bingley by a
housemaid, and some time after-
wards from the two elegant ladies
who waited on his sisters. In spite of thi s ame!'dment,
 CHAPTER XII.

N consequence of an agreement between the

sisters, Elizabeth wrote the next morning
to her mother, to beg that the carriage
might be sent for them in the course of the
day. But Mrs. Bennet, who had calculated
on her daughters remaining at Netherfield
till the following Tuesday, which would
exactly finish Jane's week, could not bring
herself to receive them with pleasure before.
Her answer, therefore, was not propitious, at least not to
Elizabeth's wishes, for she was impatient to get home.
Mrs. Bennet sent them word that they could not possibly
have the carriage before Tuesday; and in her postscript
it was added, that if Mr. Bingley and his sister pressed
them to stay longer, she could spare them very well.
Against staying longer, however, Elizabeth was positively
 CHAPTER XXXII.

LIZABETH was sitting by herself the next

_,~::=::-'morning, and writing to Jane, while Mrs.
Collins and Maria were gone on business
into the village, when she was startled by
a ring at the door, the certain signal of a
visitor. As she had heard no carriage,
she thought it not unlikely to be Lady
Catherine; and under that apprehension was putting