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Quotes from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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1 Let me know every thing that I am to know, without delay.
2 Dearest Lizzy, I hardly know what I would write, but I have bad news for you, and it cannot be delayed.
3 One day's delay, she observed, would be of small importance; and her mother was too happy to be quite so obstinate as usual.
4 The journey would moreover give her a peep at Jane; and, in short, as the time drew near, she would have been very sorry for any delay.
5 Mr. Wickham's happiness and her own were perforce delayed a little longer, and Mr. Collins's proposal accepted with as good a grace as she could.
6 Miss Bingley was then sorry that she had proposed the delay, for her jealousy and dislike of one sister much exceeded her affection for the other.
7 The time fixed for the beginning of their northern tour was now fast approaching, and a fortnight only was wanting of it, when a letter arrived from Mrs. Gardiner, which at once delayed its commencement and curtailed its extent.
8 But, however this remonstrance might have staggered or delayed his determination, I do not suppose that it would ultimately have prevented the marriage, had it not been seconded by the assurance that I hesitated not in giving, of your sister's indifference.
9 They were then, with no other delay than his pointing out the neatness of the entrance, taken into the house; and as soon as they were in the parlour, he welcomed them a second time, with ostentatious formality to his humble abode, and punctually repeated all his wife's offers of refreshment.