MRS. BENNET in Classic Quotes

1  Mrs. Bennet was quite disconcerted.

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Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3

2  Mrs. Bennet was profuse in her acknowledgments.

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Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9

3  Mrs. Bennet had seen her eldest daughter much admired by the Netherfield party.

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Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3

4  Mrs. Bennet, who fancied she had gained a complete victory over him, continued her triumph.

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5  Bingley met them with hopes that Mrs. Bennet had not found Miss Bennet worse than she expected.

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6  "Yes, indeed," cried Mrs. Bennet, offended by his manner of mentioning a country neighbourhood.

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Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9

7  "You began the evening well, Charlotte," said Mrs. Bennet with civil self-command to Miss Lucas.

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Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5

8  Lady Lucas was a very good kind of woman, not too clever to be a valuable neighbour to Mrs. Bennet.

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9  Mrs. Bennet, accompanied by her two youngest girls, reached Netherfield soon after the family breakfast.

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10  I am astonished, my dear," said Mrs. Bennet, "that you should be so ready to think your own children silly.

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Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7

11  Mrs. Bennet deigned not to make any reply, but, unable to contain herself, began scolding one of her daughters.

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Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2

12  Mrs. Bennet was prevented replying by the entrance of the footman with a note for Miss Bennet; it came from Netherfield, and the servant waited for an answer.

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Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7

13  Amongst the most violent against him was Mrs. Bennet, whose dislike of his general behaviour was sharpened into particular resentment by his having slighted one of her daughters.

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Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3

14  Not all that Mrs. Bennet, however, with the assistance of her five daughters, could ask on the subject, was sufficient to draw from her husband any satisfactory description of Mr. Bingley.

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15  An invitation to dinner was soon afterwards dispatched; and already had Mrs. Bennet planned the courses that were to do credit to her housekeeping, when an answer arrived which deferred it all.

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16  The astonishment of the ladies was just what he wished; that of Mrs. Bennet perhaps surpassing the rest; though, when the first tumult of joy was over, she began to declare that it was what she had expected all the while.

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17  Had she found Jane in any apparent danger, Mrs. Bennet would have been very miserable; but being satisfied on seeing her that her illness was not alarming, she had no wish of her recovering immediately, as her restoration to health would probably remove her from Netherfield.

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Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9