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1  Where there is fortune to make the expenses of travelling unimportant, distance becomes no evil.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 32
2  It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 1
3  Do not involve yourself or endeavour to involve him in an affection which the want of fortune would make so very imprudent.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 26
4  One cannot wonder that so very fine a young man, with family, fortune, everything in his favour, should think highly of himself.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 5
5  Her heart had been but slightly touched, and her vanity was satisfied with believing that she would have been his only choice, had fortune permitted it.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 26
6  I have nothing to say against him; he is a most interesting young man; and if he had the fortune he ought to have, I should think you could not do better.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 26
7  Sir William Lucas had been formerly in trade in Meryton, where he had made a tolerable fortune, and risen to the honour of knighthood by an address to the king during his mayoralty.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 5
8  Mr. Collins's present circumstances made it a most eligible match for their daughter, to whom they could give little fortune; and his prospects of future wealth were exceedingly fair.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 22
9  They were of a respectable family in the north of England; a circumstance more deeply impressed on their memories than that their brother's fortune and their own had been acquired by trade.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 4
10  Mr. Wickham's chief object was unquestionably my sister's fortune, which is thirty thousand pounds; but I cannot help supposing that the hope of revenging himself on me was a strong inducement.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 35
11  They could talk of nothing but officers; and Mr. Bingley's large fortune, the mention of which gave animation to their mother, was worthless in their eyes when opposed to the regimentals of an ensign.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7
12  Mr. Collins no sooner saw the two girls than he began to congratulate them on their good fortune, which Charlotte explained by letting them know that the whole party was asked to dine at Rosings the next day.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 28
13  His behaviour to herself could now have had no tolerable motive; he had either been deceived with regard to her fortune, or had been gratifying his vanity by encouraging the preference which she believed she had most incautiously shown.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 36
14  Without thinking highly either of men or matrimony, marriage had always been her object; it was the only provision for well-educated young women of small fortune, and however uncertain of giving happiness, must be their pleasantest preservative from want.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 22
15  Mr. Bennet's property consisted almost entirely in an estate of two thousand a year, which, unfortunately for his daughters, was entailed, in default of heirs male, on a distant relation; and their mother's fortune, though ample for her situation in life, could but ill supply the deficiency of his.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7
16  To fortune I am perfectly indifferent, and shall make no demand of that nature on your father, since I am well aware that it could not be complied with; and that one thousand pounds in the four per cents, which will not be yours till after your mother's decease, is all that you may ever be entitled to.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 19
17  They were rather handsome, had been educated in one of the first private seminaries in town, had a fortune of twenty thousand pounds, were in the habit of spending more than they ought, and of associating with people of rank, and were therefore in every respect entitled to think well of themselves, and meanly of others.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 4
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