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1  You could not have started a more happy idea, since you will not take comfort in mine.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 21
2  You could not make me happy, and I am convinced that I am the last woman in the world who could make you so.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 19
3  I wish you very happy and very rich, and by refusing your hand, do all in my power to prevent your being otherwise.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 19
4  You judge very properly," said Mr. Bennet, "and it is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 14
5  She represented to her sister as forcibly as possible what she felt on the subject, and had soon the pleasure of seeing its happy effect.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 21
6  Jane met her with a smile of such sweet complacency, a glow of such happy expression, as sufficiently marked how well she was satisfied with the occurrences of the evening.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 18
7  Elizabeth listened with delight to the happy, though modest hopes which Jane entertained of Mr. Bingley's regard, and said all in her power to heighten her confidence in it.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 18
8  Her ladyship seemed pleased with the idea; and you may imagine that I am happy on every occasion to offer those little delicate compliments which are always acceptable to ladies.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 14
9  Mr. Denny addressed them directly, and entreated permission to introduce his friend, Mr. Wickham, who had returned with him the day before from town, and he was happy to say had accepted a commission in their corps.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 15
10  In the first place, she persisted in disbelieving the whole of the matter; secondly, she was very sure that Mr. Collins had been taken in; thirdly, she trusted that they would never be happy together; and fourthly, that the match might be broken off.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 23
11  As Elizabeth had no longer any interest of her own to pursue, she turned her attention almost entirely on her sister and Mr. Bingley; and the train of agreeable reflections which her observations gave birth to, made her perhaps almost as happy as Jane.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 18
12  Jane pictured to herself a happy evening in the society of her two friends, and the attentions of her brother; and Elizabeth thought with pleasure of dancing a great deal with Mr. Wickham, and of seeing a confirmation of everything in Mr. Darcy's look and behaviour.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 17
13  Lady Lucas could not be insensible of triumph on being able to retort on Mrs. Bennet the comfort of having a daughter well married; and she called at Longbourn rather oftener than usual to say how happy she was, though Mrs. Bennet's sour looks and ill-natured remarks might have been enough to drive happiness away.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter 23
14  When at length they arose to take leave, Mrs. Bennet was most pressingly civil in her hope of seeing the whole family soon at Longbourn, and addressed herself especially to Mr. Bingley, to assure him how happy he would make them by eating a family dinner with them at any time, without the ceremony of a formal invitation.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 18
15  As he was to begin his journey too early on the morrow to see any of the family, the ceremony of leave-taking was performed when the ladies moved for the night; and Mrs. Bennet, with great politeness and cordiality, said how happy they should be to see him at Longbourn again, whenever his engagements might allow him to visit them.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 22
16  Mr. Wickham was the happy man towards whom almost every female eye was turned, and Elizabeth was the happy woman by whom he finally seated himself; and the agreeable manner in which he immediately fell into conversation, though it was only on its being a wet night, made her feel that the commonest, dullest, most threadbare topic might be rendered interesting by the skill of the speaker.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter 16
17  Mr. Collins was not left long to the silent contemplation of his successful love; for Mrs. Bennet, having dawdled about in the vestibule to watch for the end of the conference, no sooner saw Elizabeth open the door and with quick step pass her towards the staircase, than she entered the breakfast-room, and congratulated both him and herself in warm terms on the happy prospect or their nearer connection.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 20
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