1 But she does help him on, as much as her nature will allow.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane AustenGet Context In Chapter 6 2 A report of a most alarming nature reached me two days ago.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane AustenGet Context In Chapter 56 3 Jane and Elizabeth tried to explain to her the nature of an entail.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane AustenGet Context In Chapter 13 4 The commendation bestowed on him by Mrs. Reynolds was of no trifling nature.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane AustenGet Context In Chapter 43 5 It was not in her nature, however, to increase her vexations by dwelling on them.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane AustenGet Context In Chapter 41 6 By nature inoffensive, friendly, and obliging, his presentation at St. James's had made him courteous.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane AustenGet Context In Chapter 5 7 Two offenses of a very different nature, and by no means of equal magnitude, you last night laid to my charge.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane AustenGet Context In Chapter 35 8 Mr. Gardiner was a sensible, gentlemanlike man, greatly superior to his sister, as well by nature as education.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane AustenGet Context In Chapter 25 9 She had never seen a place for which nature had done more, or where natural beauty had been so little counteracted by an awkward taste.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane AustenGet Context In Chapter 43 10 Mr. Gardiner did not write again till he had received an answer from Colonel Forster; and then he had nothing of a pleasant nature to send.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane AustenGet Context In Chapter 48 11 They found Mary, as usual, deep in the study of thorough-bass and human nature; and had some extracts to admire, and some new observations of threadbare morality to listen to.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane AustenGet Context In Chapter 12 12 Elizabeth was at no loss to understand from whence this deference to her authority proceeded; but it was not in her power to give any information of so satisfactory a nature as the compliment deserved.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane AustenGet Context In Chapter 48 13 Jane listened with astonishment and concern; she knew not how to believe that Mr. Darcy could be so unworthy of Mr. Bingley's regard; and yet, it was not in her nature to question the veracity of a young man of such amiable appearance as Wickham.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane AustenGet Context In Chapter 17 14 By all that I have ever read, I am convinced that it is very common indeed; that human nature is particularly prone to it, and that there are very few of us who do not cherish a feeling of self-complacency on the score of some quality or other, real or imaginary.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane AustenGet Context In Chapter 5 15 The stupidity with which he was favoured by nature must guard his courtship from any charm that could make a woman wish for its continuance; and Miss Lucas, who accepted him solely from the pure and disinterested desire of an establishment, cared not how soon that establishment were gained.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane AustenGet Context In Chapter 22 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 AustenGet Context In Chapter 19 17 The respect created by the conviction of his valuable qualities, though at first unwillingly admitted, had for some time ceased to be repugnant to her feeling; and it was now heightened into somewhat of a friendlier nature, by the testimony so highly in his favour, and bringing forward his disposition in so amiable a light, which yesterday had produced.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane AustenGet Context In Chapter 44 18 Mr. Collins was not a sensible man, and the deficiency of nature had been but little assisted by education or society; the greatest part of his life having been spent under the guidance of an illiterate and miserly father; and though he belonged to one of the universities, he had merely kept the necessary terms, without forming at it any useful acquaintance.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane AustenGet Context In Chapter 15 19 Mr. Collins received and returned these felicitations with equal pleasure, and then proceeded to relate the particulars of their interview, with the result of which he trusted he had every reason to be satisfied, since the refusal which his cousin had steadfastly given him would naturally flow from her bashful modesty and the genuine delicacy of her character.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane AustenGet Context In Chapter 20 20 The next morning, however, made an alteration; for in a quarter of an hour's tete-a-tete with Mrs. Bennet before breakfast, a conversation beginning with his parsonage-house, and leading naturally to the avowal of his hopes, that a mistress might be found for it at Longbourn, produced from her, amid very complaisant smiles and general encouragement, a caution against the very Jane he had fixed on.
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