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Chapter 14: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
During dinner, Mr. Bennet scarcely spoke at all; but when the servants were withdrawn, he thought it time to have some conversation with his guest,
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Chapter 13: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
“I hope, my dear,” said Mr. Bennet to his wife, as they were at breakfast the next morning, “that you have ordered a good dinner today, because I have reason to expect an addition to our family party.”
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Chapter 12: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
In consequence of an agreement between the sisters, Elizabeth wrote the next morning to her mother, to beg that the carriage might be sent for them in the course of the day.
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Chapter 11: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
When the ladies removed after dinner, Elizabeth ran up to her sister, and seeing her well guarded from cold, attended her into the drawing-room; where she was welcomed by her two friends with many professions of pleasure;
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Chapter 9: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Elizabeth passed the chief of the night in her sister’s room, and in the morning had the pleasure of being able to send a tolerable answer to the enquiries which she very early received from Mr. Bingley by a housemaid, and some time afterwards from the two elegant ladies who waited on his sisters.
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Chapter 8: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
At five o’clock the two ladies retired to dress, and at half past six Elizabeth was summoned to dinner. To the civil enquiries which then poured in, and amongst which she had the pleasure of distinguishing the much superior solicitude of Mr. Bingley’s, she could not make a very favourable answer.
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Chapter 6: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The ladies of Longbourn soon waited on those of Netherfield. The visit was returned in due form. Miss Bennet’s pleasing manners grew on the good will of Mrs.
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Chapter 5: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Within a short walk of Longbourn lived a family with whom the Bennets were particularly intimate. 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.
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Chapter 4: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
When Jane and Elizabeth were alone, the former, who had been cautious in her praise of Mr. Bingley before, expressed to her sister how very much she admired him.
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Chapter 3: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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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Chapter 2: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Mr. Bennet was among the earliest of those who waited on Mr. Bingley. He had always intended to visit him, though to the last always assuring his wife that he should not go; and till the evening after the visit was paid, she had no knowledge of it.
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Chapter 1: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
IT is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
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Chapter 24: Frankenstein: The 1818 Text by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
My present situation was one in which all voluntary thought was swallowed up and lost. I was hurried away by fury; revenge alone endowed me with strength and composure;
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Chapter 23: Frankenstein: The 1818 Text by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
It was eight o’clock when we landed; we walked for a short time on the shore, enjoying the transitory light, and then retired to the inn and contemplated the lovely scene of waters, woods,
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Chapter 22: Frankenstein: The 1818 Text by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
The voyage came to an end. We landed, and proceeded to Paris. I soon found that I had overtaxed my strength and that I must repose before I could continue my journey.
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Chapter 21: Frankenstein: The 1818 Text by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
I was soon introduced into the presence of the magistrate, an old benevolent man with calm and mild manners.