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Today we'll be continuing pride and prejudice.
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By Jane Austin chapter two R.
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Bennett.
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Was among the earliest of those who waited on Mr.
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Bingley.
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He had always intended to visit him, though to the last, always assuring his.
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Wife that he should not go until.
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The evening after the visit was paid.
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She had no knowledge of it.
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It was then disclosed in the following manner.
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Observing his second daughter, employed in trimming.
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A hat, he suddenly addressed her with.
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I hope Mr.
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Bingley will like it, Lizzie.
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We are not, in a way, to.
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Know what Mr.
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Bingley likes, said her.
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Mother resentfully, since we are not to visit.
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But you forget, Mama, said Elizabeth, that.
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We shall meet him at the assemblies, and that Mrs.
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Long has promised to introduce him.
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I do not believe Mrs.
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Long will.
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Do any such thing.
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She has two nieces of her own.
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She is a selfish, hypocritical woman, and I have no opinion of her.
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No more have I, said Mr.
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Bennett.
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And I'm glad to find that you.
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Do not depend on her serving you.
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Mrs.
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Bennett deigned not to make any reply, but, unable to contain herself, began scolding one of her daughters.
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Don't keep coughing so, Kitty.
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For heaven's sake, have a little compassion on my nerves.
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You tear them to pieces.
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Kitty has no discretion in her coughs, said her father.
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She times them ill.
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I do not cough for my own.
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Amusement, replied Kitty fretfully.
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When is your next ball to be, Lizzie?
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Tomorrow fortnight.
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Aye, so it is, cried her mother.
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And Mrs.
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Long does not come back.
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Till the day before, so it will be impossible for her to introduce him, for she will not know him herself.
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Then, my dear, you may have the.
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Advantage of your friend and introduce Mr.
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Bingley to her.
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Impossible, Mr.
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Bennett, impossible, when I am.
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Not acquainted with him myself.
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How can you be so teasing?
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I honor your circumspection.
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A fortnight's acquaintance is certainly very little.
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One cannot know what a man really.
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Is by the end of a fortnight.
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But if we do not venture, somebody else will.
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And after all, Mrs.
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Long and her.
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Nieces must stand their chance.
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And therefore, as she will think it an act of kindness if you decline the office, I will take it on myself.
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The girls stared at their father.
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Mrs.
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Bennett said only nonsense.
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Nonsense.
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What can be the meaning of that?
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Emphatic exclamation.
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Cried he.
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Do you consider the forms of introduction, and the stress that is laid on them as nonsense?
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I cannot quite agree with you there.
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What say you, Mary?
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For you are a young lady of deep reflection.
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I know and read great books and make extracts.
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Mary wished to say something very sensible.
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But knew not how.
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While Mary is adjusting her ideas, he continued, let us return to Mr.
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Bingley.
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I am sick of Mr.
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Bingley.
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Cried his wife.
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I am sorry to hear that.
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But why did you do not tell me so before?
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If I had known as much this.
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Morning, I certainly would not have called on him.
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It is very unlucky, but as I.
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Have actually paid the visit, we cannot escape the acquaintance now.
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The astonishment of the ladies was just what he wished, that of Mrs.
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Bennet, perhaps surpassing the rest.
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Now, when the first tumult of joy.
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Was over, she began to declare that.
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It was what she had expected all the while.
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How good it was in you, my dear Mr.
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Bennet.
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But I knew I should persuade you at last.
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I was sure you loved your girls.
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Too well to neglect such an acquaintance.
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Well, how pleased I am.
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And it is such a good joke.
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Too, that you should have gone this morning, and never said a word about it till now.
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No, Kitty, you may cough as much.
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As you choose, said Mr.
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Bennett, and.
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As he spoke he left the room fatigued with the raptures of his wife.
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What an excellent father you have, girls.
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Said she when the door was shut.
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I do not know how you will.
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Ever make him amends for his kindness.
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Or me either, for that matter.
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At our time of life, it is.
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Not so pleasant, I can tell you, to be making new acquaintances every day, but for your sakes, we would do anything.
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Lydia, my love, though you are the youngest, I dare say Mr.
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Bingley will.
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Dance with you at the next ball.
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Oh, said Lydia stoutly, I am not.
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Afraid, for though I am the youngest, I'm the tallest.
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The rest of the evening was spent.
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In conjecturing how soon he would return.
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Mr.
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Bennett's visit and determining when they.
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Should ask him to dinner.
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Thank you for joining bite at a time books today while we read a.
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Bite of one of your favorite classics.
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Again, my name is Brie Carlyle, and I hope you come back tomorrow for.
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The next bite of pride and prejudice.
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Don't sakin chapter by chapter, one at a time so many of ventures and mountains we can climb take it word for word, line by line one bite at a time close.
