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Values today we will be beginning pride and prejudice by Jane Austen chapter one 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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However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighborhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families that he's considered as the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters.
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My dear Mr.
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Bennett, said his lady to him one day, have you ever heard that Netherfield park is let it last?
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Mr.
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Bennett replied that he had not, but it is returned.
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She for Mrs.
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Long has just been here, and she told me all about it.
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Mr.
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Bennett made no answer.
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Do you not want to know who has taken it?
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Cried his wife impatiently.
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You want to tell me, and I have no objection to hearing it.
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This was invitation enough.
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Why, my dear, you know Mrs.
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Long says that Netherfield is taken by a young man of large fortune from the north of England, that he came down on Monday in a chaise in four to see the place, and was so much delighted with it that he agreed with Mr.
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Morse immediately that he is to take possession before Michael, miss.
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And some of his servants are to be in the house by the end of next week.
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What is his name?
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Bingley.
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Is he married or single?
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Oh, single, my dear.
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To be sure.
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A single man of large fortune.
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Four or 5000 a year.
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What a fine thing for our girls.
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Oh, so how can it affect them, my dear?
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Mr.
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Bennet, replied his wife, how can you be so tiresome?
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You must know that I'm thinking of his marrying one of them.
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Is that his design?
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Unsettling here?
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Design?
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Nonsense.
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How can you talk so?
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But it is very likely that he may fall in love with one of them, and therefore you must visit him as soon as he comes.
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I've seen no occasion for that.
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You and the girls may go, or you may send them by themselves, which perhaps will be still better.
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For as you are as handsome as any of them, Mr.
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Bingley might like you the best of the party.
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My dear, you flatter me.
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I certainly have had my share of beauty, but I do not pretend to be anything extraordinary.
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Now, when a woman has five grown up daughters, she ought to give overthinking of her own beauty.
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In such cases, a woman is not often much beauty to think of.
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But, my dear, you must indeed go and see Mr.
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Bingley when he comes into the neighborhood.
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It is more than I engage for, I assure you.
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But consider your daughters only think what an establishment it would be for one of them.
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Sir William and Lady Lucas are determined to go merely on that account.
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For, in general, you know they visit no newcomers.
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Indeed, you must go, for it will be impossible for us to visit him if you do not.
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You are overscrupulous, surely.
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I dare say Mr.
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Bingley will be very glad to see you.
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And I will send a few lines by you to assure him of my hearty consent to his marrying whichever he chooses of the girls.
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Though I must throw in a good word for my little Lizzie, I desire.
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You will do no such thing.
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Lizzie is not a bit better than the others, and I am sure is not half so handsome as Jane, nor half so good humored as Lydia.
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But you are always giving her the preference.
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They have none of them much to recommend them, replied he.
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They're all silly and ignorant like other girls.
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But Lizzie is something more of quickness than her sisters.
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Mr.
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Bennett, how can you abuse your own children in such a way?
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You take delight in vexing me.
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You have no compassion on my poor nerves.
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You mistake me, my dear.
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I have a high respect for your nerves.
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They are my old friends.
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I have heard you mention them with consideration these 20 years at least.
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Ah, you do not know what I.
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Suffer, but I hope you will get over it and live to see many young men of 4000 a year come into the neighborhood.
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It will be no use to us if 20 such should come since you will not visit them.
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Depend upon it, my dear, that when there are 20, I will visit them all.
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Mr.
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Bennett was so od a mixture of quick parts, sarcastic humor, reserve, and caprice that the experience of three and 20 years had been insufficient to make his wife understand his character.
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Her mind was less difficult to develop.
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She was a woman of mean understanding, little information, and uncertain temper.
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When she was discontented, she fancied herself nervous.
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The busyness of her life was to get her daughters married.
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Its solace was visiting and news.
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