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Charlotte’s level, appraising stare,
Charlotte has SUCH issues.
If Mary had not thought it possible to feel jealousy over a man one did not love, she knew better now.
“I know it looks as though I am determined to cause you pain, but I assure you that is not the case. I tried once before to make you see the world as it is.
Charlotte Lucas is a bitch.
But I assure you it was meant kindly.”
I doubt that.
“But good things don’t need to be showy or gaudy, you know. Sometimes the very best stuff can seem quite plain, until one examines it closely. It is only then that one sees its true quality.”
The only condition I shall apply to your remaining with us is that you try to speak more kindly of yourself.
“Perhaps that says more about the dinners you have so far attended than it does about you,”
there is a middle way between an obsession with one’s appearance and an absolute denial of its importance.
They did not consider happiness a matter of chance or destiny. Instead they did everything in their power to cultivate it, prizing generosity over petulance, preferring kindness to umbrage, and always encouraging laughter rather than complaint.
Tintern Abbey.’”
“That is the power of poetry,” he said simply. “It allows us to imagine ourselves anew, if we will permit it to do so. It reveals to us the hidden wishes of our hearts.”
“It seems to me,” he went on, “that, in the real world, it is impossible to be guided solely by either the impulses of feeling or by rational calculation. Neither is likely to make us happy. In my own view, we have need of them both. Wisdom, I suppose, lies in knowing when to call upon one and when on the other.”
Miss Bingley regarded Mr. Ryder as very much her own particular property.
Ha. She used to behave the same way around Darcy.
Garnets shone in her dark hair and at her throat.
Bit overdone for dinner, isn't she?
he told her, with no equivocation at all, how very pleased he was to find himself in her company.
He may as well be Willoughby or Henry Crawford!
a room of one’s own
