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 Mery...
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 w...
MR. BENNET'S property consisted almost entirely in an estate of two thousand a year, which, unfortunately for his daughters, was entailed, in defa...
AT five o'clock the two ladies retired to dress, and at half past six Elizabeth was summoned（传唤，召集） to dinner. To the civil enquiries which then p...
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 ...
THE day passed much as the day before had done. Mrs. Hurst and Miss Bingley had spent some hours of the morning with the invalid（病人） , who continued, ...
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; wher...
IN consequence of（由于的缘故） an agreement between the sisters, Elizabeth wrote the next morning to her mother, to beg that the carriage might be sent for ...
"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 to-d...
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 Bennet scarcely spoke at all; but when the servants were withdrawn, he thought it time to have some conversation with his guest, an...