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| "I believe, ma'am, I may safely promise you NEVER to dance with him." | |
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| "His pride," said Miss Lucas, "does not offend ME so much as pride often does, because there is an excuse for it. One cannot wonder that so very fine a young man, with family, fortune, everything in his favour, should think highly of himself. If I may so express it, he has a RIGHT to be proud." | |
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| "That is very true," replied Elizabeth, "and I could easily forgive HIS pride, if he had not mortified MINE." | |
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| "Pride," observed Mary, who piqued herself upon the solidity of her reflections, "is a very common failing, I believe. By all that I have ever read, I am convinced that it is very common indeed; that human nature is particularly prone to it, and that there are very few of us who do not cherish a feeling of self-complacency on the score of some quality or other, real or imaginary. | |
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| Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us." | |
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| "If I were as rich as Mr. Darcy," cried a young Lucas, who came with his sisters, "I should not care how proud I was. I would keep a pack of foxhounds, and drink a bottle of wine a day." | |
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| "Then you would drink a great deal more than you ought," said Mrs. Bennet; "and if I were to see you at it, I should take away your bottle directly." | |
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| The boy protested that she should not; she continued to declare that she would, and the argument ended only with the visit. | |
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| The ladies of Longbourn soon waited on those of Netherfield. The visit was soon returned in due form. Miss Bennet's pleasing manners grew on the goodwill of Mrs. Hurst and Miss Bingley; and though the mother was found to be intolerable, and the younger sisters not worth speaking to, a wish of being better acquainted with THEM was expressed towards the two eldest. | Лонгборнские леди вскоре навестили незерфилдских дам. Визит был должным образом возвращен. Приятные манеры старшей мисс Беннет расположили в ее пользу миссис Хэрст и мисс Бингли. И хотя мамаша была признана невыносимой, а о младших дочках не стоило и говорить, двум старшим дали понять, что с ними желали бы поддерживать более близкое знакомство. |
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| Такое внимание очень обрадовало Джейн. Но Элизабет, все еще чувствовавшая их высокомерное отношение ко всему местному обществу, в том числе, пожалуй, даже к ее сестре, приняла его довольно холодно, считая, что некоторая доброжелательность миссис Хэрст и мисс Бингли к Джейн, по всей вероятности, проистекает из склонности к ней мистера Бингли. |