Austen Said:

“Lizzy, you must not do so. You must not suspect me. It mortifies me. I assure you that I have now learnt to enjoy his conversation as an agreeable and sensible young man, without having a wish beyond it. I am perfectly satisfied, from what his manners now are, that he never had any design of engaging my affection. It is only that he is blessed with greater sweetness of address, and a stronger desire of generally pleasing, than any other man.”

“You are very cruel,”

“you will not let me smile, and are provoking me to it every moment.”

“How hard it is in some cases to be believed!"

"And how impossible in others!”

“But why should you wish to persuade me that I feel more than I acknowledge?”

“That is a question which I hardly know how to answer. We all love to instruct, though we can teach only what is not worth knowing. Forgive me; and if you persist in indifference, do not make me your confidante.”

“Next time you call,”

“I hope we shall be more lucky.”

“Can you come to-morrow?”

“My dear Jane, make haste and hurry down. He is come — Mr. Bingley is come. He is, indeed. Make haste, make haste. Here, Sarah, come to Miss Bennet this moment, and help her on with her gown. Never mind Miss Lizzy's hair.”

“We will be down as soon as we can,”

“but I dare say Kitty is forwarder than either of us, for she went up stairs half an hour ago.”

“Oh! hang Kitty! what has she to do with it? Come be quick, be quick! Where is your sash, my dear?”

to go down without one of her sisters.

Two obstacles of the five being thus removed,

“What is the matter mamma? What do you keep winking at me for? What am I to do?”

“Nothing child, nothing. I did not wink at you.”

“Come here, my love, I want to speak to you,”

she would not give in to it.

“Lizzy, my dear, I want to speak with you.”

“We may as well leave them by themselves you know;”

"Kitty and I are going upstairs to sit in my dressing-room.”

Bingley was every thing that was charming, except the professed lover of her daughter.

all must speedily be concluded, unless Mr. Darcy returned within the stated time.

all this must have taken place with that gentleman's concurrence.

there was reason to fear that her mother had been too ingenious for her.

Their situation was awkward enough; but hers

was still worse.

she was the happiest creature in the world.

“'Tis too much!”

“by far too much. I do not deserve it. Oh! why is not everybody as happy?"

“I must go instantly to my mother;”

“I would not on any account trifle with her affectionate solicitude; or allow her to hear it from anyone but myself. He is gone to my father already. Oh! Lizzy, to know that what I have to relate will give such pleasure to all my dear family! how shall I bear so much happiness!”

the rapidity and ease with which an affair was finally settled, that had given them so many previous months of suspense and vexation.

“And this,”

“is the end of all his friend's anxious circumspection! of all his sister's falsehood and contrivance! the happiest, wisest, most reasonable end!”

“With my mother up stairs. She will be down in a moment, I dare say.”

all his expectations of felicity to be rationally founded, because they had for basis the excellent understanding, and super-excellent disposition of Jane, and a general similarity of feeling and taste between her and himself.

“I hope not so. Imprudence or thoughtlessness in money matters would be unpardonable in me.”

“Exceed their income! My dear Mr. Bennet,”

“what are you talking of? Why, he has four or five thousand a year, and very likely more.”

“Oh! my dear, dear Jane, I am so happy! I am sure I shan't get a wink of sleep all night. I knew how it would be. I always said it must be so, at last. I was sure you could not be so beautiful for nothing! I remember, as soon as ever I saw him, when he first came into Hertfordshire last year, I thought how likely it was that you should come together. Oh! he is the handsomest young man that ever was seen!”

unless when some barbarous neighbour, who could not be enough detested, had given him an invitation to dinner which he thought himself obliged to accept.

“He has made me so happy,”

“by telling me that he was totally ignorant of my being in town last spring! I had not believed it possible.”

“I suspected as much,”

“But how did he account for it?”

“It must have been his sister's doing. They were certainly no friends to his acquaintance with me, which I cannot wonder at, since he might have chosen so much more advantageously in many respects. But when they see, as I trust they will, that their brother is happy with me, they will learn to be contented, and we shall be on good terms again; though we can never be what we once were to each other.”

“That is the most unforgiving speech,”