Subject for August, 2016

Chapter 10

Subject: Pride and Prejudice

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, who continued, though slowly, to mend; an...

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Chapter 9

Subject: Pride and Prejudice

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 inquiries which she very ...

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Chapter 8

Subject: Pride and Prejudice

At five o’clock the two ladies retired to dress, and at half-past six Elizabeth was summoned to dinner.  To the civil inquiries which then poured in, and amongst whic...

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Chapter 7

Subject: Pride and Prejudice

Mr. Bennet’s property consisted almost entirely in an estate of two thousand a year, which, unfortunately for his daughters, was entailed, in default of heirs male, on a d...

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Chapter 6

Subject: Pride and Prejudice

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 Mr...

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Chapter 5

Subject: Pride and Prejudice

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 Meryton, where he had mad...

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Chapter 4

Subject: Pride and Prejudice

When Jane and Elizabeth were alone, the former, who had been cautious in her praise of Mr. Bingley before, expressed to her sister just how very much she admired him. “He ...

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Chapter 3

Subject: Pride and Prejudice

Not all that Mrs. Bennet, however, with the assistance of her five daughters, could ask on the subject, was sufficient to draw from her husband any satisfactory description of M...

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Chapter 2

Subject: Pride and Prejudice

Mr. Bennet was among the earliest of those who waited on Mr. Bingley.  He had always intended to visit him, though to the last always assuring his wife that he should not g...

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Chapter 1

Subject: Pride and Prejudice

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man ma...

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