Pride and Prejudice Sample
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Pride and prejudice written by Jane Austen, narrated by Shannon lens chapter four. When Jane and Elizabeth were alone, the former who had been cautious in her praise of Mister Bingley before expressed to her sister how very much she admired him. He is just what a young man ought to be said. She sensible, good humored, lively and I never saw such happy manners, so much ease with such perfect good breeding. He is also handsome replied Elizabeth, which a young man ought likewise to be if he possibly his character is thereby complete. I was very much flattered by his asking me to dance a second time. I did not expect such a compliment, did not you? I did for you. But that is one great difference between us. Compliments always take you by surprise and me never what could be more natural than his asking you again. He could not help seeing that you were about five times as pretty as every other woman in the room. No, thanks to his gallantry for that. Well, he certainly is very agreeable and I give you leave to like him. You have liked many a stupider person, dear Lizzie. Oh, you are a great deal too apt, you know, to like people in general. You never see a fault in anybody. All the world are good and agreeable in your eyes. I never heard you speak ill of a human being in my life. I would wish not to be hasty in censuring any one. But I always speak what I think. I know you do. And it is that, which makes the wonder with your good sense to be so honestly blind to the follies and nonsense of others. Affectation of candor is common enough. One meets with it everywhere but to be candid without ostentation or design to take the good of everybody's character and make it still better and say nothing of the bad belongs to you alone. And so you like this man's sisters too, do you? Their manners are not equal to his. Certainly not at first, but they are very pleasing women when you converse with them, Miss Bingley is to live with her brother and keep his house. And I am much mistaken if we shall not find a very charming neighbor in her Elizabeth listened in silence but was not convinced their behavior at the assembly had not been calculated to please in general. And with more quickness of observation and less pliancy of temper than her sister. And with a judgment too un assailed by any attention to herself, she was very little disposed to approve them. They were in fact, very fine ladies, not deficient in good humor when they were pleased, nor in the power of being agreeable where they chose, but proud and conceited. They were rather handsome. Had been educated in one of the first private seminaries in town, had a fortune of £20,000 were in the habit of spending more than they ought and of associating with people of rank and were therefore in every respect entitled to think well of themselves and meanly of others. They were of a respectable family in the north of England, a circumstance more deeply impressed on their memories than that their brother's fortune and their own had been acquired by trade. This has been pride and prejudice written by Jane Austen and narrated by Shannon Lenz.