I do hope we shall meet again. Perhaps we could have a reading club of some sorts. I 've read that one." She leaned in. "Have you reached the part where Mr. Darcy proposes?"
Asriel narrowed his gaze on Cross. "She did that on purpose."
Pippa shook her head. "Oh, I did not ruin it. Elizabeth refuses." She paused. "I suppose I did ruin that. Apologies.
Tag: pride-and-prejudice humourous-situations
This made my father laugh. 'Mary made a cake, did she? Well, well. Better that than she should make a cake for herself, I suppose.'
Peter then burst out: 'Why must you always be making a game of Mary? 'Tis not fair; 'tis not sporting.
Tag: love jane-austen pride-and-prejudice loyalty cute protectiveness peter-bushell mary-bennet jennifer-paynter
Ah yes.' Peter's tone was scornful. 'And they must always be paid before the poor tradesmen's bills, mustn't they?'
'They must indeed. They are debts of honour.'
'Oh, Mary.' He leant over and kissed me quickly. 'What a lot we'll have to argue about after we're married.
Tag: love jane-austen pride-and-prejudice peter-bushell mary-bennet jennifer-paynter
In suiting the action to the words, however, I perceived that the stars were all wrong.
That was my undoing. I had looked up unthinkingly, anticipating the familiar, and, finding it gone, began to cry like a baby. Whereupon Peter stopped the gig and took me in his arms, kissing me so that my face was soon sore both from kissing and crying.
Tag: love marriage jane-austen comfort pride-and-prejudice peter-bushell mary-bennet jennifer-paynter unfamiliarity
I lost the letter in rather embarrassing circumstances. We were to dine at Parramatta Government House that same evening, and Peter had come in early from harvesting the wheat, sitting down in all his dirt to read the precious missive. I sat beside him, fresh from my bath. And so handsome did my husband look, long legs sprawled in Dungaree trousers and frowning over my father's spiky hand, that I could not resist reaching out to smooth away the frown. He caught my hand to his lips, still reading, and then chancing to look up, and reading my face more swiftly than he would ever read the written word, pulled me onto his lap.
Jennifer PaynterTag: love jane-austen pride-and-prejudice peter-bushell mary-bennet jennifer-paynter
It is a truth universally acknowledged, he’d mused, that most people will never find their ‘call me Ishmael’.
Django WylieTag: truth writing writing-craft wordplay jane-austen pride-and-prejudice moby-dick writing-life herman-melville
I have the highest respect for your nerves, they are my old friends.
Jane AustenTag: mr-darcy jane-austen pride-and-prejudice
A vaidade e o orgulho são coisas diferentes, embora as palavras sejam frequentemente usadas como sinónimos. Uma pessoa pode ser orgulhosa sem ser vaidosa. O orgulho relaciona-se mais com a opinião que temos de nós mesmos, e a vaidade, com o que desejaríamos que os outros pensassem de nós.
Jane AustenTag: pride-and-prejudice
They talk o' rich folks bein' stuck up and genteel, but for iron-clad pride o' respectability there's nowt like poor chapel folk. Why, 'tis as cold as the wind on Greenhow Hill -- aye, and colder, too, for 'twill never change.
Rudyard KiplingTag: pride-and-prejudice
It is unforgivable that men and women who have worked the land and served us for generations should be so bewildered and fearful, because of laws made to accommodate the greed of others," Darcy said, "Laws are meant to make the lives of citizens better, not worse.
Rebecca Ann CollinsTag: laws pride-and-prejudice regency darcy citizens
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