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1894 / by , preface by and illustrations by . Jane Austen

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cNQu.;~rfi: JV(acmi((an ~(6 - , Eo noon : 0o,se%!6rren _ :170905 62-116 PREFACE. xxiii run away witlz lzer if they can. Though not zn the least "impudent and mannish grown," she !tas no mere sensi­ bility, no nasty niceness about Iter. Tlze form of passion common and likely to seem natural in Miss Austen's day was so invariably connected with tlze display of one or the other, or bot/z of these qualities, that she has not made Eliza­ beth outwardly passionate. But I, at least, lzave not the slightest doubt that she would have married Dm'cy just as willingly without as with it, and anybody who can read between lines will not find the lovers' conversations in the final chapters so frigid as they might have looked to the Della Cruscans of their own day, and perhaps do !oolc to t/ze Della Cruscans of this. And, after all, what is the good of seeking for the reason of c/zamz ?-it is there. There were better sense in the sad mechanic exercise of determining the reason of its absence where it is not. In the novels of tlze last hundred years there a1'e vast numbers of young ladies with whom it mig!tt be a pleasure to fall in love/ there are at least five wit!t whom, as it seems to me, no man of taste and spirit can help doing so. Their names are, in chronological order, , Diana Vernon, A rgemone Lavington, Beatrix Esmond, and Barbara Grant. I should have been most in love with Beatrix and Argemone / I should, I tlzink, for mere occasional companionship, have preferred Diana and Barbara. But to live with and to marry, I do not know t/zat any one of the four can come into competition with Elizabeth. GEORGE SA!NTSBURY. f3s+- ocf cf(('uJtra'tionJ'.

PAGE Frontispiece lV Title-page \' Dedication \·ii Heading to Preface lX Heading to List of Illustrations XXV Heading to Chapter I. " He came down to see the place " 2 Mr. and Mrs. Bennet 5 " I hope Mr. will like it" . 6 "I'm the tallest " . 9 "He rode a black horse" 10 "When the party entered" 12 "She is tolerable " IS Heading to Chapter IV. 18 Heading to Chapter V .. 22 "Without once opening his lips" 24 Tailpiece to Chapter V. 26 Heading to Chapter VI. 27 "The entreaties of several" 31 ''A note for Miss Bennet" 36 " Cheerful prognostics" 40 "The apothecary came" 43 " Covering a screen " 45 is uni­ versally acknow­ ledged, 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 may be on his first enter­ ing a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters. "My dear Mr. Bennet," said his lady to him one day, "have you heard that Netherfield Park is let at last?" B CHAPTER II.

BENNET was among the ear­ liest 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 go ; and till the evening after the visit was paid she had no know­ ledge of it. It was then disclosed in the following manner. Observing his second daughter employed in trimming a hat, he suddenly addressed her with,- " I hope Mr. Bingley will like it, Lizzy." "We are not in a way to know wltat Mr. Bingley likes," said her mother, resentfully, "since we are not to visit." [Copyright 18g4 by Gtor!fe Allen.]

CHAPTER IX.

LIZABETH 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 early received from Mr. Bingley by a housemaid, and some time after­ wards from the two elegant ladies who waited on his sisters. In spite of this ame!'dment, CHAPTER XII.

N consequence of an agreement between the sisters, Elizabeth wrote the next morning to her mother, to beg that the carriage might be sent for them in the course of the day. But Mrs. Bennet, who had calculated on her daughters remaining at Netherfield till the following Tuesday, which would exactly finish Jane's week, could not bring herself to receive them with pleasure before. Her answer, therefore, was not propitious, at least not to Elizabeth's wishes, for she was impatient to get home. Mrs. Bennet sent them word that they could not possibly have the carriage before Tuesday; and in her postscript it was added, that if Mr. Bingley and his sister pressed them to stay longer, she could spare them very well. Against staying longer, however, Elizabeth was positively CHAPTER XXXII.

LIZABETH was sitting by herself the next _,~::=::-' morning, and writing to Jane, while Mrs. Collins and Maria were gone on business into the village, when she was startled by a ring at the door, the certain signal of a visitor. As she had heard no carriage, she thought it not unlikely to be Lady Catherine; and under that apprehension was putting