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Pride and Prejudice | 1. A Truth Universally Acknowledged

Pride and Prejudice

CHAPTER

The Nerves of Lizzie Benet

Mr Benet was so odd a mixture of quick parts, sarcastic humour, reserve and caprice that the experience of three and twenty years had been insufficient to make his wife understand his character. When she was discontented, she fancied herself nervous. The business of her life was to get her daughters married. It's solace was visiting and news. He had always intended to visit him, though to the last always assuring his wife that he should not go,. until the evening after the visit was paid she had no knowledge of it. Mr Bingley: "I honor your circumspection. They are my old friends"

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