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Chapters 1-5: Reading (Ch. 1)

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

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Mr. Bennet and Lizzie

Mr. Bennet 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. She was a woman of mean understanding, little information, and uncertain temper. When she was discontented, she fancied herself nervous. The business of her life was to get her daughters married. Mr. Bingley may like you the best of the party. My dear, you flatter me. I certainly have had my share of beauty, but I do not pretend to be anything extraordinary now. But consider your daughters. Only think what an establishment it would be for one of them.

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