日期：2011-08-19 THE Bennets were engaged to dine with the Lucases, and again during the chief of the day, was Miss Lucas so kind as to listen to Mr. Collins. Elizabeth took an opportunity of thanking her. It keeps him in good humour,'' said she, and I am more oblig... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-08-19 THE Bennets were engaged to dine with the Lucases, and again during the chief of the day, was Miss Lucas so kind as to listen to Mr. Collins. Elizabeth took an opportunity of thanking her. It keeps him in good humour,'' said she, and I am more oblig... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-08-19 THE discussion of Mr. Collins's offer was now nearly at an end, and Elizabeth had only to suffer from the uncomfortable feelings necessarily attending it, and occasionally from some peevish allusion of her mother. As for the gentleman himself, his f... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-08-19 MR. COLLINS was not left long to the silent contemplation（沉思，注视） of his successful love; for Mrs. Bennet, having dawdled about in the vestibule（前厅） to watch for the end of the conference, no sooner saw Elizabeth open the door and with qui... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-08-04 THE next day opened a new scene at Longbourn. Mr. Collins made his declaration in form. Having resolved to do it without loss of time, as his leave of absence extended only to the following Saturday, and having no feelings of diffidence to make it d... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-08-04 TILL Elizabeth entered the drawing-room at Netherfield and looked in vain for Mr. Wickham among the cluster of red coats there assembled, a doubt of his being present had never occurred to her. The certainty of meeting him had not been checked by an... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-08-04 ELIZABETH related to Jane the next day, what had passed between Mr. Wickham and herself. Jane listened with astonishment and concern; -- she knew not how to believe that Mr. Darcy could be so unworthy of Mr. Bingley's regard; and yet, it was not in... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-08-04 As no objection was made to the young people's engagement with their aunt, and all Mr. Collins's scruples（顾虑） of leaving Mr. and Mrs. Bennet for a single evening during his visit were most steadily resisted, the coach conveyed him and his five c... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-08-04 MR. COLLINS was not a sensible man, and the deficiency of nature had been but little assisted by education or society; the greatest part of his life having been spent under the guidance of an illiterate（文盲的） and miserly father; and though he be... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-07-07 DURING dinner, Mr. Bennet scarcely spoke at all; but when the servants were withdrawn, he thought it time to have some conversation with his guest, and therefore started a subject in which he expected him to shine, by observing that he seemed very f... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-07-07 I HOPE my dear,'' said Mr. Bennet to his wife as they were at breakfast the next morning, that you have ordered a good dinner to-day, because I have reason to expect an addition to our family party.'' Who do you mean, my dear? I know of nobody that... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-07-07 IN consequence of（由于的缘故） 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 remainin... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-07-07 WHEN the ladies removed after dinner, Elizabeth ran up to her sister, and, seeing her well guarded from cold, attended her into the drawing-room; where she was welcomed by her two friends with many professions of pleasure; and Elizabeth had never se... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-06-23 THE day passed much as the day before had done. Mrs. Hurst and Miss Bingley had spent some hours of the morning with the invalid（病人） , who continued, though slowly, to mend; and in the evening Elizabeth joined their party in the drawing room. Th... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-06-23 ELIZABETH 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 enquiries which she very early received from Mr. Bingley by a housemaid, and some time afterwards from... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-06-23 AT five o'clock the two ladies retired to dress, and at half past six Elizabeth was summoned（传唤，召集） to dinner. To the civil enquiries which then poured in, and amongst which she had the pleasure of distinguishing the much superior solicitude... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-06-09 MR. BENNET'S property consisted almost entirely in an estate of two thousand a year, which, unfortunately for his daughters, was entailed, in default of heirs（继承人） male, on a distant relation; and their mother's fortune, though ample for her si... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-06-09 THE ladies of Longbourn soon waited on those of Netherfield. The visit was returned in due form. Miss Bennet's pleasing manners grew on the good will of Mrs. Hurst and Miss Bingley; and though the mother was found to be intolerable and the younger s... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-06-09 WITHIN a short walk of Longbourn lived a family with whom the Bennets were particularly intimate. Sir William Lucas had been formerly in trade in Meryton, where he had made a tolerable fortune and risen to the honour of knighthood by an address to t... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-06-09 WHEN Jane and Elizabeth were alone, the former, who had been cautious（谨慎的） in her praise of Mr. 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 humoured,... 阅读全文>>