(Jane Austen - Pride and prejudice ) However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on hisfirst entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the mindsof the surrounding families, that he is considered the rightful propertyof some one or other of their daughters.
"(Jane Austen - Pride and prejudice ) "But consider your daughters.
I have heard you mention them with considerationthese last twenty years at least.
"Doyou consider the forms of introduction, and the stress that is laid onthem, as nonsense? I cannot quite agree with you there.
Hurst, who hadmarried a man of more fashion than fortune, less disposed to considerhis house as her home when it suited her.
Itwas generally evident whenever they met, that he did admire her andto her it was equally evident that Jane was yielding to the preferencewhich she had begun to entertain for him from the first, and was in away to be very much in love; but she considered with pleasure that itwas not likely to be discovered by the world in general, since Janeunited, with great strength of feeling, a composure of temper and auniform cheerfulness of manner which would guard her from the suspicionsof the impertinent.
I consider it as one of the firstrefinements of polished society.
(Jane Austen - Pride and prejudice ) "He is, indeed; but, considering the inducement, my dear Miss Eliza,we cannot wonder at his complaisance--for who would object to such apartner?"Elizabeth looked archly, and turned away.