I remember the time whenI liked a red coat myself very well--and, indeed, so I do still at myheart; and if a smart young colonel, with five or six thousand a year,should want one of my girls I shall not say nay to him; and I thoughtColonel Forster looked very becoming the other night at Sir William's inhis regimentals.
Bennet this morning that if you ever resolved upon quitting Netherfieldyou should be gone in five minutes, you meant it to be a sort ofpanegyric, of compliment to yourself--and yet what is there so verylaudable in a precipitance which must leave very necessary businessundone, and can be of no real advantage to yourself or anyone else?""Nay," cried Bingley, "this is too much, to remember at night all thefoolish things that were said in the morning.
Allowing the case, however, tostand according to your representation, you must remember, Miss Bennet,that the friend who is supposed to desire his return to the house, andthe delay of his plan, has merely desired it, asked it without offeringone argument in favour of its propriety.
(Jane Austen - Pride and prejudice ) "Has she been presented? I do not remember her name among the ladies atcourt.
(Jane Austen - Pride and prejudice ) "I believe her to be both in a great degree," replied Wickham; "I havenot seen her for many years, but I very well remember that I never likedher, and that her manners were dictatorial and insolent.
(Jane Austen - Pride and prejudice ) "Yes, always," she replied, without knowing what she said, for herthoughts had wandered far from the subject, as soon afterwards appearedby her suddenly exclaiming, "I remember hearing you once say, Mr. Darcy,that you hardly ever forgave, that your resentment once created wasunappeasable.
On being made acquainted with the present Mr. Darcy'streatment of him, she tried to remember some of that gentleman'sreputed disposition when quite a lad which might agree with it, andwas confident at last that she recollected having heard Mr. FitzwilliamDarcy formerly spoken of as a very proud, ill-natured boy.
(Jane Austen - Pride and prejudice ) "And remember that I have not much reason for supposing it to beBingley.