(Jane Austen - Pride and prejudice ) "It was the prospect of constant society, and good society," he added,"which was my chief inducement to enter the ----shire.
(Jane Austen - Pride and prejudice ) "And that is quite impossible; for he is now in the custody of hisfriend, and Mr. Darcy would no more suffer him to call on Jane in sucha part of London! My dear aunt, how could you think of it? Mr. Darcy mayperhaps have heard of such a place as Gracechurch Street, but hewould hardly think a month's ablution enough to cleanse him from itsimpurities, were he once to enter it; and depend upon it, Mr. Bingleynever stirs without him.
Bennetwas restored to her usual querulous serenity; and, by the middle ofJune, Kitty was so much recovered as to be able to enter Meryton withouttears; an event of such happy promise as to make Elizabeth hope that bythe following Christmas she might be so tolerably reasonable as not tomention an officer above once a day, unless, by some cruel and maliciousarrangement at the War Office, another regiment should be quartered inMeryton.
"But surely," said she, "I may enter his county with impunity,and rob it of a few petrified spars without his perceiving me.
She expected everymoment that some of the gentlemen would enter the room.
(Jane Austen - Pride and prejudice ) "And till Colonel Forster came himself, not one of you entertained adoubt, I suppose, of their being really married?""How was it possible that such an idea should enter our brains? I felta little uneasy--a little fearful of my sister's happiness with himin marriage, because I knew that his conduct had not been always quiteright.
No officer is ever to enter intomy house again, nor even to pass through the village.
All that is required of you is, to assureto your daughter, by settlement, her equal share of the five thousandpounds secured among your children after the decease of yourself andmy sister; and, moreover, to enter into an engagement of allowing her,during your life, one hundred pounds per annum.